On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote:
It's also sheer idiocy to pipe arbitrary code from an untrusted, unverified
source directly to the shell.
How is it less secure than downloading a tar file and typing ./configure?
Admittedly you *could* check several meg of source
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:42:34AM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
"David H. Adler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh, you're much too kind. My redhat box is disintigrating before my
very eyes. root partition filled up for no reason and, thus I looked
at the partition table:
/
/boot
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yeah, I know, but then I compile plenty of stuff from scratch rather than
rely on RPMs. The real reason I haven't switched is because it's really
The drawback with 'make install' from source is that it doesn't write a
database of files owned by that
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:01:55AM +, Shevek wrote:
I had always committed to the nature of Unix being that one does end up
with a pile of stuff on disk which one doesn't use.
for i in etc usr; do
find /$i -mount -type f -atime +60 | perl -lne unlink;
done
:-)
The point is that
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0500, Mark Rogaski wrote:
An entity claiming to be David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: It's more than cute. It's *BRILLIANT*. The user doesn't even have to
: know what computer they have. Whilst they only support a couple of
: combinations of
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Surely, then, rpm should have the ability to install and fetch
dependencies from the network automagically?
Yes it should. It doesn't. Which is why Helix's installer is so much
easier to use.
start type="holy_war"
Or, more
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 05:19:18PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
It continues to amaze me that people still use Red Hat. It's
just a pile of marketing driven crap. Debian is so far superior
it hurts watching people struggle with RPMs.
Yeah, I know, but then I compile plenty of stuff from
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
rely on RPMs. The real reason I haven't switched is because it's really
*nasty* trying to switch from one distro to another without a) losing
valuable config data and b) ending up with a ton of unused junk on the disk
which is nigh-on impossible to
Following the interest in rope/pope, etc perhaps it would be an idea for
some of the more perl / oss oriented companies in london (or wherever) to
agree to take part in the project on a semi official basis - much of what
the work that the london and UK companies do is replicated because of lack
* Aaron Trevena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Following the interest in rope/pope, etc perhaps it would be an idea for
some of the more perl / oss oriented companies in london (or wherever) to
agree to take part in the project on a semi official basis - much of what
the work that the london
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:16:15PM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
Said I:
In all fairness, I have to say that mailman is an *excellent* mailing
list manager.
Said David H. Adler:
So why haven't you reimplemented it in perl? :)
Are you sitting comfortably? :-)
Because the tools
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:06:00PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
No you would want to build packages (.deb, .rpm and BSD and Solaris
packages) of rope for a "binary" type install as well as supplying a
"source" tar which works with make, make install.
The installation method used by Helix is
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:28:25PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
that would rock.
also what would be very valuable would be the ability to install from one
config for a cluster or synchronise config changes
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