Mirrors <<< Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2000
According to [1], the mirrors will be afected, so to create them it is said the
some "exclude" tweaking must be done. Does anyone have the info -or the script-
for what exactly is meant????
Mirroring Potato, getting ready for 2.2_r1
Joey Hess wrote:
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> Debian Weekly News
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> Debian Weekly News - October 25th, 2000
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> Welcome to Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the Debian community.
>
> Debian has package pools! James Troup [1]revealed that "for the last
> month and a half, I've been working on re-implementing dinstall and
> switching to package pools." His message gives details about how
> regular users, developers, and mirror admins will be affected (not
> much, not much, and a great deal), the new layout of the Debian
> archive, the database backend, the migration strategy ("an
> as-of-yet-unwritten tool will migrated n Mb of data a day into the
> pool from the legacy dists/ tree"), and the timeline before this is
> put in place on the Debian archive (about two weeks).
>
> A beta version of the LSB-FHS test suite was ran against several major
> distributions including Debian woody, which failed 17 tests out of
> 243. A [2]chart shows that other distributions failed many more, while
> SuSE only failed 5. The [3]detailed report of Debian's failures is
> interesting reading. After [4]examining each failure, Wichert
> Akkerman commented, "Not all of the test results are fair in my
> opinion: some are real bugs in Debian, others are bugs in the
> testsuite or the result of using an incomplete install." Some were
> really bugs in the test suite, a few were things that should [5]not
> be in the FHS, and 6 of the 9 remaining failures "can be fixed by
> simply creating empty directories" Since FHS editor Daniel Quinlan and
> the [6]author of the test suite are involved in the discussion, it
> appears that all of these things will be eventually worked out.
>
> Why isn't Helix Gnome in Debian yet? For a while now there has been
> duplication of effort, with Peter Teichman of Helix maintaining an apt
> repository of Helix Gnome packages, and other Debian developers
> maintaining regular Gnome in Debian. The only real reason for this
> duplication of work is that Peter thinks that there might be
> [7]copyright problems with some of the images in Helix Gnome, but
> he's not sure, and for whatever reason this question has been
> unresolved for some time now. Meanwhile, some folks [8]feel that "the
> woody packages aren't BAD, but after using Helix, going back feels
> like a serious downgrade", and others [9]have found that the Helix
> packages "do not have the same quality when it comes to dependencies
> and such". A subthread that tried to list the differences between the
> two sets of packages found very little of note besides Helix's
> branding. Whatever the differences, many people are using the Helix
> debs, and bothering Debian developers with things like [10]this bug
> report. This situation really needs to be resolved before it has a
> chance to turn ugly.
>
> Debian's newest server is klecker.debian.org, which is now serving as
> Debian's [11]main web server. Of course, it's named after Joel "Espy"
> Klecker. Unfortunately, many home directories from the old
> va.debian.org machine, which suffered a disk failure, have still not
> been recovered and may be [12]gone for good. A new hostname,
> people.debian.org has also been [13]set up, "which will exclusively be
> used for individual web pages". Developers with personal Debian web
> pages should begin using URLs based on the new domain name.
>
> New packages in Debian this week include the following, and [14]80
> more:
> * [15]insight: Graphical debugger based on gdb
> * [16]kannel: WAP and SMS gateway
> * [17]scigraphica: Scientific graphics and data manipulation
> * [18]webmin: Web based administration interface
>
> There were no security announcements this week.
>
> More and more Debian news sources are appearing. The latest arrival is
> [19]Debian Planet, a web site providing Debian news in a weblog
> format. In the meantime, [20]Kernel Cousin Debian is up to their 7th
> issue, but still needs more contributors.
>
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> References
> 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0010/msg00007.html
> 2. http://www.linuxbase.org/test/results/
> 3. http://www.linuxbase.org/test/results/Detailed_Debian_Woody.html
> 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01440.html
> 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01731.html
> 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01490.html
> 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01462.html
> 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01432.html
> 9. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01438.html
> 10. http://bugs.debian.org/75244
> 11. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01678.html
> 12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01701.html
> 13. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0010/msg01706.html
> 14. http://auric.debian.org/~tausq/newpkgs-20001024.html
> 15. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/insight.html
> 16. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/kannel.html
> 17. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/math/scigraphica.html
> 18. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/webmin.html
> 19. http://www.debianplanet.org/
> 20. http://kt.linuxcare.com/debian/latest.epl
>
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