Search Results: "Nelson A. de Oliveira"

19 January 2007

MJ Ray: Debian: Fun with no builder 4: pbuilder fans to the rescue

"Well, if pbuilder slows you down too much, perhaps cowbuilder is the right one for you. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it is supposed to eliminate the worst delay pbuilder introduces: The unpacking of the base.tgz minimal chroot archive."

Nelson A. de Oliveira asked:

"Have you tried cowdancer + pbuilder? It makes creating packages really fast (there is no more need to uncompress the tarball, for example)."

I looked for cowbuilder, but there's no package called that, so I was quite glad for the second comment. I'll backport cowdancer and give it a go. Thanks!

14 January 2007

Martin F. Krafft: Firefox handing mailto links to mutt

If you like the mutt email client and have to use Mozilla Firefox, you might like to be able to click mailto: links and have mutt handle them. There are various extensions that promise to take care of this, but none of them worked for me. So I wrote a little script to handle the interfacing. Instructions how to tie it in with Firefox are included in the header comments. Enjoy! Comments, patches, and suggestions welcome. NP: Dream Theater / Awake Update: thanks to the suggestion by Nelson A. de Oliveira, the script now supports the setting of arbitrary headers, including In-Reply-To. This means you can now use it to answer list mail from the Debian list archive pages (but see #406866 and #406867).