Please sync preload (0.6.4-1) from Debian unstable

[Martin Schaaf]

Binary package hint: preload

This current version is more then 2 years old. Please update to latest version. It includes a lot of bug fixes and all patches from ubuntu.

[Peter Shaw (tr-spam)]

I can only sign this. Preload from the sources is way too old.

King regards,

Peter Shaw

[kulight (kulight)]

i can only ask for the same (for jaunty ?)

[Dave Conniff (chronniff)]

I agree, if you go to the developers sourceforge site he doesn't even offer the version that is in the repos because it is so old.....please, please, please update the version

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This won't happen for Jaunty now, as it is released later this week. I did start work on this a while back, but then never got a chance to finish it

[Darkdawn (ramzy-3000)]

i have the same problem with automatic login not working....i have preload installed so i searched for the problem and if it is preload that is causing the automatic login problem...then please update it when you have the time. and thanks for all ur work.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Preload has nothing to do with your login problem, I don't know what makes you think that.

I'm going to work on this in the next couple of weeks. It's currently waiting on dpkg 1.15.1 which has support for setting IO priority with start-stop-daemon from the init script. This is means that we can drop the current Ubuntu patch which sets the IO priority from the actual preload binary.

[Dave Conniff (chronniff)]

I found someones PPA that has built a package of of the recent preload here is the apt/sources.list entry I added....You may want to just download the package from there since the maintainers have various random projects that they are building packages for, and some of them are default packages in ubuntu, and so adding the ppa will automatically update those packages too, personally I used the preload so I couldn't tell you about their other stuff, but the build of preload seems to be working well

# Uninea ( preload)
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/uninea/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/uninea/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

It can be synced from debian unstable:

preload (0.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (Closes: #495549)
    * Improve argument handling (Closes: #508809)
  * Use start-stop-daemon's --iosched option to set idle IO priority,
    don't patch preload itself to offer an option to use it.
  * No more patches applied; quilt dropped as a build dep.
  * Removed code from postinst that used to clean up state file from under
    /var/cache/.
  * Standards-Version: 3.8.2 (no changes necessary).

 -- Kari Pahula <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:48:22 +0300

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

No it can't, because it needs a newer version of dpkg for the --iosched
option in start-stop-daemon

On Jul 5, 2009 5:05 PM, "Wouter Stomp" <email address hidden> wrote:

It can be synced from debian unstable:

preload (0.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

 * New upstream release (Closes: #495549)
   * Improve argument handling (Closes: #508809)
 * Use start-stop-daemon's --iosched option to set idle IO priority,
   don't patch preload itself to offer an option to use it.
 * No more patches applied; quilt dropped as a build dep.
 * Removed code from postinst that used to clean up state file from under
   /var/cache/.
 * Standards-Version: 3.8.2 (no changes necessary).

 -- Kari Pahula <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:48:22 +0300

** Summary changed:

- Update to latest version.
+ Please sync preload (0.6.4-1) from Debian unstable

** Tags added: sync

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Please sync preload (0.6.4-1) from Debian unstable

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Status in “preload” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
Status in “preload” package in Debian: New

Bug description: Binary package hint: preload This current version is more
then 2 years old. Pleas...

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Here's a delta to Debian for the merge, keeping the old patch to enable idle IO scheduling from the preload binary. As mentioned in the changelog, we can drop these changes when we get dpkg 1.15.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

We just got dpkg 1.15 now from Debian, meaning this package is syncable again (we don't need the Ubuntu-specific change in the patch above)

[Nick Andrik (andrikos)]

In my PPA there is an updated version of 0.6.4-1 from debian sid.
https://launchpad.net/~andrikos/+archive/ppa
It looks for a sponsor :-)

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Approved for syncing

[James Westby (james-w)]

[Updating] preload (0.4-5 [Ubuntu] < 0.6.4-1 [Debian])
 * Trying to add preload...
  - <preload_0.6.4-1.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <preload_0.6.4-1.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <preload_0.6.4.orig.tar.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: preload [universe] -> preload_0.4-5 [universe].

[James Westby (james-w)]

[Updating] preload (0.4-5 [Ubuntu] < 0.6.4-1 [Debian])
 * Trying to add preload...
  - <preload_0.6.4-1.diff.gz: cached>
  - <preload_0.6.4-1.dsc: cached>
  - <preload_0.6.4.orig.tar.gz: cached>
I: preload [universe] -> preload_0.4-5 [universe].