On Wed, 14 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Chris Walker wrote:
Would some mechanism of saying when this bug is closed notify me as
well eg by sending a specially formulated e-mail, or perhaps some web
interface. This might be useful, as in general I probably
On May 21, Chris Walker wrote
If I could get notification on a bug that I was particularly
concerned with, I guess I'd use it about once a quarter.
[That's about how often I run into bugs of that nature.]
It would probably save me about 8-16 hours per quarter.
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Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Include the multi-thread support patch for the Objective-C runtime lib (???)
bo includes gstep-base-0.2.12 and gstep-base-0.2.12 includes a patch file
gcc-2.7.2.1-objc.diff, which therefore should be applied to the gcc in bo
(the patch applies fine to gcc-2.7.2.2).
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dpkg-ftp downloads the Packages files ok using this, but when I go to
download, it can't find the files:
Actually you should use
distribution base: .../debian/dists/unstable
section list: main non-free contrib
Use unstable or frozen or stable in
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Mike Orr wrote:
It should be copied, and not symlinked. /boot must not have any symlinks
into /usr, in case /usr is trashed and you're trying to recover.
If the symlink went the other way, from /usr/src/linux/.config into
/boot/.config, then make config would be
Hi Folks!
The late discussion here on migration to libc6 indicates that a
statement on the requirements of library run time and development
packages is to be included in the policy manual. This is how I recall
the discussion we had about this topic some weeks ago. It might be
that I am a little
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see a `config package' as a package that includes/modifies other
packages conffiles. Using packages for this is ignoring the concept of a
package. What if you remove one of these packages? What if some programs
whose files are
Hi,
I got it by applying this patch posted a couple of weeks ago
by Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Tomislav If you're using dselest's ftp method (dpkg-ftp), you'll need
Tomislav this small patch, which I included in bug report 8762 for
Tomislav dpkg-ftp:
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Hi,
SirDibos == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SirDibos On Tue, 20 May 1997, Mike Orr wrote:
SirDibos You are right. However, what solution do you suggest in my
SirDibos case, where I have 6 different kernels cluttering up my / ?
SirDibos I use all of em, 1 is a backup, some implement different
Hi,
Presumably, you installed xdm after installing shadow. shadowconfig edits
/etc/init.d/xdm to switch between using xdm and xdm-shadow, so all you need
to
do is:
shadowconfig off
shadowconfig on
and all should be well.
Yes, thank you!
But I think, the xbase package should
...
based on | package name | library location
libc6 | libfoo | /usr/lib/libfoo.so.ver
libc5 | libfoo-libc5 | /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libfoo.so.ver
...
based on | package name| hierarchy
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John I don't think Debian is really aiming at newbies. (RedHat
John is) Debian is aiming at the power user or admin type -- the
John people that already know Unix.
But you have to consider the case of an ISP that wants to use Debian
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Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
'Amos Shapira wrote:'
many use tripwire answers, and one which says that RPM has a verify
mode which checks for files which were changed since they were
What does the rpm verify give you? As far as
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
Actually, as opposed t a security measure, I would've found something
like this useful as a backup-check measure.
I had a nasty head-crash last week. Thankfully, I had recent backups.
Unfortunately, I had upgraded a number of packages after the latest
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I have some ideas on what I'm planning on doing with the Debian Perl
package in the near future.
1. Split the main executable and a small set of base files into
perl-base. This would be Priority: required, should it be Essential?
There will still be a
On May 20, Buddha Buck wrote
Even with this, I can't get it to work. I'm running into the same
problem Mr. Hess reported. Using dir: /debian dist: unstable, I have
been able to get hamm, but no combination I've tried has allowed me to
get hamm/non-free or hamm/contrib. I can get the
On May 21, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote
I'd really appreciate your input on these issues, so that I can go
forward with the Perl package.
Don't let this slow down your work, but: one thing I've been
itching for is a mechanism for CPAN installation to interoperate
with the Debian package
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) wrote on 20.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I would not advocate implementing such a package this way. Most of
the config files that we would be interested in fixing for newbies can
include or source another file. Take sh-like shells for example. We
would have
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Have a look at the bug report. I dont know why no one has marked it as
done yet. There is a file lists in the but report ending in .dpkg-tmp
evidently from a crash. Dont be buerocratic about releasing 1.3.
Brian should resist releasing 1.3 if a
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On Wed, 21 May 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
There's something like /etc/inittab.real, diff it against inittab.
This is a result of a failure in an installation script that should
have moved inittab.real to inittab . Probably you control-C-ed out of
the
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but after you
have some confidence and you think you know what you are doing.
Everybody
I can put that into the chris-cust package ...
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tom Lees wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but
Generally, after installing any system, I add this to ~/.profile for
root:-
alias rm=/bin/rm -i
This is a BAD thing to do. If you want this use a different name, like:
alias del=/bin/rm -i
Otherwise it is all too easy to get into the habit of doing
rm *
and picking the ones you want,
Did anyone make sure that this is really a bug? In all my testing I did
not encounter this. The upgrade I did yesterday did not show anything.
Reputation: We are just confirming our bad reputation in not being able to
get things out of the door...
There are still nasty bugs in bo that will
In case you're interessed, I just got the acknowledgement of bug report
#1 (which happen to be a documentation buglet in package qt-doc).
*cracks open a virtual beer* _(;
Out of those ~1 bug reports, about 2200 are still outstanding.
Cordialement,
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian C. White) writes:
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*** There is one remaining
Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The rxvt authors claim that programs such as JED, slrn, Midnight
Commander check this variable. I don't know since I don't use any of
these applications.
These are all programs that don't use the standard ncurses interface,
I believe. As such, they
Can someone verify that this is a problem? I installed ssleay and ssltelnet,
and when ssltelnet ripped through the install, it never paused for me
to enter the info for the certificate.. This is what it looked like:
Generating a 512 bit private key
+
..+
In case you're interessed, I just got the acknowledgement of bug report
#1 (which happen to be a documentation buglet in package qt-doc).
*cracks open a virtual beer* _(;
Out of those ~1 bug reports, about 2200 are still outstanding.
Congratulations.
BTW, if you believe the
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
In your email to me, Jim Pick, you wrote:
In case you're interessed, I just got the acknowledgement of bug report
#1 (which happen to be a documentation buglet in package qt-doc).
*cracks open a virtual beer* _(;
Out of those ~1
On 21 May 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
1. Split the main executable and a small set of base files into
perl-base. This would be Priority: required, should it be Essential?
There will still be a main Perl package but it would supplement
perl-base instead of replacing it.[1]
'Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:'
Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I
think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that
this should be made a standard. Here's why.
But if they complete successfully they should be quiet. Maybe this
would work:
set
This might be a mini-project for someone:
I'd like to see a graph of the total number of bugs, number of open bugs
plotted on a graph vs. the date. Perhaps superimposing the release dates
on it too.
It would be cool if we could somehow track the number of machines/users we
had too.
I checked
libc6 | libfoo-dev | /usr/{lib,include}
libc5 | libfoo-libc5-dev| /usr/{lib,include}
I still have trouble with this. There is already a
libc5 | libfoo-dev| /usr/{lib,include}
for each libfoo out there. When people upgrade from 1.3-2.0, what's
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think perl-base should not be Essential, since it will be replaced
anyway once the installation completes. perl should be essential though.
(Or can essential packages be replaced by dpkg?)
I think maybe you misread the proposal. Under the scheme
I dont care how the prompt looks. Just pick one and dont leave it the way
it is. Who is the maintainer of the package in question? Let him decide.
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
No, PS1='[EMAIL
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
This might be a mini-project for someone:
I'd like to see a graph of the total number of bugs, number of open bugs
plotted on a graph vs. the date. Perhaps superimposing the release dates
on it too.
Sure! I'd love to see that. _(;
(Quick stat:
(looks like we beat Red Hat, go figure...)
Much more CDs of RedHat have probably been sold than Debian CDs, and
people installing from CDs may not have internet access and not register
with the linux counter? Also that's only statistics...
I just thought it was neat. Anyways, the Linux
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
Can someone verify that this is a problem? I installed ssleay and ssltelnet,
and when ssltelnet ripped through the install, it never paused for me
to enter the info for the certificate.. This is what it looked like:
Generating a 512 bit private key
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Basically, mailx conflicts with smail.
dpkg: error processing xmysql (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up smail (3.2-3) ...
Error: system's FQDN hostname (citytel_prct40.citytel.net) doesn't match
Crack dot Com has decided to release abuse as public domain software. So no
more a.out abuse, once I get the new one built. But I do have a couple of
questions about their copyright:
This release is to the public domain, meaning there are very few
restrictions in on use. But here are a few :
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Crack dot Com has decided to release abuse as public domain software. So no
more a.out abuse, once I get the new one built. But I do have a couple of
questions about their copyright:
This release is to the public domain, meaning there are very few
restrictions in on use. But here are a
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This all seems ok except for maybe the export restrictions section. We don't
have a non-Cuba-Yugoslavia-Hati-Iran-Iraq-North-Korea-and-Syria section like
we have a non-us section.. so does abuse belong in non-free or on some
us-only ftp site, or what?
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 21 May 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
2. The man-pages and html-docs would go into a separate perl-doc
package.
I agree for the html docs, but I think each manpage should go into the
package containing the feature it documents.
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