Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-23 Thread John Goerzen
Apparently this has been fixed: Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... getting: frozen/binary-i386/mail/smartlist_3.10-16.deb (78216) getting: frozen/binary-i386/mail/procmail_3.10.4-2.deb (112164) getting: frozen/binary-i386/base/modconf_0.2.10.deb (17576)

uploaded libc (5.4.23-6 (i386 source) to master

1997-05-23 Thread Helmut Geyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 21:38:26 +0200 Source: libc Binary: libc5 libc5-pic localebin libc5-dbg libc5-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.4.23-6 Distribution: frozen Urgency: high Maintainer: Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libc5

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-23 Thread Chris Walker
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: In /frozen, the packages file shows: procmail_3.10.4-1.deb modconf-0.2.9.deb The actual files

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-23 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Raul Miller wrote:' '=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:' So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' ! I'd prefer PS1='\$ ' However, if you want all that fanciness, a compromise is: PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W\$ '

Donald Becker's ethernet drivers

1997-05-23 Thread Raul Miller
Any chance of getting the ethernet drivers listed as supported in the ethernet howto, but stored at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov instead of in the main linux kernel, included in the base debian kernel distribution? -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Missing xemacs

1997-05-23 Thread Tim Sailer
Since I didn't get an answer on -private, I'll do this the public way. Xemacs seems to be missing from bo. It's in rex and hamm. I con- sider a missing major package a bug unless there was a reason it was pulled. Brian? Anyone? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Missing xemacs

1997-05-23 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: Since I didn't get an answer on -private, I'll do this the public way. Xemacs seems to be missing from bo. It's in rex and hamm. I con- sider a missing major package a bug unless there was a reason it was pulled. Brian? Anyone? See bug 8857. Guy --

Re: Missing xemacs

1997-05-23 Thread Kevin Dalley
Guy, I think you made the wrong decision here. James LewisMoss never responded to the 8857 bug list to your request for pulling xemacs. In fact, I couldn't find anyone other than yourself who supported the decision to pull xemacs completely. The discussion was whether xemacs-19.14 or 19.15 was

dselect/diety audit trail

1997-05-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Darren == Darren/Torin/Who Ever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Darren -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Amos Shapira, in an Darren immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: Or an audit-trail of invocations of dpkg (e.g. adduser 3.1-2 installed and configured successfully on Wed May

Re: dselect/diety audit trail

1997-05-23 Thread Peter Iannarelli
From: Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] So do I. It would make it a lot easier to do bug reports when things fail at installation or upgrade time. -- I agree. As a member of the deity team, I can tell you that there will be an audit trail. This will be especially important in phase 2

Re: Donald Becker's ethernet drivers

1997-05-23 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Any chance of getting the ethernet drivers listed as supported in the ethernet howto, but stored at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov instead of in the main linux kernel, included in the base debian kernel distribution? The Boomerang driver (updated Vortex driver) has already been included in the

Removing packages with critical bugs

1997-05-23 Thread Herbert Xu
I've just read a few messages complaining about the removal of xemacs from bo. Why don't we simply move those packages with critical bugs to contrib? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page:

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-23 Thread Buddha Buck
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a continuous problem. I don't know why ftp.debian.org takes so long to get in sync with master, but the problem simply propogates from there to all the additional mirrors. Debian is the only distribution I know that depends so heavily on

Re: dselect/diety audit trail

1997-05-23 Thread Mark Baker
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So do I. It would make it a lot easier to do bug reports when things fail at installation or upgrade time. I agree, but I'm puzzled by what you chose for the subject line. This sort of functionality belongs in

Re: Donald Becker's ethernet drivers

1997-05-23 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 22, Raul Miller wrote Any chance of getting the ethernet drivers listed as supported in the ethernet howto, but stored at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov instead of in the main linux kernel, included in the base debian kernel distribution? Do they compile as modules? Maybe someone could package

Re: Donald Becker's ethernet drivers

1997-05-23 Thread Raul Miller
On May 23, Christian Hudon wrote Do they compile as modules? Maybe someone could package them up as kernel modules in a separate desdis-drivers package, or something like that. The eepro100.c file had a line in it (grep gcc eepro100.c) which said how to compile it (given /usr/include/linux for

Re: Missing xemacs

1997-05-23 Thread Guy Maor
Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The discussion was whether xemacs-19.14 or 19.15 was the best choice for bo. Could you please state your reasons for removing xemacs? Moving 19.15 to bo was out of the question because of the time and the seriousness of bugs still being filed against it.

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-23 Thread Milan Zamazal
I know nothing about runlevel standards, just my opinions: AK == Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK: level 1 is without net, 2 is with it all (imo including nfs AK: and the like) and 3 is xdm, 6 was shutdown or halt or AK: whatsoever. at least that i remember from some

trn and inews

1997-05-23 Thread Colin Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- When installing trn, the dependency screen pops up and suggests (ie. puts an asterisk beside) both cnews and inews. Shouldn't this only select one of the two? I don't know what package to report a bug against, so I thought I would ask here first. Cheers, Colin.

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-23 Thread Tom Lees
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Brian C. White wrote: Hamm I think its been agreed that this will be called Debian 2.0, so why not add this here. * All packages are in the new package format. Possibly a new source package format may be created, so we should resolve this before putting too much

Re: Bug#10060: libc6-dev: time.h and linux/time.h conflict

1997-05-23 Thread Michael Meskes
You're absolutely right. I should have thought before I posted. In fact I already patched ibcs to work regardless which gcc/C library is used, since ibcs (as a kernel module) should include the kernel headers, but not the differing application headers. I'm sorry for reporting a non existant bug.

SIOCSIFFLAGS

1997-05-23 Thread Raul Miller
[Aside: I think I sent a message about ethernet configuration with a subject line from an X configuration problem. My prior message on the subject was a bug report about a non-bug. Third strike and I'm out, but by jove I think I've got it.] Turns out I've got a buslogic 946C and a 32 bit lance

Re: -- Debian Bug #10000

1997-05-23 Thread Mike Coleman
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case you're interessed, I just got the acknowledgement of bug report #1 Lucky for us, the bug scripts are bug-1 compliant... ;-) -- Mike Coleman http://ctr.cstp.umkc.edu/~coleman I'm