Re: intent to package eql

1998-05-08 Thread Lindsay Allen
That's good news. I use eql here and at present have three 56K modems connecting a school to the ISP. The one big problem is that the ISP has three boxes and eql needs to have all modems connected to the same box. This is purely a matter of chance when you dial in to a rotary, so most days I

Re: New APT version

1998-05-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: This makes me wonder if we should think about dropping autoup as the preferred way to upgrade to hamm, and switch to apt. On the one hand, autoup has been tested pretty thouroghly and we shouldn't risk

Re: hamm

1998-05-08 Thread James R. Van Zandt
I maintain a hamm mirror at work. According to my records, the traffic to keep hamm up to date amounts to about 20 MB/day. I'm a bit of a newbie with respect to Debian, and I've recently susbcribed to some mailing lists. I'm still reading a lot of FAQ material, but since I saw this thread I

Intent to package: xfnt-URW gimp-extra-plugins

1998-05-08 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The URW fonts are a set that the gimp home page points to as good fonts to use in the gimp. Additionally, in the plugin registry, there are a number of good plugins that are not included in the gimp distribution. I would like to begin working on packaging

Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a graphical .mp3 player for X. x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, but no source is available, so it's going into non-free/sound. Its home page is: http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/ One question: x11amp uses the real-time

Re: hamm

1998-05-08 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 May 1998, James R. Van Zandt wrote: I maintain a hamm mirror at work. According to my records, the traffic to keep hamm up to date amounts to about 20 MB/day. I'm a bit of a newbie with respect to Debian, and I've recently susbcribed to

corel porting apps to linux

1998-05-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
Does anyone know if something official is released? I have only seen the irc transcript on slashdot. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
BG == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BG One question: x11amp uses the real-time functions of Linux (and BG sounds much better) if it's installed suid-root, but there are BG unknown holes that this opens up. Should I use suidmanager and BG make it suid? I would say to register

Re: Intent to package: xfnt-URW gimp-extra-plugins

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
vanco == vanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: vanco URW fonts are a set that the gimp home page points to as vanco good fonts to use in the gimp. vanco Additionally, in the plugin registry, there are a number of vanco good plugins that are not included in the gimp vanco

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Larry == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry I would say to register it with suidmanager, leave it Larry non-suid by default, and place a notice somewhere that if Larry performance is an issue, it may be made setuid through Larry suidregister. On my K6-200, the

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
BG == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry I would say to register it with suidmanager, leave it Larry non-suid by default, and place a notice somewhere that if Larry performance is an issue, it may be made setuid through

Re: Lilo..

1998-05-08 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: I am getting a quirky bug with lilo. I have a 4gig Wide SCSI drive that is set to scsi id 0. I can partition the disk, write to the disk, read, mount it as /, but I cannot boot from it (The boot flag is set on the

Re: installation report of hamm 26.4.

1998-05-08 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: linux did not booted, and when repairing from the boot cdrom, i got : no room in lost+found directory. expand y ? y segmentation fault. Damn, that's still in there? I ran into this problem about 18 months ago, while trying to repair a disk

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
One question: x11amp uses the real-time functions of Linux (and sounds much better) if it's installed suid-root, but there are unknown holes that this opens up. Should I use suidmanager and make it suid? don't make it suid if it works without (mpg123, amp both work well as normal programs),

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Andreas == Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas don't make it suid if it works without (mpg123, amp both Andreas work well as normal programs), register it with Andreas suidmanager without suid bit, and document in Andreas README.debian how to make it suid, what

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Gertzfield wrote: No source available. :/ In the FAQ, though, it says there will be source available sometime. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lilo..

1998-05-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 09:06:32AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: I still saw problems last weekend with mbr.b not being written to /dev/sda when installing frozen with the 04-11 boot-floppies. I did that by hand dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/sda bs=444 and after that I could boot from the disk.

Bug#22206: Some package uses psmisc without a dependency

1998-05-08 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 7 May 1998, James Troup wrote: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, since psmisc is not essential (and this is what really matters), it would be interesting to know which package uses killall (if any) and where, to add the appropriate

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:37:57PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a graphical .mp3 player for X. x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, but no source is available, so it's going into non-free/sound. Its home

magicfilter and /etc

1998-05-08 Thread Susan Kleinmann
Is there some good reason why all of the printer filters need to be installed in /etc? The magicfilter filters, in particular, make /etc/ much bigger than it might be otherwise. (I understand I can remove that which I don't need; this is a question about the optimum default configuration.)

Re: magicfilter and /etc

1998-05-08 Thread Holger Eitzenberger
Is there some good reason why all of the printer filters need to be installed in /etc? The magicfilter filters, in particular, make /etc/ much bigger than it might be otherwise. (I understand I can remove that which I don't need; this is a question about the optimum default configuration.)

Re: RSync

1998-05-08 Thread Andrew Tridgell
One thing though, is there any chance you might consider a pair of new options: --regex-include and --regex-exclude. It shouldn't be too difficult using one of the new regex libraries (pcre comes to mind). possibly. I know the current exclude mechanisms really aren't flexible enough right now

compile probs, glibc, satlink.c (Planetc Feed)

1998-05-08 Thread Alexander Koch
Hiya. I've a Planetc satfeed and there's a module satlink.c (.o respectively) which doesn't want to compile w/ glibc. No prob with that, I added a -I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/ to the gcc call and it compiled. I've installed the libc5-altdev beforehand and the libc5 and hopefully this is enough.

Re: compile probs, glibc, satlink.c (Planetc Feed)

1998-05-08 Thread jdassen
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:03:46PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote: I've a Planetc satfeed and there's a module satlink.c (.o respectively) which doesn't want to compile w/ glibc. No prob with that, I added a -I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/ to the gcc call and it compiled. The recommended way of

libg++ in hamm?

1998-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I am wondering that there is no libg++ in hamm compatible with egcs. I know, that a lot of things moved to libstdc++, but for me things like the Integer class are still useful. Has somebody a libg++ debian package? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Intent to package doc-debian-es

1998-05-08 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Hi everyone, I have translated today the New Maintainer HOWTO to Spanish and am willing to translate some other important debian documentation to Spanish making it, thus, more accesible to spanish developers. I intend to package it as doc-debian-es. Just a thought: it might be

Re: Intent to package doc-debian-es

1998-05-08 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The doc-debian-es package is already in alpha stage, and contains the Debian FAQ. Please see: http://master.debian.org/~sanvila If you are interested in translation issues, please subscribe to the debian-l10n-spanish mailing list. BTW: I need people to read

Re: libg++ in hamm?

1998-05-08 Thread jdassen
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:28:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I am wondering that there is no libg++ in hamm compatible with egcs. I know, that a lot of things moved to libstdc++, but for me things like the Integer class are still useful. Has somebody a libg++ debian package? I'm working

RE: Lilo..

1998-05-08 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I had similar problems with Windows NT and large drives on 2940UW controllers. The problem appeared to be the wide bus mode setting ( I forget the exact wording in the adaptec setup). If I changed the setting, the machine would not boot from the drive until I either low level formatted the drive

Re: official brand for cdroms

1998-05-08 Thread shaul
maybe the term offical for cdroms be used, if someone sells a set of cdroms, constisting of the official cdroms and an extra cd with things like debian-non-US, debian-non-free (those parts that are allowed to be burned and sold), and other stuff like 2.0 + 2.1 kernel source, netscape, mozilla,

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 12:10:56PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:37:57PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a graphical .mp3 player for X. x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, but no

Re: magicfilter and /etc

1998-05-08 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Is there some good reason why all of the printer filters need to be installed in /etc? The magicfilter filters, in particular, make /etc/ much bigger than it might be otherwise. (I understand I can remove that which I don't need; this is a question

Re: ../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty

1998-05-08 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice that the Packages file for slink/main/binary-i386 on master is empty ... To follow up on my own post - this was reported as bug #21025. In the bug report the date on the file was Apr 2. Now it is Apr 24 but it is still zero length. -- To

Processed: f

1998-05-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 20587 Bug#20587: There's no current libg++ package Bug#21253: gperf can't be installed with libstdc++ Bug reopened, originator not changed. severity 20587 normal Bug#20587: There's no current libg++ package Bug#21253: gperf can't be installed

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-05-08 Thread Raja R Harinath
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:55:43PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: You think nobody is going to try and snatch it then? Er.. how do you snatch an expired patent? Reregistration? Prior art Since there is documentary evidence that the particular

Re: corel porting apps to linux

1998-05-08 Thread Behan Webster
G John Lapeyre wrote: Does anyone know if something official is released? I have only seen the irc transcript on slashdot. I was at the meeting last night when they announced the netwinder. They said all the tools to develop on the Netwinder were GPL'ed and will be released soon.

Predepends query

1998-05-08 Thread Andy Mortimer
I've just been testing the new version of dpkg-mountable -- nothing exciting, I'm afraid -- using a large set of packages to install, and I've hit a small problem. perl-base was predepended on by something, which caused it (using the usually-disabled predepends support) to remove perl. This broke

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin There are one or two others who have already signed up for Martin this package: Sami Haahtinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Jens Martin Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Sami is still in the Martin new-maintainer procedure and has told

Re: ../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty

1998-05-08 Thread Johnie Ingram
Douglas == Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas To follow up on my own post - this was reported as bug Douglas #21025. In the bug report the date on the file was Apr 2. Douglas Now it is Apr 24 but it is still zero length. In case I haven't mentioned it enough, the Packages files

Re: Uploaded uae 0.7.3b-1 (source i386) to chiark

1998-05-08 Thread Stephan Alexander Suerken
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Fredrik Hallenberg wrote: -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 19:46:44 +0200 Source: uae Binary: uae Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.7.3b-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]