I have encountered a problem with my computer rebooting, while trying to
install Debian. I have tried to install it on a hdd all the files I need
are there on that drive, but little much of anything else.
When I configured the hdd the first time to run by itself, not as a
slave, I forgot to
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Michael Dietrich wrote:
hi all,
i am about to write an easy to use editor, using slang ... (remember
this ugly emacs/vi discussion)
i started with slang and noticed that there is nearly no documentation
and no good screen/kbd support at all.
Hm, slang is actually
Hi,
Could those of you who have grabbed, or are intending to grab the cd images
from www.uk.debian.org, and then offer them for anon access, please mail me,
so I can add your sites to the list of mirrors.
For more info about how to grab them from www.uk see this:
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
for all future time. People make mistakes choosing version numbers,
and we have a mechanism for recovering these mistakes. People being
``inventive'' so they can maintain the aesthetic beauty of a control
file that is rarely seen by anyone is a waste
At 13:22 -0700 1998-06-24, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
. 2.0.34 needs the x-bit on shared libraries!
Actually, no, it's just the dynamic linker that needs to be executable.
This is apparently a security feature, 2.1 kernels also require an
executable dynamic linker, and thus 2.2 will as well.
On 24 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale What is with this snake like facination with epochs?
Firstly, this is uncalled for. Secondly, even as a popular
belief, it is not snakes that are fascinated, their victims are
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
warping them (I can just see Ted T'so saying what the $#^%$ is 2.0.7
*r*? Debian is doing its won thing again); and using epochs, a
It could be 2.0.7released
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Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When properly used epochs do not hang around forever. Consider the
situation where epochs are supposed to be used:
Upstream Debian
1.0 1.0
2.0 2.0
3.0 3.0
2.01:2.0
3.0
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
for all future time. People make mistakes choosing version numbers,
and we have a mechanism for recovering these mistakes. People being
``inventive'' so they can maintain the aesthetic beauty of a control
file that is rarely seen by anyone is a
Dirk I have a machine which is 'almost pure frozen' Debian, and I have a
Dirk corrupted wtmp file. Anybody else seeing that as well ?
Turned out that, at least on my machine, it was xterm. I did a s/xterm/rxvt
in ~/.fvwm2/* a couple of days ago, and that helped
Incidentally, the newest
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
'dpkg -l' output is hard-coded for 80 columns, and there are only a
limited number of character positions available for the version number.
extracting the version from the listing is not possible for long version
strings.
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When properly used epochs do not hang around forever. Consider the
situation where epochs are supposed to be used:
Upstream Debian
1.0 1.0
2.0 2.0
3.0
Hi
I'm new to the list,
I just installed debian 2, which went
through fine, now however when I try and compile anything it says gcc is
broke.
when running configure scripts some of them
report that gcc cannot create executables.
Anyone else had this kinda
problem??
Thanks
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: I see versions numbered 2.0.7 and 2.0.8 as release versions, because that
: is the way the upstream authors see them. The tarballs that appear before
: those releases are given numbers like 2.0.7pre1 specifically to indicate
: that they are NOT releases,
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Stephen Zander, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
Not true Darren: dbmopen does the moral equivalent of the tie under
the covers. It's one of my pet peeves that perl links in libraries to
the main executable that are only required by extensions.
Chris Massam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm new to the list,=20
I just installed debian 2, which went through fine, now however when I =
try and compile anything it says gcc is broke.
when running configure scripts some of them report that gcc cannot =
create executables.
Anyone else
Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports,
except maybe identd.
A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and
all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :)
This is rather off-topic, but
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Ok, I'm game. I have had to fend off enough people from taking my
packages that this is worth my time. Besides, I enjoy writing CGI, call
me sick. What do we want/need/desire/despise and let's get this going.
a database with the stuff from wnpp (list of
Hi all,
A while ago on debian-devel I proposed an algorithm that would allow APT to
choose the best possible server for each user from a large list
automatically. It could also be used for other tasks, eg. choosing a good
SQUID neighbour or IRC server.
So, I wrote a program that gathers the
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reassign 23867 general
Bug#23867: Critical permissions bug on /lib and /tmp
Bug assigned to package `general'.
reassign 23851 boot-floppies
Bug#23851: `install.txt' contains back spaces
Bug assigned to package `boot-floppies'.
reassign 23859
Sorry for this, but I made a very bad mistake in -4.2, which will just
unconditionally overwrite you netplan-acl file with an empty one.
Please get 1.6.1-5 instead (in Incoming for now, maybe at its
mirrors), it has this problem fixed.
Sorry for the inconvenience - I sincerely hope nobody
I compiled a lot of packages on my system and often I see that
programms don't use cc as their compiler. Thus they don't use
/etc/alternatives/cc.
Unless somebody tells me a good reason for not using cc I will open
bugs against any Packages that just uses gcc for fun. I know that some
Packages
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Could those of you who have grabbed, or are intending to grab the cd images
from www.uk.debian.org, and then offer them for anon access, please mail me,
so I can add your sites to the list of mirrors.
For more info about how to grab them from
The latest version of the Debian web pages are complete.
They are being mirrored to www.debian.org as I write this.
The new pages use content negotation to decide what version
should be served when there is more than one choice. This
is used to automatically give a document in a users prefered
Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In what formats are those images provided?
Single ISO image per CD.
It would be nice to download the image in parts including md5sums and
to have some additional error correction chunks like ras provides.
For the final release, this is probably worth the effort,
When properly used epochs do not hang around forever. Consider the
situation where epochs are supposed to be used:
Upstream Debian
1.0 1.0
2.0 2.0
3.0 3.0
2.01:2.0
3.01:3.0
4.0
From: James A.Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New web pages are finally up!
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 05:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
The new pages use content negotation to decide what version
should be served when there is more than one choice. This
is used to automatically give a document in a users
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:50:08PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
: At 13:22 -0700 1998-06-24, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
: . 2.0.34 needs the x-bit on shared libraries!
:
: Actually, no, it's just the dynamic linker that needs to be executable.
:
: This is apparently a security feature, 2.1
The latest version of the Debian web pages are complete.
They are being mirrored to www.debian.org as I write this.
They look great :-)
You've gone back to calling www.uk ``England'' though...
I still prefer ``Britain'' to ``United Kingdom'', but either will do.
Cheers, Phil.
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Package: ktop
Version: 0.9.7-1
Architecture: i386
Depends: kdelibs0g (= 2:980312), libc6, libstdc++2.8 (=2.90.26-1), qt1g
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On 25 Jun 1998, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been away a few days.
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 17 Jun 1998, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Did you use X and x as declared on the help screen? These are the
Previously Brederlow wrote:
In what formats are those images provided?
It would be nice to download the image in parts including md5sums and
to have some additional error correction chunks like ras provides.
You're just describing how rsync works. rsync retrieves the file in
parts and compares
I haven't been following the discussion on the libc6 naming (too
little time, I'm afraid) so I may have missed any fixes to this. I
have apt 0.0.16-1 and libc6 2.0.7r-2 installed. I installed apt
before the upgrade of libc6.
Now the first thing that apt wants to do when you run it is to commit
With the new web pages up, it is finally time to begin
translation of the pages. What I'd like to do is
to get one person to start with. This person should be
familiar with CVS (putting everything under CVS is next
on my list and I've never used it before).
The reason for having one person to
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
until 2.1.0 comes out, so that we wouldn't need to use a ``dirty, evil
epoch''.
No one has said anything about dirt or evil with respect to epochs.
Policy says not to use them for this purpose. It also says not to use
pre-release numbering
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 09:16:25AM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote:
I haven't been following the discussion on the libc6 naming (too
little time, I'm afraid) so I may have missed any fixes to this. I
have apt 0.0.16-1 and libc6 2.0.7r-2 installed. I installed apt
before the upgrade of libc6.
Could someone please install the xlib6g-dev package on va.debian.org? I'm
close to finishing the packaging of the TWIN windows emulator (can't do
it on my own machines because they are too slow) and the X libraries and
headers seem to have disappeared.
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Alexander E. Apke writes:
I propose xbase allowing people to choose between black or white
background during postinst or maybe in some kind of xbaseconfig script.
I think it's not necessary. I did not test, but the following (or a
similar setting) should work well and please most
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 10:29:43AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Brandon Mitchell has come up with a better scheme than my numbering
alternative. Consider the following:
2.0.8pre1 2.0.8-0pre1
2.0.8pre2 2.0.8-0pre2
2.0.8 2.0.8-1
This has several advantages over my previous
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Welcome to the nem Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List.
21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs
I'm not sure what to do abou this one.
The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are
correct and that making /usr a
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 10:24:02AM +0200, Brederlow wrote:
I compiled a lot of packages on my system and often I see that
programms don't use cc as their compiler. Thus they don't use
/etc/alternatives/cc.
Unless somebody tells me a good reason for not using cc I will open
bugs against any
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 09:45:43AM -0500, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Package: kdebase (i386 contrib)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
23655 kdebase includes /etc/X11/Xsession
Stephen is probably busy trying to get KDE 1.0 done, so I doubt
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 10:29:43AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Brandon Mitchell has come up with a better scheme than my numbering
alternative. Consider the following:
2.0.8pre12.0.8-0pre1
2.0.8pre2
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Welcome to the nem Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List.
21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs
I'm not sure what to do abou this one.
The upstream maintainer (Ulrich
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 09:20:13AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Ok, I'm game. I have had to fend off enough people from taking my
packages that this is worth my time. Besides, I enjoy writing CGI, call
me sick. What do we want/need/desire/despise
Very cool. How can I add the translated version?
I have some Japanese translations (based on the previous version,
though). I'd like to catch up the latest version and release them.
I'd like to keep the different language versions in sync
as much as possible. Only translations based on the
Hello,
As a matter of fact it just happened with our IDE drives after upgrading
to 2.0.34, since we had read this, we downgraded to 2.0.33 and it works with
no erros now. I
don't intent to say that this is an important bug, but maybe it should be
looked at.
I had this error messages
Hi,
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wichert Package: emacs19
Wichert Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin)
Wichert 23742 emacs19 should probably be just emacs
Why is this a release critical bug? emacs19 depends on a whole
slew of
Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale Brandon Mitchell has come up with a better scheme than my numbering
Dale alternative. Consider the following:
Dale 2.0.8pre12.0.8-0pre1
Dale 2.0.8pre22.0.8-0pre2
Dale 2.0.8 2.0.8-1
Dale This has several
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I actually like this. I still think that the aversion people
have for epochs is rather more than is warranted from the technical
objections (the mandatory longevity _is_ a technical objection), but
the -0 approach is elegant.
I mostly
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
Someone suggested this earlier in the discussion, and someone else pointed
out that this is clearly against policy, since anything after the '-' should
reflect debian-specific packaging changes, not upstream changes.
Then I would argue that the policy
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If we simplify it to 2.0.8-0.1 then it should conform to your idea of
policy better, but it doesn't convey as much information as the other form
and it would make them look like non-maintainer releases.
Go with the more informative option, and make a
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why is this a release critical bug? emacs19 depends on a whole
slew of packages, and it quite differently set up than the old emacs
package. Also, there are now a number of packages that vie for the
name Emacs, is not unreasonable to have
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Ok, I'm game. I have had to fend off enough people from taking my
packages that this is worth my time. Besides, I enjoy writing CGI, call
me sick. What do we want/need/desire/despise and let's get this
I apologize, but I used the wrong list...
Regards,
Joey
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Previously Brederlow wrote:
In what formats are those images provided?
It would be nice to download the image in parts including md5sums and
to have some additional error
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
until 2.1.0 comes out, so that we wouldn't need to use a ``dirty,
evil epoch''.
No one has said anything about dirt or evil with respect to epochs.
Sorry, I was being facetious, and I forgot the ;-)
Policy says not to use them for this
Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] filed this against ftp.debian.org:
Subject: please include apt and autoup in hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Package: ftp.debian.org,apt,autoup
Version: N/A
i think this is the right location. if people want to get all files they need
to install or
Hi,
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jules Someone suggested this earlier in the discussion, and someone
Jules else pointed out that this is clearly against policy, since
Jules anything after the '-' should reflect debian-specific
Jules packaging changes, not upstream changes.
Hi,
Rob == Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I actually like this. I still think that the aversion people
have for epochs is rather more than is warranted from the technical
objections (the mandatory longevity _is_ a technical objection),
I was trying to install the updated w3-el package, but it wouldn't work
with xemacs on my machine, it seemed not to do any of the compiliation
that was done for emacs20. It also killed the w3-el that came with
xemacs. Is w3-el meant to be installed with xemacs?
Shaya
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Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, my contention is that pre-release are *not* upstream
releases. They can arguably be termed a special release (not an
upstream release) that the debian maintainer has chosen to make. This
is a bit of a stretch, but acceptable, in my
I think a reasonable policy statement for this would be something like:
All pre-release versions will have debian revision of -0.x
Maintainer release revisions will start at -1 and increment in
whole numbers
Non maintainer releases will add a point version to the left of the
maintainer release
OOPS
left should be right.
One of these days I'll be able to tell my left and right apart!
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From: Patrick Ouellette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 3:13 PM
To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Cc: Debian Developers
Subject: RE: libc6_2.0.7
Darren == Darren/Torin/Who Ever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Darren Hmm. You're right. Any ideas on when this changed or was
Darren I just on too much sleep-dep when I last looked at this.
Darren (a while back)
Been that way for quite a while AFAIK. Till very recently, though,
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are
correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is evil.
I'm running out of space and wanted to move subdirs of /usr to
another partition. But because of
Ouch!
I can't package this software. At least not for now:
File: ConvertUTF.C
Author: Mark E. Davis
Copyright (C) 1994 Taligent, Inc. All rights reserved.
This code is copyrighted. Under the copyright laws, this code may not
be copied, in whole or part, without prior written
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I mostly agree, but the argument that anything to the right of the
dash should only reflect *Debian* related revisions does hold some
water.
The question is: is it being used to bail out a maintainer who didn't
take other steps to deal with the version
Jens == Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jens Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] filed this against
Jens ftp.debian.org:
Subject: please include apt and autoup in
hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Package:
ftp.debian.org,apt,autoup Version: N/A
i
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with rsync at the moment is that if the transfer is
interrupted, it throws away the partial image --- Andrew Tridgell said
he'd fix this though.
...
If you use wget, and find that the md5sum that results is wrong, you
should be able to fix any
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with rsync at the moment is that if the transfer is
interrupted, it throws away the partial image --- Andrew Tridgell said
he'd fix this though.
...
If you use wget, and find that the md5sum that results is wrong, you
should be able to
Well classes just ended (I was taking a summer course). So everyone put
your heads together and tell me what you want. Once a general idea is
agreed on I will happily code it. If we want vacations and stuff --
that is fine also. How much security are we allowing for here? How
should we
Yeah, there's been enough discussion in this context. The decision to
ditch the emacs name as a package name was in fact made for good
reasons, a while back; just-before-the-release is the wrong time to
revisit it. As emacs and emacs19 maintainer, I'm closing it, with this
message. Feel free to
Yo-
I was woondering if non-html versions of the following exist and if so,
where?
Debian Packaging Manual
Creating a Package with Debmake
The New-maintainer's Debian Packaging Howto
I would like to print and read all of these documents but going to every
web page of every section and printing
Thanks!
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Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The kernel in the latest base2_0.tgz seems to have a couple of small
problems.
Firstly, the PCMCIA modules can't find a number of symbols
on start-up (no big deal to me but important to others).
Secondly, and more importantly, support for the nfs file-system has
been removed. This makes using
--On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 4:16 pm -0400 Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well classes just ended (I was taking a summer course). So everyone put
your heads together and tell me what you want. Once a general idea is
agreed on I will happily code it. If we want vacations and stuff --
that is
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