Hi
trying to upgrade some packages apt-get fails with the msg.
E: Package bigbrother has no instalation candidate
Packages which fail (with this msg):
bigbrother
xplot
xsplay
xwatch
my apt/source.list:
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:42:15PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
|
|So rpm's method of upgrading is the same as dpkg -i, whereas dpkg has nothing
|equivilant to rpm's method of just installing a package.
|
|Oh and by the way, this user interface tends to confuse new users (at least
|it did me) who
Anthony Wong wrote:
|Oh and by the way, this user interface tends to confuse new users (at least
|it did me) who accidentially install many versions of the same package
|because they arn't aware they should be upgrading it instead.
Because you already have the Debian way in your mind when
I wrote:
Would you say the same of daemons that run as root?
Avery Pennarun writes:
Coming from you, that sounds like a trick question.
It isn't. My chrony package includes a daemon that runs as root. I've
looked it over and don't see any holes, but I'm not a security expert.
--
John Hasler
I think it's not necessary that a developer agree with the DFSG. It should
be enough that they indicate they understand it and will abide by it in what
they produce for debian.
--
see shy jo
It looks like a couple of us are able to attend, and most will need some
place to stay. I think we need a volunteer to organize all this.
Any willing to do this?
Wichert.
--
==
This combination of bytes forms a
Previously Ben Collins wrote:
Since no one else has spoken up, I will take over pam.
Thanks, I was just about to offer the same thing :).
Wichert.
--
==
This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by
Joey Hess wrote:
I think it's not necessary that a developer agree with the DFSG. It
should be enough that they indicate they understand it and will abide
by it in what they produce for debian.
Yes, but OTOH, it's a little hard to fathom why someone would *want* to
work on Debian if they
It seems that all the hamm and slink packages files, as well as those for
contrib and non-free (but not main) in potato are currently missing on
three mirrors I have checked today.
Agggh!
Bob
Joey Hess wrote:
I think it's not necessary that a developer agree with the DFSG. It
should be enough that they indicate they understand it and will
abide by it in what they produce for debian.
Then, Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but OTOH, it's a little hard to fathom why
This is a multiple precision library (I assume like gpm). It's used
by toba (a java compiler/jit). It's packaged and waiting to be
uploaded until I see whether the packages are complete enough to
compile toba.
It was downloaded from ftp://skip.incog.com/pub/bnlib-1.1.tar.gz
Upstream Author(s):
Hi!
Someone mentioned the youth hostel at Hochspeyer. I know it. It is rather
big and Hochspeyer has railroad connection to Kaiserslautern.
Maybe I can also get a car to assist Thimo with transporting if someone
wants to stay in Heidelberg (we have a youth hostel too, I can't offer
sleeping
Previously John Hasler wrote:
It isn't. My chrony package includes a daemon that runs as root. I've
looked it over and don't see any holes, but I'm not a security expert.
Have you tried running it as another user?
Wichert.
--
Previously Steve Dunham wrote:
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source
This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is
installed in slink.
Thanks, I'll add it to my exclusion list tomorrow when I wake up.
Further versions of this proposal will be posted on the WWW, and the address
of such revisions will be posted to both -devel and -dpkg.
Please don't do this. It is not easy for everyone on these lists to
access material on the WWW. From past experience with other groups, it
really breaks
here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd
[paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd
ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz
ldso: /usr/bin/ldd
tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/olddig.mf
ldso: /usr/lib/lddstub
php3-doc: /usr/doc/php3-doc/html/function.hw-getchilddoccollobj.html
debhelper:
Ben Pfaff said:
Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say,
even if they can't or do not have the time to contribute with code ?
They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to
Debian lists and
Okay, after discussing this with a few people on #debian, and going over email,
it seems that a) I am not qualified nor familiar with dpkg internals enough to
do a project such as this, and did not realize it at first and b) too much of
dpkg would have to be severly hacked and re-written.
So, if
faure and albert(the 2 alphas hosted at novare for debian) are being taken
down for a physical move. I estimate that they will be back up in 30 minutes.
Sorry for the inconveniance.
Wichert writes:
Have you tried running it [chronyd] as another user?
No, but it doesn't seem too likely that a program that adjusts the system
clock would work too well running as 'nobody'. It can also be an ntp
server, though that is turned off in the default configuration.
I looked around in
Hi,
[I am not disagreeing entirely]
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey I think it's not necessary that a developer agree with the
Joey DFSG. It should be enough that they indicate they understand it
Joey and will abide by it in what they produce for debian.
Hmm.
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose
indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best one
for our purposes?
Once I removed a few conditions for removing words from indexing that weren't
Hi Steve and Manoj,
Probably. I guess I just like a little more enthusiasm than I'll abide
by the rules.
Steve, I'm sorry I gave you that impression. I'm always talking about how
great Debian is to my colleagues and always try to convince them to try
and use Debian. You may not think so but
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
OK, in the past week or so I've seen several people posting from
California. Has anyone thought of having a gathering in some semi-central
location? Get to know faces, sign keys, etc?
I would be interested. If
Well, I have ldd also, but don't see the connection.
???
Bob
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Paul McDermott wrote:
here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd
[paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd
ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz
ldso: /usr/bin/ldd
tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/olddig.mf
ldso:
Barak,
I have setup a cluster of alphas (PC164LX 533Mhz). I maintain the darn thing
also. I do not want the job, but as I found it hard to get ANYONE running an
alpha beowulf cluster to help me, I offer my assitance whenever possible.
I run Debian on the cluster and would not use anything
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:03:26PM -0500, fantumn Steven Baker wrote:
Package Naming Scheme
The problem is superficial. Sure, names should be more uniform, but all
this requires is 1) ratifying naming standards and 2) ensuring that the
packaging system handles name changes gracefully.
CVS
Martin A. Soto wrote:
RANT MODE
Many, *many* people has proposed this idea before. So many, that you
would be tempted to consider it a simple, natural, and straightforward
idea. Nonetheless, it seems that this far, it has been impossible to
make it part of dpkg, or even to start working on the
It must have been a temporary glitch, the files are now available.
Bob
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
It seems that all the hamm and slink packages files, as well as those for
contrib and non-free (but not main) in potato are currently missing on
three mirrors I have checked today.
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:45:42PM +0530, Bruce Jackson wrote:
util-linux_2.9g-0.3.deb from potato is missing hwclock. The man page
and packages file claim it is there. Any idea where it went to?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
..~$ dpkg -S hich hwclock
util-linux: /sbin/hwclock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
..~$
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 12:38:26PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
It is amazing how people so are ready to snap at something that isn't as
bad as they make it seem. Please don't start quoting what I said. I know
what I said and I know what I meant. You are taking what I said way out
of context
Does anyone know how to place an announcement on cola (or whatever is en
vogue nowadays) with having news access?
I want to publish what I have so far on my trashcan suite before I
completely run out of time.
Michael
--
Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!
Th.-Heuss-Str. 61,
Sorry for the late follow up, but faure and albert are back up, and have been
for several hours. There were no problems.
Adam
Le Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:48:04AM -, Robert Woodcock écrivait:
So, the gist of that is that dpkg has been left for dead (well, NMU hell
anyway) for a full year and there hasn't been *that* many complaints.
Just no new features.
I don't agree. I don't want to blame anybody since i'am not
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:18:07AM -0500, Erik Troan wrote:
On 20 Jan 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
1. totally revert, drop /var/mail, and specify /var/spool/mail
2. partially revert, /var/spool/mail is a directory and /var/mail
must be a symbolic link to it
3. allow a
I agree. I also don't think it's a big deal. What's important is that
all of the MUA's get compiled so that they look for the mail spool in
/var/mail. If /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail, or /u3/mail,
or something else --- that's fine.
Adding that symlink can be done easily by the
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 20:56:52 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
Does anyone know how to place an announcement on cola (or whatever is en
vogue nowadays) with having news access?
Quoting the sig on COLAs:
Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTH,
Ray
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POPULATION
I agree. I also don't think it's a big deal. What's important is that
all of the MUA's get compiled so that they look for the mail spool in
/var/mail. If /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail, or /u3/mail,
or something else --- that's fine.
Adding that symlink can be done easily
Please think about it and stay with /var/spool/mail.
Right now, /var/mail and /var/spool/mail both suffer the same problem:
whichever is used, some people need to use the other, hence it is a
*requirement* that both can be used by programs.
Given that, it is better to use /var/mail, because
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:53:32PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Please think about it and stay with /var/spool/mail.
Right now, /var/mail and /var/spool/mail both suffer the same problem:
whichever is used, some people need to use the other, hence it is a
*requirement* that both can be
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote:
Maybe the web files should be owned by www-data and the web
process should be owned by www or httpd? This way the
descriptive names continue to make sense. Practical
speaking, it is probably just as good to make web
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 08:35:23PM +, Edward Betts wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote:
Maybe the web files should be owned by www-data and the web
process should be owned by www or httpd? This way the
descriptive names continue to make sense. Practical
speaking, it is
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:36:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
1. web files owned by www-data:www-data (ie no group change), and the
web process executed by www:www (for instance). There is no need for
users to be members of root. This would require an extra UID and GID.
But this won't allow
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
...
Hmmm, would the concept of meta-packages and a scheme for sharing common
files (like the RH one described?) work.
Packages could have their name extended with the version:
foo_1.2.3-1 - foo_1.2.3
foo_1.2.3-2 - foo_1.2.3
foo_1.2.4-1 - foo_1.2.4
and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
Dungeons Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls.
blackjack is a *very* simple blackjack game, which
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote:
rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
Dungeons Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls.
Just wondering,
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
Dungeons Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice rolls.
[1] Advanced Dungeons Dragons is a registered
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
Since no one else has spoken up, I will take over pam. I will also look
How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that conclusion. Isn't
this a bit early? I mean, not everybody has an RJ45 jack implanted in one's
body.
Thomas == Thomas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thomas How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that
Thomas conclusion. Isn't this a bit early? I mean, not everybody has
Thomas an RJ45 jack implanted in one's body.
Thankfully enough of us do, including the person who's been
Sorry for writing the same several times again. Since I have moved from
/var/spool/mail to /var/mail and back again, I know what's it like and
I know that having only one dir instead is more sane/clean than several
ones.
well, I tend to agree here. I moved to /var/mail and added a symlink but
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 09:48:33AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
Since no one else has spoken up, I will take over pam. I will also look
How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that conclusion. Isn't
this a bit early?
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:49:43AM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote:
Thomas How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that
Thomas conclusion. Isn't this a bit early? I mean, not everybody has
Thomas an RJ45 jack implanted in one's body.
Thankfully enough of us do, including the
Previously John Hasler wrote:
I looked around in the code a bit more and found a few dubious looking
sprintf's. What else should I look for? I already checked for 'system'
and 'execve'.
Please do so. If you don't feel confident enough you can submit it to the
security team. We'll take a look
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:53:32 -0800 (PST), H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Given that, it is better to use /var/mail, because the mail inbox
directory is *not* a spool (a daemon transshipment point -- the mail
*spool* is /var/spool/mqueue.) Putting it under /var/spool causes
disk space management problems.
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Florian La Roche wrote:
There are reasons why all distributions stayed with /var/spool/mail.
Even Debian who also thinks a lot about making things sane/clean has
stayed with /var/spool/mail.
Note that Debian has not yet moved from FSSTND to FHS for the most part,
and
Hello,
So, if you have a script with a setuid flag after you edit+save it in
mc's editor the flag will dissapear...
I dont know, but i think it's a bug.
Let me know if it is, and i'll report it.
Regards,
Tibor
--
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[ Koleszr Tibor -
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Given that, it is better to use /var/mail, because the mail inbox
directory is *not* a spool (a daemon transshipment point -- the mail
*spool* is /var/spool/mqueue.) Putting it under /var/spool causes
disk space management problems.
Moving it on
Hi!
Joey Hess writes:
JH What happens if you try to install version bar of a package while
JH version foo of that same package, which contains files of the
JH same name, is installed? Rpm will happily overwrite version foo's
JH files.
Yes.
JH What happens if you then remove version foo?
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tibor Koleszar wrote:
Hello,
So, if you have a script with a setuid flag after you edit+save it in
mc's editor the flag will dissapear...
I dont know, but i think it's a bug.
Let me know if it is, and i'll report it.
i've observed the same thing in emacs.
Presumably
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose
indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best
one
for our purposes?
Once I removed a few
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Last I heard the LSB list was closed to the general public, though
archives were available. Is this still the case? If the LSB project now
welcomes outsiders to work with the project, great. Otherwise I'm
concerned doing that
Florian La Roche wrote:
I can also see some points why /var/mail would be a better standard point
if we would make a new decision about this. But Linux has a large user
base now and after the move from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail, we would
not have gained a lot. So why do it?
There are
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
Ok, after looking at this, I've decided that the cracklib support for
PAM would be best handled by having it in a seperate package. I want to
propose a naming scheme for module packages for PAM similar to how
apache modules are named, libpam-mod-foo,
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:08:17AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
It looks like a couple of us are able to attend, and most will need some
place to stay. I think we need a volunteer to organize all this.
Any willing to do this?
I set up a mailinglist, so we do not need to flood the -devel
I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It seems
pretty sane, except I realized since it does not provide for any
macro expansion, I will have to edit the 8 or 9 doc control files
libgtk1.1.13-doc (and 1.1.14, and 1.1.15, ad nauseum) provides
EVERY SINGLE TIME there is a new
Christoph Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Maybe I can also get a car to assist Thimo with transporting if someone
wants to stay in Heidelberg (we have a youth hostel too, I can't offer
sleeping place, sorry)
Would be an option, especially if one goes there by car or such.
Btw, how much is a stone
This probably isn't necessary, as I just filed an important and a
grave bug against the package, but I thought I'd declare that xxgdb
should really be pulled. It doesn't work at al in a libc6
environment, it hasn't been uploaded by its ostensible maintainer
since bo was in frozen, and the last
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Tibor Koleszar wrote:
Hello,
So, if you have a script with a setuid flag after you edit+save it in
mc's editor the flag will dissapear...
I dont know, but i think it's a bug.
Let me know if it is, and i'll report it.
On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It seems
pretty sane, except I realized since it does not provide for any
macro expansion, I will have to edit the 8 or 9 doc control files
libgtk1.1.13-doc (and 1.1.14, and 1.1.15, ad nauseum)
Wayne == Wayne Schlitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wayne To the best of my knowledge, the LSB lists have never been
Wayne *closed* to the general public. I have been subscribed to them
Wayne for months, and I found out about them by reading /.,
Wayne debian-devel, and looking at a few web pages.
I wrote:
I looked around in the code a bit more and found a few dubious looking
sprintf's. What else should I look for? I already checked for 'system'
and 'execve'.
Wichert Akkerman writes:
Please do so.
Please do *what*?
As I noted, there are no calls to system or its ilk. I know how
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:56:09PM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
On 20-Jan-99 Anderson MacKay wrote:
As I read the license, it just requires that you display notice that your
website was created using Zope, e.g. a sort of powered by Zope logo
kinda thing, and you need a credits page of some
Now for something different:
4.5. Example Licenses
--
As examples, we consider the following licenses DFSG-free:
* the Artistic License
* the BSD License
* the MIT/X Consortium License
* the GNU General Public License
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben I've recently looked into the doc-base control file
Ben format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does
Ben not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the
Ben 8 or 9 doc control files libgtk1.1.13-doc
At 08:06 -0800 1999-01-21, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Is there any way doc-base can provide some kind of macro expansion,
so I don't have to edit:
/usr/doc/libgtk1.1.13-doc/gtk-faq.html/
...
every time I have a new package, instead, doing something like
VERSION=1.1.13
On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben I've recently looked into the doc-base control file
Ben format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does
Ben not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jules In general, it is IMHO silly to rewrite, yet again, a macro
Jules substitution engine into a special purpose piece of
Jules software (doc-base) when we already have several good, fast
Jules macro substituters (cpp, m4) and a
The XFree86 (I think it's also called the MIT license?) has been added. Since
(so far) we still accept the advertising clause, the BSD license is still
DFSG-free...
On 21-Jan-99 Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Perhaps we could mention this problem with the advertisment clause
here, and add XFree86 to
Hi guys,
What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
Thanks,
-Ossama
__
Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:18:21 + (GMT), Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It
Ben seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does not
On 21-Jan-99 Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
I think, and this is just off the cuff, that my problem with the
license, be it the former OR latter, is the fact that the USER now
has a license issue to deal with. I think (again, on the fly) that
there should be no extra licensing worries for the user.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ivtools 31966 Post Inst error
I sent in a patch for this; it's a trivial fix.
--
Shields.
On Thu, 21 Jan, 1999, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
Hi
trying to upgrade some packages apt-get fails with the msg.
E: Package bigbrother has no instalation candidate
Packages which fail (with this msg):
bigbrother
xplot
xsplay
xwatch
my apt/source.list:
# Use for a local mirror -
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Buddha Buck wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
Dungeons Dragons[1] and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote:
rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the command
line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games like Advanced
Dungeons Dragons[1] and returns the result
Hello,
After a recent upgrade of the JDK package (on a slink machine) it
stopped working. It complains about not finding 'versionCheck' and
won't run any program (I'm talking about the jre, the runtime
environment).
At first I suspected that maybe I screwed something and purged and
re-installed
On 21-Jan-99 Ossama Othman wrote:
Hi guys,
What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
Thanks,
-Ossama
It's all available in the archives... Let's not start THAT discussion again,
ok?
--
=
*
Amos == Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Amos At first I suspected that maybe I screwed something and purged
Amos and re-installed the package, but that doesn't work. Now I had
Amos a report from someone else that it doesn't work for him at all
Amos too.
Same here; reinstalling it gets
Hi Darren,
What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
Thanks,
-Ossama
It's all available in the archives... Let's not start THAT discussion again,
ok?
Sure no problem. I had no intention of doing so. I was just curious as
to the status. There will be no argument
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of
kernel 2.2 easily on a debian cdrom, and it would let us say that debian
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One question: Is it right, that you search for a Linux Distribution for
your 'Tagungs-CD'. Last year it was suse, the year befor redhat. Right?
This year, debian?
Choosing the underlying distribution to build the LinuxTag
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:32:54AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I suspect that both of you are editing these files as a user. I suspect
(but haven't checked) that if you do the edit as root, that the bits will
stay in place, but another user, who may have write permissions on the
file should not
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note that I am using the apt method of dselect using the round-robin
mirrors so I have no idea which site I was really connected to when I got
the bad .deb
Does apt check the MD5sum of the package against that in the Packages
file? Does dpkg do that (I
It's all available in the archives... Let's not start THAT discussion again,
ok?
Sure no problem. I had no intention of doing so. I was just curious as
to the status. There will be no argument from me, especially since I
agreed with Debian's stance on the matter. :)
Brief summary,
Hi Jules,
Brief summary, then:
KDE will not be in slink.
KDE will be in potato if
a) KDE change their license (in which case it can go into contrib)
b) Qt change their license (in which case they may both be able to go into
free)
b) is the likely outcome, since troll are designing a
Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd say grave, but then again jdk is non-free and wont be on CDs anyway.
TIA to whoever fixes this package.
I'd say it's grave too - despite being non-free, this _is_ the only decent
java virtual machine available and java isn't exactly unpopular.
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
I'de really like to see a kernel-image too, atleast for the non-i386 ports
to use. The 2.2
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:35:06PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Choosing the underlying distribution to build the LinuxTag CD from has
always been a most painful decision. The infighting that occurred last
year over the choice SuSE vs. Red Hat turned ugly. I don't expect the
decision
On Thu, 21 Jan, 1999, Ossama Othman wrote:
Hi guys,
What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering.
They will not let us distribute binaries so we don't.
--
GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them.
-- The GNU
I'm not trying to be too negative or anything, but I've been having kind of
a bad day with Slink and I'm wondering if I'm the only one? Today I've
been trying to draw some stuff, and here's the path I've gone down.
I tried to use TogetherJ, written in Java. But jdk1.1 is completely hosed
and
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