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This is what I learned from the responses to the previous announcement.
Boot disks:
Creating disk sets with the much larger 2.2 kernels is proving difficult.
This is likely to delay the freeze unless the
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam Geeze -- ok, I'll fix it tonight.
Thanks! I didn't mean to sound concilatory, but it seems a lot of
packages have a lot of doc-base warnings these days..
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You should be glad you
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}'
Joey if $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; }
This is a nice solution.
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When you had it, you didn't want it. Now you ain't got
Squirm is a URL redirector for squid.
It provides a fast means for squid to modify URLs according to a set
rule that the administrator applies.
It is useful for things like
a) redirecting requests for common files to internal cached copies
b) restricting access to URLS and redirecting
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:10:54AM +1000, Daniel James Patterson wrote:
Squirm is a URL redirector for squid.
It provides a fast means for squid to modify URLs according to a set
rule that the administrator applies.
Oh, I forgot to mention that it's under the GPL and you can look at it at:
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Previously Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Do I have access to the net within that environment? I just have some
pre-release slink CDs, so I have to upgrade to the current point
release by ftp (by an ISDN
Ian Lynagh wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes
These are installed now.
I assume the delay with libgtop1 was that it was a new package? If so,
please remove libgtop0.
Yes... I'll get around to that later :-)
Richard Braakman
[Please restrict your line length to around 70-72 characters, as
otherwise it overruns 80 chars when quoted.]
It seems to me that since there will always be patches and updates
to packages
between releases, and since we have the proposed updates, perhaps we could
add an updates area, in
GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would fix it,
but it doesn't. The upstream author, with whom I generally had very good
(albeit sporadic) contact is MIA. AFAICT the other dists don't distribute
acct.
The package needs a kernel hacker type who can debug and
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Roman Hodek wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find the software to run a debian
upload queue? I thought it was packaged but I can't seem to find it
using the obvois searches..
It's in project/misc/debianqueued-0.8.tar.gz. It's no proper Debian
package because it
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:06:24PM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
It seems to me that since there will always be patches and updates to packages
between releases, and since we have the proposed updates, perhaps we could
add an updates area, in addition to the non-free, contrib, and main
Hi all,
I have been doing some reasearch here and I have been able to determine
that right now GPG represents (with the non-free RSA and IDEA modules) a
functional replacement for PGP 2.x for both checking signatures and
creating signatures.
It is remarkably easy to do, I am surprised that
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 11:29:10PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
I've been told that this is pretty much Christian Hudon's decision.
Perhaps an exception could be made for X, given that it is so huge and
onerous to download, and requires gargantuan amounts of space and time to
build. But my
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 15:14 +0200 1999-05-12, Sven LUTHER wrote:
I think the issue is the different way that different ppc systems uses to
boot
from the CD. I am not entirely sure how amigaos does this, but i bet it is
different from macos ...
Sure, we could choose
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Matt Porter wrote:
The non-mac CHRP boards (LongTrails etc.) also use OF I believe. Are
their OF's so broken that they don't work properly as well? Perhaps APUS
and PReP (and I'm talking PPCBUG firmware not OF systems) are the only
ones we need to worry about.
On May 12, Matt Porter wrote:
The non-mac CHRP boards (LongTrails etc.) also use OF I believe. Are
their OF's so broken that they don't work properly as well? Perhaps APUS
and PReP (and I'm talking PPCBUG firmware not OF systems) are the only
ones we need to worry about. Interestingly
has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff
combination for reading man pages? 4mb is a lot for small systems, and
reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity.
-Brad
-Brad
Mitch == Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mitch GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in
Mitch the 0-99 range added to Debian?
Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe.
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Ben == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}' if
Joey $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; }
Ben This is a nice solution.
Well, actually, in tonight's upload, I only enabled this warning if
the
Hi, everyone.
I've successfully built most of Gnome on a stock Slink system.
Three cheers for the Gnome project and the packaging team!
On 12 May 1999 15:41:04 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote :
BTW: compiling gnome is a pain. We _need_ source dependencies
Hear, hear.
Just for flavour, the
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}'
Joey if $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; }
Ben This is a nice solution.
Adam
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:36:27PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote:
Hi,
The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and -sources
list was proposed a while ago. What happened to it and what are
the sentiments on splitting it?? I
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Dear wnpp maintainers, Dear fellow developers,
when I recently had a look at the wnpp list, I saw that I once intended to
package the root framework ( http://root.cern.ch/ ).
Unfortunatly I am currently working on my diploma (on my master) and as
some of you
The non-mac CHRP boards (LongTrails etc.) also use OF I believe. Are
their OF's so broken that they don't work properly as well? Perhaps APUS
and PReP (and I'm talking PPCBUG firmware not OF systems) are the only
ones we need to worry about. Interestingly enough, Motorola dropped OF
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote:
Hi,
The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and -sources
list was proposed a while ago. What happened to it and what are
the sentiments on splitting it?? I think it's quite high volume
because most lists aren't intresting
[Cc'ing to -devel]
Package: tetex-base
Version: 0.9.990406-1
Out of the box, /var/spool/texmf/ls-R is owned by root and mode 644.
Therefore all font generation operations get an error:
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable.
Changing it to mode 666 works
Josip Rodin wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 08:55:44PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
mozilla should work for potato
Maybe it will ;) We'll try.
If it doesn't, I guess the current mozilla should be removed? It's sort
of old now, and it doesn't work with glibc 2.1.
Richard
Hartmut Koptein wrote:
Hi,
BTW, I think it's good to set an *optimistic* freeze date, so people
aren't shocked. I would set it at July 1, or maybe Bastille day
(Debian pomme de terre?).
We have a long history of overly optimistic freeze dates :-) I'd like
to try something else this
Joel Klecker wrote:
At 19:06 +0200 1999-05-10, Richard Braakman wrote:
* glibc 2.1 upgrade
As far as I know, this project is largely complete. There are one or two
bugs left in the backward compatibility code, and there's the question
of what to do with /dev/pts.
No there isn't,
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
* Release Critical Bugs
With respect to fixing release critical bugs, I think there are two
components to lowering this as a big problem. The first, as pointed
out, is to *not* try to cram heavily broken things into unstable just
prior to freeze, and it just requires
Hi,
prc-tools is a gcc, gdb, and binutils cross-development package that
generates and works with binaries for use on the Palm
Pilot/PalmIII/IIIX/V line of products. I tried giving it away last
December, but apparently the person that took it didn't have time to
upload it, so I'm trying again.
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:13:10PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
mozilla should work for potato
Maybe it will ;) We'll try.
If it doesn't, I guess the current mozilla should be removed? It's sort
of old now, and it doesn't work with glibc 2.1.
I was kidding - newer mozilla
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:53:11PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:13:10PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
mozilla should work for potato
Maybe it will ;) We'll try.
If it doesn't, I guess the current mozilla should be removed? It's sort
of old now,
On Thu, 13 May 1999 11:25:10 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote:
[Cc'ing to -devel]
Package: tetex-base
Version: 0.9.990406-1
Out of the box, /var/spool/texmf/ls-R is owned by root and mode 644.
Therefore all font generation operations get an error:
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd:
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 10:12:46PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
mozilla should work for potato
Maybe it will ;) We'll try.
If it doesn't, I guess the current mozilla should be removed? It's sort
of old now, and it doesn't work with glibc 2.1.
I was kidding - newer
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:13:39AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Mitch == Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mitch GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in
Mitch the 0-99 range added to Debian?
Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe.
And pray. :-)
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
PAM:
Ben Collins sponsored full pamification as a release goal. The main
packages that need work are the shadow suite, and xdm.
/me blinks...
has nis (the package) been PAMified? I positively hate PAM because it's an
all
Sorry it took me so long to reply, life decided to give me my yearly
supply of 'fun' in a small amount of time, and I had deleted the
message I was replying to..
I'm also sorry about how I jumped, I over reacted a bit, as I said, this
has been a very interesting week...
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at
GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would
fix it,
but it doesn't. The upstream author, with whom I generally had very
good
(albeit sporadic) contact is MIA. AFAICT the other dists don't
distribute
acct.
The package needs a kernel hacker type who can debug and
Hi Richard,
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:02:10PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
Excellent. Would someone like to be a sponsor for that, in the sense
that I described last March?
: * Don't try to keep track of everything. Find a sponsor for each
: release goal, who keeps track of progress,
At 13:02 +0200 1999-05-13, Richard Braakman wrote:
Joel Klecker wrote:
At 19:06 +0200 1999-05-10, Richard Braakman wrote:
* glibc 2.1 upgrade
As far as I know, this project is largely complete. There are one or two
bugs left in the backward compatibility code, and there's the question
of what
At 10:25 +0200 1999-05-13, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
The OF of my LongTrail works perfectly but i don't know how to set it up for
autobooting. Booting from floppy is not (yet) possible (for initrd) because
the kernel cannot read the floppy. So net or cd booting are the only choices.
Currently i wait
At 22:10 -0700 1999-05-12, Matt Porter wrote:
The non-mac CHRP boards (LongTrails etc.) also use OF I believe. Are
their OF's so broken that they don't work properly as well? Perhaps APUS
and PReP (and I'm talking PPCBUG firmware not OF systems) are the only
ones we need to worry about.
I'll upload debian packaged version of vflib2 and two vfonts.
VFlib:
VFlib is a library for converting vector fonts (also known as outline
fonts) to bit map data. Its functions include rotation, shrinking, and
changing the slant of characters. VFlib is used by localized software
for Japanese
thwap
acct is user login/use accounting, NOT money matters.
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:02:10PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
Hmm... then why isn't it used on my system? devpts is mounted, I
have /dev/ptmx, but /dev/pts is empty.
Perhaps you aren't using anything that uses unix98 ptys? Not everything
uses them by default, you know. Sometimes patches
Glad to hear all of this. I just have one comment:
- The mktexlsr, mktexdir and mktexupd scripts must not be setuid.
If they are, anyone could run them, which is unnecessary. Any
extra privileges they require will be gained when they are called
from other setuid processes.
In foo.debian-devel, Brian wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:13:39AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Mitch == Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mitch GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in
Mitch the 0-99 range added to Debian?
Add a wishlist bug to
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
PAM:
Ben Collins sponsored full pamification as a release goal. The main
packages that need work are the shadow suite, and xdm.
/me blinks...
has nis (the package) been
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Please send followups to this mail to debian-devel, not
debian-devel-announce)
This is what I learned from the responses to the previous announcement.
Boot disks:
CD Images:
Architectures:
PAM:
Perl 5.005:
Library dependencies:
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remove as many dependencies on old libraries as possible, this
includes:
libjpegg6a, libncurses3.4, newt0.25, libpgsql, tk4.2, tcl7.6,
libwraster1, libpng0g
and various older gtk/gnome libraries.
Looking at some of these, it occurs to
(ask Brent Fulgham, maybe there were more),
Would it be possible to at least have one of those in potato?
Maybe. Question is - do we want another five thousand
wishlist bug reports
from users screaming for something 'better'? ;(
I think you should look in
I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about here.
I use NIS and PAM all the time on RedHat (and Debian - although half
of our stuff is not yet pamified). What exactly has to be pamified in
the nis package? (In RH 6.0, setting up an NIS client is as easy as
typing the domain name
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 10:13:59AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about here.
I use NIS and PAM all the time on RedHat (and Debian - although half
of our stuff is not yet pamified). What exactly has to be pamified in
the nis package? (In
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 07:03:37AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
PAM:
Ben Collins sponsored full pamification as a release goal. The main
packages that need work are the shadow suite, and xdm.
/me blinks...
has
Le Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:16:11AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull écrivait:
Specificly the path issues and the mention of the bug reports..
About the bugs, here they are :
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/35/35236.html
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/35/35446.html
And there are path problems IF perl5.005
Hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Jason Gunthorpe, Stardate 120599.2134:
Hi all,
I have been doing some reasearch here and I have been able to determine
that right now GPG represents (with the non-free RSA and IDEA modules) a
functional replacement for PGP 2.x for both checking signatures and
creating
[ I'm responding to myself in order to precise things, there was some
informations missing in the previous message ]
[ Followup on debian-perl, please ]
Le Thu, May 13, 1999 at 06:32:00PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait:
This is true if perl5.004 will still be used, but as you know, perl5.005
In order for the kernel nfs daemon to function properly wrt file locking,
clients must be running rpc.statd. I will therefore, as part of moving
knfs to unstable, create a nfs-client package containing rpc.statd.
I plan to include showmount in it as well (with an approproate replaces for
acct is user login/use accounting, NOT money matters.
oops. Yeah that was Xacct or something like that. Oh well never mind.
===
Amateur Radio, when all else fails!
http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .
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Do
Hi,
I noticed that debbugs isn't listed in Freshmeat's bug tracking
software site:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/bug-tracking.html
Is there any reason why it isn't listed?
-Ossama
--
Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington
On May 13, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PGP 2.x compatible signatures can be generated using this command:
gpg --rfc-1991 -a --clearsign foo.txt
AFAIK this is not needed. The only compatibility options I have in my
~/.gnupg/options file are:
compress-algo 1
force-v3-sigs
Hi.
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:21:19PM +0200, Rui Zhu wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:00:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
In related note, according to unofficial information from Simon Peyton
Jones (the primary author of GHC), the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) will
become free
Thank you for your quick action :)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've already set up debian upload queue daemon on master.debian.or.jp.
It seems to work fine, Susumu Osawa has uploaded aumix package as powerpc
binary NMU via this upload queue
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Marco d'Itri wrote:
PGP 2.x compatible signatures can be generated using this command:
gpg --rfc-1991 -a --clearsign foo.txt
AFAIK this is not needed. The only compatibility options I have in my
~/.gnupg/options file are:
I was unable to make it work without the
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:10:48PM +0100, Giuliano P Procida wrote:
I've hit two problems so far:
a) happy is unhappy [1]
b) ghc runs out of heap compiling its parser
Well, I spoke to soon. I have a compile failure with no error message:
../../../ghc/driver/ghc -recomp -cpp -fglasgow-exts
After I upgrade to mysql 3.22.20a-3 in potato, my php3 scripts connecting to
mysql database stoped working. It complains with
Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect()
After some investigation, I found out the php3-mysql module (mysql.so) is
looking for
Previously Bart Warmerdam wrote:
The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and -sources list was
proposed a while ago. What happened to it and what are the sentiments on
splitting it?? I think it's quite high volume because most lists aren't
intresting to me, but some are.
I've been
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wichert Previously Bart Warmerdam wrote:
The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and
-sources list was proposed a while ago. What happened to it and
what are the sentiments on splitting it?? I think it's quite
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:33:49PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Marco d'Itri wrote:
AFAIK this is not needed. The only compatibility options I have in my
~/.gnupg/options file are:
I was unable to make it work without the --rfc-1991 argument shrug
afaicr, you
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:59:12PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and -sources list was
proposed a while ago. What happened to it and what are the sentiments on
splitting it?? I think it's quite high volume because most lists aren't
In linux.debian.devel, you wrote:
I hope to fix this in the long run by having more frequent releases,
so that maintainers are less anxious to get their packages in the
upcoming release. In the short term... let's just hope :-)
How about creating woody at the freeze announcement instead of
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
The OF of my LongTrail works perfectly but i don't know how to set it up for
autobooting. Booting from floppy is not (yet) possible (for initrd) because
the kernel cannot read the floppy. So net or cd booting are the only choices.
assuming it's
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We have a long history of overly optimistic freeze dates :-) I'd like
to try something else this time. I note, though, that if we do manage
to freeze on July 1, we'll be able to have a release in time for the
Linuxworld Expo in August. That would
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