The debian-installer is an effort to redesign and rewrite debian's
installer for woody. It's just getting started.
We've decided that the new installer will be modular, where modules are
maintained by separate people, and can be installed into the installer
itself while it is running, to give it
What's the official stance on qmail? Is the licence (or lack thereof?)
too restrictive (any modified versions can't be distributed without
approval)? I notice that qmail-src_1.03-14.deb and qmail_1.03-14.dsc are
in non-free - any reason that binary packages haven't been made (yes I
know that
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:58:07PM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
What's the official stance on qmail? Is the licence (or lack thereof?)
too restrictive (any modified versions can't be distributed without
approval)?
Yeah, that'll do it. See
Niall Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the official stance on qmail? Is the licence (or lack thereof?)
too restrictive (any modified versions can't be distributed without
approval)?
Yep. If you have a look at:
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/mail/qmail-src.html
... you'll see the
Joey Hess wrote:
They will be written in C, or perhaps, in POSIX shell script (without
any external commands except ar, tar, gunzip, though..).
If C, would it be ok if it was specific to busybox or would it have to
be independent?
If its writen specifically for busybox it could access
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Seth Cohn wrote:
Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian.
Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net
NIce news. This saves me some work I wanted to do since I visited
the lession about BioMail on the conference in Bordeaux. Go for it!
I think this will
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:56:04AM +0200, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spake forth:
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Seth Cohn wrote:
I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database,
and it is pretty useless without access to their database. The code itself
Hmmm, but you don't
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:51:14PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:54:53AM -0700, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Michael Sobolev wrote:
Is it possible to access this for non-developers?
No.
Hmm.. And what's the reason of that?
Any reason why you need it?
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Mike Markley wrote:
Personally I think it can go into main. If we have the client code, obviously
a
pubmed-compatible free database can be written, right?
I wonder if this
a) is allowed
b) would make sense.
I just think that a program that is used to access a
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:51:14PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote:
Previously Michael Sobolev wrote:
Is it possible to access this for non-developers?
No.
Hmm.. And what's the reason of that?
Nobody has bothered to set it up yet, most lilely.
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Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I don't know if this is the right group for this kind of message.
I've discovered that serveral identical packages in stable and unstable does
have different size/md5sum listed in the corresponding Packages.gz files.
I.e. perspic-texts_1.4.6.deb in binary-all/misc on a debian mirror are
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Simon Richter wrote:
Actuallu the slowest thing about dpkg is the database of files. I would be
cool if dpkg could use some sort of relational database for that.
As long as it is still text-based, so that I can edit it by hand if
neccessary. ;-)
Yust to say: PLEASE
Hello,
sorry for posting this to devel but I failed while asking other lists.
I just want to make sure that it is a bug of logcheck and not my own
before I file a bug-report:
Im using
~ dpkg --status logcheck
Package: logcheck
...
Version: 1.1.1-4
I have defined the following ignore-rules in
* Andreas Tille in [OT] logcheck and fetchnews dated 2000/08/21 14:05
* wrote:
Hello,
sorry for posting this to devel but I failed while asking other
lists. I just want to make sure that it is a bug of logcheck and not
my own before I file a bug-report:
...snip...
Seems strange why I did
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Ashley Clark wrote:
No, just someone who didn't read the documentation.
Sorry, this is not my best day :-((.
Thanks
Andreas.
This would be very easy to implement, so I thought I'd see if anyone
else has already done it.
I'd like a utility which takes a .deb file, another version of which
is already installed. It checks (presumably by file size and md5sum)
for all differences between the files on the file system, and
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christoph Martin wrote:
So, what is the policy to do with a package for the testing
distribution, if there is an important bug? Do you remove the package
unconditionaly or do you try investigate (like in the rc buglist) if
the bug really applies?
Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian.
Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net
NIce news. This saves me some work I wanted to do since I visited
the lession about BioMail on the conference in Bordeaux. Go for it!
I think this will go into contrib, since it uses
How about source? Does
deb-src http://augustine.mit.edu/~prudhomm/debian ./
work?
yes it should work
didn't test it but it should
at least I created the Sources file
May the Source be with you.
thx
PS: Get a mentor to upload those. :)
I'll do that
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Christophe Prud'homme
On Sun Aug 20, 2000 at 09:25:14PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
I think that just like dpkg, it should be split into two programs:
microdpkg-deb to handles the low-level unpacking of packages, and
microdpkg, to do dependency checking, and so on. Maybe this will turn
out not to make sense; some
FriBidi is a library implementing the Unicode Bidirectional text
algorithms.
Two packages will be created, the runtime library and the development
one, libfribidi0 and libfribidi-dev.
The license is GNU LGPL version 2.
For more information:
http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:18:03AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
tetrinet? /me looks... wow. Some people certainly dig this game, don't
they?
Yeah, and there is a group of people starting an Open Tetrinet project, so
the protocol gets some new development. It would break compatibility
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Anyway, I think the current situation is largely fine, although
John I am still dismayed by the lack of statically-linked binaries
John in /sbin.
If I recall corectly, the argument went that we had a rescue
disk, so we did not
I'm putting the finishing touches on a packaged version of ADOLC.
This is a low-performance but convenient automatic differentiation
library which uses C++ overloading of arithmetic operators.
The upstream sources contain no copyright notice, but the author has
agreed to place the entire work
On Aug 21, Dan Brosemer wrote:
Debian officially recommends something? That's news to me.
I believe we ship exim as the standard MTA (we changed from smail in
hamm or slink); I don't know if that makes it recommended or not.
Personally, I'd like to see postfix as the standard MTA, but we'd
The technical leadership at my wife's work are back-pedalling from
using a Linux firewall between an AS/400 system and remotely-connected
PC's based on the following argument:
To all Network Administrators:
Problem: AS/400 can only communicate with active packets to and from the
client. Any
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:51:00AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
The technical leadership at my wife's work are back-pedalling from
using a Linux firewall between an AS/400 system and remotely-connected
PC's based on the following argument:
To all Network Administrators:
Problem: AS/400
Can anyone comment on why Linux would be unsuitable for firewall use
in this configuration?
Can you explain what an `active' packet is?
That's my question as well. I can't find any reference to an active
packet definition. Could he mean some kind of keep-alive configuration?
Or is
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:28:40PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
Debian officially recommends something? That's news to me.
I believe we ship exim as the standard MTA (we changed from smail in
hamm or slink); I don't know if that makes it recommended or not.
It makes it recommended for new
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:28:58AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
dmesg only is for kernel messages. The entire userland (like starting
daemons etc.) is not covered by it. IIRC a few months ago someone
had a patch agains init (or something else) that would log the
entire startup. I don't know
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Decklin Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are too many boot messages, and they sometimes scroll too
fast. It would be nice to log all the output from the boot
Hi,
I really need to contact a mentor to upload my packages
however these packages are beta, they are some warnings and errors using
lintian.
But they work
deb http://augustine.mit.edu/~prudhomm/debian ./
deb-src http://augustine.mit.edu/~prudhomm/debian ./
now petsc has been added (4
Offtopic, very much so. But the answer is, it's totally suitable...
and commericial Linux based solutions exist, if they don't want to roll
their own
(for liability reasons, they might not). Try www.watchguard.com for one
such answer.
please follow up via email... this list is not the right
I know debsums does part of this job, but AIUI only if the .deb
contains md5sums information.
This would be a useful tool for a maintainer with a complex package (I
have an internal one here in mind) which he has been forced to edit
the files 'in-place' to fix problems, and wishes to
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:57:53AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
Can anyone comment on why Linux would be unsuitable for firewall use
in this configuration?
Can you explain what an `active' packet is?
That's my question as well. I can't find any reference to an active
packet
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