Re: Adopting these packages

2002-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
to help. Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Does BTS clean old bugs?

2001-05-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
On the bts web interface, it's written that closed bugs are cleaned up after a period of inactivity. Are they permanently erased? I'd prefer that a complete history of all bugs is preserved. Thanks, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www

Re: Does BTS clean old bugs?

2001-05-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:00:56PM +0300, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: On the bts web interface, it's written that closed bugs are cleaned up after a period of inactivity. Are they permanently erased? I'd prefer that a complete history of all bugs is preserved

ITP: cgen -- cpu tools generator

2001-04-27 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
be used in an unlimited fashion. Which is usual for a development tool. URL: http://sources.redhat.com/cgen/ -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: How to report bugs (was glibc thing)

2001-01-07 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Greg Stark wrote: Just writing in your conclusions is useless 90% of the time. Your conclusions may be right but the maintainer doesn't have ESP and can't necessarily deduce where they came from and what the bug is. I will try to assemble a test case as soon as I have some time. It's been a

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-07 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Branden Robinson wrote: Ah, so you have a time machine which you used to tell your earlier self that there was going to be trouble from me over bug 81397? No comments. :) You CC'ed your *initial report* to debian-devel and debian-x, before I had anything at all to say on the subject.

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-07 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hi Martin, please cc to me Martin Bialasinski wrote: I have developed a great liking for bug reports somehow. Then you just need to develope some skill for a) analysing bugs and writing useful reports and b) not going crazy when developers ask further question if they don't have a

Re: Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-07 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Colin Watson wrote: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (hmm, I appear to have that memorized - I end up grabbing it any time I'm at a public Windows-based Internet terminal). way cool. a mud addict friend of mine always used putty, now i see why :) you can even do x-win

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Branden Robinson wrote: I can handle it just fine when clueful people characterize me as psychotic. When professional ignorami like you get hysterical on two mailing lists and the BTS simultaneously over a FAQ, because you upgraded your production system to an unstable, unreleased operating

Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hi Manoj Srivastava wrote: There is not enough information in this report to actually do anything about debugging the problem. You don't even mention what shell you are using as /bin/sh; what you have in /etc/environemnt; what you have in the configuration files for the rot user,

Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
This is how it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet borg Trying 139.179.21.143... Connected to borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux woody borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr login: root Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $PATH

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:48:58PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: Such primitive reaction of yours is not likely to arouse interest in prospective contributors; to join debian and to work with people like you. Fortunately, Eray, we're not all here for your amusement.

Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hi Matt!! I don't report a bug due to misconfiguration. Let's see if what you see applies, though. Matt Zimmerman wrote: First, man su to find out where su(1) is getting its environment from. Searching for 'environment' on that man page, you can find this: The current environment

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Oliver M . Bolzer wrote: You are still not getting it, arn`t you? It is not about the content at atll, is about quoting PRIVATE mail in PUBLIC places without asking FIRST. Sorry for shouting, but this has to be said. Yes, I am getting it. But I'd always thought that content did matter. [*]

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hamish Moffatt wrote: There IS a debconf question about it.. it's not like it just does it to you without asking. Maybe the debconf priority of the question is too low if too many people are missing it. Do you think this is also what prevented display managers (xdm, gdm, wings are the ones

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:34:04PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: If you call your insults to another contributor to debian deserved rant, then I'd think you are either misinterpreting your status or unaware of any social skills. I'm sorry, WHO is misinterpeting

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-04 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Russell Coker wrote: I'm sure that Ben will welcome your contributions towards maintaining the libc6 package. All you have to do is read the list of bugs, solve some, and send in patches. I'm not trying to bash Ben. He did a wonderful work in resolving many bugs and generally keeping

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-04 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Matt Zimmerman wrote: Oh, and just to chime in on this little bit, I did not start maintaining glibc until Aug 31, 2000 (my first changelog entry). So no, I have not been sitting on this for 7 months. Get your facts straight. And just to chime in, I appreciate the huge effort and many

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-04 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Russell Coker wrote: This is already being done for some packages. Check the maintainer address on the gcc package for an example. The thing that determines this is whether there are multiple people who are skillful and willing to work. If you want to be the second developer for libc6

[Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hi, I'm sending this mail because libc maintainer seems to have closed the bug I've issued without doing any investigation on his own. Here's my original message --- Subject: libc6-dev: PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_INITIALIZER_NP not defined as claimed in docs

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Peter Palfrader wrote: Did you do this first? No. I'm sending it here because I want it to be seen. -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Wanted to make an ass of yourself in public, eh? Yep. -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Ben Collins wrote: WOW. Go fucking figure. YOUR BUG REPORT says PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_INITIALIZER_NP while this info page shows PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP argh. my first great mistake of the millenium. fuck me real hard. -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci.

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Indeed, you should feel lucky that even the non standard PTHREAD_ERRORCHECK_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP is provided by the implementation, even though not present in ISO/IEC 9945-1 Yep, I know what NP means. My trouble was something else but I had thought that it was

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Ben Collins wrote: WHAT TO DO: - Get a clue - Read better Roger that. Getting a clue: It looks like I was having a bad day; due to the nature of hack mode I have done it incorrectly Reading better: Looks like I'm still having a bad day. If I can't strcmp then how will I rightfully

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Ben Collins wrote: Oh, and just to chime in on this little bit, I did not start maintaining glibc until Aug 31, 2000 (my first changelog entry). So no, I have not been sitting on this for 7 months. Get your facts straight. I'm really ashamed, Ben. Sorry, sorry, sorry. :{ -- Eray (exa)

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Now it's my unavoidable duty to find out what has caused me to file this bug. Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Tim Bell wrote: Now I'm sure Ben is plenty busy with libc6 and whatever else he does, and I don't mean to blame him for this slipping through. But the thought that bugs are getting closed without being fixed is worrying. That's my point. A package like libc6 is burdensome. It would not be

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2001-01-02 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about freshmeat (I only use it for the software search engine), but IMHO Sourceforge suffers just as much or probably even more so from the current Debian hierarchy problem: too generic or just overcrowded categories. That's two of the problems I'm

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Branden Robinson wrote: You know, kinda like the way I went nuclear on Wichert when he broke vim. You use vi? Emacs rules. -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:05:50AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: Martin. Yes. I tried. Do you think I'm a newbie or something? Why do you think the file is owned by root? It's on windows partition... Hold on ... this is an msdos partition mounted? If so, check

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Chad Miller wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:41:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: BUT gmc (and most possibly mc) will not be able to rename stuff, though you can move files ;) It's a bug for certain! Whoa. I don't understand that; what's the difference between moving

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hi Martin, in the light of what has been discussed... could you please replicate the bug and report upstream? thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
esoR ocsirF wrote: Greetings, IANAD, but I would like to suggest an idea that I had. There has been a lot of interest in getting packages arranged by different catagorizations, something like the menu. Most ideas that I have seen so far seem to imply adding new fields to the debs, but his

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Neal H Walfield wrote: I think that this is a reasonable idea, however, it only addresses a small part of the problem. I feel that a better solution would be to use a similar method to perl modules: a hierarchal name space. In fact, we We'll have better than that :) My tool will have a full

vacation

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
I'll be off for a few days, so I may not be able to answer the posts in RFC: pools... thread. Happy New Year!! -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-27 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Peter Eckersley wrote: If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I can set permissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -l plot-against-fred -rwr--1 pde fred 1 Dec 27 17:12 plot-against-fred Of course, I need root access to do it :(

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-27 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hamish Moffatt wrote: This is a big nuisance. I spent months working on a project with a shared directory without individual user groups. Worse yet, you can end up with a CVS repository full of files with user-only permissions (using a local CVS repositor, rather than remote). Ok. Then

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

2000-12-27 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hi Martin, cross-posting to debian-devel because your assessment of the bug is totally wrong. Martin Bialasinski wrote: Hi, I can rename a directory to which I have permissions in shell orion:mp3$ ls -ald Rob\ Zombie/ drwxrwxr-x2 root windows 16384 May 21 2000 Rob

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

2000-12-27 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Jason Henry Parker wrote: At a guess, I would say this is a non-bug. I'm saying that I can't rename a file using gmc which I *can* otherwise rename. So your first guess in not very accurate. You know how to rename something in gmc, yes? You do that in the properties of a file, by editing the

(a small correction) Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

2000-12-27 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: Try to reproduce what I do there. The permissions on parent are irrelevant. That's a vfat filesystem. Permissions are same everywhere anyway if you wonder. Sorry sorry sorry sorry. Permissions on parent of course do matter as you express. However, in this case

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that reall necessary? No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-26 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Brian May wrote: zsh has in /etc/zshrc: [[ $UID == $GID ]] umask 002 || umask 022 My only dislike is it overrides my default setup in ~/.zshenv of 077. It seems wrong to put this stuff in zshrc, that only gets used for interactive shells. zshenv gets processed for all shells, but is run

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Joseph Carter wrote: On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 07:54:00PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets. its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the

Re: Misclassification of packages; libs and doc sections

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Hi Thomas, I got back to working on ontology, and I'd like to give an answer to one of your previous remarks. Your last e-mail was a bit harsh but I'm hoping that you will find my view worthwhile. ;) Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: I think that logic has a great deal to do with semantics. I

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Brian May wrote: 2. Get rid of maintainer scripts (don't ask me how...) so that upgrading packages is guaranteed not to destroy your computer, even if the package came an from untrusted source. This could be carried further by saying no daemons can be started by UID=root without express

Oops

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Mistakenly sent to debian-devel. This is off topic. Merry Xmas to you all!! Cheers, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Brian May wrote: - harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist. I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that reall necessary? cu, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail:

Re: Misclassification of packages; libs and doc sections

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Anand Kumria wrote: In future please send those kinds of emails privately. mis-take. :) -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that reall necessary? It's useful when you're in a development environment where

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-25 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Brian May wrote: exa == exa Eray writes: exa Brian May wrote: - harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist. exa I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm exa annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that exa reall

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: Hello! I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and clean as possible. For now, the work

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Joseph Carter wrote: I think if dpkg used some sort of hashed database index it would be a hell of a lot nicer to people's CPUs and memory. Whether or not that requires a re-implemenetation of dpkg or not isn't for me to say since I haven't looked at dpkg's code in 3 years. That smells

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: I wrote.. It should be re-usable as a library for implementing packages/modules for PLsĀ· Erm, now I'm getting confused. I assume you mean that this package manager should also be a framework for loadable modules. Isn't that way outside the

Re: Singapore Linux Conference

2000-12-23 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Branden Robinson wrote: Wow, I may have to revise my opinion of France, then. Isn't France the same country that tried to spy on Netscape's SSL implementation? -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: biweekly debian-installer status report

2000-12-23 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Randolph Chung wrote: The recent article in one of the Linux magazines about using netboot and dhcp to automate installs in a computing lab was very interesting. How can debian installer do something like that? i didn't see this article, but in many cases these are done with ghost