searching for Raul Miller

2002-01-14 Thread John Lapeyre
Does anyone know if Raul Miller is active ? I and others have looked for him a bit. He took over pdl from me a couple years ago. I'd like to get it back (if he wants to get rid of it, of course). I sent a mail a few days ago and didn't hear anything. Thanks, John

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-31 Thread John Lapeyre
*Martin Michlmayr wrote: Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. I know that In case someone wants to pick up a package, I'll note which packages (of mine) I think are likely to have some reasonably sized user base. Some others may be popular too, I just don't know about

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-23 Thread John Lapeyre
by ignorance. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread John Lapeyre
. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-01 Thread John Lapeyre
? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: scanning my ports

1999-09-25 Thread John Lapeyre
and realizing that now there is no evidence and no accusation of a security problem, and therefore, no reason to take action on a suspected security problem I apologize to the project for throwing a wrench in the mirroring system. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-20 Thread John Lapeyre
technical issues. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: herberOn Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:57:54AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: herberTry herber herbermake CC=gcc272 -D__KERNEL__ -I`pwd`/include zImage I love this man ! Well, I had tried messing around with the /include files, but didn't get it right

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chrisOn Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris chris The 2.0.37 and 2.2.x kernels keep hanging on my AMD K6-2. chris chrisThis sounds *bad*, BTW; have you checked around to see if anyone chriselse has had these kinds of freezing problems? Is your

Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
of a pain for the user, but we could get all 12 new kernels without adding so much bulk to the archive. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
kernels do fine in the same situation. I tried to find this issue in the archives, but did not find much. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chrisOn Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris chrisIs it possible to build 2.0.x kernels under a reasonable chris potato build environment ? I tried make CC=gcc272, but chris I still get failures from the assembler, I think. chris chrisErm

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chrisOn Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris chrisThe link to suse doesn't work at the moment, but I'll give it a try. chris The blurb at cygnus does not look encouraging. I think it is claiming chris that I have to to change asm constructs

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
(or a user) should not be forced to upgrade the kernel because I want to build one more module, which is almost what happened. (I just happened to have a system with egcs-2.91.66 available.) John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Debian in a phrase

1999-05-22 Thread John Lapeyre
Well here is a little good press... http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/personal/19990524/tech.html Says, Caldera Makers of OpenLinux. Debian High-quality volunteer Linux. Linux Pro Corporate-aimed implementation from WorkGroup Solutions.

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
others from possibly investigating the source with an eye towards taking over maintenance. I thought the same thing. An announcement of change of maintainership is appropriate for this list. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
I really like the how-to-install-gnome page. Other packages that could use similar pages are X, emacs, and communicator. I and people I have talked to can get confused trying to decide which packages to download and install. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
) don't care, then we won't get commercial support and recognition. It's probably OK either way. They can't drive us out of business. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
for Debian because we actually accomplished something cool rather than making them just to make the average Slashdot reader think that Debian is as good as Redhat. A couple of salaried positions would be nice. Full time PR staff, ... -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
packaging systems today are done with C++ (apt), and perl (install methods). -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
*Marek Habersack wrote: Yes, yes. But you won't be able to use perl with C++ libraries. If you use the C interface to the C++ libraries, and reimplement OO in perl, yes you can. And the C++ wrapping has improved to the point that people are using it directly for some projects. -- John

possibly broken X development environment

1999-05-14 Thread John Lapeyre
: undefined reference to _sigjmp_save' /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to _setjmp' -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread John Lapeyre
. For a single machine it is relatively painless. John -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-10 Thread John Lapeyre
speed up the process and improve communications. By the way, I want to see ruby packaged ! I hear that it is already packaged for Debian JP. I ran the fibonacci test in the source and it really beat perl badly. I even improved the perl version and ruby still won. -- John Lapeyre

Re: KDE debian stuff

1999-05-10 Thread John Lapeyre
be nice Is the debugging info necessary ? I wonder if it slows things down. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread John Lapeyre
will be uploaded, and then months will pass before the release, during which time, the perl problem will be fixed and forgotten. ( I suggest keeping this message so you can repost it when it is found that perl 5.005 has destroyed the entire distribution :) ) -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for February 25, 1999

1999-02-26 Thread John Lapeyre
[FIX] A fixed package (2.1.8) is in Incoming 33428 gpm: freopen(stderr) failed [FIX] A fixed package (2.1.8) is in Incoming Mistake. This is for potato , not slink. An upload was made yesterday, anyway. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Lapeyre
There have been several packages allowed into main with a license like this. Some people don't like it however. Perl's license is even slightly more restricive. Except that now it can be licensed under the GPL as well. From: John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 Jan 1999 12:44:51

Re: GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-28 Thread John Lapeyre
ftp1.us.debian.org now has everything to install all the gnome stuff libgtop0 is there too. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
or expensive modem link. I guess I don't care too much about the cachet of having 2.2 in slink. I wonder if we'll put 2.4 in slink -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:32:28PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: I guess I should add this to my last post about how bad the installation is. The boot floppies themselves and apt are quite good. Getting the base system on is easy for someone

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-24 Thread John Lapeyre
, because a full time employee could do quite a bit for the installation process in a few months, and contribute back to the project. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-24 Thread John Lapeyre
I guess I should add this to my last post about how bad the installation is. The boot floppies themselves and apt are quite good. Getting the base system on is easy for someone who knows what is going on. Probably not for a beginner. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-16 Thread John Lapeyre
! (Excuse my yelling, I just wanted to advertise ;) ) Why don't you put an entry in this nice, underutilized tool. And reward Mr. Grobman for his effort. See: http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Removing Gnome [was: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1]

1998-10-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Stephen Crowley wrote: crowThat is ridiculous, there is no reason to remove gnome before the freeze, if you FWIW, one of the slashdot commenters on the slink-freeze, commends slink for including gnome ( he did install the packages, too) . John Lapeyre [EMAIL

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread John Lapeyre
library. N: N: Refer to Packaging Manual, chapter 12 for details. N: John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
(!). This is characteristic of reading and writing outside of array bounds. (as determined by malloc) John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread John Lapeyre
smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This one also refers to the version of perl which has been removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: [conrad@srl.caltech.edu: ANNOUNCE: Fulcrum scientific plotting tool update]

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
of yorick, which is already packaged John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Shaya Potter wrote: spotte spotte-Original Message- spotteFrom: John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] spotte spotte Lyx is currently in contrib. spotte Lyx is licensed under the GPL (version 2) . It is dynamically spottelinked against a non-free library (libforms) . spotte

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
). torin torinThat's good enough for me. I have boatloads of respect for Andy and his torinunderstanding of Perl Install issues. That's how it will be for torin5.005.02-3. Good, I think that will cause the least problems for the rest of Debian. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
it right, you need to get each copyright holder licensing her code under GPL to allow the code to be distributed under another license, ie, the GPL+caveat. If you have a lot of code and a lot of sources, this could be a PITA. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
) of Lyx. For instance, these binaries use .h files from libforms. Unlike KDE, it may be all original code, so that a single change of license from the developers will do. Am I missing something ? John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
definitly says that it is distributed under the GPL. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
. (I don't know if lyx uses one) The fltk author says that he is not working towards compatibility with forms. I can't get through to the site now to get the exact statement. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
have an uneasy feeling about it, but no concrete objections. My guess is that Darrin has a better idea about it than me. It may be ok, I'll follow it if its set. Just to summarize, I think we have to either go back to 5.004 , or push the freeze back a couple of weeks. John John

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
in. Why they (perl guys) did not leave /usr/lib/perl5 in the search path is not clear to me. Perhaps because they assume that othe modules will install in site_perl or local. But systems with package managers, like ours don't use these dirs. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: Perl

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet olet olet-- oletTo UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] oletwith a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
On 10 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: olet*-John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet| olet| Perl 5.004 was in Incoming yesterday. You can get it from a olet| mirror of incoming or wait a day or two and it will be installed. olet oletI can only find the orig source package: olet oletftp ls perl

Re: Perl policy for managing modules ?

1998-10-08 Thread John Lapeyre
. We need to set a policy quickly, as quite a bit of slink has just become unstable. (Unfortunatley, I was using slink for daily science work. I don't have two machines.) John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread John Lapeyre
, it would be good to hear from them. I don't know if the perl people really expect everyone to redo the 'perl Makefile.PL ... ' process for every perl package evertime perl is upgraded, but it certainly looks that way. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Raphael Hertzog wrote: rhertzWell it doesn't work out of the box as I expected it. First the rhertz@INC isn't correct, it doesn't contain /usr/lib/perl5. Please rhertzDarren can you correct it ? I downloaded the upstream source. It looks like the omission of

perl5.005 installation structure

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
come because its not a bug. btw. Looks like some really cool stuff in the new perl. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl5.005 installation structure

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
perl packages, some of which need help bad in any case. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: dh_make

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
manual, this was the case. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
-related bugs are introduced. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
? Thanks. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
-in gsstarcompatible with libforms. I was under the impression that it was not really a drop in replacement. But I see that you are the maintainer... I guess I can give it a try. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
, but there is a September 23 release which is still under the GPL . John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
. I have built packages and uploaded them to main only to find later that they depend on non-free libraries that appeared free when I found them on the web page. (note that when the lib later shows up as a dependency, it is listed as non-free) . John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ

GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

intent to package tochnog

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre
License: GPL tochnog is a finite element analysis program. http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c8/c813/tn_release/tnhome.html The author calls the executable 'tn' . I should probably change this to 'tochnog' or 'tng' or something. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL

Re: An X version of dselect for slink

1998-10-02 Thread John Lapeyre
much at once. A working GUI couldn't hurt in any case (unless it's buggy and trashes systems !) 15 days of testing isn't much. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread G John Lapeyre
of relative links pointing back up to '/', this is impossible. I hope there is a good reason for using relative links, because as it is , /usr must be on the same partition as '/' , or else consist of an entire partition. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu

possible lurkftp bug

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
If lurkftp is killed and started again (happens alot) it gets everything that it already got again, even though its supposed to compare with the local tree. Tell me if I am missing something, otherwise, I'll file a bug. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
211869 John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
OK, I was wrong , its happening now with 2.0.33 too. However, its happening to all three ide drives. I'd better figure it out fast On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Christian Meder wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:24:52AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: A typical error message

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
running with unmasked interrupts? hdparm -v /dev/hdb and look at the unmaskirq flag. If so try turning it off? John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
on an IO board to function yet (tried three IO boards) , tried everything I could think of. Does anyone have experience with this? John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread G John Lapeyre
opinions on this list. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread G John Lapeyre
, just suggesting. In the meantime, I've used apt to easily upgrade many times and hundreds of packages. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

MetroX installer.

1998-06-19 Thread G John Lapeyre
bad...) He'll probably end up going with RH, or worse, keep lose95 . Just a thought ... John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
I found the entire kernel/hw clock issue quite confusing. (eg , when to use the uct flag ) The man pages help a little. A clock howto would be quite helpful. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris who wants to install on a laptop. I'd hate to see him go RH. I think he has a network card. Maybe apt and a remote archive works pretty well now for installing ? John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread G John Lapeyre
the problem :) Sasha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
kernel mods and utilities? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
not-always-correct memory suggests that the gdbm support code currently lives in /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/GDBM_File (at least for the intel world). -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

tetex-bin install bug ?

1998-06-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in texmf.cnf. dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-bin E: Sub-process returned an error code homey 55 John Lapeyre [EMAIL

Re: tetex-bin install bug ?

1998-06-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
a lot of stuff) On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote: I sent a message to the maintainer , but haven't heard back. Is this something broken on my system ? I tried forcing removal of all my tetex packages and reinstalling. I get this when trying to install tetex-bin

Re: Consesus on Linuxconf?

1998-06-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
not uncommon to see config files which just contain perl code. (Majordomo comes to mind) . Probably python programs do this too. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

1998-06-02 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: What are the main differences/advantages/disadvantages of Debian's Packaging System vs The Other Guys (tm) ? I would appreciate any help in sorting these out (I already have So would we ! John Lapeyre [EMAIL

leaving town for 1 week

1998-05-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
There is no possiblity that urgent bugs could arise in my packages (because the packages are marginal) . But if the impossible happens, please feel free to upload a fix. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

corel porting apps to linux

1998-05-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
Does anyone know if something official is released? I have only seen the irc transcript on slashdot. John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [dpkg] Installing software as a non privileged user - A suggestion

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
. But sometimes it is helpful. What are the pros and cons of this kind of an approach? John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt and caching .deb's

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
. Otherwise apt is impressive. When I show someone how it quietly upgrades 100 packages, it impresses the hell out of them. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Intent to package SAML (math)

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
(samuel), a programming language (induce) and a program to factorize integers (factorint). John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-05 Thread G John Lapeyre
of the work of some of the key players. I hope Ch. is not leaving because of losing one battle (maybe its more). ( I am not taking sides on the number-of-maintainers-per-package issue, or on the how-to-challenge-policy-issue. Those folks may have taken reasonable positions. ) John Lapeyre

Re: Run away TCSH

1998-05-05 Thread G John Lapeyre
some bugs and worked on internationalization. Luis should be thanked for making any progress at all. (btw, I looked at master a few days ago and couln't find the new tcsh in incoming , nor in hamm , I'll have another look.) John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: Run away TCSH

1998-05-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
instructions on how to get it to occur under gdb (I had to use the 'attach' command) . John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: first proposal for a new maintainer policy

1998-04-28 Thread G John Lapeyre
and route for appeals for flexibility is the way to go. Rules are the only central authority holding things together. (Who holds the power to make rules is another matter.) John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-22 Thread G John Lapeyre
crap on this list ... (!) John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-21 Thread G John Lapeyre
page is at http://linux.miningco.com/library/awards/blapr98.htm Looks like they've put a good deal of effort into their site. I don't know who made the ratings(has good taste, I imagine) ... but notice Debian is the #1 site, while no other distribution made the top 10. John Lapeyre [EMAIL

update-menus broken ?

1998-04-13 Thread G John Lapeyre
) ... Setting up fvwmconf (0.18-1) ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) homey 6 Cannot open file /etc/X11/mwm//system.mwmrc-menu /etc/menu-methods//mwm-menumethod: Aborting John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: update-menus broken ?

1998-04-13 Thread G John Lapeyre
, but I didn't . Looks like two things are broken, whatever deleted or didn't install that file, and update-menus for not working when it's missing. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Dictionary Packages

1998-04-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
for keeping it out of the archive). This discussion has come up several times in the nine months that I've been reading this list. It looks like the time is arriving for (someone with tons of time) splitting the archive in some way. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
Just played in AZ, US. I had to listen to 50 minutes of crap about presidents and big companies ! They should have put Linux first. Stallman may be a bit of a crank, but I'd be upset too about GNU being downplayed out of existence. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson

tcsh infinite loop patch

1998-04-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
, mail me John John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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