Well, after receiving the 2 latest WNPP listings, I finally found that
what I liked best in the previous ones was the changes from last
version section. The full list may be some bandwidth waste for many
people I think.
What about only mailing the changes, and pointing to the WWW site for
the
Well, libc6 (etc.) 2.07r-1 has now moved to some of the mirrors, but
apt-get (apt 0.0.16-1) refuses to get the packages.
Dselect DOES show show these as updated packages, however, but using
the apt method still refuses to get them:
--- Updated Required packages in section base ---
On 23 Jun 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
Isn't it true that dpkg ignores the Depends: lines when ordering the
configure scripts for these packages? If so, then the cvs-pcl
configure step, if it goes first, would fail. So what's the solution?
No, it isn't. dpkg orders configure - it does not
[ For the record, I agree with Paul's main points, most of which have long
been know. This one point bears correction. ]
Enrique You won't have wait for hours while a list of Skipping
Enrique foo. Skipping bar. is displayed at the screen.
1. That hasn't been necessary since dpkg-mountable
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
Well, libc6 (etc.) 2.07r-1 has now moved to some of the mirrors, but
apt-get (apt 0.0.16-1) refuses to get the packages.
Woops - got a test upside down. This is fixed in CVS. Interesting that
nothing else tweaked this.
Jason
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Everything I've ever heard suggests that the GGI people are correct---it
will merely be unshareable because the pages all get dirtied doing fixups
on the absolute addresses.
Thanks! I'll include the xf86dga target in the next release, then.
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
Well, libc6 (etc.) 2.07r-1 has now moved to some of the mirrors, but
apt-get (apt 0.0.16-1) refuses to get the packages.
Woops - got a test upside down. This is fixed in CVS. Interesting that
nothing
Well, libc6 (etc.) 2.07r-1 has now moved to some of the mirrors, but
apt-get (apt 0.0.16-1) refuses to get the packages.
Woops - got a test upside down. This is fixed in CVS. Interesting that
nothing else tweaked this.
I seem to have that kind of karma ;-)
Seriously though, don't
This works in conjunction with the 'heyu' package, allowing for an
active house (automatic control of X10 devices (via heyu) by responding
to X10 transmitters [motion sensors, etc.])
new debian package, version 2.0.
Package: xtend
Version: 1.1-1
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6, heyu
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
My file systems are getting trashed. I get errors and eventually
the system hung (couldn't shutdown). I switched back to 2.0.33 and
everything is fine. I'm not sure if overheating has something to do with
it as well.
A typical error message is (this occurs on 2 of three
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:24:52AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
A typical error message is (this occurs on 2 of three drives):
Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr:
Hi all -
I suspect that this topic has been breached (many times) before, but ...
With 2 new hamm installations (one on a Pentium, one on an Alpha), the
default backspace/delete configuration is annoying. At least it seems to
be consistant between the two machines... but consistantly
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:09:23PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
I'm offering most of my packages. I will still maintain those of them,
(...)
The list of offered packages:
comm/casio - Casio diary backup utility
()
I will take this one (comm/casio), if nobody minds,
While you're at it you might change a minor bug in the page
+ FAQ
Santiago Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^ needs '' right?
Saludos
Javi
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I intend to package for slink:
* The Linux Source Driver http://lsd.linux.cz/
ftp://ftp.inet.cz/pub/People/Pavel.Janik/LSD
The current source snapshot (1.09) is quite a mess to customize for
another machine than his, and I already sent a patch upstream for
this. I'm waiting for Pavel to get
Hi,
The install.txt that is refered to from the web-site looks weird. I don't
know if this is intentional, but section-titles are displayed like:
AAddvvaanncceedd PPoowweerr MMaannaaggeemmeenntt
ie. all letters are duplicated.
Maarten
I started to get this a couple of weeks ago, when I upgraded a bo system to
hamm... The output from 'w' is almost correct, exept the '11 users'... That
corresponds with the output from 'who'...
I first thought this was a libc6 problem, but I have another machine here,
that don't have the
hi all,
i am about to write an easy to use editor, using slang ... (remember
this ugly emacs/vi discussion)
i started with slang and noticed that there is nearly no documentation
and no good screen/kbd support at all.
so i tried newt. this one seems to bring it everything. but there is no
Michael Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
but i didn't find SOURCE OF WHIPTAIL at all, what's going on there??
You didn't look very hard.
Package: whiptail
Version: 0.21-8
[...]
source: newt
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* Maarten Boekhold (Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:50:13PM +0200)
Hi,
The install.txt that is refered to from the web-site looks weird. I don't
know if this is intentional, but section-titles are displayed like:
AAddvvaanncceedd PPoowweerr MMaannaaggeemmeenntt
ie. all letters are duplicated.
The following message was part of a discussion on the linux security
audit mailing list. It looks like debian hamm (up-to-date package
versions) took the aproach of sticky bit, but Alan is right (of
course) - someone can still block /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 from being used.
Cheers,
--Amos
--Amos
Hi,
I'll be burning some copies of the 2.0-beta images today.
If anyone in the UK wants a copy, mail me. (I expect I'll do them for a fiver
each, depending upon the numbers involved).
If anyone that's going to the UKUUG Event in Manchester this weekend wants a
copy, mail me, and I'll bring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander E. Apke) wrote:
Now that debian is going to be using a nonstandard terminfo entry
for xterms, can the default colors be setup like a normal linux console,
black background with white foreground.
I liked this when the xterm was setup this way a while
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Brian Mays wrote:
This does not need to be done with at terminfo entry. Use the following X
resources (in either $HOME/.Xresources or /etc/X11/Xresources for
everybody):
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: gray90
By the way, this also will cause
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 03:10:43PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
i started with slang and noticed that there is nearly no documentation and
no good screen/kbd support at all.
The S-Lang packages do not contain the documentation; there is good
reference documentation available from the S-Lang
Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London
over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be
back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers wave'... xDSL, jummy :)
Any developer in London who like to go out for a beer (or five :) on
On 24 Jun 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
: Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London
: over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be
: back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers wave'... xDSL, jummy :)
Wildly off topic ...
I've been having some access problems with ftp.debian.org, which I am
certain are caused by everyone wanting to get the new hamm asap.
The problem is that the session gets started, and downloads some files,
but eventually will get kicked out for too many users (when switching from
one package to
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 24 Jun 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
: Oki, I'm leaving for Vancouver next Friday (3/7). I'll be stopping by London
: over the weekend and leave Sunday around 1800. I don't know when I'll be
: back online, I'll get 'Net access through 'Rogers
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
* Maarten Boekhold (Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:50:13PM +0200)
Hi,
The install.txt that is refered to from the web-site looks weird. I don't
know if this is intentional, but section-titles are displayed like:
AAddvvaanncceedd
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
* Maarten Boekhold (Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:50:13PM +0200)
Hi,
The install.txt that is refered to from the web-site looks weird. I don't
know if this is intentional, but section-titles are displayed like:
AAddvvaanncceedd
When the new web pages are up (hopefully within a day) I'd like to
add a list of people who are producing gold CDs of 2.0 beta.
If you are, please send me the following:
Name:
e-mail:
material cost:
shipping cost (mention if ship internationally):
URL (optional):
Jay Treacy
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Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I asked about this on ggi-devel, and the responses I got indicated that
it probably wasn't a problem, because there would only ever be one
libGGI program running the xf86dga target at once on a given machine
(not true for multi-headed
As the proud owner of that particular patch, I guess I should say
something... :)
Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Daniel Ok, I've looked at it.
Daniel I really don't know quite what to do with this. On the
Daniel one hand, automatically reading the shadow
Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been away a few days.
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 17 Jun 1998, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is the old .rc file, left behind by a dpkg artifact during the
upgrade. While future versions of ae will
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Wildly off topic ... isn't The Wave cable modem access?
Hmmm... You really got me there... I have been lead to beleve it's xDSL,
but I'm not sure... Anyone?
It's cable modem, and it's REALLY fast (about 400kbits/sec, full
Alexander E. Apke wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Brian Mays wrote:
This does not need to be done with at terminfo entry. Use the following X
resources (in either $HOME/.Xresources or /etc/X11/Xresources for
everybody):
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: gray90
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 01:31:48PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
It's cable modem, and it's REALLY fast (about 400kbits/sec, full time
connection for somthing like $60 Canadian/month).
I hate you :) I hate you all :)).
For
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
: On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:06:06PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
:
: Wildly off topic ... isn't The Wave cable modem access?
:
: Hmmm... You really got me there... I have been lead to beleve it's xDSL,
: but I'm not sure... Anyone?
:
: It's
Sorry for a late response, been on holidays...
Darren == Darren/Torin/Who Ever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Darren This is the case if you use the tie interface in Perl.
Darren This is not the case if you use dbmopen, at least it
Darren didn't use to be. Hamm should just get out the
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 is (this
As a matter of fact it just happened with our IDE drives after upgrading
to 2.0.34, since we had read this, we downgraded to 2.0.33 and it works with no
erros now. I
don't intent to say that this is an important bug, but maybe it should be
looked at.
Regards
Javi
On
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:03:31AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
Well, after receiving the 2 latest WNPP listings, I finally found that
what I liked best in the previous ones was the changes from last
version section. The full list may be some bandwidth waste for many
people I think.
I agree
--On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 6:02 pm +0100 Adrian Bridgett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless I've missed something, there is currently no WWW site for WNPP. If
such a site exists and is kept upto date by everyone, I think your idea
would have more merit, ATM I think it's more hassle.
You have.
I
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
[ snip ]
: While I'm typing, what mailing list is the WNPP on? It doesn't seem to be
: any of the ones I'm on...
I believe it's on debian-devel-announce - that's where I see it anyway
:)
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On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:24:52AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
A typical error message is (this occurs on 2 of three drives):
Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel:
Hi,
Gregory == Gregory S Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gregory Here's another reason using the epoch for this situation is
Gregory bad, if you continue the process you get something like:
Gregory 2.0.6
Gregory 2.0.7pre1
Gregory 1:2.0.7
Gregory 1:2.0.8pre1
Gregory 2:2.0.8
Gregory
Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale Epochs are not, were never, intended to be used for this
Dale purpose. They are only for dealing with upstream renumbering
Dale that would cause conflicts.
I thought this was all about the upstream releasing
pre-releases with
Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale What is with this snake like facination with epochs?
Firstly, this is uncalled for. Secondly, even as a popular
belief, it is not snakes that are fascinated, their victims are
supposed to be. Thirdly, there is no scientific
Hello,
as somebody (Harald Schueler [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out
and as we (Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] and me) could
reproduce after some grief about a non-functional ftp server (using
wu-ftpd-academ) we got the impression, that
. 2.0.34 needs the x-bit on shared libraries!
This is
On 24 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Gregory Essentially you are completely overriding the version number
Gregory with a hidden version number that the user isn't presented
Gregory with.
Yes. But in this case, humans already know that 2.0.9pre1 is
lower than 2.0.10; so the
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Loop.
I knew that... :)
different flavors of DSL (like HDSL, ADSL ...) so the phone companies
talk about xDSL :)
That to... I didn't know much, but atleast I knew that... :)
One major limitation of DSL is that you
One major limitation of DSL is that you must be less than 19000 feet
from a CO (round trip).
I didn't know that... 19Kfeet... Let's see... That's about 633 meters... Not
much...
No, 19000 ft = 5791.2 m.
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Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale Epochs are not, were never, intended to be used for this
Dale purpose. They are only for dealing with upstream renumbering
Dale that would cause conflicts.
I thought this was all about the upstream releasing
pre-releases
I have seen numerous people post Intentions to package apps that are
already being worked on. Please read the wnpp (it is made for a
reason). And when you do announce you intentions PLEASE cc wnpp so that
it gets added to the list.
do we have a cgi guru here ?
we could automatie this (we all
it as well.
A typical error message is (this occurs on 2 of three drives):
Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Jun 23 20:35:40 homey kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6766956,
Well , its already off. Thanks for the tip. I downgraded to
2.0.33, and things are much more stable , so far, but I've seen a couple
of errors. I guess we'll have to wait a while longer and see if other
people report the same thing.
On 24 Jun 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
Are you
Ok, I'm game. I have had to fend off enough people from taking my
packages that this is worth my time. Besides, I enjoy writing CGI, call
me sick. What do we want/need/desire/despise and let's get this going.
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
I have seen numerous people post Intentions to package
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
i have 40 identical computers here, and one of them has the same problems.
i guess some trouble with the mainboard, but i'm not sure and could not
investigate till today. all other machines work fine (with hard disk,
2 have network card
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
As a matter of fact it just happened with our IDE drives after upgrading
to 2.0.34, since we had read this, we downgraded to 2.0.33 and it works with
no erros now. I
don't intent to say that this is an important bug, but maybe it
Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
as somebody (Harald Schueler [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out
and as we (Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] and me) could
reproduce after some grief about a non-functional ftp server (using
wu-ftpd-academ) we got the impression, that
.
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hate you :) I hate you all :)).
For $60 Canadian, you would neither get a cable nor a modem and *never ever*
get a full time connection here in Germany.
While we're off topic, I just made a truly aggravating discovery, and
I wanted to see if
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:
Alexander E. Apke wrote:
I did not want this to be set in the terminfo entry, but rather
added as the default configuration to debian's xterm. My reasoning is
that since the terminfo entry has changed, why can't other configuration
The problem with roadrunner is this:
They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports,
except maybe identd.
A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and
all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :)
So be careful.
Dan
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Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports,
except maybe identd.
Hmm, I wonder if that's a local or a global restriction. I haven't
heard anything about that yet here.
A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with
Rob Browning writes:
Now my question, since I don't know too much about cable modems, is
what's the chance that I could get one of these (by letting them
install it for Win95 on a useless partition) and then set it up under
Debian? I know they're using Motorola cable modems that connect to
On 24 Jun 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
[ snip ]
: IP whenever you initially fire up your computer and click their start
: button, but that's the extent of my knowledge. Mainly I don't know
: if they've got some proprietary way to configure the connection.
I believe RoadRunner uses a proprietary
if noone else does it - i can be contact person for linux vendors,
people who want to test debian cd's, and all that stuff.
andreas
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i'm running out of time, and writing real text (not simple emails) in english
still isn't easy for me.
i would like to have a readme for the cdrom iamges with content :
what is
- what are the debian official images
- what images exist (i386/m68k/alpha/source/contrib-a/contrib-b)
- official
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 09:48:36PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
Dale Epochs are not, were never, intended to be used for this
Dale purpose. They are only for dealing with upstream renumbering
Dale that would cause conflicts.
I thought this was all about the upstream releasing
Hi,
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale On 24 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Dale You agree in the first paragraph quoted above that epochs, in this case,
Dale are completely overriding the version number ... and seem unwilling to
Dale admit that this is just subverting
Well, it made _me_ laugh :-)
I wonder if an epoch would have caused the same problem...
I've watched this discussion. I have formed the opinion that using an epoch
in this case was not the right way to do it. The r will serve for the
moment, and future versions should be handled
Yann == Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yann Seems like it doesn't work:
Yann $ dpkg --compare-versions 2.07pre8-1 '' 2.0.8 echo yes || echo
no no
Eh? Not when I try it.
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