Cross-platform XML editor
A two-part question: a) Can you recommend a cross-platform XML editor that uses the DTD? I use SGML in emacs but our data-entry people are not going to enjoy emacs. A GUI-based editor is preferred. b) If the answer to a) is Xeena http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xeena how do I get it running on a Debian 3.0 (testing) i386 system? I tried downloading the tar file, expanding it, installing the jdk1.1, jdk1.1-dev, and jdk1.1-native packages then exporting JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk1.1 and running xeena.sh but that was not successful. $ ./xeena.sh Error: Environment variable JAVA_HOME has not been set. XEENA needs to know where JDK or JRE is installed in your host. Please set JAVA_HOME to the full path name of the root directory where JDK or JRE is installed. For example, you can set JAVA_HOME in a korn shell by the following commands: JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk1.1.8 export JAVA_HOME when JDK is installed in directory /usr/jdk1.1.8 $ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk1.1 $ ./xeena.sh using java in [/usr/lib/jdk1.1] Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread Could not create Java VM
2.4.17 kernel compilation
On a Debian 3.0 (testing) system updated to binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3-4, I get a failure when trying to compile a 2.4.17 kernel. The last part of the transcript is enclosed. ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/agp/agp.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/i2c/i2c.o \ net/network.o \ /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0x1d4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' My .config file has CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SOUND_TRIDENT=y and all other CONFIG_SOUND_* unset. I can compile successfully if I unset all CONFIG_SOUND*. Suggestions? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
Re: 2.4.0 kernel and the Toshiba 1715XCDS
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so I configure the kernel with cd4281 support. However, the boot > log shows that the cd4281 driver is not being successfully > initialized. Sorry to follow up on my own message but I must have had my fingers on the wrong keys so I mistyped cs4281 as cd4281. I meant cs4281.
2.4.0 kernel and the Toshiba 1715XCDS
This is not strictly a Debian question but it does relate to a computer running Debian 2.3. The computer is a Toshiba 1715XCDS laptop. I have been using the 2.4.0 testing and prerelease kernels on it and have been very pleased with the support for PCMCIA built into the 2.4.x series kernels. Today I compiled and installed 2.4.0. I have not been able to get sound support working in the kernel. If I check /proc/pci I find that it has Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio (rev 1). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=24. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc01 [0xfc010fff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc00 [0xfc00]. so I configure the kernel with cd4281 support. However, the boot log shows that the cd4281 driver is not being successfully initialized. Linux version 2.4.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Fri Jan 5 13:26:53 CST 2001 ... BIOS Vendor: TOSHIBA BIOS Version: 1.04A.ROM BIOS Release: 09/18/00 System Vendor: TOSHIBA. Product Name: Satellite 1715XCDS. Version PS171U-11K93H. ... Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 27M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe000 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe000 64MB [drm] Initialized r128 2.1.2 20001215 on minor 63 cs4281: version v1.01.32 time 13:29:20 Jan 5 2001 cs4281: cs4281_hw_init() failed. Skipping part. ... Suggestions?
Re: ITP: mp - an e-mail pretty-printer
The provisional package I uploaded to my directory on master doesn't work :-/. Turns out there is a bug in the configure script that was exposed by building a Debian package. The upstream maintainer has promised to fix it after he returns from vacation April 3. If you really want to use it before then, you should create a symbolic link of ln -s /usr/share/mpdist /usr/local/lib/mp Once the upstream sources have been fixed I will recreate the package.
ITP: mp - an e-mail pretty-printer
mp is an e-mail pretty-printer developed by Rich Burridge at Sun. He uses the brief name mp but I would be happy to consider alternative names for a Debian package if it was felt that mp could be too confusing. I have created a provisional package and uploaded it to my home directory (~bates) on master.debian.org for anyone who wants to take a look. The copyright file reads This package was debianized by Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:51:23 -0600. It was downloaded from http://java.sun.com/people/richb/RichApps/mp/mpdist-3.5.1.tar.gz Upstream Author(s): Rich Burridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright: GPL Version 2
cvs-makerepos
The configuration script for cvs_1.10.7-6 mentions that you can create a repository with standard permissions using cvs-makerepos. Is that a program or an option to cvs or ...? I couldn't find anything like that.
login message on lully.debian.org
I'm not sure if this message should go to debian-devel or debian-project or ... For several days the login message on lully.debian.org has ended with *** This system is being repaired. Please refrain from using it for now. The system has been up for 14 days and /etc/motd was last modified on Jan 27. Is it possible that the repairs are complete and someone forgot to remove this line from /etc/motd?
X on a Dell Inspiron Laptop
A friend recently bought a high-end Dell laptop computer. The model is the Inspiron 8000, if I recall correctly. It has a hard drive that is about 9.5 Gb (yes, nearly 10 Gb on a laptop) and fips20.exe seemed to have some trouble creating a second partition. We wanted to save the Windows 98 partition so we used fips to create a second partition then installed Debian 2.1. The partition table doesn't appear to have the correct geometry specs and the total amount of disk space available now is about 7.5 Gb instead of 9.5. Has anyone encountered problems like this on large hard drives before? Any suggestions for repairing the partition table? Is it likely that a 2.2.x kernel will be able to probe the apparent geometry of the drive more successfully? Another problem we encountered is in the configuration of the X server. The version of SuperProbe and the xservers in Debian 2.1 were not able to recognize the chip. We installed the 3.3.3.1 X11 packages compiled for Debian 2.1 from the www.netgod.net site. That version of SuperProbe recognized the chip and describes it as First video: Super-VGA Chipset: ATI 264LT Pro (Port Probed) Memory: 8192 Kbytes RAMDAC: ATI Mach64 integrated 15/16/24/32-bit DAC w/clock (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) (programmable for 6/8-bit wide lookup tables) Attached graphics coprocessor: Chipset: ATI Mach64 Memory: 8192 Kbytes but neither the xserver-svga nor the xserver-mach64 packages seem to want to drive it. Does anyone know if there are more recent drivers at xfree86.org or at SuSE that will drive this video system?
cron has gone to UTC time?
On a slink machine I have a crontab entry that should perform an rsync of a site that I mirror around 22:40 my time (-0600). I have started to get the reports from the job a little after 16:40 my time which just happens to be 22:40 UTC. $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.a09953 installed on Fri Nov 6 16:21:32 1998) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) # mail any output to `bates', no matter whose crontab this is MAILTO=bates # # run forty one minutes after ten p.m., every day 41 22 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -vrlt --exclude=bin/linux/debian ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at::CRAN /home/ftp/pub/R $ date Wed Jan 27 16:45:54 CST 1999 $ date --utc Wed Jan 27 22:48:13 UTC 1999 The version of the cron package is $ dpkg -s cron Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-50 Maintainer: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there a chance that cron has switched to UTC?
Status of Gnome libraries and applications?
Can someone give me an overview of the current state of gnome libraries and applications in the unstable distribution? I would like to try our gnumeric. If I try to install it with apt I get dependency problems [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install gnumeric Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following NEW packages will be installed: gnumeric 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: gnumeric: Depends:libglib1.1 Depends:libgnome0 Depends:libgtk1.1 Depends:giflib3g [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -l 'libglib1.1*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- pn libglib1.1 (no description available) un libglib1.1-dev (no description available) un libglib1.1.10-d (no description available) un libglib1.1.10-d (no description available) pn libglib1.1.11(no description available) pn libglib1.1.11-d (no description available) pn libglib1.1.11-d (no description available) ri libglib1.1.12 1.1.12-1 Developers' release of the GLib library of C pn libglib1.1.12-d (no description available) pn libglib1.1.12-d (no description available) un libglib1.1.13-d (no description available) un libglib1.1.13-d (no description available) un libglib1.1.14-d (no description available) un libglib1.1.14-d (no description available) pn libglib1.1.5 (no description available) pn libglib1.1.5-db (no description available) pn libglib1.1.5-de (no description available) pn libglib1.1.6 (no description available) pn libglib1.1.6-db (no description available) pn libglib1.1.6-de (no description available) un libglib1.1.7-db (no description available) un libglib1.1.7-de (no description available) un libglib1.1.8-db (no description available) un libglib1.1.8-de (no description available) pn libglib1.1.9 (no description available) pn libglib1.1.9-db (no description available) pn libglib1.1.9-de (no description available) Here I am embarrassed to say that I don't know how to get the complete name of a package that has not been installed. It appears that packages like libglib1.1.14-dev should be available but I can't get information on them. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --print-avail 'libglib1.1.14-dev' Package `libglib1.1.14-dev' is not available. I realize that some of these packages are development snapshots. If the projected release time is "soon", I suppose I can wait (lots of Real Work^tm to do anyway).
Re: register_frame_info troubles
> "Ray" == J H M Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ray> On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:07:59 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: >> I'm currently creating a new upload of gaby, but lintian keeps >> complaining: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/todo/gaby-0.2.6$ lintian >> ../gaby_0.2.6-1_i386.deb E: gaby: compiled-with-bad-libc >> usr/bin/gaby >> Since I use libc6-2.0.7v-1 I guess that won't be a problem. Could >> anyone explain to me where these symbols come from? Ray> Probably from another library you're linking against. Look at Ray> the ldd output for gaby, and run nm --dynamic --demangle Ray> | grep frameinfo on each of the libraries it lists. I have the same error message from lintian for the r-base package but am unable to find out why it occurs. I tried checking for the name frameinfo in every library listed by ldd and I didn't find it. Is this perhaps a problem with lintian? bash-2.01$ lintian r-base_0.63.2-1_i386.deb E: r-base: compiled-with-bad-libc usr/lib/R/bin/R.binary W: r-base: extra-license-file usr/lib/R/library/base/help/license W: r-base: extra-license-file usr/lib/R/library/base/latex/license.tex W: r-base: extra-license-file usr/lib/R/library/base/R-ex/license.R W: r-base: extra-license-file usr/lib/R/COPYING bash-2.01$ ldd /usr/lib/R/bin/R.binary libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4001) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40019000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4003) libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x400d3000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x400fe000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4010d000) libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4011) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4015) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40169000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /lib/libreadline.so.2 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /usr/lib/libz.so.1 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /lib/libdl.so.2 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /lib/libncurses.so.4 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /lib/libm.so.6 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /lib/libc.so.6 | grep frameinfo bash-2.01$ nm --dynamic --demangle /lib/ld-linux.so.2 | grep frameinfo
apt-0.0.16 and libc6-2.0.7r2
I haven't been following the discussion on the libc6 naming (too little time, I'm afraid) so I may have missed any fixes to this. I have apt 0.0.16-1 and libc6 2.0.7r-2 installed. I installed apt before the upgrade of libc6. Now the first thing that apt wants to do when you run it is to commit suicide by removing itself. Is there a workaround? puccini:~# dpkg -s apt Package: apt Status: install ok installed Version: 0.0.16-1 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.0.7pre1-0), libstdc++2.8 (>= 2.90.26-1) Suggests: perl, libnet-perl, libwww-perl, libmd5-perl Conflicts: deity Conffiles: /etc/apt/sources.list ea2d8631fa15fc7abbc3aae46cb9d2e5 puccini:~# dpkg -s libc6 Package: libc6 Status: install ok installed Source: glibc Version: 2.0.7r-2 Pre-Depends: ldso (>= 1.8.10-1) Conflicts: libc5 (<< 5.4.33-7), libpthread0 (<< 0.7-10) puccini:~# apt-get update Get file:/groucho/private/debian/debian-non-US/ unstable/binary-i386/ Packages Get file:/groucho/pub/linux/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages Get file:/groucho/pub/linux/debian/ frozen/main Packages Get file:/groucho/pub/linux/debian/ frozen/non-free Packages Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: apt: Depends:libc6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
location of 2.0.7 boot disks
I don't see the 2.0.7 boot disks for an i386 system on master.debian.org yet. Could someone please remind me where to get them from Enrique's computer? I don't seem to have that message any more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Access to an Alpha for package compilation?
Christopher C Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 19 Jun 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
>
> > I am the maintainer of the r-base package which provides a language
> > for statistical computing and graphics. I am also on the development
> > team for the upstream sources. We recently released R-0.62.1 which I
> > packaged it up for slink (it was too late for hamm). I have no
> > trouble compiling the package on i386 systems and it passes our
> > regression tests. I can compile the upstream sources on Solaris/SPARC
> > and Solaris/Intel. I am having problems with Digital Unix on Alpha.
> > I would like to see if Debian GNU/Linux on Alpha can compile and run R
> > cleanly.
>
> Funny you should mention it...I was just going to fetch it and build it.
> If you give me some test info, I'd be happy to test it for you too
After building the package type
make tests
That will do several tests in a subdirectory called tests/Examples.
On a Digital Unix system it does nothing because the program dies as
soon as it starts up. On other systems you get several .Rout files
and one great gronking .ps file from the graphics. Take a look at it
under gv or something similar. If you get things that look like data
plots, we are running.
Another test are installation is to start R which should give you
R : Copyright 1998, The R Development Core Team
Version 0.62.2 in progress (June 20, 1998)
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type "?license" or "?licence" for distribution details.
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type "?contributors" for a list.
Type "demo()" for some demos, "help()" for on-line help, or
"help.start()" for a HTML browser interface to help.
then type, in response to the "> " prompt
> demo("graphics")
That will check the X11 graphics driver. You are asked to keep
hitting "Return". When you get back to the prompt, use
> q()
to quit. (^D also works, I think.)
Thanks in advance.
--
Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Statistics Department608/262-2598
University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
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Access to an Alpha for package compilation?
Is there a mechanism to request access to a Debian GNU/Linux Alpha system for compilation of a package? I am the maintainer of the r-base package which provides a language for statistical computing and graphics. I am also on the development team for the upstream sources. We recently released R-0.62.1 which I packaged it up for slink (it was too late for hamm). I have no trouble compiling the package on i386 systems and it passes our regression tests. I can compile the upstream sources on Solaris/SPARC and Solaris/Intel. I am having problems with Digital Unix on Alpha. I would like to see if Debian GNU/Linux on Alpha can compile and run R cleanly. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apache_1.1.3-6 preinstall script giving errors
I was having trouble installing apache_1.1.3-6 on a bo machine that had an earlier apache (1.0.x) installed. I kept getting an error in the pre-installation script. I thought it was because of the previous version so I removed the previous version. Now I still can't get 1.1.3-6 to install and I don't have the earlier one. Here is all I get. arcola# dpkg -i apache_1.1.3-6.deb (Reading database ... 22196 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking apache (from apache_1.1.3-6.deb) ... dpkg: error processing apache_1.1.3-6.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: apache_1.1.3-6.deb I would appreciate any advice. I was trying to help my friend with his system and now I have left him without a functioning apache on a system that is supposed to be serving web pages to the world. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice that the Packages file for slink/main/binary-i386 on master > is empty ... To follow up on my own post - this was reported as bug #21025. In the bug report the date on the file was Apr 2. Now it is Apr 24 but it is still zero length. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty
Sorry if this has already been discussed but I have been away for a week and off the list. I notice that the Packages file for slink/main/binary-i386 is empty whereas binary-alpha, binary-powerpc, and binary-sparc all look as I would expect them to. Is this a subtle hint that I should switch architectures? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 > > Subject: NPR show on open source > > > > Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on > > NPR's "Science Friday" today--looks like the segment's > > from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info at: > > http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html > RealAudio is available at >http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.ram Make that http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.02.ram if you just want the last hour. The Free Software segment is the second part of that hour. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: "Sara Winge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 > Subject: NPR show on open source > > Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on > NPR's "Science Friday" today--looks like the segment's > from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info at: > http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html > > -- > Sara Winge[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Public Relations > O'Reilly & Associates, 101 Morris St., Sebastopol, CA 95472 > 707/829-0515 x285, Fax 707/829-0104, http://www.oreilly.com/ RealAudio is available at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.ram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NPR piece on Linux
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, it has played here in the East. Those of you out west still have > some time to find a radio ;-) I think it is the second piece on "All > Things Considered" after the news. > > This was a very good presentation for a public forumn. They pointed to all > the right facts; talked about Linux clusters outperforming supercomputers, > along with the fact that nothing M$ produces come close to the perfomance. > They let Linus have a lot of personal air time, and he said all the right > things (of course). Even Richard S. got a spoken line or two. I was > impressed by the factual quality of the presentation. Check tomorrow at http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/current.html to see if they have that segment available in RealAudio. They only have that site updated to the April 7 (Tuesday) edition of All Things Considered as of a few minutes ago. This may even induce me to install the RealAudio player! Then I'm sure never to get any work done :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
adopting xspread
I am willing to adopt the orphaned package xspread. I have converted its debian/rules to use the debhelper scripts and compiled the package against libc6. I will upload tomorrow unless there are objections. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
multiple jobs with buildpackage?
If I am running "make" on a multi-processor system I can use the -j switch to allow multiple jobs to be spawned. Is there a similar facility with dpkg-buildpackage or a way I can pass a '-j 4' option to calls to debian/rules? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28
Christian Leutloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: > > > Alan Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > f2c-960717-0 (Old source format) > > isn't this obsoleted by the f77 frontend to gcc!? I believe there are still some Fortran constructions that can be handled by f2c but not by g77 so it would be a good idea to keep f2c in the distribution. Also, f2c is useful by itself in trying to convert legacy Fortran code to native C or C++ for later development. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debhelper for a libc5-based system?
I just uploaded a libc6 version of r-base, a package for statistical computing and graphics. I would also like to create a libc5-based version of this package. Even if it doesn't get into the official Debian distributions it will be helpful for several people who run libc5-based systems. I used debhelper scripts throughout my debian/rules file. Unfortunately it appears that the debhelper package is not available in either the bo or the bo-updates areas. I can think of a few different approaches: - stay on the hamm system and use the altdev packages to compile a libc5-based version. This probably will not work because r-base requires g77 for compilation and I don't think there is a g77-altdev - try to install enough of debhelper on a bo system to make the current debian/rules work. - replace the debhelper constructions in the debian/rules I would appreciate any suggestions. If replying to the list please also send a cc: to me. It seems that I have been dropped from debian-devel. Either that or the list has been extraordinarily quiet for the last week :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot
I have the 2.7.1-2 version of util-linux installed. It appears that the /sbin/clock program is no longer available as it has been replaced by /sbin/hwclock. However, there is still a part of /etc/init.d/boot that calls clock to set up the hardware clock and system clock correspondence. # # Set and adjust the CMOS clock. # if [ ! -f /etc/adjtime ] then echo "0.0 0 0.0" > /etc/adjtime fi clock -a $GMT I may have missed an update to /etc/init.d/boot somewhere along the line. In fact, I am almost sure I have because now I don't even have /etc/init.d/boot. I have -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7305 Sep 30 12:50 /etc/init.d/boot.OLD -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6680 Feb 13 1997 /etc/init.d/boot.dpkg-old -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7275 May 16 1997 /etc/init.d/boot.kbd-saved My immediate problem is that I have the hardware clock set to GMT and my system clock is never getting set to the local timezone. I think I will also have a problem the next time I reboot because it looks as if /etc/init.d/boot will never get run. I would welcome suggestions on how to get my system back in synch. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags > > for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was > > in the discussion of bashisms. > > I don't remember anything like that. Debian ships with `GNU cp', so I > don't see a reason for not using the `-a' option. (I'd prefer the `-a' > solution over the `tar' hack since it's much easier to read.) But consider the recent discussion of porting dpkg to other systems. If you were using dpkg on Solaris or HP-UX or ... you may not be able to count on cp understanding the -a flag. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?
I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was in the discussion of bashisms. In creating the r-base package I need to manually copy a directory tree into ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R. Right now I do this using "cp -a". Is that practice frowned upon? Would using tar for this be preferred? I also have a question about lndir. In creating the r-contrib package of contributed libraries the installation scripts for the libraries will try to install them in the current RHOME which will generally be that /usr/lib/R directory mentioned above. My current plan is to lndir the /usr/lib/R tree into ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R, change the environment variable defining RHOME, go through the usual installation script for an R library, remove the symbolic links for everything except the ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/library directory and continue with the packaging. Are there alternatives that would be preferred? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Intent to package R (the GNU version of S)
S is a language and system for statistical data analysis and graphics developed at Bell Labs. A commercial version called S-PLUS is marketed by MathSoft, Inc. Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at U. of Auckland developed R, a GPL'd system they describe as "not unlike S". It has been endorsed by Richard Stallman as "official GNU software". Development is now the responsibility of an international team. I intend to package the base R language as a Debian package r-base. I will also package the contributed libraries for R as r-contrib. The upstream sources for R-0.60.1 were released a few days ago from http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/contents.html Since I understand a bug-fix version R-0.60.2 is imminent, that will probably be the first package that shows up for Debian. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bug#4348: smartlist.postinst fails
Package: smartlist
Status: install ok half-configured
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 3.10-1
Depends: smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent, procmail, libc5 (>= 5.2.18-1)
Description: Versatile and Fast List Processor
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Setting up smartlist (3.10-1) ...
hostname: illegal option -- q
Usage: hostname [-v] {hostname|-F file} set host name (from file)
domainname [-v] {nisdomain|-F file} set NIS domain name (from file)
hostname [-v] [-d|-f|-s|-a|-i|-y] display formated name
hostname [-v] display host name
hostname -V|--version|-h|--help print info and exit
dnsdomainname=hostname -d, {yp,nis,}domainname=hostname -y
-s, --short short host name
-a, --alias alias names
-i, --ip-address addresses for the host name
-f, --fqdn, --longlong host name (FQDN)
-d, --domain DNS domain name
-y, --yp, --nis NIS/YP domain name
-F, --fileread host name or NIS domain name from given File
This comand can get or set the host name or the NIS domain name. You can
also get the DNS domain or the FQDN (fully qualified domain name).
Unless you are using bind or NIS for host lookups you can change the
FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) and the DNS domain name (which is
part of the FQDN) in the /etc/hosts file.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/smartlist.postinst: newaliases: command not found
dpkg: error processing smartlist (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
smartlist
dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1.
Does kernel-package assume /etc/psdatabase -> /boot/psdatabase?
Package: kernel-package
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: kernel-package
Version: 2.03
Depends: perl (>= 5.002-8)
Recommends: libc-dev, gcc
Suggests: kernel-source
I am installing a custom kernel using kernel-package. Whenever it
tries to build the new psdatabase I get an error message. The
relevant portion of /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.0.12.postinst is
if ( -x "/sbin/psupdate" && -f "/boot/vmlinux-$version" ) {
unlink("/boot/psdatabase");
symlink("/boot/psdatabase-$version", "/boot/psdatabase");
system("/sbin/psupdate /boot/vmlinux-$version");
if ( -f "/boot/psdatabase-$version" ) {
unlink("/boot/vmlinux-$version");
}
else {
print "\nAn error seems to have ocurred while generating the\n";
print "psdatabase file /boot/psdatabase. NOT deleting the\n";
print "/boot/vmlinux-$version so that the database may be \n";
print "created manually\n";
}
}
so after running /sbin/psupdate there is an attempt to find if
/boot/psdatabase-2.0.12 exists. The documentation for psupdate
indicates that it writes a new version of /etc/psdatabase. I checked
and indeed that file was updated. Am I supposed to have a link from
/etc/psdatabase to /boot/psdatabase? This sequence would make sense
to me if that was the case.
--
Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Statistics Department608/262-2598
University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
