Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
Andrew Howell:
There is already a /var/log/ntpstats directory, but I don't think it's
really the right place for it, it's not really a log file. Unless someone
really objects I think I'll just leave it in /etc
According to fsstnd-1.2, application state
Austin Donnelly writes:
Package: xntp
Version: 3.4x-1
The 'struct timex' structure has changed in the newser 1.3.x kernels
(for x approx 28 or so, I'm told).
This means that xntpd binaries compiled agains old kernels dumps core
on startup.
I'm told that version 3.4t has support for the
done
Ian Jackson wrote:
Karl Ferguson writes (bogo-1.2-1 released):
Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some
small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do
some real packages grin
Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to combine
As I said in my reply too, I think it'll be a good idea as well. I'll make
a systool package and encorporate the utilities I've just released in it.
Sound good?
Yes :-).
Peter
Ok, that's settled then.
IanM: Could you delete the procinfo, memtest and bogo packages before moving
Package: X, perl, dlltools, mt, tar
Version: ?, 5.001-5, 2.17-3, ?, ?
I have debian 0.93R6 (stable), all installed last week to empty disk.
About X: I change the link
/usr/X11R6/bin/X - /etc/X11/X
to
X - XF86_S3 (in /usr/X11R6/bin/)
since /etc/X11/X no exists (still not there).
About
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
In this day and age there are very few programs that need to have
different source code to compile on different CPUs.
Lest anyone think that I speak as someone who doesn't have to deal
with this problem, I'd like to point out that I'm the maintainer
Package: autoconf, ftape
Version: 2.4-1, 2.03-1
I have debian 0.93R6 (stable) installed to empty disk at last week.
When compiling ftape I got error messages about missing linux/autoconf.h.
I have package 'source', not 'includes' if that matters.
Following did help:
ln -s
Hallo Andrew Howell!
} Package: manpages
} Version: 1.8-1
} (I'm being picky, but...)
} According to the Contents file, wtmp is located in /etc - which it is.
However,
} the wtmp manpage says it's in /var/adm. I'd say this would be a manpages
} problem rather than a base problem... Oh while
Mail Archive writes:
You know this is where pristine(SP?) sources would be nice that way we
can apply debian-platform-specific patches to0 the source tree that way
we only hve to have a so-called-distfiles-directory that is NON platform
specific. This will make porting MUCH easier...
I
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Karl Ferguson writes (bogo-1.2-1 released):
Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some
small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do
some real packages grin
Does anyone else think it would be a good
Package: gcc
Version: 2.6.3-4
I have debian 0.93.R6 installed to empty disk at last week.
In tiff-library (v3.4beta018) compilation I got following error.
Previously I had debian 0.93R5 and tiff-library compiled on it ok.
./configure
make
/usr/bin/gcc -c -g -O -I. -I.. -I.././tools
Package: procps
Version: 0.97-4
Program: top
It seems that when top displays parameter lists, it does not properly
truncate the list to fit on one line if there are tab characters
embedded within the parameters.
It should be a simple matter to parse this string and convert '\t' to ' '.
Package: netstd
Version: 1.21-1
Two problems:
The first is really my own fault, but for the benefit of those of us who get
around to upgrading our systems at 23:45 could you insert some kind of reminder
or warning message to the effect that installing netstd will require a short-
term shutdown
Karl Ferguson writes (bogo-1.2-1 released):
Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some
small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do
some real packages grin
Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to combine some of
these very small
Package: bsdutils
Version: 1.3-1
chiark:~ /bin/kill -HUP syslogd
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
chiark:~
[...core dump snipped...]
There were a number of bugs in /bin/kill, most due to the poor code
quality making loops difficult to decipher.
A large number of signals were missing from the
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout
and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion
that it ought to be called something else. with-aout perhaps.
[For what it's worth... :-))]
Actually, I would argue
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 15:40:09 +1000 (EST), Herbert Xu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: bsdutils
Version: 1.3-1
It is trivial to make /bin/kill segfault:
$ /bin/kill -l
INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT UNUSED FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM STKFLT
CHLD
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The
(This discussion moved to debian-devel, because I think that's where
it belongs.)
brian white writes (Multi-Platform Support ):
Since it seems that Debian will soon start supporting other platforms,
should we add another level to the directory tree to support this? I'd
reccommend putting it
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
I didn't realise the libc had been hacked so far from the GNU one
(which has a sophisticated built-time configuration mechanism).
Are the two libcs being maintained (upstream) separately ? If so they
should probably have different source packages.
Package: perl
Version: 5.001-6 (a.out)
While running `top' to see how the Perl postinst was getting on I saw:
root 8507 11.4 0.8 105 160 v02 S01:57 0:03 find
/usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;
Two questions come to mind:
1. Can't you arrange to create them
Karl Ferguson writes (Returned mail (fwd)):
Forwarded message:
No matching or similar name in the people
database for 'jasonbramsden'.
Can someone take this guy off the debian-changes list please? He's not
getting the email.
I've mailed various postmasters, without any response. I
While this discussion was going on, I posted a list of requirements
for our source format. I think that there is a very simple way we can
support most of these requirements without many problems. Firstly,
the requirements (summarised):
1. Single file, unpacked using 1 command to make
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