On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote:
> And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database
> w/o installing and purging?
Good point. This sounds like a serious user-upgrade issue. This looks
like a dpkg-guru question.
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:
>
> It seems like this will cause the mirrors carrying 1.0 to download
> the whole tree again. If we're going to do that, perhaps we should
> have the debian-development (or whatever) be the directory tree and
> debian-1. be a symlink to it. That way, the
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> I think ncurses wins an award for "most packages from one source archive."
I'm not sure about that. I've had several instances of multiple
rapid-fire uploads due to upload glitches and due to my own
boneheaded errors 8^(.
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > I think we should deprecate 1.0 and bump the version number to 1.1, so
> > that authentic copies of the release are not confused with the one on
> > the Infomagic CD.
>
> This is a good idea.
It seems like
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > 6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
> >
> > Is this such a big issue? With your overseas FTP problems you can judge
> > that, but I'd feel more conf
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
>
> Since ftp.debian.org seems to still be having problems with people
> downloading new files, I'm putting a copy of ncurses-1.9.8a in
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/bruce/Incoming, since a handful of people have
> contacted me since yesterday to ask if
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I wouldn't make the development release *too* hard to get to, as a few
> people have suggested doing. I think that having a separate login for
> getting it is excessive. It's in our best interest to make the
> dev
Another problem:
ncurses-base-1.9.8a-1.deb should have a debian.preinst to kill
the link etc/terminfo -> ../usr/lib/terminfo provided by base-0.93.6.
Or it is intended that these fall into /usr/lib/terminfo?
And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database
w/o installing and pur
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Since ftp.debian.org seems to still be having problems with people
> downloading new files, I'm putting a copy of ncurses-1.9.8a in
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/bruce/Incoming, since a handful of people have
^^
You mean ftp.pixa
Since ftp.debian.org seems to still be having problems with people
downloading new files, I'm putting a copy of ncurses-1.9.8a in
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/bruce/Incoming, since a handful of people have
contacted me since yesterday to ask if I could send them copies directly.
I think ncurses wins
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I think we should deprecate 1.0 and bump the version number to 1.1, so
> that authentic copies of the release are not confused with the one on
> the Infomagic CD.
This is a good idea.
Regarding the use of a code name for the release: Considering what's
How about installing the kernel headers directly in /usr/include,
rather than linking them into /usr/src? I always assumed this was
standard kernel practice. Apparently, I was wrong. Are there any
opinions on the subject?
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 08:11:43 -0
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
>
> Is this such a big issue? With your overseas FTP problems you can judge
> that, but I'd feel more confident if the maintainer uploaded the entire
> package a
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote:
> Yes, but not directly. The way I did it was to have tcl74-dev both
> provide and conflict with the virtual package tcl-dev. When tcl75-dev
> comes out, it will do the same thing. This has the advantage of only
> allowing one tcl*-dev package to be install
Well, I figure all the work I did on 1.9.7a will apply to 1.9.8a.
Also, Jeff, they're almost promising the ABI will quit changing!
Mike.
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 21:29:57 -0800
From: Zeyd M. Ben-Halim <[EMAI
I was reading this tidbit of info and thought some of you might like it...
Anyway to make our DES legal All I have to have is a canadian mirror site
who will mirror EVERYTHING from the tree then all out of US mirror sites
mirror from this point. This would fix our export problem without
breakin
Package: miscutils
Version: 1.3
Revision: 5
run-parts should probably not do what it normally does, when a laptop
doesn't have AC power. This could be implemented with something along
the lines of:
die "helpful message\n"
unless system "grep 'AC: off line' /proc/apm 2>/dev/null";
Presum
Good morning folks,
I took over the manpages package, but I can't find these files
anywhere. I only see a .deb package. Could someone please send me
these files. Thanks.
Have a pleasant day,
Joey
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Dear Robert Leslie!
}I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu doesn't even carry
}the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers debian-1.0.
I have just looked at sunsite. I thought they carry the whole tree,
but they don't. They only offer 0.93*. That's ok.
Regards,
Joe
The DRAFT Lynx license would let us distribute with no problem. We just
have to urge them to move it from draft to actual status.
Bruce
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> Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:31:41 +0200
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 14:31:41 +0200
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sven Rudolph)
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Bug#421: unreasonable restriction on term
>
> You
Bruce:
> For a more functional presentation of the manual, I'd convert the manual
> pages to HTML on the fly, and read them with lynx or another web browser.
From: Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I think this would be much more useful with the info pages. Info is
> just as intuitive as vi (that
From: Matthew Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Really they should destroy them! but I am only dreaming.
We are talking about a 5-CD set in which 1/3 of one CD is Debian.
I very definitely don't want to scare CD manufacturers away from Debian,
so I have made a nice even-toned announcement which Infoma
Surprisingly, they stopped their mirror on November 18, before we'd put all
of the "README.DONT.USE.THIS" files and so on in place. If they'd seen that
file they probably would not have copied the archive. I think having an
ALPHA-TEST subdirectory is sufficiently clear.
Bruce
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> For a more functional presentation of the manual, I'd convert the manual
> pages to HTML on the fly, and read them with lynx or another web browser.
I think this would be much more useful with the info pages. Info is
just as intuitive as vi (that is, not at all) and I think that makes it
a bad
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:
>
> Since Infomagic has pressed the CDs, I wonder if it'd be possible
> to get them to include an insert with distributed CDs explaining
> the situation. Otherwise CD buyers are going to be put off debian
> when they try it from the CD.
>
Really they sho
> > > ncurses-bin-1.9.7a-1.deb will contain the terminfo database manipulation
> > > files. It will depend on ncurses2.
> > It should also depend on libc5.
>
> I've been going on the assumption that since it's dependent upon
> ncurses21, which is in turn dependent on libc5, that dpkg/dselect wou
If package uploads are going to go into 1.0 and not 0.93, and
if we're going to take steps to privatize 1.0, perhaps we should
stop posting announcements of package uploades to debian-changes.
Actually, I think the changes files should be uploaded, and
appropriate public package announcements mad
Since Infomagic has pressed the CDs, I wonder if it'd be possible
to get them to include an insert with distributed CDs explaining
the situation. Otherwise CD buyers are going to be put off debian
when they try it from the CD.
Just a thought.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Fernando Alegre wrote:
> release-0.93/
> not-released-1.0/
The whole problem is nothing more than hindsite now, so lets drop it an
update of whats is going to happen is forth coming.
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107 Emmons Hall
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
[EMA
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
[...]
> We can't put stuff like this where just anybody can download it any
> longer. Especially, we can't do that and call it "1.0". This isn't
> entirely Infomagic's fault, in my opinion.
I suggested some time ago to call the directories:
release-0.93
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> It is now back in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ALPHA-TEST/debian-1.0 .
> However, ALPHA-TEST is now unreadable to foil the mirror sites. You know
> the drill to get through it. I think Matt Bailey moved it, but I wish
> he'd provided us a way to get at it i
>It is now back in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ALPHA-TEST/debian-1.0 .
>However, ALPHA-TEST is now unreadable to foil the mirror sites.
Will this become readable once it is decided that this is for-sure its
final resting place? Having mirror sites include 1.0 (if they desire)
is, IMO, a good idea
Bruce: I'll call you in a few hours regarding the InfoMagic problem.
You're probably not awake yet, since it's only 9:30am here in the
midwest. I have to leave for a few hours, but I'll be back home at
2pm.
I'll start writing an announcement. We should try to send it as soon
as possible--tonigh
Package: procps
Version: 0.97-4
Hi..
With the manual page for "w" it talks about the option "-n", however the -n
option fails with w at the prompt - hence:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:~] w -n
w: illegal option -- n
usage: w: [ -hi ] [user]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:~]
Regards,
...Karl
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It is now back in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ALPHA-TEST/debian-1.0 .
However, ALPHA-TEST is now unreadable to foil the mirror sites. You know
the drill to get through it. I think Matt Bailey moved it, but I wish
he'd provided us a way to get at it in its new location before he did
that. People are
It is ultimately a user choice whether "less" or "more" is used by the
manual pager. The only reason "more" is used as the default is because
it's a required component of the base system. Less is twice the size of
"more", which is why "more" is in the base system rather than "less".
I suspect that
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
It seems someone has really hidden it?
Infomagic may have grabbed 1.0 when I did - at that time there was no
warning that this was development version (I would have wanted it
anyway I had already been using elf). I think the situation as of
yesterday was fine
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