Bug#2013: gdb can't find executables in current directory

1995-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Package: gdb Version: 4.15.1-1 If I run "gdb file", gdb says "no such file or directory". If I run "gdb `pwd`/file", it works. Bruce -- Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pixar Animation Studios

Re: symlink in /usr/include (fwd)

1995-12-12 Thread Simon shapiro
Thanx Bruce :-) I am and I care. It took me years to learn to accept symbolic links. Now that I am used to them and find them useful you want to take them away from me?! No, seriously, I reponded already to this and say; leave them alone. They cost very little, simple for the human to resolve,

c2man-2.40-3 uploaded

1995-12-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Since the new packages are not being publicly available, I'm only announcing this on debian-devel. manoj Date: 12 Dec 95 06:08 UT Source: c2man Binary: c2man Version: 2.40-3 Description: c2man: Graham Stoney's mechanized man page generator Priority: Low Changes: *

dist-3.60-2 uploaded

1995-12-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Since new packages are not publicly available, I'm only announcing on debian-devel. I forgot to announce dist-3.60-1, so this is the first announcement I am making, I am appending the description field in the control file. DESCRIPTION: Tools for developing, maintaining and distribu

mailagent-3.44-1 uploaded

1995-12-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I just uploaded a new package, mailagent-3.44-1. First, a blurb: >>Randal L. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RLS> Or, if you are a *real* power user, use mailagent. I found it RLS> to be more feature-ized than procmail, and I had been using RLS> procmail extensively. RLS> B

Bug#2011: very silly messages from rsh

1995-12-12 Thread Peter Tobias
Ian Jackson wrote: > I was logged into chiark as ian. I have permission (according to > .rhosts files) to log into myrddin as iwj10. root exists on myrddin; > ijackson and nonexistent do not. > > The bug involving quoting the remote dpkg -l invocation appears to be > a bizarre interaction between

Bug#2013: gdb can't find executables in current directory

1995-12-12 Thread David Engel
> Package: gdb > Version: 4.15.1-1 > > If I run "gdb file", gdb says "no such file or directory". If I run > "gdb `pwd`/file", it works. It works for me. What libc5 are you using? David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E

Bug#2014: httpd doesn't write to new logfile after rotate

1995-12-12 Thread Stephen Early
Package: cern-httpd Version: 3.0-4 A user just complained that the httpd log files were empty. It looks like the new logfiles were created, but httpd carried on writing to the old ones. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unanswered problem reports

1995-12-12 Thread iwj10
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package Ref Subject Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 bugs): gpm 1669 shutdown hangs on gpm -k until mouse is moved Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 bugs): xypi

Bug#2006: elf xlib for tk40.

1995-12-12 Thread Stephen Early
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, David H. Silber wrote: > Package: tk40 > Version: 4.0p3-1 > > This requires elf-x11r6lib, which does not exist. I installed xlib-3.1.2-2, > which does not seem to provide what I need, but is the latest xlib available. > I then forced the install of tk40 and found out that I a

Location of shared library links

1995-12-12 Thread David Engel
ATTENTION shared library developers. If you have packages with shared libraries in /lib, please read this. > > I already have the patch and will be rebuilding libc5 shortly. > > Another thing I came across this hour during the build of netstd-1.25-1: > > gcc -o ypserv server.o yp_svc.o yp_xdr.o

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-12 Thread Bill Mitchell
I'm closing this bug report because there's no intent to address this issue. - Begin Included Message - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 11 19:50:58 1995 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 19:50:30 -0800 From: Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: diff 2,7, and lack of man

Bug#2015: nfsd places a high load on named

1995-12-12 Thread Stephen Early
Package: netstd Version: 1.22-1 While heavy NFS access is going on (for example, someone installing Debian from my NFS-exported mirror), named serves a huge number of requests which presumably come from nfsd. Should nfsd be performing such a large number of lookups? Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Incoming directory

1995-12-12 Thread brian (b.c.) white
Where precisely is the Incoming directory these days? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice,

Re: Bug#1979: auctex postinst is completely insane

1995-12-12 Thread James A. Robinson
> > Package: auctex > Version: 9.2y-7 > > The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or > fails ? The postinst steps through the tex directories and generates .el code for auc-tex's use. This process can take a long time on slow machines. I decided to background it, and

Re: Bug#1979: auctex postinst is completely insane

1995-12-12 Thread Bill Mitchell
"James A. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or > > fails ? > [... (30 to 45 minutes on an old 486 w/ 8 megs RAM) ...] > Perhaps I should have postinst ask whether or not the .el file should > be generated? And have a script t

Bug#2016: [SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-12 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.57b-0 Package: mount Version: 2.5-1 I'm not sure which package this reports belong to. The new umount (from mount-2.5-1) does not have a '-n' option. This option is used by some of the scripts from the sysvutils package. If this is a sysvinit bug, it is fixed by the

Bug#2017: No copyright info for mount

1995-12-12 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Package: mount Version: 2.5-1 The mount package does not install a /usr/doc/copyright/mount file or link. Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

Bug#2018: dpkg version numbers & dpkg-split

1995-12-12 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.8 I tried the new dpkg but version number and dpkg-split aren't correct. Transcript below. Erick ~/new# dpkg --status dpkg Package: dpkg Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.

Re: Incoming directory

1995-12-12 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, brian (b.c.) white wrote: > Where precisely is the Incoming directory these days? > ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project/Incoming -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the abo

Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-12 Thread Robert Leslie
> Package: sysvinit > Version: 2.57b-0 > > Package: mount > Version: 2.5-1 > > I'm not sure which package this reports belong to. > > The new umount (from mount-2.5-1) does not have a '-n' option. > This option is used by some of the scripts from the sysvutils package. I believe the flag may indee

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
> I'm closing this bug report because there's no intent to address this > issue. > [snip] > > Yes, if the manpages are generated automatically from the info files. > Otherwise, sorry, it's probably too much of a pain to maintain it, > though I might be willing to put in man pages but say they're no

Bug#2019: ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93/ms-dos/xxxx/ has no files

1995-12-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
A few days ago, all of the symlinks for the ms-dos file names disappeared from the package directories. Intentional? -- ...RickM...

Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
> -umount -a -n > +umount -a This may be a "umount" bug. When you unmount the root filesystem, it is actually the same as remounting it read-only because of special-case code in the kernel. Umount will attempt to change /etc/mtab to match the un-mount of root, and will fail because /etc/mtab is no

Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
> I believe the flag may indeed be unnecessary; the source for umount indicates > it will not attempt to update /etc/mtab when unmounting the root partition, > regardless of its read/write status, because the partition ends up being > remounted read-only by the kernel anyway. That's a good feature

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
> I still don't see what's wrong with the FreeBSD manpages. They were written > specifically for the GNU programs we're using, and they have been useful to me > on a number of occasions. If their copyright is acceptable, why not put them in the package? FSF (really Richard Stallman) is attempting

Red Hat Package Manager

1995-12-12 Thread Raul Miller
Can someone point me at the cannonical source for RPM and its documentation? [My net connection is a bit flakey at the moment.] Thanks, -- Raul