You (Helmut Geyer) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There is a small problem with the new sysvinit (2.58-1) suite. Once you have
> installed it, you can't shutdown/reboot/halt the system as these use a
> different way of communicating than the 2.57* init (a FIFO, no longer a file).
> So please make copies of the
I hate to reply to my own messages, but..
You (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote:
> The 0.93R6 sysvinit-2.57b used /var/log/initrunlevel as the file to
> communicate with init. The debian-1.0 version of sysvinit-2.57b
> changed this to /etc/initrunlvl (as the default was in the original source).
I've
'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:'
>I've changed the postinst script to create a symbolic link in /var/log,
>so that it will (hopefully) work in all cases. It is also backwards
>compatible with other programs (UPS watchdogs etc) this way.
>
>If I don't get any replies saying "this is a bad idea" I'll
You (Chris Fearnley) wrote:
> 'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:'
> >I've changed the postinst script to create a symbolic link in /var/log,
> >so that it will (hopefully) work in all cases. It is also backwards
> >compatible with other programs (UPS watchdogs etc) this way.
>
> You might consider put
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
xsnow (1.40-1); priority=LOW
Package: xsnow
Version: 1.40
Package_Revision: 1
Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: Snow in your X server
xsnow brings Christmas to your X server. A nice waste of CPU time...
Changes:
* copyright clarifie
Package: dpkg
To create a binary *.deb package, root privileges are required. This
is because you must create a complete directory structure with proper
ownerships and permissions first, and then use dpkg-deb to create
a package from it.
But this should't really be necessary. A tar file is a ta
Have the account name or password changed for ftp.debian.org? My
mirror is no longer fetching the development tree.
Brian
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>Package: dpkg
>
>To create a binary *.deb package, root privileges are required. This
>is because you must create a complete directory structure with proper
>ownerships and permissions first, and then use dpkg-deb to create
>a package from it.
>
>But this should't really be necessary. A tar file
>I saw this on comp.os.linux.development.system, but I haven't tried
>if it still compiles the kernel with gcc < 2.7.x...
>
>
>From: Russell Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system
>Subject: Re: gcc 2.7.2 and kernel 1.2.13
>
>This patch allows compilation of kerne
Hello,
I've uploaded sysvinit-2.58-2 to ftp.debian.org. Hopefully
this clears the problem with upgrading from 2.57b-1.
Date: 04 Jan 96 14:46 UT
Source: sysvinit
Binary: sysvinit
Version: 2.58-2
Description:
sysvinit: System-V-like Init.
Priority: Medium
Changes:
New maintainer
New upstrea
> If you're creating a Debian package you need to be root on the system
> you're going to install it on to test it. Even if you're using some
> shared environment in which you don't have root on the main
> development machine, is it really that problematic to make the
> `binary' target on the test
David Engel writes ("Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release"):
> Slowly. I've been trying to better understand how dpkg works and find
> a way to do what I want with the current behaviour. The only way I've
> come up with is rather ugly and probably error prone so I haven't even
> bother to hash it all o
Raul Miller writes ("Re: Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops"):
> Remember, this is a space-cramped laptop. Here, I wind up paying for
> about 70k of storage to get a 6.7k executable. [This is more an
> administrative annoyance factor than a space issue.]
Perhaps savelog should be moved into another
Lars eros Bahner writes ("A Dependency in dselect for 0.93R6"):
> I thought you might want to think about this:
>
> There isn't any dependency or recommendation from the 'source' package to
> the 'bin86' package. I forgot to download the assembler and consequently
> had an errormessage after hav
Raul Miller writes ("Re: Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops"):
>Is there any point in establishing an init runlevel for "undocked"
>operation - that is, using a laptop away from AC power? Some
>laptops are capable of sensing when they go on and off of AC and
>could change the run level
On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, brian (b.c.) white wrote:
> Have the account name or password changed for ftp.debian.org? My
> mirror is no longer fetching the development tree.
>
The alpha account has been disabled because they are getting ready to
make moves in the archive to re-arrange things. For rig
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Default organization: is there a site config
file?"):
> We could set up post install scripts to check for
> /etc/news/organization, and create it if that file does not exist, if
> the opinion is that /etc/news/organization should be the location for
> this in
Ian Jackson:
Perhaps savelog should be moved into another package, then ?
This seems like a very good idea.
--
Raul
After Ian Lance Taylor from cygnus has confirmed that GNU ld for ELF
will continue to behave that way, I'd like to pass this to the maintainer
of debian packages.
The latest packages I've compiled and seen some superfluous "-lfoo" are:
man-2.3.10-6:
manpath (-lgdbm)
zsoelim (-lgdbm
David H. Silber writes ("When packages are installed."):
> In working on the dbackup program, I find that I need to be able to determine
> the installation date (& time) of a package. As a stopgap measure, I was
> using the date that the /var/lib/dpkg/info/.list was last modified.
> This is unwork
> The 0.93R6 sysvinit-2.57b used /var/log/initrunlevel as the file to
> communicate with init. The debian-1.0 version of sysvinit-2.57b
Interesting. I was just about to submit a report about how if I did a
shutdown -h now, it halted the system, and then if I hit ctl-alt-del I
got a message about
Package: procps
Kernel 1.3.53 seems to have changed the way memory use is reported (I
think it reports a new value in /proc/meminfo, "cached:", referring to
cached VM pages) and also has an internal process "kernel bdflush" that
has a space in its name. The result is that "top" and "ps" can dump
c
These listings have been using out-of-date overrides file and Packages
file information, because the cron job to update my local copy wasn't
working.
I think I've fixed that now, and the next summary should be correct.
Please let me know of any further problems.
Thanks,
Ian.
(BTW: I've just cau
Package: perl
Version: 5.002-3
Perl dumps core when run on the VERSION file included with
libwww-perl-5b5 (Avaiable via the CPAN archive). A copy of the
VERSION file is included.
#!/bin/perl
=head1 VERSION
This is a self-modifying file. Whenever a version number in o
Package: rxvt
Version: 2.10-1
Attempting to select a portion of text that is partially in the
scrollback buffer and partially in the view area does not work.
The result is two distinct highlighted portions of text, one in the
scrollback buffer and one in the view area.
Furthermore, the man page
>
> Package: procps
>
> Kernel 1.3.53 seems to have changed the way memory use is reported (I
> think it reports a new value in /proc/meminfo, "cached:", referring to
> cached VM pages) and also has an internal process "kernel bdflush" that
> has a space in its name. The result is that "top" and
Package: man
Version: 2.3.10-6
Man doesn't display correctly any manpages containing latin1
characters. Just try 'man iso_8859_1' and 'man -Tlatin1 iso_8859_1 | less'
I'd suggest to use latin1 as standard device for manpages, not ascii
as both X and the linux console use latin1 encoding as standar
Note that current 1.3.x kernels seem to have everything in /proc/ksyms,
instead of just one page. Using that information, psupdate and System.map
are completely unnecessary.
Jeff
Date: 04 Jan 96 19:30 UT
Source: expect
Binary: expect
Version: 5.18.1-2
Description:
expect: The expect/expectk programs and libraries.
Priority: Low
Changes:
Fixed Bug#1836: expect core dumps.
Files:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root src392703 Jan 4 13:29 expect-5.18.1-2.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--
Christian Linhart hasn't updated ical in a while so I took the liberty
of doing so.
Date: 05 Jan 96 04:10 UT
Source: ical
Binary: ical
Version: 2.0p2-1
Description:
ical: An X11/Tk Calendar application
Priority: Low
Changes:
Updated to new upstream version.
.
Converted to ELF.
Files:
-rw-r
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