SR == Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: xview-clients
Version: 3.2p1.2-1
The Save workspace internal command of olwm requires
olwplaces (which often uses xtoolwait). olwplaces and
xtoolwait are not available in the package.
SR Are these programs part of the public available
Well, after a lot of fiddling and hacking and threatening of dpkg, I finally
managed to get libelf compiling with 2.1.1.0 compliant sources. Before I
upload it, though, I want a few things cleared up:
1) Should I rename the package to libelf0 (Replaces: and Conflicts: libelf)
in the same
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
util-linux does not install the whereis command from the utils. The
whereis command is used to find the location of a Unix command and is very
important.
Actually the whereis command is pretty useless because the places it
looks are hardcoded in.
Package: xdevel
Version: 3.1.2-3
In order to have shared libraries built as ELF by default, the file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/linux.cf should have the symbols LinuxElfDefault
and UseElfFormat defined to YES by default.
Yves.
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Package: dwww
Version: 1.0-1
There is a small typo in the postinst script of dwww-1.0.
Here is the appropriate fix:
--- dwww.postinst.orig Fri Sep 27 11:57:56 1996
+++ dwww.postinst Fri Sep 27 11:58:05 1996
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
then
echo Linking dwww to Apache httpd.
reopen 1708
quit
I'm reopening Bug#1708 `passwd' not interruptible when invoked by
`adduser'.
Christoph Lameter closed it with the comment bug has nothing to do
with adduser but is a passwd problem, which is not an appropriate
reason for closing a bug report.
Ian.
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Please REVERSE the change you made to make the default rootcommand be
`eval'.
Please DO NOT ATTEMPT to make `su -c' work as a gain-root-command. It
is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a correct implementation which works with
both `su -c' and also with `really', `sudo', `super', c.
This is because `su -c'
Oh dear.
Heiko Schlitterman says that he's changed some programs (he doesn't
say exactly which) to change the ownership of debian/files and
debian/substvars.
This is not a good idea, and doesn't correctly solve the problem
either.
I think that the right fix is to put near the top of
I see from Heiko Schlitterman's patch that he's added an option to
change the architecture in the name of the .changes file made by
dpkg-buildpackage.
Why was this done ?
I'm also not convinced that his implementation of the way -m and so
forth are handled by dpkg-buildpackage will work if the
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
maorOn Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
maor
maor util-linux does not install the whereis command from the utils. The
maor whereis command is used to find the location of a Unix command and is
very
maor important.
maor
maorActually the whereis
Package: rxvt
Version: 2.18-1
1. rxvt binary should be suid. Otherwise it can't make changes to utmp.
2. rxvt binary should be in /usr/X11R6/bin, not /usr/bin
Guy
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
[justification for including whereis]
ok, I'll include it in the next version.
But I noticed that a lot of the tools are NOT in other debian packages.
Which ones, specifically?
Guy
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:26:20 -0400
Source: libident
Binary: libident
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.17-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
libident - a simple RFC1413 client
Package: passwd
Revision: 1.0-5
On one of my systems, passwd will segmentation fault after entering
the new password if no finger information is present for the user
in /etc/passwd. Typescript:
Script started on Sat Sep 28 00:28:35 1996
passwd
Current password:
New password (? for help):
package: mbr
version: 1.0.0-2
I looked through the package and could not find anything on how to use it or
install
it. There is a mention of make install but since the sources are not included
in the binary no installation is possible.
Please include documentation on how to use it.
Ian Jackson wrote:
: Please REVERSE the change you made to make the default rootcommand be
: `eval'.
: Please DO NOT ATTEMPT to make `su -c' work as a gain-root-command. It
: is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a correct implementation which works with
: both `su -c' and also with `really', `sudo',
Ian Jackson wrote:
:
: Oh dear.
:
: Heiko Schlitterman says that he's changed some programs (he doesn't
: say exactly which) to change the ownership of debian/files and
: debian/substvars.
: case `umask` in
: *77)echo 2 \
: 'dpkg-buildpackage: warning: bad umask will probably break build'
On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On one of my systems, passwd will segmentation fault after entering
the new password if no finger information is present for the user
in /etc/passwd. Typescript:
[...]
I am unable to duplicate this on my own Debian system.
I can't duplicate it
I noticed that we do not use the kernel packages of the debian project in
our school. Every machine still compiles ones own kernel.
I thought about the reasons for it. Having the packages would be much
easier to handle I guess:
1. Kernel packages are not up to date and kept bug free. There is a
Package: csh
Version: 5.26-3
I found not one but two bugs in /bin/csh. The incredibly bizarre
symptom (on my system) is that if you try to run csh while cd'ed to a
subdirectory of your home directory whose full pathname is exactly 28
characters long, csh dies with a segmentation fault. Using
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:34:36 -0400
Source: gmp
Binary: gmp
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3.2-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
gmp- Multiprecision arithmetic library
Package: gcc
Version: 2.7.2.1-1
I was trying to track down a bug in csh (5.26-2), and so compiled with
-DSYSMALLOC. Most of alloc.c is inside of an #ifndef SYSMALLOC
conditional, but gcc complained about a bunch of stuff in alloc.c
anyway:
cd /usr/src/csh-5.26/
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
Ian Jackson wrote:
: Please REVERSE the change you made to make the default rootcommand be
: `eval'.
Yes, please do, dpkg-buildpackage 1.4.0.1 is *BROKEN* for me as I can
no longer use sudo to build my packages.
Just trying ... sudo can't cope
Package: dhcpd
Version: 0.5.13-1
Dhcpd overwrites an existing /etc/dhcpd.conf file without warning.
I suppose I have no one else but myself to blame for this one, it burnt me
last upgrade as well, but I didn't report it as a bug. So it got me again
this time. :-)
Mark
You are right. Forgot to put the conffiles into the binary.
0.5.13-2 fixes this.
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Mark Purcell wrote:
mspPackage: dhcpd
mspVersion: 0.5.13-1
msp
mspDhcpd overwrites an existing /etc/dhcpd.conf file without warning.
msp
mspI suppose I have no one else but myself to blame for
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
maor But I noticed that a lot of the tools are NOT in other debian packages.
maor
maorWhich ones, specifically?
Sorry I have to pass on that one right now. Leaving for a weekend retreat.
Next week if I have
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
maor But I noticed that a lot of the tools are NOT in other debian packages.
maor
maorWhich ones, specifically?
Sorry I have to pass on that one right now. Leaving for a weekend retreat.
Next week if I have time I will hopefully be able to make a list.
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
Why? If we can handle such case (umask != *77), why we don't handle
this?
Grep in scripts/ for 'fowner'
controllib.pl:@fowner = (getpwnam(getlogin()))[2,3];
dpkg-distaddfile.pl:chown(@fowner, $fileslistfile.new)
Package: squid
Version: 1.0.16-1
Overwrites /etc/squid.conf, looks like squid.conffiles didn't make it into
the binary.
Mark
I have been looking for the source to the lesstif libraries so I can use
them to build grok. So far all altavista searches have provided URLs that
don't respond. Does anyone have any idea where this library can be found?
(preferably source)
Thanks,
Dwarf
Don't you just hate it when people answer their own questions?
I finally found what I needed (I hope) at
ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu/linux/sunsite/X11/libs/
Sorry to be a bother,
Dwarf
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On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
Actually I just made such a list by just doing a find on a compiled
source tree, piping to type, and grepping for 'not found':
ddate NO - silly
Yes, it's silly, but I used to have ddate show up now and then on
login. Since debian didn't
I believe the canonical source for the lesstif libraries is
ftp://ftp.hungry/pub/hungry/lesstif.
There's a debianized version of lesstif in Incoming/ on master. It's
based on the 0.50 release, though I doubt it'd be all that hard to
upgrade to the in-progress version.
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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:10:56 -0400
Source: m4
Binary: m4
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.4-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
m4 - a macro processing language
Changes:
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