Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
Apparently this has been fixed: Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... getting: frozen/binary-i386/mail/smartlist_3.10-16.deb (78216) getting: frozen/binary-i386/mail/procmail_3.10.4-2.deb (112164) getting: frozen/binary-i386/base/modconf_0.2.10.deb (17576) Proc

Re: dpkg verify mode for security?

1997-05-22 Thread Vincent Renardias
On 22 May 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Amos Shapira, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >Or an audit-trail of invocations of dpkg (e.g. "adduser 3.1-2 installed > >and configured successfully on Wed May 29 1997 00:00:23, replaced > >adduser-3.1-0") > > I asked for this a

Re: dpkg verify mode for security?

1997-05-22 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Amos Shapira, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Or an audit-trail of invocations of dpkg (e.g. "adduser 3.1-2 installed >and configured successfully on Wed May 29 1997 00:00:23, replaced >adduser-3.1-0") I asked for this a while back and was told th

Re: Perl issues

1997-05-22 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Vincent Renardias, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >On 21 May 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: >> 1. Split the main executable and a small set of base files into >>perl-base. This would be Priority: required, should it be Essential? >>

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> NOO We should _NOT_ use this name. I hate it (and its >> probably Mark> "Style sheets" then. :-) Could we please come up with a term that has not already beeen associated with some thing else? ;-). You say style sheet

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-22 Thread Raul Miller
> '=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:' > > So I say: PS1="[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ " =D On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote > No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' ! > > I guess this will become a flame war. So I'd prefer to leave prompt > alone. Or maybe the boot disks can have a dialog scr

Re: 1.3 installation report.

1997-05-22 Thread Mark Eichin
nope, recent versions of xbase aren't any better about shadow support, because 1) there's nothing in the programmers guide even mentioning it 2) the xdm shadow support doesn't fall back in any sane way, and it's more than just dropping a check -- a bunch of code needs rearrangement.

Re: stumped with source package problem

1997-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
joost witteveen: > Didn't you already file a bug against dpkg/patch for this, noticing that > it it was patch-2.2 that caused this? I filed the bug after this message. Yes, that's what it appears to be. > Anyway, to help you with something else (see debian-bugs), I also > tried to unpack xkobo, a

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-22 Thread Mark Eichin
(1) xterm-color has *not* been in X for years, though it was a collection of patches for X11R5 and X11R6 -- it was not in XFree 3.1.2, it was only added to XFree 3.2, probably via X11R6.1 but I'd have to check -- it's possibly *only* in XFree. This would mean not only that xterm-color isn't *widel

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-22 Thread Mark Eichin
> NOO We should _NOT_ use this name. I hate it (and its probably "Style sheets" then. :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: official C library

1997-05-22 Thread Michael Meskes
I just thought about bug-reporting to keep track of all missing incompatibilities. Also I do not have a problem with a binary still using libc5, but only with system function (like logging in utmp) not working because one package uses libc5 and another libc6. BTW why didn't you remove libc5-dev wi

Re: official C library

1997-05-22 Thread joost witteveen
> Is libc 6 (aka glibc) the official C library for hamm? If so when should we > start reporting bugs against incompatibilities? Well, please at least wait untill all libraries are compiled for libc6. At the moment, gs won't compile on my system cause I've had to remove svgalib (depends on libc5-de

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 a bad choice for 1.3

1997-05-22 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On 21 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Goerzen> Since we know of a number of things that have been broken in Goerzen> 2.0.30 (such as IP masquerading being totally hosed), why Goerzen> are we distributing that version with 1.3? It seems like a Goerzen> rather bad idea because it could ve

Re: ext2fs, unrm, and Midnight Commander

1997-05-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Lars" == Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Implementing unrm is the best solution, but is obviously Lars> much harder. If I remember correctly, however, the ext2 Lars> filesystem does have some hooks for this already. It does, and it works, sort of. I accidentl

Re: Perl issues

1997-05-22 Thread Carey Evans
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't let this slow down your work, but: one thing I've been > itching for is a mechanism for CPAN installation to interoperate > with the Debian package manager. > > This is a pretty broad project, and to do it right you'd probably > have to get the CPAN

libshadow

1997-05-22 Thread Michael Meskes
Is there a reason why this library is no longer installed? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] topsystem Systemhaus GmbH| Phone: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10 52146 Wuerselen

Re: stumped with source package problem

1997-05-22 Thread joost witteveen
> Does anyone know what this error message indicates? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/debian/build/tmp>dpkg-source -x xkobo_1.9-3.dsc > dpkg-source: extracting xkobo in xkobo-1.9 > patch: .dpkg-orig is not a regular file--can't patch > dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2 > > I can e

official C library

1997-05-22 Thread Michael Meskes
Is libc 6 (aka glibc) the official C library for hamm? If so when should we start reporting bugs against incompatibilities? I know it takes some time until most maintainers are able to develop with libc6, but we should take care of these problems early on before we lose track of them. So far I kno

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-22 Thread Igor Grobman
On May 21, Brian Mays wrote > > Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One thing that I have missed in this debate so far: a lot of the > > configurations relevant to this discussion should really be adjustable per > > user. > > Ideally, yes. I guess so many of us have single-user

Re: copyright question for abuse

1997-05-22 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 21.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Take the public domain part and put it in one package. Take the > non-free part and put it in another package. You already knew this but > I said it as context for the following: > > Contact the author and ask them to i

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-22 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, please note that the Package.gz file and the actual content of frozen is still inconsistent in at least two points: getting: frozen/binary-i386/admin/boot-floppies_1.2.17.deb (136652) frozen/binary-i386/admin/boot-floppies_1.2.17.deb: No such file OR directory. getting: frozen/binary-i386/ba

Re: bo boot disks

1997-05-22 Thread Bruce Perens
> So far, I've had one bad > base disk 2, two bad base disk 3s, and a bad disk 4. That means > that, for example, I've installed disk 1 more than five times. > It would be nice to have an option to retry another copy of the > floppy after a failure like this. The darned Linux floppy driver has pr

Congratulations

1997-05-22 Thread Bruce Perens
Dan, Brian, and the various people who were delegated for management roles have done an excellent job in the three weeks that I've been offline. Nothing bad seems to have happened, and I'm getting compliments about the quality of 1.3 . Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL P

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-22 Thread David Welton
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Brian Mays wrote: | > With that in mind, wasn't there some dot file generator? Could that thing | > be made to do this? | | Now you are talking about a program to be executed by each user that | lists a series of possible configurations for each application and | allows the

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-22 Thread Brian Mays
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> X11 mouse support is something that is important to me John> personally. Home and end keys aren't that important since John> most apps don't handle them correctly anyway. Well, since rxvt's special features are important

bo boot disks

1997-05-22 Thread Raul Miller
I'm putting together a couple of debian systems tonight, and I've a couple problems (1) floppy installation forces you to re-install all floppies if there's any problems (e.g. checksum). So far, I've had one bad base disk 2, two bad base disk 3s, and a bad disk 4. That means that, for example, I

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-22 Thread Brian Mays
Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing that I have missed in this debate so far: a lot of the > configurations relevant to this discussion should really be adjustable per > user. Ideally, yes. I guess so many of us have single-user systems that this point tends to get overloo

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 a bad choice for 1.3

1997-05-22 Thread Christoph
2.0.29 is the proper kernel unless Herbert can assure us that he has fixed all known bugs especially in relationship to networking. On 21 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Since we know of a number of things that have been broken in 2.0.30 > (such as IP masquerading being totally hosed), why are we

adduser + NIS [Debian 1.3 _RELEASE_CANDIDATE_ Available]

1997-05-22 Thread lukas
I just noticed that adduser 3.1 doesn't work together with NIS, a proper bug report is submitted. I just mention this here again since it might be relevant for the release of Debian 1.3. Cheers, Lukas ---

Re: copyright question for abuse

1997-05-22 Thread Bruce Perens
Take the public domain part and put it in one package. Take the non-free part and put it in another package. You already knew this but I said it as context for the following: Contact the author and ask them to issue the following more-legaly-correct license _only_ on the public domain part:

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
# Function for Midnight Commander - see its help screens mc() { MC=/tmp/mc$$-"$RANDOM" /usr/bin/mc -c -x -P "$@" > "$MC" cd `cat "$MC"` rm "$MC" unset MC; } status_after_prompt() { prompt_status=$? if [ $prompt_status != 0 ] then

Re: Debian 1.3 Release Candidate

1997-05-22 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 21, Brian White wrote > > **** > ** Debian 1.3 Release Candidate ** > ** ~~