Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I'd be interested in reading the solution, just for the knowledge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian Commercial Support

1997-12-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Bruce == Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce I am looking for developers around the world who are Bruce interested in handling email support and/or telephone Bruce support for pay. I'm interested, and willing to help and learn. If nothing else, for the next year an a

Re: Technical Support Database suggestion..., CL-HTTP-P

1997-12-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Andreas == Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas what about implementing this : make the database Andreas writeable for everyone (e.g. via a cgi script, or a small Andreas programm, that sends an email like bug, perfect : both), Andreas and only moderate it

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

1997-12-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brandon One idea that the testers seemed to like is to create a Brandon checklist for checking each package. It seems to me that a fairly comprehensive set of general guidelines would be more useful. The checklist format might

Re: DEBIAN ANNOUNCES $1000 GRANT TO GNOME PROJECT

1997-12-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
bruce == bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bruce Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that bruce message. Did you see it? I thought you were jesting with us. We'll never quit. :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Rob Browning wrote: I'm trying to improve some stuff in the rscheme package, and I have several shared libraries (for rscheme internal use only), that I need to glom together into one big shared library -- i.e. I want the collected library to contain all the code from the sub-libraries -- no

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you only have access to the sub-libraries as *.so files? Yes. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Need someone to take some of my packages.

1997-12-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wichert Take a look at the code I made for lockvc 3.0. It handles Wichert both shadow and normal password (and mixed Wichert shadow/non-shadow) passwords well. And it's in a seperate Wichert sourcefile so it's easy to use in

Re: Config file management utility

1997-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Emenaker wrote: Well, that's pretty much what I was suggesting in the beginning. The only difference is that you wouldn't have one, monolithic section. Rather, you'd have sections placed there by the individual packages. For example: echo 42 6 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily | \

Re: lockfiles and mutual exclusion

1997-12-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Adrian == Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adrian update-menus forks to the background and waits for dpkg to Adrian finish before continuing to work. This is a useful Adrian function that could be useful for other programs (for Adrian instance scripts that build

Re: `COAS'

1997-12-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 4 Dec 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Regardle of my transpozo, did anyone follow the bouncing URL and find out anything of more than passing interest? I looked at it some time ago. If anything it is a compainion to Deity. We might see future integration when the topic of remote

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
Rob Browning wrote: Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you only have access to the sub-libraries as *.so files? Yes. Using libelfg0-dev seems like the likeliest sucessful approach. I'll play with it on the way home tonight (I hope) if I can find my ELF reference docs. Stephen ---

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using libelfg0-dev seems like the likeliest sucessful approach. I'll play with it on the way home tonight (I hope) if I can find my ELF reference docs. Oh, don't go that far. If ld (or some other standard tool can't handle this) I'll just figure out

Re: Config file management utility

1997-12-05 Thread Joe Emenaker
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Some things to look out for, though: - if the file alter-file is a conffile, there will be problems later when you upgrade the package containg the conffile. I'm not sure I follow what you're getting at. The way I'm thinking, if a package (say, cron)

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Dec-1997 02:11:22, Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Greenland) writes: And who is going to check and make sure that all the other packages in bo that use perl, bash and the few other important goodies still work the new versions? That's what a stable

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Dermot John Bradley wrote: I think Dermot Bradley isn't actively maintaining packages. As for the current state of my packages (and proposed packages): - libgd libgd-dev: trying to figure how to build got libc5 and libc6 versions using debmake - any help welcomed. - mrtg: depends on

.deb

1997-12-05 Thread Gigabyte
i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: .deb

1997-12-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Gigabyte == Gigabyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gigabyte i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the Gigabyte Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like Gigabyte OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . Sure. Just install the 'alien' program,

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-05 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 02-Dec-1997, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, No, please don't muck with reply-to. That's evil. And if I hadn't lost my disk, I'd have a handy-dandy url for you. Hmmm. Try http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Which, as we have discussed before on this

Re: Technical Support Database suggestion..., CL-HTTP-P

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Personally, I find procmail underpowered for a proposal like this. Try mailagents generic command server mode, which comes pre-built and read to customize. For scalability (short of going with Oracle v7.2), I'd try postgreasql and mailagent. Sharper learning curves but

Re: WWW bug monitoring

1997-12-05 Thread James A . Treacy
Why don't we create a new psuedo-package for the mirroring problems, or one for problems with the content ? Please discuss this with Mike and I or Guy can arrange this easily enough, and I'll make my script report the bugs in whatever is the appropriate psuedo-package. www.debian.org is now

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-05 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 05-Dec-1997, Tyson Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like it to be fixed, but it seems that there are a few people who have strong opinions on the matter, but are not prepared to discuss or fix the problems it causes. Sorry, this came out sounding harsher than it was supposed to. I just

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nobody, but I don't *expect* it to, either. I guess my theory on this is that if the change is small enough to expect no problems (i.e. perl-5.003 - perl-5.004 (or whatever the actual number are)), then is it *really* necessary to provide the upgrade?

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution; we are just pandering to broken software (decent software, like gnus, allows on to set mailing list parameters [look for to-address] such that group replies go only to the list). Or else one can just delete additional

majordomo and exim

1997-12-05 Thread G John Lapeyre
I am trying to setup majordomo. I am quite ignorant about everything involved (even so, I am on the developer keyring !). After several hours of effort, I have majordomo working with exim. I never even knew what the different MTA's were , much less how to use them. However, I

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Mitchell
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guess why i proposed to name a directory with libc5 compiled hamm packages bo-unstable? Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not something that will be discarded in a few months. Martin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Postilion Package

1997-12-05 Thread tdale
Dear Debian Developer World, I have made a debian package for the mail program Postilion. I then read that one should post ones intentions here so as to avoid a duplicate effort. So is anyone else working on a debian package for the mail reader Postilion. If not I intend to. I have also

dpkg-source problem

1997-12-05 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hello, when I use dpkg-source on an unchanged source tree it complains about unrepresentable changes. dpkg-buildpackage exits with an error code. Is this a bug or a feature? How can I circumvent it? Thanks, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Postilion Package

1997-12-05 Thread fog
On 5 Dic, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian Developer World, I have made a debian package for the mail program Postilion. I then read that one should post ones intentions here so as to avoid a duplicate effort. So is anyone else working on a debian package for the mail reader

Consultants/Tech support

1997-12-05 Thread fog
Hi, some time ago Bruce nounced the discussion about consultants was moving to another debian mailing list. I tried to subscribe but nothing happened... can someone tell me how to do it? BTW, is not the first time I can't subscribe to a list... I tried multiple times to send

Re: What, why, where, utmp?

1997-12-05 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that one of the latest fixes to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned. They weren't - the size of the

Re: Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Guy Maor
Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody modify the upload scripts to check packages and source files before moving them from incomming or is that to mauch cpu? The install scripts do compare md5sums with the .changes and .dsc files, and they run dpkg-deb -f on all the .debs. Bit

version numbers on virtual packages

1997-12-05 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds of Perl, I realized that I can't do that right

Re: version numbers on virtual packages

1997-12-05 Thread Bart Schuller
On Dec 5, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds I think you'd better make that

Re: .deb

1997-12-05 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Gigabyte i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the : Gigabyte Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like : Gigabyte OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . : : Sure. Just install the 'alien' program,

perl pre-depends on perl-base (=5.004.04-2)

1997-12-05 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To solve a grave priority bug, I've made the perl package (from 5.004.04-3+) pre-depend on perl-base (=5.004.04-2). This is needed due to the following: Assume you have an earlier version of Perl installed (say from the bo base disks) and you're installing perl

interesting problem in perl vs perl5-lib\d+

1997-12-05 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've got a slight problem that I fixed in a not completely elegant manner. There is a new libperl5.so.\d+ in the latest set of Perl packages. This means that if you just need to embed Perl into an application and you don't need all the libraries or the

Re: version numbers on virtual packages

1997-12-05 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds of Perl, I

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-05 Thread Dermot John Bradley
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: I hope you don't mind, but I released libc6 versions of libgd and mrtg yesterday. I was just going on what someone said that you seemed to have stopped maintain packages. Obviously not straight from the horse's mouth :-) The new packages have my name on

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-05 Thread Dermot John Bradley
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Raul Miller wrote: From www.debian.org, hit developers corner. Then, start with Creating a Package using Debmake, after that, hit New-Maintainer's Debian Packaging Howto. Ah I'd missed the bit there about simply renaming the existing tarball after extracting the code and

Re: perl pre-depends on perl-base (=5.004.04-2)

1997-12-05 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: To solve a grave priority bug, I've made the perl package (from 5.004.04-3+) pre-depend on perl-base (=5.004.04-2). [ ... ] So, I didn't follow the policy manual and get consensus for a pre-depends in perl. [ ... ] Don't

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-05 Thread Philip Hands
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sorry, this came out sounding harsher than it was supposed to. I just think that there are some problems that could really do with solving, and Reply-To: would do it at a relatively small cost. Is it really so hard to use ``Reply All'' and then cut out all the Cc:

Does it conform our demands?

1997-12-05 Thread Jozef Bednarik
Dear sirs and ladies, Brno, 12/5/1997. We are planning to use one of our PCs (Pentium based) as a file server and simultaneously for the Internet connection. For that purpose we are searching for a good free UNIX-type operating system. There are several possibilities,

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 11:23:33AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) writes: Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not something that will be discarded in a few months. Sure, but why invest my time in hamm which will be obsoleted in

Re: .deb

1997-12-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Eloy A. Paris wrote: Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Gigabyte i was asked if i could used files like Tkdesk from the : Gigabyte Debian/Linux 1.3.1 and use it on other Linux like : Gigabyte OpenLinux ? if so how can i do that ... TIA . : : Sure. Just

bo - hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient). If so, I would like to install this script and try the hamm distribution. If not, wouldn't it be worth to do it? Thanks. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt.

Re: bo - hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient). It's not really a very scriptable thing, I think. Following the HOW-TO at

Re: Postilion Package

1997-12-05 Thread tdale
On 5 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Dic, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debian Developer World, I have made a debian package for the mail program Postilion. I then read that one should post ones intentions here so as to avoid a duplicate effort. So is anyone else working on a

Re: bo - hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient). If so, I would like to install this script and try the hamm distribution. If

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Mitchell
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Surely bo-unstable == hamm, so please invest your time in hamm, not something that will be discarded in a few months. Sure, but why invest my time in hamm which will be obsoleted in half a year anyway? Wrong. What is your basis for saying this?

Executable stack problems

1997-12-05 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
Hi! I've installed a kernel with the executable stack patch. There has been two programs I have encountered segfaults with(so far). Both problems are gone after I set them with chstk. I believe they were using trampolines (I had intentionally disabled trampoline usage, and want to strip off the

Re: dpkg-source problem

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Ulf == Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ulf Hello, Ulf when I use dpkg-source on an unchanged source tree it complains Ulf about unrepresentable changes. dpkg-buildpackage exits with an Ulf error code. Is this a bug or a feature? How can I circumvent it? Usually, this

Re: interesting problem in perl vs perl5-lib\d+

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, make the symlink in the postinst? manoj -- Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews XI, 1. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12

Re: perl pre-depends on perl-base (=5.004.04-2)

1997-12-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Darren == Torin's Auto-Reply Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Darren So, I didn't follow the policy manual and get consensus for a Darren pre-depends in perl. I wanted to get this package out quickly Darren rather than try to wait for consensus on debian-devel. Far be it for me to

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

1997-12-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 5 Dec 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Well, I guess just a checklist outlining things from the policy guide is what I had in mind. Like whether it follows the FSSTND or FHS, there's a copyright statement, compressed man page, menu file with the dwww link and a menu item for X (with semi

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Dermot John Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah I'd missed the bit there about simply renaming the existing tarball after extracting the code and before running deb-make. Great, now all my updated packages will use pristine source. You can even just make a symlink with the right name to the

Re: Bug: #15573: perl should predepend on perl-base

1997-12-05 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Santiago Vila Doncel, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: On 4 Dec 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: Hmm. A thought as I spell-checked this. Can you pre-depend and depend on the same package? perl's control will now look like: ...

AW: libc5

1997-12-05 Thread Michael Meskes
I think David Engel is working on an interim libc6 release. But it seems there are quite a lot of packages to be worked on. Michael -- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 1997 16:49 An: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re:

Re: Does it conform our demands?

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Jozef Bednarik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian supports all of these features you mention in both the current stable release (1.3), also known as bo, and the upcoming release (2.0), also know as hamm. All of the software in our main distribution is free, and will remain that way (see our policy

Re: Who's root on Master?

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Eduardo Marcel Macan writes: Hello, I need to have my password changed in master, who is in charge of maintaining the user accounts there? I finally got [EMAIL PROTECTED] working. This alias will forward mail to the others who have root access to the machines. Thanks, Joey -- /

Re: Does it conform our demands?

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to disagree with Bob on this issue. I had a 3c905 a while back It's Rob : and at that time the kernel driver (v0.40) had serious problems but mostly when run on 10Mbit. Now that the 2.0 kernel series ships version 0.46 I have yet to run into a

Re: libc5

1997-12-05 Thread David Engel
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 07:01:01PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: I think David Engel is working on an interim libc6 release. But it seems there are quite a lot of packages to be worked on. Michael -- Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4.

new kde package

1997-12-05 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
new debian versions of kde are available: beta2-2 is available at : ftp.inka.de/sites/dungeon/packages/kde-new libc6 beta2-2.1 is available at : ftp.inka.de/sites/dungeon/packages/kde-new5 libc5 if you can't find some package required by kde : look at

debian 1.3.2

1997-12-05 Thread Danny Mashal
Hi, congratulations on the best Linux project out there, I was wondering when will the new debian come out?