On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 08:30:19AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Is there a way I can get Linux to work on my old 286?
There is an attempt to port Linux to 086 called ELKS. Look for it's link
on LDP page (http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/). Last time I checked I still
couldn't even boot it on my
On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 07:48:04PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
i'm looking for a new maintainer for all my packages :
mpage
makedev (taken)
giflib
kde*
I'll take mpage.
Thanks
Adrian
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There is quite a lot of unstripped libraries/object files in /usr/lib, is
this against policy?
lots of perl5 stuff
loads of elk stuff
libdpkg.so.0.0
lpbftp.so.1.0
crt1.o:
crti.o:
crtn.o:
hwtools/irqtune_npr.o:
hwtools/irqtune_mod.o:
gcrt1.o:
libbsd-compat.a:
libieee.a:
That EAGAIN disturbs me. We're not even close to being out of disk
space; what could be causing this?
EAGAIN doesn't mean out of disk space. The gnu libc manual says this:
- Macro: int EAGAIN
Resource temporarily unavailable; the call might work if you try
again later. The
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 11:48:43PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
I am interested in packaging the following, especially
since we already have some PIC tools and it's a growing area.
Yes that's a good idea. And if you put it into the menu take
apps/Technical for it.
Hmmm. There are already
Ben == Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben EAGAIN doesn't mean out of disk space. The gnu libc manual
Ben says this:
Ben * A temporary resource shortage made an operation
Ben impossible. `fork' can return this error.
You know, I'll bet it was the glibc2.0.5c
Hm. For some reason, today, syslogd started taking up more than its
share of CPU. (About 20% on a P200.)
I wonder if this is related to a problem I've been having recently.
Every console has been getting messages like the following at random
times
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu Dec 11
On 12 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
debian/bo/binary-i386/base/libc5_5.4.33-6.deb conflicts with libc6
making it IMPOSSIBLE to upgrade!! I had to downgrade to
libc5_5.4.33-3.deb from a LSL CD (thank goodness this bug is not
shipped on CDs!!)
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
does anyone know where are all the packages that were in
Incoming/HELD-FOR-GUY? This directory is empty now but at least samba
(which I maintain) has not been integrated into hamm (and samba was in
HELD-FOR-GUY).
Oh no! I had a
Michael Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
bzip when searching :-(
The last time it was seen in non-us distribution.
Because of the patent issue
On 11 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
: Michael Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:
: Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
: anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
: bzip when searching :-(
: The last time it was seen in non-us
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Huh? The upgrade path is quite clear: install a newer libc5 (5.4.33-7)
from hamm, then you may install libc6.
The solution isn't quite so simple. The libc5 from hamm DEPENDS ON libc6.
There is a definate problem here.
You install both hamm
On 12 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Huh? The upgrade path is quite clear: install a newer libc5 (5.4.33-7)
from hamm, then you may install libc6.
The solution isn't quite so simple. The libc5 from hamm DEPENDS ON libc6.
There is a
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
The reason for my bug is to get the broken package off the ftp site.
Before anyone else breaks their system. Guy, if everyone believes that
5.4.33-7 in hamm solves the problem, could you replace
libc5_5.4.33-6.deb with libc5_5.4.33-7.deb? I won't
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Still doesn't solve the problem of the hamm libc5 conflicting with
libc5-dev and the bo libc5 conflicting with libc6. It is a compilation of
different breakages here. My concern is for people who still want to do
libc5 development WITH THEIR NORMAL
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
bzip when searching :-(
The last time it was seen in non-us
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm sick of trying to find a useful workaround for people who just
want to install a few packages from hamm without upgrading the whole
thing.
There isn't one. I assumed you, as libc5-to-libc6 maintainer, knew
that.
Yes, it is theoretically possible
Andy Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is different becuase the lzw patent holders (HP?) have given a
general license for non-profit use of the patent.
That's true. It's Unisys that holds the patent, btw.
The patent on bzip is moot anyway, as bzip2 does not have any patents
on it. It should
I've put yet another experimental, pre-release of glibc-2.0.6pre4 at
ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please test it and let me know how it
works. The upstream maintainer wants to release this coming Sunday
so I need your feedback as soon as possible.
There is an IMPORTANT CHANGE in this version.
On Thu 11 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
Andy Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is different becuase the lzw patent holders (HP?) have given a
general license for non-profit use of the patent.
That's true. It's Unisys that holds the patent, btw.
The patent on bzip is moot anyway, as bzip2
G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to
We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse .
So it should be split into an extra package ?
Sven
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On 11 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags
for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was
in the discussion of bashisms.
I don't remember anything like that. Debian ships with `GNU cp', so I
don't see a
Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It most certainly is not.
Hmmm? What's missing then, since we are running a perfectly working
1.2.17 system...
Any sane Amiga installation disks; a non-buggy-pseudo-1.3 base set.
And as of 12/12/1997, 246 packages have yet to be compiled and a
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On 12 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Still doesn't solve the problem of the hamm libc5 conflicting with
libc5-dev and the bo libc5 conflicting with libc6. It is a compilation of
different breakages here. My concern is for people who still want
On 11 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm sick of trying to find a useful workaround for people who just
want to install a few packages from hamm without upgrading the whole
thing.
There isn't one. I assumed you, as libc5-to-libc6 maintainer, knew
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
Corruption of utmp/wtmp is a MINOR PROBLEM. Many people don't care if the
file is corrupted, they just want to use some libc6 stuff without being
forced completely into libc6.
How do I know which type of utmp/wtmp I'm currently using, my package
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
Corruption of utmp/wtmp is a MINOR PROBLEM. Many people don't care if the
file is corrupted, they just want to use some libc6 stuff without being
forced completely into libc6.
How do I know which
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 11 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags
for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was
in the discussion of bashisms.
I don't remember anything like
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
The change in utmp was made when libc6 was released. If your program is
libc6, the libc6 utmp/wtmp functions should be used at all times.
I'm using perl, reading the utmp 'raw'... (using unpack(), if that's
familiar)... Is it 'login' (etc) one should
I know there is a machine which I can compile for libc5 on somewhere.
a) Where is it?
b) Can I have an account on it?
I need to compile+upload a new cvs for bo.
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Adam == Adam P Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam [...] w/ pkg ordering stuff apparently coming in and (?)
Adam dselect being dropped as the default installation
Adam mechanism.
Can someone add the package ordering to `dselect', so we'll have that
until `deity' is ready to
'Sven Rudolph wrote:'
G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to
We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse .
So it should be split into an extra package ?
No.
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I can't search the archives. Has there been discussion on this ?
I just answered a debian-user question about fixing a broken partition
table. fdisk3 worked once for me in this situation when fdisk failed.
Its not in my available file. Do we want it packaged as fdisk3 ?
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This is a list similar to the Libc6 progress list, but for contrib
and non-free. Because source code is not available for many of these
packages, it will not be possible to convert all of them to libc6.
This list has had much less scrutiny than the other one, and is
therefore more likely to
This is a list of packages in the main distribution that need work to
be fully libc6-based. I base it on the Packages file at my local mirror,
so it may be a day or two out of date. If you have questions about why
a particular package is on the list, or if you think there is an error,
don't
The author seems to have dropped the project after releasing
fdisk3. There never has been a good user interface for it.
Bruce
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On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The author seems to have dropped the project after releasing
fdisk3. There never has been a good user interface for it.
The interface works the same as fdisk , (which I often prefer to
cfdisk). The lack of curses interface is a problem. But
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote:
I can't search the archives. Has there been discussion on this ?
I just answered a debian-user question about fixing a broken partition
table. fdisk3 worked once for me in this situation when fdisk failed.
Its not in my available file. Do
Scott Ellis writes:
Scott On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
[...]
How do I know which type of utmp/wtmp I'm currently using, my package
'TCPQuota' is using utmp to find out the users online... That is, when
(exactly) did the utmp/wtmp file
Moved to debian-devel
'Scott Ellis wrote:'
On 13 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Huh? The upgrade path is quite clear: install a newer libc5 (5.4.33-7)
from hamm, then you may install libc6.
Maybe we can fix this by making libc6
Douglas Bates wrote:
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 11 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote:
I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags
for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was
in the discussion of bashisms.
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
Actually, I think Martin is correct. In order to prevent CDROM based
1.3.1 users from corrupting their utmp, libc6 must conflict with older
libc5. Modulo my typo (Martin's = is right, not my ), I think my
other post suggests the best solution. Of
On 12 Dec 1997, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Just use the libc functions setutent/getutent. They're available in
both libc5 and glibc2.
Sorry... I'm using perl, and these functions are not avalible.. *sigh*
If you're never writing/reading the files
directly (opening them), you don't have problems.
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But consider the recent discussion of porting dpkg to other systems.
If you were using dpkg on Solaris or HP-UX or ... you may not be
able to count on cp understanding the -a flag.
Fooblah. Debian is about systems integration; GNU fileutils is an
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Thalia L. Hooker wrote:
I wonder if it is a good thing to tell users that they can also use
ctrl-alt-del to also shutdown their system? Suppose the user doesn't
remember whether they set up their system
i'm about to package tkfont, which IMHO is different in style to xfontsel
(nicer in some ways, worse in others). The original description follows:
It's a superior (IMHO) replacement for xfontsel written entirely in Tk/Tcl.
It's much prettier and much more useful. And it's only 14k to
'Rob Browning wrote:'
Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you don't upgrade anything that deals with utmp to libc6, you
don't have any problems).
The problem is that maybe *you* know what packages those are, but most
users expect to be able to upgrade without major system services
On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Chris Fearnley wrote:
Why should libc5 conflict with libc5-dev??
It doesn't need to. The explicit version dependency in libc5-dev is
sufficient.
Would this scheme improve things:
libc5 (stable,unstable): No conflicts, no depends (pre-depends on
On 12 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY REASONS WHY UTMP CORRUPTION IS SO EVIL THAT WE
NEED TO MAKE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RUN A FEW LIBC6 PROGRAMS ON BO GO
THROUGH HELL.
Say you're an ISP running Debian (bo) on a bunch of machines
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote:
: I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to
:
: We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse .
Oh, it is true, agrep is in glimpse!
Well, I think prospective-packages.txt should be fixed...
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