Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-12-24 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997 wnpp wrote: wnpp> Does anybody working on the egcs package? If not, I would like to try. Also I am going to do some research on the "Scheme->C" scheme. thks, borik __ Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator

Re: BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM

1997-12-24 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Igor Grobman +ADw-igor+AEA-digicron.com+AD4- To: Adam Heath +ADw-adam.heath+AEA-usa.net+AD4- Cc: Debian Development +ADw-debian-devel+AEA-lists.debian.org+AD4- Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 12:37 AM Subject: Re: BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM +AD4APg- I am running

Re: debhelper: suggestions

1997-12-24 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> expr "`dpkg-parsechangelog`" : '.*Version: \(.*\).*\nDistribution:' I can't get that to work. I have much better luck with `gawk'. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

intent to maintain orphaned package `addressbook'

1997-12-24 Thread Adam P. Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I intend to take over maintenance of the orphaned `addressbook' package. I've spoken to the former maintainer, the upstream source maintainer, and Mssr Fok, who was kind enough to do most the work that needs to be done on the package, and gotten their blessing.

Re: BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM

1997-12-24 Thread Igor Grobman
> I am running lastest hamm, and when I upgraded to the new svgatextmode, it > asked to remove the /etc/rc.boot files, and install new ones. I did so, but > when I rebooted, it executed after gpm. When I boot, the kernel uses 80x25, > and when svgatextmode runs, it changes it to 180x80. Howev

Re: BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM

1997-12-24 Thread Lindsay Allen
I got mail from Igor on this subject this morning. To save him the trouble of spelling it out yet again, here is his message. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 23 05:35:27 1997 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:09:07 +0500 From: Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Immutable files

1997-12-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
>From a security point of view, it might be considered worthwhile to install system executables (particularly the suid ones) and then mark them immutable. This does stop some common attacks from succeeding, and it might prevent some stupid things accidentally done as root. My Debian 1.2.10 system

Re: Immutable files

1997-12-24 Thread Elie Rosenblum
And thus spake Matthew Wilcox, on Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 01:41:27AM +: > From a security point of view, it might be considered worthwhile to install > system executables (particularly the suid ones) and then mark them immutable. > This does stop some common attacks from succeeding, and it might p

ever heard of ftwalk?

1997-12-24 Thread tom hull
dear debian-developers, i've written a freeware package, an awk-like script programming language. it was originally developed for file tree search/maintenance applications, so i called it "ftwalk". a more awk-like mode also exists, called "hawk". it has a rich type system, scads of built-in functi

Re: Mopac - public domain

1997-12-24 Thread john
I wrote: > However, they have disclaimed copyright, so the only thing that would > forbid removal of the notice would be a US statute. As you are outside the > US you could ignore it, though it would be discourteous not to give credit. Kai Henningsen writes: > *Is* there such an US statute? Not

Re: New required base packages for Amiga, Atari, ... detection

1997-12-24 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Mitchell) wrote on 24.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > > > > > As in, ISA vs. MCA vs. PCI? :-) > > > > > > No, as in e.g. Intel-PC vs. Sun :-) > > > > Hardly. That would be a case of incompatible CPUs. Or does Sun produce x86 >

Re: So where is the bo-unstable directory?

1997-12-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 23 Dec 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > Hmmm, i thought that bo-unstable was supposed to be created past > weekend or so, but i still don't see anything like this existing on > "ftp.debian.org". Will it happen already this year or sometime next > year? ;-) All necessary steps to get the bo-unstable

Motif Software

1997-12-24 Thread Edmund P. Morgan
Hi developers, I would like to know which motif software package would you suggest for use With debian 1.3.1? Thanks, Edmund P. Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-12-24 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Steve" == Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Steve, you can have it, if you like; I learned from >> repackageing it, perhaps you'll get something from it too. Let >> me know. Steve> All of this for such a small package... If you've already Steve> done the w

Re: Intent to split mysql package

1997-12-24 Thread Christian Leutloff
Scott Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 22 Dec 1997, Scott Hanson wrote: > > > > > The server package will continue to be in non-free. The client is GPLd > > > and can go into contrib, and I think the other sub-packages can go > > > into con

intent to package: doom!

1997-12-24 Thread Joey Hess
Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current x11 elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will probably pattern it after the quake packages, with a seperate package for levels (licence permitting). -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: Can I take wml and eperl?

1997-12-24 Thread Christian Leutloff
Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't understand how to modify this address! 8-( > PS. Currently wml includes eperl, iselect, > weblint, m4, txt2html etc. I intend to split > these (atleast the bigger ones) to separate > packages, and make

Re: Motif Software

1997-12-24 Thread bruce
First, try "lesstif", which is packaged with Debian and is free software. If you have the source for your application, it might work with lesstif, and then you won't need a motif package. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: Motif Software

1997-12-24 Thread Alex Yukhimets
It looks like you already have motif, right? In this case I would recommend using all packages dynamicaly linked with Motif (like ddd-dmotif, etc.) from contrib/ *and* hamm/contrib/. Since Motif is not available for libc6 (glibc2) yet, all Motif packages, even from unstable tree should be libc5- l

Re: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-24 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current x11 > elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will probably > pattern it after the quake packages, with a seperate package for levels > (licence permitting). Please, svgalib version too!! =) -- T