Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

On 6 Oct 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my > P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If > we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people > will simply stop upgrading, or switch to oth

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

Right now I'm using a 200MMX with 64MB, which used to be a 133MHz with 64MB and I always found the speed of dpkg perfectly acceptable. Are you using the outdated dselect method that scans every single package every time you install one little component, and do have like 400 packages installed with

Re: what's after slink

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:43:12PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: > `Debian Fairy'? I don't know about that... (BTW Linus was bitten by a > Fairy Penguin) > > I like the Hitch Hikers idea: Depends what image you want for the system. The HHGTTG was good, but I don't think it is worth naming the rele

Re: Live file system

From: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Live file system Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:40:24 -0400 (EDT) > I've been working on a CD specific install that basically delivers a > "standard" system with "cp -a" that could be used to also construct a > "live" file system. I'll let you know how

Re: Perl 5.005.02

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:35:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The perl package is in incoming. So here is the list of the 33 packages that > need to be updated. The maintainers are listed. The list corresponds to > package which contains filenames matching "/usr/lib/perl5.*\.so". This didn't

Re: Perl 5.005.02

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Raphael Hertzog wrote: rhertz>And wait for a new perl package so that *.pm file will install themselves rhertz>in /usr/lib/perl5 instead of /usr/lib/perl5/5.005. O, I thought it was perhaps intentional. Could you please notify this list when you upload the new package ?

intent to package: imp (mail)

> from the INSTALL MP CVS snapshot Copyright 1998 Charles J. Hagenbuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This code is licensed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING in this directory. -- Requirements for IMP CVS snapshots -- * php 3

Intend to package emil

Emil v2 is a filter for converting Internet Messages. It supports three basic formats: MIME, SUN Mailtool and plain old style RFC822. It can be used with sendmail, as a mailer, or as a prefilter or backend program with a mail client program, or as a plain filter. Source can be found at ftp://ftp.u

Re: Perl 5.005.02

Le Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 02:22:50PM -0700, Stephen Zander écrivait: > Just for my own curiousity: did Darren build this package or is it an > NMU? It's Darren. I would have never done a NMU without Darren's approval and without the consent of the ML. > You need to download a more up-to-date Packag

Re: Et toujours dans la langue de chat qui meurt ...

Translation: What a bad idea to have made only one page in French! I am getting very fed up with English. (Maybe I (Neale) will try to translate some of the other Debian pages.) jacques siorat writes: > [1 ] > La langue de "Sheackspear" (chat qui expire) > Quelle malheureuse idée d'avoir f

Re: Perl 5.005.02

> "Raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Raphael> Hello everybody, The perl package is in incoming. So here Raphael> is the list of the 33 packages that need to be Raphael> updated. The maintainers are listed. The list corresponds Raphael> to package which con

Re: Perl 5.005.02

Le Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 10:56:28PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: > Nevertheless I tried to recompile my lib*perl modules and second problem > comes to me : dpkg-shlibdeps seems no to work anymore (in fact the launch > is ok but it fails to do what it should (set debian/substvars))... I'm > looki

Re: Finding a source package

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(James A. Treacy) writes: > Should apt have to download the dsc file for a package before it > knows what the source files are? Why on earth not? If it's going to download the source, the .dsc file is part of the source and has to be downloaded anyway. > > > If there are pla

Re: Perl 5.005.02

Le Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:35:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: > The perl package is in incoming. So here is the list of the 33 packages that Well it doesn't work out of the box as I expected it. First the @INC isn't correct, it doesn't contain /usr/lib/perl5. Please Darren can you correct i

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because it is so slow. Tha

Re: problems with the resolver in glibc 2.0.7u

I've encountered times when every single address (out of hundreds) on the distribution list for a mailing list bounced for that reason, minutes after successful delivery of mails. I was unable to deduce a cause. I use sendmail 8.9.1. John Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! >

Intent to package: wip

Excerpt from the manual: "WIP is an interactive package with a simple to use command line user interface used to produce high quality graphical output. WIP was developed as part of the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA) project. WIP is intended to be used to generate high quality graphi

Re: what's after slink

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:49:47AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > Yes, please - "debian-creative". For logos, names, and other things > of that ilk that are fun to discuss, but that we shoudlnt force on > people who just want to do tech things. I second (and subscribe right away!)

Re: what's after slink

Don't forget, when Arthur and Ford woke up on the Heart Of Gold after being shoved out of the vogon (Hey that's another good name!) ship Arthur begain to lose limbs and Ford was turning into a ... PENGUIN! ... (until the probabibility level dropped down to 1:1). > > > > > > ---Matthew Parry <[

Et toujours dans la langue de chat qui meurt ...

La langue de "Sheackspear" (chat qui expire)   Quelle malheureuse idée d'avoir fait une seule et unique page en Français ! Moi qui suit très faché avec l'anglais   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...   Mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED]r

Re: Perl 5.005.02

The new perl breaks all my perl-module packages. How badly I don't know yet. I expected this because I see how the pdl developers scramble to keep up with new releases of perl. It can probably be sorted out, but it will take some effort from all who have perl-module-related package

Re: Live file system

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > IIRC Dale Scheetz used to have one for bo (sorry if I'm wrong, Dale :) > Well, not exactly. What I do is an imbedded file system that can be installed on a DOS/Windows/'95 file system as simple files and booted with a special patched kernel using th

Re: Perl 5.005.02

Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > The perl package is in incoming. So here is the list of the 33 packages that > need to be updated. The maintainers are listed. The list corresponds to > package which contains filenames matching "/usr/lib/perl5.*\.so". FYI, this package doesn't build properly on the Alp

Re: what's after slink

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 08:46:37PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > I support Jim Pick's idea: > > > If "Bug's Life" is any good, maybe we could snarf names from there > > but if we really need 60 messages (so far) to decide about this, we should > probably create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Yes, please

Re: what's after slink

I support Jim Pick's idea: > If "Bug's Life" is any good, maybe we could snarf names from there but if we really need 60 messages (so far) to decide about this, we should probably create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) -- "9c0fbcfbb1d1e4a94f0dde1fe1fbffe1" (a truly random sig)

New list debian-snapshots

Hi, a new mailing list, debian-snapshots@lists.debian.org, has been created by request of Jim Pick. The purpose of this list is to discuss various topics about automatic building of binary packages out of upstream CVS repositories. A tool is planned that will handle this sort of pack

Re: Perl 5.005.02

Re: installing perl There is a problem, which is detailed below. I just used --force-overwrite to get around it. homey 3 > ls *.deb perl-base_5.005.02-1_i386.deb perl_5.005.02-1_i386.deb homey 4 > dpkg -i *.deb (Reading database ... 60093 files and directories currently installed

Re: Imlib NMU

Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon 05 Oct 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 05-Oct-98 Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Do you really mean _all_ other packages? AFAIK you can have libjpegg6a > > > and libjpeg6b installed together (I didn't find a libjpegg6b package). > > > Additionall

Re: what's after slink

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:48:54AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > > > > ---Matthew Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >How about naming it after species of penguin? > > > >That should keep us going for a little while... > > > >"I like my new debian emperor system" ;

Re: Live file system

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: : On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:37:10PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: : > > Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice addition : > > for those short in disk space. : > : > Please send an appropriate patch to the debian-cd mainta

Re: Live file system

Michael Meskes wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:37:10PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice > > > addition > > > for those short in disk space. > > > > Please send an appropriate patch to the debian-cd maintainer. > > That mean

Re: Live file system

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:37:10PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice addition > > for those short in disk space. > > Please send an appropriate patch to the debian-cd maintainer. That means there is none? I don't have a patch. Neit

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > >> Hi Rainer, thanks for the package and the announcement. Just one minor > >> detail: > >> We should not repeat that Debian nonsene in public. Of course, korganizer > >> does That's what I really like about this kind of

Re: Live file system

Michael Meskes wrote: > Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice addition > for those short in disk space. Please send an appropriate patch to the debian-cd maintainer. Regards, Joey -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for!

Live file system

Do we have a complete filesystem on CD like SuSE does? It's a nice addition for those short in disk space. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | privat

magicpoint

Did it make it into the main tree yet? This certainly has to be in for slink IMO. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 04:09:46PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > ``As a special exception the software may be distributed linked against the > > libforms library without including the source of the libforms library even > > though the GPL would normally bar this, as long as the requirements o

Re: lyx?

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:11:24PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > They are preparing to release version 1.0 instead of another bugfix > release 0.12.1 because LyX with all applied fixes has proven to be > very stable and good enough. It will contain an import facility for I see. And I agree, it real

Re: Finding a source package

Guy Maor wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (James A. Treacy) writes: > > > First, due to NMU uploads to other architectures, the source version > > may not match the version: in the package you are looking for. > > This could be corrected with dpkg-scanpackages, but that's not really > the right thing

Re: what's after slink

---Matthew Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >How about naming it after species of penguin? > >That should keep us going for a little while... > >"I like my new debian emperor system" ;) > > `Debian Fairy'? I don't know about that... (BTW Linus was bitten by a > Fairy Pengu

Re: Imlib NMU

I package chameleon, and it was created BEFORE imlib-config existed. But yes, as you can see the -lImlib works for me. Would some of you test compiling w/ Imlib and actually using the gfx libs. I have seen it compile OK, but then fail to load png's and jpegs (the two biggest offenders).

Re: Kernel Debug pointers?

> > I'm looking for information on how to setup for kernel debugging. > > Any help? > > $ cd /usr/src/linux/scripts > $ g++ -o ksymoops ksymoops.cc -I/usr/include/g++ > $ cp ksymoops /usr/local/bin > > Then, when you get an oops, you can: > > 1. Save the oops (get it from /var/log/syslog) to ~

FHS - politics

I've been catching up on debian-devel (only 4900 messages to go), and have come across a discussion about FHS. I have two kinds of comment on this proposal: the first is appropriate for debian-devel, and concerns our general goals, and is in this message: Firstly, I stick to my guns that we need

Re: Finding a source package

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (James A. Treacy) writes: > First, due to NMU uploads to other architectures, the source version > may not match the version: in the package you are looking for. This could be corrected with dpkg-scanpackages, but that's not really the right thing to do. I don't know the best

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:39:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in the message IDed as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT: > > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in > > the last 6 months,

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > I study law. And I can tell you that there´s not a problem with the GPL > licence in the KDE project. Even if the GPL (read very narrowly and literally) > prohibited the use of QT, every judge/lawyer would reinterpret this l

Re: dh_make

On Tue, 06 Oct 1998, John Lapeyre wrote: >On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Craig Small wrote: >csmall>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >csmall>> I have recently created a debian/rules file with dh_make, it used >"-g" for >csmall>> CXXFLAGS and "-g -O2" for CFLAGS. Is there any reason for not using >-O2 for >csmall>>

Re: Free, but crappy, kaffe.

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 12:41:51PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > I did, however, list my sex as "a narcoleptic rat monkey with the spirit > > of an androgenous toaster in the chakras of a Kentucky NAMBLA > > representative" > > or something along those lines. ;-> > > Of course, that should have

Re: Post dups

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 04:33:13AM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > Getting lots lots of dups of everything, from 2 to up to 6 copies. :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache pgpVViWzrtIcE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:39:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in the message IDed as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT: > > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in > > the last 6 months,

Re: what's after slink

How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... "I like my new debian emperor system" ;) `Debian Fairy'? I don't know about that... (BTW Linus was bitten by a Fairy Penguin) I like the Hitch Hikers idea: Debian Zaphod Debian Beebelbro

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

On Mon 05 Oct 1998, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sun 04 Oct 1998, James Troup wrote: > > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway. > > > > Bzzt. I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent > > with only 1

debian image mirror at fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de removed

we ran out of disk space, don´t expect new hardware and need the disk space for the day to day stuff. sorry. maybe someone else can provide a rsync access to debian cd images in europe ? andreas

Perl 5.005.02

Hello everybody, The perl package is in incoming. So here is the list of the 33 packages that need to be updated. The maintainers are listed. The list corresponds to package which contains filenames matching "/usr/lib/perl5.*\.so". I will wait 3-4 days before sending bug reports so the developpe

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any debian packages and all architecture dependent packages will have to > be recompiled. Since new Perls seem to break binary compatibility, do we need a better dependency mechanism? The best option I can see is for perl_5.005 (or perl_b

Re: Free, but crappy, kaffe.

On Tue 06 Oct 1998, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > I did, however, list my sex as "a narcoleptic rat monkey with the spirit > of an androgenous toaster in the chakras of a Kentucky NAMBLA representative" > or something along those lines. ;-> Of course, that should have been listed as "species", not

Re: /usr/local in some packages

> Qt does this too, but that's because we're not allowed to move it from > /usr/local. I really think all these little compromises on policy are a bad > thing because they cause problems like /usr/local symlinks being deleted. > This is Very Not Acceptable. second. i like to have no /usr/local a

Re: problems with the resolver in glibc 2.0.7u

On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 01:20:54AM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > Hello! > > It seems there is a problem in the resolver of 2.0.7u: I upgraded my libc > because apache needed it (__register_frame_info) and after that some mails > just returned with Host not found, for correct addresses. This hap

Re: What's a suitable terminal type for xvt?

Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 03:33:27PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: >>[what's happening with the xterm terminal types?] > >Please read /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian and see >. Of course, I should've looked t

Re: dh_make

*-John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Craig Small wrote: | csmall>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | csmall>> I have recently created a debian/rules file with dh_make, it used "-g" for | csmall>> CXXFLAGS and "-g -O2" for CFLAGS. Is there any reason for not using -O2 for | csmall>>

intent to package: gwave, gmos, gnetlist

I intend to package gwave and gmos, which are to be part of the gEDA suite of EDA tools for Linux. gschemrc is already packaged in the geda package; it is a schematic capture (entry) program. gwave is a waveform viewer which can view the output from some spice simualtors. gmos is a MOS transistor

Re: Imlib NMU

On Mon 05 Oct 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 05-Oct-98 Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > Do you really mean _all_ other packages? AFAIK you can have libjpegg6a > > and libjpeg6b installed together (I didn't find a libjpegg6b package). > > Additionally, isn't it that so that those packages that us

Re: what's after slink

* M.C. Vernon (Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 04:02:32PM +0100) > How about naming it after species of penguin? > > That should keep us going for a little while... > > "I like my new debian emperor system" ;) This penguin idea, along with the "Hitchhiker's Guide" idea are the two best ideas I have seen in

Re: what's after slink

On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 08:51:23AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > Really good. I just can't wait for my Debian Yellow Eyed system. :-) Isn't our logo nicknamed "Captain Blue Eye"? That should match up quite nicely ;-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PR

Re: what's after slink

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:24:37AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. > > BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium > > this summer.) > > ---

Re: Kernel Debug pointers?

Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for information on how to setup for kernel debugging. > Any help? $ cd /usr/src/linux/scripts $ g++ -o ksymoops ksymoops.cc -I/usr/include/g++ $ cp ksymoops /usr/local/bin Then, when you get an oops, you can: 1. Save the oops (get it from /

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

in the message IDed as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT: > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in > the last 6 months, but I really think exim should be the standard MTA in > slink. (I am not

Free, but crappy, kaffe.

A very marginal packaging of the yet to be announced Kaffe beta 2 is available on my web site at: http://www.novare.net/~ean/kaffe I have finally finished filling out my maintainer information and will try to get it expidited. Considering that we already know what my account on Master and my pref

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:31:24 -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: >1. YES, PLEASE >2. Let's wait for vmailer >* What's the status of vmailer now? Supposedly it is about ready to be released. Of course, I don't see what all the hoopla over vmailer is about in the first place. -- Steve C.

Post dups

Getting lots lots of dups of everything, from 2 to up to 6 copies. -- /| Ragnar Hojland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Fingerprint 94C4B \ o.O| 2F0D27DE025BE2302C =(_)= "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for 104B78C56 B72F0822 U

exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in the last 6 months, but I really think exim should be the standard MTA in slink. Last time this came up, there were two factions: 1. YES, PLEASE 2. Let's wait for vmailer There wasn't particularly anyone against it from

Kernel Debug pointers?

I'm looking for information on how to setup for kernel debugging. Any help?

Re: pine in other distributions

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:31:59AM -0700, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to the past pine discussions, it seemed that Pine must be > > distributed with its source. Is this correct ? > > I couldn't read such restriction directly from Pine's CPYRIGHT. > > The reason why I'm

Re: PERL: patch for glibc 2.1

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:19:51PM -0700, Darren Stalder wrote: > Matt McLean, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >this is necessary since the semun union is no longer in the libc. its been > >awhile since your last perl upload, and newer versions have come out.. are > >you still alive

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

Thanks for all. I'll use US-PGP and discard it before leaving the US. Regards. -- Kikutani, Makoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linux related only)

Re: Imlib NMU

Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I 100% agree w/ you. Now make it work (-: I have compiled Imlib on > my own box and I can link w/ only -lImlib. However every other > person I know of, linux or otherwise needs to use the -l libs. > Imlib is merely a common interface to the gfx libs. It hide

Re: Imlib NMU

I 100% agree w/ you. Now make it work (-: I have compiled Imlib on my own box and I can link w/ only -lImlib. However every other person I know of, linux or otherwise needs to use the -l libs. Imlib is merely a common interface to the gfx libs. It hides the jpeg, png, etc. Seriously, make it

Re: PERL: patch for glibc 2.1

On 5 Oct 1998, Darren Stalder wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Matt McLean, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >this is necessary since the semun union is no longer in the libc. its been > >awhile since your last perl upload, and newer versions have come out.. are > >y

Re: Script to make Packages file?

On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:28:28PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > I FTP'd my distribution from a debian mirror and want to make it > compatible with APT. The expected 'Packages' files are missing. Is > there a script (or command line switch to dpkg that I haven't seen) > that builds the list? dpkg-

Script to make Packages file?

I FTP'd my distribution from a debian mirror and want to make it compatible with APT. The expected 'Packages' files are missing. Is there a script (or command line switch to dpkg that I haven't seen) that builds the list?

Re: PERL: patch for glibc 2.1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Matt McLean, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >this is necessary since the semun union is no longer in the libc. its been >awhile since your last perl upload, and newer versions have come out.. are >you still alive? :-) I thought I'd be able to have