Re: archive package file broken?

1999-05-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On 16 May, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:14:26PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > > I just did an update of my package list for potato. There are now 521 > > packages in the list instead of the 3300? What happened to the package > > list? > > Packages.gz in m

Re: archive package file broken?

1999-05-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:14:26PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > I just did an update of my package list for potato. There are now 521 > packages in the list instead of the 3300? What happened to the package > list? Packages.gz in main is empty, even on master. Apparently dinstall broke. -- %

archive package file broken?

1999-05-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I just did an update of my package list for potato. There are now 521 packages in the list instead of the 3300? What happened to the package list? -Ossama -- Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44

Re: Bug#37606: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable

1999-05-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:02:40 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote: > >> Glad to hear all of this. I just have one comment: > >> > >> > - The mktexlsr, mktexdir and mktexupd scripts must not be setuid. > >> >If they are, anyone could run them, which is unnecessary. Any > >> >extra privileg

Re: Intent to package Gnofin

1999-05-15 Thread Darin Fisher
thanks!! i will send you mail whenever i update the source. darin On Sat, 15 May 1999, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi Darin! > > I was seeking for a tiny finance tracking tool to make better use of my money > and found Gnofin on freshmeat. I learned that there is no Debian package for > it s

Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables. With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables on both mach

Bug#37755: general: Woes from upgrading 2.0 -> 2.1

1999-05-15 Thread Inaky Perez Gonzalez
Package: general Version: N/A Hi Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful. I attach an script for the upgrade (^Ms removed). The main points to note about it is apt-get suddenly died abou

Re: ITP: bg5ps

1999-05-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 03:02:00AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: > The package 'bg5ps' is ready for upload: You know I download my email every 5 minutes and scroll though it. It's bothersome to see an intent-to-package come in at the same time as the upload announcement. The reason for anouncing ITP

ITP: bg5ps

1999-05-15 Thread Anthony Wong
The package 'bg5ps' is ready for upload: Package: bg5ps Version: 1.1b2-1 Section: text Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), python, ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung Installed-Size: 96 Maintainer: Anthony Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: A utility to print Chin

Re: Intent to package: ttfprint

1999-05-15 Thread Anthony Wong
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:15:42PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: | |On Sat, 15 May 1999, Anthony Wong wrote: | |> The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload: | |Interesting... Is it specific to Chinese, or can it do other truetype |stuff ? E.g. Russian ? Yes, ttfprint is specific to Chinese beca

Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan

1999-05-15 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
Hi, I've set up debian upload queue in Japan. So please add the information about this to dupload.conf and developers-references section 6.2.x. Should I send it as wishlist to BTS? nickname: jp FQDN: master.debian.or.jp path name: /pub/Incoming/upload For dupload.conf $cfg{jp} = {

Re: Please adopt: prc-tools

1999-05-15 Thread John Goerzen
By all means go right ahead and upload :-) -- John Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the > John> person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm >

Intent to package Gnofin

1999-05-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Darin! I was seeking for a tiny finance tracking tool to make better use of my money and found Gnofin on freshmeat. I learned that there is no Debian package for it so I grabbed the sources and made one myself. Thanks for this cool utility - I like it very much and I would like to make an offi

Re: Intent to package: reportbug

1999-05-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 14, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > >* Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) > > Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, > -MM-DD. > >- Jim Van Zandt Done in 0.2. Chris --

Hardware working with Linux

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened

Re: gnupg

1999-05-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When I add the following line to ~/.gnupg/options (as someone suggested on >this >mailing list) the "gpg" program segv's every time I try to decrypt data. > >keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp GPG 0.9.6 is buggy, I sent a deta

Re: jdk117v3 package?

1999-05-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 01:07:26AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Easy solution, buy one of those non-free Debian CDs, with the bits of non-free > they can shove on a CD on. Loads of vendors do them. No, the non-freeness isn't the problem with this version. FTP admin said that licence says that we c

Re: fearless sailtrip (aka the DPL goes on vacation)

1999-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 01:22:13AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Anyway, I hope Debian will still exist and be in good shape when I > return. Oh, and with lots less release-critical bugs of course ;) hehe. we know what the mice do when the cat's away, but what mischief do the cats get up to whe

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-15 Thread Richard Braakman
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Manual pages are actually written in a new language, defined > using the troff macro language. It is much simpler than the > real troff language. This may no longer be true. I see quite a few codes in manpages that aren't defined by man(7). For example, the manpage for [

FreeBuilder

1999-05-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Is there any intention to package Free Builder for Debian? Now that we have a reasonable java plataform (with jdk, kaffe, awt, xemacs, and ohers). Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-15 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi, Actually you can make some text output with groff, for instance: groff -man -Tascii pon.1 > pon.txt works for me :). Let's say for the manuals, but works. so long Othmar

Re: ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:00:20PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On 14 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I found tleds not all that easy to use, and I only had to type `make` and > `./netleds console ppp0 &` and it is still running, even after a > disconnect or two... > > But, I will have another loo

Re: ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Beattie
On 14 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Summary > NetLED is a program that monitors an interface using the keyboard > leds. > > Is it different from tleds which is already packaged? I found tleds not all that easy to use, and I only had

Re: Package to give away/orphan: GNU acct

1999-05-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Thomas, Thomas> I am still using an "acct_6.3.2-2_i386.deb" package that I Thomas> compiled on a 2.1.96 kernel. It works fine with the 2.2 kernel Thomas> series for me. Thanks, that is another good data point. Which version of glibc are you running / did you compile against? Glibc 2

Re: Intent to package: reportbug

1999-05-15 Thread James R. Van Zandt
>* Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, -MM-DD. - Jim Van Zandt

Re: ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an interface using the keyboard leds. Is it different from tleds which is already packaged? -- "Debian for hackers, Red Hat for suits, Slackware for loons." --CmdrTaco http://slashdot.org/ar

Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan

1999-05-15 Thread Taketoshi Sano
I got a mail of the idea just "jp" :) Thanks. It's most simple and clear, so I select this as my choice for the nickname of newly created dupload-queue. Any other opinions ? -- Taketoshi Sano: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Beattie
This is to be my first real package once my maintainer info has been sent to me.. (James has spoken to me by phone) I just found this, so I am just about to play with it. >From the Web Page: http://mars.ark.com/~mbevan/products/netled.shtml Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an int

Re: jdk117v3 package?

1999-05-15 Thread Edward Betts
On Fri, 14 May, 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: > ok. i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs > gets away with it. when i tell my friends they should try debian instead of > the usual distributions, everything's peachy until i tell them it doesn't > include java (we're d