Adam Di Carlo wrote:
* eliminate all dselect acquisition methods aside from apt and
possibly mountable (for NFS, which apt doesn't handle -- socks
also not handled by apt but I don't know if we care)
Apt can handle nfs just fine. If you want to mount/unmount the nfs server
when apt
I thought some of you might be interested in a few changes that have been
made to the BTS software...
In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more
general) and it appears to be working.
Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean.
A column was added to
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:46:52AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
Most people I know prefer using the OpenBSD-derived server, because
it seems to be more stable and less buggy than the rest -- why is
it being deprecated by Debian (or Herbert, I don't know) in this
way?
The OpenBSD ftp
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 03:58:02AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
so far.
I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:09:17PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more
general) and it appears to be working.
Oh yeah, indeed :)
Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean.
Ueber-Cool.
Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The proliferation of ident daemons (midentd, oidentd, pidentd) in
Debian necessitates the introduction of a virtual package that these
packages can provide and conflict with (since you can only
[reasonably] run one ident daemon at once). While ident-daemon
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote:
Robert Vollmert wrote:
With /bin/sh - /bin/ash, I get the following error:
guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))
It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on
case $x in ( SystemV | posix |
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
so far.
I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
information
Hmm... the question is why we dont simply
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:49 +0200 (CET), Santiago Vila [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Santiago David Welton wrote:
Xemacs21 - runs *autoconf* to generate other makefiles, which are
then run. [...]
autoconf doesn't generate makefiles. It generates a configure file.
Do you seem what I mean?
Jeff Teunissen wrote:
Speaking of the open use logo, was it intentional or an unintentional
artifact of the conversion from EPS to xfig that changed the shape of the
letters and the logo itself?
Unintentional, I think.
I have .ps files with the correct shapes, and have sent them to the web
At 20:58 -0300 1999-09-18, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Well.. the libc maintainers don't want to add the locale for my country for
no reason, even if it is included in the package as source.
I use a target in the glibc makefiles to generate the locales, if it
doesn't generate the one for your
I've sent this to the debian-devel list because I've tried to add some
clarification to my suggestions, in case they were unclear to others (it seems
they may have been).
Note that none of my suggestions are in any way negative criticisms. debconf
looks incredibly useful as it is, and I just had
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:09:17PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We don't have a way for you to access them
directly but there's an official location in the database where they're
being archived. We're trying to decide how to serve them up... by
requesting a bug
Well.. the libc maintainers don't want to add the locale for my country for
no reason, even if it is included in the package as source.
I use a target in the glibc makefiles to generate the locales, if it
doesn't generate the one for your country, there's nothing I can do
about it.
Hi,
I found the mmm package for Debian is quite obsolete and not usable
anymore(it depends on several old packages like libc5).
I guess that's because you could not re-build it with the newer
version of Objective Caml.
I contacted one of the original authors(Jun P. Furuse) and he was kind
On 17-Sep-99, 04:35 (CDT), J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 20:26:15 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
I saw much talk about fakeroot not working with the new glibc, much talk
about it being difficult to fix, and no talk about it being fixed.
Actually,
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:21:34PM -0700, Robert Stone wrote:
Virtualhosting in proftpd is far easier than with wu-ftpd. As it
stands now, I don't believe any debian ftp server supports virtual
anon ftp sites as provided besides proftpd.
roxen does.
--
Raul
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We don't have a way for you to access them
directly but there's an official location in the database where they're
being archived. We're trying to decide how to serve them up... by
requesting a bug number, obviously, but
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:46:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
[description removed]
I have made most of the changed required for my redesign of diskless.
Amazingly, it looks like no changed are required for dpkg. I haven't
yet tested anything though, and implementing secure mode might be a bit
On Sep 18, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
100%, however, it has almost the same status as sendmail - it is a very
You mean that it's like sendmail, i.e. security bugs pops out every time
somebody looks at the code?
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Definately by package. I can think of several circumstances where this
is useful: when a bug is closed in unstable but someone using stable
On a side note, it would be nice to be able to see the bugs filed against
all binary packages of a source package,
Robert Stone wrote:
Virtualhosting in proftpd is far easier than with wu-ftpd. As it
stands now, I don't believe any debian ftp server supports virtual anon ftp
sites as provided besides proftpd.
Roxen does, at least if you have different IP numbers, I can't get IP-less
vistual
Branden Robinson wrote:
Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't
happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2).
Err, can you please wait for this until a) debconf has been accepted and
b) there will be proper support for it and c)
On 17-Sep-99 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
I was supposed to be taking them over. However I am stretched a wee thin at
the moment. So, if you or someone else would like to help, feel free.
I can't help you, I'm not able to handle that package. I was wondering about it
because I was trying to
Well, I don't like to admit it, but school's gotten too busy for me
to take care of a lot of the packages I have, so I'm setting them
free to find good homes with other maintainers... here's a list of
the packages I intend to orphan:
libxml-parser-perl
libxml-dom-perl
libxml-cgi-perl /* Does this
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:51:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 18, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
100%, however, it has almost the same status as sendmail - it is a very
You mean that it's like sendmail,
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more
general) and it appears to be working.
With an alias so that X-Debian-CC still works?
Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean.
and `use strict;' clean?
Bugs are no longer
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:31:27AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
With /bin/sh - /bin/ash, I get the following error:
guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))
It works fine with bash. It seems the
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 02:27:20PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
With an alias so that X-Debian-CC still works?
Not guarenteed... It's not in the upstream package so I'd have to remeber to
put it in every time I upgrade..
Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean.
and `use strict;'
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
You're also almost as good as stating that one cannot
backup /etc, toss in a spare drive, do the install off a local
NFS/FTP mount (less than 2 hours by a long shot) throw /etc
back in (no need for a tape even, whatta concept!) and then get
the
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All @bugs.debian.org will accept PGP/GPG clearsigned and most forms of
mime
formated email. Most? Let me put it this way, I havn't found one that it
barfs on but I'm sure there's some evil MUA that will prove it's not
perfect.
Does
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:18:54PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All @bugs.debian.org will accept PGP/GPG clearsigned and most forms of
mime
formated email. Most? Let me put it this way, I havn't found one that
it
barfs on but I'm sure
* Raul == Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raul On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:21:34PM -0700, Robert Stone wrote:
Virtualhosting in proftpd is far easier than with wu-ftpd. As it
stands now, I don't believe any debian ftp server supports virtual
anon ftp sites as provided besides proftpd.
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
Branden Robinson wrote:
Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't
happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2).
Err, can you please wait for this until a) debconf has
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 01:16:23PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
Branden Robinson wrote:
Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't
happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and
Stevie Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
libxml-parser-perl
libxml-dom-perl
libxml-cgi-perl /* Does this exist anymore on CPAN? I haven't found
* it since I originally packaged it.
*/
libxml-writer-perl
I can take these.
Mike.
well i have an dell latitude cpi. i install slink r1 with no problem. (i stop
install with selected package and i do not use dselect).
i down load a apt-get update and i change source list to deb
http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
i use a proxy. i change apt.conf.
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:49:55PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
I use Roxen exclusively as a httpd where I have a say on the matter,
but it is mainly a httpd, and lacks configuration features (like
chrooting some selected users into different roots) I use with
proftpd, although I have a
Hi,
I'm willing to take-over the libxml* packages.
Thanks,
Ardo
Stevie Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I don't like to admit it, but school's gotten too busy for me
to take care of a lot of the packages I have, so I'm setting them
free to find good homes with other maintainers...
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Edward Betts wrote:
My suggestion would be:
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0.38
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2.12
Can anybody provide arguements against just having two kernels?
Maybe I don't see all the problems, but why don't we name the packages
[ announce for debconf skipped ]
Is i18n going to be supported by debconf? If yes, how?
Thanks,
--
Mike (who thinks i18n should be considered from the very beginning)
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Here's my unofficial boot-floppies TODO:
* build for all supported arches
* eliminate all dselect acquisition methods aside from apt and
possibly mountable (for NFS, which apt doesn't handle -- socks
also not handled by apt but I don't know if we care)
On 17-Sep-99, 13:23 (CDT), Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a bit long, so I'll summarize:
Debconf is a tool that packages can use to ask questions when they are
installed. It allows various frontends, from dialog, to gtk to web pages
to be used, and it also allows for
Michael Sobolev wrote:
Is i18n going to be supported by debconf? If yes, how?
Well Wichert and I have talked about this.
One nice thing about debconf is it separates out nearly all translatable
text from the postinst and configure script into it's template file. So it
merely becomes a question
Steve Greenland wrote:
I've read (or at least skimmed) the tutorial you posted, and it
looks like the various configuration variables are associated with a
package via the template foo/variable. What about variables that are
logically shared between packages, such as the default directory for
Well Wichert and I have talked about this.
One nice thing about debconf is it separates out nearly all translatable
text from the postinst and configure script into it's template file. So it
merely becomes a question of adding translations to that file. The file is
formatted similarly to a
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:45:32PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
FYI, sash_3.3-5 (which has been sitting in Incoming for the last couple
weeks) no longer prompts at postinst time, as the postinst/prerm scripts
have been completely redesigned.
do they automatically set up sash as root's shell?
I intent to package ndtpd.
From README:
NDTPD is a server for accessing CD-ROM books with NDTP (Network
Dictionary Transfer Protocol) on TCP. You can replace dserver with
NDTPD. NDTPD can run on UNIX derived systems. It supports to access
CD-ROM books of EB, EBG, EBXA, EBXA-C and EPWING
Am Son, 19. Sep, 1999 schrieb Ardo van Rangelrooij:
Hi,
I'm willing to take-over the libxml* packages.
They're yours :)
Thanks,
Stevie
--
Stevie Strickland| 325912 Georgia Tech Station
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Georgia Institute of Technology
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:45:32PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
FYI, sash_3.3-5 (which has been sitting in Incoming for the
last couple weeks) no longer prompts at postinst time, as the
postinst/prerm scripts have been completely redesigned.
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 07:18:09AM +1000, Craig
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:30:37PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:45:32PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
FYI, sash_3.3-5 (which has been sitting in Incoming for the
last couple weeks) no longer prompts at postinst time, as the
postinst/prerm scripts have been completely
Raul Miller wrote:
They don't touch the root account. Instead, they clone
it as sashroot and set the shell on the cloned account.
This is mentioned in the package description.
I suppose you have considered the security problems, if root forgets to
change that password when they change the
I believe I have a gotten a good build of an updated gnome-libs. And
I only cursed Joey for the problems with dh_shlibdeps a little bit.
It is currently a little lacking in the changelog department---that
kind of got over-looked in the overhaul---but otherwise I think it's
ready to go.
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