* Raul == Raul D Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raul Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is your login password on master you have to use.
Raul You don't have to use your login password on master.
Read my sentence as ... you have to use on the webpage..
I also use passwordless
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:26:19PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
Check out the new map showing developer locations:
http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.map.jpg
Nifty! However I must decry the foul and evil file extension JPG and
request that JPEG be used instead. This ain't DOS.
The
Just a quick inquiry --
Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
allow it, even encourage it. It seems like a perfectly reasonable
arrangement to me Anything that's not needed for critical functionality
(recovery purposes) is supposed to live on the /usr
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:26:19PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
Check out the new map showing developer locations:
The problem here is that dpkg doesn't support versioned provides.
If you install libgnome-perl you have a virtual libgtk-imlib-perl
on your system. However since virtual packages don't have versions
dpkg cannot satisfy the versioned dependency that econfigedit apparently
has it complains.
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
Just a quick inquiry --
Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
Regards,
Joey
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:30:55AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
The problem here is that dpkg doesn't support versioned provides.
If you install libgnome-perl you have a virtual libgtk-imlib-perl
on your system. However since virtual packages don't have versions
dpkg cannot satisfy the
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 06:49:46PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Additionally, I have asked for a page to be linked from
db.debian.org to describe what those who
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
And because configuration is dynamic, while things in /usr are not.
Wichert.
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Previously Raul Miller wrote:
Would it be possible, for this case, for the package to conflict
with the specific versions which are known to cause problems?
Unless I'm very mistaken, yes.
Wichert.
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Hello all,
I tried yesterday 'apt-get source nethack' and failed with message
dpkg-source: error: Expected ^@@ in line 4569 of diff
There is written in line 4569 of nethack_3.2.2-16.diff.gz
\ No newline at end of file
(perhaps postinst ends without newline, I think)
I am not sure which of
Hmm - it strikes me that there may be a potential problem with
including .la archives with library packages. The filename for the
libtool file is independent of the version number of the library. ie,
libfish2 will ship with a libfish.la, and so will libfish3. This might
be an obstacle to
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Yes, this is definately the best way to enter the data right now.
Encrypted LDAP is comming in many months though.
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:40:21AM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
Hmm - it strikes me that there may be a potential problem with
including .la archives with library packages. The filename for the
libtool file is independent of the version number of the library. ie,
libfish2 will ship with a
Hello all,
I installed gnumeric 0.32-1 and gnome-print 0.4-1
but gnumeric does not run with messages;
-
Cannot read file /home/kohda/.gnome/fonts/fontmap :
gzopen failed: No such file or directory
Cannot read file /usr/share/fonts/fontmap :
gzopen failed:
BC == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BC No because the .la files only go into the -dev package for the
BC library,
Section 4.2 of the policy manual, according to my reading, seems to
disagree...
Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must include the
_.la_
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:54:10AM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
BC == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BC No because the .la files only go into the -dev package for the
BC library,
Section 4.2 of the policy manual, according to my reading, seems to
disagree...
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:53:23AM +0100, Phil Hands wrote:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:26:19PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
Check out the new map showing developer locations:
http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.map.jpg
Nifty! However
Martin Schulze writes (Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?):
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
Just a quick inquiry --
Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
That, and I didn't see /usr/etc listed in the FHS 2.0.
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
I may add a comment to the coords file describing how the image is created
so people can create their own. Hopefully someone has a printer that can
print a large version.
Can you send them to me? I will include them in the man page for ud-xearth
At 16:42 -0700 1999-09-22, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
allow it, even encourage it.
The FHS neither allows nor encourages /usr/etc; that would be against
one of the stated goals of the FHS, which is that /usr is static,
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
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
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed.
It would be especially good if people could try to get their info in
there in the next week or so, since we appear to have a stand at an
Expo in London (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/default.htm)
on the 6th 7th of
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
The certificate has got the fingerprint:
B5:48:B4:F8:A5:A9:E6:AE:91:AF:52:EA:AB:60:99:DB
is this correct?
Please answer
It would be nice to have a mail server command `resurrect', or
similar, that would bring a dead bug back to life (if it were found
not to be dead, or whatever; several reasons were listed above).
You mean reopen. Existing feature. Presumably reopen now also
works for bugs closed longer than
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:43:01AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
dpkg-source: error: Expected ^@@ in line 4569 of diff
\ No newline at end of file
This bug is already known, reported, and is promised to be fixed in
the next dpkg(-source) upload.
--
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my
On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
: The dnsserver returned:
:
: DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found
: (authoritative).
Doesn't look like the DNS is set up yet. Also no reference from
www.linuxtag.de ...
Paul Slootman wrote:
On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
: The dnsserver returned:
:
: DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found
: (authoritative).
Doesn't look like the DNS is set up yet. Also no
On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
I get 'connection refused by the server'...
Moreover, I tried updating my info on the non-secure page, but
my postcode is
Where is Oldenburg geographically? E.g. how far from Holland? :-)
Groningen is about 100km. It's 50km south of the coast, where
the coast makes its way to the inner country. (difficult to
explain.)
_
(_)
_ _
Hi.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) writes:
I think you should just use useradd to edit the password file.
You mean without ensuring that the password is useful?
I've already elected to give the admin a choice (whether or not to add
the account -- that'll
* Paul == Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Paul I get 'connection refused by the server'...
Yesterday, I
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) writes:
I think you should just use useradd to edit the password file.
You mean without ensuring that the password is useful?
I've already elected to give the admin a choice
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Raul Miller wrote:
Would it be possible, for this case, for the package to conflict
with the specific versions which are known to cause problems?
Unless I'm very mistaken, yes.
Wichert.
I've a similar problem. I use Debian-ja and
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:06:48AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
and (here is my proposal)
d) sash will create a locked sashroot account with useradd, and
display the message to use sashpasswd above as soon as possible.
That's an interesting idea. I'll think about it.
By the
On Thu 23 Sep 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
No, you should have used https://db.debian.org/ ...
I get 'connection refused by the server'...
... because db.debian.org does accept https connections, while
www.debian.org doesn't.
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
things?
I don't have enough confidence in Debian's pam, yet, to insist that
everyone that
At Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:24:27 +0200 (MET DST),
Vincent Danjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Previously Raul Miller wrote:
Would it be possible, for this case, for the package to conflict
with the specific versions which are known to cause problems?
Unless I'm very mistaken, yes.
What do you think?
- Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote:
| And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian keyring..
Non-developpers should not be allowed to *manipulate* bugs IMO.
- End forwarded message
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06 -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
- Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Non-developpers should not be allowed to *manipulate* bugs IMO.
It would be nice to have a mechanism available to ensure this if there is
indeed abuse of the BTS by
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you think?
well, for one, the submitter doesn't have to be a developer, and it's
perfectly ok for the submitter to manipulate his bugs. I've always
thought the rule only the maintainer and the submitter are allowed to close
bugs to be a good
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:45:16AM +0100, Phil Hands wrote:
As it happens, I just got an Epson Stylus Photo EX, so should be able
to a pretty decent A3 version.
Is the image it uses for the Earth actually scalable up to that size,
or is it likely to go blobby? If it's not up to it, any
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Darren Benham was heard to say:
What do you think?
- Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote:
| And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian
keyring..
| As a non-developer who has manipulated bugs..
[...]
| a bug anymore and should be closed. However, in a few cases I never got a
| response from the maintainer and decided to just close a bug myself.
[...]
| Are these shooting offenses? If so, I guess I should start keeping an eye
| out
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:52:49PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Aack. I write www.debian.org so often I guess it just
Joey:
I've been thinking about this for a while, but it always seemed like a crazy
idea. But it seems other people were thinking about it too, and others like
the idea, so I had better post about it.
Wouldn't it be great if all the debian developers could be flown in to a
convention site,
Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev,
who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005,
but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use
--auto-deconfigure on several packages that depended upon perl. When the
smoke cleared, after
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:23:27PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
Of course not, but only the package maintainer is supposed to close bugs on
her package. Even other Debian developers should use the fixed state.
Unless somebody's changed something while I wasn't looking, Debian accepts
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon
perl.
This is incorrect. Current versions of libnet-perl do not require
perl.
Mike.
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz was heard to say:
Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev,
who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005,
but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use
--auto-deconfigure
Le Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz écrivait:
After looking over things, both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 replace perl and
provide perl5, but neither of them provide perl!
This has been done so voluntary. And perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl
... you should upgrade your
I suggest renaming anarchist_7.7-1.deb to
anarcho-communism_7.7-1.deb or throwing it out of distribution
cause it have nothing to do with real anarchy
and make mess in peoples' minds
someone who doesnt really know what anarchy is after reading
this doc will found anarchy stupid and anarchist
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:53:45AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
things?
I don't have
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 02:38:46PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
Just out of curiosity, does sash support the standard -c command line
option yet? If not, I wouldn't really consider pushing it as a root
shell since it will break a lot of scripts (from cron and elsewhere).
$ sash -c date
Thu Sep 23
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
I suggest renaming anarchist_7.7-1.deb to
anarcho-communism_7.7-1.deb or throwing it out of distribution
cause it have nothing to do with real anarchy
and make mess in peoples' minds
someone who doesnt really know what anarchy is after reading
I agree with you, and wish we'd toss all non-relevant packages
out, or at least move them into the data section.
(That said, I think stuff like coastline data that we could use
to make maps would be okay for the data section; Where do I draw
the line? Well, can you at least compute the stuff?
On 23 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon
perl.
This is incorrect. Current versions of libnet-perl do not require
perl.
But the versions in slink _do_, and it is these
On Sep 21, Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, IMO, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] should.
I see no point in checking signatures if you don't also reject unsigned
messages.
--
ciao,
Marco
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale happens. Nothing indicated that I should upgrade those packages.
Root of problem: using dpkg manually.
Dale We seem to have mixed feelings about supporting incremental
Dale upgrades.
I think our stance is, we support incremental upgrades
On 23/09, Marco d'Itri wrote:
| I see no point in checking signatures if you don't also reject unsigned
| messages.
For me, a message with no signature is a message with a bad signature :)
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On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:52:41PM +0200, Bjoern Brill wrote:
Taking the risk to burn like hell: I think the exhaustive exploration
of ANY political theory and practice is VERY misplaced in ANY Linux
distribution. I would say the same thing about The top 1000 FAQ on
home-made apple pie, but
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
I agree with you, and wish we'd toss all non-relevant packages
out, or at least move them into the data section.
(That said, I think stuff like coastline data that we could use
to make maps would be okay for the data section; Where do I draw
the
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Le Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz écrivait:
After looking over things, both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 replace perl and
provide perl5, but neither of them provide perl!
This has been done so voluntary. And perl-5.005-base
Mark Brown wrote:
IIRC, it was this very package that prompted the last discussion about
setting up a data section. What came of that?
I got no reponses from the following post to debian-policy two
weeks ago:
To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Data section accepted a while ago.
Le Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:22:08PM +, Dale Scheetz écrivait:
was my understanding that this was, in fact, the reason for constructing
the package names so that they could both be installed at the same time,
yet they both claim to be perl5!
Of course ! Perl 5.004 is perl5 and perl-5.005 is
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale understanding that this was, in fact, the reason for
Dale constructing the package names so that they could both be
Dale installed at the same time, yet they both claim to be perl5!
Well, perl5 enough for most purposes. The packages that use
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This brings up another issue. Both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 provide
perl5, but it was my understanding that these two versions were
substantially different, at least during installation I got a long
story about how I would need to convert databases to
On Tue, Sep 21 1999, Christian Kurz wrote:
Hi,
I intent to orphan bvi and penguineyes. I will orphan bvi, because I
don't use it much anymore and penugineyes will get orphaned, because I
gave gnome I try, but I don't like it much and so I want to remove it,
which makes packaging penguineyes
Hi,
when doing a package search for gpg from the main page, I´m
getting some hits, where two pages
(http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-idea.html and
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-rsa.html) point to
sources where I´m getting error 404.
For both pages, the
Amigos, he vuelto a actualizar la pagina pero esta vez vine bastante
vircioso ya que puse un seccion de mIRC bastante grandes, tiene 2
secciones, una son todo comandos y como funcionan y la otra es un manual
del mIRC y es tan preciso que hasta explica una base de como crear tu
propio Script
As I mentioned, I will be returning to work soonish... within a week
or two. I just verified that an anon CVS will work from master.
If anyone would like to have a look (please do), you can copy my
setup from master and see it. There's a script you'll need, ala Joey
Hess' sshanoncvs. The
i18n of man pages is made by a lot of independent authors
and everyone translates termset differently so i
think developers of every single language should get
consensus about translation of common headers
I suggest these ones:
NAME
USAGE
DESCRIPTION
SYNOPSIS
BUG these is the biggest problem
I need an entry level systems admin or programmer assistant job to
pay for night school so I can get a degree. I am willing to
relocate for the right job.
Karl M. Hegbloom
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On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
Hi,
when doing a package search for gpg from the main page, I´m
getting some hits, where two pages
(http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-idea.html and
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-rsa.html)
I'd love to go to the conference. Let's go to Redmond and infiltrate
Microsoft, or to the Portland area and infiltrate Intel. grin
I'll hike there if I have to. I don't mind sleeping bag
accomodations; I'm in Portland, OR, USA.
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