On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:52:55AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> I am not sure and I am afraid I might misunderstand something
> but I wish to know...
>
> Several xfonts-* packages seem to fail removing fonts.dir/alias
> on removing or purging. The postrm of them has
>
> for currentdir in $f
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:34:08AM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> I propose these packages to be added to Debian GNU/Linux. I have proposed them
> once before, but they are not yet added.
I propose you start working on packaging them.
--
G. Branden Robinson |Somebody once ask
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:34:51AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hmm, I didn't know that traceroute sent ICMP packets by default. Are you
> sure you are talking about /usr/sbin/traceroute?
Point taken. It had been a while since I read the manpage; it uses regular
IP packets and manipulates the TTL
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 16-Aug-00, 12:31 (CDT), Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Blindly following your fiat declarations about traceroute are getting us
> > into trouble now.
>
> What trouble is that? I don't consider having to type /
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:05:58PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote:
> Traceroute is a diagnostic command. As such it isn't general use.
This distinction between sbin and bin is nowhere defined as having anything
to do with "general use".
> When a user or administrator is using it it is because of
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:18:39PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:34:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > We can put everything in /bin and make /sbin a link to /bin.
> > This way the utilities the FHS liste can be found in /sbin, but there
> > physical place is elsewhere
"Sam Sim" wrote:
> Dear Debian Linux,
>
> I am familiar with you operating system and wanted to contact you.
Wow. How familiar can he be?
> we will be in your area towards the end of September.
> I would like briefly stop by your offices
I am not sure and I am afraid I might misunderstand something
but I wish to know...
Several xfonts-* packages seem to fail removing fonts.dir/alias
on removing or purging. The postrm of them has
for currentdir in $fontdirs; do
longdir=/usr/lib/X11/fonts/$currentdir
if [ -d
First I'd like to tell, that I don't subscribe to debian-devel, but I can
read its archives from WWW. And I am not a Debian developer.
I propose these packages to be added to Debian GNU/Linux. I have proposed them
once before, but they are not yet added.
**
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Incidentally, if one wants to argue by analogy, traceroute is more similar
> to ping than it is to ifconfig or route, because both traceroute and ping
> actually send ICMP packets out over the interface, and neither ifconfig nor
Hmm, I didn't know th
Joost> What I am missing is a praise tracking system. It would
Joost> operate similarly to the b.t.s.; users could:
>Sounds like a good idea, eg to help motivate maintainers fix
bugs.
I think it would be good just to alert people to real well done packages
(for instance, excellent debcon
On 16-Aug-00, 12:31 (CDT), Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Blindly following your fiat declarations about traceroute are getting us
> into trouble now.
What trouble is that? I don't consider having to type /sbin/traceroute
or add /sbin to my path "trouble".
The constitution clearl
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> What I am missing is a praise tracking system. It would
Joost> operate similarly to the b.t.s.; users could:
Joost> - send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to have their
Joost> recognition for a debian package registered an
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Actually, this is a particular irritant. Why does it have to
> be done in the postinst? Why can't I have /usr/sbin/inst-realplayer?
> So I can download and install at my leaisure, and I do not have to
> reinstall realplayer installer to get a new copy? Or have the
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hmm. Lets step back here, and take a deep breath. What we need
> to consider is whether the underlying principle is desirable -- does
> it make sense to have two separate path components? The rationale was
> that for the common user, there are programs that are no
Branden Robinson wrote:
> To be frank I'm not distressed by the thought of lots of programs moving
> from sbin to bin, or even the elimination of sbin altogether.
Perhaps it would be neat to move back to what sbin was orginially used
for -- static binaries. Erik Andrerson has a whole slew of them
Brian May wrote:
> Just curious, why does realplayer have to do it in the postinst
> script?
Actually, I was misremembering -- it used to do that but I removed it.
> As another example though, look at heimdal-kdc, which needs to ask for
> the password, which must be kept as secure as possible.
I
Brian May wrote:
> > "Steve" == Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Steve> Which reminds me, what sort of security is enabled in
> Steve> debconf? Can any user read the values from the database, or
> Steve> is it limited to root?
>
> Not sure about this (on my system o
Christoph Martin wrote:
> We have a problem with the bug tracking system as long as we can't
> really find out to which versions of a package a bug really
> applies. We only mosttimes have the version of the packages where a
> problem showed up. But we don't know if the bug was introduced with
> th
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Hi,
Debian has for years maintained an excellent bug tracking system.
What I am missing is a praise tracking system. It would operate
similarly to the b.t.s.; users could:
- send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to have their recognition
for a
Hello Sam,
Debian is an effort driven by volunteers. Our focus is free software,
although we also provide ftp space for non-free software which can be
distributed in debian format at no cost, if there is a volunteer to
maintain it for Debian.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:01:00PM -0700, Sam Sim wrot
Hi,
I've preapared a deb package for postaci. Postaci is a PHP based POP3
e-mail client that stores e-mail in virtual MySQL tables. It supports
English, German, French, Turkish and is also fully MIME compatible.
I cannot upload the packages because I'm not an official developer. I will
be glad if
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:40:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> In other words, I think the choice of directory should be controlled by
> factors intrinsic, not extrinsic, to the program in question.
I think this is a reasonable viewpoint.
--
Raul
Dear Debian Linux,
I am familiar with you operating system and wanted to contact you. I
represent VirtualTek Corp. here in Seattle, WA., http://joydesk.com. Our
flagship product, Joydesk, is a web-based PIM application (email, calendar,
address book, message board and task list), designed specif
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:53:30 +0200, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Mon 07 Aug 2000, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Is there any way to make apt-get stop installing packages' man pages
>> and documentation? I never actually tried that, but would symlinking
>
>No.
That's bad. Anyway, I can stop s
Quoting Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> sort of configuration at compile-time would be a useful. Is busybox used
> anywhere else in Debian? It's curious that busybox isn't packaged
> separately.
For woody, we are creating a new section of the Debian
archive for the debian-installer (new
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> FHS discuss people: where should traceroute go? Tradition dictates
> /usr/sbin, the FHS seems to indicate /usr/bin would be more
> appropriate.
> [analysis]
IMHO, the deciding factor should be whether traceroute is installed
setuid root.
If tracerout
Torsten Landschoff said:
> I don't quite remember. I think I contacted inria (they hold the Caml
> copyright) about changing that but to no extent. I am not sure if changing
> the MoSML license would help - at least it has to go to non-free then.
> I did not want to maintain a non-free package at
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:31:47 -0500 (+), Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:22:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Well, the FHS is contradicting itself here. On one hand, it says that
> > ifconfig is required to be in /sbin, on the other, according to this
> > paragraph, si
Ag, evil. If you plan to use busybox upgrade to .46 there are some serious
problems with .45 in regards to tar and nfs.
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Frank Smith wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
>
> > anywhere else in Debian? It's curious that busybox isn't packaged
> > separately.
>
> A
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Alexander Reelsen wrote:
> Where the heck the word 'stable' comes from? I removed my hole
> /var/state/apt/ and I do not know where it comes from. Hardcoded anywhere
> perhaps? Or did I miss something grave?
The slink package files have this inside.. That needs to be changed
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:53:03PM -0700, dsb3 wrote:
> > Where the heck the word 'stable' comes from? I removed my hole
> > /var/state/apt/ and I do not know where it comes from. Hardcoded anywhere
> > perhaps? Or did I miss something grave?
> Did you 'apt-get update'?
Yeah.
> I'm not an apt-get
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# grep "^[^#]" /etc/apt/sources.list
[snip]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install zsh
[snip]
> Where the heck the word 'stable' comes from? I removed my hole
> /var/state/apt/ and I do not know where it comes from. Hardcoded anywhere
> perhaps? Or did I miss something g
Hi
I've just noticed a problem, when I wanted to install a package on an old
slink system.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# grep "^[^#]" /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/debian slink main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/debian slink main contrib non-free
deb ftp://source.rfc822.or
> Perhaps not. But a traceroute in /usr/bin would satisfy more people than
> a traceroute in /usr/sbin.
Traceroute is a diagnostic command. As such it isn't general use.
When a user or administrator is using it it is because of unusual
conditions. My opinion is to leave it in /usr/sbin. Let
bug1 wrote:
> It would be cool if packages had better support for build dependencies
> so its easier/more reliable to build from source.
Something like this?
Source: gri
Section: math
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Build-Depends: debhelper, netcdfg-dev, tet
Hi all,
Translating the Distribution-HOWTO, I noticed that the Debian Linux
(sic)
entry in this HOWTO was seriously out to date since it hasn't been
modified
since July 1998, when hamm was released ! Furthermore, it talks
about
Debian Linux instead of Debian GNU/Linux. I know this HOWTO is
genera
On 2817T040155+1000, bug1 wrote:
> It would be cool if packages had better support for build dependencies
> so its easier/more reliable to build from source.
Specifically?
> There would probably have to be a set of source base packages defined
> somewhere that are required as a base for build
It would be cool if packages had better support for build dependencies
so its easier/more reliable to build from source.
There would probably have to be a set of source base packages defined
somewhere that are required as a base for building, but not a base for
regular usage as base is currently d
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Thus spake Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > I noticed the other day that recent versions of RedHat use something
> > called "Kudzu" (sp?) to do this. When I took out the network card, it
> > warned me that some hardware was
Marcus Brinkmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> We can put everything in /bin and make /sbin a link to /bin.
> This way the utilities the FHS liste can be found in /sbin, but there
> physical place is elsewhere. This does not violate the standard.
>
> (The Hurd has a symlink from /usr to /, this way
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:53:51AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:42:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I think if someone has to do such a thing, then:
> >
> > a) they forgot to su root; or
> > b) they don't know they need privleges to use the command in question;
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:34:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> This definition is really quite poor if you put too much emphasis on
> the "ever". "swapon", for example, is clearly a tool for the admin,
> but a user might decide one day to run it just see which version of the
> program is installe
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:22:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Well, the FHS is contradicting itself here. On one hand, it says that
> ifconfig is required to be in /sbin, on the other, according to this
> paragraph, since a user could ocassionally wish to run ifconfig to list
> the interfaces, it
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:34:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> We can put everything in /bin and make /sbin a link to /bin.
> This way the utilities the FHS liste can be found in /sbin, but there
> physical place is elsewhere. This does not violate the standard.
This has nasty implications wi
On Aug 16, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Mandrake, too, includes a hardware detection libarary (libdetect).
> Some time ago, Dan Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Cc'ed him), was busy
> packaging it. Dan, have you had any luck yet adapting it to Debian?
Dan has reasonably up-to-date packages of libdetect and
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:18:14PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote:
> OK, how about moving everything into /bin except what FHS specifically
> says should be in /sbin? Section 3.10[0] identifies the following
> specifically to be located in /sbin:
We can put everything in /bin and make /sbin a link to
Previously Michael Sobolev wrote:
> Is it possible to access this for non-developers?
No.
Wichert.
--
_
/ Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.n
> I recall reading a few months ago about a plan to merge ALL of the
> existing hardware detection routines into one lump, in order to
> consolidate work and effort. The proposal was met with acceptance by many
> (if not all) of the major developers (Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, Turbo)
>
> please post
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:23:11AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > For simplicity's sake, I think it's just good enough to include /sbin,
> > /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin in user's default path.
>
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:42:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I think if someone has to do such
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Andreas Tille wrote:
> The problem of overloaded menus for beginners isn't solved in other
> systems, but may be somebody will have a clever idea, if there is a
> request for such a thing. That's why I expressed my idea, really knowing
> that it wouldn't be solved in the next
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > Has anyone has looked into porting this [Kudzu] to Debian?
>
> Mandrake, too, includes a hardware detection libarary (libdetect).
> Some time ago, Dan Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Cc'ed him), was busy
> packaging it. Dan, have you had any luck yet ad
Now that potato is out, it would be nice to finally create the
proposed data and science sections.
Just a reminder.
On 15-Aug-00, 17:12 (CDT), Eray Ozkural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was confused by not having ifconfig in my user path. On this
> machine, there's only a dial-up net connection, and it has some small
> connectivity problems. I need to check whether the line's really up. I
> found myself going s
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> This together with internationalisation seems to be a very difficult goal.
Yes! Fully agreed!
We have (at least) two parameters which characterize a user:
prefered language and knowledge state
While we could guess that the prefered languag
Hi Ben,
Ben Armstrong wrote:
> anywhere else in Debian? It's curious that busybox isn't packaged
> separately.
Actually, a few weeks ago Erik Anderson wrote to tell me:
>>FYI, I just uploaded
>>busybox_0.45-1_i386.deb
>>busybox-static_0.45-1_i386.deb
>>busybox_0.45-1_i386.changes
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Matthew Franz wrote:
> Would its "raw material" be pre-compiled debian binary packages or would
> it be able to build the system from source. Unless there were separate
> embedded .debs, I don't know that the standard binaries would be compact
> enough to support limited memor
Matthew Franz wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> I think the OS-builder app is a great idea.
>
> Would its "raw material" be pre-compiled debian binary packages or would
My first pass at this will be based on snarfing pre-compiled binary packages.
Simply Q&D, but probably useful to a lot of people.
> i
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Andreas Tille wrote:
> interesting one for this kind of user. So I wonder if there could
> be installed a mechanism in the menu system which serves the
> following functionality:
>
>1. list menuitems of all installed software (the state we have now)
> for the exper
>
> 2. Generation
> -
>
> I can imagine many different ways of building the operating system image.
>
> The one I'll be working on initially is a "Snarf 'n' Pick" implementation.
> Basically it will work by snarfing Debian packages and picking subsets of
> files from the packages. T
Wookey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Wed 16 Aug, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > > It's been pointed out that emdebian (http://www.emdebian.org/) is
> > > essentilly an effort to do just this. [shrink debian to fit
> > > handhelds]
> >
> > It
FHS discuss people: where should traceroute go? Tradition dictates
/usr/sbin, the FHS seems to indicate /usr/bin would be more appropriate.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:22:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Blindly following a contradictory standard is only going to get us into
> trouble later on.
>
>
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Drake Diedrich wrote:
>Under the Irix packaging system (quite nice UI except that it has to
> handle Irix packages..) packages exist in a hierarchy, with lowest level
> packages quite fine grained. For example:
[...]
>Many of our packages are already hierarchical ( x
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:25:28AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mike Markley wrote:
> > A dependency on non-us will also land a package in contrib.
> I think there was a proposal to change that, so that packages which depend
> on pack
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> int bradon;
> __asm__(".align 2,0x90\n1:\tdecl %0\n\tjns 1b"
> : "=a" (=brandon): "0" (loops));
Make that
int brandon;
__asm__ __volatile__(".align 2,0x90\n1:\tdecl %0\n\tjns 1b"
: "=a" (brandon): "0" (loops));
Oh, and you should probably u
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> /* the original bogomips code from the Linux kernel */
>> static __inline__ void delay(int loops)
>> {
>> __asm__(".align 2,0x90\n1:\tdecl %0\n\tjns 1b": :"a" (loops):"ax");
>> }
You can either read the GCC FAQ or the GCC info on the details of thi
On Wed 16 Aug, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > It's been pointed out that emdebian (http://www.emdebian.org/) is
> > essentilly an effort to do just this. [shrink debian to fit
> > handhelds]
>
> It is? I use their stuff and the main focus is cross compiler
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Quoting the FHS:
> Deciding what things go into "sbin" directories is simple: If a normal
> (not a system administrator) user will ever run it directly, then it
> should be placed in one of the "bin" directories. Ordinary users should
> not
I intent to package freeswan (currently version 1.5) and have already taken the
freeswan 1.3 package from Tommi Virtanen and the freeswan 1.5 package from Aaron
Johnson. I will merge those with my own package and hope to get something that
can be uploaded into woody in the next 2 weeks.
Since I liv
On Wed 16 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I am not an assembly guru on any architecture, but here's what I think this
> means. Please be warned that these could be the ravings of a deranged
> lunatic.
Ditto.
> The AX register is an old 16-bit register from 8086 days. When you're
> running
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mike Markley wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:58:19PM -0400, Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> spake forth:
> > Why would a package be in contrib if it didn't depend on non-free? I
> > thought that that was the current definition of contrib: DFSG-free, but
> > requires
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:44:37PM -0700, Richard Hecker wrote:
> I ran into a compiler error that I do not recognize. Instead of
> spinning my wheels further with this, I was hoping someone familiar
> with Intel assembly language on this list could shed some light on
> what is happening here. As
From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel-image with the same version
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:54:29 -0400
> Edit /etc/kernel-img.conf and add this line:
>
> reverse_symlink := yes
Okay I will try later. BTW, /etc/kernel-img.conf might
be /etc/kernel-pkg.conf
Thanks for your
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:58:19PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
> Why would a package be in contrib if it didn't depend on non-free? I
> thought that that was the current definition of contrib: DFSG-free, but
> requires something from outside of main (e.g., contrib or non-free).
It could depend on
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel-image with the same version
Date: 16 Aug 2000 00:31:48 -0500
> Atsuhito> I installed recently potato from scratch. Rescue disk installed
> Atsuhito> kernel 2.2.17 and I rebuild kernel-image with kerne-source 2.2.17
> Atsuhito> so
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:23:11AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> For simplicity's sake, I think it's just good enough to include /sbin,
> /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin in user's default path.
I think if someone has to do such a thing, then:
a) they forgot to su root; or
b) they don't know they
[Followups to debian-policy, please]
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I think that some people are espousing non-compliance with the
> standards. Is that what we want to do?
The FHS exhaustively explains the difference between compatibility and
compliance
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:39:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:12:58AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > I was confused by not having ifconfig in my user path. On this machine,
> > there's only a dial-up net connection, and it has some small connectivity
> > problems. I ne
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:32:32AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> >> But I thought one of the main complaints was that /usr/sbin wasn't in the
> >> PATH.
>
> > Generally, maintainer scr
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:07:25PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote:
> Steve Bowman writes:
>
> > OK, how about moving everything into /bin except what FHS specifically
> > says should be in /sbin?
>
>
> I very much like this idea. Does anyone have objections?
I don't object. I still think a few of
Thus spake Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I noticed the other day that recent versions of RedHat use something
> called "Kudzu" (sp?) to do this. When I took out the network card, it
> warned me that some hardware was missing, and offered to change some
> things to compensate.
> Has anyone
On 13 Aug 2000 at 18:20 (+0200), Allan Jacobsen wrote:
| Hi
|
| I have been using debian for more than 4 years now and I have
| finaly talked my boss into trying debian instead of redhat
| for our servers, that we install in hotels all over europe.
| I have been reading most of the dokumentation o
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> It is? I use their stuff and the main focus is cross compilers and cross
> environments for debian, not really shrinking and porting debian proper.
Well right now that's true, but it does seem to have grand goals of
shrinking Debian to a few MB and so on.
--
see shy jo
I proposed using symlinks for programs in */sbin to enable normal users
to see them in their default path, but now I think this is a bit messy.
(For instance, /sbin/ifconfig -> /bin/ifconfig, lots of these would be ad hoc)
For simplicity's sake, I think it's just good enough to include /sbin,
/us
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> It's been pointed out that emdebian (http://www.emdebian.org/) is
> essentilly an effort to do just this.
It is? I use their stuff and the main focus is cross compilers and cross
environments for debian, not really shrinking and porting debian proper.
Th
It's been pointed out that emdebian (http://www.emdebian.org/) is
essentilly an effort to do just this.
--
see shy jo
Hi,
>>"Atsuhito" == Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Atsuhito> I installed recently potato from scratch. Rescue disk installed
Atsuhito> kernel 2.2.17 and I rebuild kernel-image with kerne-source 2.2.17
Atsuhito> so the version of kernel was same for both.
Umm. This should
[ Please reply to debian-arm and me (I'm not on that list). Posted to
-devel to pick up any interested people who arn't on -arm. ]
For those who don't know, the iPaq is a ARM-based pocket computer near
the size of a palm pilot, that runs linux[1], including X. It has 32 MB
of ram, and 16 MB of
> > > Don't do that. Moscow ML was my first package when I joined and I had
> > > to learn that there are license problems. To be precise it is based on
> > > Caml Light which is not GPLed (read: has further restrictions) therefore
> > > you can't link GPL-code against it.
> > >
> > > We can't
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