Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-06 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sat, 5 May 2001 22:35:58 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:47:21PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2001 19:01:03 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should look into the S/390 port. The S/390 port is hardware

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sat, 5 May 2001 19:01:03 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:33:45PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: One could use fakeroot to create a sort of virtual machine, in which regular users can install packages as they please, but fakeroot doesn't support

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sat, 5 May 2001 16:48:05 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other places than / ? I know that when the package is compiled the

Re: Bug#95430: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Wed, 2 May 2001 23:22:29 -0700 Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'll concede that this exploit is only theoretical on Linux at this time. Remember what was on the L0pht website... L0pht, making the throetical practical since [some year I care not to remember] This probably has

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-03 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Thu, 3 May 2001 16:56:08 +1000 Sam Couter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No need to create a section for them. Birds can sit on the tree directly. But what about now that we have pools? Will they drown? Being birds, I assume they would (attempt to)

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-29 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On 26 Apr 2001 14:09:51 +0800 zhaoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are getting more and more bureaucratic. That's sad. Bureaucracy is integral to an organization such as Debian. you're going to have to learn to live with it. The package maintainer is a volunteer, and he knows you are

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-04-29 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On 27 Apr 2001 12:12:14 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote: [snip] 2) Does your statement mean you will *never* forward wishlist items either? From my experience, Christian pretty much ignores wishlist items. If you don't want to change your configuration each time

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-29 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:15:39 +0530 Viral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:14:22PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: Isn't there a kernel driver for that? Yes, but one needs the daemon to use the driver. One could activate it from /proc, but that was removed and moved

Re: ITP: darj - arj archive unpacking tool

2001-04-29 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:10:48 +0300 Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darj - arj archive unpacking tool I've started writing a free version of unarj. I have unarj installed in case I come across .arj files on the net or on old floppies, and vrms listed it once too often :) Cool!

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-25 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:35:37 +0530 Viral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on packaging intel-rng-tools. It is the daemon to utilise the RNG on i810 boards. Let me know if anyone is working on this. I shall otherwise upload it tonight. Isn't there a kernel driver for that? Regards,

Re: VA Debian banner old

2001-04-25 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On 25 Apr 2001 17:23:50 -0700 Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RB == Roland Bauerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not to mention that it's a grodie patented GIF. ~ESP, fan of http://burnallgifs.org/ It's not compressed, and therefore not patented. I say this because `libungif'

Re: Why does typing navigator run mozilla?

2001-04-23 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:52:00 -0400 Timothy H. Keitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's next? A talking paper-clip pops up when I type xterm? :-) Remember `vigor'? Please, please, PLEASE don't give anyone any ideas... ;) Regards, Alex.