about apt segfaulting was bad luck, but after
reading your mail I'm not so sure any more. However, I was impressed by
dpkg's abilities to get all that mess repaired with a little help from the
user.
Regards,
Bjoern Brill
--
Bjorn Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Colin Walters wrote:
The output format of dpkg -l is terrible. Many package names exceed
the measly 16 characters allotted. Many, many times when trying to
Yes.
what I really want to do is dpkg -l '*netscape*' | xargs dpkg --purge.
I recommend dpkg --get-selections
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Brian May wrote:
[...]
What I really would like is a filesystem that can store a mime-type for
every file... That way no magic databases are required. In addition, the
kernel could be configured to assign default mime-types for different
file extensions, or something.
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Brian May wrote:
What I really would like is a filesystem that can store a mime-type for
every file... That way no magic databases are required. In addition, the
kernel could be configured to assign default mime-types for different
file extensions, or something.
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Clint Adams wrote:
debian's attitude is: if you want something different, DIY. and more
importantly, it lets you DIY.
Err.. what Unix DOESN'T let you DIY?
Every Unix lets you DIY, of course. The problem is the *'/(%
configuration done by most all distributions and
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
Why even involve debhelper? At least in the case of the Project Gutenberg
files some of which I have, they are just long ascii files so the rules
file could just stick them into (for example) /usr/share/doc/etexts call
doc-base and be done with
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Clint Adams wrote:
Ok, let's bring this back to implementation. How would you propose we
handle
this? Currently daemons install, set themselves up, and begin running.
a) we can prompt.
b) we leave everything off and let the admin turn it on (not an option for
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, David Weinehall wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
[snip]
Guys, guys, guys... This is a discussion that was had quite a while ago,
and which lead to the creation of xlib6. The whole point was that it was
unnecessary glut to include a console version
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:32:29PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote:
So, why are there packages with depends lines that include both perl5 and
a particular version, like perl-5.005?
When a package depends on a virtual package which is provided by multiple
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
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 Sat, 18 Sep 1999, 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 number, obviously,
Hello,
I have just finished the first 90% (that is, I have a decently working
beta version, but some things are still suboptimal) of something that
could be vaguely described as
Package: debcrawler
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Version: 0.19
Depends: boa | httpd, lynx | www-browser, dpkg (=
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Brian Mays wrote:
Perhaps we should keep the last two versions of each branch? In this
case, 2.0.35, 2.0.36, 2.2.10, and 2.2.12 (which is in Incoming). I
don't know. Let's see whether anyone objects to just keeping two
versions around.
That seems reasonable. Once
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