Re: Managing package sources with subversion?

2003-06-03 Thread Carey Evans
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:47:28AM +1200, Carey Evans wrote: [...] > % svn ls file:///home/repos/debian/tn5250/vendor > 0.16.5/ > current/ what's current? (in the context of svn, it's obvious that current is the current upstream version) I've

Re: Managing package sources with subversion?

2003-06-03 Thread Carey Evans
Joey Hess wrote: - cvs2svn works ok, but can be _very_ slow. Be prepared for significant archive bloat too. I also had to run it three times due to some subversion bug that I have supressed memory of. I didn't bother importing all the history of tn5250 from CVS into Subversion. The old change

Re: Bug#80364: O: x3270 - X11 program for telnet sessions to IBM mainframes

2000-12-23 Thread Carey Evans
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I depend upon this package and would be happy to take it OK, it's yours. The new version at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/ should fix all the open bugs. I guess you're in a good position to know, anyway.

Bug#80364: O: x3270 - X11 program for telnet sessions to IBM mainframes

2000-12-23 Thread Carey Evans
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I no longer use x3270, and haven't even done any work on the package for more than a year. There are currently open bugs for the package, but they would be fixed by the latest upstream release. The biggest problem is the copyright that x3270 inherits from 3270tool.

Re: Intent to package: daemontools (and cdb)

1999-01-18 Thread Carey Evans
cdb can be obtained from http://www.pobox.com/~djb/cdb.html. This implementation borrows some code from Dan Bernstein's implementation (which has no license restrictions applied to it). -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

Re: office package

1998-10-11 Thread Carey Evans
but I think the author is looking at Gtk. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "So, do you steal weapons from the Army often?" "Well, we don't get cable, so we have to make our own fun."

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-09 Thread Carey Evans
ghten me. What is it that you are stealing?" The man smiled. "I am stealing ideas," he said. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" % I've seen the entire Tao available to download somewhere. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-06 Thread Carey Evans
e, or unless forced. (Which could be a problem for trying to compile them... Hmm.) -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "So, do you steal weapons from the Army often?" "Well, we don't get cable, so we have to make our own fun."

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-25 Thread Carey Evans
) This is rather off-topic, but doesn't Win98 come bundled with Microsoft's WWW server? Are they going to terminate people's accounts for having this installed, or for binding Microsoft Networking to the cable modem? (Not that the latter is a very good idea anyway, but

Re: where is sed in slink?

1998-06-22 Thread Carey Evans
textutils, mbr, util-linux.. $ locate sed_2.05-22.deb [...] /debian2/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/sed_2.05-22.deb [...] I don't think slink is supposed to have all the links into hamm yet, is it? The other packages were presumably uploaded to "frozen unstable". -- C

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-08 Thread Carey Evans
tf("read got %d bytes\n", n); if (done) printf("child exited with status 0x%04x\n", status); return 0; } - -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "[UNIX] appears to have the inside track on being the replacemen

Re: /tmp exploits

1998-04-21 Thread Carey Evans
to fix the problem as well, by adding O_EXCL, for when you *have* to use something which has a bug. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "[UNIX] appears to have the inside track on being the replacement for CP/M on the largest microcomputers (e.g. those base

x3270 copyrights

1998-04-12 Thread Carey Evans
because I read code with a restrictive copyright. } The 5250 emulation code carries one more copyright: } } 5250 Emulation Code Copyright © Minolta (Schweiz) AG, Beat } Rubischon. Thanks for reading this far! Any (useful) comments would be appreciated. -- Carey Evans http://home.

Re: xlib6 vs. xlib6g

1997-12-07 Thread Carey Evans
lot of > packages I need on a daily basis need xlib6. How do I correct this? Have a look at /etc/dpkg/shlibs.default (mentioned in the dpkg-shlibdeps(1) man page). I think you might find the dependencies are coming from there. I would save a copy, and try deleting all the X libs fr

Re: Looking for help. . .

1997-06-28 Thread Carey Evans
on and read all your files from it very easily. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Our mail program accidentally deleted our remove list." - Real quote from UCE -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-28 Thread Carey Evans
$a 42 -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Our mail program accidentally deleted our remove list." - Real quote from UCE -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Re^6: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-28 Thread Carey Evans
ginal filename but set Content-Encoding (or whatever); or 2) send an HTTP redirection to the .gz; or 3) uncompress it before sending? It should be configurable at run time, anyway. How much bloat would the second option above add to boa? -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-28 Thread Carey Evans
directly out of the archive. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Our mail program accidentally deleted our remove list." - Real quote from UCE -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread Carey Evans
? > IMO we should go with the simplest solution: {chmod,chown}.sh and modify > the packages. Also do install, and whatever else matters. This would also require rewriting things which set file permissions themselves in a C program, for example. -- Carey Evans <*> [

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-24 Thread Carey Evans
t my head around what was happening and played around a bit. I'll have a look at the library and have a go. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Our mail program accidentally deleted our remove list."

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-17 Thread Carey Evans
with dwww or at installation time. Any unnecessary man pages or info documentation could be dropped. I don't really expect to see this soon though. > IMHO we should not drop .info from the main package, [...] I have to agree with this. I quite like Emacs' info reader, and tkinfo

Re: Debian's mail daemons

1997-06-16 Thread Carey Evans
likely to do something stupid with .qmail. I'm not so sure about (2) though. And I bet it would be a pain switching 1000 users with shell accounts to qmail. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Our mail program accidentally deleted our remove list."

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Carey Evans
e line and qmail malloc's some memory for it, then malloc's some more, and some more, etc. I haven't heard of anything else. [snip] -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] TVNZ: So you can see less of New Zealand on air. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Perl Police (was Re: Bug#10405: package naming)

1997-06-14 Thread Carey Evans
k to do the classification. I am unlikely to want AppleII::ProDOS installed because I want Compress::Zlib. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] TVNZ: So you can see less of New Zealand on air. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-07 Thread Carey Evans
s so that I could change /etc/fstab to include something like the following, and I wouldn't notice: /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 ro 0 2 If netplan writes to /usr/lib/netplan.dir, it would break with these settings. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-03 Thread Carey Evans
from 4.4 BSD is under the following copyright: [standard BSD copyright]". db.h includes this copyright. Your point about gzip was valid, but if you're going to be picky, get it right! ;-) -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Lies, damn

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Carey Evans
ckagename" to "maintername". If you don't want to worry about unescaping the various formats of email addresses, add the appropriate Resent-... and Delivered-To: (from DTLINE) headers, set some env. vars and pipe the resulting message into qmail-inject, telling it to get its recipien

Re: ssh and default home directory permissions (revisited?)

1997-05-26 Thread Carey Evans
't think anything would break because of removing these permissions, so maybe adduser should make home directories mode 755 (or 750)? -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Re: Perl issues

1997-05-22 Thread Carey Evans
rnel-package can). It would be very nice to be able to do things like tar zxvvf File-Sync-0.05.tar.gz cd File-Sync-0.05 perl Makefile.PL debian/rules binary dpkg -i ../perl-file-sync_0.05-local.1_i386.deb and have a properly installed package. -- Carey Evans