Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:35:30PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:38:54PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > This is the current list of bugs that are headed for the horizon. > > I generated it from the bugscan report of Mar 26 15:08, and subtracted &g

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
removing these packages soon (unless they're too important, > in which case we have a different problem). Removal of a package is final. [...] > Package: whiptail (debian/main). > Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59150 still missing dependency on libnewt0 fo

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-25 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ate-library.sh on the boot-floppies sources. It's a really smart hack). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-24 Thread Enrique Zanardi
a different format for potato, let's see what happens... -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-23 Thread Enrique Zanardi
y because a 2.2 > kernel takes really that much. This of course requires that ee use > slang. We need a modular kernel for potato, not the huge beast we call our official kernel (heck, soon it won't fit on a single floppy!). Moving to 3 floppies is the wrong

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ion. That means two of our three methods (and I dare to say the third one is used on <5% of Debian installations) use the same "rescue" floppy disk. I won't say that's "pashing out". ;-) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-10 Thread Enrique Zanardi
selection at run-time, and space for ~10 message catalogs on the rescue disk. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-10 Thread Enrique Zanardi
image on a single floppy. The proposed solution is building a modularized kernel, and loading the needed modules using an initrd image, but AFAICT, there's nobody working on that. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-10 Thread Enrique Zanardi
take over the SGML environment task if we do move to this > scheme. Why wait? You can build that metapackage now, and we may use it as a "test case" to see if any strange problem arises. A "gnome" metapackage would be a nice one too. Volunteers? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stupid stats (was Re: xfree86_3.3.2.3a-9 (source i386 all) uploaded to master)

1999-02-01 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ple maintining multiple binary packages. > > Well, I might have made it on the list if you weighted by compile (or > install) time :> What about weighting by MBs uploaded? ;-) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: domex SCSI install disk

1999-02-01 Thread Enrique Zanardi
; then how? If it's supported by linux, it's just a matter of compiling a custom kernel and copying that to the rescue floppy (it's a MS-DOS formatted floppy). See readme.txt on that floppy for more details. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread Enrique Zanardi
tra or useless packages in there. > Apt doesn't construct or handle this type of arrangement well by default. > The mounted method deals with this just fine. To use your local mirror with apt you just need to build a Packages file (using dpkg-scanpackages). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread Enrique Zanardi
wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > > But dpkg-multicd is more than multiple-cds. There's multi-nfs, > > multi-mount, ... that replace nfs, mounted, ... > > That's why we think dpkg default methods can be removed/extracted to a > > dif

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:21:38AM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 12:21:00AM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > > > I strongly object to removing all of those except cdrom. I don't find apt >

Re: linux 2.2.0: "System is 666kB"

1999-01-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
s said he will accept them? (BTW, is kernel-headers still needed? libc6-dev ships with a full set of headers, doesn't it?) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
place for you to expend your energy if you care about this. I has been updated for slink months ago (thanks to Stephane Bortzmeyer). Now we are just polishing the lists for the non-i386 architectures. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reality check!

1999-01-25 Thread Enrique Zanardi
because it's > > too big for zImage. > > IIRC, for slink, the default kernel is a zImage. Well, it still doesn't work on some laptops... -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-24 Thread Enrique Zanardi
t; Probably not for a beginner. Suggestions for making the boot-floppies beginner-friendly are welcome (but read the todo list first). Of course, code is even more welcome. :-) Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-20 Thread Enrique Zanardi
have specialised requirements. If there are optional packages that conflict with each other, we should choose one to stay in optional and move the others to extra. (Or change/ clarify the definition on the policy manual). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:11:05AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > > > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as &

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
the system will not boot off partition 1. > the disk controller is AHA-2940. any solutions to this problem? Where does it stops? Does it shows the typical "LI" message? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
) a little bit of info is needed. At which step is the system crashing? Before displaying the "boot:" prompt? Before displaying the "Color or Monochrome" dialog? Elsewhere? It looks like a kernel-related problem, and not one that applies to any laptop model. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:37:07PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > Are we going to include "apt" in the base system? Its package > > ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A "multi-cdrom-apt" method should be added quick. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
I've been thinking about building 1.92 MB rescue floppies. AFAIK, those should work well with any 1.44MB floppy disk drive under Linux. Does anyone knows about problems with syslinux and "special geometry" floppies? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:47:46PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrique> About the "approved method", I guess it is through the > Enrique> bug tracking system,

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-13 Thread Enrique Zanardi
nux, the kernel, modconf or even dselect as reports about real boot-floppies bugs). Also, we (the boot-floppies team) have received patches at the [EMAIL PROTECTED], and nobody has complained (yet). :-) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to Debian 2.1

1998-10-07 Thread Enrique Zanardi
install B_y, C_z, ... (all of them) without the user having to select B, C, ... That way all the functionality of the previous package A remains after the upgrade (no surprise). After the upgrade, the user will be able to remove C_z or B_y if he wants. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
g, Adelie, Chinstrap, Gentoo, Macaroni, Royal, > Snares, Erected Crested, Fiordland, African, Humboldt, Magellanic, > Galapagos, Yellow Eyed, Little Blue Really good. I just can't wait for my Debian Yellow Eyed system. :-) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: location of 2.0.7 boot disks

1998-06-23 Thread Enrique Zanardi
t-floppies down the line to master. It's almost there, so please wait a few minutes and they will be in Incoming. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: location of 2.0.7 boot disks

1998-06-23 Thread Enrique Zanardi
'm uploading them to master right now. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm" :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Enrique Zanardi
t is a big problem. And one that has been discussed frequently. I can't remember what was the final decision (if any) that came out of the last thread, but you may find it at debian-dpkg or debian-admintool maillists archives. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi

Re: Release management - technical

1998-06-22 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 01:38:21PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Enrique Zanardi writes ("Re: Release management - technical"): > > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > ... > > > I think we can only do one of these. With hamm we're doi

Re: xanim and the dotofiles

1998-06-21 Thread Enrique Zanardi
le modules) without recompiling. That way our users could download xanim from non-free, copy any dotofile from the net to /usr/lib/xanim and voila! Now we have to convince the author. ;-) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Hamm install disks -- where are they?

1998-06-18 Thread Enrique Zanardi
uploaded to master in a few days. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
he latest version of the market-leading client software for enterprise customers and consumers. Expected to be available in a beta version from the Netscape Netcenter Web site in July, ..." So, if you have them ready, please release 4.05 debs. I'm eager to test them. :-)

Re: how to disable locales?

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ES, > etc. Which of these do I need to unset before running dpkg? Just set LC_ALL=C . LC_ALL overrides the others. (Sorted by priorities, from higher to lower: LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
. I may be able to try your scripts/makefile next week, but I think the packaging should be done by someone with enough time to maintain the package properly. (As I wrote the message you quoted, I guess I should answer your question). Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
the bug tracking system to report bugs. > > I don't think a package is such a wrong place. > > some people don't use dpkg, don't use debian, and still will burn a cdrom for > a friend. a tar.gz is much better ... What's wrong

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
s for DST and which are the others? Does that apply to all US zones or only to US/Central? Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Whereis lmemroot.bin

1998-06-15 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ly different method for low-mem systems. You will need two floppies: "lowmem.bin" (a boot disk image), and rescue1440.bin (or any other floppy containing root.bin). boot-floppies 2.0.7 will be uploaded in a few days (I'm waiting for reports on the stability of ke

Re: Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-13 Thread Enrique Zanardi
a pointer to the new license in that copyright file. That way it will be clear the package is DFSG compliant. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Enrique Zanardi
arm and > avoids all problems with conflicting drivers. IIRC, with kernel v2.0.33 one can't build the IDE driver as a module. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Enrique Zanardi
tus of the PnP support in the kernel is right now. None AFAIK. PnP devices are configured with user-space tools (pnpdump and isapnp). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:25:59AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 03:13:37PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > Using initrd, our default kernel may be reduced to half its current size, > > as all those different controllers may be built as modules and only t

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Enrique Zanardi
I plan to discuss the details with Herbert Xu, our kernel maintainer, to see if we can adopt this solution for slink. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Official CDROM

1998-06-10 Thread Enrique Zanardi
age files will be bigger than the ones for the 5 cd set. The total sum won't be that smaller. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release management - technical

1998-06-09 Thread Enrique Zanardi
d add: fresh installations as well as upgrading from previous release/releases has been tested. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
the boot-floppies were you using? I assume hdc2 and hdc3 were properly detected in previous steps (initialize swap & initialize linux partition), right? Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Enrique Zanardi
eans that a) dpkg-mountable might need > to be included in the boot floppies and b) we'll need at least one another > set of boot floppies - or someone invents a different method for this. I plan to upload boot-floppies 2.0.7 next week, to

kernel v2.0.34 has been released

1998-06-04 Thread Enrique Zanardi
kernel v2.0.34 has appeared at the usual FTP sites. (Sure you knew that, didn't you?). Is it too late in the "frozen" stage to include it in hamm? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Debian Re-organization proposals (was: Re: so what?)

1998-06-02 Thread Enrique Zanardi
/debian-documentation/... these days?) A monthly or bimonthly report from each of those sub-projects would tell us things are going on, and would help finding collaborators. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Lilo..

1998-05-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
on on it (e.g. dos; the > dos primary bootstrap also works). The "install a boot block" dialog takes the opposite action of what one chooses (that is, if you want to install a boot block, answer "No"). It's a known bug, and has been fixed

Re: ftp client for the base system

1998-05-05 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 11:25:40AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been testing some simple ftp clients and qftp looks like the best > > option, with cftp going second on the list. If you have any comments or > &g

Re: hamm

1998-05-05 Thread Enrique Zanardi
.33 (2.0.33-3) stable unstable; urgency=low * Built with new kernel-package (3.61). * Added support for fat32 (fixes #14042). ..." -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

ftp client for the base system

1998-05-05 Thread Enrique Zanardi
the time, so let's hear those horror/love stories about one or the other. Thanks, (PS: No telnet_*.deb package yet?) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkb-buildpackage errors

1998-05-04 Thread Enrique Zanardi
he es_ES locale, and some script run from dpkg-buildpackage (parsechangelog, IIRC) doesn't like that. The error message is bogus. Try running dpkg-buildpackage as: LANG=C dpkg-buildpackage -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 05:30:26AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 10:53:36AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > (add a "xterm -sl 500 -sb -ls -fn 10x20 -j &" line before the exec if you > > Wow, that's a mighty Byzantine xterm line. Bu

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ontrib_*.deb, so the script should check if it's there before calling it (or xmessage should be moved to xbase, or xbase should depend on xcontrib, or ...). Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Enrique Zanardi
e anything else. There's no need to copy /etc/X11/Xsession. That file "exec"s the user's $HOME/.xsession if there's one. The user may have just the following two lines in his .xsession: #!/bin/sh exec (add a "xterm -sl 500 -sb -ls -fn 10x20 -j &

Re: Lilo..

1998-04-29 Thread Enrique Zanardi
orks correctly with another hard drive, that is a 2gig and on the narrow >bus. > I had the same problem some time ago (Adaptec card, I don't remember the model). I solved it by disabling the "Extended translation mode for big disks" in the adaptec BIOS and adding the

Re: Bug#21691: perl-base is essential nothing should Depend: on it.

1998-04-29 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 01:14:46PM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Enrique Zanardi, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >> P.S. Why is data-dumper in base? > >'Cause libnet-perl depends on it. > > Sor

Re: Bug#21691: perl-base is essential nothing should Depend: on it.

1998-04-29 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ency for > libnet-perl. Great! That way I won't have to enter in dpkg territories. :-) Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?)

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
(As you may have read in other message in this thread, I'm going to look at the other ftp clients in Debian to put one of those instead of the netsdt one). Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: PROPOSAL: Services, inetd and xinetd

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 10:59:49AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > btw: in my opinion debian needs a general resource database (something like > windows nt registry, but with a better, unixlike implementation). How is the work on COAS going on? -- Enrique Z

Re: First successfull hamm install

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
the sizes of all the partitions be displayed when ever a list > is made? (/dev/sda1 [100M] for instance) There are some hooks to implement that, but currently it's only another item on the TODO list. (The plan is having a working set first, so the boot-floppies won't delay hamm'

Re: Boot Disks

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ter to provide a few different kernels in our FTP archive, and let the user download the one that fits his hardware, as we do now for Tecras-alike. (Bruce suggested some time ago that we should make 2.88 rescue floppy images, with two or more kernels in them. Those should be used in t

Re: Boot Disks

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
u want on building the best boot-floppies ever seen). Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?)

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 06:18:13PM +1000, Aaron Howell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 09:11:45AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > Then we have two options: > > > > - Remove usr/bin/ftp and usr/bin/telnet from the base system. > > - Create a netstd-base package wi

netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?)

1998-04-28 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:01:09PM +0200, Peter Tobias wrote: > On Apr 26, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 02:50:49PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > > > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrot

locales default setup for first installs

1998-04-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
be aware of that line, and don't overwrite it. Suggestions? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new boot-floppies with pkgsel tool

1998-04-27 Thread Enrique Zanardi
selections for inclusion in the next (and hopefully last before hamm release) version. Thanks, PS: This boot-floppies version also includes pppconfig for you lucky people with cheap phone rates. ;-) -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: policy suggestion (seeking discussion)

1998-04-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 04:34:35PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not a dpkg expert, but AFAIK modifying directly the dpkg databases > > (yes, almost everything under var/lib/dpkg are dpkg databases) is a > >

Re: policy suggestion (seeking discussion)

1998-04-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
#x27;m not a dpkg expert, but AFAIK modifying directly the dpkg databases (yes, almost everything under var/lib/dpkg are dpkg databases) is a Wrong Thing (TM) In the current implementation those databases are ASCII files, but that may change (and surely _will_ change) in the future, so relying in tha

Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?

1998-04-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 02:50:49PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > > Currently the base system comes with that symlink, but I plan to remove > > it for the next boot-floppies release. Obj

What to do with /bin/perl symlink?

1998-04-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
d have a #! line naming the shell to be used to interpret them. In the case of Perl scripts this should be #!/usr/bin/perl. ..." Currently the base system comes with that symlink, but I plan to remove it for the next boot-floppies release. Objections? Thanks, -- En

Re: Rescue disk crashes with mem=128M or mem=32M or mem=64M

1998-04-24 Thread Enrique Zanardi
y the file ldlinux.sys from March rescue disk to April rescue disk and try again? Or even better, install syslinux_1.37 (now in incoming), put the April rescue disk in the floppy disk drive, run "syslinux /dev/fd0" (or fd1) and try installing with that disk, to see if the bug has been fixed

Re: libfdisk problem in dinstall

1998-04-23 Thread Enrique Zanardi
the base system booted. > > Has anyone else experienced these kind of problems? Was your swap partition a logical partition? libfdisk had a bug reading extended partitions in big disks. A fixed libfdisk will be included in next boot-floppies release. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi

Re: dpkg-perl should predepend on perl?

1998-04-22 Thread Enrique Zanardi
predepend on perl. Does anyone else > have a view on this? Wouldn't it be enough to make dpkg-perl predepend on perl-base instead of the whole perl? Or does it need some functionality not provided in perl-base? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-20 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ackage format? Adding support for multiple tar sources? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
;rescue" that didn't work. Only the first entry ("initrd" here) works. If I move "rescue" to the top of the list, it works fine (but "initrd" and the others don't). Looks like a syslinux bug, but I'm not sure. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi

Re: Image names "rescue" and "default" was: Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
during boot...) It seems they still hang. It's a problem with our curren kernel (kernel-image-2.0.33_2.0.33-6.deb) but as I don't own an adpatec card, I don't know what to do to fix that. I'm CCing the syslinux and kernel maintainers, to see if they can help. Thanks, --

Re: elvis package

1998-04-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
r it to be > made free. IIRC, vim has X support too. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where are the boot floppies?

1998-04-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 06:43:53PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > They don't seem to be in the Incoming mirrors, are they somewhere else? dists/hamm/main/disks-i386/current -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: X11_release_note.txt

1998-04-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
27;t belong to boot-floppies at all. There should be an "upgrade-HOWTO" somewhere in the FTP archive ( debian/ , debian/dists/hamm or debian/dists/hamm/main look like the best candidates ) and in the official CDs. That document has been suggested a few times on this list, but I don't reme

Re: fltk and XForms compliance

1998-04-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
nor RedHat will promote Qt-based apps) may help too. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MGL graphics library freed!

1998-04-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > SciTech, the producers of MGL (a graphics library used to develop games > > like Hexen II and Quake for Windows) have decided to make that library > > "open source

MGL graphics library freed!

1998-04-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
roject.org/mailinglist/apr98/288.html ) They are asking for comments on their license. If you are interested, you can find it at: http://www.scitechsoft.com/mgl-license.txt Anyone willing to debianize that stuff? -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL

Re: Test Report (was: Re: boot-floppies_2.0.4 (source i386) uploaded)

1998-04-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
inst dpkg-perl, too? (As you say you filed one > against perl-base?). Minor thinko, I filed that bug against dpkg-perl, not perl-base. Nevermind, it bounced (local smarthost was down). You can file it if you want. Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi

Re: Test Report (was: Re: boot-floppies_2.0.4 (source i386) uploaded)

1998-04-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 05:16:54AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > (Not sure if this mail ever came through, so I'll quote it as a whole. Sorry > for duplicated messages if any) > > I wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:22:55AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > &g

boot-floppies_2.0.4 (source i386) uploaded

1998-04-12 Thread Enrique Zanardi
o do it in a few days. And now, give those little * a hard testing time! :-) Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dinstall and PGP

1998-04-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
t the .changes file). One of these days we will find trojan horses in Debian packages at compromised mirror sites, and will have to hear all that "But, RPM packages are PGPsigned..." stuff again and again. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dp

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-07 Thread Enrique Zanardi
t; sed -e 's/ install/deinstall/' clear_all > dpkg --set-selections > clear_all > dselect select > # Select the "Networking" packages here, and resolve their dependencies. > dpkg --get-selections>Networking > > Now, if you go "dpkg

Re: interactive sound configuration utility

1998-01-09 Thread Enrique Zanardi
; > older or plain different. > > They have newt and newt-devel 0.21 in their binary RPMs directory. We have both in master's Incoming. -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La La

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ill show you everything > > and let you delete it. > > I think that LESSCHARSET=latin1 as default wouldn't trash your console and > it would show most of what it should show ... AFAIK, less already is 8-bit aware, no changes needed. So Alex, don't worry about that.

Re: GUS driver package

1997-12-30 Thread Enrique Zanardi
ut the mantainer doesn't want to contribute it until he learns how to "debianize" the sources (right now he compiles the thing, moves everything to place by hand and then dpkg-build the binary package). If you want I can send you his address (don't have it here right now) and

newt packaged

1997-12-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
kages: newt0.10, that contains the libnewt shared library and a "dialog" replacement called "whiptail", and newt0.10-dev that contains the static library and header file. If nobody objects I will upload them to master this weekend. -- Enrique Zanardi

Re: redirecting stderr to memory

1997-12-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
... (I wouldn't like to substantially modify busybox right now. We already have enough work with the rewriting, and we need a set of working libc6 boot-floppies ASAP, but if someone wants to take care of busybox, he is welcome). -- Enrique Zanardi

redirecting stderr to memory

1997-12-15 Thread Enrique Zanardi
again display error message ). Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: fdisk3

1997-12-12 Thread Enrique Zanardi
isk locking freeze his computer. I don't know if he has been able to "isolate" the bug). Thanks, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

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