Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-27 Thread Erik B. Andersen
just fine. Of course, expr is limited to integer math, but it works and is portable. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-24 Thread Erik B. Andersen
atable (sure, you can recompile but they are not binary compatable), we need both motif12 and motif20 virtual packages. Lesstif should be modified to provide motif12. For other people that have commercial Motif, we need to have TWO motif dummy packages. Or one that provides both virtual p

Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
itch really soon though. How hard would it be to hack bzImage support into chos? That is the only real problem with chos, right? Are there any other features lacking from it that make it unusable by Debian? I can certainly attest to the fact that this is one piece of software that passes the

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
could build as non-root. > > I like this. dpkg could set permissions on install based on a package file similar to the suidmanager approach. If we did this, we could also have a global security policy setting that could, using only dpkg, find all suid programs. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen

Re: Editor wars considered harmful

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
nt 3.3 to go into stable... I know lsl has made TriLinux with 1.3, but that doesn't have ANY source and won't boot. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer elec

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
l=E1s Lichtmaier.- > Fine with me. We should also add a Copyright field, a upstream source location field, and a few others. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-co

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-23 Thread Erik B. Andersen
gt; Alex Y. > But things linked against Motif 2.0 cannot link against and run with a Motif 1.2 library. Take for example nedit-dmotif, currently in contrib. Try to run it on Lesstif and it won't work, because it will not find a Motif 2.0 library. Lesstif provides a Motif 1.2 lib.

Plans for Debian 1.3.1?

1997-06-22 Thread Erik B. Andersen
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Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Erik B. Andersen
This sounds good to me. When finished, we should announce this on c.o.l.a. and try to see if the Red Had folks will adopt it as well. If we both adopt it as policy, then it will live on forever! -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Erik B. Andersen
I cannot agree more. We should definatly add these fields to the .deb package format! This will involve a bit of work, but will be VERY worth it. No more licensing surprises, for instance. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email

Re: S: workaround for dpkg replaces bug

1997-06-15 Thread Erik B. Andersen
package, but marked a lot of non-existant files as part of the new package. I couldn't think of anything else that worked (except to conflict with all the old stuff). The right thing is to get dpkg fixed. I submitted a bug on this one a LONG time ago. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Erik B. Andersen
guration in passwd style file /etc/chos.conf > I fully agree, except for one thing... Last I looked, chos did not include any source code, and was in non-free. Has this changed? If it has, I completely agree, it should be the standard. It is VERY easy to use, and works VERY well. I like it.

Re: booting bzImage with chos

1997-06-14 Thread Erik B. Andersen
ick it into chos, but I guess since chos is now GPLed (YEA!!!) some of us should probably take a look. (sound of ftping source in background). -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 7

Re: Tri-Linux's discription

1997-06-10 Thread Erik B. Andersen
Do you know if they will be selling the Official 1.3.0 CD or the Official 1.3.1 CD with the new XFree86 3.3 release? -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons

Bug#4265: util-linux_2.5-5.deb: /sbin/clock Seg. faults

1996-08-25 Thread Erik B Andersen
10.deb. -- Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.et.byu.edu/~andersee/ 2485 South State St. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Springville, Ut 84663phone: (801) 489-1231 --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--