>> "MB" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Aargh, send too early...
MB> So far, I have
imlib, orbit, gtop, gtk-engines and I am building bone-libs right now.
In the FAQ on the gnome site, there is info anout the sequence you
have to use.
Ciao,
Martin
ome
pre-release slink CDs, so I have to upgrade to the current point
release by ftp (by an ISDN line - it is accessed like a NIC).
Do I have access to $DISPLAY somehow and can I use startx, so I can
test X packages directly?
Ciao,
Martin
e dependencies
... Everytime I thought I have all the needed stuff, it bombs
somewhere (currently it doesn't find the docbook stylesheets - of
cause this is reported after all the stuff has been build...)
Ciao,
Martin
meone?
Ciao,
Martin
Hi,
I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package
the CoolEdit HTML editor?
From: http://www.netins.net/showcase/Comput-IT/cooledit/
CoolEdit is a text editor for the X Window System. It provides many
features that are very useful to programmers.
Things like:
* P
use tcpdump to watch the
traffic for something unusual.
Ciao,
Martin
Good morning fans,
I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example
the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the
Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is
supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer.
However, there is a new service which has been opened
Inaky Perez Gonzalez wrote:
> Package: general
> Version: N/A
> Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when
> upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful.
I have received a report about upgrading as well. He failed...
But: There were two things whic
I have received this, you'd know better what to do.
Regards,
Joey
Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>Today we (PostgreSQL INC.) made our Initial Press Release at
> http://www.pgsql.com/release.html
> Regarding the beginning of techincal support etc.
>
>Also we are anti
liug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Sir,
> I am not sure whether this is the right place to post
> this mail.
> We have developed a Chinese version of X-window system
> several years ago, and now we have developed one for
> Linux,
> I am wondering whether our product could be integrated
> in
gt; ns.html> . Should I choose an epoch of 1 for all the potato
SB> packages?
By all means, no.
Ciao,
Martin
Justin Maurer wrote:
> consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel,
> when
> one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those
> who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan
> to order myself a machine when
Justin Maurer wrote:
> i'd like to request debian/pa-risc. i am packaging binutils as we speak.
> after this, i will package egcs. however, there will not be a working kernel
> for a number of months. with egcs and binutils, packages should be able to
> built even before there is a working kernel
>> "MM" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MM> gtkicq
is now gnomeicu
MM> communicator/netscape*45
Was removed, *46 is now in the archive.
MM> xadmin
Was discontinued because of serious bugs IIRC.
Ciao,
Martin
Justin Maurer wrote:
> > If you have a compiler packaged, somebody else is working on kernels,
>
> i am not sure when the kernel changes will be merged into the linus kernels.
vger
> would you like me to start a list on the ift server? i expect it will be
> extremley low traffic until at least
Justin Maurer wrote:
> > Justin, can you find out if those machines are binary compatible.
> > I've heard that there are two general types flying around (5i and
> > 3i, iirc). I wonder if one new architecture is enough or if we
> > need both - like for mips.
>
> which two machines? the ones the p
and wasnt able to find any sources of
> relatively new versions of apcupsd.
It recently was released under the GPL.
Martin.
users-guide/project.shtml . The package will be
named gnome-users-guide-en, and it will contain the HTML version of
the guide.
Ciao,
Martin
ADME.Debian after I added this function).
Tell me about other options/feature you need, and I will implement
them as far as it is possible.
Ciao,
Martin
over now. But the meta
packages have to be advertised differently. They look like another of
the dozends netscape/navigator/communicator packages so one can easily
miss them.
Maybe all metapackages should get a section for their own.
Ciao,
Martin
out this. The maintainer thinks this may
be due to xdm and gdm both trying to serve :0.
Ciao,
Martin
The
source, libgtop, only builds libgtop1.
I will reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org
Ciao,
Martin
eplacement, even though I have the replacement installed! Is it
JM> still stuck in Incoming?
It is not there. I will copy the version from the staging area to
Incoming.
Ciao,
Martin
t the only one. Same thing here. This has been discussed
before. Most likely some kind of glibc2,1 problem.
Ciao,
Martin
Matthias Klose wrote:
> Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with
> apt-get? Or is the reorganisation not finished? Currently neither of
> the following lines work:
>
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian unstab
gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1.dsc'
JR> [master:inc]$
JR> This was probably the reason why Ossama didn't manage to copy it with
JR> the rest when there was the big move.
JR> Can somebody please rebuild this? Jules?
The rebuild package is in Incoming. dinstall -n doesn't show any
errors.
Ciao,
Martin
Hi,
recently I have been fouled by some very nasty incidents which made me
think that I have made something wrong with our boot floppies.
Here is the story.
I've created German boot-floppies, but only regular ones, no tecra
images. I had to create a slink cd set for a German distributor
w
Clint Adams writes:
> > So, there should be bugs filed against the packages which have to be
> > relinked.
>
> While that is true, that still does not prevent someone from
> upgrading either the packages which depend upon libssl09 or
> libssl09 and not the dependent packages, thereby breaki
ep, you
would do run this program zu build the list of source dependencies,
edit the control file and do the final build.
Ciao,
Martin
es buffer overflow
- * NMU for slink
- -- Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:57:04 -0500
+ -- Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:21:39 +0100
super (3.11.7-1) stable frozen unstable; urgency=high
Apparently we need a cluebat for one of our securit
reassign 37424 lynx
thanks
Francesco Potorti` writes:
> Package: lynx-ssl
> Version: 2.8.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I installed lynx-ssl, which removed lynx. I then purged lynx, which
> happily removed /etc/lynx.cfg, even if lynx-ssl was installed.
>
I investigated a little more here. I
other editor is also a candidate here, but we have space
> problems.
I found a very small vi-clone named levee on
http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code
its exefile is 36K. Would that be small enough?
(There is no active development, now)
Bye,
Martin.
--
Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change
to take effect. Reboot now?
solaris boxes.
On Linux, it runs like a charm.
I am wondering, if it works on Linux-AXP, i'll try it at home.
(Perhaps, Solaris has different opinions about esc-sequences?)
Best wishes,
Martin.
--
esa$ gcc -Wall -o ariane ariane5.c
ariane5.c: 666: warning: long float implicitly truncated to unsigned type
esa$ ariane5
ompiler was egcs-1.1.2.
With friendly wishes,
Martin.
--
esa$ gcc -Wall -o ariane ariane5.c
ariane5.c: 666: warning: long float implicitly truncated to unsigned type
esa$ ariane5
se the open use
logo, the postscript version will be best for them.
Ciao,
Martin
ve to whoever is able to erase the package that you
> are who you say you are? I.e. how do you convince them that they
> should in fact erase the package?
With your old compromised key.
Martin
--
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James Troup wrote:
> Eh, calm down, Joey. I not only can, but should and have decided that
> GnuPG keys must be verified before they enter the keyring, i.e. I'm
> not going to add a random key from a random developer without proof it
> comes from that developer. I'll hope you'll be so kind as to
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > All it means is that GPG should be used in a mode where it will not
> > > interoperate with PGP 2.x. This is what Joey's HOWTO recommended more or
> > > less.
> >
> > So correct it.
>
> You seem to want to give it away rather strongly, so I'd be happy to pick
> it up
f this available. I also played with it
http://www.internet-treff.uni-koeln.de/~martin/debcat/index.html?fl=3&flc29=2#fl_29
The only thing that prevents implementation (IIRC) is that a hierarchie
has to be negotiated, and noone stepped forward to lead this efford.
b) New field with keywords.
B
\_ /usr/bin/mc.real -P
6835 ttyp5S 0:00 | \_ bash -rcfile .bashrc
6844 ttyp5S 0:01 | \_ wxftp
Ciao,
Martin
ownload/" upgrade should do it I
think.
Ciao,
Martin
7;t work in this case anyway.
Ciao,
Martin
convinced that anything has to be done about
proftpd. Bugs found and fixed means there are people working with the
code. This will just improve its quality.
Ciao,
Martin
* "Michael" == Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael> I make a new upload (or you make a NMU) and remove all the last
changes.
I just got blessings from Michael to do the NMU. Just to inform you,
so there are no duplicate effords.
Ciao,
Martin
* "Joel" == Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joel> At 16:53 +0200 1999-09-17, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> If you call proftpd crap, how do you call dpkg?
Joel> No bug in dpkg has ever resulted in a a remote root exploit.
OK, a bug in cron has recently pro
y a prove in scientific way. I forsee a new security
hole in cron.
Anyway, which ftpd in unstable do you see as the package to promote as
the ftpd of choice in Debian?
Just to see what our alternatives are.
Ciao,
Martin
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > And an updated version is at
> > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO
>
> I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for
> inclusion in that document?
Branden Robinson wrote:
> Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't
> happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2).
Err, can you please wait for this until a) debconf has been accepted and
b) there will be proper support for it and c) pro
very* small host, no virtual hosting etc.
Go, Roxen, go as a httpd, but for ftpd, I prefer proftpd.
Ciao,
Martin
anual intervention on the steps, fully scriptable.
Ask on the Roxen Mailinglist for example implementations, if you want
to do this.
Ciao,
Martin
package "bug" and report a bug on mc. This is the
only way to ensure the maintainer reads this suggestion.
Ciao,
Martin
.
Debian will have a free booth, staffed with.. somebody
Contact: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
German Events <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Involvement: Free booth, organized by Debian maintainer
Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
--
A mathematician is a
iy->coord. entries.
Has someone such a URL, so I can look up Cologne, Germany?
Ciao,
Martin
have the feeling that I missed something, but anyway as I
Hugo> don't manage to find it in the archive: how can we find out what
Hugo> our password is?
It is your login password on master you have to use.
BTW: connect to https://db.debian.org for an encrypted connection.
Ciao,
Martin
* "Raul" == Raul D Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Raul> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It is your login password on master you have to use.
Raul> You don't have to use your login password on master.
Read my sentence as "... y
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> Just a quick inquiry --
>
> Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
Regards,
Joey
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >
> > Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
>
> : The dnsserver returned:
> :
> : DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found
> : (authoritative).
>
r me. But I added a "+" in front of each, maybe this is
important.
Ciao,
Martin
superset and should be used, no?
Ciao,
Martin
efault config of this package is
not good enough, not the fact that it is shipped in a "ready to use"
condition.
Ciao,
Martin
nment variables, I don't want to edit a config
file, if a good default is possible (and I find this the case on most
Debian packages). For daemons. I expect then to be operating right
after apt-get install. YMMV.
Ciao,
Martin
o use the package.
Ciao,
Martin
mentation
RR> should be available as /usr/doc/.
Marco> No. A http daemon will never follow this symlinks. They#re 100%
Marco> useless when using the http protocol.
*No*, this is not true. I can assure you, that my httpd follows these
symlinks quite happily.
Ciao,
Martin
Chris Rutter wrote:
> The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right?
> I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2,
> but I thought I received a message from the security team about
> r3 last week somtime. Just wanted to check before I filed a
> boring bug r
Steve Greenland wrote:
> I liked a lot of these ideas, but:
>
> On 12-Sep-99, 20:22 (CDT), Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Our current situation results in our stable release being hopelessly
> > out-dated and the unstable release not being releaseable.
alling
this link?
My god, Marco, show some reason.
Ciao,
Martin
* "Marco" == Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marco> the libc maintainer closed such a bug report without adding
Marco> support for these programs. This is not a good sign for
Marco> Debian#s quality.
glibc-doc_2.1.2-4 uses doc-base.
Ciao,
Martin
because
Laurel> it's already done"?
The second is correct.
Ciao,
Martin
issue,
> and haven't looked back. Is there anything in ncftp that lftp doesn't have?
> If there isn't, I'd say just drop it.
I did likewise, and haven't looked back either.
Martin. (former ncftp maintainer)
ast partly. I made the explicit request not to include all
editors available, but only one, when an editor should be part of the
task. Therefore, the maintainer of the task package makes a choice for
the user selecting the package.
Ciao,
Martin
* "Edward" == Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Edward> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Edward> MDA: procmail
Edward> This is standard priority, but exim is not configured to use it, people
have
Edward> to mess with .forward files.
>&
t predefine the use of
runlevels. If you start in RL 3, and make postgresql start in RL 4,
then this setup won't be reverted by a package update or such.
And you can either switch to RL 4, or start postgresql with its init.d
script.
Piotr> debconf could be helpful.
Not in this case I think.
Ciao,
Martin
itly call "/etc/init.d/postgresql
start" to start the daemon, the result still depends on another config
setting.
The result is a unnecessary "AND" style switch.
If this is how Irix handles this, then I am glad I don't have to use
it.
Ciao,
Martin
n
Filip> board.
/me waves his hand.
Matrox G200 and Vodoo Graphics.
BTW: is there a mesa deb with glide support somewhere?
Ciao,
Martin
Richard Braakman wrote:
> I removed these packages from frozen today.
> Package: xexec (debian/contrib).
> Maintainer: Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [Also removed from unstable]
> 56762 xexec: GPLed software linked against non-compatible Qt2
According to this short description it needs to be
Michael Stevens wrote:
> Package: emacs19
> Version: 19.34-21
>
> Hi.
> Unable to update to latest stable release -- typescript
> of failure attached.
>
> Script started on Wed Mar 8 11:43:42 2000
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[1m~[m# [Kaapt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Packa
such as this; it makes it
almost impossible to get around the limit settings by the user.
Let me know what you think.
Martin
--
Martin Lucina http://www.kotelna.sk/mato/ Wellington, New Zealand
I've always been mad I know I've been mad like the most of us are
Pretty hard to explain wh
We're back from CeBIT exhibition, taking place in Germany from Feb
23rd to Mar 1st. Several developers have met there and presented both
Debian and Debian-related distributions. We've had a lot of fun and
appreciated the contacts we were able to make. We're trying to
summarize our experiences be
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> Heck no, I really don't want any debian install scripts messing in MY home
> directory!
Why not just print a warning message via debconf as it is done in
setserial package?
Martin
--
Win2k: "It's not so much that it's o
Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:53:38AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > LinuxTag
> >
> > LinuxTag is Europe's largest Linux exhibition and conference. Apart
> > for a free conference program and free exhibition there is enough
> &
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Why doesn't netstd depend: on all the packages it previously included?
> When upgrading to potato, tftpd functionality is lost because the new
> netstd only suggests it. And the parameters to tftpd have changed
> and the new package does not up
Richard Braakman wrote:
> Package: balsa (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 58662 balsa: It doesn't work.
I have analyzed the "balsa does not run" problem. It turned out
that it run well after I removed the ~/.balsarc file. Thus this
bug is "only" a configuration iss
SOETE Joël wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I run Debian 2.1r4 on a PC with an amd486 120 MHz and 16Mb of ram.
>
> I also recompile last release of Ckermit. To manage installed software, I
> would like make a package with this soft.
> I found also package sources (.dsc, orig.tar.gz and diff.gz files) of a
ib6g (>= 3.3.6), device3dfx-module
Recommends: glide2-base, device3dfx-source
compile devicd3dfx-source and you are done :)
see also jeff licquia's comment on 57702
--
CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
Martin Waitz
ring this patch in in the next day. I was busy fixing some
other packages.
Christoph
--
====
Christoph Martin, Uni-Mainz, Germany
Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL--
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
st one security bug (#57746, same as #32652). Should I upgrade
> > them? Unfortunately, the security bug seems non-trivial to fix.
>
> Where is this security flaw?
> There has been no response to the question asked by Christoph Martin on
> 1 Feb 1999
> http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin
r themself
its not your programs task to gain access, it should
already be provided by the calling process.
you could print a message that the user should ask the
sysadmin to add them to these groups if your open-call
fails.
--
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Denis Barbier writes:
> On 15 Mar 2000, Christoph Martin wrote:
>
> > Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:11:03PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > > > Since
n,
2+4 use pam_pwdb and are frequently accessed without rsa-keys
but i could not reproduce the problem so far
any ideas?
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Martin Waitz// [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.hom
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BugScan reporter writes:
> Package: tetex-base (debian/main)
> Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 42698 tetex-base: The french option of babel is broken
>
> Package: tetex-bin (debian/main)
> Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <[EMAIL PROTEC
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Hi there,
I have put some new version of tetex-* for potato in
ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local for testing.
Please test them for the fixed bugs and let me know if there are
further issues.
from the changelogs:
tetex-bin (1.0.6-4) frozen unstable; urg
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is
> running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message,
> in case it gives anybody else some ideas.
I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if
on
ange, I simply remove the of the diff
from the patches dir.
I also use cvs-buildpackage with other packages and it is very good in
its field. Version control of the diffs would be a very cool
thing. Hmm, maybe I could just manually CVS control the debian/ dir.
Ciao,
Martin
a GNOME package,
the needed libs get pulled from the Debian mirror automatically.
But then, he could also fetch the GNOME packages from the Debian
mirror right away.
So a note that GNOME packages are available from the regular Debian
mirrors would be sufficient, no?
Ciao,
Martin
PS: Reply-to is set to debian-gtk-gnome
Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > ORBS deserves special mention because of their insane hit count, I don't
> > know what that is about but ORBS would block 10% of the mails we get. I
> > think it is without question that the majority of tho
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I use this line in /etc/crontab on my woody system:
> 42 6* * sun root/usr/bin/apt-get update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -q -d -y
> -u dist-upgrade ; /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean
>
I use a similar but much more complicated method to acheive a similar
re
Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"?
Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document?
Regards,
Joey
--
The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Please always Cc to me when
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"?
> > Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document?
>
> IIRC, D
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes:
> It seems, that the problem only occurs with longer (more than 1 chars)
> files. Looking for the cause of this problem, I found that the line
> "$decompress $file | file -b - | magic2mime" in dwww-convert is responsible.
Well, if I do a
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