Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen Early
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > Mar 29 15:20:15 apocalypse sendmail[7886]: e2T8qEi03048: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .greenend.org.uk, ctladdr=branden (1000/1000), delay=11:28:01, xdelay > =00:00:21, mailer=esmtp, pri=6332789, relay=chiark.greenend.org.uk. > [195.224.76.132], dsn=4.2.0, st

Bug#4557: Last file on iso9660-image always corrupted

1996-09-23 Thread Stephen Early
Winfried Truemper writes: > This error can be reproduced as follows: > bash> bash> mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 cd /mnt Have you checked to make sure that this isn't a problem with the loopback filesystem? I will test mkisofs on a raw disk partition shortly; I can't do so just yet becaus

Re: Diffs-only for XFree?

1996-09-14 Thread Stephen Early
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I noticed that in the rex/source archive there is currently only the >complete XFree-3.1.2 source tree. Are there any means to get ahold of >just the Debian specific diffs for it, even if they are quite a lot? >We need to get X11 for m68k debianized, but

XFree86-3.1.2 package updates

1996-01-05 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- XFree86 (3.1.2); priority=LOW Package: (various) Version: 3.1.2 Package_Revision: (various) Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> These are minor updates to some of the X packages. xlib and xdevel now depend on ldso >1.7.14-1 to fix the pro

xsnow-1.40-1

1996-01-04 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- xsnow (1.40-1); priority=LOW Package: xsnow Version: 1.40 Package_Revision: 1 Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Snow in your X server xsnow brings Christmas to your X server. A nice waste of CPU time... Changes: * cop

Bug#2079: wu-ftpd xferstats

1996-01-01 Thread Stephen Early
Package: wu-ftpd Version: 2.4-14 xferstats has a bug that shows up when a summary period crosses a year boundary: TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Mon Jan 1 1996 TO Sun Dec 31 1995 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 3961 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period1470985346 Systems Using

Re: what do the X11R6 virtual package names *really* mean?

1996-01-01 Thread Stephen Early
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > standards/virtual-package-names-list.text lists: > X11R6 XFree86 R6, including base system > xR6shlibXFree86 R6 shared library only > > I've put together a package of xterm_color (an xterm that supports > AN

Bug#2061: xbase-3.1.2-5 fails install on 0.93R6 system

1995-12-21 Thread Stephen Early
On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: > Package: xbase > Version: 3.1.2 > Package_Revision: 5 > > Installation of this package fails in preinst on a newly-installed > 0.93R6 system because /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 do not exist. > The patch below corrects this problem. However, with this

Re: Linux Kernel 1.3.47 Uploaded

1995-12-20 Thread Stephen Early
On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Simon Shapiro wrote: > 2. I'd like to throw away the 387 emulation for the compiled kernel. > Anyone knows why I should keep it there? I do not believe it to be > necessary for the installation, but i have been wrong before. The kernel will not boot on systems that don't h

xsnow-1.40-0 (new package)

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- xsnow (1.40-0); priority=LOW Package: xsnow Version: 1.40 Package_Revision: 0 Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Snow in your X server xsnow brings Christmas to your X server. A nice waste of CP

xtrlock-2.0-1

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- xtrlock (2.0-1); priority=LOW Package: xtrlock Version: 2.0 Package_Revision: 1 Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Minimal X display lock program xtrlock is a very minimal X display lock program, which uses nothing except th

Re: /etc/X11/Xresources (xbase-3.1.2-5)

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Robert Leslie wrote: > > > I wouldn't have noticed these except I found the new xterm didn't log > > anything into utmp; should this really be the default? > > It should log to both utmp *and* wtmp by default. Could this be changed?

ftp.debian.org mirror available in UK

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
I have a mirror of ftp.debian.org on my machine which I am willing to make available to people in Europe. The mirror is available by anonymous ftp to myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk This mirror will only be available until June 1996. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2040: xserver-mach32 won't do 1024x768x16bpp...

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > This is a documented bug in the original source---I believe I sent a > patch that could be used to create a xserver-mach32x or something that > would be compiled to allow users who wanted to to drive their cards at > something resembling its capabi

X package shared library problem

1995-12-15 Thread Stephen Early
If the new xlib and xdevel packages are installed in the wrong order then the various *.so symlinks for the new libraries won't be made correctly. Check that the /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so symlink exists and points to libX11.so.6, and if it doesn't then re-install xdevel. This is quite a nasty pr

Re: X package shared library problem

1995-12-15 Thread Stephen Early
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: > > Can this be considered to be a bug in ldconfig? > > Which part, deleting the link in the first place or not recreating it? > > The latter is not a bug. Ldconfig will never create the links needed > by ld as long as I'm maintaining it. Deleting someth

xpilot-3.4.2-1

1995-12-15 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- xpilot (3.4.2-1); priority=LOW Package: xpilot Version: 3.4.2 Package_Revision: 1 Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Multi-player tactical game XPilot is a multi-player tactical manoeuvering game for X and Unix workstations. P

New X packages now available

1995-12-14 Thread Stephen Early
I've announced them on debian-changes, and they are currently sitting in the queue on the European upload site. You should be able to get them from ftp://myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk/pub/sde1000/debian/X11 until they arrive at ftp.debian.org Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2021: man pages for lrzsz corrupt

1995-12-13 Thread Stephen Early
Package: lrzsz Version: 0.11 myrddin:~$ man lrz man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `R' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `v' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `s' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `o' man: ignoring un

Bug#2015: nfsd places a high load on named

1995-12-12 Thread Stephen Early
Package: netstd Version: 1.22-1 While heavy NFS access is going on (for example, someone installing Debian from my NFS-exported mirror), named serves a huge number of requests which presumably come from nfsd. Should nfsd be performing such a large number of lookups? Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2006: elf xlib for tk40.

1995-12-12 Thread Stephen Early
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, David H. Silber wrote: > Package: tk40 > Version: 4.0p3-1 > > This requires elf-x11r6lib, which does not exist. I installed xlib-3.1.2-2, > which does not seem to provide what I need, but is the latest xlib available. > I then forced the install of tk40 and found out that I a

Bug#2014: httpd doesn't write to new logfile after rotate

1995-12-12 Thread Stephen Early
Package: cern-httpd Version: 3.0-4 A user just complained that the httpd log files were empty. It looks like the new logfiles were created, but httpd carried on writing to the old ones. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Stephen Early
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > I think ncurses wins an award for "most packages from one source archive." ...soon to be trumped by X, which is currently generating 24 packages from one source archive. Steve

GCC/binutils shared library search changes?

1995-12-07 Thread Stephen Early
Was either GCC or binutils (whichever is appropriate) changed between gcc-2.7.0-2 and gcc-2.7.2-1 or binutils-2.5.2l.20-2 and binutils-2.6-1 so that it won't find ELF shared libraries with names like libX11.so.6.0, only libraries with names like libX11.so? I ask because X has suddenly started s

Bug#1986: stdio broken? Strange behaviour of fgets() and scanf()

1995-12-07 Thread Stephen Early
> Maybe that's it. Maybe 'fgets' is interfering with how scanf works. > Does it still fail if you remove the 'fgets' from the for loop? Yes, it still fails. I tried removing the #define from the start of the string to be matched, though, and it no longer fails. OTOH, the original program (which i

Bug#1986: stdio broken? Strange behaviour of fgets() and scanf()

1995-12-07 Thread Stephen Early
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, brian (b.c.) white wrote: > > for (ksnum=0; 1; c=fgets(buf,sizeof(buf),stdin)) { > > The third thing in the "for" structure only gets executed at end of > the loop. 'c' thus has an undefined value on the first iteration > which just happened to be NULL for you (hence the "(ni

Bug#1986: stdio broken? Strange behaviour of fgets() and scanf()

1995-12-06 Thread Stephen Early
Package: libc5 Version: 5.2.16-1 (My libc5-dev version is also 5.2.16-1) The following program (which is similar in structure to one of the programs used in building xlib) loops forever when it reaches EOF on stdin: #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { int ksnum,i; char buf[1024];

Bug#1925: rusers causes segmentation fault

1995-11-29 Thread Stephen Early
Package: netstd Version: 1.22-1 myrddin:~$ rusers garfield.chu.cam.ac. gdm1000 gdm1000 gdm1000 turing.chu.cam.ac.uk djs1012 Segmentation fault $ rusers garfield.chu.cam.ac. gdm1000 gdm1000 gdm1000 turing.chu.cam.ac.uk djs1012 tickle.chu.cam.ac.uk apw24 myrddin.chu.cam.ac.u sde1000 gdm1000 pw201 o

Re: Missing X references

1995-11-28 Thread Stephen Early
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, David Engel wrote: > > I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem > > compiling a program which uses "-lX11". For some reason, none of the > > symbols are resolved. Here is the output... > > You'll need to use the interim elf-x11r6lib package and

Re: Missing X references

1995-11-28 Thread Stephen Early
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Andrew Howell wrote: > brian writes: > > > > I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem > > compiling a program which uses "-lX11". For some reason, none of the > > symbols are resolved. Here is the output... > > > > [...] > > > > Was there a ch

X package dependencies

1995-11-24 Thread Stephen Early
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Andrew Howell wrote: > Bdale Garbee writes: > > : xtet42 depends on X11R6 and recommends xserver. This is what Ian Murdoch > > : said all X packages should do. > > > > [...] > > > > Second, the whole point of X, to me, is that you can run clients on one > > machine and a ser