Yesterday I reported that I was no longer able to compile the package 'sp'.
Santiago Vila and Tom Lees both kindly offered suggestions, but both of
these still leave sp in an uncompilable state.
Santiago pointed out that the problem might be intrinsic to the
existing gettext-0.26, and suggested I
I have been trying for some time to solve Bug #8882 against the 'sp'
package, which says that in order to make it buildable under glibc,
I need to call libintl as well as libnls in order to accommodate glibc,
and to define LINUX_TYPES_H for glibc. I made those changes and could
no longer get the p
Package: exmh
Version: 1.6.9-2
Recently, in an attempt to thread messages with exmh, I wrote to the author
of thread.tcl (Ignacio Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) and asked for
some help, which he has graciously given.
He said that the version of thread.tcl which was in 1.3.9 was outmoded,
and sent
Hi Dale --
> When I try to send e-mail to Bill at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a no
> such user error. Does anyone have a good contact address for Bill?
Bill sent a message to debian-devel a few days ago from this address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Better yet, does anyone have a copy of the patch we did
Hi Joost --
I think there may be 2 reasons why you can't find the package containing
the guidelines:
1. "Guidelines" doesn't exist any more. It has evolved into the policy manual
and the programmer manual, and
2. The P&P manuals aren't in a package (that I could find). They are
uploaded sep
Package: ncurses-bin
Version: 1.1.9e-1
The last line of the tset man page ends in a comma:
SEE ALSO
csh(1), sh(1), stty(1), tty(4), termcap(5), ttys(5), envi-
ron(7),
I do not know what ending the author intended, but:
-- the comma implies _something_ is missing;
-- it seems that te
Hi --
You said:
> When I try to install tex with
> dpkg -i texbin-3.1415-5
> I get this error message:
> dpkg: error processing texbin (--install):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> texbin
Try installing mfbasfnt_1.0
Hi Syrus --
You said:
>
> I would like to generate ps versions of the new
> policy and programmer manuals which are formatted for letter
> size. I notice that sgml2latex does not work on the .sgml ...
If you'd just like to convert the existing postscript files (which
were formatted for A4 paper
Ian Jackson wrote:
> Thanks, Guy, for clarifying that issue. I've added the following to
> the programmers' manual:
> > When selecting which level of dependency to use you should consider
> > how important the depended-on package is to the functionality of the
> > one declaring the dependency.
Da
Ian Jackson and I have had several exchanges by private email
having to do with the dependencies in dpkg, following my bug reports:
#4262 (dpkg-source requires cpio) and #4263 (dpkg-source requires patch).
We have now come to an impasse. Ian suggested if I were to bring this
to debian-devel "per
Michael Meskes writes:
> Susan G. Kleinmann writes:
> >
> > Package: metamail
> > Version: 2.7-6
>
> Oops, wrong depends line. Please upgrade your mime-support package.
>
(Perhaps this should be a seperate bug report; if you want one, please
let me know.)
I up
Ian Jackson writes:
> Susan G. Kleinmann writes ("Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on ly
x/copyright ? "):
> ...
> > This is my synopsis of the relevant parts of Chapter 2:
> >
> > Packages go into contrib if their copyrights or patents require that t
Package: metamail
Version: 2.7-6
# dpkg --configure metamail
Setting up metamail (2.7-6) ...
/usr/sbin/install-mime: Unknown option '--quiet'
/usr/sbin/install-mime: Unknown option '--quiet'
/usr/sbin/install-mime: Unknown option '--quiet'
/usr/sbin/install-mime: Unknown option '--quiet'
/usr/sbin
> Package: aout-gcc
> Version: 2.6.3-13
>
FYI, the aout-gcc file is in:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linuxaout/2.6.3/cc1
Susan Kleinmann
Ian Jackson wrote:
> Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on lyx/copy
right ?"):
> ...
> > Pine is in non-free because it's copyright places restrictions on the
> > distribution of source. Xforms has more severe restrictions on the
> > distribution of source than pine d
I agree with Brian that micro-bugs should probably be reported to the
maintainer, just because it takes more work to contact the reporter and
close the bug than to fix it. However, in this case the reporter has to
keep his _own_ bug tracking system, if he wants to make sure that the
maintainer
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.8
In unpacking the sgmlspm dsc file on a fairly fresh system, I found:
# dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting sgmlspm in sgmlspm-1.03ii
dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.8
In unpacking the sgmlspm dsc file on a fairly fresh system, I found:
# dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
dpkg-source: failure: exec cpio: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: failure: cpio gave error exit status 2
# type -a cpio
type: cpio: not found
Installing
Package: mirror
Version: 2.8-6
The control file for mirror should be changed to show that it requires
the installation of the full Perl package, not just the small package
included in the base system (what's missing is a timezone.pl file).
Alternatively, the perl package in the base system needs
Package: kernel-package
Version: 2.03
The man page for make-kpkg has a few typos, some of which refer to file
names and might therefore cause confusion. A diff file is attached.
Susan Kleinmann
*** make-kpkg.8 Thu Aug 22 10:40:19 1996
--- make-kpkg.8.rev Thu Aug 22 10:56:23 1996
**
Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> "someone else who is now trying to hide her identity wrote:":
> > Wishing to see the colored version of dselect, I tried this from a
> > color xterm:
> >
> > # export TERM=linux
> > # dselect
>
> "linux" is, of course, the wrong terminal type. For color xterm's, the
> corr
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.5
Wishing to see the colored version of dselect, I tried this from a
color xterm:
# export TERM=linux
# dselect
I didn't see any colors, which was disappointing but hardly fatal.
However, when I used the arrow keys to scroll up or down, dselect
highlighted _all_ the m
Raul Miller said:
> Package: xcoral
> Version: 2.5-1
>
> Today, I decided to try xcoral. The first operation I tried, upon
> starting it, was New. This was sufficient to kill the program, with
> the error message:
>
> X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for oper
Package: mime-support
Version: 2.0-1
mime-rfc-1542.txt.gz and mime-install.HOWTO.gz are installed into
/usr/doc, rather than into /usr/doc/mime-support.
Susan Kleinmann
Rob Browning writes:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I don't think we have free software packaged to do full text searches.
> > We have glimpse and ferret, neither of which is free. There's something
> > that is part of freeWais, but I haven't looked at it yet. Someone with
> >
Hi Richard --
I've made a couple of NCR-aware kernels for friends. If you'd like
one of them, you might try:
ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/boot1440.bin.gz
If you have some special requirement and can't make your own, let me
know and I'll make one for you.
Cheers,
Susan Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi Chris --
I don't know if you have gotten Linux booted yet. If you haven't,
please let me know. I'll be happy to make a boot disk for you and
mail it to you by real, old-fashioned physical US Mail. Just let
me know what kernel you need to have on it, or if you need a special
one.
Cheers,
Susan
I don't get the "Visual Bell" when I run the wish script you mentioned.
Perhaps you have vb (visual bell) set in your terminfo?
Susan Kleinmann
A couple of days ago, Lars mentioned
> I suggest staying with rwxrwxrwt.
with respect to the permissions for /var/spool/mail.
Mine is:
drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Jul 31 13:08 /var/spool/mail/
I couldn't find the debian package that installed this directory, so
I couldn't figure ou
A copy of the revised version of the Debian FAQ has been placed on my
WWW server at:
http://sgk.phast.umass.edu/FAQ/debian-faq.html
Other formats for this document are available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/debian-faq.txt.gz (plain text)
ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/p
I just found the Debian search system on http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html.
This seems to me like a big step forward, and am sorry I didn't see it
before. Just yesterday I remarked to someone (for whom I had answered a
user-question by specifying the appropriate HOWTO) that the HOWTO's
despera
Can someone specify for me a document (either within /usr/doc or on
the WWW somewhere) that says exactly what the internals of a .deb file
look like?
I need (want?) this for the FAQ. Though users might not _need_ to know what
the format is, I believe that people would like at least to think tha
I'm working on the FAQ now, and believe it or not, these questions come up
(at least in the back of people's minds) fairly often.
So, is it "Deee'-bian" (long e) or "Deb'-ian" (short e), or something else?
Also, where did the word come from and why does the project have that name?
TIA,
Susan K
According to the Ftape-HOWTO, Travan drives are supported.
Hope this helps.
Susan Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the process of updating my WWW pages last night, I decided to check all
the Debian mirrors; given the new release, I thought this might be a good time.
As a spot check on how uptodate a mirror was, I looked for/at
unstable/binary/base/base-*.deb. In particular, I was checking the version
num
> On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emilio Lopes) writes:
> >
> > > 2- The logo itself is a gif file. Is it non-free? I can convert it to
> > >a jpeg file if needed.
> >
> > Don't know about the other stuff, but for this I'd recommend png, not
> > jpeg.
PNG
Package: mathpad
Version: 0.60-0
1. During the postinst script, the following message appears:
"Making font directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi..."
even though (on my system) that directory already exists. Also, the
postinst script reported no error message indicating that it didn't
need
Package: dvipsk
Version: 5.58f
I obtained the sources from ftp.debian.org within the 0.93R6 directory tree,
and tried to recompile simply using the command:
debian.rules build
The first thing that had to be fixed was to go and fetch the kpathsea
sources, since one can't compile dvipsk unless one
Package: pbmplus
Version: 10dec91 Rev 2
ppmforge -stars produces an image which appears to be truncated, then
stops with a Segmentation fault error.
Example:
% ppmforge -stars 0 > junk
ppmforge: planet: -seed 1357751156 -dimension 2.40 -power 1.20 -mesh 256
ppmforge: -inclination 18 -ho
> less(1) shows that the program takes options from the $LESS.
Thanks for the hint. Setting LESS to "-c" makes less work the way I wanted
within MH.
> (As always it pays to RTM, just couldn't resist :)
>
Yes, you're right. But the problem (and I think this is an interesting
problem) is to figur
> Package: man
> Version: 2.3.10-6
>
> I can't seem to find a way to set MANOPT to change the default pager for
> displaying man pages to "less -s".
>
> I want to do this:
>
> MANOPT='-P "less -s"'
>
> But man apparently doesn't parse the double quotes, and treats the -s as a ne
w
> man option. T
Eddie Maddox wrote:
> 1. I didn't have lp installed since the installation parameter screen
> for this said "line printer", not just "printer".
>
> Having been a computer operator in times past I KNOW my little HP Deskjet 500
> is NO "line printer".
I agree that the use of the term "line printer"
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.5
I had been under the impression that dpkg-deb was invoked when dpkg itself
was called with certain flags. If this is the plan, then the '-i' option
to dpkg doesn't follow the plan. Here are the ambiguities:
dpkg -i installs a debian archive
dpkg -I
Before I knew about the Free-BSD man pages, I started to build man pages
for the diff utilities from the diff info file and from their usage
statements. In particular, I had made a man page for 'cmp' that way. When
you (Jeff) pointed out the existence of the FreeBSD page, I incorporated
informati
Hi Austin --
Did you know about the info page on tar?
All you have to do is to type
info tar
and you get it.
I am considering starting a project which would:
a) define a standard template for man pages in Linux. I know it would
appear that one already exists, but it turns out that what really, re
Package: latex2rtf
Version: 1.1-0
This command line:
latex2rtf file.tex > file.rtf
yields this error message:
latex2rtf: ERROR: cannot open file 'fonts.cfg'
even when fonts.cfg is in the "right" place:
bash# ls -l /usr/lib/latex2rtf
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3491 Nov 1 14:23
I am planning on adapting the information in the /usr/doc/accounting
texinfo page to a series of `man' pages in the acct package.
Some might argue that this is redundant and therefore wastes disk
space and introduces the chance for errors. Others might argue that
this is a useful complement to the
Package: doc
Version: 0.93-5
There are nearly duplicate entries for the Keystroke HOWTO in
/usr/doc/HOWTO and /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. The file in /usr/doc/HOWTO
has HOWTO mis-spelled in its first line (HOWTU), whereas the file
in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini has no such problem.
Two fixes are needed:
HOWTO
'apropos' after I'd manually placed some pages in
/usr/local/man/manl.
Susan
=======
> "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > When running the command mandb -c, I got the message:
> > Pr
Package: dc
Version: 1.03-8
When running the command mandb -c, I got the message:
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dc.1: whatis parse for dc(1) failed
I recall some comments on mandb recently, so I apologize for this possible
redundancy; the bug logs aren't
Package: acct
Version: 5-12
There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
accouting files.
The info page for 'accounting' says that the files of interest are:
/usr/adm/wtmp <== records for each log in and log out
/usr/adm/acct <== records each command that was run
/usr/ad
Package: acct
Version: 5-12
The man page and the info page for 'acct' refer the reader to
acct(5) for additional information. No such page exists.
Likewise, there are no man pages for `ac', `accton', `lastcomm',
and `sa'. Even though much of the relevant information is covered in
the texinfo d
Pacakage: at
Version: 2.8a-2
In atrun's manpage, the SYNOPSIS line reads:
atrun [-l load_avg] [-d]
I believe it should read:
atrun [[-l] load_avg] [-d]
I am using dpkg 1.0.3-0, kernel 1.2.13-4, and libc 4.6.27-6.
Susan Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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