> >
> > In the morning I got a different startup page for this server. Is this a
> > temporary reconfiguration? Im also having some problems with
> > ftp.de.debian.org
>
> According to Martin Schulze ftp.de.debian.org has moved - I am not sure about
> www.de
for this server. Is this a
> temporary reconfiguration?
Something went wrong.
> Im also having some problems with ftp.de.debian.org
Same story.
Didn't go as smooth as expected. But its done.
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ip options the
md5sums should be computed for the uncompressed data.
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s already there ...
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Island, Tuvalu, wherever ;-)
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ll be tested by many people. Decisions will be made according to
feedback.
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IMHO it is a bug, and it should be fixed.
There is no rationale for the choice of "20", and it doesn't provide
protection against anything.
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> Python, and both Red Hat and Caldera seem to be focusing on Python.
There is no point in asking for holy wars.
> No obscentity. Avoids legal problems and makes _me_ feel better.
> There is lots of room for free-speech distribution sites on the net.
We might want
only case you have to check the pgp signature of the
.dsc file again Debian's official keyring, which you must have
obtained by trustworthy means. Security can transfer trust from one
item to another, but you need some initial trust.
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pressed: 76953
bzip2ed:14911
IMHO *this* space saving doesn't suggest to use bzip2 for diff2.
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> and upgrading.
>
> BTW, are the .txt and .html files generated from sgml source?
Yes.
> If so, where is the sgml version located?
It is part of the boot-floppies source.
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> I want to upload some packages to nonus, but I don't know how.
> What's the correct way to do it?
>
> I've tried anonymous FTP to nonus.debian.org, but I cannot
> upload files to any dir...
/pub/debian-no
are
changed. So the person working on this manual needs to cooperate with
the people workinh on boot-floppies.
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> and dpkg will see the need to upgrade.
This might make a good idea, but I think it is too much change for
too few cases.
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> > I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to
>
> We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse .
So it should be split into an extra package ?
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> issues. I don't think this is helpful.
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> Debian alone.
I disagree. Neither are we making a Linux distribution against all
Linux, nor are we competing in the RC5 challange against all Linux.
For details see my other message.
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> even though that address is just an auto-responder.
An [EMAIL PROTECTED] address or even a mailing list, but
this needs official blessing, and from Bruce's comments I deduce that
this won't happen soon.
So for now use [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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than ae's vi mode.
(Nowadays many people won't install base from floppy, so I'd even risk
more base floppies, but currently this is plain speculation, because
there is enough free space (more than 800kBK for 1.44MB floppies).)
> Editors are to be installed from packages. Period
evertheless people outside the US already
participate.
I suggest to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as common identifier for Debian
friends. In case we get the money (why should we ?) I suggest to pass
50% to Linux International and keep 50% for Debian.
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> # dpkg-gencontrol
> dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
>
> I can't figure out what dpkg-gencontrol want to tell me 8-(
That's a bug, you have to use dpkg-dev from development.
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/pub/debian-incoming
It is now in ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian/Incoming
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> > requirements. But replacing ncurses with slang should give us some
> > room.
>
> Assuming nothing else -- like cfdisk -- uses ncurses, of course ...
Currently we have a lowmem root and a normal root. On the lowmem root
fdisk is used i
suggested
> this kind of change.
NFS install is more common in professional environments ;-)
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> On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote
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> > My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
> >
> > - rewrite dinstall in C - reasons:
> > - runtime improvements
> > - don't run fdisk -l
arts
- minors
- better 'make bootable': MBR isn't that self-explaining
Related topic: I expect to have much less time for Debian for the
remainder of this year. So I definitely need help here; especially for
the UI part.
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ven my first proposal doesn't make anything worse
than it it is done currently. Current procedure is that one person
makes a change, releases it (including the binary package). And then
other people can review the change; I believe this almost never
happens.)
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to a specific
architecture and this port does not work yet, they could create an
extra branch. (Usually this won't be necessary.)
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chitectures. If they could merge them into the
CVS repository, they needn't wait until I released a new version.
(Another example: We already used a CVS repository on master for the
FAQ.)
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ust added an extra section to the list that mentions the orphaned
packages. It is incomplete ...
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well-connected site; ISDN isn't enough.
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O this should be changed in such cases:
- run `update-rc.d -f lpd remove >/dev/null' on remove and purge
(-f means that update-rc.d even when /etc/init.d/ exists)
I think this would solve the problem.
Comments?
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Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyways, e2fsprogs seams to have a lot of open bugs. Is this package
> actively maintained?
Probably not. Last maintainer is Michael Nonweiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
but he is looking for a new maintainer for e2fsprogs.
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For the convinience of non-German debian-devel readers I should have
asked my questions in English ...
Translated version follows.
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> On May 26, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> > At the Linux Congress you mentioned that i
ions": one of them is the creation of a
file system as it is done in a fresh installation. So installing
Debian tends to not work on system having less than 6 MB RAM due to
this kernel bug.
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skills in this area than Herbert. Herbert does a good job with
kernel-image, but we must not request him to fix arbitrary kernel
bugs.
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This is a kernel problem, no need to blame the hardware.
As long as it continues it is sufficiently fine, but sometimes this
hangs the system ...
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: low
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
lprng - lpr/lpd printer spooling system
Changes:
lprng (2.3.12-2) experimental; urgency=low
.
* (debian/control): install conffiles
* (debian/control): added Provides: lpr
Suggests: magic
usr/doc after installing
> the package.
>
> Does anybody know who the maintainer is, and/or whether this package has
> been orphaned?
The following file just apeared:
rex/binary-i386/net/lynx_2.6-1.deb
It is now maintained by Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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managers. I thought it is only used as a
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t: 1.5
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:32:15 +0200
Source: lprng
Binary: lprng
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.3.12-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
lprng - Berkeley lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
Changes:
lpr
ion files
uncompressed whereas the .deb package installs these files as
compressed.
So they are compressed in one gzip run in the .tar.gz, whereas in the
.deb case all files are compressed individually and then compressed
again by dpkg --build. This makes the overall compression less
efficient.
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er
> well-entrenched standard), I certainly think it *should not* obsolete
> lpr.
The only incompatibility is that you might have to add a :bk: entry to
the printcap in order to print to a BSD-lpd-based network printer. But
especially in these environments LPRng can make life easier, so I
b
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sven Rudolph writes:
> >
> > I created an LPRng package for Debian. LPRng is an enhanced BSD-like
> > print spooler and is nearly compatible. (It is available at
> > ftp://iona
? I'd especially like to hear comments
from people who used BSD lpr and LPRng.
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sed version of Mosaic I should create both versions.
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elivery later.
deliver seems not to generate these exit codes appropriately.
(Instead of fixing deliver another option might be to use mail.local
again, however I don't remember what the current status with the
several mail.local programmes is.)
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> Version 1.0-3 has corrected
> this, but it's still in the Incoming dir.
It is now in the unstable (aka buzz) tree.
I close this bug report.
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echoed
too ? (e.g. by introducing a debian-bugs-quiet alias)
- Or what do you think about moving all bug-system messages to another
mailing list ?
- There was a suggestion that bug reports are directly sent to the
package maintainer. Is this still planned ?
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I could mirror Incoming too, but currently it is hidden below private
at ftp.debian.org and this makes mirroring a bit more difficult.
Would this help you ?
Any thoughts on this ? Any objection against mirroring the Incoming
area ?
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is manually.
For autoconf-based configuration environments we should use the
automatic substituion mechanism for putting the current prefix value
into the documentation and send patches to the original maintainers.
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f the program does this in the make install stage, you
still have to change the Makefile (or the Imakefile).
(The xonix-1.4 package could be helpful as an example.)
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t via private
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* English isn't my native language, so I am interested in suggestions
regarding my style of writing. Please send these via private e-mail.
* I intend to send the final document to debian-user regularly (e.g. weekly)
that need your
contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often,
so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.
Please sent corrections and suggestions to Sven Rudolph
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0. Contents
(not yet done -sr1)
1. General Questions
1.1 What is Debian GNU/L
Package: gnuchess
Version: 4.0.74-2
There are no manpages for the gnuchess programs.
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Package: nas
Version: 1.2p2-1
There are no manpages for /usr/X11R6/bin/au and /usr/X11R6/bin/auvoxware .
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