Re: [tuncer.ayaz@web.de: Best way to test out Hurd?]

2000-11-02 Thread Steve Bowman
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:34:34PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > - Forwarded message from "Tuncer M. Ayaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:14 +0100 > From: "Tuncer M. Ayaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Su

Re: A few more packges

2000-11-02 Thread bfulgham
> > So VIMmers -- get out and try these new builds. > > They mark the first time we support X with our > > Hurd VIM builds. And I can even edit files on the > > Hurd from my Linux box using GTK-constructed > > gvim. Very nice work, X people! :-) > > gvim works? I am shocked. Is it fast? *g

Uploading ported stuff (was Re: Making an apt-able GNU/Hurd CDROM)

2000-11-02 Thread Eugene A. Brin
Hello list, hi Marcus! On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >I don't think so. We just need a couple of more people identifying and >fixing those nasty little dependencies problems and doing more porting. Uhmmm, well. What then? I mean, after porting a piece of softwa

(Slashdot) Dr. Dobbs' Journal On Hurd + top comments Re: Avoid Hurd

2000-11-02 Thread Tom E. Turner
Dr. Dobbs' Journal On Hurd Posted by Hemos on Wednesday November 01, @08:23AM from the getting-some-attention-at-least dept. URL: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/01/1326225.shtml wiredog pointed out an article that's currently running in Dr. Dobbs that talks about Hurd, [http://www.ddj.com/ar

Re: libsigc++ for the Hurd

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:38:33PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I decided to try porting libsigc++ to the hurd, just to see if it would be > easy. Great job! > I've uploaded packages to incoming. Hopefully I got the porter-build > stuff right (I'm afraid I may have not done the right thin

Re: SSH patch finished & third shot at PAM

2000-11-02 Thread Igor Khavkine
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:28:00PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:53:59PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > > For the next couple of weeks I'll be lying low because I won't have almost > > any > > time for hurd related work. And in the mean time I leave you to pond

libsigc++ for the Hurd

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
I decided to try porting libsigc++ to the hurd, just to see if it would be easy. The result was actually quite impressive -- it built perfectly without modifications, and works at least well enough to compile and run the ultra-alpha aptitude UI code that's based on it. (I guess this shouldn't

Re: SSH patch finished & third shot at PAM

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:53:59PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Speacking of which... Here's my latest effort in patching PAM. I like this patch a lot Igor, great work! I submitted it to the Debian maintainer (with the small typo fixed), along with two other fixes (debhelper was unhappy about

Re: Making an apt-able GNU/Hurd CDROM

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:28:14PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't known why apt and his powerfull interfaces aren't in Debian > > GNU/HURD, anybody can explain me please?. > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian/dists/unstable/

Re: libnss-2 problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:03:48PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Erk. I just realized that aptitude on the Hurd will have a dangling > reference to apt. Should I be overly concerned about this? Not at all: An apt package is available at alpha.gnu.org, and I think the next version of apt wi

Re: libnss-2 problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:59:18AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > But it seems to be broken anyway. As a work around, remove the db > > > > entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > > > > > Ah, I see. That fixed it. Thanks! > > > > That didn't really fix it, it worked around it. I would apprec

[tuncer.ayaz@web.de: Best way to test out Hurd?]

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
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Request for Volunteers...

2000-11-02 Thread Brent Fulgham
We get lots of Hurd experimenters mailing in saying they would like to help, but they don't have much coding experience. Well, the Debian web site team needs help from people who can do web _designing_, such as good icons, nice layouts, etc. This would benefit both Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/

Clashing IRQs

2000-11-02 Thread David Neary
Hi-de-ho neighbours, I've got a wee problem - I was trying to get networking up & going on my new HURD box (with, for the first time, a network card), and I've got a couple of IRQs that are clashing. I'd prefer nopt to change the IRQ of the network card (which seems to be 3), so how can I either (

Re: Porting the Hurd to L4 (glibc dependencies, dropping glibc?)

2000-11-02 Thread Ad Buijsen
My following remarks are concerned with porting the Hurd to L4 only; I am not interested in a virtual kernel because of the performance penalty and the general complexity of such a project, which will decrease the probability of it ever bearing fruit. >-> If we don't use mach anymore (except

Re: [Hurd-alpha-devel] Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

2000-11-02 Thread Ad Buijsen
On 31 Oct, Farid Hajji wrote: >> If you just want to examine the L4 API, you might just as well use >> L4Linux; all L4 system calls are available. There is also a small >> multi-server OS available for L4KA which would make interesting study >> material. > A small multi-server OS for L4Ka? Wher

Re: SSH patch finished & third shot at PAM

2000-11-02 Thread Stefanus Du Toit
I think the line below is meant to be #ifndef MAXPATHLEN, not #ifdef MAXPATHLEN. Just noticed that browsing through the patch. On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:53:59PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > From: Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: SSH p

Re: libnss-2 problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 08:55:52AM -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Ok. I just uploaded Hurd compiles of aptitude and lftp. aptitude will > compile out of the box in the next source upload (this was binary-only) -- > I forgot to conditionalize one "#include ". (I

Re: libnss-2 problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:23:46PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > But it seems to be broken anyway. As a work around, remove the db > > > entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf. > > > > Ah, I see. That fixed it. Thanks! > > That didn't really fix it, it worked aro

Re: SSH patch finished & third shot at PAM

2000-11-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
[Igor intended that to go to the list] --- Begin Message --- On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:37:37PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > I've finally banged my ssh fixes into shape. The new stuff is uploaded > to http://pluto.tuwien.ac.at/~robbe/debian/hurd/> as I write > this. > > News: > > * ssh-askpa

Re: Making an apt-able GNU/Hurd CDROM

2000-11-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't known why apt and his powerfull interfaces aren't in Debian > GNU/HURD, anybody can explain me please?. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-hurd-i386/base/apt_0.3.19.0_hurd-i386.deb> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gn

Re: libnss-2 problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 08:55:52AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:27PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > One other dependency issue: I can't use apt right now because it wants to > remove libstdc++2.10-dev. It seems that while the

Re: libnss-2 problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:27PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Am Don, 02 Nov 2000 03:51:35 schrieb Daniel Burrows: > > There were a lot of dependency issues when I installed (I used > cross-install) > > which I assume are just transient things in the archive

Re: Making an apt-able GNU/Hurd CDROM

2000-11-02 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On jue, nov 02, 2000 at 01:38:35 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > dselect is probably okay (I used it often without problems) Why are we thinking only about dselect and not about capt for example? it's very nice to analize the dependency problems and it's part of the present/future of Debian. IMHO

Re: libnss-2 problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Am Don, 02 Nov 2000 03:51:35 schrieb Daniel Burrows: > There were a lot of dependency issues when I installed (I used cross-install) > which I assume are just transient things in the archive (eg, the debconf thing > that will hopefully be fixed soon) I got one assertion failure in dpkg > (1.6.99

Re: Making an apt-able GNU/Hurd CDROM

2000-11-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Am Don, 02 Nov 2000 03:22:35 schrieb Philip Charles: > I see the way forward like this; > 1. Boot-floppies. Good enough. > 2. Dselect to be fully functional with a Hurd CD. Hurd hackers needed. dselect is probably okay (I used it often without problems) although the one in the experimental dpkg

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One more VIM comment

2000-11-02 Thread Brent A . Fulgham
Those of you new to Debian's VIM builds might not realize that you have to edit /etc/vimrc to support syntax highlighting -- it's turned off by default. There are three lines in this file that are commented out that you need to uncomment to get syntax highlighting. Just do a search on "syntax" an

A few more packges

2000-11-02 Thread Brent A . Fulgham
After correcting some minor annoying build issues on my machine, I've managed to build most of the pantheon of VIM offerings: vim-perl_5.7.002 vim-tiny_5.7.002 vim-tcl_5.7.002 vim-gtk_5.7.002 vim_5.7.002 The vim-rt package is binary-all, and is not build specifically for the Hurd. So VIMmers --