Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:00:58PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > BTW, Marcus, the version of groff currently in hurd-i386 is sufficiently > broken that it can't build XFree86, which may cause you problems (the > build dependency is unstated). You might want to upgrade that fairly > soon to 1.17.2-5

Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:51:08PM -0700, Ian Duggan wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The s390 has the size of a fridge and the power of a lion. If you switch it > > on, the light flickers in that part of the city. It's the (not-so?) new IBM > > mainframe, which can run several operating syst

Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Phil Barritt
The reason for that big spike has three letters... IBM http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/mp/s390/ later, phil Ian Duggan wrote: > > > The s390 has the size of a fridge and the power of a lion. If you switch it > > on, the light flickers in that part of the city. It's the (not-so?) new IBM >

Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Duggan
> The s390 has the size of a fridge and the power of a lion. If you switch it > on, the light flickers in that part of the city. It's the (not-so?) new IBM > mainframe, which can run several operating systems in parallel. Given. So the assumption is that they just cranked away on some packages

Re: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread Wolfgang
Hi! Guillermo Gainza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The real problem is that i'm sure a lot of people has already fixed it before, > in another package or another app. > The only thing about porting errors i have seen is the MAXPATHLEN, if there > is > a > HOWTO with the basic knowledge about por

Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:53:15AM -0700, Ian Duggan wrote: > > > today we crossed the 40% mark in the "up-to-date packages" statistic for the > > first time. > > > > The graph is available at > > http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph.png > > Anyone know what caused the giant leap in the s390 lin

Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Duggan
> today we crossed the 40% mark in the "up-to-date packages" statistic for the > first time. > > The graph is available at > http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph.png Anyone know what caused the giant leap in the s390 line? --Ian

Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread James Morrison
--- Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > today we crossed the 40% mark in the "up-to-date packages" > statistic for the > > first time. > > > > Yahoo!! > > This inspired me to run my CD scripts again when I should be in > be

RE: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread James Morrison
> The real problem is that i'm sure a lot of people has already fixed > it before, > in another package or another app. > The only thing about porting errors i have seen is the MAXPATHLEN, > if there is > a > HOWTO with the basic knowledge about porting and common errors (or > a > repository

Bug#107934: ITP: um-pppd -- User mode Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon

2001-08-07 Thread Gergely Nagy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package um-pppd, the user-mode ppp daemon, for The Hurd. Though it can be used on other architectures, I'm not planning to compile it for anything but the Hurd (at least, not now). Upstream URL is: http://www.Awfulhak.org/~brian/src.uue However, I'm us

Re: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread first last
> This is a FAQ, not an HOWTO :-) > Ups... what was I thinking of? :) Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

HAL2001

2001-08-07 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
I want to say that I and Moritz Schulte are going to hal2001 and give a talk about the hurd there. At the moment it's scheduled for friday evening, but thing can be changed. It's just to let you know there are hurd people at hal. For more information about hal2001: http://www.hal2001.org Jeroen De

RE: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread Guillermo Gainza
>= Original Message From Michele Dalla Silvestra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:46:44PM +0100, first last wrote: >>[...] >> Q. How do I switch virtual terminals? >> A. ///I do not know the answer to this/// >This is a FAQ, not an HOWTO :-) > Actually, what would be bette

Re: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:46:44PM +0100, first last wrote: >[...] > Q. How do I switch virtual terminals? > A. ///I do not know the answer to this/// > Q. Where are my device files for the CD and so? > A. Make them (explanation) >[...] This is a FAQ, not an HOWTO :-) ciao Michele

Re: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread Moritz Schulte
first last <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anything like that already? I don't know of one. > Q. How do I switch virtual terminals? GNU/Hurd doesn't has virtual consoles (yet?). But, you can use the program 'screen' to manage virtual terminals. > Q. Network card configuration? That's e

Re: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread Neal H Walfield
These sound FAQ'ish. In fact, some of them are already answered in the FAQ. Maybe you can contribute to that rather then start yet another document: http://www.walfield.org/papers/hurd-faq/ If you do work, edit the .in files. pgpm2hQVgOuUG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Poindessous
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (first last) writes: Hi, I will try to help you. I don't know all the answers. > Ok, I am quite a newbie on the HURD, but I have some > experience in Linux, so I find myself limited tried to > > do things "the Linux way". > > I am going to do a "Linux to HURD HOWTO" with all th

Re: HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread Philip Charles
Gabriel, I would love it for the documentation on the CDs. Phil. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, first last wrote: > Ok, I am quite a newbie on the HURD, but I have some > experience in Linux, so I find myself limited tried to > > do things "the Linux way". > > I am going to do a "Linux to HURD HO

Re: 40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > today we crossed the 40% mark in the "up-to-date packages" statistic for the > first time. > Yahoo!! This inspired me to run my CD scripts again when I should be in bed. I got a total of 1827 Hurd specific binaries. Beginning of May 592,

Re: Sources of dbootstrap?

2001-08-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:38:36AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > [snipped...] > > > The boot-floppies for the Hurd F series are available at > > http://www.copyleft.co.nz and can be downloaded us

HOWTO (2)

2001-08-07 Thread first last
I forgot another one. Q. When I type my login name it comes with "command not found" (whatever the precise message is), how do I log in? A. Type "login USERNAME" See ya Gabriel Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http

HOWTO

2001-08-07 Thread first last
Ok, I am quite a newbie on the HURD, but I have some experience in Linux, so I find myself limited tried to do things "the Linux way". I am going to do a "Linux to HURD HOWTO" with all the silly (and not so silly) differences. Is there anything like that already? Some of the questions I thought

HELP !!!!!!

2001-08-07 Thread SalesDPT
PLEASE HELP ME !   I have nothing to do with Debian and I never suscribe to any mailing list but the following adress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) automatically send all the Debian mailing list to my adress (see following header as exemple) and I have received more than 34 000 mails from all the

40% mark crossed

2001-08-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, today we crossed the 40% mark in the "up-to-date packages" statistic for the first time. The graph is available at http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph.png The graph only takes up-to-date packages into account. The 108 out-of-date packages are not included. binary-all and other-arch packag

Re: Sources of dbootstrap?

2001-08-07 Thread ajmitch
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:38:36AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: [snipped...] > The boot-floppies for the Hurd F series are available at > http://www.copyleft.co.nz and can be downloaded using the "Hurd-floppies" > link. > > If you have and ques

Re: Sources of dbootstrap?

2001-08-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > > The boot-floppies scripts for the Hurd exist only on my HDD. They were > > created by butchering the one for potato. dbootstrap was not touched. > > > > If you (and anyone else) would like a copy of these I could get them to > > you. > > Y

Re: Sources of dbootstrap?

2001-08-07 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:43:44AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > > > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > > > > > > > Where I can found the sources of dbootstrap (the CD Hurd-F3-main)? > > > > Sorry, but with a "grep -i -r h

Re: Sources of dbootstrap?

2001-08-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > > > > > Where I can found the sources of dbootstrap (the CD Hurd-F3-main)? > > Sorry, but with a "grep -i -r hurd" in boot-floppies (2.2.23 potato, > 2.3.6 woody, 3.0.x sid) I have found n

Re: Sources of dbootstrap?

2001-08-07 Thread Michele Dalla Silvestra
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:25:58PM +, Philip Charles wrote: > dbootstrap can be found in the potato boot-floppies. Unchanged for the > Hurd images. > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Michele Dalla Silvestra wrote: > > > Where I can found the sources of dbootstrap (the CD Hurd-F3-main)? Sorry, but with