Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Kimmo K. I. Surakka wrote: I think the safe way of getting random data without a decent random source would be to write one. This, however, would be more that just a small patch. There is existing code to generate randomness from userland, look at what current OpenSSH does for

Re: Bug#145714: python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jeff Bailey wrote: Last I checked the dpkg-dev CVS worked correctly without changes. However, I asked in #debian-devel in December or so when we would be considering switching and got laughter in response. Heh, laughter. Not the best reaction. Will you be switching to the python

Re: Bug#145714: python programmer needed (was: Re: Bug#145714: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work correctly on the Hurd

2002-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: This sounds like my patch would still be useful, for 1.10. 1.10 is basically frozen, I can't promise I will include it in there. Maybe in 1.10.1. Wichert. -- _ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This

vim compile

2001-10-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Can someone try compiling a current vim package and upload it? hurd-i386 currently still has vim 5.8.007-2 which is somewhat old by now, and I would like to know of vim6 compiles correctly. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is

[troup@samosa.debian.org: Processing of vim_5.8.007-2_hurd-i386.changes]

2001-08-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I don't know who uplaoded this, but can he/she please use the -e option for dpkg-buildpackage? Wichert. - Forwarded message from James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Processing of vim_5.8.007-2_hurd-i386.changes Date: Wed,

new kernel images uploaded

2001-03-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Herbert Xu uploaded 2.2.19pre17 kernel images today, which fix some security problems. Could the boot-floppies team please build new floppies based on those, and could the porters please update the kernels for their architectures as well? I would like to release a security advisory for the kernel

Re: porting to Hurd

2001-02-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Atsuhito Kohda wrote: There is no gnupg in Hurd but I have only gnupg key registered as Debian developer so I am afraid I can not upload a package even if I can build a package in Hurd. How should I do? You can sign it under Linux just fine. Just build the package unsigned under

Re: Current dpkg on Hurd issues

2001-02-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: * #31620: Use of hard fixed errno ENOENT in some scripts Wichert says he would ask Jason if apt copes with a predependency on perl-5.6-base. If it doesn't, it should, but it makes sense to delay the change until apt can cope if it can't already, if that

Re: Package pools, testing, 2.2r2

2000-11-11 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: All who're interested: katie (ie, the new dinstall, ie package pools) will be rolled out when James has enough time to cope with any unforseen problems. Hopefully in the next week or two. testing will be rolled out shortly afterwards, in all probability. Do you

Re: Processing of vim_5.7.002-2_hurd-i386.changes

2000-11-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Euh, I got this again... Wichert. Previously James Troup wrote: vim_5.7.002-2_hurd-i386.changes uploaded successfully to auric.debian.org along with the files: vim-gtk_5.7.002-2_hurd-i386.deb vim-perl_5.7.002-2_hurd-i386.deb vim-tcl_5.7.002-2_hurd-i386.deb

Re: Processing of vim_5.7.002-2_hurd-i386.changes

2000-11-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Whoever built this package needs to fix the way he builds it so the .changes files has his email address instead of mine. Look at the -m option for dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-buildpackage. Wichert. Previously James Troup wrote: vim_5.7.002-2_hurd-i386.changes uploaded successfully to