Re: dpkg-ftp/dselect timestamping

1996-12-03 Thread Andy Guy
Christopher W Hafey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dpkg-ftp, dselect -- > > Is there a way to get these programs to timestamp > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/frozen/binary-i386/admin/* (and others) > to what they are on ftp://debian.crosslink.net? > > (I'm doing 1.2 this weekend; so far, it's

Re: dselect via ftp probs

1996-12-03 Thread Andy Guy
Richard Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi folks, sorry to bring up a quasi newbie prob, but here goes. I had a > buzz setup with 2.0.24, and after reading various messages about dselect I > decided to go to the frozen level. Here is my trouble so far, I didn't > have dpkg-ftp, so I wen

(dpkg-ftp) Re: dftp and some problems

1996-11-28 Thread Andy Guy
"Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but > > > I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything > > > is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and > > >

Re: cron problem

1996-11-21 Thread Andy Guy
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [1 ] > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > > I don't know why cron always send mail to root with the following > > > body. Any idea? > > > > > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > > X-Cron-Env:

Re: dpkg problems

1996-11-17 Thread Andy Guy
Martin Konold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi there, > > how to resolve > > > > Odd number of elements in hash list at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install This is a bug in dpkg-ftp shown up by the latest version of perl - don't worry it is still doing things correctly. It is fixed in the l

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-16 Thread Andy Guy
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Christenson writes: > > > >On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Mark Carroll wrote: > > > >My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have > >been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp > >install, and came up with

Re: dselect ftp method broken

1996-11-15 Thread Andy Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Bartley) writes: > > >From dselect, when I select > > 0. [A]ccess Choose the access method to use. > > and then > > ftpInstall using ftp. > > I get the following errors: > > syntax error at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 112, near "print" > E

Re: Mail is messed up!!

1996-11-03 Thread Andy Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) writes: > Hmmm, I seem to have the same problems even after NOT moving anything. I made > a mistake and ended up downloading several things from unstable and after > that elm cannot read mail and tkmail cannot write lock files in > /var/spool/mail. I too have trie

Re: Caching-only "named": where is the cache? (fwd)

1996-11-03 Thread Andy Guy
fabrizio carraro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The cache is in RAM. It can get large, too! I consider this a bug in > > named. > > There is the directive limit, for example: > > limit datasize 64M > > I would consider a bug the fact that you can save the database in a file > (kill

Re: How can I 'logically' provide a package?

1996-11-03 Thread Andy Guy
Benedikt Eric Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ I really hope I didn't miss something in the documentation and FAQ, > since I can't imagine noone else ever thought about this, but... > > So - if this is somewhere in the doc or FAQ, please don't respond > to the list, but

Re: time problems (forwarded)

1996-10-09 Thread Andy Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > Kevin is one of two people who are currently _still_ unable to post, so > I am forwarding his message. :-( > > From: Account for Debian group mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I use a program call "nist - timestanderization under Linux" by Frank > Brokken. Th

Re: Passive ftp with dselect?

1996-09-19 Thread Andy Guy
Mikko Suonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > System is running fine, thank you! A question: Can I do ftp in passive > mode with dselect ? It does not seem to rely on .netrc, so I can't give > passive command there. I also tried dftp, but it seemed too complicated > (did not read .dftprc etc). > >

Re: dselect ftp went bye bye

1996-08-13 Thread Andy Guy
Joel Zimba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is becoming a FAQ - why is this happening? > after running dselect and installing a bunch of stuff. > I finished install. > Now I can't find the ftp option when I go back into dselect. > > why? Not sure (it is included in the base set but seems to get

Re: Ftp method in dselect

1996-08-07 Thread Andy Guy
Al Youngwerth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also just purged dpkg-ftp accidentally but I can't find it > anywhere! Is dpkg-ftp only in the base package included on the boot > floppies? look in project/experimental. Guy: could you move dpkg-ftp into unstable, this would avoid these problems. A

Re: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP

1996-08-03 Thread Andy Guy
Ricardo Kleemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage > when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called > dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... > > I'm trying to download the latest Debian distribution via

Re: dpkg-ftp troubles

1996-05-25 Thread Andy Guy
Joe Reinhardt writes: > > >I am having trouble with dpkg-ftp 1.4.0. I repeatedly get this error >when trying to install: > >Processing status file... > >Processing Package files... > unstable... >Argument "" isn't numeric in ncmp at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install >line 99, > chunk 1441

Re: dpkg-ftp troubles

1996-05-25 Thread Andy Guy
Kevin Dalley writes: > > >Try replacing cmpvers in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install with the >following function. While the maintainer has not yet blessed this >change, it seems to work for me. > ># compare two versions (taken from dpkg docs) >sub cmpvers { >($a,$b) = @_; >my ($cm, $ad,