A Frequently Reported Bug: "process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed." in dpkg

1999-08-16 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
ous. In the second case, the package which depends on the virtual package should list real packages as alternatives to the virtual package so that the loop no longer includes the virtual package. Thanks. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki

Re: New User having Problems with dselect

1999-08-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
to be related to the bash/readline problem that breaks any slink->potato upgrade at this point. I suggest you wait until it is fixed. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ..."

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-10 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:26:19PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Or even 8, since an int is 32 bits. int can be anything from 16 bits up. In fact, I believe we have architectures where int is 64 bits. Do *not* depend on the size of int! -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
s > placing a pad byte between text and num to align num. I want it to > stop! You want your C compiler to compile something other than C. In C, the only guarantee you get is that the struct elements are stored in order (IIRC). -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] %

Re: finding a package name given a filename

1998-12-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > I'll produce a .deb in the near future. In the meantime, use the > source. The .deb is now available at <ftp://ftp.jyu.fi/pub/linux/local-DEBs/>. The directory structure is an imitation of the main archive

Re: finding a package name given a filename

1998-12-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
yees/boehm_mti/gc_source/>. I'll produce a .deb in the near future. In the meantime, use the source. Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% About to generate a new signature, please wait...

Re: finding a package name given a filename

1998-12-08 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
e a .deb of it (though I can't upload it to Debian yet, as I'm still waiting for my developer status application to be fully processed). Is anyone interested enough to make an upload worthwhile at this point? Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% About to generate a new signature, please wait...

Re: procmail ........ (again)

1998-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
putting colons and wildcards after it just make it useless. So, use: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-english :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-spanish Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% NOTE: I am migrating to a new setup. There may st

Re: Default MTA

1998-11-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
ge, at least on one secondary mirror i checked (ftp.funet.fi). Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% NOTE: I am migrating to a new setup. There may still be problems with my mail/news headers, so *please* trust the above addresse

Re: Default MTA

1998-11-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 03:56:20PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > The best argument I have seen for removing smail as the default > Debian MTA There's no need to advocate the issue any longer. Smail is now optional and exim is important, ie the default. Antti-Juhani -- %%% A

Installing a modem connection (was:Re: Unidentified subject!)

1998-11-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
to know several things. Have you used the net over modem with some other operating system (like Windows)? How did you do that? If not, can you please tell us what instructions your Internet Service Provider has given you? Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % h

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
t; means "zero or more characters". Yes. However, the ^TO macro is far superior to mindless matching of any character: the macro will match only whole addresses; partial matches are not allowed by ^TO. Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http:/

Re: procmail....................

1998-11-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
You'd do better by putting procmail into the delivery process, so it will process the messages automatically, but in order to tell you how it is done, I must know a bit of your setup. As I asked above: which MTA are you using? Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL P

Re: LaTeX and PDF question

1998-11-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
in the > pdf What fonts are you using? Computer Modern, or? Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% NOTE: I am migrating to a new setup. There may still be problems with my mail/news headers, so *please* trust the above addresses mo

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
ed binaries (IIRC). Antti-Juhani [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-10 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
do what you want. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: newbie diff question

1998-11-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
xperience problems, refer to `man patch'. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: How can I create my own CD's?

1998-11-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:32:31AM -0800, Ty Mixon wrote: > how I can make my own CD-ROM set of the current Debian Distribution Grab the official images and use them. A list of mirrors carrying the images is at http://cdimage.debian.org/ . Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho

Re: XWindows

1998-11-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
own section, x11. I think you'll find it there. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: dpkg/apt-get madness

1998-11-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
s best that a program does not try to fix it. Since the package is in very bad inconsistent state, dpkg can no longer assume anything about which files it can remove and which it cannot. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
o see binaries where they don't belong. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. It's ugly but it works. Another solution would be to build a .deb on your own; when you're building a local .deb, you don't have to follow the Debian Policy so the packaging becomes quite easy¹ :-) Antti-Juhani ¹ But don't publish such a .deb :-) -- Antti-J

Re: Debian Questions

1998-10-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about qmail. Use the qmail-src package available at a mirror of the non-free section near you. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
me which versions of perl and perl-base you have selected and which versions you have installed? How were you trying to install the new ones, with dselect or by hand, or with apt? Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> **

Re: adding .tmf files to tex

1998-10-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
s root. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
FAIK. In computerese, GNU is an acronym for 'GNU's Not Unix'. Next time, do not blind-carbon-copy the list. It breaks my reply-to-list system. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> **

Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions

1998-10-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
run Solaris or RedHat depending on machine), but a) it is not important to my point and b) it's not my decision, I'm not the sysadmin here. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: dselect Woes

1998-10-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
not coexist in a machine. Examples include Smail and Sendmail: they'd be at each others' throat if they were simultaneously present in a machine - both trying to do one's job, but in the processing trashing the other's. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <

Re: Gcc Binaries for Intel P2 333 running Debian Linux

1998-10-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
s always egcs. Antti-Juhani wondering why some people don't honour my reply-to's -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: Hamm & Dselect

1998-10-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
ed about the other CD's which were not (obviously) available. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: We have tmview for dvi, is there a svga postscript viewer?

1998-10-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
her there is a non-X postscript viewer. It is my understanding that ghostscript can function as one - though it is not very fancy. See its documentation for more info. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> **

Re: Hamm & Dselect

1998-10-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
talk in the -devel list about creating such a method for Debian 2.1 as even the main distribution of the current unstable (slink) won't fit on one CD. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> **

Re: Gcc Binaries for Intel P2 333 running Debian Linux

1998-10-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Did I understand the problem right? If not, please describe the problem in detail, so we (the debian-user list) may be able to help you better. > Any resources on net ? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages comes first to mind. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMA

Re: dselect won't config emacs 20.3

1998-10-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
-2 (in slink) or deinstall tm. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I thought that the name of the current "product" was Debian 1.31. No. The name of the current product is bo. It is also known as Debian 1.3.1 (there is no such thing as Debian 1.31). It's like my name is Antti-Juhani, but some people have the (irritating) habi

Installing tetex-extra, and a mysterious error message

1997-07-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Hi! I'm running Debian 1.2 with some 1.3 packages. One of these bo packages is teTeX. I installed all the other tetex packages just fine -- not counting the hours-long search for old TeX packages [sic]. tetex-extra gives me something unusual. Here's a transcript: Script started on Wed Jul 23 00:2

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 23, Robert D. Hilliard wrote > The rule of thumb of three times RAM has always seemed highly > illogical to me. A machine with 8 mb probably needs much more than 24 > mb, while one with 97 mb probably doesn't need any. IMHO, if you *need* swap space greater than two times your physica

Re: qmail?

1997-07-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 21, Martin Schulze wrote > Install a dummy package. How do I do that? Which TFM I should R? Antti-Juhani -- ... MS-DOS is universally considered unreal. (The Jargon File 4.0.0) pgpn0HQyvmhkt.pgp Description: P

Re: qmail?

1997-07-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 22, Dima wrote > >>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > You can a) hit SHIFT+Q in dselect every time to override dependecies Risky. > or b) install a dummy package that provides MTA. Search for messages > about equivs package in the list archive. Thanks. I'll do that t

Re: qmail?

1997-07-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 21, Dima wrote > >>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > >A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized > >distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. > > You can use a non-debianized version: the only difference is th

Re: Reading news offline

1997-07-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 20, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote > > "JC" == Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I just follow the suck man page, but I must admit I haven't gotten > it to work yet. No wonder. suck's manpage was a mess when I last looked at it about a month ago. > Suck transfers some a

qmail? (was:Re: sendmail vs smail)

1997-07-20 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
A related question: is there any chance of getting a Debianized distribution of qmail in the near future? A mere source could do. Yes, I know that there is qmail in project/experimental (at least my mirror has it), but I'd rather not use alpha software -- and I think I would be violating Dan's copy

Re: Smail configuration

1997-07-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Jul 14, Robert D. Hilliard wrote > In smailconfig, you must choose option (1), then after several > more questions, you give your ISP's mail server's name in response to: ... > This will give the results that I think the original poster was > looking for. Yes, it will. I was faced wit