Re: update CD HOWTO

2000-11-08 Thread Kevin Waterson
R P Herrold wrote: > > After mirroring, in the second script, It looks as though all > that needs be done is to change one line to read: OK, mirroring works well, but how do we now update the two cd's? Previously there was just the one and would use something like the script below, but now, there

Re: update CD HOWTO (was wget corrupts rpm-files)

2000-11-08 Thread R P Herrold
After mirroring, in the second script, It looks as though all that needs be done is to change one line to read: UPDDIR=/home/ftp/pub/redhat/updates/7.0/${ARCH} This is untested, but should work. Try it on a backup. Let us know, please. -- Russ On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Kevin Waterson wrote: > >

update CD HOWTO (was wget corrupts rpm-files)

2000-11-08 Thread Kevin Waterson
herrold wrote: > package=Redhat70-ud > site=download.sourceforge.net > remote_dir=/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/updates/7.0 > remote_user=anonymous > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > exclude_patt=(^|/)(\.mirror$|sparc|alpha) > compress_patt= > comment="Redh

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread John Summerfield
> > Ok, but looking at the particular case that brought this up I don't > think it, as an example, does put Linux growth in jeopardy. Saying > "/bin/sh" is POSIX bourne shell only doesn't stop any advancements for > those who prefer bash. They can put "#! /bin/bash" on their shell > scripts to g

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread John Summerfield
> Can happen. In fact there are youngsters who pick BSDs because those > people who are a few years older are using Linux. This quintegenarian subscribed to a few FreeBSD lists. It's astonishing the about of mail on them. ___ Redhat-devel-list m

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread John Summerfield
> It is a pain in the to teach them not to podex ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread JF Martinez
Matt Fahrner a écrit : > JF Martinez wrote: > > There is a thing you have to consider:and that is people coming to > > Unix are not the only Linux usersa nd also there are more than one > > hundred million people waiting to be "libearted" from Windows. > > Yes, I pray for them daily. > > > I fr

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread Stanislav Meduna
Hello, had I not reading this list for quite a long time, I would just say "Oh, another troll" :-) > I frankly don't want to acept a thing as standard just > because it is in Unix. No. I want to accept it, because it is in Single Unix Specification. You might think that the portability is nothi

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread Matt Fahrner
JF Martinez wrote: > There is a thing you have to consider:and that is people coming to > Unix are not the only Linux usersa nd also there are more than one > hundred million people waiting to be "libearted" from Windows. Yes, I pray for them daily. > I frankly don't want to acept a thing as

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver] (fwd)

2000-11-08 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Yes. But Xwrapper SHOULD NOT be used to launch 4.0.1 X server. Not because > > XFree developers say so (they do), but because Xwrapper is the cause of > > REAL troubles in XFree 4.0.1. It interferes with the way X server does > > hardware probing. Th

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread Thilo Mezger
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> IMHO, it would be a very good idea to have a 100% posix-compliant /bin/ >> sh without any extensions. /bin/sh should *not* be symlinked to /bin/ >> bash. > Did you read the documentation? > Here's another fragment: >

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-08 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: > Huh? The X server *is* running as root, Xwrapper runs it that way. I know. But still there is a clear difference. Don't know where it comes from. Xwrapper code should explain. Maybe it performs special tricks. > Adding a setuid bit would do the same th

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread JF Martinez
Matt Fahrner a écrit : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In other words: when standard Linux programs are superior to the > > Posix/Unix standard then to hell with POSIX and UNIX. It is now to > > them to adopt _our_ standards. > > Nothing personal, but I think this is a bad attitude. Not only is i

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > IMHO, it would be a very good idea to have a 100% posix-compliant /bin/ > sh without any extensions. /bin/sh should *not* be symlinked to /bin/ > bash. Did you read the documentation? Here's another fragment: Major Differences From The SVR4.2 Bourne Shell

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-08 Thread Matt Wilson
Huh? The X server *is* running as root, Xwrapper runs it that way. Adding a setuid bit would do the same thing. Matt On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:26:35PM +0300, Alex Kanavin wrote: > > Yes. But Xwrapper SHOULD NOT be used to launch 4.0.1 X server. Not because > XFree developers say so (they do),

Re: bashing /bin/sh

2000-11-08 Thread Matt Fahrner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In other words: when standard Linux programs are superior to the > Posix/Unix standard then to hell with POSIX and UNIX. It is now to > them to adopt _our_ standards. Nothing personal, but I think this is a bad attitude. Not only is it exactly what we hate out of Micro

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-08 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Matt Wilson wrote: > "which X server to use" is considered part of individual system > configuration. Xwrapper executes /etc/X11/X, and is pamified such > that remote users can't start X servers. Yes. But Xwrapper SHOULD NOT be used to launch 4.0.1 X server. Not because XFre

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-08 Thread Matt Wilson
"which X server to use" is considered part of individual system configuration. Xwrapper executes /etc/X11/X, and is pamified such that remote users can't start X servers. Matt On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:14:25PM +0300, Alex Kanavin wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kevin Brosius wrote: > > > Oh, Xwr

Skip partition step in anaconda

2000-11-08 Thread David Suela
Hi! I want to do a new install class in anaconda that skip lilo, partition, network, package-selection and format. I make a new installClass, and add to the skipList lilo, partition, network and package-selection. I only have problem when add partition to the skipList: Traceback (innermo

Re: [RH-Dev] wget corrupts rpm-files

2000-11-08 Thread herrold
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Svante Signell wrote: > The following problem with wget has been annoying me for a long time: hmmm ... I use mirror, and have for years -- Never had that issue. I too tried wget, and concluded it was not worth me learning well enough to use generally for mirroring. ... He

Re: [Fwd: ghostview has problems with s3virge driver]

2000-11-08 Thread Alex Kanavin
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kevin Brosius wrote: > Oh, Xwrapper is not expected to be used with 4.0.x servers. It isn't > part of 4.0.x installs. Hmm, then I should probably submit this to Red Hat's bugzilla. They do include Xwrapper into their 4.0.1 install, symlink /usr/bin/X11R6/X to it, and ship /u

wget corrupts rpm-files

2000-11-08 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, The following problem with wget has been annoying me for a long time: When the files (eg .../rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS) on the mirror site change date but remains the same, updating with wget -c -r ftp://.../SRPMS/SRPMS to get the updated files ALL already dowloaded files with the same revision b