Re: ftp.debian.org update
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:35:41PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:54, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location of Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site for apt or for mirroring. This is *not true*. Maybe, it would be wise to remove it from the proposed locations in the installer! Ah, good point. I've commented it out appropriately, it should no longer appear there (assuming choose-mirror doesn't do something crazy). Thanks for the idea - although it would have been better if you Cc:ed it to me or to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'm not subscribed to the -user list, I just happened to go looking. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp.debian.org update
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location of Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site for apt or for mirroring. This is *not true*. If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name such as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ... The list of those servers is at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Does the same go for ../project/experimental? Yes. All normal mirrors that carry debian/ also have project/experimental. -- Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp.debian.org update
Hi, We're going to be changing ftp.debian.org setup a bit... but first, a friendly reminder. Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location of Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site for apt or for mirroring. This is *not true*. ftp.debian.org is merely one of several servers that get updated from an internal Debian server. That address is presently located on a single server in the United States, and it still exists mainly for backwards compatibility. In the future, it may get services reduced, or shut down, or converted into a globally load-balanced name, or whatever. Please don't use it. If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name such as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ... The list of those servers is at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Now, back to the current business. Because of local disk space issues, ftp.d.o has had intermittent problems over the past few months, and right now it's simply not able to update the debian archive. It's currently carrying a full mirror of oldstable, and a 'debian-typical' mirror (i386, amd64, source) of everything else (stable, testing, unstable). We'll have to reduce the size of its mirror of oldstable as well, so that it keeps enough free disk space to be able to update what it has. (Some time ago, we have contacted all registered mirrors rsyncing off that machine asking them to switch to a better place. All mirrors with reasonably responsive maintainers will not be affected; those who have ignored our advice might notice changes.) -- Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
ftp.us.d.o/http.us.d.o updated
Hi, I just wanted to let people know that we changed the ftp.us.debian.org and http.us.debian.org aliases to match, and include five mirrors (up from two and four, resp.). If anyone notices problems with apt-get or something, let us know at at the debian-mirrors list or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please replace this line with the CONFIRMATION WORD:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:43:18AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:00:55 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In effort to control spam email we have implemented an email verification system. ..url to credentials? This _is_ an official Debian spam weeder? No, it's some random junk. I wouldn't worry about it too much. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#206959: debian lists have no nomail option
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:17:47AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: This means e.g. gmane.org users will get a copy of each message, even though they've already read them. No, it doesn't. Try thinking about what it means when the web page says This list is not moderated, posting is allowed to anyone.. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.debian.org dns records missing -- please don't file bugs on www.debian.org
Hi, Please don't file bugs about .debian.org DNS records missing on www.debian.org, that is not a suitable pseudo-package for this kind of an issue and there's none other appropriate. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#150574: apache: SECUIRITY Apache 1.3.24-3 (Testing) contains chunk encoding buffer overflow
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:29:50PM +0200, Manuel Samper wrote: Debian has provides a security patch for Potato but not for Woody/Sid. See http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-131 Debian does not provide security updates for testing or for unstable. Need to get 2188kB/16.6MB of archives. After unpacking 816kB will be used. Get:1 ftp://security.debian.org woody/updates/main apache 1.3.26-0woody1 [353kB] Get:2 ftp://security.debian.org woody/updates/main apache-common 1.3.26-0woody1 [813kB] Get:3 ftp://security.debian.org woody/updates/main apache-doc 1.3.26-0woody1 [1022kB] Fetched 2188kB in 1m23s (26.2kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode So debian provide security updates for woody, it's not? woody isn't normal testing any longer, it's soon to be released. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mgomard@opsion.fr: info]
Someone please deal with this... - Forwarded message from Miguel Gomard [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:29:34 +0200 From: Miguel Gomard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: info Importance: Normal Bonjour, Je me permet de vous envoyer ce mail; peut-?tre pourrez vous m'aider ou bien le transmettre ? une autre personne. J'ai vu que la Debian était portée sur architecture PowerPC: moi-m?me j'aimerais faire un petit OS pour cette architecture. Or je ne connais pas la procédure de boot de la machine (en faît, tout ce qui concerne le firmware) et je n'arrive pas ? trouver des infos concr?tes sur le sujet. Pouvez-vous m'indiquer un lien, une personne qui me permettrait d'en connaître d'avantage et ainsi, de pouvoir commencer mon ouvrage ? De plus, si vous avez de la doc sur la gestion de la mémoire (segmentation) d'un PowerPc, je suis preneur ! Cordialement, Miguel gomard - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why does dpkg prompt for unchanged conffiles during upgrade?
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:37:10AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Why is it prompting for these when I have not modified them at all AFAIK? Is this a bug in dpkg or a packaging error? Anyone know? You'll have to compare MD5 checksums to figure that out. Without those we really can't say anything. I think some of these packages might be fucking around with the files. I've recently been seeing a bunch of conffiles declared changed during Gimp upgrades and I honestly can't remember even knowing those conffiles of theirs existed. The diff, of course, was just the additions made in the new version of each conffile, no local change at all. It's quite annoying. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[guy-nils@barak-online.net: new in debian need help]
- Forwarded message from Guy Nils [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Tue, 14 May 2002 02:29:11 +0200 From: Guy Nils [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new in debian need help please if you can tell my 1)can i install debian sendmailon a SPARCstation 2)and if i can so where? 3)please you can send me a link your send it to my e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] MCSE2000 help me - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[misran@vlug.vein.hu: debian hpt370 raid]
- Forwarded message from Varady Geza [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:05:52 +0200 From: Varady Geza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: debian hpt370 raid Hi There, I have a question, hopefully short enough worth answering :), thank You for the answer in advance. Q: - How to install debian linux on a 4 disk raid 0+1 array (abit th7 ii motherboard with 4 60Gb Ide IBM disks, with hpt370 onboard ide raid controller ) . Boot cd doeans't work (potato). Someone suggested to put in a 5th hdd to the normal controller, install debian with raid support on it ,mount the array and put debian on it. Is this the only way, or have I other options , too? Thank You, Best Regards, Geza Varady Varady, Geza ICQ: 19330059 Mobile : +3620 9369067 - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:20:08AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: When you install from scratch you lose the configuration file changes on the old installation. It is not a problem, since most of the configs are default anyway. Maybe for you... Set the debconf level to critical and you'll only get the most important questions. May I know how/ what/ where to set? Run dpkg-reconfigure debconf as root. Thus, I would like to know, how **LONG** after woody release, will potato be kept at the mirrors, before it will be put to the archive server. Probably a few days/weeks, depending on when the archive maintainers have time to move it out. - Is it possible to keep it for at least two weeks? Everything's possible... I don't know. - May I know how to archive potato? CMIIW, potato is partly in pool directory. - May I know how to archive woody which is totally in pool? Something will be arranged on archive.debian.org for those purposes, I guess, I don't know if we have programs ready to do that right now. Ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[beswicks@email.com: iBook 600MHz]
- Forwarded message from Chris Beswick [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 00:43:16 +0200 From: Chris Beswick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: iBook 600MHz Hi, I have been unable to get woody (the latest netinst cd) to find my hd during install (ie fdisk say /dev/hda aint there), I have noticed a number of people with the 14.1 iBooks with this problem and as my iBook is a 12.1 model I guess it only affects the iBook 2002 range (they all have sony cd/dvd drives instead of Panasonic/Toshiba (I cannot remember which the 2001 models have)) I've had a play with some precompiled benh kernels, from http://www.ppckernels.org and they can sometimes find the hd (ie make it accessable via /dev/hda) but it aint reliable and can sometimes lead to a kernel panic. any ideas? c. - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How was the slink -- potato switch? How will be potato -- woody? When?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:00:32PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process will be relatively slower since it has to delete/ replace the old packages first before installing the new ones. Delete/replace? On each upgrade, dpkg unpacks the new files into a temporary directory, checks for conflicts, moves the new files into the filesystem, and removes the removed files from the filesystem. Therefore, why not just installing from scratch? My own workstation is already a woody. It was a nightmare as well as slow when I switched from potato to woody a couple of months ago. I noticed that installing from scratch is faster (I was installing another system from scratch that time). When you install from scratch you lose the configuration file changes on the old installation. The upgrade process was slow, because many interactive questions were asked. Set the debconf level to critical and you'll only get the most important questions. Therefore, I believe (unlike security patch), that the upgrading process from potato to woody will not be a 10 minute one. Especially, for the ones who maintaining a server farm. Nobody said it would be. Thus, I would like to know, how **LONG** after woody release, will potato be kept at the mirrors, before it will be put to the archive server. Probably a few days/weeks, depending on when the archive maintainers have time to move it out. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 20 19:25:04 2002 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:25:03 +0100 Received: from master.debian.org ([216.234.231.5]) by cibalia.gkvk.hr with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nkli-0003ei-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:25:02 +0100 Received: from f110.law3.hotmail.com (hotmail.com) [209.185.241.110] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 16nkjl-0006MX-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:23:02 -0600 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:22:31 -0800 Received: from 172.144.134.15 by lw3fd.law3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:22:31 GMT X-Originating-IP: [172.144.134.15] From: giovanni alexi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: Subject: can't boot ppclinux,yaboot not found Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:22:31 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Mar 2002 18:22:31.0421 (UTC) FILETIME=[32EECAD0:01C1D03C] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.11 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:26:05 +0100 Resent-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi,I just bought a PowerMac 7300/200 unit and just finished installing ppclinux2000 which is based on debian.The installation completed successfully and when I rebooted,I get the floppydisk icon with the ? on it.The harddisk won't boot LINUX!What gives?Is this a bug with using this powermac.I can boot and install the linux from cdrom,and I can boot and install macOS and boot that from the HD but linux won't boot from the HD.I was told by ppclinux installer to make the following partitions:/ at appleunixver4,/home at linux,/boot at appleHFS,and swap at linux.The partition for / for my install only had appleunixver2 type partion table not version 4!Could that be it?Will the native debian work on the ppc 604e 200mhz powermac 7300/200?I think linux is for intel only!It never works on other platforms according to this problem.Let me know if something can be done or if I am stuck with the non multitasking macOS 9. Johanes Emmanuelli angry linux user who can't get there _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: your Debian mirror
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:30:51PM -0300, Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro wrote: It seems the mirrors on debian.lcmi.ufsc.br haven't been updated in a while. Can you fix them, please? I can't keep debian.lcmi.ufsc.br mirror up-to-date because some repairs in room leave all machines down. Really, i'm no more working at lcmi.ufsc.br, or even living near there, but i'm trying to maintain the mirror remotely. Try to find someone local to help you out? :) Last thursday i updated the mirror from another leave: ftp.debian.org.br. Now i'm keeping debian/debian-non-us for just potato (stable) in i386 architecture, including sources (mirror has just 20GB, 3GB of free space). I'm finding some troubles with http access because ufsc.br (an university) introduced a firewall, so just ftp access is working at now, but i'm contacting firewall responsible to correct this. OK, thanks for your effort. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: resource for woody freeze status?
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:23:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
is there any online resource that documents the (current) status of the
woody freeze process?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200202/
(see all the release status updates?)
i just want to know what's going on and understand what the problems
and/or current steps are. a webpage with a dynamically generated list of
rc-bugs and some explaination on how to proceed and what is most urgent to
be done would probably help even the non-hacking users and contributors.
it's mainly a question of transpareny i think.
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
http://base.debian.net/
http://standard.debian.net/
http://bugs.debian.net/
Everything debian is doing WRT release is utterly transparent, I boggle
at you thinking otherwise.
BTW I'm adding these answers to the www.d.o/releases/{woody,testing}/ web
page, hopefully that will cut down on the number of people thinking
nothing's going on...
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2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Unidentified subject!
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 15 14:24:13 2002 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:24:10 +0100 Received: from master.debian.org ([216.234.231.5] ident=mail) by cibalia.gkvk.hr with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16biLK-0006kN-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:24:03 +0100 Received: from web21304.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.190] by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 16biFb-0008KD-00; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:18:07 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [147.83.20.89] by web21304.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 05:11:56 PST Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 05:11:56 -0800 (PST) From: El Herrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with gcc 2.95.2 in Debian 2.2 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.01 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:39:52 +0100 Resent-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hello, I have a problem with gcc 2.95.2 in Debian 2.2: My program (20,000 lines) compiles succesfully in both Debian 2.2 and 2.1. The compiled version in 2.1 works in both systems, but the version in 2.2 doesn't work in Debian 2.2 (nor in 2.1, as expected). The compilation flags I use are -O3 -funroll-loops. I suspect that there is a dinamic memory problem (that I will probably find during the following ten years), but I have observed that in Debian 2.2 two compilations (from scratch) do not always generate equal binary files (by do not always I mean that sometimes are equal and sometimes not). Is doesn't happen in Debian 2.1. How can it happen? Thanks, Enrique __ Do You Yahoo!? Got something to say? Say it better with Yahoo! Video Mail http://mail.yahoo.com
[enduser43232@hotmail.com: Bulk Mail Friendly Hosting Needed]
Hi, I so sincerely hope someone can help these nice, friendly people :) - Forwarded message from Enduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 05:11:00 +0100 From: Enduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bulk Mail Friendly Hosting Needed X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4 required=5 tests=FROM_FORGED_HOTMAIL,FROM_ENDS_I N_NUMS Hi, we are looking for an ISP that will host our websites that are promoted via spam mail. No mail would be sent by your server. We will pay very good money for the trouble of dealing with the spam complaints and keeping us online as long as possible. If you can provide that kind of service or know someone, please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: new Debian FAQs
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:38:21PM +, Rob Bradford wrote: The Debian FAQoamtic seems to have disappeared, maybe a simpler FAQ system should be developed from which we can export in variety of formats to go to build up the debian-faq documentation. I really don't think the format is crucial to this. The fact it's not being updated is what's the problem, and that needs people, not machines... AFAIR the faqomatic wasn't too successful either. Maybe we just need a better system. Or maybe we just need better people. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
new Debian FAQs
Hi guys, If anyone has some time to go through Debian Planet, Debian Help and other similar sites and make a list of frequently asked questions, preferably with answers, please do, and send me the results. :) I think it's (way past) time to extend the Debian FAQ with some of that stuff, like Pentium-optimized packages, automated installation, anti-aliasing, etc... http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/doc-debian.html -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: What's the best way to pull a package from unstable to a Woody system?
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:29:56AM -0800, tluxt wrote: Also document installed by apt-howto are useful. Oh, my web page below also has some hints. Cheers :) + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ + I found your quick reference very informative also! That document should definitely be linked from http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp under the users manuals section. You should definitely email the Debian web maintiners, http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2002/debian-www-200201/threads.html and request that your document be put onto the Debian website, and have a link put on that page. You have my support for so doing. That should be debian-doc@lists.debian.org instead. Also, I ran across the apt-howto earlier today, and that also ought to be linked from the same place. (I'll have to email that person also with the same suggestion.) apt-howto is linked from http://www.debian.org/doc/admin-manuals -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
[pprieto@infovia.com.ar: Corrijan este error]
Hi, Will someone please explain to this person that we didn't usurp his web site :p - Forwarded message from Pablo Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:50:56 +0100 From: Pablo Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Corrijan este error Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:44:48 -0300 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. X-Infomail-Id: 1011844352.5D8C01AC1E03A0.4352 Escribo porque estan usurpando la direccion de mi pagina web la cual es: cocoloco.exotico.net.ar - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
new xmms sans locales
Hi, The new xmms package that just got installed in unstable doesn't have the locale stuff. Yes, I have noticed. Yes, I have persisted in uploading it that way because it is not fatal and the new release fixes other, more fatal bugs. If you know an xmms user which might go berserk seeing this, please restrain them and reduce my workload. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
[bhavind76@hotmail.com: Need E-Mail Distribution Server]
- Forwarded message from Bhavin Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 12:06:04 +0100 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [202.70.194.29] From: Bhavin Desai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: Subject: Need E-Mail Distribution Server Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 16:33:25 +0530 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Dec 2001 11:03:25.0332 (UTC) FILETIME=[1E326540:01C18558] December 16, 2001 Dear Sir/Madam, I am looking for an E-Mail Ditribution Server software for my Linux(Debian) server, so that all the network clients(NT/Win 98/Linux) can receive/send mails through it. I would be very happy if you can help me listing the product available in the (Indian) market for the application described. Looking forward to hear from you, Thanking you Bhavin D. -For ASK Financials (Bombay-India) - End forwarded message - (converted from HTML) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: Bug#118173: xmms: playlist fonts screwed up, shows empty squares instead of text
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 04:33:08PM -0500, rj fleck wrote: Package: xmms Version: 1.2.5-2 Severity: important seems to have only started happening on newer versions of the x-libraries ii xlibs 4.1.0-7X Window System client libraries I've got xlibs 4.1.0-5 here and it's fine. WTF? :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
debian-announce milestone: 20K!
Hi, Here's some interesting trivia: the debian-announce mailing list now has more than twenty thousand subscribers. See http://lists.debian.org/stats/ for that and more statistics about our mailing lists[1]. I propose a virtual toast: here's to the twenty thousand, and let's hope that the mailing list software works just as good when we reach 30K next year! :) [1] it seems the gnuplot config files got somewhat broken, there's now a straight green line on the graphs... I never touched that code. Go figure. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: Primary debian mirror in Brasil.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:58:46AM -0300, Marcos Alexandre Castilho wrote: -- Marcos, thanks about your interest in keep a brazilian mirror. -- It's a real complex-time-consuming-job, but an honor too. Just not me, -- but all brazilian debian users are glad for you. If you need help, you -- can contact me (and write in portuguese :-). I know it's a great responsibility in that work. I'm trying to make this task not an individual idea, but rather to convince the Computational Team of the Federal University. In this way, if I'm not here in the future, UFPR's team will do the job. Great. The DNS will be changed soon. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
[lkcl@samba-tng.org: gdk-imlib1_1.9.11-1.i386.deb is missing]
- Forwarded message from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:33:04 +0200 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:54:06 +0200 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: gdk-imlib1_1.9.11-1.i386.deb is missing User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i hiya, have installed debian 2.2 from cd, and then slowly upgraded bits of it via a 56k modem to unstable, and came across a missing deb package on ftp.debian.org. i didn't do an installation from cd of gnome, so there was nothing to upgrade. so now i can't do _anything_ because i would need to downgrade to stable and then have loads of packages removed, argh... anyway, it'd be good to have this available! i will try the source package somehow, just in case it might help... luke - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
[chievo@freemail.it: error in packages dependancies]
- Forwarded message from Nicolò Chieffo [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:37:24 +0200 From: Nicolò Chieffo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: error in packages dependancies Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:33:17 +0200 debian:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install libvpopmail1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libvpopmail1: Depends: qmail but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages The package qmail doesn't exist in the database: there's only qmail-src that I'va already installed. I wanna install vpopmail, but as u can see it's impossible. How can I deal this problem? - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
[yok1@zahav.net.il: ]
- Forwarded message from kaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivery-date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 20:36:29 +0200 From: kaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:34:34 +0300 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Hello, can you help me please. i have wu-ftpd 2.6.0 (i dont want to upgrade or to install another verison) 1. when i login as anonymous, the login is ok. 2. when i enter email as password login failed. i have no idea how to fix it up. please help me, thanks . - End forwarded message - -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: exploring debian's users and groups
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:35:48AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: dialout: HELP: Is this used for /dev/cua devices or something? Like, find /dev -group dialout dip: HELP: WHat did this group's name signify? DIaluP? The name dip probably comes from the name of the dip program. :) pppd may only be run by users in the dip group (and by root of course). The dip/dialout distinction is useful when you allow a user just to use the available PPP connections, but not let them open a serial port at will. (AFAICT) Note also that this document about the groups should probably go into the never-finished Debian System Administrator's Manual. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
about our `how to report bugs' web page
Hi people, I've made some changes to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting that the readers of this list should know about. It now suggests asking here in case the reader/bug submitter doesn't have a clue what package has s/he noticed a problem in. This seemed like a sensible thing to do, since a lot of these bugs are filed against unknown packages and each one of those takes a bit of time to reassign. And we all know how volunteer time is precious :) Also, some of those `clueless' bugs happen to be user errors, and it would be good if we filter those through a mailing list before leaving a permanent mark in the bug tracking system. The most often stuffed-up-Package:-pseudo-header cases are bugs in the installation system and the kernel. If anyone asks about this, please tell them to use boot-floppies and kernel, respectively. If they also mention a kernel version, tell them to use kernel-image-x.y.z-w or whatever. Also, I made some other changes to that web page so it's written a bit more clearly. I'd appreciate any comments aimed at improving it further. Anyway, thanks for your attention, and sorry for the extra traffic I caused. :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: XMMS + Gnome + Sawfish
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:19:39PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: I've been having problems for ages with XMMS, and I just thought I'd put a little flag up to see if anyone else has has similar experiences. In particular, XMMS seems to have a really hard time playing nicely with respect to it's Always-On-Top-ness. As far as I can tell, there's litterally no way for me to get the playlist to _not_ be always-on-top. I've reported this problem on the XMMS tech support boards, but nobody there seems to know anything about it, so I thought it might have something to do with the debianization of something. Comments, suggestions, and random murmerings would be appreciated. Whearas I have the reverse problem using it under Blackbox... I can't get it to stay on top, no matter WHAT I do. ANY part of it... the player, the eq, or the playlist. Please contact the upstream maintainer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: ftp.br.debian.org
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:51:51PM -0200, Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro wrote: ftp.br.debian.org, the official Brazilian mirror, and several Debian users from Brazil have asked about it, would you be interested to have us assign that address to your server? (I believe I inquired about something like this previously, even...) Sure. It's a honour for me and all LCMI team. The host debian.lcmi.ufsc.br was build for supply a new, and alternative, mirror for brazillian users. I had suggested ftp2.br.debian.org, but how ftp.br.debian.org is out, we can reply for it. Good! I'll see that 150.162.14.37 is assigned ftp.br.debian.org. Just out of curiosity, what's the bandwidth your site has? Presuming the site hosts the whole mirror (i.e. not partial) and rsync access can be set up (for submirrors), the location is perfect. Well... i'm not keeping old releases, yet, but i can think about this (getting more disk space, of course). Ah, but that's not necessary. We only request that you mirror the current US and non-US sites (daily), old releases nor CD images are needed. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
unable to dpkg-reconfigure mostly anything due to perl errors
Hi people, It appears there's something fscked up with debconf+X+perl upgrade procedure in sid, upgrading from potato. The upgrade left me without /etc/X11/X (I've already filed a bug about that) and see what I get when I try to reconfigure stuff: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings/register.pm line 3. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/FileHandle.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure line 9. The same happened with all other things I tried to dpkg-reconfigure. The packages that might be related: iU debconf0.5.49 Debian configuration management system ii xserver-common 4.0.2-1files and utilities common to all X servers ii perl-5.005 5.005.03-7.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-5.005-bas 5.005.03-7.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister iU perl-5.6-base 5.6.0-6.2 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base The package contents search says /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings.pm exists in perl-5.6 package. After installing that, most of the things worked fine. Isn't there a (versioned) dependency missing somewhere? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: unable to dpkg-reconfigure mostly anything due to perl errors
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:18:48AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: It appears there's something fscked up with debconf+X+perl upgrade procedure in sid, upgrading from potato. The upgrade left me without /etc/X11/X (I've already filed a bug about that) and see what I get when I try to reconfigure stuff: Yes, this is widely reported (see bug list for perl-5.6-base), well-understood, and fixed debs are being tested (the maintainer chose to make some large changes at the same time). Ah, good. It would be useful to think about critical bug fixes before making large changes :) I guess I could close #83731 now, but I still don't know how to get /etc/X11/X, how does it get created? Install perl-5.6 in the meantime. Did that. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: unable to dpkg-reconfigure mostly anything due to perl errors
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:41:30PM +0100, joy wrote: I guess I could close #83731 now, but I still don't know how to get /etc/X11/X, how does it get created? Ah, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-s3 did it. I'll assume that had it not been for debconf/perl errors, the upgrade process would have done it. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
man: hanging indented lists without space between items?
Hi people,
As the subject says, I'd like to have a list with hanging indentation in a
manual page. Basically, I want to see this list in xmms(1):
* Audio MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (with mpg123 plug-in),
* WAV, RAW, AU (with internal wav plug-in and MikMod plug-
in),
* MOD, XM, S3M, and other module formats (with MikMod
plug-in),
* CD Audio (with CDAudio plug-in), with CDDB support,
* .cin files, id Software,
* Ogg Vorbis files.
(notice the 3rd and 5th line, that's the hanging indent, two columns)
I figured how to use `.HP 2', but that gives me one blank line between each
list item, and I don't want that. I read man(7), mdoc{,.samples}(7) and
groff_man(7) but didn't manage to find help. Does anyone have any advice?
TIA.
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Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:28:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. Can someone please suggest an answer to such a question so I can include it in the FAQ? `apt-cache search backup' doesn't quite cut it :) See my post on debianhelp.org from a day or two ago. I've searched... there seems to be some nice info there, but I'd appreciate if you (or someone else) would phrase it in a way suitable for the FAQ. I'm too drowsy from traveling right now :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions
Hi, There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details. Can someone please suggest an answer to such a question so I can include it in the FAQ? `apt-cache search backup' doesn't quite cut it :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
fake dhcp bootrequests from an unknown address
Hi people, I was wondering if someone can tell me what is this about: Oct 29 21:36:30 hostname dhcpd-2.2.x: BOOTREQUEST from 00:00:79:58:97:27 via eth0 (non-rfc1048) Oct 29 21:36:30 hostname dhcpd-2.2.x: No applicable record for BOOTP host 00:00:79:58:97:27 via eth0 This keeps happening at fairly regular intervals, and I have no clue to what's causing it or how to stop it (it doesn't seem to cause any harm, other than filling the logs with redundant crap). I've been told that it's probably caused by a software problem -- it happens even when only three machines are up on the network, two Linux 2.2.x servers and a UnixWare 2.1.3. Anyone have any clues? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: join us!
Note: I don't read -user, just -devel, so I just saw this thread. I apologize for duplication, if someone already said things I'm going to say in my message. Kurt Seifried wrote: Basically, you are forking development. There is now a version to be found in all the standard places where you get the tar-balls, and another version to be found in Debian. But they both have the same version number. This is misleading information. They have the same upstream version number (the part before the hyphen, `-') but they do not have the same Debian revision (the part after the hyphen). Besides, the tarball at the Debian sites/mirrors is still intact, it's just the Debian patch (a gzipped unified diff) that changed. First, you are forking development. You are applying code from future modifications to old software. This poses a significant risk of introducing bugs which will not be reproducible anywhere except in a Debian environment. This cuts off the non-Debian part of the open source community in cooperating to resolve problems. The risk of introducing a bug with a patch made by security-oriented people is quite small because those patches are usually short, discussed on a mailing list (or several of them), and tested before uploading. Frankly, I can't remember seeing many Debian security releases of a package breaking anything compared to previous (security-wise broken) release of the package. The most common problem with security uploads that is not related to security is packages being compiled with wrong dependencies on some architecture. This happened some three or four times in the last few years, and the packages were recompiled shortly after after people reported it. Second, you are duplicating effort. Even if your backports of bug fixes can be cleanly applied to the old code, you still must test them. In some cases, it will not be possible to apply these backports cleanly. This will require development which has already been done in the main fork. What can I say - we feel the gain is worth the effort. Third, the effort you invest in this detracts from the effort desperately needed to improve and develop open source software. Security fixes are an improvement and a result of development of the open source software that was fixed. There are many users who like the fact Debian cares about stability and security, rather than caring for getting the very newest stuff packaged. For these reasons, I find the claim that you are retaining stability to be dubious. Perhaps it really works sometimes. I suspect, however, that you have merely chosen another form of instability which is perhaps more to your liking, but not necessarily to mine. Observing the kind of bug reports users file against Debian packages over the past year or so, I came to the conclusion that the packages in stable get far, far less bug reports than those in unstable, and the statistic improves with each new release. You may choose not to believe me because I'm biased - feel free to take a look for yourself, it's all on http://bugs.debian.org/. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: more upgrade woes
[please CC: any replies to -user]
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 02:24:10PM -0400, Maitland Bottoms wrote:
What should the permissions and ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix be to make
the X server happy?
drwxrwxrwt2 root usersgroup 1024 Jun 24 01:44 /tmp/.X11-unix
I'm not sure if the latest X packages changed that, though.
And what about netscape:
/usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: `for f in ( cd $d;ls -1 . | sort
); do'
The bugs for this have been filed (and fixed)...
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Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:37:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: Apt uses a mixed approach: it uses the same textfiles as dpkg but uses a binary cache to also get the advantages of a binary database. it does? where? See /var/cache/apt/*.bin files. An example why is that good is the speed of `apt-cache show foo' compared to non-speed of `dpkg -p foo'. (of course, there are faster things to browse the textual database, they just aren't in dpkg itself) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Looking at the Debian home page, one get the impression that only the now very old Slink distribution, with kernel 2.0.36, old X, old libc, etc, released March 1999 is available. It's the official one, still. The News section mentions the testing of a new distribution is ongoing. The freeze announcements should be there somewhere, surely. Anyway, the freeze isn't meant to be for testing by the general public, just the clueful people. It normally behaves just like unstable, until we fix it. NOTHING is said about the power of apt-get and the ease of upgrading using the web to more recent software. Also, nothing is mentioned about the availability of kernel-2.2.15, XFrre86-3.3.6, glibc-2.1.3, etc, already today, even BEFORE Potato has been released. That's because it's all available in frozen, and unstable distributions, not in the stable one. There's a significant difference between those. 1. Rewrite the Getting Started section, e.g. inform about the large number of architectures and packages supported. This surely attracts new users. 2. Something on apt-get, and upgrading from the web. 3. Rewrite the News section, e.g. add links to recent packages available, with highlights, updated frequently. 4. In addition to the Weekly News link, add more frequent updates to the News section. Surely, by following the excellent mailing lists, you realize much more is happening than what is reported on the first page. Feel free to implement any of this... the sources are in CVS, at :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/webwml , modules webwml/english or whatever other language available. Submit patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also any discussions about the web pages should be held there. On the wish list for the distribution I would like to add an smp kernel. Other distributions have. Today this has to be made manually, even if excellent tools are available for this. Tell debian-boot@lists.debian.org list about it. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:16:08PM +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: | deb packages are a lot harder to create for the novice users. There is | not much documentation to help in this area either. There is perhaps not much documentation but : # ls /usr/man/man1/dh*|wc -l 30 You people probably haven't heard of things such as `apt-get source -b foo' or the New Maintainers' Guide (in `maint-guide' package or online at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ /plug)? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: strange thing in pap-secrets
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 04:54:14PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On one of my servers, I had to put this in pap-secrets to allow dialins: # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd * silly * hamishsilly 203.14.18.2 charles silly 203.14.18.2 without the particular user/IP lines, it wouldn't connet; unauthorized remote IP address. The IPs are specified in the options.ttyS* files. Let me get this straight: you used this form: usernamehostname * And the client specified its own IP address, but it didn't work? Try using ipcp-accept-local or ipcp-accept-remote options, and read /usr/doc/ppp/README.STATIC-IP... I guess that could work. I remember seeing a very similar problem once... I also remember fixing it by typing the password in the pap-secrets :) This server is running 2.3.11-1.3; I have another server running 2.3.11-1.1 which is working just fine. No changes to pppd itself have been made between those two versions, just packaging changes. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:04:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Guess I'm a tester. debian-testing or debian-boot mailing lists might be more appropriate. Almost every went well...except lynx. .. dpkg error processing lynx subproc post - install script returned error exit status 30 I purged lynx and tried apt-get lynx failed to configure, with exit code 30 This might be related to debconf, if new lynx uses it. That's an annoying but in a way useful feature of debconf, to intercept all text sent to stdout and try to interpret it as debconf code. I encountered a similar problem with xinetd and after JoeyH explained it to me, fixed it by adding a bunch of 2 to all sorts of commands that would echo something during installation. I guess you could try editing your /var/lib/dpkg/info/lynx.postinst to do the same, and then try to `dpkg --configure --pending` it. And of course, file a bug. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Debian New Maintainers' Guide
Hi people, Sorry, I speak only English (and Croatian :), but I hope you'll understand me. I need someone to translate the CVS version of maint-guide document, to-be version 0.96, so I can make a maint-guide-es package. Javier Fernandes Sanguino Pena has shown me some references and I thought this would be a good place to ask for volunteers. TIA! -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote: With /bin/sh - /bin/ash, I get the following error: guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting )) It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on case $x in ( SystemV | posix | right ) ^ is causing this. Wasn't this fixed in potato ash? I seem to remember seeing a bug report about this once... -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: man and links
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 02:16:59PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: I've noticed some problem with manual pages of xemacs (an I think that also with tin). When I run man, when it's updating the cache, it shows a lot of annoying messages on screen of the following type: [snip] Why these errors ? Are the packages bad ? The bugs with XEmacs 20 manpages have been reported loong ago, don't worry. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml'
Hi, I typed: $ cvs commit -r 1.5 maint-guide.sgml Edited the changelog, saved it, exited, and after some time got this message: cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml' cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvs01258baa What the fsck does that mean? How can I fix that? -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml'
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 05:37:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I typed: $ cvs commit -r 1.5 maint-guide.sgml Edited the changelog, saved it, exited, and after some time got this message: cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `maint-guide.sgml' cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! cvs commit: saving log message in /tmp/cvs01258baa What the fsck does that mean? How can I fix that? You have to do an update since maint-guide.sgml was modified by someone else while you were editing your checked out version: cvs update maint-guide.sgml This will merge any changes that were made after you check it out into your version. If there are any conflicts you will have to correct them before you can commit them. Once the file is clean, i.e. no conflicts, you can then commit the file. Nope, I did cvs update several times, it didn't help. I think I figured it out - my $CVSROOT variable was a little rusty, so I made a fresh checkout, copied my new file to the new tree, and committed it from there. And it worked! -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: Mozilla
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:52:24AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: How many bits of encryption does Mozilla use for secure documents? If I am to use Mozilla as a replacement for netscape I'd like to see the 128 bit version, so I can use it for on-line purchases for e-merchants with a credit card. The us version of Netscape is available with 128 bit encryption (that's what I'm using now). If Mozilla is not using the full encryption is there a fortify package for it? Currently, mozilla .deb doesn't have SSL support compiled in. It appeared not stable enough for general use last time we tried it. I don't think there is a fortify package for it, but I could be wrong. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
mozilla M8, but compiled for slink
Hi people, You can find mozilla .debs compiled for glibc2.0 (slink version) here: http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink/ They worked on a mostly-slink system I tried them on. I guess I should put a recompiled libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2 there, too... tell me if anything else is needed. And sorry for the crosspost. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: mozilla M8, but compiled for slink
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:20:00AM -0700, Steven Work wrote: I guess I should put a recompiled libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2 there, too... tell me if anything else is needed. I am using the ones that came with the gnome slink compile. All is fine untill now. But the dependencies require libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2 -- if Josip already has them bundled up, it would be helpful. Yes, I have put libgtk1.2, libglib1.2 and two[1] liborbit0s in the other/ subdirectory of the already mentioned site, all of them compiled on slink machines. That should be it, right? [1] I recompiled the 0.4.92 version, but didn't yet try it. I'll do so and update the directory if it works correctly. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
A probable solution for recent mozilla problems.
Hi people, Mark Eichin and Stephen Pitts were kind enough to do extra research on why doesn't mozilla start on some occasions. And Stephen actually got it all right :) If it is run by an ordinary user, mozilla can't write files in /usr/lib/mozilla directory, which is the $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME directory as set by /usr/bin/mozilla script. But it must write one file to start, and so the solution is to change the $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME definition in the wrapper script (/usr/bin/mozilla) to $HOME/.mozilla . Simple, isn't it? :) It's actually a known issue, I just ran a quick check in my mozilla mailing lists archives, and there are previous reports of this behaviour... Anyway, the package will be updated (probably to M8) soon. -- enJoy -*/\*- spelled 'iosip', or simply 'joseph'
Mozilla M6 .debs in Incoming
Hi people, The subject says it all. They're also in http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/ . Sorry, they'll run only on the unstable distribution (libc6 2.1) -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
Re: Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:06:47PM -0400, William R Pentney wrote: Just downloaded the new GNOME from the slink staging area ... but when I try to run it, all I get is the following error: GImLib ERROR: Cannot find file : /etc/im/im_palette.pal gdk_imlib : Cannot find Palette. A Palette file is required for this mode What is the problem? Is there a package I need? You installed new Imlib packages. Edit your ~/.imrc file (IIRC) to point in /etc/imlib directory. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
[TESTME] Mozilla M4 .deb
Hi everyone,
Me and Brent Fulgham managed to get Mozilla (nescaffe 5.0 prerelease
for those who don't know) milestone four (M4) Debian package ready
for wider testing. Please, download the .debs (two are needed, mozilla
and libnspr21) from here:
http://www.debian.org/~joy/mozilla/
If there are no larger problems (i.e. no doesn't-run or instant coredumps),
it'll go into potato. We'd appreciate if any porters would try to recompile
the source (all of which can be found in the same directory).
Anything related to these packages should NOT be reported to the BTS, but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (or, if you prefer {joy,[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Happy testing!
P.S. yes, I DO know that M5 is out! :) We'll package that soon, when
M4 works...
--
enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
Re: the g in libraries (was: where is xlib6g-dbg ?)
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 02:33:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Libraries that have packaged for the first time after the release of hamm typically do not have a libc5 compatibility version, and omit the g. This is the reason why I'm asking. The mentioned package is being built for the first time - so why are you including the 'g'? -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
Re: mathpad bugs
On 22.12.1998., at 14:35, Erick Branderhorst wrote: JR There are two bug reports, and from what I can see, JR you are/were the maintainer of mathpad. But, now I JR can't find that package. Should the bugs (#2231 and JR #3312) be closed now? I don't maintain the package any more, probably nobody uses it. If anyone on debian-user still uses mathpad, say now! If there is no response, we should probably discard the bugs, because the package is long gone. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
