libc6 perl, Can't load POSIX.so

1997-06-30 Thread joost witteveen
I just recompiled perl for libc6 (I needed a libc6 version), but now dpkg-shlibdep gives me this error: dpkg-shlibdeps ./fakeroot Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/POSIX/POSIX.so' for module POSIX: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/POSIX/POSIX.so: undefined symbol:

Re: Sub-categorizing the /usr/doc directory.

1997-06-30 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Brian == Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Maintainers don't chose what section their package goes Brian in -- they only recommend. It's decided by the ftp site Brian maintainer (Guy). Maybe they should co-ordinate with one another a little then. Brian Besides

Re: Debian Policy based on the wrong technical assumptions

1997-06-30 Thread Erik Andersen
On Jun 29, Fernando wrote I fear the Documentation Policy is being based on the wrong technical assumptions. The fact is that what slows down HTML in an old system is not a web server or the cgi converters. It is the browser! [-stuff snipped-] Thanks,

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can't fix the browsers, because we don't have the source for important browsers like netscape. Christoph You mean the Debian Project caving in and changing its Christoph standards because some non free product cannot be changed?

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph This wont work as we already have said again and Christoph again. You are modifying the HTTP protocol with this Christoph and creating a new .html.gz extension in essence. And Christoph sometimes the web browser

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph This wont work as we already have said again and Christoph again. You are modifying the HTTP protocol with this Christoph and creating a new .html.gz extension in essence. And

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: You are proposing that a web-server is supposed to be searching through the .html code it serves and replace all links referring to .html.gz by .html links? dwww does this - it's not trivial. This is definitely not the job of a web server. I agree

Re: Sub-categorizing the /usr/doc directory.

1997-06-30 Thread J . R . Blaakmeer
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:57:49 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote: Karl M. Hegbloom: I think it would be good to divide the /usr/doc directory into sub directories. It should be divided in the same as the Debian ftp site, and packages should put their documentation into the same slot as the one they

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: This is a non-standard extension of the http protocol! I support your idea of using a WWW server for documentation, but you're saying wrong things and making people be angry with you.. =) The HTTP protocol DOESN'T rely on extensions. No HTTP

Re: Sub-categorizing the /usr/doc directory.

1997-06-30 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: One complication I can think of - dselect and the ftp sites have the concept of overrides, where Guy can change the section a package is assigned to. This wouldn't be reflected in the /usr/doc directory - of course, this might not really matter. I think

Re: Sub-categorizing the /usr/doc directory.

1997-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Mitchell: someone else (I missed the aqttribution) said: Me :-) I completly agree. I have 434 items in /usr/doc, and that's too many. Splitting it up by package section is a very good idea. I'd agree that a directory with over 400 items in it is probably excessively unwieldy.

fiat mode on regarding WWW and documentation

1997-06-30 Thread Bruce Perens
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: This is a non-standard extension of the http protocol! This is a pretty silly argument. The web server has complete control over how a compressed document is presented. It can send the document as Content-Type: text/html or as Content-Type:

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, Also, 11M may not be a typical install. I get a far higher number: __ du -s /usr/doc 92026 /usr/doc Uncompressing this is very likely to annoy me. 11M was for my old 386 box (no X installed) - I'm only using about 200M total on that system. That works out to about 5%

Modula 3 packages

1997-06-30 Thread Stuart Lamble
[please cc any responses to me.] Is anybody busy working on these? I ask because I'm fairly close to (hopefully :) creating a working set of rules/control files/etc. for compiling SRC Modula-3, and associated programs. If all goes well, I should have them finished within a week or two. I

Re: fiat mode on regarding WWW and documentation

1997-06-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: This is a non-standard extension of the http protocol! This is a pretty silly argument. The web server has complete control over how a compressed document is presented. It can send the document as

Re: Vision of new installation method using webserver

1997-06-30 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Christoph Lameter, you wrote: Since we were talking about including a web-server in the base system here some thoughts. I often maintain headless servers. I always have to attach a screen for the initial install or if something is seriously wrong with the machine.

Re: Vision of new installation method using webserver

1997-06-30 Thread Jim Pick
Sounds slick. It wouldn't be too hard to do. It would be slick to have some more network smarts (like DHCP, and dialup to an ISP) on the boot disks (or some variant thereof). As for configuration via the web - check out the GPL'd Java telnet applet I've got installed on my webserver

Re: fiat mode on regarding WWW and documentation

1997-06-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a non-customary extension to the functionality available in common web-browsers on non-Linux platforms. As far as I can tell you could have written it as we really need a web server here, unless all web browsers are guaranteed to be able to do

Re: Vision of new installation method using webserver

1997-06-30 Thread Bruce Perens
No, we don't have perl on the rescue disk. However really tiny servers that handle CGI are probably possible. Bruice -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3