On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
For example, with the diff package:
Package: diff
- cmp works on identical and different binary or text files
- diff works on files, directories, normal or 2 column
- sdiff correctly merges two files
- diff3 correctly compares
Hello
I intend on packaging pcc (not to be confused with pgcc), the Pascal
equivalent of fort77 (i.e., invokes p2c like a Real Compiler). As this would
be my first package, please speak if you have any comments or concerns...
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Nathan wrote:
Is there a way I can get Linux to work on my old 286?
Yes. Go check out ELKS (http://linuxorg.bridgend.cymru.net/ELKS-Home/)
It's still under development, but they have a shell and even an editor or
two now.
For a more mature unix system for your 286, you can try minix.
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Hello,
I installed the latest version of elvis and noticed, that
nvi is no longer the default vi (which is set up by
update-alternatives --auto vi). Instead, elvisnox is the
current default.
Is this correct or is it a bug?
Where can I read about alternative packages (and especially
which
At one point, dinstall wasn't checking pgp signatures of .dsc files.
These files have slipped through. Please reupload them, or I'll file
bug reports:
blt_2.1-6.dsc: pgp error
courtney_1.3-3.dsc: pgp error
data-dumper_2.07-1.dsc: pgp error
dbview_1.0.3-3.dsc: pgp error
ddd_2.1.1-2.dsc: pgp error
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Martin Aberg wrote:
Hello
I wounder when the Amiga port of Debian Linux is completed.
I'm excited to see it!
I (and a couple of friends) are using Debian on a A1200 without prob, so I
guess that it's 'finnished'... :)
On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
Make sure you see some physical identification (driver's licence,
passport or similar). If you know who the person in front of you is,
and he gives you a key, you can check it's his by looking at the ID
on the key and checking the ID's signature.
Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I (and a couple of friends) are using Debian on a A1200 without
prob, so I guess that it's 'finnished'... :)
It most certainly is not.
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Make sure you see some physical identification (driver's licence,
passport or similar). If you know who the person in front of you
is, and he gives you a key, you can check it's his by looking at
the ID on the key and checking the ID's signature. Once you've
signed it, there's no reason to
Hi,
is anyone packaging MICO (Mico Is COrba)? It is a free and complete
CORBA 2.0 implementation. I need it, so I'll probably look into it
if noone else does.
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On 11 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote:
It most certainly is not.
Hmmm? What's missing then, since we are running a perfectly working 1.2.17
system...
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hello
Ich search for the packet 'elf-x11r6lib'. Where can I find it?
Grisu
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Is anybody working on doc-linux-{zv,jp,sv} packages? If not I'll do it,
Phil.
cu, Marco
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For example, with the diff package:
Package: diff - cmp works on identical and different binary or text
files - diff works on files, directories, normal or 2 column -
sdiff correctly merges two files - diff3 correctly compares 3 files
Philip == Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It
Michael Bramer writes:
hello
Ich search for the packet 'elf-x11r6lib'. Where can I find it?
That's only a pseudo package that does not exist anymore. Unfortunately
some packages still depend on it. Please file a bug report against
them.
It should be compatible to xlib6, so if you have that
Hi,
does anyone know where are all the packages that were in
Incoming/HELD-FOR-GUY? This directory is empty now but at least samba
(which I maintain) has not been integrated into hamm (and samba was in
HELD-FOR-GUY).
Thanks,
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote:
Philip == Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems a shame to have to ask people to do this sort of thing.
Yes! Maybe even against policy? [Followups on this to debian-policy,
please.]
We are asking, not requiring. If you don't want to
Philip Hands:
It seems a shame to have to ask people to do this sort of thing.
It strikes me that one should be able to come up with a script that
does a test of this sort in not much more that the time required to
write the list (in this simple case at least ;-)
I really think we should
S is a language and system for statistical data analysis and graphics
developed at Bell Labs. A commercial version called S-PLUS is
marketed by MathSoft, Inc. Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at U. of
Auckland developed R, a GPL'd system they describe as not unlike S.
It has been endorsed by
On Mon 08 Dec 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
o Orphaned auctex, bzip (libc5), ghostview, lacheck (libc5), libc5,
If the original bzip is meant here, it should probably be removed. It's
not supported anymore, and the author writes the following on
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ :
I'm no
On Thu 11 Dec 1997, Paul Slootman wrote:
As bzip resides in base, that should also change, as it it apparently
not free.
Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
bzip when searching :-(
Paul
Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
bzip when searching :-(
The last time it was seen in non-us distribution.
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Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work
for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there.
(This cache is something that was knocked up locally, I
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
does anyone know where are all the packages that were in
Incoming/HELD-FOR-GUY? This directory is empty now but at least samba
(which I maintain) has not been integrated into hamm (and samba was in
HELD-FOR-GUY).
Oh no! I had a non-maintainer release of bitchx in there, a
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
...and so on. I'm not sure that you can ever have a scheme that will work
for -all- the wierd and wonderful proxies, caches and firewalls out there.
(This cache is something that was knocked up locally, I
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
Ah, on re-reading my first sentence, I think I should have added in theory
:-) I agree with your point that having hundreds of symlinks from
binary-i586 to binary-i386 allows us to use the current tools with very
little changes.
FYI, we may have the same problem with
I'm going to be on vacation until Dec 30, and it looks like I probably
won't have email access during that time. If something important comes
up with one of my packages, I'd appreciate it if someone would make
a non-maintainer upload. All the packages have been upgraded to libc6
(I'm uploading
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 07:02:05AM +1100, Lawrence wrote:
Does that mean that Debian cann't be installed easily on a machine with
a Buslogic FlashPoint PT and no IDE disks? I'm going to buy a SCSI adapter
to replace the old AHA-1542CF I have right now, and based on a
recommendation on
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
Philip Hands:
It seems a shame to have to ask people to do this sort of thing.
It strikes me that one should be able to come up with a script that
does a test of this sort in not much more that the time required to
write the list (in this simple
Ian Jackson writes:
I agree. These tests should be shipped with the package source (not
in the .deb file, since most users won't want them).
I am an active tester. Speaking from this viewpoint, your
proposal is excellent, except for the location of the tests. From my
viewpoint it would
Is there a way I can get Linux to work on my old 286?
There is an attempt to port Linux to 086 called ELKS. Look for it's link
on LDP page (http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/). Last time I checked I still
couldn't even boot it on my 286 though.
Alex Y.
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I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus
5446 Chipset ?
I look forward to hearing from you
Sincerely,
Julien GILLE
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I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus
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I look forward to hearing from you
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I am planning to package battleball, a 3D soccer game played with tanks. If
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Hm. For some reason, today, syslogd started taking up more than its
share of CPU. (About 20% on a P200.)
I did an strace on the process, and saw lots of stuff like this:
read(21, 22Dec 11 16:03:34 cucipop[3129..., 1024) = 72
time([881885014]) = 881885014
writev(4, [{Dec 11
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