Lately, I've been getting a whole bunch of these warnings from man.
These warnings have popped in and out over the past year or two
of keeping up-to-date with Debian, and appear on EVERY hamm machine
I have:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src]% man openproc
3:59PM
Hi,
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I'd check the ulimit,
Nope, ulimit -c also outputs unlimited. What about the output of set
-o, how does yours look like?
Thanks,
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Can I propose the following ? When we get into this state we announce
an `early beta' and delay the release for at least a further two weeks
to see if any more release-necessary bugs arise, or if there is
discussion about the status of a bug.
Make it harder! From now on no new upstream
On 15 Apr 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Nope, ulimit -c also outputs unlimited. What about the output of set
-o, how does yours look like?
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David Welton wrote:
With all due respect, this seems more like a matter of local
configuration on your part rather than what the standard for Debian
should be. If we have decided that we want ctrl-alt-del to take the
system down, then it should do it consistantly.
My point is that since it
Raul Miller wrote:
I've several times been very glad ctrl-alt-del did not work in X. You see,
my main server is often in X, another computer here isn't, and I typically
get the keyboards confused and breath a huge sigh of relief when I realize X
ignored the ctrl-alt-del.
That can be
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
It will not have escaped the attention of the Project that dpkg hasn't
been very well maintained of late.
Klee seems to have dropped out of sight; I presume he's too busy doing
paid work or something. I'm currently very busy with the leadership
role
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On `small memory' systems dpkg switches to a different data structure
which is about twice as slow for general access on a big machine, but
has a much smaller working set so is much faster for setup and access
on small machines. dpkg uses sysinfo(2) to
Hi,
This is in response to your message of Wed, 8 Apr 1998. I
apologize for taking so long to get back to you.
As I said before, I am packaging dictd, containing the client
server software developed by the DICT Group. There will be a number
of separate packages containing the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
...
I also intend to change the format of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
database to make it faster to load, and I may change
/var/lib/dpkg/status too. (The resulting structures will still be
editable with emacs.)
I've written a Regina REXX program to
Hi,
Hartmut == Hartmut Koptein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can I propose the following ? When we get into this state we
announce an `early beta' and delay the release for at least a
further two weeks to see if any more release-necessary bugs arise,
or if there is discussion about the status of
Hi,
Alex == Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alex we got 4 new computers running debian (1.3.1) and in the process
Alex of upgrading them to 2.0 i found the following problems:
Alex (1) kernel-package doesn't know how to deal with spaces before
Alex the block devices in the /etc/fstab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. van Leeuwen) wrote:
I'd opt for a `shutdown' button on the XDM login screen.
Right now there isn't a simple way of bringing the machine down---as
far as i know. Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work in XFree86.
Of course, care should be taken that this can be done only
hey dude do you have the qcrack
code
I have now fixed this in my sources. I would appreciate a bug
report on things like this, since it was mere happenstance that I
noticed this message. Expect an upgrade in a day or so.
i was going to do this eventually, i just first wanted to see what
other people thought about this. i
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
I had been thinking about taking over the wordnet packages, but you
got there first, and I won't argue about it. If you change your mind
about them, let me know.
I'm in the process of becomming a Debian maintainer. Unfortunately this
process
A man told me about these package but i dont know where i can find them.
Are they far better than the debmake ?
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On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:35:44AM +0200, Julien Ortega wrote:
A man told me about these package but i dont know where i can find them.
They're part of the distribution - hamm. The newest lintian is in
the incoming since yesterday - and installed on master+va.
Are they far better than the
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:35:44AM +0200, Julien Ortega wrote:
A man told me about these package but i dont know where i can find them.
Are they far better than the debmake ?
debhelper is a replacement for debmake. Unlike debmake, debhelper
is composed of many different scripts; debmake is
SciTech, the producers of MGL (a graphics library used to develop games
like Hexen II and Quake for Windows) have decided to make that library
open source software, by changing its license to a derivative of the
MPL. (See their note at the GGI mail-list:
Hi!
Isn't mikmod free now?
From sunsite: /apps/sound/players/mikmod-3.0.3.lsm
Copying-policy: Free, no strings attached
From mikmod-3.0.3.tar.gz license.txt:
MikMod is now under a free-with-no-strings-attached-if-it-breaks-you-get-to-
keep-both-pieces type of license. Basically this means:
a)
There now appear to be a few search sites that cover a lot of mailing
lists:
http://www.reference.com/
and
http://www.findmail.com/
Both already have many major linux lists (like [EMAIL PROTECTED])
(for reference.com: search mailing list directory for Linux; for
findmail.com: see
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
reassign 21164 libc6
Bug#21164: Realtime lock in linuxthreads
Bug assigned to package `libc6'.
reassign 21170 general
Bug#21170: dpkg malfunction-unable to upgrade Debian
Bug assigned to package `general'.
reassign 21175 tix41
Bug#21175: Can't load
You wrote:
Apparently, it doesn't like version numbers in Packages which contain a
colon. It stops at cdda2wav, because the version number contains :.
That's the epoch feature, used in cases where the upstream version
numbering scheme changed, to make set dpkg's idea of which versions are
newer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) writes:
The third member of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Michael Alan Dorman. I
haven't seen much from him recently (most recent message from him on
debian-devel on the 30th of March). Michael, are you there ? Are you
planning to put out a new dpkg release any time
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
SciTech, the producers of MGL (a graphics library used to develop games
like Hexen II and Quake for Windows) have decided to make that library
open source software, by changing its license to a derivative of the
MPL. (See their note at the GGI mail-list:
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 04:37:31AM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote:
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Eloy A. Paris, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
an easy one: why when root runs a program that faults core is not
dumped but when a normal user runs the same program a core is dumped?
My educated guess on this is that there could be sensitive data
Previously Brian Mays wrote:
There is an easy way to get this button on your screen, assuming that you
have the TCL/TK packages installed.
I've done the same thing (using Motif), but added a confirmation check..
I've found that when I move the mouse or press a mousebutton when the
screen is in
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
SciTech, the producers of MGL (a graphics library used to develop games
like Hexen II and Quake for Windows) have decided to make that library
open source software, by changing its license to a
Hi,
You wrote:
I'm in the process of becomming a Debian maintainer. Unfortunately this
process isn't finished since two weeks (may be it is delayed because of
the efforts in the upcomming hamm release). I would like to maintain
wordnet than. But may be I would need your help because
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They're part of the distribution - hamm. The newest lintian is in
the incoming since yesterday - and installed on master+va.
IIRC, Christian's message yesterday said the newest lintian was
in slink, not hamm. I downloaded it from slink on
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
Would you think that /usr/lib/dict is an appropriate directory for
the Wordnet database (the filenames didn't conflict!).
The old WordNet packages used usr/lib/wordnet/dict/. I believe
either /usr/lib/dict/ or /usr/lib/dict/wordnet/ (since
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
I'm also a new maintainer, and dictd is my first package, so it's
doubtful that I could give you much help, but I'll be glad to try if
you have problems. You should subscribe to debian-mentors, if you
haven't already. A number of very
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
Actually, /usr/share/dict. Shouldn't new package be constructed from
the start to use FHS?
I think so and my favourite directory is
/usr/share/dict/wordnet
What format are these files in? Are they ASCII? The reason I ask is
that
Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian.
It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it
widely. This means that even if it is not accesable by dselect, we
should not put it on CDs yet.
Ah. I had forgotten that.
If a package being
From a logical point of view, I think project/experimental is the best
choice. Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official
CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)?
Project/experimental is not part of hamm.
Yes. That's exactly my point.
Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official
CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)?
gettext is in experimental so that it will *not* be included in CDs...
If we start putting experimental things in CDs, then we should create
another
Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or
assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from
the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.)
Will this be nescessary? The libc5 thing is only temporary, and I don't
Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or
assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from
the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.)
You certainly can do that, check out bash/libreadline for instance.
Hmmm...
So, when will Hamm be released? You decide. It's up to the devolpers
to set the date by fixing the problems that are currently holding up
the release. As soon as the last release-necessary bug gets closed or
downgraded, we'll probably be ready to ship.
Brian: I would like to have an
So, when will Hamm be released? You decide. It's up to the devolpers
to set the date by fixing the problems that are currently holding up
the release. As soon as the last release-necessary bug gets closed or
downgraded, we'll probably be ready to ship.
Can I propose the following ?
I will take over the orphaned elvis package, unless someone else has already
said they'll do it.
Martin.
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The author has stated that this is no longer a goal of his library.
Also, many of the XForms apps that we use would require modifications
because the author of fltk did not re-create anything that took an X
type as an argument (like XEvent). It is possible to make the XForm
apps work w/ fltk,
I have had Linux on my machine before
(Slackware) and had a shell that had different colors assigned by file
type. It was pretty nice. I cannot find the shell that does this in
the newest version of Debian. Any suggestions. Help on changing
shells at login would be appreciated as well (I
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 08:19:29PM -0700, boobileedoo wrote:
please get someone to spam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and [EMAIL PROTECTED] plus get some one to spam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] thanx
Why? Isn't spamming supposed to be wrong? What makes it wrong for people
to spam is if it's not wrong for us to
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Brian White:
Project/experimental is not searched by dselect friends
apt does search in experimental, as far as I know.
If a package being in experimental does not implicitly mean not to be
distributed in CDs, then we would need definitely another
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
SciTech, the producers of MGL (a graphics library used to develop games
like Hexen II and Quake for Windows) have decided to make that library
open source software, by
First, this belongs on debian-user -- not devel.
The color came from ls. Debian also ships this version of ls. read
ls's man page and all should be clear.
Pat Quick wrote:
I have had Linux on my machine before (Slackware) and had a shell that
had different colors assigned by file type. It
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Pat Quick wrote:
I have had Linux on my machine before (Slackware) and had a shell that
had different colors assigned by file type. It was pretty nice. I
cannot find the shell that does this in the newest version of Debian.
Any suggestions. Help on changing shells at
Darn. I downloaded blender today, but it needs a libc5 version of mesa
2.6 and libjpeg. So it doesn't work on my stock hamm system 8(.
I wrote to the people at Blender and asked about a libc6 version, and
what license they were going to release it under (pointing them to the
DFSG of course), I
Behan == Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Behan Darn. I downloaded blender today, but it needs a libc5
Behan version of mesa 2.6 and libjpeg. So it doesn't work on my
Behan stock hamm system 8(.
Behan I wrote to the people at Blender and asked about a libc6
Behan
Pat Quick wrote:
I have had Linux on my machine before (Slackware) and had a shell that had
different colors assigned by file type. It was pretty nice. I cannot
find the shell that does this in the newest version of Debian. Any
suggestions. Help on changing shells at login would be
While working on the install doc, I noticed X11_release_note.txt which
is a note for debian X users with non-US keyboards. That note
seems to be a *little* outdated. Would someone with knowledge
of the issues care to update it, or if no update is needed,
at least change the versions of the
James A.Treacy writes (Re: Aiding the constitutional procedure [was
Re: Automation of the constitutional procedure]):
[Dale:]
While I agree with the merrits of your previous arguments, I don't see
what this has to do with the constitution. The secretary has powers
which allow the secretary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: dpkg memory usage):
...
I've written a Regina REXX program to run some comparisons
between the dpkg/status file and current Packages (+non-free,
contrib, nonus) files. It currently shows which files need
updating, misconfigured packages, shows a deb's paragraph
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 03:22:46AM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote:
I will take over the orphaned elvis package, unless someone else has already
said they'll do it.
Elvis is non-free and the author ignores all mail coming from us,
both copyright mails as well as bugreports and fixes.
We have
I think we should make it someone's job to collate versions and
amendments c, so that the secretary doesn't have to do it unless they
want to.
So, I'm considering inserting after A.2 `Calling for a vote' 2.:
3. The person who calls for a vote states what they believe the
wordings of the
It's still pretty skeletal as far as style of presentation goes, but that's
subordinate to the content, which has been significantly updated.
My ideas about what the X Strike Force is and what it should do are there.
If anyone would like to help improve X, I urge you to take a look and see
if
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) wrote on 15.04.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Opening files in a large directory can be extremely inefficient in many Unix
varieties. The kernel has to do a linear search for each the file. Linux 2.1
should be faster because of the dentry stuff, but even so it
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, /usr/share/dict. Shouldn't new package be constructed from
the start to use FHS?
IIRC, it is intended to implement the FHS with symlinks
initially. Until a definite announcement is made regarding the policy
for implementing the FHS, I
Hi,
The old WordNet packages used usr/lib/wordnet/dict/. I believe
This seemed me a bad choice and so I wanted to change it.
I agree. It seems undesirable to create a directory with nothing
in it but a subdirectory, if there is no expectation of adding more
files or directories
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[ I would like to appeal to the technical comittee here. Unfortunately the
technical comittee does not exist yet and all we have so far is
debian-devel. Therefore we will have to discuss it here
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
Please, tell me how much harm does to add a Pre-Depends field on libc6,
ncurses3.4 and libreadlineg2 for netstd. I can tell you how much
inconvenience does *not* to add it and then we can make a comparison
between those two inconveniences.
I've had
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 07:37:20PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
If a package being in experimental does not implicitly mean not to be
distributed in CDs, then we would need definitely another different
experimental for gettext.
I'm not sure whether or not experimental is appropriate
Am 16.04.98 schrieb jdassen # wi.leidenuniv.nl ...
Moin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
j http://www.reference.com/
j and
j http://www.findmail.com/
Nice for spams :(.
j I think it would be useful to archive the Debian lists there too (in
j addition to our www.debian.org archive).
No, please not.
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:05:12AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
serious package (I don't consider xteddy to be serious but only for the
sake of learning maintaining a package).
I blame you for that. How can you take xteddy not serious? We need it.
They don't seem to be in the Incoming mirrors, are they somewhere else?
There's someone who posts periodically saying he has an automatically built
iso image and boot floppies somewhere but I can't find any of his posts in the
archives.
Thanks,
greg
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