Joel Klecker writes:
However, I have run across a patch that adds an option that does use magic
numbers to guess which compression program to use. The URL was posted on
gnu.misc.discuss some months ago, but it is unfortunately not on dejanews.
For things like that, I have developped a
James Troup writes:
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
appropriate, though?
By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine
upstream source (since the vast majority of source stills
Why dont u make a debian PAckage out of it? You can do one PAckage
xteddy with an additonal command-line parameter to select the
personality shown.
somebody else (Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED]) has already
expressed interest in packaging xteddy. i can share the pixmaps with
him though.
Hi,
Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks.
This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with
the floppy drive light lit after displaying Loading root.bin...
Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it works like a charm
on another system.
The
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i was wondering when will debian 2.0 come out??
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On 18 Apr 1998, James Troup wrote:
Hi,
Santiago approached us (pgp-update) about splitting the debian-keyring
from doc-debian because a) the keyring tar ball is currently 256Kb
(36% of doc-debian's installed size) and growing (it may eventually
double in size when I get round to adding a
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 07:05:38PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:15:57AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
What is the upload procedure for non-US? And what is the status
of non-US with regard to frozen etc; what distribution should I use
to get into non-us/slink?
I'd like to see this patch become the default:
--- ircii-4.4/source/dcc.c~ Thu Dec 25 17:36:09 1997
+++ ircii-4.4/source/dcc.c Sat Apr 18 19:22:43 1998
@@ -940,16 +940,6 @@
return;
}
#endif /* S_IFDER */
- if (scanstr(FileBuf, /etc/))
- {
-
The latest development linux kernels have a fairly substantially
changed struct acct defined in acct.h.
Currently:
libc5:
sys/acct.h just includes linux/acct.h (2.0.32 version)
libc6:
sys/acct.h is a new file, but it defines a structure which
happens to be the same as linux/acct.h (2.0.32
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks.
This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with
the floppy drive light lit after displaying Loading root.bin...
Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it
I finally had some time to update the install doc (install.html and
install.txt that comes with the boot disks). The new one is available at
http://www.nothinbut.net/~igor/install.html . Please comment.
What I did is modified it to mention Pentium II every time compatibility with
Intel
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks.
This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with
the floppy drive light lit after displaying
I just went through the process yesterday, and I found it quite tedious.
Downloading and creating all those floppies, plus debugging problems with
rawrite and the bios floppy drivers.
And it should all be completely unecessary. It would be really nice if we
supported the loadlin method of
Sigh, after writing that whole thing i looked at the new install.html and saw
that more or less precisely what i described is in there. As someone recently
said on linux-kernel, what tasty shoe leather i'm wearing today.
Sorry,
greg
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Nothing to stop them from copying it to /tmp and dcc'ing it from there.
Waste of time changing the app.
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
if the signal occurs after the wait system call, but before the result of
the system call is stored in wait_or_timeout_retval, the fact, that
the system call succeeded is lost.
this is (1) a bug in apache
http://www.neogeo.nl/blender.html
binary doesn't work with debian hamm, because:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/b/blenderLinux_1.30 ldd blender
libMesaGLU.so.2 = not found
libMesaGL.so.2 = not found
libXmu.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x4000b000)
libXext.so.6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need to install the libc5 versions of libmesa and libjpeg.
They are in the packages libjpeg6a and, um... there does not seem
to be a mesa2 package in hamm. You're stuck.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/b/blenderLinux_1.30 export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib
[EMAIL
Howdy,
I noticed some problems I have with PGP signed messages from Christian
Leutloff and Jim Pick, and a few others not coming from Debian.
My MUA always thinks the message is not pgp signed but encrypted and
queries for my PGP passphrase. I've wondered why and have
investigated this a little
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 02:51:31PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her
packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it
removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO.
If a maintainer leaves the
I maintain the mesa package. As no packages (before this) depended on
a libc5 version of mesa, I stopped including them. Adding them back
seems like a step backwards. It would be much better if you could
get blender recompiled with libc6 based libs.
Jay Treacy
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On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 01:09:35PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
I noticed some problems I have with PGP signed messages from Christian
Leutloff and Jim Pick, and a few others not coming from Debian.
My MUA always thinks the message is not pgp signed but encrypted and
queries for my PGP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
* MS = Martin Schulze
MS If it is a bug, it seems that it's a bug in mailcrypt or so. Jim
MS is using mailcrypt, Christian is also using Emacs, dunno with or
MS without mailcrypt.
Actually, this is an example message signed by mailcrypt as it comes
in our
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 03:02:51PM +0200, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote:
MS If it is a bug, it seems that it's a bug in mailcrypt or so. Jim
MS is using mailcrypt, Christian is also using Emacs, dunno with or
MS without mailcrypt.
Actually, this is an example message signed by mailcrypt as
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
There's nothing wrong with your mail, my mutt just doesn't recognize
it as pgp signed. I have adjusted my preprocessor.
My mutt does, and I didn't have to adjust it's configuration to make
it do so.
Nils
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On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:06:31PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 01:09:35PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
I noticed some problems I have with PGP signed messages from Christian
Leutloff and Jim Pick, and a few others not coming from Debian.
My MUA always thinks the
Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Incidentally, simply rebuilding the acct package against the new
header files is a little tricky, since the ./configure script uses
sys/acct.h in preference to linux/acct.h
Well, if it's just the location issue, you could modify configure.in
to list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i think the whole system is shit. it cannot work this way.
Nice temper. Not the best approach to getting help I've seen...
there is no single way to solve this problem with linux :-( i am very
unhappy.
Apparently.
what is this good for ? well. threads
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
appropriate, though?
By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine
upstream source (since the vast majority of source
Sven Upstream authors might choose to release upstream source compressed
Sven by bzip2. So bzip2 compression should be a valid option for source
Sven archives.
Yes, just as another datapoint, GNU Octave does. For the record:
miles:/var/spool/mirror/octave [root] # ls -l
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 07:29:19PM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote:
I'd like to see this patch become the default:
--- ircii-4.4/source/dcc.c~ Thu Dec 25 17:36:09 1997
+++ ircii-4.4/source/dcc.cSat Apr 18 19:22:43 1998
[patch body removed]
Yes, what that does is check your /dcc commands
'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.
Too much, IMHO.
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On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
There's nothing wrong with your mail, my mutt just doesn't recognize
it as pgp signed. I have adjusted my preprocessor.
/usr/doc/mutt-i/pgp-Notes.txt.gz has more info on how to fix this with
procmail.
-BEGIN PGP
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 04:37:29PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
There's nothing wrong with your mail, my mutt just doesn't recognize
it as pgp signed. I have adjusted my preprocessor.
/usr/doc/mutt-i/pgp-Notes.txt.gz
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 06:39:25PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
There's nothing wrong with your mail, my mutt just doesn't recognize
it as pgp signed. I have adjusted my preprocessor.
/usr/doc/mutt-i/pgp-Notes.txt.gz has more info on how to fix this with
procmail.
Ha! That's the
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 05:20:39PM +0200, Sven Rudolph wrote:
IMHO the pristine property is more importent than the compression
ratio. If a choice between pristine gzipped and re-compressed bzip2ed
has to be made, I'd vote for the pristine way.
Could someone explain to me why it's so
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:23:58 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 07:29:19PM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote:
I'd like to see this patch become the default:
[...]
Yes, what that does is check your /dcc commands to see if they have
/etc or /passwd in them, and if they do, print
Avery Could someone explain to me why it's so important to keep sources
Avery pristine in this sense?
Security. Trojan horses. To be able to compare against digital footprints (eg
md5sums) from upstream.
Avery I can understand not wanting to
Avery untar-retar the archive, but
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 10:10:00AM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote:
[...]
Yes, what that does is check your /dcc commands to see if they have
/etc or /passwd in them, and if they do, print a message Send request
rejected.
Ick, no. If an admin is not running shadow passwds, that's their
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Austin Donnelly wrote:
The latest development linux kernels have a fairly substantially
changed struct acct defined in acct.h.
Currently:
libc5:
sys/acct.h just includes linux/acct.h (2.0.32 version)
libc6:
sys/acct.h is a new file, but it defines a structure
Hello!
I recently crashed the root partition of a hamm station. Fixing it, I
installed several packages, also kernel-image package.
The system was not able to boot anymore. Trying to come into the system, I
tried Debian 1.3 boot disks and some newer disks (20-2, 20-3?). All disks
hang after
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
I rebooted with the rescue disk and tried to use the rescue image but got
something to the effect that there was no such image. When I used the regular
image and ran fdisk and saved the partition table from there it was ok.
Don't bug me to death... I missed the `update-alternatives' for
`guile1.3', so the menu button won't work and you'll have to type
`guile1.3' to run it. I've an update within a few days anyhow, and
it's `unstable' only, so... geez, this is more work than I thought it
would be.
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On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:03:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
I rebooted with the rescue disk and tried to use the rescue image but got
something to the effect that there was no such image. When I used the
regular
The wierd thing is that rescue _is_ there:
syslinux.cfg:
# see /usr/doc/syslinux/readme.gz for file format description
DEFAULT linux
APPEND load_ramdisk=1 initrd=root.bin
TIMEOUT 0
DISPLAY debian.txt
PROMPT 1
F1 f1.txt
F2 f2.txt
F3 f3.txt
F4 f4.txt
F5 f5.txt
F9 f9.txt
F0 f10.txt
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:18:49PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
The wierd thing is that rescue _is_ there:
syslinux.cfg:
[...]
It worked fine with older versions of syslinux, and now it doesn't work,
although /usr/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc.gz says nothing about changing
the syntax of
I maintain the mesa package. As no packages (before this) depended on
a libc5 version of mesa, I stopped including them. Adding them back
seems like a step backwards. It would be much better if you could
get blender recompiled with libc6 based libs.
It's non-free stuff and no source
Mark Baker wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:56:02AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
That will be a problem with lyx as the upstream side is
thinking about a switch anyway, but qt is the leading candidate
there.
Someone should tell them about GTK, now that
James A.Treacy wrote:
I maintain the mesa package. As no packages (before this) depended on
a libc5 version of mesa, I stopped including them. Adding them back
seems like a step backwards. It would be much better if you could
get blender recompiled with libc6 based libs.
Jay Treacy
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Oh, also another problem. Various commands from the ramdisk hung, i had to
reboot a couple times when all the virtual terminals were hung. And many
commands on the installed partition didn't work.
I imagine this might be some kind of shared library snafu, though who knows?
Maybe it would make
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.neogeo.nl/blender.html
binary doesn't work with debian hamm, because:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/b/blenderLinux_1.30 ldd blender
libMesaGLU.so.2 = not found
libMesaGL.so.2 = not found
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This says nothing about the postrm. Should ldconfig ever be called in the
postrm?
It doesn't matter. ld.so reacts the same way to a library in the
cache but not in the filesystem as to a library in neither place.
Guy
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This looks great, igor! :)
Here's a patch for lots of spell checks and 'linux' - 'Linux',
'debian' - 'Debian' fixes.
--- install.html.oldSun Apr 19 13:03:40 1998
+++ install.htmlSun Apr 19 13:15:54 1998
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
because Debian is based on Ifree software/I. /P
PFree
I have to temporarily remove dists/bo and dists/stable. The problem
is that dists/stable is a directory instead of a symlink, and
converting a directory to a symlink will break many ftp mirror
programs. The only semi-reliable way is to remove the directory, wait
a while for all ftp sites to get
Felix Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Avery Could someone explain to me why it's so important to keep sources
Avery pristine in this sense?
Security. Trojan horses. To be able to compare against digital footprints (eg
md5sums) from
On 19 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
If you're accessing bo through dists/stable or dists/bo, you will have
to use the top level stable, non-free, and contrib symlinks. Note
that those symlinks will disappear when hamm is released.
If anyone is using apt to access the archive then you will have
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:27:39PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
The comment field is used by various system utilities,
such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present
in the comment field. They are
pri= - set initial value of nice
umask= - set initial value of umask
ulimit=
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:13:32PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:03:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Enrique, could you *please* fix the help screens? They say you should boot
default options=value and rescue options=value, but they are not there!
I had to
I originally wanted to wait because it would increase the size of the
archive. I just added up the sizes and it would cost 107 megs. It
turns out that the entire archive is approaching 4 gigs (!!) so 107
megs is not that much.
I'll convert them now so it will be easier for people to press CDs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On 18 Apr 1998, James Troup wrote:
Hi,
Santiago approached us (pgp-update) about splitting the debian-keyring
from doc-debian because a) the keyring tar ball is currently 256Kb
(36% of doc-debian's
Gregory S. Stark wrote:
It might even be possible to pass a parameter from loadlin with the
dos path the kernel was loaded from; the user could mount the msdos
filesystem and the install program could read the base disks (or a
single image) straight from the original dos partition.
I was
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looking closer, I found a couple of packages (msqld and sudo)
which updated /etc/group in what I would consider an insufficiently
paranoid fashion.
No package should modify /etc/passwd or /etc/group directly (save
base-passwd). They should call adduser,
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:36:52PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
The wierd thing is that rescue _is_ there:
syslinux.cfg:
[...]
It worked fine with older versions of syslinux, and now it doesn't work,
although /usr/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc.gz says nothing about changing
the
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
It's up to you which guidelines you want to follow--but if you want to
maintain packages for our distribution, you'll have to follow our
guidelines! Our policy applies to all packages in the distribution. Any
package failing current policy in a
[I reduced the list of recipients.]
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
It's up to you which guidelines you want to follow--but if you want to
maintain packages for our distribution, you'll have to follow our
guidelines! Our policy
Where is the Mesa 2.6 for hamm then?? My box shows mesa as a
local/missing file. I have mesa installed though.
It's in there. Here are the relevant entries in the lates copy of
hamm.
Package: mesa-doc
Version:
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
[I reduced the list of recipients.]
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
It's up to you which guidelines you want to follow--but if you want to
maintain packages for our
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 02:14:08PM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Having said that, I'm a lot less opposed to this idea than I am to the
idea of using bzip2 for debs.
Well, perhaps it would be nice to have it as an option for things
where either we
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