Hi,
I just did an update of my package list for potato. There are now 521
packages in the list instead of the 3300? What happened to the package
list?
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:14:26PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote:
I just did an update of my package list for potato. There are now 521
packages in the list instead of the 3300? What happened to the package
list?
Packages.gz in main is empty, even on master. Apparently dinstall broke.
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Hi,
On 16 May, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:14:26PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote:
I just did an update of my package list for potato. There are now 521
packages in the list instead of the 3300? What happened to the package
list?
Packages.gz in main is
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
Othmar Pasteka [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Actually you can make some text output with groff, for instance:
groff -man -Tascii pon.1 pon.txt
Yes, of course. The point raised earlier by this thread is that groff
takes lots of space. The programs I pointed
In trying to compile the latest Mozilla snapshot I ran in to an
interesting linker problem in that I got error messages along the lines
of:
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `__bsd_signal'
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to `_xstat'
reply to bug in which ncsa exits with an error on startup
(sorry it's been so long. this bug got lost in the shuffle somewhere)
Apparently, this problem can be fixed by specifying a group
to run as in /etc/ncsa/httpd.conf. However, ncsa doesn't
seem to actually _run_ as that user/group.
Bradley Bell wrote:
Here, for example, is a teeny tiny little nroff that does a good job
reading most, but not all man pages:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text/nroffsrc.tar.Z
I'll have to check this out. If anyone is thinking about implementing
a short 'man' shell script to go with
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 08:57:14PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote:
reply to bug in which ncsa exits with an error on startup
(sorry it's been so long. this bug got lost in the shuffle somewhere)
Apparently, this problem can be fixed by specifying a group
to run as in /etc/ncsa/httpd.conf.
Obviously so5.0 doesn't work with stock potato. Has any started to work
on a hack around the glibc problems yet or no? Also has anyone
contacted Star Division about this?
Boa does not have the full-fledged cgi-bin scripting ability that ncsa
has. Scripts might not run under boa that run just fine under ncsa. Ncsa
is a reference web server in many ways and that is why I packaged it in
the first place. Please keep it in the distribution.
I wonder if we need a policy
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale The NICs are EtherLink III cards connected through a hub
Dale using twisted pair cable.
Two idle questions: are you sure you have straight-through cables,
have you tried directly connecting the machines to each other with a
cross-over
Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've set up debian upload queue in Japan. So please add the information
about this to dupload.conf and developers-references section 6.2.x.
Should I send it as wishlist to BTS?
Well, I've got it for the developers-reference side. I'll wait until
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:51:03PM +0200, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
oops .. have you looked at the debian gpg?
It is actually a script callin gpg.gnupg (the binary) with exactly these
options (except the debian-keyring)
Which version do you use? I don't have that script.
I have uploaded a new NMU of file to my directory on master.
fix for SPARC V9 file detection
properly shows stripped/unstripped (comments from non-x86 people here please
and non-glibc2.1)
if no further suggestions are made or errors shown, I will upload this release
into debian proper.
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
properly shows stripped/unstripped (comments from non-x86 people
here please and non-glibc2.1)
Did you contact upstream about that flakey fix they made that didn't
work? See what on earth that was all about?
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Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a
Hi,
recently i have started a new job and i have to work harder than
expected and to travel a lot. So, i am not able to mantain my Debian
packages in a satisfactory way, and the number of open bugs is
growing... This is true in particular for the ghostscript
(GS) packages. So, i am quite sorry,
First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on
the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables.
With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who
actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables
on
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Boa does not have the full-fledged cgi-bin scripting ability that ncsa
has. Scripts might not run under boa that run just fine under ncsa. Ncsa
is a reference web server in many ways and that is why I packaged it in
the first place. Please keep it
Inaky Perez Gonzalez wrote:
Package: general
Version: N/A
Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when
upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful.
I have received a report about upgrading as well. He failed...
But: There were two things which
Christoph Lameter wrote:
I wonder if we need a policy that prior maintainers need to be consulted
before a package is removed. Some other packages have just vanished while
I am busy with this endless dissertation. Hopefully that will be over
soon.
It's probably a good idea to make an
On Fri, 14 May 1999 19:04:01 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:02:40 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote:
Glad to hear all of this. I just have one comment:
- The mktexlsr, mktexdir and mktexupd scripts must not be setuid.
If they are, anyone could run them,
Hi,
While I was packaging hwtools, I stumbled across a program to set up
QIC-02 cards, qic02conf. It is included in hwtools, but it doesn't
have much documentation. I've found the upstream source, it was on
Metalab (Sunsite), and thought that it would be nice if someone would
package the whole
At 05:06 + 1999-05-16, M. Robert Tomasch wrote:
Obviously so5.0 doesn't work with stock potato. Has any started to work
on a hack around the glibc problems yet or no? Also has anyone
contacted Star Division about this?
Star Division did a fix for Red Hat's applications CD, but has not
made
Hi,
is there already someone building a gnu finger package??
I haven't seen one yet...
If there is no one working on this yet I'd be happy to work on this. But I'm
not 100% sure if there is such a package already :)
regards,
gerhard
Richard But if the package's maintainer thinks it should be removed, and
Richard no-one else volunteers to maintain it, then I don't think anyone
Richard should be able to say No, let it sit there and rot instead.
Agreed. We have too many packages that are just there and not being
attended
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 10:26:35AM +0100, James Troup wrote:
* OS/Makefile-Default: Enabled IPv6 support (this therefore requires
glibc 2.1)
Bah, this will break exim for m68k. :(
So will everything else network-related then, since we're hoping to get as
much as possible using IPv6.
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:26:18AM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Boa is nice as well, but has too many open bugs, and the maintainer
never ever seems to respond.
Unfortunately, that would mean that boa is not maintained upstream,
because Jon Nelson is also the upstream maintainer :(
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On 16-May-99 Josip Rodin wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:26:18AM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Boa is nice as well, but has too many open bugs, and the maintainer
never ever seems to respond.
Unfortunately, that would mean that boa is not maintained upstream,
because Jon Nelson is also
On 16-May-99 Chris Waters wrote:
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
properly shows stripped/unstripped (comments from non-x86 people
here please and non-glibc2.1)
Did you contact upstream about that flakey fix they made that didn't
work? See what on earth that was all about?
Not yet, I
i'd like to make the debian packages of portSentry by www.psionic.com
is there another one working on it ?
c ya
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Samuele Tonon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Am Sun, 16 May 1999 schrieb Samu:
i'd like to make the debian packages of portSentry by www.psionic.com
is there another one working on it ?
I did it already and I am working on logcheck now. However, I am not a
registered debian developer at the moment (I'm planning to register). If you
have
Hi
As I am new to creating Debian packages, I am not sure if Abacus Portsentry's
license allows it to be put in the main (or if it has to go into non-free)
section. The program is free to use by anybody and can be distributed in
any form, the only problem is that the author prohibits
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 06:24:28AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
Star Division did a fix for Red Hat's applications CD, but has not
made it available to anyone else. See http://lwn.net/1999/0513/.
It is money that matters?
Greetings
Bernd
Rene Mayrhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I am new to creating Debian packages, I am not sure if Abacus Portsentry's
license allows it to be put in the main (or if it has to go into non-free)
section. The program is free to use by anybody and can be distributed in
any form, the only
At 16 May 1999 03:41:27 -0400,
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've set up debian upload queue in Japan. So please add the information
about this to dupload.conf and developers-references section 6.2.x.
Should I send it as wishlist to
I intend to send mails like this regularly from now on, in order to
better inform people about changes in the archive. Changes made
manually are not normally reported in any other way, except sometimes
in bug-closing messages.
This shouldn't generate much traffic, since manual changes are
Thanks to Tony Mancill for pointing out:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/setup/3c5x9setup.html
The 3c5x9setup program takes the 509 out of PnP mode and lets you set the
base and IRQ addresses and write them into the eeprom.
I set the card using 3c5x9setup to the base address 300 and IRQ 10
After my recent experience gettying my new 3COM EtherLink III cards to
work, I would like to suggest that 3c5x9setup be included in the
isapnptools package. It is composed of a single .c source file with an
embedded copyright notice licensing it under the GPL. I would be willing
to write a man
I'm splitting the GNU autoconf package into two packages, `autoconf'
and `standards', where `autoconf' contains autoconf proper and
`standards' includes the GNU coding and package maintenance standards.
Objections?
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 13:28:48 -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Objections?
See subject. Please consider something less generic like gnu-standards
instead.
Ray
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On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 01:28:48PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
I'm splitting the GNU autoconf package into two packages, `autoconf'
and `standards', where `autoconf' contains autoconf proper and
`standards' includes the GNU coding and package maintenance standards.
Objections?
How about
I have received this, you'd know better what to do.
Regards,
Joey
Jeff MacDonald wrote:
Greetings,
Today we (PostgreSQL INC.) made our Initial Press Release at
http://www.pgsql.com/release.html
Regarding the beginning of techincal support etc.
Also we are
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After my recent experience gettying my new 3COM EtherLink III cards to
work, I would like to suggest that 3c5x9setup be included in the
isapnptools package. It is composed of a single .c source file with an
embedded copyright notice licensing it
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 01:28:48PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
I'm splitting the GNU autoconf package into two packages, `autoconf'
and `standards', where `autoconf' contains autoconf proper and
`standards' includes the GNU coding and package
Hi, I just joined the list and missed the beginning of the thread, but I
generally use man2html in a cron job and have a shell cgi do a find in the
htdocs area from my apache site when I get a little confused...
Most of my stuff is perl anyway, being C illiterate, so I also do a lot of
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 01:35:35PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
I'm splitting the GNU autoconf package into two packages, `autoconf'
and `standards', where `autoconf' contains autoconf proper and
`standards' includes the GNU coding and package maintenance standards.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did that, the 2.2.7 and
2.2.8 would never have come out because work had already begun on the 2.3
kernels.
Umm, may I point out that 2.3.0 == 2.2.8? The difference is
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Ben == Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben `autoconf' and `standards', where `autoconf' contains autoconf
Ben proper and `standards' includes the GNU coding and package
Ben maintenance standards.
Guess I'll buck the trend and vote for 'standards' -- its what
upstream has always called it,
Hi,
this is intend to package pavuk. Pavuk is a mirroring program - it can
download (mirror) via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and Gopher protocols. It works in text
mode or has a graphical interface in GTK. The licence is GPL, and you can have
a look at it at http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/ .
It will go
I notice there is a great deal of diagnostic and setup utilities here:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/setup
http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/diagnostic.html
When I have some spare time I think I'll set about to create a netcard
configuration
selector-type interface to all these utils,
On Sun, 16 May, 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After my recent experience gettying my new 3COM EtherLink III cards to
work, I would like to suggest that 3c5x9setup be included in the
isapnptools package. It is composed of a single .c source file with
And having mktex{mf,tfm,pk}
writing to a scratch directory defeats the purpose of making the fonts
directory read only, as anyone could then create a corrupt font file
in the scratch directory and run mktexupd.
This is a problem, but isn't there some simple, efficient way to
On Sun, 16 May 1999 21:31:14 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote:
And having mktex{mf,tfm,pk}
writing to a scratch directory defeats the purpose of making the fonts
directory read only, as anyone could then create a corrupt font file
in the scratch directory and run mktexupd.
This is a
Package: gsfonts-x11
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Roland Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 0.1
Depends: gsfonts, xbase-clients
Description: Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11.
This packages makes the 35 Postscript fonts from the gsfonts package
available to your X server
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did that, the 2.2.7 and
2.2.8 would never have come out because work had already begun on the 2.3
Umm, whats wrong with openprojects.net ?
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