Brian Servis wrote:
This is a small program that I wrote for Linux (which could
theoretically compile on pretty much any other UNIX) that
automates the extraction of binary attachments from UseNet
newsgroups.
Why would anyone need this when uudeview already does such an excellent job,
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:41:01PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 17, J.H.M. Dassen Ray\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of FTP servers, has anyone taken a good look at troll-ftpd
(ftp://ftp.troll.no/freebies/ftpd)?
I did. IMO it's still unsuitable for big servers (it lacks features
Le Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait:
This is a bit long, so I'll summarize:
Debconf is a tool that packages can use to ask questions when they are
installed. It allows various frontends, from dialog, to gtk to web pages
to be used, and it also allows for
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
I did not yet check/test your work but I'm sure that it's great !
I wonder if you think that debconf is good/mature enough to be used
for potato.
Well I've been using it for about a month for just a couple of packages. I
will porbably convert my packages to use it once I
Joey Hess wrote:
10%? Just a guess. I did a fresh debian install and picked one of the larger
profiles, and only about 21 packages out of that profile did any prompting.
(Results in /usr/share/debconf/packages-that-prompt.)
Er, there should be a 'doc' in that path.
--
see shy jo
In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl
installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen
from the following list:
Style DateDatetime
---
ISO1999-07-17
Another question -- I realize the proposed API has been out for a while, but
is it possible that the TEXT command could be modified to take a priority?
There are probably notifications that the maintainer scripts could display
which some people would be interested in but many would not, and
*- On 17 Sep, Joey Hess wrote about Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber
Brian Servis wrote:
This is a small program that I wrote for Linux (which could
theoretically compile on pretty much any other UNIX) that
automates the extraction of binary attachments from UseNet
newsgroups.
Why
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And an updated version is at
http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO
I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for
inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted to
the Developer's Reference so it can
Daniel Burrows wrote:
Another question -- I realize the proposed API has been out for a while, but
is it possible that the TEXT command could be modified to take a priority?
Actually, debconf uses a variation on the prposed API, that makes text just
be a variety of ui element, like a boolean
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Brian Mays wrote:
Perhaps we should keep the last two versions of each branch? In this
case, 2.0.35, 2.0.36, 2.2.10, and 2.2.12 (which is in Incoming). I
don't know. Let's see whether anyone objects to just keeping two
versions around.
That seems reasonable. Once
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:22:59PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Anyway, which ftpd in unstable do you see as the package to promote as
the ftpd of choice in Debian?
Depending on what your needs are, perhaps roxen.
--
Raul
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:45:55AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl
installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen
from the following list:
[...]
I propose to include the attached script. If the
A few packages in potato seem to have dependency problems at the moment.
This is by no means an exhausive list. This is just a general heads-up. I
will file bugs with the packages if similar ones have not yet been filed.
emacs20: Depends: liblockfile0 but it is not installable
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:20:13PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
It's my personal preference that ISO standard be used unless otherwise
told - but that's me.
I tend to agree. It would just be so simple to have the default be ISO.
As ISO is very unambiguous, I don't think it would cause problems,
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:53:43PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
* Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hamish I don't think policy says that contrib is a dumping ground for
Hamish crap packages. Can you point out which part to me please?
If you call proftpd crap, how do
I also find apt 0.3.11's apt-cache search to be quite useful (and fast).
I use:
perl -n00e '/xml/i print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
(to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
Wow.. this seemed the kind of message that I usually skip...
Why don't we go for a picnic?
Let's go to .*World
... as leaving so far automatically makes me like an outcast.. =)
But you mean getting the money to actually get all Debian together... wow..
that would be interesting...!
So..
With Joost's approval, I NMU'd menu the other day. I seem to have broke it
in the process. If you do a large upgrade, you will have 20 or more
update-menus processes all waking up at the same time and competing to run.
I am looking into fixing this as soon as I can, but you might want to put
menu
Style DateDatetime
---
ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01
SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST
POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST
GERMAN 17.07.1999
Does anyone know what's going on here:
lftp :~ debian
Password:
cd ok, cwd=/debian2/private/project/Incoming
lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian2/private/project/Incoming ls -l rsh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 herbert Debian 26838 Sep 5 09:47
rsh-client_0.10-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 herbert
Carey Evans wrote:
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in
/usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if
it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone
and offset (date
Joey Hess wrote:
With Joost's approval, I NMU'd menu the other day. I seem to have broke it
in the process. If you do a large upgrade, you will have 20 or more
update-menus processes all waking up at the same time and competing to run.
I am looking into fixing this as soon as I can, but you
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
so far.
I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
information
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:22:59PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Anyway, which ftpd in unstable do you see as the package to promote as
the ftpd of choice in Debian?
Just to see what our alternatives are.
An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
100%,
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:57:44AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
100%, however, it has almost the same status as sendmail - it is a very
well tested and greatly improved software, for years now.
You're right, it has the
don't go away, i have a standardising question for the gurus:
vrweb used a function called name2() that i eventually found in the
libg++2.8.2-dev package in /usr/include/g++-2/generic.h
#define name2(a,b) gEnErIc2(a,b)
#define gEnErIc2(a,b) a ## b
now dselect tells me:
libg++2.8.2-dev - The
gnome-apt is no longer installable, because it depends on libapt-pkg2.5,
which does not exist.
What's going on?
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Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am on debian-boot for a long time. The truth is that a lot of people are
doing small things but nobody leads. No management. No decisions.
I would agree with this. Enrique would probably appreciate someone
taking over management and
Package: general
Version: N/A
example: after purging emacs19, the following occurs:
3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 13:11 # cat /etc/suid.conf | grep emacs
emacs /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail root mail 2755
4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 13:11 # dpkg --purge emacs19
dpkg - warning: ignoring
Oliver Elphick wrote:
gnome-apt is no longer installable, because it depends on libapt-pkg2.5,
which does not exist.
libapt-pkg2.5 was provided by apt 0.3.11
However, the latest version of apt (0.3.12) provides libapt-pkg2.6
So, if you want to keep gnome-apt, you should put a hold on apt
Hello !
I am right now upgrading my debian potato from the mirror ftp.it.debian.org and
at
the same time i am reading about all that troian viruses to be used with
win95.
Now, i am trusting the security of my system (nothing so important, right now,
but ...) in the hand of the system
Paul Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
header files, but what is the correct way to code this functionality? if
its not in the stdc++ headers, how are people supposed to solve similar
problems that name2() solved? (even tho its pretty damn simple code).
Speaking without having looked at
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reassign 45417 emacs19
Bug#45417: general: Lines referring to package remain in /etc/suid.conf after
purging
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `emacs19'.
thanks
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Please contact me if you need assistance.
Darren
Jon Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to
discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian.
The primary MTA? does that mean that more than one MTA can be installed on
Debian at once? I thought they all conflicted with each
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And an updated version is at
http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO
I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for
inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted to
the
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:05:31PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
With Joost's approval, I NMU'd menu the other day. I seem to have broke it
in the process. If you do a large upgrade, you will have 20 or more
update-menus processes all waking up at the same time and competing to run.
I am looking
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:11:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Have you looked at debconf at all? Because..
Scott Barker wrote:
Of course not; people are, sadly, always trying to redesign things they
don't even understand.
I, for one, am delighted to see this tool come to light after years of
Hi,
It seems that Friday's potato upgrade broke libc5. I cannot seem to run any
binaries compiled against libc5 anymore. Unfortunately programs like l3dec
and such cannot be recompiled. Weird thing is libc5 didn't change. Has
anyone else seen this problem on their systems and any ideas where
SW == Shane Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SW It seems that Friday's potato upgrade broke libc5. I cannot seem to run any
SW binaries compiled against libc5 anymore. Unfortunately programs like l3dec
SW and such cannot be recompiled. Weird thing is libc5 didn't change. Has
SW anyone else
JNH == Junio Hamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JNH The changes between the upgrade I did Friday did not, as far as
JNH I can tell, involve libc5 nor xlib6. From the diff between
JNH /var/lib/dpkg/status* file, I did not see anything suspicious,
JNH maybe other than ldso which was upgraded from
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:11:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Have you looked at debconf at all? Because..
Scott Barker wrote:
1) Separate interactive and non-interactive installation scripts. I suggest
that the current debian install scripts should contain *only*
non-interative
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 02:13:26PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:11:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Have you looked at debconf at all? Because..
Scott Barker wrote:
Of course not; people are, sadly, always trying to redesign things they
don't even understand.
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:40:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Joseph Carter wrote:
Install gpg-rsaref.
Please only do that if you live in the US or Canada. The rest of us need
gpg-rsa.
Unfortunately gpg-rsa is broken. It installs a sh wrapper (yes, sh) that
breaks gpg
Scott Barker wrote:
My reading of it was that you use the debconf functions from within the
post-install script. I'm talking about a completely new functionality for the
packaging system, where a config script is defined, and is not the
post-install script. I will check again, in case I missed
Scott Barker wrote:
For your information, I understand just fine. As near as I can tell, debconf
needs to be run in the post-install scripts, because there is not yet any
functionality within the packaging system to define a separate config script.
That extra functionality is what I'm looking
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On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:45:55AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in
/usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if
it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone
and offset (date '+%Z
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:25:15PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Can't we keep the number down to something more manageable, say 4 at
most?
We now have:
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0.35
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0.36
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2.1
I'm not objectionable to a 2.3.x, but I really don't think it's a good
idea.
Hey...my Debian Ultra SPARC system *loves* the 2.3.x kernel a heck of a lot
better than the 2.2.x strain.
I think that for unstable a version (or 2 depending of needs) of each
kernel tree would be nice...but for
Robert Vollmert wrote:
With /bin/sh - /bin/ash, I get the following error:
guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))
It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on
case $x in ( SystemV | posix | right )
^
is causing
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
With /bin/sh - /bin/ash, I get the following error:
guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))
It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on
case $x in ( SystemV | posix | right )
I have xemacs 21 packages aptable at
deb http://va.debian.org/~dres xemacs21/. I would appreciate
some people trying them out and seeing what problems you find (please
report directly to me rather than bug tracking system).
Here's known problems:
1) not all elisp packages that compile for
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:50:57PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
Not even a dozen messages into this thread, and already the usual user-bashing
begins.
I wasn't bashing a user, I was bashing people who levelled criticisms of
debconf before it's even been out 24 hours, and more to the point, before
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:52:24AM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
Or a new section for packages removed from main due to bugs, but possibly
still desired by some people? It's safer to have a clear message that
Debian considers these packages to contain too many bugs for inclusion in
the main
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