Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-13 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't debate whether this is true in general, bug it is certainly unnecessary in the case of pump. I have specifically added code to deal with the inability to write to /var/run by making pump fall back to using TCP sockets. It will also

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will also need to cope with writing to /var/run on the root partition, having /var mounted, and later processes not being able to open the file since the /var/run directory on the root disk is inaccessable. It does. If the Unix-domain socket does

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Fumitoshi UKAI | At Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:52:12 -0400 (EDT), | Joe Nahmias wrote: | | Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will | they be purged from there as well? | | These packages will be available through http://snapshot.debian.net/, | as much as I can

Bug#188825: ITP: sonar -- console chat via ICMP (ping) echo-request packets

2003-04-13 Thread Alexander Neumann
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13 Severity: wishlist * Package name: sonar Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Philipp Lay [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://platon.intra-tec.de * License : BSD Description : console chat via ICMP (ping)

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le sam 12/04/2003 à 15:34, Andrew Suffield a écrit : phpgroupware Again, several alternatives. Sorry ? pppoeconf Yay, another config tool. Just what we need. Sure. Instead of being able to set up a DSL line in a few seconds, we should let users handle all those configuration files by

LDAP slow (was: Update on alioth)

2003-04-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:02:33PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: [...] * Logging in on quantz (the machine running Alioth) is slow. Very slow. It seems that OpenLDAP as running on quantz is not very fast. We are already using all the useful indices on the LDAP database and using nscd,

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-13 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 23:56, Herbert Xu wrote: * Change /sbin/pump to: * Store PID in /run, not in /var/run I won't debate whether this is true in general, bug it is certainly unnecessary in the case of pump. I have specifically added code to deal with the inability to write to

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-13 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 10:12, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:17, Thomas Hood wrote: * ppp * Change /usr/sbin/pppd to: * Store PID in /run/, not in /var/run/ Why? Is the goal to make PPP-mounter /var to work?! I suppose someone might want to mount /var/

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030412 15:49]: I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive? s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. So there's no problem recovering the latest version from sid of a package. Well, they

Re: Update on alioth

2003-04-13 Thread Joerg Wendland
Wichert Akkerman, on 2003-04-12, 22:02, you wrote: * Logging in on quantz (the machine running Alioth) is slow. Very slow. It seems that OpenLDAP as running on quantz is not very fast. We are already using all the useful indices on the LDAP database and using nscd, but especially

Re: Update on alioth

2003-04-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joerg Wendland wrote: When debugging an application of mine using OpenLDAP I found out, that each single ACL makes not queries but return of results significantly slower. Maybe you want to try to tune these... ACL can make LDAP horribly slow, but we already have a pretty minimal

[desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Mark Howard
Hi, When the debian-desktop project was started, there was a lot of talk about creating kernel images patched for improved performance. Most people agreed that this would be a good idea. Unfortunately no such packages seem to have been created. Is anybody working on this? What problems are

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Saturday 12 April 2003 15:34, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: pptp-linux AIUI, you have to rebuild your kernel with a patch, and the version of the patch in the archive doesn't work on recent kernels. So I doubt many people will be

Re: Fwd: ITP: oscommerce -- Online shop e-commerce solution with PHP/MySQL

2003-04-13 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Saturday 12 April 2003 18:57, Bruno David Rodrigues wrote: - Mensagem Reenviada de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - With no restrictions or special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP3 or PHP4 enabled web server, on any environment that PHP and MySQL supports, which includes

Re: Nameserver-pushing mechanism

2003-04-13 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 02:34, Jeremie Koenig wrote: Sounds quite good. But I have a suggestion about going one step further: include the whole thing into ifupdown. [...] In the following, where you write '/etc/resolv-update.d' I guess you meant to say '/etc/network/resolv-update.d' since

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Not about to offer to take pptp-linux, though - it's not essential for me, and I guess as a non-DD, it would be a bit tough to take on as a first package. If you change your mind and need a sponsor, let me

/usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-13 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! There is a package I adopted (bugsx), which uses Imake. However the previous maintainer didn't use upstream makefile install{,.man} targets (which put the binary and manpage in /usr/X11R6/{man,bin}), and instead installed them manually into /usr/{share/man,bin}. My question is: how to

Porting lpr from OpenBSD to Debian - any tips?

2003-04-13 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
I'm trying to port the latest lpr release from OpenBSD to Debian (the package has been orphaned and I'm trying to take it over) and the process is not entirely straightforward. Are there any tips (common pitfalls etc) for porting applications from *BSD to Linux? -- * Kettering's Law:

Re: /usr/{share/man,bin} vs /usr/X11R6/{man,bin} (policy 12.8.7)

2003-04-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Marcin Owsiany wrote: My question is: how to interpret policy section 12.8.7. Is to mean: All packages using imake should puth files where imake-generated makefile would put them, period. or Everything should go to /usr/{bin,share/man}, but if your package uses imake, you're

Re: Nameserver-pushing mechanism

2003-04-13 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 03:54:58PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: In the following, where you write '/etc/resolv-update.d' I guess you meant to say '/etc/network/resolv-update.d' since /etc/network is where ifupdown stores its configuration files. Sure. Underlying programs to configure

Re: Bug#188665: RC issue

2003-04-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
clone 188665 -1 -2 reassign -1 binutils reassign -2 openoffice.org reassign 188665 xfree86-common thanks Hi, [Since flex is standard, perhaps this migration issue needs wider audience, hence the CC to debian-devel] The behaviour of flex has changed in the latest

Re: Bug#188665: RC issue

2003-04-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I understand that this requires all packages using lex to massage their lexers to conform to the new behaviour of flex; but the gains in reduced complexity of the scanner and reentrancy and standards compliance are well worth it. and like the gcc 3.2 change over, the upstreams will

Bug#188885: ITP: kxl -- a multimedia library for game development

2003-04-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13 Severity: wishlist * Package name: kxl Version : 1.1.7 Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://kxl.hn.org/kxl1xx.php * License : LGPL Description : a multimedia library for

Re: Bug#188665: RC issue

2003-04-13 Thread Jarno Elonen
I'm now getting a redefinition error and couldn't easily figure it out: In file included from conf_analysis_yy.h:5, from conf_analysis.yy:7: /usr/include/FlexLexer.h:112: redefinition of `class yyFlexLexer' /usr/include/FlexLexer.h:112: previous definition of

Re: Update on alioth

2003-04-13 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Joerg Wendland wrote: When debugging an application of mine using OpenLDAP I found out, that each single ACL makes not queries but return of results significantly slower. Maybe you want to try to tune these...

Re: Nameserver-pushing mechanism

2003-04-13 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 19:25, Jeremie Koenig wrote: * Make the latter scripts get their resolv.conf data from stdin instead of from the /run/network/resolv.d/* files This is important. It must be possible to control which nameservers go to which recipient script. For instance bind mustn't be

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 02:02, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Drew Scott Daniels [Thu, Apr 10 2003, 02:11:36PM]: I don't quite understand all the concepts being discussed but the following web pages may be worth reading. http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt The

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-13 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that José Luis Tallón may or may not have written... [snip] Sorry, i must me missing something obvious, but why would we need lib64foo ? Why not just define the new architecture x86-64 and have katie/buildd do the rest? [snip] Anything to do with the ability to mix-and-match 32 and

Bug#188890: ITP: geki3 -- a horizontal shoot'em-up

2003-04-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13 Severity: wishlist * Package name: geki3 Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://kxl.hn.org/games.php * License : GPL Description : a horizontal shoot'em-up

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 08:52, Mark Howard wrote: Hi, When the debian-desktop project was started, there was a lot of talk about creating kernel images patched for improved performance. Most people agreed that this would be a good idea. Unfortunately no such packages seem to have been

Bug#188891: ITP: grande -- a vertical shoot'em-up

2003-04-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13 Severity: wishlist * Package name: grande Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://kxl.hn.org/games.php * License : GPL Description : a vertical shoot'em-up

Bug#188892: ITP: geki2 -- a vertical shoot'em-up

2003-04-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13 Severity: wishlist * Package name: geki2 Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Katsuyoshi Sato [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://kxl.hn.org/games.php * License : GPL Description : a vertical shoot'em-up

Re: [devel] Re: Fwd: ITP: oscommerce -- Online shop e-commerce solution with PHP/MySQL

2003-04-13 Thread Bruno David Rodrigues
Citando Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 12 April 2003 18:57, Bruno David Rodrigues wrote: - Mensagem Reenviada de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - With no restrictions or special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP3 or PHP4 enabled web

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Colin Walters | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already | included. We'll probably just need a separate kernel-image-preempt | package or something that debian desktop can have installed by

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:34:32PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: pptp-linux AIUI, you have to rebuild your kernel with a patch, and the version of the patch in the archive doesn't work on recent kernels. So I doubt many people

Why is only the latest unstable package considered for testing?

2003-04-13 Thread Björn Stenberg
Hi. (I first submitted this question to debian-testing, but was referred here for discussion.) I have been looking at the excuses page[0] and was struck by how very old some packages are in testing, yet only the very latest bleeding edge version from unstable appears to be considered for

Bug#188914: ITP: phpscribe -- a documentation generator for PHP applications

2003-04-13 Thread Rafael de Oliveira Jannone
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-13 Severity: wishlist * Package name: phpscribe Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Marcos Pont [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://phpscribe.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : a documentation

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unnecessary; but would using /run for the pidfile be a better (e.g., simpler) solution? If not then do you think the TCP-socket approach is the way to deal with every program that writes a pidfile when /var/ may be absent? Pump doesn't write pid

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Colin Walters | Anthony Towns has mentioned a few times that he thinks sarge will use | Linux 2.6, which comes with most of the goodies like preemption already | included. We'll probably just need a separate

A donde vas en Semana Santa ?

2003-04-13 Thread Camping Tours
Title: Que haras en Semana Santa ? Este mensaje no puede ser considerada SPAM mientras incluya la forma de ser removido. Para ser removido de la lista y no recibir futuros

Re: Why is only the latest unstable package considered for testing?

2003-04-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: (I first submitted this question to debian-testing, but was referred here for discussion.) [If you would be so kind as to word wrap your messages before you send them it would make reading and replying to them much easier.] Well, actually I was hoping you would search

W3C recommendations

2003-04-13 Thread Thomas Bliesener
Almost the whole Debian website meets the HTML standards except some online documentation which seems to be a problem of debiandoc2html (#188117). In a quick survey I found more packages which generate code which doesn't pass the check on http://validator.w3.org: gallery latex2hmtl netsaint

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:39, David Nusinow wrote: How much is broken with 2.5 right now? Could someone who's familiar with the issues give an approximation as to how much work it would take to adapt d-i to 2.5? 2.5 has a replacement set of utilities for loading kernel modules. The installer

x86-64 tool chain works

2003-04-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've found the bug in bochs that was stopping me from testing my biarch tool chain and all the basic stuff seems to work fine now. Anyone interested in an x86-64 debian port can now experiment with the packages I have uploaded to

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.5 apparently has a replacement for initrd which may require some changes. initramfs is currently 100% backwards compatible. So no changes are needed for initrd users. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu