Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik was heard to say: An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character escaping the next char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and what we know as an escape character would be represented as Esc Esc. But this would probably

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Richard Braakman was heard to say: [snip] 59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir FWIW, I've never seen this bug. Package: rep-gtk (debian/main). Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build error

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:15:42PM -0800, Joey Hess was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to actually catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses (and slang?) were modified to handle

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
It seems to me that a better way to do this (in the abstract case :) ) would be to librarify dpkg -- that is, to make a libdpkg which approximately parallels libapt. This would also have the effect of solving some annoying quirks in the apt/dpkg interaction which are caused (if I remember

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:32:07PM -0400, Nicolás Lichtmaier was heard to say: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Why don't we make the new perls

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:37:11PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog was heard to say: Le Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:06:24PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt écrivait: Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:03:15PM -0500, Will Barton was heard to say: I dont believe that this is a problem with Mozilla itself, because the binary tarball of M14 works fine with M13 prefrences. Its only after you install the deb that this go crazy. Has anyone else used both the deb and

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 10, 2000

2000-03-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:15:04AM -0600, BugScan reporter was heard to say: Package: gnomeicu (debian/main) Maintainer: Edward C. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58919 gnomeicu causes XServer to grab all the memory. I think there was a discussion on -devel that concluded that there's some

Re: aptitude

2000-03-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:26:00AM -0500, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: What gets me is that aptitude, apt-get, deselect, and gnome-apt all seem to give slightly different info on which packages are broken, will be deleted, or are on hold. Are the dependancy rules interperted

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:12:08PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really know what you are doing or you may destroy your system. As far as I can see there is often not another way to do it. Ie., program complains

Re: Weird errors from update-alternatives

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:30:29PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman was heard to say: Previously Daniel Burrows wrote: My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato) produced the following odd output: What version of dpkg do you have? Wichert. Currently 1.4.1.13

Re: Weird errors from update-alternatives

1999-10-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:21:31PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott was heard to say: See bug 37252--I believe it is responsible for what you are seeking. tkstep8.0 registers slave alternatives (under wish) for /usr/man/man1/wish8.0.1.gz and /usr/bin/wish8.0 . This is bad because 1) tk8.0 does not

Weird errors from update-alternatives

1999-10-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato) produced the following odd output: Setting up tk8.2 (8.2.0-3) ... Checking available versions of wish, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.) Leaving wish

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Brian May was heard to say: Packages such as Wine, Kaffe, dosemu, and perhaps Frotz would drop a file into this directory announcing their support of a binary format. The files wouldn't actually be interpreted unless this init.d script is installed;

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Edward Betts was heard to say: Could I clarify some stuff please? Are we proposing that all mime-types have binfmt_misc setup? Does that mean, the kernel will be able to `run' any file in mailcap? Is that what we really want? I'm not; I just

Re: Unstable release

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say: Hi, I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the potato release. *raises hand* I've actually done two things -- the machine I'm typing on has been running unstable since before Slink was

Re: in.telnetd and virtual hosting

1999-10-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack was heard to say: I'm trying to virtualize in.telnetd to access a chrooted virtual server (using tcp_wrappers' twist option and Wietse's chrootuid utility). Everything works just fine until the in.telnetd from chrooted location is

Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hello, I was just poking around on my system and found a script I wrote back when kernel 2.2 was released. It was an experiment to see if I could easily handle registration and deregistration of binary formats (with binfmt_misc) -- it just occured to me that Debian might be interested in it,

Re: bash package removing /bin/sh on upgrade

1999-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say: A wonderfuly horrible hack has occurred to me, by the way: A cron job which runs every minute: /bin/sh -c exit || /sbin/rebuild-bin-sh Hmm. There's a bit of a problem here: aren't cronjobs executed with /bin/sh? :)

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
Oops. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc || exit 0 That maybe should be test -d ... (although the above works even on ash) Daniel -- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:30:04AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say: On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: [ as I understand it, a security 'breach' could only occur with this system if a user had execute permissions but *not* read permissions on a file

Re: doom source GPL'd

1999-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Joey Hess was heard to say: It looks like the doom source is now under the GPL. (http://www.doomworld.com/). This clears up the previous licencing problems that were keeping it out of debian. It will still be fit only for contrib for now, since it

Re: First beta version of the Debian SGML/XML HOWTO

1999-10-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:54:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman was heard to say: Previously Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: ishtar:~ dpkg --search /usr/bin/nsgmls sp: /usr/bin/nsgmls ^^ That only means you have it installed. Now try this: [lightning:~]-10 dpkg --print-avail nsgmls Package

Re: Is XEmacs nonfree?

1999-09-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:54:32AM +, David Coe was heard to say: [quoting RMS] But in another sense it is not GNU software, because we can't use XEmacs in the GNU system: using it would mean paying a price in terms of our ability to enforce the GPL. Some of the people who have

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 02:16:31PM +1000, Craig Sanders was heard to say: And if the package has a dependency? There are many situations dealing with the package system that can lead to daemons installing without your knowledge. mtools for potato includes floppyd, if someone upgrades a

Re: corel linux demo

1999-09-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf was heard to say: They said that the beta of their linux distro will be available for public download by the end of October. Hm. Do you have any information about the following issues: - How big is it? The only spare partition I

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
Sorry to interrupt the flamew^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussion here, but I have a quick question. On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:01:22PM +, Roland Rosenfeld was heard to say: One again: they are *not* accessible via these symlinks! They are. Well, maybe. (see below) This may work sometimes

Re: A simple question about unstable

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:11:08PM -0400, Bill White was heard to say: Is it possible to upgrade from slink to potato using a 56k modem connection? If it takes 650Mb to upgrade everything it is not possible. If it is, my problems are solved, of course. Thanks. If you pay for

Re: BTS feature comments

1999-09-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Darren Benham was heard to say: What do you think? - Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote: | And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian keyring..

Re: problems with the perl5 packages

1999-09-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz was heard to say: Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev, who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005, but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use --auto-deconfigure

Re: ITP: librep, rep-gtk and sawmill

1999-09-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:43:03PM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn was heard to say: sawmill README: Sawmill is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language--all window decorations are configurable, the basic idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
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

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:57:44AM -0700, Joey Hess was heard to say: Ben Gertzfield wrote: This is great, Joey! Can you show an example of how to use apt-get to *skip* configuration questions altogether? Assumming you have debconf installed, edit /etc/apt/apt.conf, make it look like

Re: Binary Deb 'Diffs'

1999-09-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
Perfect timing, I was just going to prod debian-devel about this over the weekend.. On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:56:04PM -0400, Jordan Mendelson was heard to say: Just a quick idea, instead of having to download an entire package where 95% of the files don't change, what about downloading a

Re: Pthread programming

1999-05-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:35:47PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio was heard to say: Scavenging the mail folder resulted in Patrick Bertholon writing: Hello, I'm making a program using Linux pthread, from the glibc 2.0.7t. There are few points that I'd like to

Re: Hints about future improvements

1999-05-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:15:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo was heard to say: OTOH, I wonder how much benefit binary diffs could really give. Since every .deb is mostly gzip compressed data, wouldn't you often need to retrieve the whole thing again anyway? I believe in the thread I was

Re: Hints about future improvements

1999-05-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:51:20AM +0200, Gabor Fleischer was heard to say: Hi everyone, [snip] There could be a value in the control file like: Last-changed-version or something similar. apt/dselect could decide from this wether it needs to download this

Re: How to create those Packages files?

1999-05-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf was heard to say: How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? I believe that dpkg-scanpackages, available in the dpkg-dev package,

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