As the maintainer of FreeCiv, and as someone who would like to
take over a few not-yet-packaged games if I had time, and
prompted by the new QA stuff, I'd like to propose the creation
of a new mailing list, debian-games or perhaps just to make
things VERY clear, debian-devel-games, for maintainers
[ ObPrivate: I want to reach ALL developers, please don't respond to
-private but on -devel or by private mail ]
[ Reply to set to debian-devel ]
Hi everybody,
you can find on http://qa.debian.org/maintainer.html what I called
a Quality Charter for the maintainers. It is a short concrete
list
Bug stamp-out list for Sep 17 00:04 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 271
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Package: abiword (main)
Maintainer: Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
Le Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:36:00PM +0200, Matej Vela écrivait:
Perl runtime error (interpreter rc=255)
Oops, forgot to add the www-data as a valid user for PostgreSQL.
Jason just added it, it's corrected.
Nice work, BTW.
I hope it will be useful (ie people will use this tool to do real
Germano Leichsenring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, am I the only one grepping the available file??
No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are
two nice packages that make doing so even easier and more useful:
*grep-dctrl* allows you to extract entire package chunks
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:31PM +, David Coe wrote:
Germano Leichsenring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way, am I the only one grepping the available file??
No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are
two nice packages that make doing so even easier and more
Le Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 08:28:25PM -0700, Guy Maor écrivait:
Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by
Hey guys,
where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about
beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ...
I /REALLY/ hope that
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)]
* Philip Hands said:
Wait a second.
So this mc script is an attempt to leave you in the directory you were
in when you left mc ?
[snip]
/etc
/tmp
the ``cd /etc'' only applies in the
At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about
beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ...
I /REALLY/ hope that someone will step up ! Even if the job is not always
funny this is a really useful job for
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:06:09PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:34:44AM +0800, Paul Harris wrote:
compiler error:
vrweb-1.5/src/common/Dispatch/fdmask.C:99: `fds_bits' undeclared (first
use this function)
problem code:
if (fds_bits[i]) {
declaration
On 16-Sep-99, 13:21 (CDT), Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale I'm going to take my time recovering from this, as there
Dale are things still on hda1 that I am likely to want saved. Any
Dale helpful hints about how to keep
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cool idea. But would it help Debian except of being a big social
developer event ?
Sometimes social functions can lead to increased cooperation. Plus
there's the opportunity to discuss technical
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:35:50AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
Is this idea worth pursuing?
It's a neat idea, and I'd sure like to meet my fellow Debianers, but
I doubt you'll get anybody to pay for it.
What about Corel? They're getting a /lot/ from Debian (basing their dist
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:26:15PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 16-Sep-99, 13:21 (CDT), Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale I'm going to take my time recovering from this, as there
Dale are things still on hda1 that I
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might
need to be conducted on canvas, in the presence of a referee, while
wearing padded gloves. ;-)
Possibly.
I would _hope_, however, that being face to face might have the
opposite effect.
At 17:23 -0400 1999-09-16, Ben Collins wrote:
The way I have overcome this with glibc 2.1 is to use __fds_bits or add
#define __USE_XOPEN 1 to your source at the top.
NO, NO, NO!
*Never* use the __USE macros, those are internal, for each __USE_FOO
there is a corresponding _FOO_SOURCE which should
I have been trying to get gdm to work again, as it broke a little while
ago. I thought it was gdm, but I found an old .deb (which worked at the
time for me, 1.0.0-5) but it didn't fix the problem.
(I'm using unstable, and gdm 1.0.0-9).
Symptoms, gdm starts up X, and then hangs there. :0.log says
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
herberOn Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:57:54AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote:
herberTry
herber
herbermake CC=gcc272 -D__KERNEL__ -I`pwd`/include zImage
I love this man !
Well, I had tried messing around with the /include files, but didn't
get it right.
Having recently found out that emacs 20.4 was available, combined with
a bit of time while waiting for the hurricane to pass through, I
decided to cook up some emacs 20.4 packages.
Those interested in getting them can download them from
http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/
I have made no attempt
I've received an OK from the author of Rael's Binary Grabber to redistribute
modified versions for Debian (disallowed by the original license). He
seemed enamoured with being able to say that his package was part of Debian;
it was almost difficult to tell him that it won't be an official part,
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:26:15PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 16-Sep-99, 13:21 (CDT), Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale I'm going to take my time recovering from this, as there
Dale are things still on hda1 that I
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to meet our standards
should not be in main and should be moved to contrib. I therefore
encourage that people
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John whatever steps necessary to do that. We absolutely cannot
John release a distribution with such a bubbling security hole as
John this.
True, but I suggest waiting until freeze time before deciding its
worthiness.
netgod
*
Hola, hacia tiempo que no les mandaba mis Pablo News. . .me extrañaban
ehh?
Bueno, en este mail, les informo que arregle la parte de musica con MTV
(ahora los vinculos estan bien), despues tambien argegue algunas
utilidades de programacion (C++), y por ultimo adherí una gran seccion
en la parte de
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:35:50AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
Is this idea worth pursuing?
It's a neat idea, and I'd sure like to meet my fellow Debianers, but
I doubt you'll get anybody to pay for it.
What about Corel? They're
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Indeed. The GNU coding style dictates this (a program should not rely
on argv[0] to decide its behaviour).
Are there any security risks or other reasons. I was advised
several times in the past to do so also over the list. The simplest
example is
hi
the current problem is involving a function called name2() eg:
from tifs.h
Fieldsdeclare(name2(TIOINETFactoriesBase,Base),TIOINETFactoryPtr)
from fields.h
class name2(TIOINETFactoriesBase,Base) {
see how its used in #defs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Package: dump (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
44061 dump: Appears to be unable to dump rev 1 ext2fses with sparse super
I'm not an expert on ext2 filesystem internals. If someone who is wants to
have a look at this and give me some
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Joseph Carter's letter:
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:35:50AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
Is this idea worth pursuing?
It's a neat idea, and I'd sure like to meet my fellow Debianers, but
I doubt you'll get anybody to pay for it.
What
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:51:16PM +0200, Laurent Martelli wrote:
SB == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SB On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent
SB Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will
There's a survey for the Linux Journal Reader's choice awards at
http://www.linuxjournal.com Go vote for yur favorite dist and software!
Nils.
On Thu 16 Sep 1999, Joe Drew wrote:
I've received an OK from the author of Rael's Binary Grabber to redistribute
Perhaps you could shed some light on what `Rael's Binary Grabber' is?
Paul Slootman
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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:05:52PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
The two big questions:
Where?
Preferably somewhere with a high density of debian developers.
The California Bay Area (20 some developers with many more
nearby) and the Netherlands come
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to meet our standards
should not be in main and
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to
David Welton wrote:
Xemacs21 - runs *autoconf* to generate other makefiles, which are then
run.
[...]
Do you seem what I mean? Each of these is doing something slightly
different, and it is a bit frustrating not to see a bit more
cohesiveness. Not that any of these things are *bad*, per
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 06:39:42PM -0500, David Welton wrote:
I think what is being suggested is that we need a Linus figure, who
can step in and say yes or no. I think that that would be preferable
and quicker than the current conglomeration of commitees, policies,
etc etc.
It's very clear
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 01:51:39PM -0500, David Welton wrote:
between the distributions because I think that they are all good. I
was checking out Debian.org the other day and I was pretty amazed
at how organized it was. It was a far cry from its earlier days.
if he only knew...
--
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 20:26:15 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
I saw much talk about fakeroot not working with the new glibc, much talk
about it being difficult to fix, and no talk about it being fixed.
Actually, AFAIK most of this talk was about /libtricks/ which was a new
approach to doing
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
Just a quick idea, instead of having to download an entire package where 95%
of the files don't change, what about downloading a type of binary diff? I can
think of two ways to do it:
I've wanted something like this for a while -- I was also
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 22:42:36 -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such.
SuSE have indicated they're dropping it:
http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=10124 .
Our Policy states that packages that
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about
beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ...
I /REALLY/ hope that someone will step up !
On 16 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
I would _hope_, however, that being face to face might have the
opposite effect.
Yes, I agree, and in all likelihood I think that's what'll happen. :)
--
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
Having a big convention would be really awfull, but it's difficult to
get sponsors and much more difficult to gather developers from all
over the world. What about a series of smaller conferences? We can have
Debian Europe, Debian America
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Christian Meder wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about
beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ...
How do I unsubscribe?
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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
How much trouble would it be to add another category--unreproduced or
somesuch?
Yes, or `observational', `possible', that sort of thing. I agree.
--
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for apt that
would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user defined place. This
way, if your /var is close to being full, you could, for example, drop it
into a
temporary
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
The 2.0.37 and 2.2.x kernels keep hanging on my AMD K6-2.
This sounds *bad*, BTW; have you checked around to see if anyone
else has had these kinds of freezing problems? Is your machine
unstable in any other way?
You may find all you need to do is
Re: all the bug-finding in ProFTPd (I just read the SuSE notice about
it being dropped for lameness reasons, including it *still* being
vulnerable to remote exploit) -- if it is, indeed, *that* bad
(and the common consensus among admins I know is that it is), perhaps
the netkit ftpd shouldn't come
* Piotr Roszatycki said:
Well that won't work will it?
Try running this:
cd /tmp; ( cd /etc; pwd ); pwd
No no, it isn't mc script but only function in your ~/.bash_profile or
global /etc/profile.
Exactly that was the point. The function executes in the context of the
current
* Eric Weigel said:
I'm afraid many people have some kind of function or aliases related
to _real_ mc binary and current mc wrapper can broke it.
BTW,
/usr/bin/mcedit is a symlink to /etc/bin/mc which is an only wrapper.
This is the reason that mcedit doesn't work already.
Quite.
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:46:52 +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
Most people I know prefer using the OpenBSD-derived server, because it
seems to be more stable and less buggy than the rest -- why is it being
deprecated by Debian (or Herbert, I don't know) in this way?
Speaking of FTP servers, has
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
problem code:
if (fds_bits[i]) {
declaration in sys/types.h:
/usr/include/bits/types.h: __fd_mask fds_bits[__FD_SETSIZE / __NFDBITS];
(there are a few other references, but i think this is the key one)
does anyone know what i'm supposed
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for apt that
would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user defined place.
This
way, if your /var is close
*- On 17 Sep, Paul Slootman wrote about Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber
On Thu 16 Sep 1999, Joe Drew wrote:
I've received an OK from the author of Rael's Binary Grabber to redistribute
Perhaps you could shed some light on what `Rael's Binary Grabber' is?
From
The proliferation of ident daemons (midentd, oidentd, pidentd) in
Debian necessitates the introduction of a virtual package that these
packages can provide and conflict with (since you can only
[reasonably] run one ident daemon at once). While ident-daemon
seems more intuitive, the name
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:30:37AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
one apt-run - nothing in the cache, slink - potato. /tmp is usually on
the / partition, which probably has less space than anything (and on
many installs ends up on the / partition - at least that's how I was
^
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
What should be good is a new state saying that a package has been
install by the dependencies check rather than by user direct selection.
So, the package will stay as long as it resolved a dependency, but
be remove when no more package who depends on
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)]
* Piotr Roszatycki said:
Well that won't work will it?
Try running this:
cd /tmp; ( cd /etc; pwd ); pwd
No no, it isn't mc script but only function in your ~/.bash_profile or
Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well then, they should be provided to the Debian user. They, AFAIR,
install a similar function to the one presented in the other
mail. The standard /etc/profile and similar scripts for other shells
could be modified to source all scripts in, eg,
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:48:43PM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
Thursday, September 16, 1999, 10:50:57 AM, Raul wrote:
Um.. you're just not lazy enough...
# cd /usr/local/bin
# ln -s /usr/bin/perl
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at
Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel versions in
the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to provide that many
versions of the kernel??
I hate to complain, but every time a new version of the PCMCIA modules
is released, I have to build a set of packages for EACH of
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 07:54:11PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
On 16 Sep 1999, Philip Hands wrote:
Wait a second.
So this mc script is an attempt to leave you in the directory you were
in when you left mc ?
Well that won't work will it?
Try running this:
cd /tmp; (
I love it.. Last time, I went to Paris, it cost me about $450 US for a round
trip from Atlanta. I think the fares are cheaper in Winter.
Regards,
Vaidhy
PS: It would be a good idea if we can find out if a trip to Paris and then a
train or flight would be cheaper than a direct flight to nl.
Where?
Preferably somewhere with a high density of debian developers.
The California Bay Area (20 some developers with many more
nearby) and the Netherlands come to mind. We'd need a map of
where people live to make an informed choice.
Steve Greenland wrote:
If 250 attend that's $175k. Plus some unkown amount to rent out a
convention center.
Something you might consider is that colleges and universities often
rent out dorm rooms in the summer. It wouldn't be plush, of course, but
you'd probably be able to get a decent
* Philip == Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philip Personally, I would be quite upset to find that someone had put this
Philip into my environment, because I have a very strong expectation that
Philip when I exit a program, I'll be in the directory I started from.
Personally, I found it
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote:
Uhm, don't forget that in .nl there is only one campus university like the
ones widespread in the USA. And moreover (I currently live on that campus)
there ain't that many free dorm rooms during summer (people tend to stay on
campus during
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to meet our standards
should not be in main and
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 03:44:36PM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right?
I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2,
but I thought I received a message from the security team about
r3 last week somtime. Just wanted
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
distribution, but we are aware that there are some who want to use
That's strange, since r3 can be found on a number of mirrors.
Dave Bristel
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:51:03 +0200
From: Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris Rutter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Debian
* Philip Hands said:
No no, it isn't mc script but only function in your ~/.bash_profile or
global /etc/profile.
Exactly that was the point. The function executes in the context of the
current shell, not in the child shell which is created when a #!/bin/bash
script is invoked.
Fair
* 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 you call dpkg?
Please, I am in no part convinced that anything has to be
PLEASE reply below the old text, cut unneeded quote, and wrap your lines
at 76 characters!
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:52:24AM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:53:06AM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right?
I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2,
but I thought I received a message from the security team about
r3 last week somtime. Just
At 16:53 +0200 1999-09-17, 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 you call dpkg?
No bug in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel versions in
the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to provide that many
versions of the kernel??
What about just keeping the last 2.0.x and the last 2.2.x ? It's also
a lot of space on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel
versions in the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to
provide that many versions of the kernel??
Guy == Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about just keeping
* Michael == Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael I make a new upload (or you make a NMU) and remove all the last
changes.
I just got blessings from Michael to do the NMU. Just to inform you,
so there are no duplicate effords.
Ciao,
Martin
On Sep 17, Chris Rutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most people I know prefer using the OpenBSD-derived server, because
it seems to be more stable and less buggy than the rest -- why is
it being deprecated by Debian (or Herbert, I don't know) in this
way?
It lacks a lot of features needed by
Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel versions in
the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to provide that many
versions of the kernel??
What about just keeping the last 2.0.x and the last 2.2.x ? It's also
a lot of space on the ftp site.
And maybe one from
Guy Maor wrote:
What about just keeping the last 2.0.x and the last 2.2.x ?
I agree. One 2.0.x, one 2.2.x, eventually one 2.[34].x version.
This has been discussed before, people agreed that there's too much of
the kernel packages in there. You're the FTP admin, please act.
Brian Mays wrote:
Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel versions in
the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to provide that many
versions of the kernel??
I hate to complain, but every time a new version of the PCMCIA modules
is released, I have
Edward Betts wrote:
My suggestion would be:
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0.38
kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2.12
Can anybody provide arguements against just having two kernels?
1- Sometimes a new `stable' kernel introduces new bugs or
problems. (Didn't Debian recommend
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 non-interactive package installs, and
allows packages to ask questions
This is great, Joey!
Can you show an example of how to use apt-get to *skip* configuration
questions altogether?
Ben
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While discussing Free-BSD style base system installation I'd come up with the
following suggestion:
\begin{quote}
Another issue is the division of Debian archives and development into
logical sections such that development gets a speed-up. In that respect, a
minimal change to the current
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
show to people. If you would like to try out debconf, simply add this line
to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/ debconf/
There are a few packages in there modified to use debconf. Good examples
* Joel == Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joel At 16:53 +0200 1999-09-17, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
If you call proftpd crap, how do you call dpkg?
Joel No bug in dpkg has ever resulted in a a remote root exploit.
OK, a bug in cron has recently produced a root exploit. What a crappy
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 this:
// Pre-configure all packages before they are installed.
Raul Miller wrote:
FYI, sash_3.3-5 (which has been sitting in Incoming for the last couple
weeks) no longer prompts at postinst time, as the postinst/prerm scripts
have been completely redesigned.
That's great. The one in the apt repository is of course only a sample.
--
see shy jo
On 17 Sep 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
OK, a bug in cron has recently produced a root exploit. What a crappy
software, it should be moved to contrib.
Yes, but there aren't *hundreds* of bugs in cron, all giving security
problems; it has been subject (presumably) to security review;
bugs
Chris == Chris Rutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris And, also, arguably cron is a more important part of a Unix
Chris system than a specific FTP daemon.
And I agree that proftpd should be moved to contrib in slink, if not
removed entirely -- no one has time to backport the
I have some suggestions. Does anyone care to comment?
1) Separate interactive and non-interactive installation scripts. I suggest
that the current debian install scripts should contain *only*
non-interative functionality, such as running ldconfig, update-rc.d, etc.
*All* interactive
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote:
chrisOn Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
chris
chris The 2.0.37 and 2.2.x kernels keep hanging on my AMD K6-2.
chris
chrisThis sounds *bad*, BTW; have you checked around to see if anyone
chriselse has had these kinds of freezing problems? Is your
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Brian Mays wrote:
brian
brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
brian
brian Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel
brian versions in the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to
brian provide that many versions of the kernel??
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
At 20:45 +0200 1999-09-17, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
OK, a bug in cron has recently produced a root exploit. What a crappy
software, it should be moved to contrib.
There's no evidence that cron has another one just waiting to happen.
People on linux-security-audit *have* said that about proftpd,
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