Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Mike Markley
Does anyone else find it bizarre that this is the *second* such request this list has received in recent months? :) On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:49:47AM -0700, marty macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake forth: Hi, I saw your ad about sheet music for this. Could you please send it to me? I

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:39:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Probably this should be discussed here and if noone objects changed ASAP, so that any problems get caught quickly. Don't change that. Beginners would be very

New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check, checkmp3, or all the above? -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: determining if we're using db.h from libc6 or libdb2?

2000-09-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Collins, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:46:02AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: Is there some set of defines such that I can determine with #ifdef that I've got a

Re: Best way to depend on an xserver but conflict with XF86 v4 ?

2000-09-13 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:41:19PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Depends: xserver(4.0) [...] What should work with dpkg 1.7.0 once that is ready if someone makes xserver a versioned provide. I don't think that this would be a good idea, because there may be other xservers than XFree.

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Jaldhar H. Vyas proclaimed: A team at IBM is currently trying to port the Linux Kernel to Britney Spears but it is highly experimental and the system may never be stable under such hostile conditions. The Britney Spears banjo, it should also be noted, is prone to inexplicably and suddenly

Re: New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:16:05PM -0500, David Starner wrote: I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check,

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-13 Thread ferret
Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody). Pointer? On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus

Re: Best way to depend on an xserver but conflict with XF86 v4 ?

2000-09-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:03:04PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: I have a package (utah-glx) which needs can be used only on a XF86 3.3.6 server. How can I express this ? Depends: xserver(4.0) does not work since xserver is a virtual package. Yes, version numbers are more or less

KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
Hi, I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last straw: I've been tracking the development of KDE2 for months and running it quite successfully using unofficial debs (cheers to the folks at kde.tdyc for

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Seth Cohn
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote: I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last straw: I've been tracking the development of KDE2 for months and running it quite successfully using unofficial debs (cheers to

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
uhh, FYI...the same person who did the package on kde.tdyc.com is the same and only person doing the packaging for Debian. The fact that I finally had time to work on the *MANY* requests to break down the packages and the fact that KDE *IS* beta shouldn't cause anyone to start pointing fingers

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:47:22AM -0700, erik wrote: I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last straw It's the same developer making them that made the ones at kde.tdyc. There's no evil empire, there's

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:12:45AM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:47:22AM -0700, erik wrote: I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last straw BTW, what would it take for

fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread Pang Li
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apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm in real trouble with apt-get and a squid proxy. First of all I found out that in contrast to the manual of apt.conf the environment variables ~# set | grep proxy ftp_proxy=http://wr-linux01.rki.de:3128/ http_proxy=http://wr-linux01.rki.de:3128/ are ignored by apt-get. Thus I have

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote: You _do_ realize that the same guy who packaged it for kde.tdyc _is_ the same guy who is packaging it for Debian proper? Yep, I do -and it worked great before he had to repackage it. You could have simply copied them from

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:47:22AM -0700, erik wrote: *snip* I just can't keep my mouth shut Clearly. all it took was a week or so in the hands of a ridiculously complicated and politically petty beuracracy like this Yes, a bureaucracy of one man, Ivan E. Moore II, who, I think has done an

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote: uhh, FYI...the same person who did the package on kde.tdyc.com is the same and only person doing the packaging for Debian. The fact that I finally had time to work on the *MANY* requests to break down the packages and the fact that KDE *IS* beta shouldn't

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: I'm in real trouble with apt-get and a squid proxy. First of all I found out that in contrast to the manual of apt.conf the environment variables Uh.. Wakko{root}~/work/apt2/build/bin#http_proxy=http://void; apt-get install apt Reading Package

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
You _do_ realize that the same guy who packaged it for kde.tdyc _is_ the same guy who is packaging it for Debian proper? Yep, I do -and it worked great before he had to repackage it. You could have simply copied them from tdyc and had done with it. had??? I didn't have to anything

Re: fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Pang Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear sir or madame: we are a fishing goods trading company located in China mainland, our products include Banksticks, Rodrests, Boxes, Baskets, Seats, Floats Float accessories,etc,if your want to import these products from China.please feel free to

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:32:54PM -0700, erik wrote: Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... You don't backpedal nearly as well as you bitch. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux|It tastes good. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Seth Cohn
BTW, the rant has been a long time coming - this just keyed it. Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Hey erik, grow up. Debian has enough flamewars without you stirring the coals intentionally. 'The broken update happened 20 minutes before the rant' HUH? Geez. plonk Seth -- To

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* marty macdonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000912 22:52]: I mean, the whole thing here is to show the ultimate differences between the Linux kernel and the kernels found when using multiple banjos. This research was supported by Dr. Rimulak in his infamous Kernal VS Banjo - A Duality?. This is

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Ivan, I want to apologize to you personally - I fully realize that you are doing the work on KDE and ( as I mentioned before) I think you are doing a great job. I have been running KDE from the other site and believe me this was not targeted at you - if anything quite the opposite. The point

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: BTW, the rant has been a long time coming - this just keyed it. Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Hey erik, grow up. Debian has enough flamewars without you stirring the coals intentionally. Yes, it does - I still think the points were

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote: FYI and to anyone else reading. The direction I have gone with the packaging of KDE for Debian has not changed since day 1. I have focused on conforming to Debian policy (which I have mostly done already) and making the user base happy (breaking down of

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Wakko{root}~/work/apt2/build/bin#http_proxy=http://void; apt-get install apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 362 not upgraded. Need to get 483kB of archives.

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
erik == erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: erik BTW, the rant has been a long time coming - this just keyed it. The rant has been a long time coming. And then it comes forth, and the one lone specific amidst all the confused vituperative outpouring happens to be patently false. A long

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
erik == erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: erik Yes, it does - I still think the points were worth bringing up. Sorry if erik they aren't important to you; if you're not interested don't erik waste your time. And wahat points were these again? (Given that there was no growing

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: I think aside of one diff or many diffs a list of patches done to the code and where you got them from is a good thing to have in every package. Most patches are done by the maintainer, or submitted as bug reports. Those are listed in the changelog, but even then, it

Re: New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-13 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
David Starner wrote: I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check, checkmp3, or all the above? AFAIK,

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote: Yep, I do -and it worked great before he had to repackage it. You could have simply copied them from tdyc and had done with it. Ok, this is where I have to voice my opinion as well... First off, the packages WILL NOT build on Alpha (and possibly other

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:55:11AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I'm in real trouble with apt-get and a squid proxy. First of all I found out that in contrast to the manual of apt.conf the environment variables ~# set | grep proxy ftp_proxy=http://wr-linux01.rki.de:3128/

Re: digest version broken?

2000-09-13 Thread Remco van de Meent - Debian Listmaster
Seth Cohn wrote: Looks like digests are broken, could someone fix please? Digests are broken at the moment. I sent out a bunch of digests this morning, catching up with the email from the last couple of days. I hope it will be business as usual quite soon. Cheers, Remco. --

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jules Bean wrote: In shells I've used, 'set' gives you the list of shell variables, not environment variables. Try 'export http_proxy' and/or 'env | grep proxy'. I'm very sorry for the confusion! I'm using 'export http_proxy' in bash and it works now for apt-get. (Don't

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:09:49PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Don't change that. Beginners would be very confused if the keytable is not working as expected. Not everybody can work with a US keyboard table if the need arises. In which cases is the user able to get to the shell before all

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:05:48AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: == From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rant \Rant\, v. i. [imp. p. p. {Ranted}; p. pr. vb. n. {Ranting}.] [OD. ranten,

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andreas Tille wrote and forgot to mention: On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Wakko{root}~/work/apt2/build/bin#http_proxy=http://void; apt-get install apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly

ITP: sing

2000-09-13 Thread Robert van der Meulen
SING stands for 'Send ICMP Nasty Garbage'. It is a tool that sends ICMP packets fully customized from command line. Its main purpose is to replace the ping command but adding certain enhancements (Fragmentation, spoofing,...) Sing is released under the GNU public license. It's project page is at

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:23:12AM -0500, David Starner wrote: I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last straw BTW, what would it take for someone to be forced to break up a package or make some

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread erik
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, you wrote: Thank you for a cool response - I was really hoping that would eventually happen. I realize I stirred up a hornets nest; I did it intentionally because otherwise nobody seems to notice and I think that at least some of what I originally wrote (goading aside) is

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:38:58AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I think aside of one diff or many diffs a list of patches done to the code and where you got them from is a good thing to have in every package. Most patches are done by the maintainer, or submitted as bug

Large file support again

2000-09-13 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html I read that for glibc 2.1.3 in order to support large files it needs to be compiled against headers from a 2.4 kernel. As this is currently not the case, glibc 2.1.3 should be rebuilt. Nils -- Quotes from the net, featuring John Lapeyre[L] and

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:39:33PM -0700, erik wrote: I realize I stirred up a hornets nest; I did it intentionally because otherwise nobody seems to notice and I think that at least some of what I originally wrote (goading aside) is important. Personally, I would like a normal post better. I

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote: Thank you for a cool response - I was really hoping that would eventually happen. I realize I stirred up a hornets nest; I did it intentionally because otherwise nobody seems to notice and I think that at least some of what I originally wrote (goading aside)

Re: Large file support again

2000-09-13 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html I read that for glibc 2.1.3 in order to support large files it needs to be compiled against headers from a 2.4 kernel. As this is currently not the case, glibc 2.1.3 should be rebuilt. Woody is shortly

Re: New package checkmp3 ???

2000-09-13 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran dselect, and lo and behold, checkmp3 appeared. A package with the same name, similar version number (1.97.3 vs. 1.97.2), same description and same maintainer as mp3check. This is bad - should I file a bug on f.d.o, mp3check, checkmp3, or all the

RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-13 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hello everyone, Here's an updated version of the RFC text, as well as a new version of the initscriptquery reference script. The fragments.sh script is included just for completeness, and was not modified. Changelog: * fixed typos, updated documentation to an assertive tone * addressed rcS.d

Re: Debian banner ad outdated

2000-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Edward Betts wrote: Same on sourceforge.net I'll bug the osdn folks about it. Expect new and much better looking adds soon. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-13 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:01:11AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: Sample code: Attached to this rfc, you'll find a reference (functional and somewhat tested, as well as written for easy-of-reading) shell script implementation of /usr/sbin/initscriptquery for sysvinit.

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Debian Linux User
Aach, no sleep for the wicked this darkling eve ... at least not for me. or morning, whatever. On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:57:41AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: Good point :-) I hope NM can be improved as well. I've got someone that I know will help the Alpha port that's still in

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-13 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote: I would like to have an addition to the initscriptquery which is something i have been waiting for long. I am interested in this because i am doing automated installations into a chroot environment. In this case i am possibly running in the right

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:55:11AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I'm in real trouble with apt-get and a squid proxy. We've got the same problem when using apt via Squid via a broken IBM proxy. (Apt connects to the Squid proxy, which has the proxies of the German provider T-Online as its only and

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Peter Crystal
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:47:22AM -0700, erik wrote: Hi, I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last straw: I've been tracking the development of KDE2 for months and running * darkewolf listens to his

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote: [lots of stuff deleted -- basically a bitch about new maintainer] On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:57:41AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: Good point :-) Not really: [1] This point (if it really erik's point -- hard to tell) is not well expressed by erik's

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Debian Linux User
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:52:36PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:39:33PM -0700, erik wrote: I realize I stirred up a hornets nest; I did it intentionally because otherwise nobody seems to notice and I think that at least some of what I originally wrote (goading aside)

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Debian Linux User
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:05:26AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: ...sigh. Exhibit A: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, erik wrote: [lots of stuff deleted -- basically a bitch about new maintainer] On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:57:41AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: Good point :-) Not really:

Samba 2.0.5a dislikes Windows 2000 2.0.7 OK

2000-09-13 Thread Carpenter, Dean
Dang it. I have a nice stable slink system here, been running for a looong time, rock solid. NT 4.0 clients access it via samba 2.0.5a, and everything works. Well, we're in the process of pushing out Winders 2000 ... which won't talk to 2.0.5a. I have several other machines, potato and woody

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Collins wrote: I already have a new README.build that I am putting in all my packages, which will document how I have things setup. That takes away most of the problems. A README with invalid instructions I might add. Wichert. --

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 10:01:11PM -0700, Debian Linux User wrote: [snip] Please read: http://nm.debian.org -- Raul Oh well, at least nobody can say, Well, nobody ever said anything ... . I tried. Well, what, exactly? Would you mind actually telling us what you mean? I

Re: Samba 2.0.5a dislikes Windows 2000 2.0.7 OK

2000-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Carpenter, Dean wrote: Any ideas just what the problem is with 2.0.5a ? Is it fixable/configurable ? The problem is with Win2k which decided to use a slightly different protocol. How tough is it to get 2.0.7 running on a standard slink system ? Should be a matter of recompiling

ITP: spong

2000-09-13 Thread Pekka Aleksi Knuutila
Spong is a simple systems and network monitoring package. It does not compete with Tivoli, OpenView, UniCenter, or any other commercial packages. It is not SNMP based, it communcates via simple TCP based messages. It is written in perl and easily modifiable. Its features include: * client

Mozilla PSM (https support)

2000-09-13 Thread Franklin Belew
Since the RSA code was put in the public domain, the Personal Security Manager (aka PSM) that allows SSL/https connections has become opensource under the same license as mozilla (MPL/GPL) Facts: - License is DFSG Free (MPL/GPL) - Uses OpenSSL for encryption (BSD Style License(s)) - Soure is in

How do I build a package that requires the _source_ of another?

2000-09-13 Thread Eray Ozkural
I'm building a package that needs the source of another (existing) package in Debian. You have to configure the source directory of that other program. What's the proper way to do that? I don't want to replicate the source dirs becase they take many megabytes. Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural

Re: How do I build a package that requires the _source_ of another?

2000-09-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:24:54PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: I'm building a package that needs the source of another (existing) package in Debian. You have to configure the source directory of that other program. What's the proper way to do that? Avoid it like hell. This is really unpleasant.

Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-13 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:56:36PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote: That's why the includes are assembled into a self-contained keymap which is stored in /etc. Only if you use pre-supplied keymaps. When you use customized ones[1] it's not that easy. Please explain. Why does the

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Miros/law `Jubal' Baran
13.09.2000 pisze Rick Younie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Probably doesn't make any sense to many non-native English speakers or those from different cultures but it really is hilarious. It did make sense. ;- Jubal, from different culture. -- [ Miros/law L Baran, baran-at-knm-org-pl, neg IQ, cert

Re: Samba 2.0.5a dislikes Windows 2000 2.0.7 OK

2000-09-13 Thread Alec Smith
Samba 2.0.7 will run fine on a Slink system. I've had the setup up and running since the original 2.0.7 release by the Samba Team last spring. At best you'll need to download the Debian sources for Samba from the Potato arachives and recompile against Slink libraries. At worst you'll need the

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Raul Miller wrote: [2] New Maintainer is a tough job, with a lot of work to be done (especially because we weren't processing applications at all, last year, because things had gotten so out of hand and the people dealing with it had gotten so stressed out). In spite of

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henrique M Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an updated version of the RFC text, as well as a new version of the initscriptquery reference script. The fragments.sh script is included just for completeness, and was not modified. I like it, but why not fold

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:40:26PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: Please read: http://nm.debian.org Oh well, at least nobody can say, Well, nobody ever said anything ... . I tried. Well, what, exactly? Would you mind actually telling us what you mean? I thought Raul's email was to the

NM Page info.

2000-09-13 Thread David Brown
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:50:04PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: http://nm.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to make a suggestion for the NM pages, but I'm not sure where to send it. Would it be possible to post the dates in ISO date format -MM-DD. When my brain sees

Re: Mozilla PSM (https support)

2000-09-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:42:37PM -0400, Franklin Belew wrote: Questions: - Can the PSM go in Main? - If Not in main, how do I build this so that mozilla(noncrypto parts) goes in main, while mozilla-psm goes to non-us/main with minimum amount of manual work? (when answering this, keep

Re: How do I build a package that requires the _source_ of another?

2000-09-13 Thread Eray Ozkural
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:27:43 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Avoid it like hell. This is really unpleasant. Please, please consider all alternatives. For example, fixing the program so that it doesn't require the other source. I was wrong anyway, but I'll avoid that in the future :) Thanks, --

Re: Mozilla PSM (https support)

2000-09-13 Thread Ruud de Rooij
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that Netscape 4.75 is in main. Since when? - Ruud de Rooij. -- ruud de rooij | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ruud.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla PSM (https support)

2000-09-13 Thread Franklin Belew
I have come to new information... The PSM is completely self-contained in the mozilla source tree, so all my previous problems are null and void Frank aka Myth pgpKHi21ImoZ7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mozilla PSM (https support)

2000-09-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: - Can the PSM go in Main? - If Not in main, how do I build this so that mozilla(noncrypto parts) goes in main, while mozilla-psm goes to non-us/main with minimum amount of manual work? (when answering this, keep the

new-maintainer and delays (was Re: [some idiot troll who should have been ignored])

2000-09-13 Thread James Troup
Christopher C. Chimelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks like quite a backlog has been created by NM being shut down for so long. Actually, no, way less than half the current backlog are applicants from the shut down period. But, after picking a few people to look at that are currently

Re: new-maintainer and delays (was Re: [some idiot troll who should have been ignored])

2000-09-13 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 13 Sep 2000, James Troup wrote: Actually, no, way less than half the current backlog are applicants from the shut down period. Yeah, after looking at more of the records, I see this. If that's all I had to do in my life, no, of course it wouldn't. Unfortunately it's not. Granted, DAM

ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Sergio Rua
Hello, I Intent to Package Partion Image. Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX uility which saves partitions in the ext2fs (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journalized and powerful file system) or FAT16/32 (DOS Windows file systems) file system format to an image file. The

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 13.09.2000 pisze Rick Younie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Probably doesn't make any sense to many non-native English speakers or those from different cultures but it really is hilarious. It did make sense. ;- Yea, but only if you spell kernel

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Mark Mealman
Yes, I am sure most people would. However, I have noticed that normal posts on topics of this nature are handily dispatched with singular consistancy, usually with reference to historical discussion buried somewhere deep in the list archives. Or just ignored. Been lurking here for 2 years

Re: ITP: spong

2000-09-13 Thread Seth Cohn
At 07:26 PM 09/13/2000 +0300, Pekka Aleksi Knuutila wrote: Spong is a simple systems and network monitoring package. It does not compete with Tivoli, OpenView, UniCenter, or any other commercial packages. It is not SNMP based, it communcates via simple TCP based messages. It is written in perl

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Sergio Rua [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX uility which saves partitions in the ext2fs (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journalized and powerful file system) or FAT16/32 (DOS Windows file systems)

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:06:43PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Sergio Rua [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX uility which saves partitions in the ext2fs (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journalized

mp3 encoding patents.

2000-09-13 Thread viral
Hi all, Sorry to bring up this subject again. I just wanted to know that can't mp3 encoders be distributed from a non-us site where the policies are much more relaxed ? Viral. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
NOTHING strikes me as bizzare at [EMAIL PROTECTED] anymore... On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Mike Markley wrote: Does anyone else find it bizarre that this is the *second* such request this list has received in recent months? :) On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:49:47AM -0700, marty macdonald [EMAIL

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux? INFO

2000-09-13 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Not sure how my post made it onto debian-devel, but cross-posting anyway. Here's the important stuff from the thing worldshare.net sent me. Apparently the site now says they don't do Linux, but I use it all the time, it's just a normal ppp connection. Tim Anderson -Original

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:06:43PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Sergio Rua [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX uility which saves partitions in the ext2fs (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journalized

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:20:48PM -0400, Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Well, that's probably why he gave the URL, so that people with questions like this could go the web site and find out answers to questions like this. --Adam, who doesn't know why everyone ITP'ing a

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread John Galt
The big package breakups have historically been related to licensing issues (either a license incompatibility that's been pointed out or a change in licensing that broke compatibility), so the bug pointing out the license issue might be seen as forcing the breakup... On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
nevermind, I'm stupid. I see it on the homepage now. Daniel, crawling into a hole in the ground for the second time in a week.. -- /- Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] -\ | Hi, I'm a .signature virus! | |

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Sergio Rua
Hello, On Sep/13/2000, Daniel Burrows escribĂ­a: Dumb question: what's the distinction between this program and dd? I assume there is one, or it wouldn't mention specific partition formats.. You can consider it like a front-end easy to use with some extra features. See home page for

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Philippe Troin
Sergio Rua [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I Intent to Package Partion Image. 8 snip 8 NOTE to Philippe Troin: this package require a libbz2 = 1.0.0 In woody, now, 0.9.5d-2 I'm working on packaging 1.0.1 right now... Expect it within a couple of days. Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: mp3 encoding patents.

2000-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry to bring up this subject again. I just wanted to know that can't mp3 encoders be distributed from a non-us site where the policies are much more relaxed ? the patents are held in Germany. This restricts us because most countries in

[ot] Poweredge 2400 Raid 5

2000-09-13 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hi, I know this is the wrong list (but then again maby not) has anyone created boot floppys for the poweredge 2400 with a raid-5 system? Currently I have one of these at home to install Debian on it. I'm willing to create the bootfloppys or at least create a HOW-TO poweredge for the public.