Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for July 10

1998-07-10 Thread Rob Browning
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: emacs20 Maintainer: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24236 emacs20, postrm is broken.. I've fixed this one, but I now have a strange problem. Whenever I compile a new package, the resulting emacs20

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread Rob Browning
for this minor issue? If I understand the issue, this should be fixed with an epoch... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Linuxconf

1998-06-21 Thread Rob Browning
more straightforward to handle most of the cases. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
number that they'll probably never see, and an automatic upgrade? Being aesthetically opposed to epochs to the degree that you're willing to force the user to upgrade manually seems unsupportable to me. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
that, but if it were up to me, I'd just say we should use epochs and get on to more interesting problems. In the mean time, unless anyone can object within the next several hours, I will construct and upload a new release of glibc with the version number: 2.0.7r-1 Sounds good. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
and previously unvoiced) objection to this scheme. It might even be worth working all this up for potential inclusion in policy (if we ever get a policy manager again : ) -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gnome again

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
programs died with shared lib problems until I ran ldconfig. I don't know if policy's been updated, but contrary to what it used to say you need a call in one of the install scripts (the postinst, I believe). -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
heirarchical like: Status: (hamm fixed) (bo known-workaround) etc. That way we don't have a potentially ever growing number of fields, just field contents... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: A good percentage of Debian users (not just developers) are already running hamm. Why should we have this academic discussion. Just use epochs, use 2.0.7r, use *something*. I believe Dale's already decided to use 2.0.7r. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL

Re: gnome again

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
after *every* change is a *big* no-no : Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hamm Beta: Delay #1

1998-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
... I'm beginning to think that I need to fix this *now*. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is sed in slink?

1998-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
to mirroring unstable and frozen. Fortunately a bunch of disk space rained on me at just the right time... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Hamm Beta: Delay #1

1998-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
. Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adding dependency order to emacsen add-on install/remove process

1998-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
*could* use Pre-Depends, but is that the right answer? Thinking about it, that really may be the only thing that'll do what you mean. Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Adding dependency order to emacsen add-on install/remove process

1998-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
is in the calls to the add-on pacakges install scripts that happen en-masse when a flavor of emacs is installed. A little work with tsort (presuming I can get dpkg to cooperate at that point and hand over the relevant Depends lines) and we should have everything fixed up. Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
if they've got some proprietary way to configure the connection. Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gothenburg - Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
/audio connections. The receiving side has to have a port open for some period... This should be fun... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-25 Thread Rob Browning
flame away... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-25 Thread Rob Browning
pre-release versions. I don't think that is a good idea, as it wastes our testing manpower, and weakens the final product. Of course. That would be ridiculous. No one sane is arguing in favor of that. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread Rob Browning
the package renamed. Yep, Debian no longer has a one true emacs : I think this bug should be closed. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-25 Thread Rob Browning
opinion. I don't think it's a good idea to do anything to make developmental versions second-class citizens, especially since we've had many cases where these versions were the only reasonable versions to be using at the time. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0

Re: lack of wstring in libstdc++2.8-dev

1998-10-11 Thread Rob Browning
. The code changes to accomodate this were pretty minor. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Intent to package LEIM

1998-10-11 Thread Rob Browning
Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any technical reason why LEIM (Emacs input methods) is not available as a Debian package? If not, I'll package it. FWIW It's already part of the emacs20 package. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Ropes in stl (was Re: lack of wstring in libstdc++2.8-dev)

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Browning
, the compiler does the right thing, it just complains. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Intent to package LEIM

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Browning
, could you do so in the next version of the emacs20 package please? Thanks. I'm not really an expert on LEIM, so I'm not sure what you're asking for. What exactly is the problem, and how can I fix it? I'd be happy to as soon as I understand it. Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: debian/rules and find

1998-10-12 Thread Rob Browning
that failures happen sooner rather than later -- i.e. once they've been compounded. MHO -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Changing emacs20 to use latin1 encoding by default.

1998-10-13 Thread Rob Browning
. Thoughts? -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Rob Browning
that need to do useful work, you don't want to be sleeping. Oh, and if you're using IDE drives (and presuming switching to SCSI isn't an option :), you might investigate hdparm. It could be that one of it's options could help (specifically check out interrupt unmasking, but be careful...) -- Rob

Re: Can I create a sym-link in CVS?

1998-10-16 Thread Rob Browning
symbolic link -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-17 Thread Rob Browning
I've installed the rvplayer package, but even something as simple as rvplayer /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm doesn't work. The app comes up, and then it just sits there. Does this work for others? (verson 5.0-6) Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094

Re: Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
W. Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4018) Ah. You're using the older version, but other than newer versions, I have all the relevant libs. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rvplayer does not work under Linux 2.1, if that's what you're running. Thanks. That explains it. Hope it gets fixed soon one way or another... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Deleting uncompressed Info/Doc files at upgrades

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M-x toggle-auto-compression M-x auto-compression-mode Just put (auto-compression-mode 1) in your .emacs. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Deleting uncompressed Info/Doc files at upgrades

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
/doc (nor should you) anyway, so you'll have to copy them somewhere else. You can run gunzip on them then and there's no problem. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Deleting uncompressed Info/Doc files at upgrades

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
gcc)). -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Emacs addon packages--compile upon install?

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
it right now. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: graphical workspace viewer

1998-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there something like a graphical workspace viewer for Gnome? Do you mean a file browser, or a pager? If the former, then there's gmc. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-19 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the rvplayer side, nobody there seems to want to talk about it... *sigh* Always nice to have such clear reminders of the importance of free software... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Bug#29352: Emacs postrm doesn't remove its site-lisp directory

1999-01-27 Thread Rob Browning
/local/share/emacs/${FULL} 2/dev/null) || true and as I recall I was pretty careful to try and make sure to put things in the right files/order when I originally set this stuff up. So which should it be for the rm -rf major.minor, prerm, or postrm? -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: stupid stats (was Re: xfree86_3.3.2.3a-9 (source i386 all) uploaded to master)

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
(or install) time : -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
First, we build this large badger... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
, and they cooperate reasonably well too. Though our more consertive contingent might not like the fact that they also tend to be somewhat promiscuous. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-02-01 Thread Rob Browning
processes... -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Browning
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is more to unix editors than those two, deal with it, move on. There is? : -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Pthread programming

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Browning
/share/info/libc.info. (It would just be info libc, but things seem a little hammered right now during what appears to be the /usr/info to /usr/share/info transition.) -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Browning
packge depends on a second package that depends on a specific kernel version and a user selects that package, they could easily pull in the one that depends on the kernel version without ever seeing (or paying much attention to) the description. This is particularly true when using apt-get. -- Rob

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Browning
* broken if I understand it correctly. 21. Filenames: source files should have .cpp extension. .cc is much more common (I think) in Linux, but I haven't checked. Overall, a pretty reasonable set of rules. Hmm. Surprised, but mostly pleased. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094

Re: 3c5x9setup and isapnptools

1999-05-22 Thread Rob Browning
have been useful in the lab on several occasions, so I'm in favor. Glad you got things working. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer

1999-10-04 Thread Rob Browning
a wholesale drive loss. Is that still worth worrying about? Also, if you use something like amanda for backups, then you need to make sure your partitions are smaller than your tape size (after compression). -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Anyone want to take over plotutils?

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
I'm trying to give up some of my less central packages because I'd like to spend more time on my others. Is anyone interested in plotutils? Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
, if that wasn't happening, I suppose I'd proabably wonder if I was reading the wrong list : -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Rob Browning
, but if they want a customized kernel, then, presuming the idea has merit, they would need to install the kernel-custom package, make a selection, and wait a bit. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Rob Browning
that meant replacing one for the other in my postinst/prerm scripts, but after considering the issue further, I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid mail. So which interpretation is correct? Thanks -- Rob Browning

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-03 Thread Rob Browning
package shortly. Thanks for clearing things up. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: About native packages

2001-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
is wise, even if not totally necessary ATM. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about an ordinary meta-package named emacs? That might be OK. Bear in mind that there used to be a real package named emacs, though, so you should be wary of breaking upgrades from very old systems. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: Putting .so symlinks in libs package for dlopen()ing?

2002-12-11 Thread Rob Browning
to a mixture of symbols from both versions of libbaz. If true, this would make it extremely difficult to actually use a version check function to make sure you loaded and were calling functions from the version you expected...) Thanks, and hope this helps. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org

Does the Debian gpg key infrastructure support multiple sub-keys?

2004-10-22 Thread Rob Browning
with the Debian infrastructure? Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-26 Thread Rob Browning
was compromised (for example). -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Is membership in staff supposed to imply root access?

2004-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
our policies or perhaps my memory is mistaken. Also, I wonder if our handling of /usr/local isn't a bit inconsistent since it doesn't look like we include /usr/local/lib in the ld.so defaults. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002

Re: Is membership in staff supposed to imply root access?

2004-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
where I got the idea things were otherwise. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Bug#1512: sendmail man pages missing.

1995-09-29 Thread Rob Browning
Package: sendmail Version: sendmail-8.6.12-7.deb dpkg --listfiles sendmail shows no man pages in the latest binary package. And in fact, when I install the package, man sendmail doesn't work. --Rob.

Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread Rob Browning
I just performed a new debian installation on an extra partition on my drive using the stuff from debian-1.0 and the new elf packages so I might be able to help with some development, and I had a couple of hitches. Is there any readme about moving to elf (i.e. should I RTFM)? Anyway, I noticed

Re: Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread Rob Browning
D == David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D No, but there was some info in my package announcement. I'll D upload it as elf-announce. Does anyone want to write up something D more substantial? Documentation is not my strong suit and I will D also be going out of town soon (convenient eh?).

Problems with elf gcc and man.

1995-11-26 Thread Rob Browning
I'm not sure this is a bug, or a misconfiguration on my part, but the man package installed even though I didn't have libgdbm installed. Then man would die on launch when it couldn't find the library. Also, I installed gcc-2.7.1 and libc5, libc5-dev, and elf-libg++, and tried to compile a simple

Quick question about Incoming/Outgoing.

1995-12-21 Thread Rob Browning
What's the current policy about stuff in Incoming? Earlier there was the Incoming directory, then it was made read only to prevent downloads of incomplete packages, then an Outgoing was created so that things could be obtained before someone got around to moving them into the development

Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erick Branderhorst) writes: I don't think it can be done this way, because a lot of makefiles are organized in a way that they require the installer to be root at the moment of installation, or am I misinformed? Perhaps fooling install might be an option? What do you mean

Re: Doubts building a new package...

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emilio Lopes) writes: 2- The logo itself is a gif file. Is it non-free? I can convert it to a jpeg file if needed. Don't know about the other stuff, but for this I'd recommend png, not jpeg. As I understand it gif's lossless, and so is png, and I think png was meant to

Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Makes a lot of sense to me, can you hack install to do such a thing? You mean actually modify the source for /usr/bin/install itself so we have a new install that's Debian specific, I'd be really nervous about that. But if you mean either writing a substitute program

Re: Doubts building a new package...

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PNG is a bandwidth-conservative, patent-free replacement for GIF (as well as many uses of TIFF). If you want to use it, you might be interested in looking at: http://www.boutell.com/boutell/png/ Thanks, Susan, that's what I meant to say :

Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

1996-06-18 Thread Rob Browning
Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone else have any opinions about this issue? We (Erick and I) have been babbling on about this, and I didn't know if everyone else's silence was a lack of interest or a general agreement. i.e. Is this something that people think is worth

Re: Departure -- hopefully temporary

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Bill Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I'll take this one. jgraph-83 ORPHAN Good luck Bill. Hope your move goes well. -- Rob

Re: Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: are no differences that diff can't handle (deleted files, retargeted links, c). I don't know if retargeted links covers the following situation, but don't forget about dangling symbolic links. The GIMP upstream source contains links to a binaries

Bug#4008: CVS texinfo docs won't format correctly with TeX

1996-08-02 Thread Rob Browning
Package: cvs Version: 1.8.1-1 The initial format fails because it can't find the file `CVSvn.texi'. (760) tex cvs.texinfo This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (cvs.texinfo Hyphenation patterns for british, english, french, german, spanish, loaded. (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/misc/texinfo.tex

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As my system is currently laid out, I'm not suffering from any shortage of swap _space_ (240MB allocated, max seen in use is 33MB), I'm merely trying to sneak out the best possible performance without spending a buck. In the end I imagine you'll be much

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kind of performance do you get with your md devices? Haven't really paid close attention. It seems to me (operating in a vacuum not knowing what other disks you have) that you'd do better by shifting your hdb (primary slave IDE disk) to hdc

Re: Bug#9582: suidmanager 0.6 uploaded to master.debian.org

1997-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The special thing was to have upgraded to Bash-2.0. I just downgraded to 1.14.7, and the scripts run now. I think we should report this as a Bash bug. Check to see if you have a set -a (or +a) anywhere in your bashrc, or related bash setup files.

Re: ObjC runtime (was: Upcoming Debian Releases)

1997-05-20 Thread Rob Browning
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The remaining question the thread model to be enabled in the patched objc runtime. The patched runtime can be compiled for e.g. PCthreads, LinuxThreads or no threads at all. Who is to decide this ? As I understand it, Debian is trying to

Re: Perl issues

1997-05-21 Thread Rob Browning
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think perl-base should not be Essential, since it will be replaced anyway once the installation completes. perl should be essential though. (Or can essential packages be replaced by dpkg?) I think maybe you misread the proposal. Under the scheme

ssh and default home directory permissions (revisited?)

1997-05-26 Thread Rob Browning
I seems to recall this might have been discussed before, but I wasn't sure and couldn't dig up the conversation, so here goes. I just got around to installing ssh so I could learn about it and start using it, and I noticed that when I set up one of my machines with a valid authorized_keys file

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-05-26 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree 100% with what Ian says. (Let's do it) Consider this another me too. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Reporting a bug that's already been reported...

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rather than be scattered to the four [why four?] winds. N, S, E, and W -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would really like to get into using CVS for my package development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of releasing packages. I wondered about this, and I had a question. I looked around in the CVS manual a little and didn't find

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nothing. When you check it into CVS it will rewrite all of the $Id: $ markers and friends to reflect your CVS tree. It shouldn't have any problems. You might not want that so you can turn off substitution with -ko I think. I guess I was looking for

time stops on latest kernels

1997-05-28 Thread Rob Browning
Is anyone else running the latest unstable kernels on a uniprocessor? I have noticed that with many of the recent kernels (including 2.1.40), time appears to be stopped. With these kernels, on my machine clock never returns anything but zero, and things like procmeter never register anything for

Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-14 Thread Rob Browning
and safely? For this to work right, in addition to everything else, I assume that Debian policy would also have to guarantee that no package will ever remove a user/group when purged, and no package will balk if the user/group it needs already exists. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org

Is gcc-3.4 in the unstable chroot on crest.debian.org OK?

2005-09-14 Thread Rob Browning
(unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ logout (base)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dchroot unstable Executing shell in chroot: /org/chroots/user/sid (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd test (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ ./a.out (unstable)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ -- Rob Browning rlb

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
a separate directory for the db files and bind mount that directory among all the chroots, then perhaps that would fix the locking problem (presuming the default setup uses fs locks). Thanks again -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
to continue to work correctly. So far I haven't been able to tell if the behavior of adduser and the related tools is configurable. I can see how to authenticate against other sources via lipam, but not how to re-route modifications. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org

Re: Managing users and groups within multiple devel chroots.

2005-09-15 Thread Rob Browning
impression that an LDAP approach wouldn't be that transparent. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#329425: RFA: psutils -- A collection of PostScript document handling utilities

2005-09-21 Thread Rob Browning
functionality be provided by convenience wrappers around ghostscript, as suggested in #159888? I don't know, but I thought perhaps someone else might. thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8

Re: Bug#329425: RFA: psutils -- A collection of PostScript document handling utilities

2005-09-23 Thread Rob Browning
be any people who would want to contact the current author about continuing development themselves.) -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Is gcc-3.4 in the unstable chroot on crest.debian.org OK?

2005-09-26 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:20:30PM -0700, Rob Browning wrote: If I compile a trivial foo.c in the unstable chroot with gcc-3.4, and then immediately try to run it, it segfaults. You've hit #327780. m68k-build: could anyone with root on crest

Problem with either xbase or ssh.

1997-05-31 Thread Rob Browning
When the machine I have that's tracking unstable is rebooted, the xdm login screen will not appear until I use ssh to remotely connect to the machine. Until then the screen is blank. I don't know what's causing this, or I'd file a bug with the responsible package, but removing ssh makes the

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-06-01 Thread Rob Browning
Galen Hazelwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it also chooses some instructions differently for a 486, and these choices are also good on the pentium. That's why, when building binaries for my use, I use -m486 but add flags which turn off the alignment. Right, I had heard that these

Re: Possible Xaw{3d,95} bug / Re: Debian freeciv bugs

1997-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: One possible solution is to link Xaw statically in the freeciv binary. That's what I do with aXe. Or you can just use -rpath when you compile to force it to use a particular dynamically linked libXa*. I think that was the solution used in gv. --

New package notices via bug tracking system.

1997-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
I'm moving this over to debian-devel. Hope that's OK. Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The real reason I'm replying to this: I wonder what the other developers think about bug reports that just say a new version is available (as opposed to, a new version is available, and fixes this

Re: mgetty-voice

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings! I've been reading here recently about the mgetty package looking for a new maintainer. What's the status on this? I'd like to suggest to the new maintainer to rebundle the vgetty extension, as the program is quite usable, IMHO, in spite of

Re: mgetty-voice

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Sorry about the runaway mail headers in my previous article re-post. Emacs was hiding them from me. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not that anyone necessarily has the time, but would it be worthwhile to create some documents listing categories of packages, comparing and contrasting the competing packages? Right. I'm about to help someone set up a relatively busy mailserver, and

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