The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS)
(http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/)
Presents
Attempting a Debian Install on a Libretto 100CT
When:
Wednesday 16 April 2003, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Presenter:
Mike
August 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Facilitator:
Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc.
Where:
IQ Group's Technology Lab
The Constitution Building, 12th floor, Suite 1200
325 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Abstract
We
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Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc.
Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door)
325 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Abstract
Debian's kernel-package package provides make-kpkg to help build kernels.
We
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 05:43:21PM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
How to switch to GnuPG for developers..a very brief mini-HOWTO
--
Very nice mini-HOWTO. But I still have several questions:
How does one generate an RSA key using the
Greetings,
There seems to be enough interest to form PDG-LUG (The Philadelphia
Debian GNU/Linux User's Group).
In order to try to accommodate people with families and suburban Debian
GNU/Linux users, we will have an optional ``social hour'' at a Center
City eatery BEFORE the 8:00 PM meeting.
No, I am not running NIS. Just simple text /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote:
Christopher J. Fearnley writes (Re: Serious performance bug in Perl):
to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance
improved several
'Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:'
Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line
/etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID
for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted
'Wichert Akkerman wrote:'
Previously Chris Fearnley wrote:
But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line
/etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID
for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time.
Are you sure it's a problem
Hi,
Originally I thought that it was OK that bug #19085 which I submitted
about poor performance in perl was downgraded from important to
normal severity because it only affected one application that I
wrote.
But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line
/etc/passwd. Now
'Santiago Vila wrote:'
Sorry, I seem to be perpetually several days behind in reading
debian-devel.
If nobody objects, I intent to take mawk and gawk.
I intend to keep these two.
[ There have been no maintainer uploads since March 1997, is one year
enough? ].
Sorry.
I promise to learn PGP
'Manoj Srivastava wrote:'
Well, I think if one is not constrained to follow policy, nor
required to do so, I see no reason to actually follow policy. Why is
it so bad to require policy to be followed?
How would you enforce it? Why require something which your police
force cannot
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:53:19AM -0400, Chris Fearnley wrote:
Hi,
The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line
option mem=128M (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the
same way (see below)).
This system has 128M of RAM, but the BIOS
Hi,
The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line
option mem=128M (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the
same way (see below)).
This system has 128M of RAM, but the BIOS only reports 16M to Linux.
When I try to correction this on the boot disk
Hi,
Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks.
This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with
the floppy drive light lit after displaying Loading root.bin...
Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it works like a charm
on another system.
The
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks.
This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with
the floppy drive light lit after displaying
'Santiago Vila wrote:'
Please, tell me how much harm does to add a Pre-Depends field on libc6,
ncurses3.4 and libreadlineg2 for netstd. I can tell you how much
inconvenience does *not* to add it and then we can make a comparison
between those two inconveniences.
Too much, IMHO.
--
Christopher
'Guy Maor wrote:'
LeRoy D. Cressy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when
upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves
the following broken links reported by ldconfig:
Those symlinks are part of libreadline2-dev. If you upgrade
'Paul Seelig wrote:'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Format: 1.5
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:23:15 +0100
Source: mc
Binary: mc
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.1.28-1
Distribution: frozen unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
mc - Midnight
'Christian Schwarz wrote:'
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:'
Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There
definitely
is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we
should patch by producing an upgrade
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:'
Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely
is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we
should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed
before hamm. It's not yet clear to me
'Remco Blaakmeer wrote:'
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote:
Definitely not! libc5-dev implies that libc5 is the default
compilation environment installed in /usr/include.
Sorry, I must have been half asleep when I wrote the above. libc5-altdev
doesn't have to conflict with either
'Roberto Lumbreras wrote:'
Hi!
I'd like to maintain package radiusd-merit (orphaned in 1.61
version of prospective-packages), if nobody is working on it yet.
Excellent. Maybe you can find the buffer overflow when shadow support
is included?
--
Christopher J. Fearnley |
'Scott K. Ellis wrote:'
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
Why can't we do the following:
In both bo-updates and hamm:
libc5: No conflicts, no depends (predepends on ldso, of course)
(solves the problem of not being able to upgrade easily)
[...]
This still forces people
'Martin Mitchell wrote:'
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is breaking easy upgradeability really better than corrupting utmp?
Yes, it means the system should work properly at all stages of the upgrade.
Still, the fact that libc5-5.4.33-7 conflicts with libc5-dev means that
I have
'Martin Mitchell wrote:'
If they want to remain with a libc5 development environment, they have two
choices, stay with bo, or use altdev from hamm. You regard utmp corruption
as a minor issue, I would not, especially if I expected that staying with
mainly bo would give me a stable system. No one
'Sven Rudolph wrote:'
G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to
We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse .
So it should be split into an extra package ?
No.
--
Christopher J. Fearnley |
Moved to debian-devel
'Scott Ellis wrote:'
On 13 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote:
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Huh? The upgrade path is quite clear: install a newer libc5 (5.4.33-7)
from hamm, then you may install libc6.
Maybe we can fix this by making libc6
'Rob Browning wrote:'
Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you don't upgrade anything that deals with utmp to libc6, you
don't have any problems).
The problem is that maybe *you* know what packages those are, but most
users expect to be able to upgrade without major system services
'Hamish Moffatt wrote:'
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
dome-4.60-1
Compiled fine but appears to segfault on execution.
Hmm, are there problems with g++? I'll be upgrading to hamm RSN and
hope to have time before the code freeze to deal with this ...
--
Christopher J. Fearnley
'Tim Cutts wrote:'
On 14 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim should
be the standard mailer for hamm:
Exim doesn't provide UUCP capabilities *at all*, thus it is rather
useless for
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Ole?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tetlie=22?=
wrote:'
Hello,
for SmallEiffel (which I am packaging) to work at all, it needs an
env-variable to be set. Should it be set with a preinst-script? I
wouldn't like that to happen to my system, but I don't see any other
'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:'
On May 26, Manoj Srivastava wrote
Would the doc directory be better for man pages? Why games?
Check out the manpages at http://www.bofh.net/man/:
lart - Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool - use a lart to adjust lusers'
attitudes
sysadmin - responsible for
'Carey Evans wrote:'
I've removed group write permissions from my home dir because of the
programs like qmail and ssh which don't like it. I don't think
anything would break because of removing these permissions, so maybe
adduser should make home directories mode 755 (or 750)?
Or 751.
--
'Raul Miller wrote:'
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote
No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
I'd prefer PS1='\$ '
However, if you want all that fanciness, a compromise is:
PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W
'Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:'
Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I
think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that
this should be made a standard. Here's why.
But if they complete successfully they should be quiet. Maybe this
would work:
set
'Amos Shapira wrote:'
I was asking over Linux-ISP about doing cleanup after breakins and got
many use tripwire answers, and one which says that RPM has a verify
mode which checks for files which were changed since they were
installed. Can the dpkg maintainers consider adding such a feature
for
'Yves Arrouye wrote:'
Hi,
I have recently made the package compface (can be found in unstabe) containg
the shared library libcompface. Now I am trying to make a package xfaces
that
uses this library. But I can't get dpkg-shlibdeps working. This is what is
says:
#
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0
dpkg -h says:
Comparison operators for --compare-versions are:
lt le eq ne ge gt (treat no version as earlier than any version);
lt-nl le-nl ge-nl gt-nl (tread no version as later than any version);
= = = (only for compatibility with control file
'llucius wrote:'
Package: gawk
Version: 3.0.0-4
1) debian/rules clean target does not ignore errors when doing the
make distclean which causes the build to fail since there's nothing
to clean (not even a Makefile).
Would you believe I ran into this problem when making my last build.
'Michael Dillon wrote:'
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:50:32 -0400
From: Jon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Clipped generic complaint about dselect's user unfriendlyness.]
Wow one of my USENET heroes forwards a mail from another of my
USENET heroes about my
Package: apache
Version: 1.1.1-3
Many of the modules offered are called *required* which didn't seem
to me to be required. Sorry, I forget which ones exactly.
But I chose not to load common_log_module and got a syntax error due
to the TransferLog directive.
I also got a syntax error when
Package: gpm
Version: 1.10-1
I tried installing libgpm1_1.10-1.deb and gpm_1.10-1.deb in that order.
The library installed just perfectly, but when gpm's prerm tried to
/etc/init.d/gpm stop ... it hung. The init.d script calls gpm -k which
may have gotten confused by the new library?? I was able
Greetings,
I've prepared two binary packages from one Source: slang package:
slang0.99.34 - A C programming library for user interfaces - shared library
slang0.99.34-dev - A C programming library for user interfaces - development
kit
I wanted to set the following Section and Priority:
'Dale Scheetz wrote:'
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
The N option is used to statically link a program. What manpage were you
looking at?
The man page is for ld. The gcc man page says ld is used to link.
The gcc man page also says that -static is the proper option for creating
'Yves Arrouye wrote:'
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0
It appears that the Maintainer: field in control is ignored, so the
Maintainer: field in the changes file is made with the name of the user
calling dpkg-genchanges and the name of the host the file is built on.
This is a problem, and in any
):
Source: slang
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Standards-Version: 2.1.1.0
Package: slang0.99.34
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: A C programming library for user interfaces - shared library
S-Lang is a C programmer's library
Package: popclient
Version: 3.05-1
$ popclient mail.host
/s2/redhat/home/home.cjf//.poprc: No such file or directory
This used to work. I'm disappointed that the new version isn't backward
compatible. Since I'm resposible for maybe 10 pop servers on 5 different
networks, I prefer to just put
I was wondering if there is a way to use scp to transfer files to
master? This would let me transfer the files without sending the
passwd in the clear. I know master supports ssh, but I'm not sure of
the procedure. Probably before anyone informs me, I'll have put a new
version of mawk into
'Barak Pearlmutter wrote:'
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.14elf
When you go through lots of dselect work editing the package selection
menu, then you're done (whew!) and you hit the big INSTALL button ...
before dselect goes ahead and installs stuff, it should give you a
very short description of
Package: metamail
Version: 2.7-8
I'm going to have to read the postinst script to determine what to say
to this one:
# dpkg --configure metamail
Setting up metamail (2.7-8) ...
New action 'view' for MIME type 'image/*'...
-- package=metamailview=showpicture -viewer xloadimage -view
'Michael Meskes wrote:'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have argued before that a2ps and a2gs are effectively replaced by
genscript, and that we should remove them. I think a similar case could be
made for xosview as we now have procmeter.
Opinions?
Remove them.
Move them to project/obsolete
'Lars Wirzenius wrote:'
Spam does make furious, extra Cc's from mailing lists don't. They
just annoy me (see signature), and in theory they do cost me a bit.
Not enough to make me worry about it, but enough to write kilobyte after
kilobyte about it.
I do wish that people wouldn't Cc me when I
'Maarten Boekhold wrote:'
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
Package: slrn
Version: 0.8.8.4-1
This version of slrn appears to depend on a version of slang-lib that's
not been packaged yet. slang-lib_0.99.23-1 is the newest version of slang
I can find as a .deb on ftp.debian.org.
Am
'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:'
You (Michael Shields) wrote:
Package: sendmail
Version: 8.7.5-4
sendmail depends on deliver. However, in at least two common
configurations -- null client, and delivery by procmail -- it will run
perfectly without deliver. sendmail should only recommend
'Christoph Lameter wrote:'
A wish because of the heavy usage of gzipped files under debian:
- Add functionality for less to automatically recognize a gzipped file
and view it correctly without having to resort to zless.
I have code for that (or you can use most):
First set some environment
Christian Hudon wrote:
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r-24
Fvwm shouldn't recommend (nor even suggest, IMO) another version of
itself (i.e. fvwm2).
Hmm, I'm not so sure. In principle you are correct, but the fvwm2 package
has all the pixmaps needed by fvwm-1.24 and fvwm won't run without
'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:'
Bruce wrote:
Also, we should think about source packaging again. We are welcome to take
anything we want from RPM source packaging, if that would help.
RPM has the advantage that it include _pristine_ source (identical
(cmp or md5sum-wise) to the upstream sources, which
'Brian C. White wrote:'
Sorry to bother you again, but I thought non-free was precisely for
packages which may not be sold on CDs. Now I am confused.
You're not the only one. For example, shareware programs can be sold on CD
but require payment for use. I'd be more specific, but I can't
'Ian Jackson wrote:'
I think I'll have to support `Replaces' or something, so that old
packages can have all their files `taken away' and disappear
eventually.
Here's the scenario that I hope a Replaces fiels might resolve. I'm
working on the S-lang library. Both most and Midnight Commander
'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:'
I've changed the postinst script to create a symbolic link in /var/log,
so that it will (hopefully) work in all cases. It is also backwards
compatible with other programs (UPS watchdogs etc) this way.
If I don't get any replies saying this is a bad idea I'll upload
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:'
Raul Miller writes:
Raul It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and
Raul that it did originally have some executables in it.
Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl
Berry's kpathsea in the package name.
I
'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:'
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote:
This is a preliminary release. It seems to work, but I'm disatisfied
with my handling of httpd configuration (basically there is none - you
have to edit /etc/httpd/* by hand).
Hmm. That's what kept me from releasing
'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:'
/usr/lib/apache is my choice for serverroot. Where the documents go
is site-specific. I'd like to also include an option to chroot httpd
to /usr/local/http or somesuch. Can dpkg install a package under some
arbitrary directory? If so then the preinst script
'Bill Mitchell wrote:'
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Owen S. Dunn wrote:
Package: diff
Version: 2.7
Revision: 5
This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or
cmp.
Too true. It comes with info pages, which are not at all the same thing.
I think the current custom is to
'Ian Murdock wrote:'
How about installing the kernel headers directly in /usr/include,
rather than linking them into /usr/src? I always assumed this was
standard kernel practice. Apparently, I was wrong. Are there any
opinions on the subject?
The only problem I see would be if I upgrade my
'Bill Mitchell wrote:'
Scott Blachowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout
and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion
that it ought to be called something else.
I have debianized mawk(1), a pattern scanning and text processing
language (it's awk, really). I will upload it as soon as I get ELF
installed. For now, I have a few questions on this my first
debianization effort.
o Why is gawk a required package? And is there any reason why gawk
forcibly
'Bill Mitchell wrote:'
The following are my best guesses at answers. If I guess wrong,
someone with better information will correct me.
Thanks for the feedback.
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[Deleted first part]
o I'm not clear on the provides virtual package as it would apply
Package: ncftp
Version: 2.1.0
It is very easy to confuse ncftp into refusing to allow ^Z to suspend
the process.
One way I have done this follows (hard to represent visual mode, sorry):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ncftp
o ftp.debian.org
cd /debian/debian-1.0/source
Now ^Z won't suspend the session
Package: pari
Version: 1.39
Revision: 3
/usr/doc/pari/user-manual doesn't have global execute permissions on
that directory, so it's hard to read the docs as a user.
This is under debian 0.93R6, kernel 1.2.13, and libc 4.6.27.
--
Christopher J. Fearnley|UNIX SIG Leader at PACS
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