On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:04:50AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OpenBSD took another tack on this problem and just did away with
cached man pages altogether. (no suid or sgid man)
They always re-format a manual page? This might be reasonable, actually.
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:25:04 +0200
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
In SSLUG (swedish/danish LUG) we have begun translating
man-pages to danish. when we have finished a nice set (like
file-utils) I will make a debian package out of it.
Great!
Please, as some of these people tend to use RedHat (yes,
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:50:07PM +0200, Andreas Krüger wrote:
Closing Bug 49962, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Everything has been said, and there's no clean
solution. It would be a crude hack to make (all or most of
the) packages conflict with an old man-db simply because
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:31:16PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I'm packaging the bnc IRC bouncer.
too late Marco!
I did it one month ago.
:-P
It's sitting in Incoming (dunno why?) and there is also a slink-compiled
version (I needed to run on slink).
fab
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To: Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: man-db_2.3.15_i386.changes INSTALLED
Installing:
man-db_2.3.15.tar.gz
to dists/potato/main/source/doc/man-db_2.3.15.tar.gz
replacing man-db_2.3.14.tar.gz
man-db_2.3.15.tar.gz
to dists/woody/main/source/doc/man-db_2.3.15.tar.gz
replacing man
[can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
this?]
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:13:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Fabrizio If you downgrade man-db (I'm reuploading 2.3.13 so
Fabrizio you'll find it in Incoming or Incoming/REJECT) and then
Fabrizio re-apt
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 05:57:32PM -0500, Ajit Krishnan wrote:
hi,
man segfaults when formatting tr. I've tried to include all relevant
information below. I'm sorry if this is a known bug. I'm running woody
updated late last night from the .us mirror. Cheers,
bash-2.04$ man tr
HI,
due to absolute missing of dial up abilities (I don't even have a fixed
line any more :-) I have to orphane two of my packages:
dip - I'm crying in orphaning this, as I was putting a lot of care.
It's the tool to handle SLIP/PPP connection (both sides), and it
was the only one
Hi all,
man-db 2.3.10-69j is hitting the mirrors.
I consider this as a pre-2.3.12 , which I want to release before the
freeze.
It contains a relevant change from the previous versions as
/etc/manpath.config is no more a conffile.
A script will upgrade it to FHS leaving the previous file as
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 12:36:17AM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
Greetings! Is there any way to maintain alternate versions of the
same shared library on a Debian system? (i.e. same soname) One can
have two packages which conflict with each other, but I was thinking
about some run-time
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:00:00PM +0200, EXT Martin Kahlert wrote:
Quoting Sven LUTHER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Will try at home, if it works fine, i could package it.
Do you have any idea about the license of this stuff ?
there seem to be no mention of it in the sources.
Sorry, no.
You will
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:04:47PM +0200, EXT Josip Rodin wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:46:41PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
So it would be nice to have a some kind of wrapper library that patches the
open and such function from glibc, and log the accessed files (the one that
are
not
Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
from the README:
-8-clip-8-
This package contains a first, fixed release of Linux man pages in Finnish.
There are 132 pages from sections 1 and 6.
If you want to contribute, point your browser to
www.redhat.sot.com/Man-pages-fi.shtml
Copyrights: These man pages
[please reply to me or to debian-devel, as I am subscribed only to it]
Hi everybody,
If I remember well, some time ago someone posted his results on a port
of dpkg to HP-UX.
Now I have to evaluate packaging systems for that platform, and I would
like to push a Free solution, a debian one
Sven LUTHER wrote:
(This becomes slightly off-topic on debian-devel)
no it is not, this means i (living in france) can sign debia npackages
without becoming
a dangerous terrorist or whatever,
hey in the past i could have been put in jail for that ...
Not at all.
Restriction was only
David Welton wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 04:55:29PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Shawn writes:
I am all for a for-profit business forming as a value-added seller
of Debian products. Such a business could focus on
pre-installations, packaging and marketing, and user support. I
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:59:13AM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote:
Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
If you don't reassign this bug to dpkg or apt, I will close it in two
days (as later I will be busy).
rant
Oi! I'm an end user (OK, so I browse debian-devel :-). I'm not supposed
to have to know how
[This (harsh) reply is CCed to debian-devel, as I think it's the place
to discuss about the issue.]
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote:
Package: man-db
Version: 2.3.10-65
man-db installs Spanish, Italian and German versions of its manpages,
as well as English
On 8 Jan, Guy Maor wrote:
Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently managed to add some sources in my -dbg shared lib packages,
to make them easily debuggable. (See bug#16038 on 30 Dec)
I rather liked your solution to the problem of debuggable shared libs,
but you need
On 7 Jan, Igor Grobman wrote:
Is anyone maintaining the Debian installation manual?
I know that Sven is no longer doing it. If not,
we will need a volunteer.
I'd like to maintain it. I plan to be active on the
testing front, so I should be aware of all the quirks with the installation
On 7 Jan, Juan Cespedes wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
Continuing off-topic, I remember that when I was young (very young) I
read a nice proposal for a reform of the calendar, made by Isaac Asimov.
Isaac Asimov suggests that we should always use the decimal
On 5 Jan, Christian Schwarz wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
I think that /usr/src should the be domain of the local admin.
I disagree.
/usr/local/src is for local admin.
This may be the case if you look at all packages, but I have never
installed any packages that did
On 6 Jan, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
I think the general opinion was let the others take care of
not conflicting with us. So, the people on debs.fuller should make sure
that the version numbers they use will not be taken by 'official' .deb
packages.
This sounds nonsense.
People at
On 6 Jan, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fabrizio Polacco) wrote:
On 6 Jan, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
So, the people on debs.fuller should make sure
that the version numbers they use will not be taken by 'official' .deb
packages.
This sounds nonsense.
It's the only option
On 6 Jan, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Remember that the last calendar reform was made at an actual difference of
about 10 days (and some countries took a long time after that to implement
it, thus increasing the difference even more), so I'd expect people won't
touch that until the
On 5 Jan, Christian Schwarz wrote:
How about this:
``Whenever the source package is changed WRT to the last uploaded
version, its version number has to be incremented. In addition, if
the source package is not changed but the binary package changed
(because it has been
Yann Dirson wrote:
Correction: it works now (probably a compilation option that wasn't
used at the time).
Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables,
not libs), and includes the libs symbols:
aha, but shared libs are executable files, so I succeeded building a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We could let the -dev versions of packages have diversions of the
libraries to unstripped versions, and have the runtime versions have
stripped versions.
Since most of the times -dev packages are needed to compile only
(headers and the symlink from lib.so), I think
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
You've won me over. I've backported a couple of my packages,
but only one (guavac) is not new for hamm, or even vaguely well known.
However I think that fixing bugs in hamm should probably take
priority, but I don't have outstanding here.
Right. It's only a
Hello Java folks!
My absolute ignorance of java is causing me trouble.
I'm building a set of library packages that includes a java shared
library.
After a failed try with guavac (but I don't giveup), I succeded in
MAKEing the shared lib using javac.
The make stage creates a lot of '.class' files
Hello C++ folks!
I need a little help in building a C++ library.
I'm building a set of library packages that include C and C++ static and
shared libs.
The original makefile builds the C++ ones linking the full set of C and
C++ object files.
The C++ packages will depend anyway from the C shared
Hi folks!
I remember someone suggesting to tetach debugging symbols from libraries
to package them separately on a -dbg binary package.
* What is the way to do that?
* How can a detached symbol table be used to debug a program?
* Can such table be used both for shared and static libs or should I
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
So, I think if somebody really wants to run some newer software
(which isn't necessarily stable in our terms), then the choices are:
1. compile it from sources -- ugly, but workable. Even to the extent
of making your own packages, which I gather youve done.
2.
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution;
I agree.
The people with sad mail software and lazy fingers are
penalizing the people with low bandwidth. Don't break conforming
software to cater to broken software.
Are we sure that we
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
new debian versions of kde are available:
beta2-2libc6
beta2-2.1 libc5
libc5 version is greater than libc6 ?
That way dselect would automatically upgrade libc6 version with a libc5
based.
if a beta2-1 libc6 exists, you should name
Yann Dirson wrote:
Greg Stark writes:
We've got be be a little more careful with the Replaces header.
I just installed the libc6 version of comerr, and dpkg helpfully
deinstalled e2fsprogs.
That's perfectly normal if you previously had e2fsprogs = 1.10-6,
which does contain
Christian Schwarz wrote:
I suggest that we add a new control field to our packages called
Origin: (or similar). This could either be set to SPI or
Debian, for example. Then, all Debian packages should be signed
with some PGP key (either only one key for the whole system or by
the
John Goerzen wrote:
Hi,
There appears to be a package man in frozen that shouldn't be there
since man-db is the new name for that package. Somebody needs to
take it out; otherwise, it is confusing to users.
John
Where is it?
I've just looked both in ftp.debian.org and in master, but
Bruce Perens wrote:
From: Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#10039 exposed a problem with the feature of man to index all
the 'man' and 'MAN' subdirectory it finds in the HOME and current
directory, when it is invoked.
Is this is consequence of your $MANPATH or is it in the man
Hi folks!
Bug#10039 exposed a problem with the feature of man to index all the
'man' and 'MAN' subdirectory it finds in the HOME and current directory,
when it is invoked.
This feature is of incredibly annoyance because it leaves a file
index.bt in those subdirectories.
I think that many of you
David Frey wrote:
And also, the /var/catman hierarchy cannot be purged although it is
used only by man, because of the indexes and the subdirectories that
are built in it after the installation.
How can I tell to the man package that these are safe to be removed?
Each package should
Sven Rudolph wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What can explain this 72kb difference in size?
I suppose the original packages tar file ontains the documentation
files uncompressed whereas the .deb package installs these files as
compressed.
So they are compressed in one gzip run in the
Hei!
I have some problems in packaging the italian manpages, and I would like
to hear your suggestion.
I'm sorry, it's a lot of stuff, but I'm new ...
I hope that these are not old questions.
I have created the package following what joey has done with german and
spanish ones, including
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