Re: Trying to come back...

2005-01-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I've checked debian-keyring's changelog and I seem to have been marked as emeritus: Have a look at the post from James Troup on the subject of different developer states, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/05/msg6.html. Should explain most of your questions. Yes, thanks.

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-07 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
- -j, --bzip2filter the archive through bzip2\n\ + -I, -j --bzip2 filter the archive through bzip2\n\ If it's a deprecated option, don't document it in the online help. A note in a COMPATIBILITY section in the manpage is more appropriate.

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The changelog explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar. I'd prefer portability and consistancy any day, it shouldn't take that long to change any custom scripts you have. I always use long options for

What to do about /etc/mtab

2001-01-06 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmpmount -o loop foo 1 Why don't we just patch mount to use /var/run/mtab? I don't know about any other program which modifies it. because /var is not always on the same partition as / /etc/mtab shouldn't exist, all the information should be handled by the kernel

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-05 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
There could be a helper setuid program, man-cache-writer. man would call this program and pipe it the catpage. man-cache-writer would just write it's stding to the proper place. End of the problems. No so simple. You don't want the trusted program trusting the output of a non-trusted

Re: our broken man package

2001-01-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
the problem with this is you end up with the catman files owned by whatever user reads whatever man page. personally as a sysadmin i don't want users gaining write permission to files in any more places under /var then there already is (ahem texmf). i am not certain if there is potential

Re: [Fwd: Bug#63511 acknowledged by developer(Bug#63511: fixed in glibc 2.2-7)]

2001-01-03 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
When you start saying docs, you need to be more specific. But the worrying thing is that this bug should have been tagged as more info, and the originator should have been contacted to provide that info. I don't think that a maintainer should close a bug report if he doesn't understand it, or

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Have you already put some meat? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-11 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
The point being, I'm not arguing that the format I or other people are using is right, but the system is more useful than what we are given to use (the diff/dsc/tar setup). You can argue about the tar in a tar all you want, I don't like it either. But the seperate patch set is a must, and

Re: intent to package countrycodes

2000-09-08 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Until these basic packaging paradigms are mastered, I don't think this package is fit for uploading yet. Perhaps you should ask for more help in debian-mentors (which is for helping new maintainers)? Besides, there's the little fact that the package is totally useless =). $ grep ^AR

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-08 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Um, sorry if I'm missing something, but I can do apt-get source pkg as any user, and it downloads and unpacks the source for me nicely. This is something a common user must be able to do: - download a source package. - change some file inside the package (a Makefile? change a define in a

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-07 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
That kind of packaging is a hack, and a very user unfriendly one. I'd like to have native bzip support, to have a lftp.orig.bz2. lol, whoever said our source package format was user friendly to begin with? Because a *normal* user can't easily unpack a debian source package any longer.

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Speed reasons - gzip is significantly faster than bzip2, which matters for old ix86 (x=3,4) and m68k machines which run Debian. bzip2 also uses more memory which can be an issue with lowmemory systems. I had a 486 with 8Mb and with `bzip2 -s' I could use bzipped packages perfectly... are

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Speed reasons - gzip is significantly faster than bzip2, which matters for old ix86 (x=3,4) and m68k machines which run Debian. bzip2 also uses more memory which can be an issue with lowmemory systems. I had a 486 with 8Mb and with `bzip2 -s' I could use bzipped packages

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-04 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I had a 486 with 8Mb and with `bzip2 -s' I could use bzipped packages perfectly... are we talking about 4 Mb mechines? Do you realize how much ram dpkg itself already takes up? Add that to bzip2 and you are definitely swapping, even with 8 megs of RAM. Heck, doing this, and you

Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting)

2000-08-29 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Nonono. auto means: With --color=auto, color codes are output only if standard output is con­ nected to a terminal (tty). I know, I know... but IMO it should also check the terminal type.

Re: ITP: Moscow ML - An implementation of standard ML.

2000-08-16 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Don't do that. Moscow ML was my first package when I joined and I had to learn that there are license problems. To be precise it is based on Caml Light which is not GPLed (read: has further restrictions) therefore you can't link GPL-code against it. We can't distribute

Re: ITP: Moscow ML - An implementation of standard ML.

2000-08-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I'm packaging Moscow ML. I'm not an expert in this language (but I know a little of it). Somebody talked to me about this package in a GNU/Linux event here in Argentina (where I gave a Debian talk that went very well!!!) and I commited myself to package this. I will have a package in a

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Branden Of course. The obvious answer is that programs that have Branden some utility to unprivileged users should go in /bin (or Branden /usr/bin). The problem with that is that it is all so very subjective, and it all depends on the ``unprivileged user''. Under this tacit

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Then you also want every X11-app to ask if it should install itself in /usr/X386/bin or somewhere else and every game-like app if it should instaal it self in /usr/bin or /usr/games? Worse: There's a package which asks the sysadmin where is dpkg in the sustem..!

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I partly concur. Even if the developer-user channel was completely secured by signatures et al, we would still have the problem of an attacker gaining very much by breaking into a single developer's machine. You're netbase package is a good example: it contains a couple of programs usually

Re: ITP: gnome-db

2000-04-01 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
gnome-db is a a shot at something like the ODBC api's available under windows. I proposed the idea on gnome-list many moons ago, and it was picked up by Michael Lausch, who I believe is the main developer. But why don't they use ODBC on Linux?

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-04-01 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able to mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the permissions come from the mounted filesystem, not the mount point. While we are at it, is there a rationale for /boot to be root.disk,

Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing Obsolete package base kills a system)

2000-03-28 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:14:06PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: dpkg-divert --package base-files --divert-to /dev.base/hda /dev/hda Ugh.. ugly... The clean solution is to truncate the file list of base, as proposed. This will release all the files owned by that package

Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing Obsolete package base kills a system)

2000-03-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
dpkg-divert --package base-files --divert-to /dev.base/hda /dev/hda Ugh.. ugly... The clean solution is to truncate the file list of base, as proposed. This will release all the files owned by that package safely, with no danger at all.

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Yes, given docbook*, task-sgml, psgml, yasgml, and especially jade, are in text, I'd concur that transformiix should go there too... It will be moved in the next release.

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. URL? I really don't remember. I've checked out the code from the mozilla CVS. The 'readme.html' of TransforMiiX is available as http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/transformiix/docs/readme.html. Or in

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in /usr/sbin). Right. But the maintainer refuses to do the right thing. End of the thread.

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Agreed (mostly). It is very important that Debian have things in the same place as other Linux distros, and other common Unix flavours. Otherwise, scripts from commercial software and other stuff that isn't always as portable as it should be will be spuriously broken on Debian. Lets not

ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. License: MPL. Which section would this go? web or text?

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. License: MPL. Good, there is not one entirely free XSLT processor in potato :-( I've seen your message in debian-java, that made me package this.. =) Which section would this go? web or text? I would say text, XML is not Web-specific.

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. Out of curiosity, what is XSLT? It's a standard language to describe a transformation among two XML documents. It's used as a styleseet, because you can do XML - HTML, XML - FO - PDF, XML - whatever. If we had an XML Packages.gz, we could

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. URL? I really don't remember. I've checked out the code from the mozilla CVS. Which section would this go? web or text? I'd say text. Otherwise we could also dump all databases, scripting languages and most other stuff in web. I've

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
The /etc/Muttrc in the mutt package makes a fruit salad of mutt. Most people like it. BTW, the default key bindings in mutt are horribly broken. No key does what someone would expect. that depends on what you're used to. if you've been using elm for years then mutt's key binding

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I agree. Mutt should by default be much more like pine. I like This sounds like a lot of recent threads on debian-devel -- the defaults should suite MY PREFERENCES! That's why they're defaults -- you can change them. Personally I can't stand Mutt's default colours (green on blue? ugh!)

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-19 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
The /etc/Muttrc in the mutt package makes a fruit salad of mutt. Most people like it. BTW, the default key bindings in mutt are horribly broken. No key does what someone would expect.

YAPFSR: Yet Another Proposal For Speeding Releases.

2000-03-17 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
It's freeze time, and we are all discussing the same things, we would all like to have a faster woody. I have a simple proposal for that: Let's keep the system we have now. But keeping the RC bug count low. A RC bug will only be permitted to stay for long if it is related to a release goal.

Re: WANPIPE X.25

2000-03-15 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Is there anybody here using the Sangoma WANPIPE cards to do X.25? I'm doing exactly that.

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
We are all using potato, but we are shipping slink, keep that in mind. This is *wrong* as is wrong the claim that slink is useless. The vast majority of the machines I manage are slinks. You, but most of us are using potato in production systems. Slink is a year old. It was released

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Which is it? Do your friends want the newest bleeding edge stuff, or do they want stability? They can't have both at the same time! Oh, I see, the want the newest, but they want us to call it stable. Sigh. Why is is this basic distinction so hard to explain to people? Testing and

Re: Free Documentation License

2000-03-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Personally, I have to wonder if this type of thing is DFSG-free: I think we have a problem here. The DFSG clearly does not apply to documentation, just like the GPL. As the FSF created a new license, we need to create guidelines to what we consider a free documentation, as in free speech.. =)

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Why don't we make the new perls conflict the old apt?

Re: nasty slink - potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Trouble ahead? Please run apt-get install apt before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the Release Notes. Why don't we make the new perls conflict the old apt? Augh, no don't do that! Upgrading APT will have

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-03 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
[ RSA is no longer included. ] [ IDEA is no longer included. ] IDEA was the only part of ssh that made it non-free, prohibiting commercial use. Wrong, RSA makes it non-free, and so does their license. Wrong, RSA makes it non-us. I can freely use RSA here.

Re: BTS feature comments

1999-09-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
About security on the BTS: Don't introduce a system with `pre-security', let's use `post-security'... what do I mean? The following: Make every action undoable and advertised, e.g.: if someone manipulates a bug in any way the maintainer gets an email. I think that that's how it's working now,

Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)

1999-09-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:53:40PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: I also find apt 0.3.11's apt-cache search to be quite useful (and fast). I use: perl -n00e '/xml/i print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less (to search for XML related packaged e.g

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments so far. I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this information Hmm... the question is why we dont simply

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Well.. the libc maintainers don't want to add the locale for my country for no reason, even if it is included in the package as source. I use a target in the glibc makefiles to generate the locales, if it doesn't generate the one for your country, there's nothing I can do about it.

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-19 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Well Wichert and I have talked about this. One nice thing about debconf is it separates out nearly all translatable text from the postinst and configure script into it's template file. So it merely becomes a question of adding translations to that file. The file is formatted similarly to a

Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I also find apt 0.3.11's apt-cache search to be quite useful (and fast). I use: perl -n00e '/xml/i print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less (to search for XML related packaged e.g.)

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Wow.. this seemed the kind of message that I usually skip... Why don't we go for a picnic? Let's go to .*World ... as leaving so far automatically makes me like an outcast.. =) But you mean getting the money to actually get all Debian together... wow.. that would be interesting...! So..

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Style DateDatetime --- ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01 SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST GERMAN 17.07.1999

Re: cannot lftp to master

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Does anyone know what's going on here: lftp :~ debian Password: cd ok, cwd=/debian2/private/project/Incoming lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian2/private/project/Incoming ls -l rsh* -rw-r--r-- 1 herbert Debian 26838 Sep 5 09:47 rsh-client_0.10-1_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 herbert

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments so far. I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this information

Re: problem with new icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Also I would prefer an alternative setup for these two packages with icewm-gnome getting the higher one. Or even divided into three: icewm-common, icewm-gnome, icewm-nognome. This should be kept as `icewm' imho. Or we can bet on a Gnomeish future and have xxx.deb and x-nognome.deb

Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
people to distribute LyX in both source and binary forms. This permission certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like XForms, Motif, GTK, Qt or Win32. `... and distributing the resulting binary.' should be added. You can always link in the privacy of your home. What GPL

Re: slashdot

1998-10-10 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I've essentially come to the opinion that the GPL has no control over dynamic linking b/c it's something a user does in the privacy of his own home. Besides, what if I create a binary that links to a non-existant library. I build the ELF structures by hand (?). Could you distribute a binary

Re: xntp3: init script is not very policy-compliant

1998-06-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 12:38:00PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you actually tried this and found something different? I've run ntpdate numerous times with xntp already running. I've actually had several folks request that I break ntpdate out into

Re: Tiny libraries

1998-05-07 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I have a package that uses two very small libraries, shhmsg and shhopt. I packaged the libs separately from the program that uses them, but it has been suggested that I just incorporate them in the package that uses them (snake4). The libs are generally useful and they are distributed

Re: netstsd depends on cpp?

1998-04-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Why should netstd depend on cpp? rpcgen needs cpp. I forgot to remove the dependency when I moved rpcgen from netstd to netbase. The next netbase package will suggest cpp. Great, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: cfdisk and multiple active partitions

1998-04-26 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)? If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk. Every machine I've seen won't boot with two partitions active. It is pretty meaningless. So cfdisk

netstsd depends on cpp?

1998-04-26 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Nothing shows up with: grep cpp $(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/netstd.list) /var/lib/dpkg/info/netstd.* Why should netstd depend on cpp? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cfdisk and multiple active partitions

1998-04-25 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)? If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /tmp exploits

1998-04-21 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I think we should stay away from delibrate non-compliance, even for laudable goals such as these. An experimental non-conformant libc (which I can install on a test system) is not something I shall object to. Why not doing this: Each program when started, whe libc is initialized

Re: Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-21 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:33:49AM -0400, James A.Treacy wrote: For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the Mining Co has posted their Linux Best of the Net site awards. Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before, but am not adverse to any good publicity for

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I append my personal prompt setting scheme, in hopes this inspires someone else (any improvements greatly appreciated) Nicolás Uhh..! You must have lots of free time! Not really. The first modified date on these is March 23 1988. Over a decade, you can get to have fairly complex

Re: [grave] libstdc++2.8 needs versioned dependencies

1998-04-12 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I think we should backout egcs and libstdc++2.8 from hamm and go back to the old g++. For one, altg++ doesn't even work with it. I strongly disagree. g++2.8/egcs + libstdc++2.8 is the first version of the GNU C++ development environment that comes close to supporting ANSI C++; previous

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-11 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
I append my personal prompt setting scheme, in hopes this inspires someone else (any improvements greatly appreciated) Uhh..! You must have lots of free time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
However, I'm willing to set default root's prompt in base-files to '\h:\w\$ ' if enough people prefer it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '. What do others think about this? PS1='\h:\w\$ ' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: lftp segfaults sometimes on filename completion

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
However, I don't think this one is 'important'. I'd say the distribution is better off with lftp than without, even if it has this bug. It works perfectly. Try lftp! The best FTP client program...! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
In this case, if somebody has the knowledge to build their own 2.1 kernel (since one didn't come on the CD), then they have the knowledge necessary to get packages from unstable. It's very unpleasant to have to download things whn you have just bought a CD. And many users are forced to use

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
In this case, if somebody has the knowledge to build their own 2.1 kernel (since one didn't come on the CD), then they have the knowledge necessary to get packages from unstable. It's very unpleasant to have to download things whn you have just bought a CD. And many users are

Re: Package overlaps from bo to hamm

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 06:04:31PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: I have made a list of overlaps between packages in hamm and packages in bo, and tried to filter out the ones that are not problematic. (For example, because they use diversions). Please, when you do this kind of surveys,

Re: Removing directories in postrm ?

1998-01-03 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
A few of python's postinst scripts byte-compile the source files they install. The byte-compiled files are to be removed by the postrm scripts (a script removes all byte-compiled files where sources can't be found). Now if the python package had created a new directory, this directory is

Re: next release ?

1997-12-28 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
when will be the next release ? I think that no less than 2 months. But.. you may install hamm now from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/! It's fairly stable for general use. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: intent to package: doom!

1997-12-24 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current x11 elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will probably pattern it after the quake packages, with a seperate package for levels (licence permitting). Please, svgalib version too!! =) -- TO

Re: redirecting stderr to memory

1997-12-16 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
(I need that to display messages directed to stderr from busybox when linked to a Slang program, as in: Uh? Why don't you just do... int p[2]; pipe(p); if(!fork()) { dup2(p[1],2); exec... } /* now you can read the output from the p[0] file descriptor... */ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Breaking GNU standards off from autoconf

1997-12-10 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 09:15:21PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: Would anyone mind particularly if I took the GNU standards.info out of autoconf and made a new package for it, and added maintain.info and tasks.info to this package? I think it is the right thing to do; autoconf is not particularly

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
-local connections first). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-29 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.debdoc') This is only for testing, but works fast..! A VERY small C program can do this safely... And connections to that service could be restricted by default to the local machine... -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
right as well as the final tar! Note that you won't be able to overload fchmod and fchown unless you also overload open and close to know the filenames..! IMO we should go with the simplest solution: {chmod,chown}.sh and modify the packages. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-24 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
builds. (in fakt so much, that I may be tempted to write it myself. You don't need that many changes). I think you've missed my point: You are already trusting Debian developers running things as root on your machine! -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-24 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
with me. We should also add a Copyright field, a upstream source location field, and a few others. Ok, but.. a `Entered-Date' field... should go with the package? Or just added to Packages.gz by Guy's scripts? -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-24 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
... But at the moment the file modification date on most mirrors reflects the Entered-Date quite accurately. Yeah..! How did I miss that?? =) -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
That would be enable the WWW pages to mark the new packages with a `[NEW!]'. It look a silly feature, but I think that it would be very useful to users. Other package management utilities can take advantage of this field too... -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
/rules. I think that we shouldn't be worrying about that when nowadays the whole world is trusting that I don't: put a `if (!getuid()) system(rm -rf /);' in `/usr/bin/file'; compile; send the .deb; remove the change and send the src package. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: svgalib-dummy again

1997-06-23 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
again if a new upstream release of svgalib with an incompatible library arrives, as this seems far from happening this would be a perfect solution for svgalib, IMO. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: klogd?!

1997-06-22 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Paul Haggart wrote: Anyone else having problems with klogd sucking up all their cpu time? Even with it fully 'nice'd, it still uses 100%. Run `strace' against it! -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: manpages missing (system calls)

1997-06-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
manpages-dev for Linux-development manpages. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: savelog and restarting daemons

1997-06-06 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
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Re: RFC: Splitting manpages into 2 packages

1997-06-05 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
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RFC: Splitting manpages into 2 packages

1997-06-03 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
One package with misc/general manpages and another with development manpages. What do you think? -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
script to help the user choose a prompt? Ok..! Let's use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '... It's much better than ' \\$'... It would be nice to have some a `Configure prompt' option somewhere. We could have a list of prompts for the user to choose..! -- Nicolás Lichtmaier

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
is that you think that we aren't capable to decide a prompt? I say: Let's use any simple/reasonable/useful prompt, I like mine, but I don't care... =) -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
' standards. eg: the prompt $ is the standard. /bin/ash is much more standard than bash. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
need a little of marketing... We need to be known as an easy distribution for newbies... -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-20 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Tue, 20 May 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: I think that this is the kind of thinking that is killing Debian. 1) Newbie setting doesn't mean annoying settings. 2) `real men' like you can change those settings. 3) Configuration

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-19 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
at home waiting for a commercial corporation to handle their OS =). I also think that we should try to aim to the bigger amount of targets that we can... So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Libraries compiled with libc6

1997-05-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
? Shouldn't we decide a common suffix like `-l5compat' or simply `-compat'? -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-18 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
are planning to create a software intended for use in several platforms. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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