Re: Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-15 Thread Steve Dunham
On Jan 15, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Steve Dunham wrote: I haven't had time for Debian in a long while - I've held on for a while because I've enjoyed working for Debian, but I don't think I'll find time again. Now I'm renovating a house and have switched to OSX, so it's time I

Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-14 Thread Steve Dunham
long. I'd like to offer these three packages for adoption: x-symbol, xmix, and oneko. x-symbol is probably the most used of these and needs someone who knows emacsen and a little TeX. The others could probably disappear without anyone noticing. Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted amaya 8.4-1 (i386 source)

2004-05-01 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:39:22 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya Architecture: source i386 Version: 8.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted amaya 8.2-1 (i386 source all)

2003-12-13 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:52:43 -0800 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-gtk amaya amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 all Version: 8.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham

Accepted amaya 8.1b-1 (i386 source all)

2003-10-27 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:49:08 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-gtk amaya-lesstif amaya Architecture: source all i386 Version: 8.1b-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham

Accepted amaya 8.1a-1 (i386 source all)

2003-08-18 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:57:42 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-gtk amaya amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 all Version: 8.1a-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham

Accepted amaya 8.0-4 (i386 source all)

2003-06-14 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:29:35 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-gtk amaya amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 all Version: 8.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham

Accepted amaya 8.0-3 (i386 source all)

2003-06-08 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:41:07 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-gtk amaya amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 all Version: 8.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham

Accepted amaya 8.0-1 (i386 source all)

2003-06-07 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 08:36:37 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-gtk amaya amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 all Version: 8.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham

Accepted amaya 7.2-1 (i386 source all)

2003-03-09 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:27:08 -0800 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-gtk amaya amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 all Version: 7.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham

Re: project: vitual partial mirror with CGI/dpkg-repack

2002-12-08 Thread Steve Dunham
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:30:13PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: I will not do it myself since I know nothing about CGI programming, CGI programming is easy to learn ;-) CGI scripts or programs get whatever the client sends on his URL, starting after the '?' as a parameter,

Re: racoon ISAKMP implementation for IPsec

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Dunham
of these (and the library) need headers from a recent kernel source tree. I've attached my changes to get racoon to compile, in case you're interested. Mostly tweaks because our glibc has functions that the source doesn't think __linux__ has. Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- iputils.orig/racoon

Re: Need other languafes then english, german and french

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Dunham
depending on what locale you are using. The command: locale -ck code_set_name charmap can tell you what charset you need to use. Viel Glück, Steve Dunham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Shyamal Prasad wrote: Russell Surely someone must have written something similar to TCP Russell but implemented on top of UDP. Too many people have tried this ;-) Try SCTP, a recent attempt to deal with the reliable UDP solution: The 2.5.50 kernel has a SCTP implementation. Dunno how

Accepted x-symbol 4.43-5 (all source)

2002-11-30 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 10:38:49 -0800 Source: x-symbol Binary: x-symbol Architecture: source all Version: 4.43-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xmix 2.1-4 (i386 source)

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:14:15 -0800 Source: xmix Binary: xmix Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.1-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description

Accepted x-symbol 4.43-4 (all source)

2002-10-10 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:06:27 -0700 Source: x-symbol Binary: x-symbol Architecture: source all Version: 4.43-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted x-symbol 4.43-2 (all source)

2002-09-29 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:12:31 -0700 Source: x-symbol Binary: x-symbol Architecture: source all Version: 4.43-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted x-symbol 4.43-1 (all source)

2002-09-24 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:48:44 -0700 Source: x-symbol Binary: x-symbol Architecture: source all Version: 4.43-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted oneko 1.2.sakura.5-1 (i386 source)

2002-09-21 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:20:41 -0700 Source: oneko Binary: oneko Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.2.sakura.5-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted amaya 6.4-2 (i386 source)

2002-09-19 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:40:28 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-common amaya-gtk amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 Version: 6.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve

Accepted amaya 6.4-1 (i386 source)

2002-09-18 Thread Steve Dunham
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:54:50 -0700 Source: amaya Binary: amaya-common amaya-gtk amaya-lesstif Architecture: source i386 Version: 6.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Steve

Re: debian O'Reilly book cover is up

1999-09-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.ora.com/catalog/debian/ I just noticed this page has a book cover for forthcoming Learning Debian GNU/Linux book from O'Reilly. What do people think about the art? Looks like that guy has climed onto a bucking bull -- or is it a GNU? -- and is

Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

1999-09-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be sufficient: / 32M /var 96M swap 32M or more. /usr all the rest /home is a symlink to /usr/home /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp So what happens to the stuff in

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Dunham
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:24:08AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: [...] Notably, I'm going to be writing it in C++. This will add about 270k to the boot disks' root image, but as the floppy install methods are for the most part phasing

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Steve Dunham
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] Previously Martin Bialasinski wrote: Do I have access to the net within that environment? I just have some pre-release slink CDs, so I have to upgrade to the current point release by ftp (by an ISDN

Re: Release Plans (19990513)

1999-05-13 Thread Steve Dunham
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: PAM: Ben Collins sponsored full pamification as a release goal. The main packages that need work are the shadow suite, and xdm. /me blinks... has nis (the package) been

Old Library dependencies Re: Release Plans (19990513)

1999-05-13 Thread Steve Dunham
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Please send followups to this mail to debian-devel, not debian-devel-announce) This is what I learned from the responses to the previous announcement. Boot disks: CD Images: Architectures: PAM: Perl 5.005: Library dependencies:

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-10 Thread Steve Dunham
Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/05, Richard Braakman wrote: | * glibc 2.1 upgrade | As far as I know, this project is largely complete. There are one or two | bugs left in the backward compatibility code, and there's the question | of what to do with /dev/pts. Not

Re: WARNING: Re: debhelper /usr/bin/passwd

1999-02-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] Previously Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Is there any way of changing that default behaviour (e.g. some config file) apart from recompiling dpkg? I'd like to leave it disabled at all times no matter what the

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) writes: Oscar Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my opinion, this problem is not sufficient to warrant an upload at this time since, contrary to the bug reporters claim, it does not prevent the packing from functioning. It is annoying, yes. Interesting

Re: gnuserv/gnuclient problem

1999-01-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, January 29 1999, Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro te: |Hi, | |Is the gnuclient/gnuserv broken in XEmacs ? Using the latest versions |from potato I am no more able to start a gnuclient :-( Is

Re: gnuserv/gnuclient problem

1999-01-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Dunham wrote: ii xemacs20-bin20.4-13Editor and kitchen sink ii xemacs20-nomule 20.4-13Editor and kitchen sink ^ The problem only shows up with the mule versions of xemacs. Nope, because I only

Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Anders Hammarquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The patches that I sent you should be completely safe. But the resulting packages have only been tested by me. (As I said, I took out the -pedantic flag on the altdev stuff - the other changes don't touch x86 at all.) Right, at least my

Re: gnuserv/gnuclient problem

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, January 29 1999, Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro te: |Hi, | |Is the gnuclient/gnuserv broken in XEmacs ? Using the latest versions |from potato I am no more able to start a gnuclient :-( Is anybody else |experiencing this ? I've

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 07:27:28AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Does it? You mean, that hack in ld.so that adds /usr/lib/libc5 to the library search path in certain circumstances? The hack is incomplete, you just have to fix it. Have you

Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

1999-01-28 Thread Steve Dunham
Note to Def Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I hope to be the final test build of XFree86 3.3.2.3a-9; if there are no significant problems it will be released with that version number. This test build addresses all four release-critical bugs currently outstanding

Re: Reality check!

1999-01-24 Thread Steve Dunham
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would see this as a RH-style - so a rather bloated kernel which includes lots of stuff as standard, and asks them the pertinent questions all at once at the beginning, and then gets on with it. Excuse me, but RedHat actually boots on my laptop because

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-23 Thread Steve Dunham
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:02:52PM -0500, Brian White wrote: No. We had enough problems upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. This would be a major change and have corresponding reprocussions. I'm sure it's very stable, but it will have

Re: how rpm does it (Re: Dpkg Update Proposal)

1999-01-22 Thread Steve Dunham
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I said before, rpm does have the capability to install 2 different versions of a package simulantaneously. Here's how it works, to the best of my knowledge. User interface: Rpm differentiates between installing a package and upgrading a package.

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is installed in slink. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Dunham
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Dunham
Thomas Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. That's really fine. But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why? Configuration goes in

Re: another problem maybe relate to lesstiffg

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Dunham
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just saw that nedit's layout changed. Between menu and text there is a hug gray area that hasn't been there before. Since I also experienced missing buttons in mpsql I wonder if both are related to lesstifg. Guess I try to reget the old version.

Re: Live file system

1998-10-07 Thread Steve Dunham
Keita Maehara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been working on a CD specific install that basically delivers a standard system with cp -a that could be used to also construct a live file system. I'll let you know how it works out, if I can ever get back to working on it. I've tried to

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I 100% agree w/ you. Now make it work (-: I have compiled Imlib on my own box and I can link w/ only -lImlib. However every other person I know of, linux or otherwise needs to use the -lgfx libs. Imlib is merely a common interface to the gfx libs. It hides

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun 04 Oct 1998, Brian Almeida wrote: I just talked to Shaleh, the previous Imlib maintainer. It was intentional to use libjpegg6a for imlib. 6a and 6b do not play well together. Your NMU Is it necessary that they play _together_ ?

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libjpeg6b is broken and shouldn't be used by any new packages. It doesn't respect the upstream maintainers choice of soname, namely libjpeg.so.62, and hence makes Debian incompatible with Red Hat. (RedHat

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let's do so

Re: An X version of dselect for slink

1998-10-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 03:18:13PM +0200, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: Hi, Enrique Zanardi schrieb am 02. Oktober 1998: Moving X to the base disks (Auch!) and configuring X just after the first reboot (hard task for a newbie). I'm not excited about

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-22 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: I asked once earlier, but no one responded: Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? Gregory, I'm sorry I cannot provide good technical information. I do know that we had backed out

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-22 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What sorts of things can pam do? I only know that for example a long program that uses PAM works regardless of weather the password file is shadowed or not, but can it do more advanced authentication,

Re: LyX: just about the only word processor in debian

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am just, out of my inherent curiosity, curious whether LyX still exists in the hamm distribution. This was the only available word processor that came with Debian. I know that it is technically a pain in the CENSORED FOR YOUR SANITY, and that anyone who can

Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: I asked once earlier, but no one responded: Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? You can look at Red Hat for examples. Where should they be installed? Is there some way to register them, or some script to run to offer the

Re: libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread Steve Dunham
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all complaining that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it be? There's no libungif package, according to www.debian.org/packages.html. They are in slink. The depends in gnome is screwed

Re: Any Swim 2.1 users?

1998-06-18 Thread Steve Dunham
Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted this question in debian-user and got no reply :( May be some of experts could help me out. Our university kindly bought us Motif for Linux (SWim 2.1) from Linux System Labs (http://www.lsl.com). On the CD they send there is an

Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian 2 ships with Gimp 1 take that redhat :-) That's assuming that we can get Hamm ready and ship it before RedHat's _next_ release. sigh They already have 72MB of fixes for 5.1. :) (10MB of fixes to the libjpeg problem I mentioned earlier, 31MB for

Re: just Dumb

1998-06-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Ray Kinsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Er, Hey all, I have a a few small problems, I was messing about today on irc.debian.org doling out tech support while playing around with apackage called Dumb it is a free Doom Graphics engine. Anyway I got it to compile after some light source

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Steve Dunham
James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would help cut down duplicate bug reports. Now, I'm forced to download a list of *all* the bugs. What about

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions removals.)

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Tried booting from a floppy created with dd? Same problem, if memory serves correctly. Will check it out asap. Upon reflection it occures to me that there are two other possibilities 1) The bios

Re: APT 0.0.16

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) writes: APT 0.0.16 is available for both bo and hamm. Please let me know if there are any bugs that got missed, I'm getting very few bug reports these days. It is running pretty fine, but there is one thing i

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: The problem is that the Debian installation kernel tries to be all things to all people. As there are machines that boot from SCSI drives, it

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:45:56AM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd. To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do the device

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? Vincent Renardias is apparently working

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They are only giving discounts to OCLUG members, but since I'm in OCLUG, I could probably approach the appropriate people to do some enquiries. I wouldn't hold your breath though. OCLUG is very RedHat based.

Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? The pictures of these machines look really sexy, and I've heard that rumors that they have decent performance and near $1k prices (with video input and two ethernet

Re: Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: The Linux community will not lose me! I'm planning to join Bruce' effort to set up a new base distribution. If Debian should decide to support the new base distribution, too, perhaps I could act as person of contact for Debian. You should

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bruce Perens wrote: As I see it there are two major problems that preclude using APT with RPM as it stands, 1 - They don't actually have package dependencies. They have dependencies on files - big difference. 2 - They

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2 - They seem to lack a well formed index file, I couldn't find any rpm index on their ftp site. Presumably, this could also be addressed by work. [Since it's not specific to the rpm format, but the rpm site.] There is an index file in the

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I checked, Debian and Red Hat were not compatible. (e.g. libpng and libjpeg have different sonames.) How did this happen? Shouldn't we try to rectify this ASAP so that there is binary compatibility? One small

Re: Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Only if we are wrong. We should endeavor to do what the upstream maintainer does unless it is flat wrong. We are not RH, maybe they should make their sonames match ours. No, we should both do what is right. I definitely advocate following the upstream

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-21 Thread Steve Dunham
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 03:13:24PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNOME is currently not very stable and things are changing very rapidly. Jim Pick is the GNOME guy for Debian. Give it a few more weeks and I think you will see more. The thing I

Re: dhcpcd

1998-04-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A long time ago, you wrote: Is dhcpcd still up for grabs? If so I'd like to take over the package I asked you once before if you still intended to make a new upload, you said yes, soon, but I'm still listed as the maintainer. Dhcpcd has some bugs that

Re: dpkg memory usage

1998-04-15 Thread Steve Dunham
that dpkg was designed that robustly. I guess a libdpkg would fix the startup time issues and if I want dpkg -S to work faster, I can always write a perl script that does it, caching the information in a DBM hash that it rebuilds on demand. Steve Dunham writes (Re: dpkg memory usage): And the text

Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-13 Thread Steve Dunham
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frederic Peters wrote: background where you type your login/password have to be in only one color, no pixmap. Except that fact, I think a login screen with only xdm (+xloadimage) can be really cool. I am ok to make a

Re: dpkg memory usage

1998-04-11 Thread Steve Dunham
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was upgrading packages on my 64 meg system today ant noticed: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 24785 root 18 0 12680 12M 568 S 0 0.1 20.0 5:36 dpkg Yes, that's almost 13 megs used by dpkg,

Re: Building apps for a pilot

1998-03-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Dermot John Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a newbie to the Pilot (haven't actually bought one - waiting for the Palm III to arrive in the shops). I see there is now a binutils for the pilot and I've seen mention of using GCC to cross compile for the 68000. Surely to build apps for the

Re: interactive sound configuration utility

1998-01-08 Thread Steve Dunham
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand that the modularized sound drivers are now standard on Linux 2.0.32 and above. Given that, I think it would be good if we had a setup utility for sound, like the one provided with OSS/Linux. Hmm, I didn't know this was in 2.0.32. I'll

xtar, xtar-smotif, xtar-dmotif orphaned

1998-01-07 Thread Steve Dunham
The source package xtar and resultant binary packages xtar-smotif and xtar-dmotif are now orphaned. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the standard source. Just where do these patches come from and why are they necessary? Is the fact that I _have_ to have

dpkg help wanted

1997-12-18 Thread Steve Dunham
I'm preparing the new version of amaya. (I believe it's ready except for this one final detail.) The version I'm releasing is amaya_1.1c-1, it is going into the web section of hamm (main distribution). I want it to be an upgrade path for the following: amaya-static_0.95-1 amaya_0.95-1

Re: Paranoia, pristine sources, turnkeys, compiling, configuration

1997-12-18 Thread Steve Dunham
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might have a look at how Free and Open BSD do things with their ports system. It doesnt seem that attractive as a package management system (try installing Xemacs over a 28.8 on a 486;-), but it is done quite well, and with standard unix tools. It

Re: Proposal to package propsel

1997-12-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just saw this on c.o.l.a. and want to package it: Title: propsel Version:27-Nov-1997 Entered-date: 27-Nov-1997 Description:propsel is for people who work with more than a single X11 display on their