Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
sure? It seems to be on i386 CD 3. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
proposed no changes whatsoever to dpkg. What were you planning to do on upgrade? Normally, dpkg would set the files back to empty. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
drilling down and trying to work out ways of implementing it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creative Commons Metamorphosis

2004-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
? This same proposition is one that has been previously touted by such entities as Microsoft. What does this have to do with debian-devel? debian-devel mailing list Development of Debian Discussion about technical development topics. Take it to debian-legal or something. Cheers, -- Colin

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
Civilized societies should outlaw absurdly-drawn-out coding style arguments on public mailing lists, especially when I have to attempt to read them over a tediously slow ssh connection from a conference in a different hemisphere. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Partitioning in Sage

2004-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
or is this a bug? Please report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, at the moment, comments about the installer on -user, bug reports or otherwise, stand a good chance of getting lost in the noise from the point of view of people experienced enough to answer. -- Colin Watson

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-24 Thread Colin Watson
said. Desired state of packages should never have been in /var/lib/dpkg/status in the first place. (And yes, I've had this discussion with the original author, who agreed ...) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
it meant. Cheers, -- Colin Watson, Debian Release Assistant [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: sox help needed

2004-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hid module missing in 2.6.6

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:08:14PM +0300, David Baron wrote: System seems to run OK without it. Forget it, or is it really needed somewhere? It seems to have been renamed to usbhid. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
give you any feedback (at least not to stdout) Every Debian init.d script that starts a daemon says something like Starting web server: apache. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
or something. I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do it; there are lots of ways it can break. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
exactly what happened, rather than just saying it puked? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge testing 2.6 boot problems

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
in IDE support, or whatever's needed for your disk. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:55:59AM -0400, David T-G wrote: ...and then Colin Watson said... % % On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:43:43PM -0400, David T-G wrote: % %debootstrap --arch i386 --verbose stable /mnt/suse81 file:///mnt/empty/ % % (and also 'woody' in place of 'stable

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
like 'testing' contains a window during which bad people could do bad things ... Yup. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about this until a team turns up to do security updates for testing, which is a hard and time-consuming job. http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing -- Colin Watson

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do it; there are lots of ways it can break. I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages in GNU but not in Debian

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
/gnu $ COLUMNS=222 dpkg-query -l \*|awk '/===/,EOF{print $2}'|sort -o /tmp/debian $ comm -23 /tmp/gnu /tmp/debian|xargs|fold -s|sed 's/ $//' Why don't you look for source package names? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
, then you'll have to resolve the conflicts. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deb package for Mplayer?

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:08:56AM +0800, Katipo wrote: Ishwar Rattan wrote: Where can I find the .deb package for mplayer? In unstable. mplayer isn't in unstable (yet, at least). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: problems with debootstrap and stable or sarge

2004-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:56:37PM -0400, David T-G wrote: ...and then Colin Watson said... % On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:24:24PM -0400, David T-G wrote: % Aha! I don't have any such pool/ directory. I'll go and download that % now. % % Right, you need the .debs to be in the same layout

Re: Getting wide ``dpkg -l'' output in scripts and pipes.

2004-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
the COLUMNS shell variable but fail to export it to the dpkg subprocess (you need an explicit 'export' to do that). 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l' is a special syntax that adds the variable to the environment of the dpkg subprocess without affecting the shell in which it is executed. -- Colin Watson

Re: Getting wide ``dpkg -l'' output in scripts and pipes.

2004-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
(COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l) | head ... as well as the more natural: COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | head Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easy to use Mail Spam/ Content Filter?

2004-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
? procmail. Or the Perl-based tool whose name I can never remember. Mailmumble. maildrop, I'm guessing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world (was: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?)

2004-05-17 Thread Colin Watson
about what Debian should ship, not what our users should be able to do. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: sed -n vs. sed

2004-05-16 Thread Colin Watson
perl is far too big so other tools have to be used instead. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting locale failed

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:35:53PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:45:48PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Please tell us, because this is a very serious botch-up which makes Debian almost unusable for non-C-locale users. This is obviously

Re: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
it is moved to the next phase of readyness for 'stable'. That applies to Debian packages, but not to third-party products being ported to Debian. The usual approach for those is to build for stable and deal with other problems if and when they arise. -- Colin Watson

Re: bold and normal fonts appear reversed in openoffice

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
quoting there is unnecessary. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script execution at boot time..

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
execute the script. If I do the same by hand it works. I aso tried placing the link in /etc/rc2.d bu had no luck. Perhaps you forgot to make the script executable? Much simpler just to add a link in rc2.d for ssh, though; you could even use 'dpkg-reconfigure ssh'. -- Colin Watson

Re: mounting windows shares

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
linux but then again I haven't really looked. Drive letters are a really bad idea; Unix doesn't have them. You can use 'mount --bind' with Linux 2.4 and above to pretend that bits of the filesystem are the same as other bits, if you like. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: run a script at startup

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
some of them. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.en.html#s-custombootscripts Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keyboard and locale problems

2004-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in sarge installer

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
? What architecture is this? The ramdisk size is too small; boot with the ramdisk_size=16384 (or similar) kernel parameter to work around this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: date locale problem

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:33:17AM +0800, cantona wrote: I am using locale zh_HK, the date is displaying in Chinese. ( 5 13 02:26:03 HKT 2004) I want to display the 'date' in C (Thu May 13 02:28:59 HKT 2004) Set LC_TIME=C in your environment. See locale(7). Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: IMAP tunnel thru http proxy - possible?

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
this, though I know of none by name. 'corkscrew' is one. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt in xterm fun

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:50:14AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Incidentally, I used shift L in mutt to send a reply and normally it won't cc you but it seems to have done - is there something in the way your setup is inhibiting normal behaviour? See his Mail-Followup-To: header. -- Colin

Re: rpm and Debian

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
to an individual package there. Packages in the mentors archive are there because they're waiting for a Debian developer to sponsor them into the official archive. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Failed to open /dev/ttySO

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
to open /dev/ttyS0 How can i change my /dev/ttyS0 so that a regular user can use it ? Don't change the device; add the user to the dialout group. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: date locale problem

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
individual aspects of it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alias problem

2004-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
often define aliases for single sessions, for example). Put those changes in your shell startup scripts; that's what they're there for. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Installing Debian Stable with Software RAID

2004-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
it be done at all? Very current daily builds of the sarge debian-installer (not beta4) support software RAID. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?

2004-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
from redhat can't be used on debian at all). In general they shouldn't be. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting back with dselect

2004-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
state before your current selections. That only works if you haven't left the Select screen since making the selections you want to revert. See #151540 for a patch adding the feature Vittorio wants, and discussion of how you can sort of do it in a confusing way without the patch. -- Colin Watson

Re: Restoring /etc/inittab

2004-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
be an alias of itself, something like alias rm='rm -i' Whatever you read was wrong; a word is not expanded as an alias if it is identical to an alias currently being expanded. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Kernel date stamp?

2004-05-11 Thread Colin Watson
dated April, 2002? Is this the most recent version? That's the build date. Remember that the last stable release was released in July 2002 ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How to downgrade kernel?

2004-05-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:54:22PM +0200, Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote: For me, It wasn't so easy to upgrade. How can I see If I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.X (i.e.). uname -a -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: about using rpm command error in debian

2004-05-10 Thread Colin Watson
) # Debian doesn't use RPM. The sort of thing you're trying to do Just Won't Work without a lot of manual hacking; if you're going to do that then you might as well run an RPMish distribution to start with. Use the Debian package management tools instead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: BT Voyager 1010 (or Linksys WUSB11)

2004-05-10 Thread Colin Watson
with filenames and line numbers and stuff, so that you can use patch? Use 'diff -u'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting locale failed

2004-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
makes Debian almost unusable for non-C-locale users. This is obviously not true, since the locale warnings you got were merely non-failure-causing warnings, and not the source of the error ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Testing-Stable?

2004-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 02:00:05PM -0700, Justin Souter, InkNoise wrote: Is there any information on when the current testing release will become the stable release? Follow the debian-devel-announce mailing list for relevant announcements. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
other sensible delimiter of your choice. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Find with Grep

2004-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt's internal pager and accented characters

2004-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I find it simplest by far to run mutt in a UTF-8 locale, at which point it can deal with accented characters from a wide range of languages without me having

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
. Hopefully potential future employers see what kind of pointless hissy-fits you're prone to. On the evidence of this thread you really don't have anything to preach about, I'm afraid. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: BETA 4 Network Install KONSOLE-TERMINAL problem

2004-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
somewhere? I bet you just need to upgrade makedev to a fixed version: 2.3.1-69 would do. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UXTerm, Andale Mono, and line drawings

2004-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
... things). Are you using a UTF-8-aware mutt? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with italian keyboard

2004-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:10:45AM +0200, Giannandrea Castaldi wrote: and added in my .bashrc the following lines: export LC_ALL=en_US export LANG=en_US export LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1 Perhaps LC_TYPE isn't correct I would expect LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 or similar. -- Colin Watson

Re: sarge?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
in is frankly asking for trouble, but we wouldn't have to go that far). Until now, though, it has not been feasible. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Files in /etc/pam.d/

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
/pam.d/* -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating deb packages

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
That is completely outdated. What's outdated about it? It might not have been updated in a while, but that's not quite the same thing. As far as I know, the advice it gives is still good. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: usb in Kernel 2.6.[35]

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
, so you get both modules. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 08:38:15AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:49:28AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Aside from that, I'm afraid you would have been necessarily ignored until now. Without a working installer, there is absolutely no point in releasing. This has thoroughly

Re: usb in Kernel 2.6.[35]

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
, I also noticed that there is a usbcore module that uses uhci-hcd in 2.6.5 kernel. usbcore is the bottom layer of USB support, required in order to use USB at all. See the help entry for Support for USB in the kernel configuration. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
believe there is no easy way to get this information. (correct me if i'm wrong) This is being worked on (by me) in the bug tracking system. It's not an easy task, and not well-solved by tags. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: bugs in stable ?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:59:10PM -0400, xavier wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:44:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: This is being worked on (by me) in the bug tracking system. It's not an easy task, and not well-solved by tags. Thanks a lot, I guess you think that's an issue too

Re: sarge?

2004-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:06:49PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 10:11:35PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: It took quite a bit of effort (several months and a complete cessation of work on the new debian-installer) to whip the potato installation system into shape for woody

Re: sarge?

2004-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:35:21PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:27:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 05:54:38AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: I have been following the discussion from bits here, from planet.debian.net and misc sources. I

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
. sysvinit (2.85-8) unstable; urgency=low [...] * Do not run bootlogd by default - it's a bit to experimental for the stable release. Can be turned on manually (closes: #217582) [...] -- Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:11:20 +0100 Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: anyone using ssh-3.2.9.1 non-commercial with unstable?

2004-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
, but does not properly pass it back to ssh-add (or ssh, for that matter). That's a makedev bug. See #245718 et al. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Version of Debian?

2004-04-22 Thread Colin Watson
1 in a week or so. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security warnings from pam_securetty?

2004-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty ':0.0' is not secure ! This is a filed bug against pam. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.6

2004-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
we're going to have to get a move on there (and I certainly don't speak for Joey ...). We'll see. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.6

2004-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:07:21PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:32:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:54:50PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: Sarge and 2.6 as the default kernel? Well, I'd guess like »never«. Maybe it will be the default

Re: kernel 2.6.4 serial ata support - promise 20376

2004-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
or ATA menus for 2.6.4 or 2.6.5, which I downloaded from the debian kernel-source packages and extracted into /usr/src. Could someone tell me exactly where to find the replacement option, please? Make sure you have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL turned on. It's under SCSI low-level drivers. -- Colin Watson

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
... someone's assuming that d-i rather than the more normal boot-floppies is in use. The guy said a fresh install of unstable. It's a reasonable assumption. Joey is familiar with installer issues :-) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ssh problem after upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
putty generates errors. What errors? It's impossible to help without seeing those. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA hard drives?

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
ATA still requires a 2.6 kernel; support for it is scheduled for inclusion in 2.4.27. There are 2.6 versions of sarge's debian-installer in preparation, but they're still somewhat experimental ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ssh problem after upgrade from woody to sarge

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
the problem tracking when i assumed everything was ok with my old version of putty (0.5.1), sorry. Aha, right. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html indeed lists some crash bugs fixed after 0.51. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New sarge installer casues problems on laptops

2004-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:59:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed sarge using the new installer last week. [...] So: a) whoever's in charge of the installer, The best place for that would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: postnuke in debian?

2004-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
-- = (http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Module /usr/src/modules/bcm4400 failed (ahh no network)

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
on i386, maybe powerpc as well. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
time, each one gets assigned to an appropriate name, say /mnt/schoolfiles/ and /mnt/fun/? This would be convenient (tho not essential) for me. Sounds like you want the LABEL= or UUID= syntax in /etc/fstab. See fstab(5) for details. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: no modules in 2.4.18 security update for IA32/woody?

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
lots of modules. Is this reasonable? There have to be some modules, right? The security update was broken. :-( The security team are aware of it, or so conversation on IRC would suggest ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
a Java benchmark as a remotely fair assessment of any difference between Linux and XP in themselves, whether or not millions of people use it. I also don't think that counting is a very interesting benchmark really. :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: keep users alert to packages deleted from debian

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
less than a new one. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Debian has turned unusable.

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
to dispel the stigma the name gives? The name's hardcoded all over the place, unfortunately. Even if we wanted to, it'd actually be rather a large amount of effort to rename it, effort we could more productively spend in finishing off the new installer so that we can release sarge. -- Colin Watson

Re: When a release is ready. (was Re: Re: Debian has turned unusable.)

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
putting together better ways to disseminate release targets, but I don't expect them to be decent until we've got sarge out of the way. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Undoing the 'l' command in mutt

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
? The simpler way would be 'l'+Enter, but it does not work. I had a look in the '?' list of all keybindings, but found nothing. 'l' followed by entering '.' as the pattern works for me. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: software raid and lvm

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
installer. So if anyone knows where I might find some documentation on this could you please let me know. We don't have software RAID support in debian-installer yet, I'm afraid, but I believe efforts are underway. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Licensed software

2004-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
, but the whole thing definitely is not. In fact, some of the components of Debian are released under licences incompatible with the GPL (but still free). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: package removal

2004-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
--- Reason --- ROM; no permission to modify and redistribute. -- = Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help needed

2004-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
cant use this one. Debian doesn't make sid isos available, complain to whoever made them. Be careful; nowadays we do make netinsts of unstable and businesscard images that can install unstable. They're only really there for debian-installer testing, though. -- Colin Watson

Re: Help -- Screen Scraping with Mechanize

2004-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
path. Help? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./scrape_test.pl 'Demolition Man' Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (@INC You're still missing libxml-libxml-perl, as before. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
interested in something, subscribe to the *relevant* mailing list. Nobody in Debian has an obligation to personally knock on your door and advise you of everything. Bye, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Root1

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
, you'd need to be able to narrow it down to a particular package before you wipe the disk in order to file a bug, really. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: make debian package of php 4.3.5 for debian woody

2004-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
source directory after getting the source. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
it on a web site and see if someone can work it out. I've never heard of this problem before. I don't believe it's a common problem with Debian. Are you sure you don't have a subtle hardware problem? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: keep users alert to packages deleted from debian

2004-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
versions) . when things go wrong, its output can be confusing even to experts; an interactive dependency resolver is much easier to follow in practice -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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