Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:58:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:59:01PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've spoken to Brad Kuhn about this specifically. ISTR speaking to him

Re: Opposed: (was Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user)

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
for years before there was such a thing as a testing distribution. debian-testing is supposed to be for organized testing of the next release, and is largely dead because nobody's really doing the necessary organization at the moment. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:25:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My understanding is that the developer's account on the machine in question had been disused for some time, and that the machine wasn't very

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:29:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:39:38PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If somebody actually set up full scale enterprise-style global support for Debian, then we'd be happy to link to them, and probably help them

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:33:24AM -0800, Tom wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:10:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: That looks excellent. There's already quite a lot of cooperation between HP and Debian, with a number of Debian developers employed by HP and improving the distribution

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:33:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:58:15 +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:58:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: On a more practical note: copyright would pass

Re: Mixing woody and sarge

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: how long it takes an unstable package to come into testing?

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
an idea how long I will have to wait for new packages if I am using Testing. That varies. Are you thinking of any particular packages? See http://www.debian.org/devel/testing for general details of how it works. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:23:19PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:59:09 +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Eh? The code is GPL. The person in question was perfectly aware of this and licensed his code the same way. *No* liberties

Re: Kde3.2beta for Sarge/testing: any apt repositories?

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
-repository for Sarge and Kde3.2. By the way will Kde3.2 be part of Sarge if becoming stable? Not unless the KDE maintainers get a move on in a big way ... they haven't even got round to getting 3.1.4 working properly yet. I suspect 3.2 will have to wait for sarge+1. -- Colin Watson

Re: Kernel modules for AIC79xx scsi card?

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
on gluck, although they've been somewhat flooded by mails about it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of Bug Tracking System

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
with whatever the next flood turns out to be. Also, your mail may have been held in queues elsewhere for a while. Some bug reports may have been bounced during this period. If this happened to you, or if your bug reports haven't appeared yet, now is a good time to resubmit them. Cheers, -- Colin

Re: Status of Bug Tracking System

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
for a while, but these should also work now. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
. (No offence, but I haven't seen your name before. Are you requesting complete list reorganizations without having posted much first? This is often considered rather an ... abrupt ... way of joining a group.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
get anywhere? The GNU project's attitude to man pages is one of the reasons why I decided that man-db should not be a GNU package, the other being that copyright assignments would be a headache since one of the former maintainers is dead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
using either stable or unstable, he's using testing. libapt-pkg-perl is broken there at the moment; we need to get a new version of perl into testing first. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to shutdown openbsd ssh server and samba server

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:32:16PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: To openbsd ssh package is called ssh, however it contains the server and the client (at least on woody, I don't know if this has changed). It has not (yet). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
think they investigated, but the results weren't particularly earth-shaking. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
own. (Disclaimer: I work for such a company, although you'd probably have to do a bit of work at the moment to integrate our hardware smoothly with gpg and ssh.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Mimail-L

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
than enough of this stuff? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
://www.projekt1138.de the left are r?ckverlinkt automatically. Looks partly like character set problems. prüfen, möglich, and Möglichkeit are common German words, although rückverlinkt (backlinked, I think) is probably jargon. Certainly the grammar needs to be cleaned up a lot. :) -- Colin Watson

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
be happy to link to them, and probably help them in any way feasible. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling kernel for another system

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
answer, though.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:42:39PM -0800, H. S. wrote: This must be great then. I will try as soon it is released in Sarge. Please try it *before* it's released, if you can, so that you can help the debian-installer developers make sure that it's good enough for your needs. -- Colin Watson

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
boundaries as narrow as possible. Of course, even with this, care is needed to make sure that the data passed over the security boundary is not so complicated as to take you back to square one. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Help with installation

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
:) Once you have it installed, it is not that bad, actually it is pretty nice. BTW, if only Debian had a better installer, a HUGE bunch of Redhat users would now be using Debian. There are always if onlys, unfortunately ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
as such, without the extensive mods. See Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3); you're looking for report_safe. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: severe bug:Failure to start X related to /tmp permissions

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
this package if not known? I don't know. There's always general ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems installing ImageMagick devleopment libs

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
that libmagick5-dev doesn't exist. I strongly recommend having only one release listed there; you'll suffer much less confusion this way. (I'd also suggest using a better package manager than apt-get, which was originally just a test tool ...) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: backporting question

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
is generally to avoid having to use *core* libraries from unstable (e.g. libc6), not applications. Simply installing extra applications shouldn't destabilize a Unix system. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problems when building a kernel module 'out of the box'

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
of Debian releases. I've set followups to debian-user, which is more appropriate. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
status. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (no subject)

2003-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
, I'm afraid. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
less to spawn $EDITOR? 'v' would do that, for instance. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
looked at the new packages in detail. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:13:58PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:46, Colin Watson wrote: Do these issues mean that migrating testing from 7.3.4-9 to 7.4-1 is going to be a headache for testing, or that packages built against 7.4-1 will depend on = 7.4-1 due

Re: .forward - filter on cc?

2003-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
filtering on $header_x-mailing-list: (or whatever the syntax is; I think that's right) instead - much more reliable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
no way one standard can serve everyone's best interest. AFAIK distros don't even make use of FHS dirs like/usr/local and /opt on installation. Distributions aren't supposed to. Those directories are for the use of the local sysadmin. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
a flamewar about the flamewar and compounding the problem. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based working distribution

2003-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
for everyone else. Please show a transcript, /etc/apt/sources.list, 'apt-cache show locales', 'apt-cache show libc6'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
Folks, could you please take this off-topic thread somewhere else, perhaps to private e-mail? Let's get back to Debian. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Question about set UID (and cdrecord)

2003-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
. See perlsec(1) and perl58delta(1) (the latter on unstable, anyway; the text is in perldelta(1) on testing and missing on stable). It's better to write a small C program to do the job. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: problems starting x

2003-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
'InputDevice Generic Mouse', but that you've no InputDevice section with that identifier. Perhaps you could post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to the list? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:11:10PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Colin Watson writes: $ cat /etc/debian_version 3.0 $ which tzsetup /usr/sbin/tzsetup It doesn't show up on the Stable system I'm using right now. Some people uninstall base-config after they're finished

Re: printing all of command executed in a script

2003-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:33:31PM +0800, csj wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:05:21 +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:08:11AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:47:37PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: As the subject above implys, I'd like to print all

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
to dpkg than apt). Sorry. In the special case where you want to move *everything* to a particular tree, then you could use a chroot. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:41:25AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Does anyone per chance have 20.1 or later in /var/cache/apt/archives? Please upload to ftp.madduck.net/incoming, I would be eternally grateful! You know about snapshot.debian.net, don't you? -- Colin Watson

Re: printing all of command executed in a script

2003-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:47:37PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: As the subject above implys, I'd like to print all of commands executed in a shell script. 'set -x' Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian version

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0012/msg00011.html The testing distribution started out as a copy of 2.2r2. It then took a fair while to turn into something reasonable, but that's history now ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
-t unstable' works, but I've seen many broken systems caused by injudicious use of this feature so I don't recommend it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: regarding kernels

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:28:22PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: So, not compiling, is not a security risk ? You should read the changelog to find that out. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SSH update problem?

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
the unstable package hasn't yet been upgraded. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
:~# apt-get remove --purge fireflies dpkg --purge fireflies Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
don't understand. Why would you need to write two sets of scripts? My main problem is handling the variables. Is there a shell-portable way to specify variables? Not if you want them exported to subprocesses, no. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kde in testing ?

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
at the moment, of course. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
' pseudo-package. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:01:32PM +, Jess Anderson wrote: But isn't this group moderated No, it's not. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
be written on the line before the Login? Hell no! It's the *root password*. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
in a way portable to both Bourne-style shells and the C shell; they're incompatible. I suggest ignoring the C shell for scripting and using /bin/sh. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
first. glibc will be ready soon, with any luck; perl is more or less just waiting on glibc; most of the other GNOME stuff is interdependent. Let's say a couple of weeks if things go well. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: handling broken packages

2003-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
stable, which is no longer installable on an otherwise testing system. Try the version from unstable instead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What have I, sarge or sid ?

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
of maintenance. Don't worry about it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
from a dynamic *IP address*. People on dynamic IP addresses should always relay mail through some other machine, such as their ISP's mail server. This takes about a minute to configure and after that you won't notice it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
of the filesystem. As far as Windows is concerned the file most certainly does exist. If you're writing to NTFS, then I think you're on your own as write support in that filesystem driver is experimental, but that's a different matter. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
contains the non-freely-licensed documents that used to be in doc-linux-text. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: pg database hosed in update - help!

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
shared object file: No such file or directory Failed to start the postmaster Looks like you need to install the libkrb5-17-heimdal package. (Not sure why it's looking for that rather than libkrb5.so.3, which is in libkrb53 and upon which postgresql depends ...) Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:12AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Ah, that would explain your confusion. 'apt-get upgrade' isn't what you want, since as documented in the apt-get(8) man page it will not install new packages. In particular, if you attempt to use 'apt-get upgrade

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:19:47AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:41:50PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Try adding this line to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file and see if you get better results with your 'apt-get update': APT::Default-Release

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
your X session inside an ssh-agent. It shouldn't cause any kind of problem, security-related or otherwise; it's just there if you want it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:31:42PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:57:02PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: This may be a stupid question, but has consideration been given to having a 'holding area' between testing and stable to which

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
from the System menu. I dont like the idea that debian builds that jail Please, talk about jails is completely over the top. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
to shut down, I think; so it's not too silly. (You can probably configure it in other ways too.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
) What terminal emulator and shell are you using? This error usually means that one or the other of them has screwed up SIGPIPE handling. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:17:43PM +, Ben Edwards wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:08, Colin Watson wrote: What terminal emulator and shell are you using? This error usually means that one or the other of them has screwed up SIGPIPE handling. bash gnome terminal bash should be OK; try

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't cc me; I read the list. Thanks.] On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:36:10PM +, Ben Edwards wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:23, Colin Watson wrote: bash should be OK; try a different terminal. xterm and pterm should both work. Tried xterm. I think there is a serous problem

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
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Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
in helping and I don't always have time to see a problem through from beginning to end. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-05 Thread Colin Watson
recollection of that. Oh, I see. Indeed, I don't think you can do that in xterm - at least it doesn't appear to be documented if by some chance it is possible. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
are patching around problems in this area for sarge. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
match those against which glibc was compiled. You have to pick one; you can't swap them in and out freely. Again, the 2.6 headers are not broken. They're just different. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:53:35AM +0800, csj wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:03:30 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:52:16PM +0800, csj wrote: What precisely does this package do? It's listed as a dependency of the latest libc6 packages (which I made the mistake

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
details but that's the meat and potatoes of it so to speak. :) Then why is there really zero updates in testing? That's just rubbish, sorry. (I help manage testing; I watch what it's doing almost every day.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: aptitude and dependency handling

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
*? Could you please expand on that? This was often the case with older versions of man-db, but shouldn't happen on woody. (Indeed, this has nothing to do with aptitude.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: aptitude and dependency handling

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:16:18PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:07, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:59:10AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: after installing a new package, sometimes the manpage is not available until I run mandb myself. How

Re: install local deb file

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
. The errors say file not found, not permission denied. Therefore apt is looking in the wrong place. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:52:34PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:21:44 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not true. KDE 3 went in just a few days ago (albeit somewhat broken for now) Indeed. What would be really helpful would be if there was some

Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:57:02PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:35:20 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IRC channels are the best you're likely to do for running guidance. If there's really serious hose-your-system breakage then somebody usually posts

Re: install local deb file

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:00:39AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: Colin Watson wrote: I think your Packages file is screwy. Can you please post: * the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list; * the first block of text from /storage/debs/Packages or /storage/debs/Packages.gz

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
that need kernel headers should make and use sanitized private copies of the relevant interfaces in kernel headers. They should never care about what happens to be in /usr/include/{linux,asm}. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: source.list won't stat (problem gone)

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
, but since I can't copy from xterm (don't know if it is broken or I'm expecting too much of it), To copy from xterm, highlight the region you want to copy with the left mouse button. To paste somewhere else, middle-click. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:00:32PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:37:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote: That hierarchy [/usr/include/{linux,asm}] is chiefly for glibc's internal use; applications were never supposed to use it directly. If these are supposed

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:48:59AM +0800, csj wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:37:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:47:17AM +0800, csj wrote: Maybe it's time to file a serious bug report against linux-kernel-headers. IMHO there should at least be two header

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:51:45PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Joe Rhett wrote: If testing is what is supposed to be the next release, then it seems pointless to even bother. Testing still has Mozilla 1.0. That's what, 2 years old? We're working

Re: upgrade-dead system, help.

2003-11-03 Thread Colin Watson
have to run a 2.6 kernel. Ignore this package (but leave it installed) unless you're hacking on glibc. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Colin Watson
for this is to upgrade just the xserver-xfree86 package. Since there's no need to upgrade the whole of XFree86 it's quite simple to use a newer server even if you're running a distribution that doesn't include it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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