pythonman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz
That won't be preserved across package upgrades.
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companies to whom they can contract out the work, not offering jobs
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:00:28PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
Am So, 2003-09-07 um 23.44 schrieb Colin Watson:
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:46:02PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
Am So, 2003-09-07 um 21.11 schrieb Mario Vukelic:
You probably don't even get security fixes fo NS 4
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:46:02PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
Am So, 2003
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:13:37AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Read HOWTO by installing doc-linux-text (which used to be doc-linux).
Um. Not since January 1998, if I read the changelog correctly :)
(Before that it was just 'doc', but that was in 1995 ...)
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their current development tree. That's
one of the reasons why it took Mozilla so long to get going. I don't
believe that the source for Netscape 4 itself was ever released.
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, inside an installed system and
use 'chroot' to get at it, which is incredibly useful if you're doing
things like autobuilding packages or sidegrading from a different
distribution to Debian.
There's no separate package for dbootstrap because it's part of
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' is always close to being a release candidate.'
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into experimental repositories. Case in point:
Gnome.
The Debian GNOME maintainers do this because GNOME is a big system and
it's difficult to get it all release-ready otherwise. It's a good idea,
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emergency procedures.
The procedures are in place: there's testing-proposed-updates, which can
be used to get critical security fixes autobuilt and into testing. The
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special-purpose user with a restricted shell, maybe; but eww.
If I were you I'd definitely ask the administrator of (A) to enable
public key authentication.
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Also, if one disagrees with the contents of that file, perhaps it would
be good and nice if remedies were offered that are guaranteed to persist
across product updates . . .
dpkg-divert
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:03:52PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:45:53PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
I was looking at the source
is a dangling symlink
Er, make those files not be dangling symlinks any more? File a bug
against whatever package provides those symlinks (not man-db!) if
necessary ...
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:24:36AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
Also, if one disagrees with the contents of that file, perhaps it would
be good and nice
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:30:48PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
Doh ;
# sudo dpkg -S /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
dpkg: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
Yep :)
Incidentally, why sudo? dpkg doesn't need any special privileges just to
search its database.
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Incidentally, why sudo? dpkg doesn't need any special privileges just to
search its database.
# id
uid=1000(mds) gid=1000(mds)
groups=1000(mds),6
argument to 'exec'
dpkg: error processing gconf2 (--configure)
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status (1)
Please see the bug tracking system; this has been reported several times
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it).
Instead, install the devscripts and fakeroot packages and run 'debuild'.
You probably want the -uc and -us flags too so that it doesn't prompt
you for a GPG signature.
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absolutely sure you see this. You've been doing this a fair bit
recently.)
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2.05b.0(1)-release
$ cat 'EOF'
$BASH_VERSION
EOF
$BASH_VERSION
$ cat EOF
$BASH_VERSION
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$BASH_VERSION
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On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:26, Colin Watson wrote:
As it happens, setting the tabstop option to anything other than 8 does
irritate me when editing files containing tabs. I like to keep source
code within 80 columns, and mismatched
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:43:19AM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:37:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Nowadays, on average I tend to use expandtab for new code, but
converting tabs to spaces is still an operation that needs to be handled
carefully with respect
lost access to the logon
profiles directories at logon time.
Judging from the timestamp quoted above, your system thinks it's a year
in the past. Perhaps this has something to do with it?
(Otherwise, I don't know Samba at all ...)
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:51:20AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
To get the behavior you describe you have to set tabstop to 4 so
that it will go to the next multiple of 4.
No, you don't have to. Try setting softtabstop - much better.
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through local accounts though.
Known bug. Please check the libc6 bug list. You probably want to
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:27:10AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:51, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:51:20AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
To get the behavior you describe you have to set tabstop to 4 so
that it will go to the next multiple of 4
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:53:55PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:15, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:27:10AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
what could be better than works exactly as desired?
tabstop *doesn't* work exactly as desired for me. (Shall we
enough memory, no swap file simply means that you'll occasionally run
out of memory rather than swapping out bits of what's currently in
memory to disk when memory gets low. The latter is *usually* what you
want, but if it's happening too much then you need to get more memory.
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called _unstable_ !
You should report it somewhere, otherwise it's pot luck whether it ever
gets fixed.
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in Perl that's often used for
complex cases. (It's also a common optimization to factor out expensive
transformations in the sort comparator.)
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2) when I do apt-get source kmail, it install kdenetwork, instead of
kmail.
That's correct. kmail is a binary package generated by the kdenetwork
source package.
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/sshd_config. That's
handled in /etc/pam.d/ssh instead. If both are set then you'll get this
duplication.
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.jpg, .gif etc.
Where can i tweak this bash behavior so that I could tell it to recognize .m2v
files as to be opened with mplayer, for example?
See /etc/bash_completion for how it works. If you're adding to it, best
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:37:36AM -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
Is there a plan to un-break gnome2 in testing?
It'll happen before release, but at the moment we're waiting for
unstable's glibc to be fixed.
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:03:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:02:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
My mail delivery statistics say that I've read an average of just under
800 mails per day over the last week, and that's while getting a good
deal of work done as well
code has to be a
complete nightmare and you have to have a deadline to add some new
feature or other to it. It does happen, but it is (and should be) rare.
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:34:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:06:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
Starting up KDE applications outside KDE (often?) requires starting up a
number of random daemons which are normally running if you use KDE for
everything.
Better
is available in the distribution you're looking
for. For instance, it'll usually have at least a Debian revision number
attached to it.
Try http://packages.debian.org/x-window-system.
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patch -p0 gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff
cd gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig
That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package.
Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead:
dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
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and dry, and you don't play with
them. That's not helpful.
I think you should mail the maintainer (via a bug report) and say so,
then. He may well not read this list.
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Colin Watson wrote:
That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package.
Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead:
dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
I thought there was an easier way! So
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:26:23AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:18, Colin Watson wrote:
Amen, brother. I spend a fair bit of my time in Debian trying to stop
people from rewriting things and getting them to fix existing code
instead. It's an uphill
-2.2.1
~/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
[...]
dpkg-source -b gtk+2.0-2.2.1
dpkg-source: building gtk+2.0 using existing gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: failure: md5sum gave bogus output `'
What versions of dpkg and dpkg-dev do you have installed?
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:26:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
gunzipgtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz
patch -p0 gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6
enlight me about it?
psyco is not yet portable to anything other than i386.
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and hope it goes away and
I've taken several classes in C and have tried to work with it
several times over the years.
Nor does it help that the best-selling C book ever is, ahem,
less-than-superbly-written.
Which one's that, then?
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
How are you trying to transfer these files? Filenames with spaces work,
they just require more quoting
or backslashes:
cp /mnt/win/file\ with\ spaces /home/user/
That's just
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:01:31PM +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
| On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:07:36PM +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote:
|Is this a bug?
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|[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ freqtweak
|freqtweak: relocation error: freqtweak: symbol _ZTV10wxListBase, version
|WXGTK_2.4
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:44:12PM +0100, Chris Wilcox wrote:
First post folks so I'm unsure if we top post or not round here but
everyone else seems to so I'll join in! :)
We don't. Please post in conventional reading order, i.e. at the bottom!
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handled in a somewhat different way.
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worked as a
non-root user, the security problem would be there, not in the calling
script.
In general I don't believe that there's ever any point making non-set-id
scripts unreadable or unexecutable, except when they contain sensitive
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showed two classes,
foo and bar. The I discovered that 'fubarred' means 'fsked beyond repair'.
That is sufficient explanation.
Those bits of slang are far from specific to C++.
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that automatically does it for you before you ever even get
to the 'real' code is really fascinating.
Hey, Perl has autosplit mode; see perlrun(1) ...
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outside of kde?
Well, no. Why should it matter?
Starting up KDE applications outside KDE (often?) requires starting up a
number of random daemons which are normally running if you use KDE for
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to cope with a student whose abilities exceeded their own.
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that, and write to the C standard and POSIX
instead. Once in a while you need a very small compatibility layer, but
this is more rare in well-written programs than you seem to think.
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give it a go.
You didn't really look hard, it's in main.
Low on coffee today, Paul?
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davfs is a WebDAV filesystem driver. devfs is a /dev filesystem.
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way out of this?
How are you trying to transfer these files? Filenames with spaces work,
they just require more quoting in the shell than you may perhaps be
using.
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them or us!
A piece of advice, then: always give the version number of the affected
package and the distribution of Debian you're running when reporting
problems like this. They're very tedious to investigate otherwise.
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'-nolisten tcp' from
whatever is starting your X server (for instance, in the case of gdm
this is configurable in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf), does that make any
difference?
If not, an strace will be required.
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The command works but it requires that I manually respond 'yes' for each
overwrite.
Use the -f option.
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits,
to help slow vira propagation:
That's a new plural
gradually as we
move towards the next release.
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:01:47PM -0400, stan wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:27:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
If it's filed in the bug tracking system, at the moment you just have to
look at the bug every so often, although there's some work outstanding
on letting you subscribe
/Developer#tags.
Is resolved one which is fixed? Or is it different than closed ?
Those are all synonyms (apart from a slight overloading of fixed in
the Debian bug system to refer to a bug fixed in a non-maintainer
upload).
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:15:56PM -0400, stan wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:47:49AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 02:01:47PM -0400, stan wrote:
Is sound still also broken in testing?
[Please don't send me private copies of list mail. I read the list.]
Sorry
for your own code.
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the list ? :)
They're painfully aware of the problem.
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not built Perl
before.
That's bad: don't attempt to install Debian packages with a
self-compiled Perl in your $PATH. The library paths won't be right.
Can't you forcibly install the normal Debian perl packages?
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' if necessary; then 'apt-get
source exim'. debian/rules in the resulting source tree is the master
build script.
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haven't got the en_US.ISO-8859-15 locale properly
installed. Try 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'?
(Actually, is ISO-8859-15 even supported for en_US? I wouldn't have
thought there'd be much demand for the Euro character over there.)
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this several
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:33:28AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote:
Oh, and man pages are practically useless.
Rubbish. Maybe some of them could be improved, but inflammatory
statements won't get you anywhere.
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to do for other reasons).
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install
Running #apt-cache search gnome-libs only finds gnome-libs-data which
alreddy is installed.
Anyone that knows what package include gnomeConf.sh?
Use the search engine at the bottom of http://packages.debian.org/ to
answer questions like this.
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packages. In that case, 'apt-get
dist-upgrade' or 'apt-get install spamassassin spamc'.
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, php 4.1.2 (from debian 3.0 stable) is - how old? - at least a
year now.
Welcome to stable: it's stable. Use unstable if you care. (Sure, the odd
package is out of date, but that's just individual maintainers not
getting round to it.)
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:49:02PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:00:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
They do (IRC, anyway), but it's just not as effective. Face-to-face
communication and the ability to look over at somebody's screen in real
time and say oh, *that's
a central
format to whatever it needs for its own menu system. Each package
providing a menu entry just writes one in this central format.
You can add your own entries this way, too, by editing files in
$HOME/.menu. Have a look in /usr/share/doc/menu for the documentation.
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:00:54PM +0200, Hans-Gert Schloegl wrote:
i'm experiencing some file timestamp problems since the last update of libc6
from 2.3.1-* to 2.3.2-3 when i'm using cfs filesystems or getting files with
scp...
Yeah, that's a known bug in libc6 (#205110).
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details: what errors would
be a nice start. :) (An exact transcript is best; don't quote just the
last few lines, which are often just a summary of previous errors, but
give some context.)
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:00:37AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
Dan Jacobson wrote:
$ apt-get install some_package
gets stuck in some bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/some_package.postinst
what is the proper way to back out until a newer version is available?
Usually, edit
issues.
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:23:08PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Newsflash: they are. They're just not perfect, unfortunately.
I am aware of that. I just wonder why, for example, we're getting
asian spam here when my
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Holger Marzen wrote:
install rpm
- apt-get install rpm
- mkdir /var/lib/rpm
- rpm --initdb
Oof! Isn't it possible to use alien rather than trying to hack rpm to
install RPM packages on Debian (which is usually dangerous)?
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', 'setxkbmap us', etc. There are
switches available if you need something more complicated.
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