Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:19:54AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > little endian hex dump > May be interesting. Should be an option to "od", really. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Are libtool .la files in non-dev library packages bugs?

2002-08-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
t as such, and leave it to the maintainer and upstream developers to fix it if in doubt. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/

Re: RFD: Architecture field being retarded? [was: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?]

2002-08-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ing system. However, runtime configuration is not part of the current packaging system, nor did I consider it in my proposal. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:10:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Well, at least it is packaged and easy to setup (IMO). > > Where is it ? > > $ apt-cache search turtle > ucblogo - a dialect of lisp using turtle graphics famous for teaching kids. > $ It's available at http://savannah.gnu.org

Re: RFC: Packaging buildd

2002-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:12:10PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:44, Simon Richter wrote: > > Well, my project goes much further, it is basically a "generic" > > autobuilder with a plugin for .dsc/.deb (just like APT is a generic > > package library with plugins for Debia

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:07:03PM +0200, Stefan Schwandter wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Simply because gtk+ support is newer and still not finished. > > Then the solution is to improve it. > I am still hoping that gtk support will improve, but at the moment, i

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
to be used on a free software system at all, other people will pick it up and fork development. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:33:34PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > If there are only proprietary programs that do a specific job, and it > > is desired to have a free program for this job, then we are forced

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:09:58AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:13:57PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > > > > In such cases I sometimes decide to run the non-free tool

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:13:57PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > > In such cases I sometimes decide to run the non-free tool if it saves > > > me some time. After all I want to get my job done and I want to have > > > some time left for leisure or for working on stuff like free software. >

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
see what people are complaining about. But I thought that this difference is worth noting and might explain some of the heat here. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EM

Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

2002-01-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
k (on GNU/Hurd, and other systems). I have never understood why some people want to use ldconfig -n in package builds. ldconfig is a tool that enhances the systems run time loader on GNU/Linux, not the compilers linker. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.d

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:31:43PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcus> Let's promote when we have something to promote. > > Does this count as something to promote? >

Re: why does xlibs-pic exist?

2001-12-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ky, > etc. etc. Robinsonitis seems to be a contagious disease... Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
o promote free > stuff. Screw trying to promote people to create free datafiles for a > free game engine. Let's promote when we have something to promote. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n't need to be a complete playable game) would go a long way to bring your argument forward. But without any sign of such data, or people who actually say "we are working on it" rather than "somebody else might work on it", it's pretty pointless to include quake2 in D

Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
where. Thanks, Marcus [1] Of course the correct spelling has 591.000 hits. [2] So could Debian decide to apply "zonefile" or use both variants. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
snapshot, but work was interrupted. He might pick it up later. Note that currently it is only used on the Hurd (a port [of the packaging stuff] to Debian GNU/Linux is upcoming, and the main reason for the delay). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
s GPL'ed (just like sysklogd is GPL'ed, although it is forked from the BSD code), but that is not the motivation. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL

Re: xplanet can use ssystem image file!

2001-09-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: A script to see how much a package is depended upon.

2001-09-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:11:28AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > As I anticipated, it has a lot of "loops", and it is going in ridiculous > values. These things should have had trouble when porting to new arches, Hell, they did! It took ages to become somewhat self-contained Debian wise. One pro

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

2001-05-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:07:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > I agree. The LSB should contrast/compare features of both and come up > with a superset of both (possibly favoring ones implementation over the > other). Most importantly, the metadata format needs to be standardized. > That is the key

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
yptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
s (bug-hurd@gnu.org) gnumach > GNU Hurd Maintainers (bug-hurd@gnu.org) hurd > GNU Hurd Maintainers (bug-hurd@gnu.org) mig > Marcus Brinkmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED])inetutils Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http:

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
rs to install packages. Basically, users packages would be mirrored over the root filesystem with shadowfs, and a sub Hurd booted. This way every user can have the filesystem look like he/she wants. Thanks, Marcus PS: Probably move this to debian-hurd if you have further questions. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-04-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
still don't understand why the policy (version 3.5.3.0) > doesn't simply say "must" rather then "may". Some packages don't build depend on any beside the build essentials. You certainly need to make provision for them, so a simple s/may/must/ won't work.

Re: where is #define __linux__

2001-01-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:05:54PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I'm doing some code which is intended to work on linux and sunos. I > was poking through the header files in /usr/include on my debian box > and found a line in g++-3/stl_config.h which specified: > > #if defined(__linux__) > > af

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:05:27AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:25:43AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 03:28:46AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > > "tar -xIvvf file.tar.bz2" has been in use under linux for over

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
something. It tells a lot about the people making the distributions at least. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de

Re: ITP: Partition Image

2000-09-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
n formats.. It says on the homepage: Partition Image only copy used data of the partition. Then, all free blocks are not written in the image file, in order to be faster, and to make small image files. (the dd command copy all the partition, even unused datas). *sigh* Marcus

Re: How do I build a package that requires the _source_ of another?

2000-09-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EM

Re: Qt2.2 released under the GPL

2000-09-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
e won :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brin

Re: mkfs in /sbin, mkisofs in /usr/bin (was: Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:15:17PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > There is some inconsistency here. > > > > ulysses:~# which mkisofs > > /usr/bin/mkisofs > > ulysses:~# which mke2fs > > /sbin/mke2fs >

mkfs in /sbin, mkisofs in /usr/bin (was: Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
barb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, a side note, but I think an important one. Ben Collins wrote: >We have to remember, vendors are burning these CD's almost as soon as >we make them available. WE are costing them money when we fuck up, and >it isn't thre fault because they expect these things to work when we >m

Re: Office Suite for Debian Linux

2000-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
be happy to not stand in your way if you want to contribute to our efforts. Thank you, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
heading this direction. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-boch

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ing 300 further, even useless, binaries wouldn't distract me in any way. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:36:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Debian *can* make this decision, because we know each other. Most users > can only go `James who?'. This is easily identified as a play with names. Who is this "Debian" person you refer to anyway? After all, behind every action is

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:30:12PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > This is a seperate problem. I agree that this should not be the case, but it > > has no place in this discussion. If individual developer keys are > >

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 08:11:15PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > We might want to revoke the old key. If James leaves we can't revoke his key > because it is HIS key. We can however revoke the dinstall key because it > is by definition Debian's key. But this is nitpicking. Who is Debian?

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:01:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:57:06PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > As dinstall verifies the keys on the packages (which already exist, btw, > > > > they are just not propagated), it puts

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
dinstall to the user, I don't care. But don't > > tell the users that link 2 asserts that all packages come from Debian > > developers, it doesn't. > > No, it asserts that all packages come from *Debian*. Debian itself states > that they'll only distribute

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hole archive. > I also assert that the > chance of a hacker getting the security key is lower than say 50% of the > keys in our keyring. I would not make such claims. In any way, see above. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Ke

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 03:16:23PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Wrong. If you have signed debs, and you are careful when updating the > > debian-keyring package, there is no risk even if master is compromised. > &

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 02:49:40PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > In the signed .debs case, I, as a developer, assert that the package comes > > from me. A user can directly verify this by checking the signature. >

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:36:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 03:38:29PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I could not trust either. The former, because it is stored on a network > > connected machine, the latter because it is transfered over the ne

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:52:36PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > It seems you feel personally insulted. I am sorry for this, but > > unfortunately it doesn't change the situation that the signed p

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
). Also, it might be that the submitter reads the bug archive to correspond with you. I don't know if you were serious or not, but I think the whole discussion got well out of hands. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server M

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:41:22AM -0500, Chris Frey wrote: > > Quoting from the mailing list archives... :-) > > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > The whole file --- verifying eac

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
hich problem it solves and which it doesn't solve. Also it is important to realize that the secret key automatically used by dinstall can not be stored in a highly secure way. Thanks, Marcus [1] As secret as any PGP key should be kept. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http:

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
use it is stored on a network connected machine, the latter because it is transfered over the net (if it is shared among the security team). Of course, if the security team use their personal key in the latter case, I can trust it. -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debia

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi Anthony, On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:37:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:02:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at l

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
works also with individual packages you don't get from an archive source. It cuold also be used to verify the origin of the package. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor

Re: Compiling Error

2000-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:15:01PM +, Michal Fecanin Araujo wrote: > -- > #include > > FILE *output=stderr; > > int main() > { > fprintf(output,"Hello World\n"); > } > -- > > The proble

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
l to make a package which looks different from the "official" package. The debian-snapshot list was created to aim at a solution, but nothing came out of it so far. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
get. Only if there isn't a copyright file somewhere laying around, giving a license to us. Probably contact borland for a license if there isn't. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUh

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 10:47:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > You are going to keep /usr/X11R6 for this release right? I guess that the > > XFree86 people might get a bit irritated if you tried to drop it. > > Actually, I've evilly been toying with the idea of #defining ProjectRoot to > /u

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:37:01PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The simple fact you are missing is that Debian is not an industry. > > Which doesn't mean that all arguments are not valid. As Manoj

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:44:39PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> Making last minute changes and rushing in x.0 versions of > Marcus> critical software is just Plain Wrong. Esp

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
foo2 \ && (cmp tmp-foo1 tmp-foo2 > /dev/null 2>&1 || echo $$file differs >> .bad_compare) || true; \ done Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp:

Re: procps trying to overwrite /bin/kill

1999-10-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ttp://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
gy, non-conforming HTML is not a good thing to start with. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key I

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
stem. > Changing the mime-type for one file would automatically effect > all programs. Yep. For this and other stuff (package managment) a filesystem which can store arbitrary metadata would be nice. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org C

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
not user independant is it? On the Hurd it is! > The system can not be set so that one user > has support for running Java/JPEGs from the command line, and another does > not? Yes! Oh, you mean Linux? No. See above :) http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
-- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 07:44:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:28:53AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:53:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1]

Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
; Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Re: Is XEmacs nonfree?

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:14:15AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > The FSF does only include code in GNU programs if the author assigns the > > copyright to the FSF by signing a paper. > > Wrong. > > Take a look

Corel changes BTA?

1999-10-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
dered Confidential Information. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Re: Is XEmacs nonfree?

1999-09-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
t require legal papers from contributors, we just don't care and hope that our ass is covered by our good intentions (we act responsible and in good faith). No problems with XEmacs. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Br

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote: > > Please tell me what for do we need doc-base? To piss off people like you of course. Shaking my head in despair. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcu

Re: architectures, endianness

1999-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
program if __BYTE_ORDER is not defined, so you get it right even on machines which don't define this macro in their header files. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgf

Re: architectures, endianness

1999-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ld check the endianess with the AC_C_BIGENDIAN at configure time, at least if it is an autoconf program, which it should be. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
download: > 1.0.40 3196381 Sep 27 15:19 gnome-libs-1.0.42.tar.gz and recompile. Will be done in no time. Don't worry. But only if it is installed in the archive by now (last time I checked it was stuck in incoming). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://

Re: Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
of free information and data available. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 h

Re: Lizard / Debian

1999-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
usable over a serial line?), nor from the license (IMHO). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 3

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
[OK] Note that Gtk-- is currently completely revamped, and although there probably will be an update, Gtk-- 1.0 is mostly dead meat. I am not sure 1.1. makes it into potato though. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Which gcc builds potato?

1999-09-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
working on it, and I am sure we will follow very soon, but anyway, currently egcs is the only option for us. (gcc 2.95.x couldn't compile itself last time I tried). Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ive, I think :) > It's not like I have anything else I need to do with the X packages, > anyway. > > You know, no bugs to fix, stuff like that. Oh. If you are bored, finish the Hurd port of X. *grin* Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.or

Re: A few changes

1999-09-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
eports, even for trivialities. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/

Re: what's our stance on the opencontent license?

1999-05-25 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ber), but discussion dropped dead shortly after beginning. :( Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://hom

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09

Re: weekly policy summary

1999-05-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 01:07:02PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:21:26PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > > Md5sum proposal > > > * Under discussion. > > > * Proposed on 17 May

Re: weekly policy summary

1999-05-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:21:26PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > Md5sum proposal > * Under discussion. > * Proposed on 17 May 1999 by Piotr Roszatycki; seconded by Peter S > Galbraith, Brock Rozen and Marcus Brinkmann. > * Require a md5ums file be present in all pac

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
most often under Linux. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
t, because ae, vi and emacs work :) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
ftware is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apologies (2)

1999-05-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
he list of subscribers to debian-devel : Others have tried this very much harder and failed (anyone remember Dave Cinege, I'm sure) :) Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
e purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ITP: mig (hurd-i386)

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
there, it is in a seperate package maintained by Santiago. They can probably be merged. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apologize

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
in university, not at home where I have dial up). I don't apologize for what or how said it (sorry marek for not apologizing). Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
r Micro$oft then. You are putting an immediate end to the discussion. Thank you for that, I was already trying to find a way out. Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
. Big deal. The current perl code does usually not use C libraries. They call the executable. Great, eh? Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
++ 2.7.2.3 (which is horribly broken in every respect) until recently. I don't see them rewriting their code everytime with another egcs release. Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
e used. Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
is project enters a critical stage, egcs will be improved again. Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
e done with C++ (apt), and perl (install methods). Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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