On May 26, Tom Lees wrote
No, we don't need xdm in runlevel 4. A better solution would be this (but
it is more difficult, requires multiple inetd.conf files):-
2: multiuser, minimal networking, no networking daemons (including inetd).
3: multiuser, client networking (rpc.ugidd, ident,
On May 26, Manoj Srivastava wrote
Hi,
I would really like to get into using CVS for my package
development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of
releasing packages. I have no problems testing packages with
./debian/rules binary
and I always used dpkg-buildpackage for
On May 26, David Frey wrote
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Assuming the syntax is simple, and there's no need for complexity, a
hand-written parser can be lightning fast, and all the time is spent
in starting the program, and reading the file.
Mine is currently a lex parser and
On May 26, Christian Schwarz wrote
AFAIK there is no manual, list or whatever of debian specific things.
so, what about moving all manpages that are debian related to have the
suffix debian ? this way anyone can go and say : ok, i know unix, and
i was using other distributions before. lets
On May 26, Joey Hess wrote
Andreas Jellinghaus:
Would someone mind if I add the following entry to the list of virtual
package names?
wishany package providing a wish
these packages might also help.
(tcl and tk cannot be used.)
I don't think wish is the right
I just received this from Brian. The feature of dpkg to skip certain
directories when unpacking a .deb has been discussed already. How easy can
this be implemented?
In fact, as part of the Deity project, I'd like to do something a little
more elaborate. I'd like to be able to remove or change
Mark == Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mark I think it covers everything; would you mind floating it
Mark before a broader audience though (gnu.emacs.misc perhaps, if
Mark not also comp.protocols.x.something?)
And [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or should I make a digest and forward to
The following message is a list of items to be completed for the upcoming
releases of Debian GNU/Linux. If something is missing, incorrect, or you want
to take responsibility for one or more items, please send email to:
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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rather than be scattered to the four [why four?] winds.
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Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would really like to get into using CVS for my package
development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of
releasing packages.
I wondered about this, and I had a question. I looked around in the
CVS manual a little and didn't find
On 26 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would really like to get into using CVS for my package
development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of
releasing packages.
I wondered about this, and I had a question. I looked around
Hi,
I just import the upstream version with ``cvs import -ko'', and
``cvs add'' my changes without any k options. This way the upstream
sources do not get mangled, but the debian only files come with full
RCS keywords.
manoj
From the info pages:
File: cvs.info, Node:
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nothing. When you check it into CVS it will rewrite all of the $Id: $
markers and friends to reflect your CVS tree. It shouldn't have any
problems. You might not want that so you can turn off substitution with
-ko I think.
I guess I was looking for
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
| *** ***
| *** Release of Bo is HOLDING for CRITICAL BUGS!***
| *** ***
| *** There is one remaining
while it would be interesting to perhaps do a 1.3.1 or a 1.4 with
other features, there has to be pressure against doing anything to 1.3
other than what qa wants to do to get it out the door. We can't make
every release perfect; in fact, we can't make *any* release
perfect... but we can try to
On May 26, 10:15am, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Alexander Such pearls of wisdom need to be what they're done
Alexander for... Showing up with man...
Alexander Nobody will die because of that... Hopefully.
Fine, as long as the desciption field is clear that these
``manual pages'' are
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
People will probably have told you this, but the Packages file
was not corrupted, those 1:x.x.xx are critical (these are epochs),
and the problem actually is that the version of dpkg being used is
too old to understand epochs.
OUCH.
Is there any reason why
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
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I just checked this bug. It refers to Version 1.06-3 of e2fsprogs, but
1.10-2 is the current version in bo. Thus I consider this bug obsolete.
If noone objects, I'll close this
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
On May 26, Christian Schwarz wrote
AFAIK there is no manual, list or whatever of debian specific things.
so, what about moving all manpages that are debian related to have the
suffix debian ? this way anyone can go and say : ok, i know
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian White wrote:
I just received this from Brian. The feature of dpkg to skip certain
directories when unpacking a .deb has been discussed already. How easy can
this be implemented?
In fact, as part of the Deity project, I'd like to do something a little
more
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
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I just checked this bug. It refers to Version 1.06-3 of e2fsprogs, but
1.10-2 is the
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyways, e2fsprogs seams to have a lot of open bugs. Is this package
actively maintained?
Probably not. Last maintainer is Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED],
but he is looking for a new maintainer for e2fsprogs.
Sven
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
People will probably have told you this, but the Packages file
was not corrupted, those 1:x.x.xx are critical (these are epochs),
and the problem actually is that the version of dpkg
Brian White wrote:
In fact, as part of the Deity project, I'd like to do something a little
more elaborate. I'd like to be able to remove or change any arbitrary
path. (This was originally Behan's idea, actually.)
To be completely fair, it's actually a combination of several people's
ideas
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
And if you don't read the documentation, especially the release
instructions, you get what you deserve.
What part of the documentation are you referring to? I found nothing
referring to that issue in the READMEs or in the doc subdirectory.
Where else is a user supposed to
On May 26, Joey Hess wrote
I don't think wish is the right name. Unless you're familiar with tk (as
opposed to just trying to get it installed), you may not know that the tk
interperter is named wish.
But in that case, it's just infrastructure, so why should you care?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 26.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christoph Emacs is one application. We want to use an existing
Christoph STANDARD not screw up one more. Emacs can be
Christoph adapted. Please do use
On May 24, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote
I just ran across this problem as well. I have a PCI bus
with a DPT RAID board and a 3COM ethernet board trying to
share IRQ 11. There were no software options or hardware
jumpers to change the IRQ selection.
To solve the problem, I moved the ethernet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clint Adams) wrote on 26.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Which installation method are you using in dselect? In think you have to
specify the directory debian/dists/unstable as base directory and select
distributions main, contrib, and non-free.
This would be nice, but the
On 26 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
Do we have any policies regarding additional sytem installed
TeX/LaTeX styles and classes? For example, LaTeX2HTML has a bunch of
style files, which, when used in writing a document, give the author
more control over the rendition of
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
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I just checked this bug. It refers to Version 1.06-3 of e2fsprogs, but
On May 27, Thomas Koenig wrote
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
People will probably have told you this, but the Packages file
was not corrupted, those 1:x.x.xx are critical (these are epochs),
and the problem actually is that the version of dpkg being used is
too old to understand epochs.
On May 27, Sven Rudolph wrote
2. Packages needing a new maintainer
Please inform me via e-mail:
o when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package
o when you believe that the following list is incomplete
o when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed
hy.
my 822-date says :
local timezone differs from GMT by a non-minute interval
local time: Tue May 27 19:22:48 1997
GMT time: Tue May 27 17:23:08 1997
how to correkt this (it's very ugly - debmake and dch are not working).
regards, andreas
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On May 26, Kai Henningsen wrote
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Vygonets) wrote on 26.05.97 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
BTW, why does runlevel 6 mean reboot? Can't it be runlevel 9? It (6)
seems to be the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Koenig) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
And if you don't read the documentation, especially the release
instructions, you get what you deserve.
What part of the documentation are you referring to? I found nothing
referring to that
I was thinking about building ncurses 4.1 with libc6 when I saw
this file :
README.glibc
To compile this as an add-on for glibc, unpack it in the glibc source
tree and put ncurses on the add-on list when you do configure.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
03/21/1997
So it seems possible to
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
the list of debian packges needing a new maintainer is growing all the
time. so - what about removeing some packages, if they are no longer
maintained, or (better) moving them into section contrib (or a new
section orphaned ?).
This is
I was thinking about building ncurses 4.1 with libc6 when I saw
this file :
README.glibc
To compile this as an add-on for glibc, unpack it in the glibc source
tree and put ncurses on the add-on list when you do configure.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
03/21/1997
So it seems
On May 27, Yann Doussot wrote
So it seems possible to compile libc6 and ncurses as a whole.
As libncurses is outdated and needs to be recompiled for libc6 why not use
this possibility ?
David what do you think about this ?
Ncurses can be compiled as a glibc add-on. However,
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
the list of debian packges needing a new maintainer is growing all the
time. so - what about removeing some packages, if they are no longer
maintained, or (better) moving them into section
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
The new section should appear in the archive under the directory
project/orpahned. It will store the binary/sources of orphaned
packages, but also the bug reports of the dropped packages.
But please don't mix orphaned packages with
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
I guess this will become a flame war. So I'd prefer to leave prompt
alone. Or maybe the boot disks can have a dialog
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
How about:
PS1='\[\033[40;31m\]pwd: \[\033[40;33m\]\w \[\033[40;[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
I'll repeat my conclusion: leave it as PS1=\\$
That's your `conclusion'? After _what_ thinking?
and provide a
customization app for sysadmins to edit
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Ok..! Let's use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '... It's much better than '
\\$'...
Yes!, please!, let's use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
Or even better: PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' for root and
On 27 May 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
| while it would be interesting to perhaps do a 1.3.1 or a 1.4 with
| other features, there has to be pressure against doing anything to 1.3
| other than what qa wants to do to get it out the door. We can't make
| every release perfect; in fact, we can't make
Well, the upshot of it is, the mysql package is *not* appearing in the
packages file, and hasnt for a long time now. I am grateful that someone
told me the exact url where to find it, but god, lots of people must just
assume we dont have it.
Thanks again.
On 27 May 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Jellinghaus) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
my 822-date says :
local timezone differs from GMT by a non-minute interval
local time: Tue May 27 19:22:48 1997
GMT time: Tue May 27 17:23:08 1997
how to correkt this (it's very ugly - debmake and dch are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
These packages should conflict with the versions of dpkg which
have the problem. [Or maybe a predepends on a good version of
dpkg?]
That won't help. Once you [U]pdate, the old dpkg will refuse to work. You
don't even
On Fri, May 23 1997 8:57 PDT David Cary writes:
I started all over Yet Again, and I think I discovered a bug in my latex
distribution that crashed the default setup (but I have documented a way to
work around it).
Once (a long time ago with Debian 1.1) I had the problem with
On Mon, May 26 1997 20:40 +0200 Christian Schwarz writes:
Then I have a special ALT key on my german kbd, that's label Alt Gr.
In DOS/Win95 it behaves like pressing Ctrl-Alt together. It's useful to
get some alt-alt keys (for example, I have =, 0, and, } on one
key). I think the behaviour
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