Re: Uploaded tnt_1.1a3-1_i386.deb to master

1997-12-03 Thread csmall
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > I just saw a package being announced on debian-devel-changes, > namely, tnt. I did not see it being announced as intended to package > (I may have missed it, in which case I apologize); I think that this > was now policy? In any case, that is a trivial thing

Re: not a first amendment question

1997-12-03 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Petri Wessman) wrote on 02.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 01 Dec 1997 16:40:00 -0500, Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Brian> Morality is a touchy subject and (in my opinion) the _only_ place to > Brian> draw this line is all or nothing. > > Agreed, except tha

Re: various computers for adoption

1997-12-03 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>DecStation 5000. MIPS R4000, but different byte-sex from other MIPS >systems. No Linux kernel, and may never have one because the >documentation's not available. >DecStation 3000. MIPS R3000. See above. Actually, there's enough documentation for the 3000 series at least -- proof by existence: Ne

Re: EGCS EGCS EGCS

1997-12-03 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Johnie Ingram wrote: > Dude! > > The egcs bunch is going to make an official release of egcs in like 3 > hours; Elliot Lee and a bunch of developers are looking all over IRC > for you. :-) I don't do IRC. Will check it out, but be warned--I'm hurting for disk space right now. I'll see about c

Re: Debian Commercial Support

1997-12-03 Thread bruce
I moved this discussion to debian-consultants. I'll eventually move it to my own list server. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Ed Donovan wrote: > > I think Dermot Bradley isn't actively maintaining packages. I sent mail > > to one of his addresses, about packaging gated, a while back. I didn't > > hear from him, though I saw gated came off the WNPP list under his name > > later on. His packages in th

`COAS'

1997-12-03 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I wonder if anyone else has seen this: http://www.caldera.com/coas/ ? Perhaps Diety should become a part of that? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
Ed Donovan wrote: > I think Dermot Bradley isn't actively maintaining packages. I sent mail > to one of his addresses, about packaging gated, a while back. I didn't > hear from him, though I saw gated came off the WNPP list under his name > later on. His packages in the archive are mrtg, libgd,

Re: perl module packages: why do they exist?

1997-12-03 Thread Raul Miller
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # generate the control file > % make-ppkg --generate --package libcgi-perl --module CGI-modules > control > % vi control# make sure things look ok (espescially version numbers) > % make-ppkg -d my-packaging-directory control > % dpkg -I my

Re: Proposal to package propsel

1997-12-03 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You might want to take a look at x2x also. It passes selections and >allows you to use one mouse and keyboard with both displays. > > ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/x2x/x2x-1.26.tar.gz Thank you! That is one NEAT program. At first glance, I thoug

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Scott Ellis writes: > Nope, didn't seem to be flagged for install on my end. I would have > suggested keeping the same name and conflicting with the versions of dump > and quota that would have depended on the libraries. OK. I think I'll change the name back to "e2fsprogs", and just make it co

Re: perl module packages: why do they exist?

1997-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I had not considered modifying ExtUtils, firstly, because I didn't think I could get a patch in (it would be presumtuous of me to think otherwise, don't you think?), and secondly, it is not necessary. I already package CGI-modules, and have come up with a Debian specific packagin in

Re: Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
Brederlow wrote: > Esspecially anoying (for me) is xfishtank_2.2.orig.tar.gz for me, > cause the bin (or my X) is broken and I want to compile a debug > version of it. Seems to have gotten corrupted on master, I'll reupload the source. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-

Re: Proposal to package propsel

1997-12-03 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 09:19:46PM +, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > I just saw this on c.o.l.a. and want to package it: > > Title: propsel > Version:27-Nov-1997 > Entered-date: 27-Nov-1997 > Description:propsel is for people who work with more than a single >

Find user IP

1997-12-03 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
I got a problem with my TCPQuota... I need to know the IP address of a connecting user (telnet/ssh etc), since the host field isn't big enough... I've tried to read the utmp file, but some progs don't seem to register the ipaddress, only the hostaddress. I don't realy want to change telnetd/sshd a

perl module packages: why do they exist?

1997-12-03 Thread Adam P. Harris
[APH: I'm CC'ing the CPAN.pm maintainer here, since I though Mssr König might be interested in the issues we're having. I'm going to recap that discussion, if everyone will tolerate me a little. Note also I use CPAN.pm to refer to the Perl module, and CPAN to refer to the actual archive.

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-03 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > The issue of keeping Debian bo crunchy and fresh w/o inhibiting the bold > experimentalism of the hamm lineage is critical to Debian's success. It hopefully won't be a problem once hamm is released. With a compl

Re: Need someone to take some of my packages.

1997-12-03 Thread Rob Browning
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The other two packages that I should find better homes for are; libident, > and m4. Each of these packages have "minor" bugs reported against them and > are not a maintainance problem. The also fall into the catagory of > "relatively untestable" packages,

Re: Need someone to take some of my packages.

1997-12-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mark Baker wrote: > I had a look at it a week or so ago. I can't get it to support shadow > passwords properly: the code that's supposed to support them for linux > doesn't compile (under libc6, I haven't tried it on a libc5 system). Since > the code is virtually unintelligible anyway, t

bo-updates packages

1997-12-03 Thread Adam P. Harris
[You (Hamish Moffatt)] > Or does any of this matter ? :-) The issue of keeping Debian bo crunchy and fresh w/o inhibiting the bold experimentalism of the hamm lineage is critical to Debian's success. I know a lot of people, even within my company, using Debian in a production environment, but fr

Re: Need someone to take some of my packages.

1997-12-03 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Scheetz) writes: > The one that is desperate for a new home is imap-4. I have never been able > to adequately test this package. There are several outstanding bugs that I > have been unable to come to terms with and for this reason a

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-03 Thread Raul Miller
Mariusz Pagowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I learned about samba package allowing me to access disks > on NT machine from unix/linux. But does samba allow me > to login/telnet to NT machine from linux/unix and run remotely > a program on it? If not is there some software which would all

Re: Debian Commercial Support

1997-12-03 Thread Andrew Howell
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 03:57:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > Now that I am leaving the project leader position, I have some options > open to me that would have been conflicts of interest for before, but are > to Debian's benefit. I am assembling a 24/7 commercial support network for > Debian. T

Need someone to take some of my packages.

1997-12-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
I am finding myself with almost no time to spend on packages, coupled with a large project that I must deal with, leaves me without the resources to make code freeze on several of my packages. The one that is desperate for a new home is imap-4. I have never been able to adequately test this packag

Re: Mailinglists documented

1997-12-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Martin Schulze writes: > Good evening folks, [...] > All the mailing lists that are served on lists.debian.org are now > documented in one file and this should reflect their actual state. One nice thing would be to document a way for anyone to know which debian lists he's currently subscrib

Re: Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-03 Thread Brederlow
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have tried downloading them from a different mirror with the same > > result. Are these packages really bogus, or am I just cursed? I don't > > rely on these packages, but dselect complains, and that is a

Re: Contents.gz

1997-12-03 Thread Richard Braakman
There's ~maor/masterfiles/mkcontents on master, but I don't know if that is the script that was actually used to create them. It might be a possibly-older copy. Unfortunately, per-user crontab files are read-protected, so there's no way to trace a path from the weekly cron job to the Contents fil

Contents.gz

1997-12-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Folks, could anybody tell me which program created the Contents files? Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t

Re: Config file management utility

1997-12-03 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Has much discussion been had about a possible configuration file > management script for the package config scripts to use? > > For example, I installed cron on a Debian box, and then installed mgetty. > Mgetty placed the following at the end of my /etc/c

www.il.debian.org ---> Israeli WWW Linux mirror

1997-12-03 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Unfortunately www.il.debian.org is down and will stay down few days more. I am (the system administrator of this machine) having major problems with it's hardware and I hope to solve them during the next week. I apologize for the inconvenience. thks, borik __ Boris D. Beletsky

Re: Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-03 Thread Rob Browning
Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried downloading them from a different mirror with the same > result. Are these packages really bogus, or am I just cursed? I don't > rely on these packages, but dselect complains, and that is a little > annoying. As far as I can tell, there a

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-03 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi - (Excuse me if I'm cc'ing this around too much.) I think Dermot Bradley isn't actively maintaining packages. I sent mail to one of his addresses, about packaging gated, a while back. I didn't hear from him, though I saw gated came off the WNPP list under his name later on. His packages in

Re: Technical Support Database suggestion...

1997-12-03 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Tue 02 Dec 1997, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I think that it would be useful if we were to design a technical > support database. i agree. ther german suse distribution for example has one, and it's great. we should try to get as good results. they proved that such a database could do great things.

Re: Easier configuration idea....

1997-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, You should probably subscribe to debian-admintool. There was a raging discussion a while back, and then we decided to wait for Caldera's tool COAS (I think) and see if that could be proted/modified for Debian. manoj -- If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certa

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, No, please don't muck with reply-to. That's evil. And if I hadn't lost my disk, I'd have a handy-dandy url for you. Hmmm. Try http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html manoj -- "Can you imagine what it would be like if there had been ``look and feel'' lawsuits over

Re: Uploaded tnt_1.1a3-1_i386.deb to master

1997-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I just saw a package being announced on debian-devel-changes, namely, tnt. I did not see it being announced as intended to package (I may have missed it, in which case I apologize); I think that this was now policy? In any case, that is a trivial thing compared to what I say next:

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 02, 1997 at 08:39:35PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > To control the version number of the .deb produced, you can either > > add something to the changelog (which isn't desirable in this case > > I think), or call dpkg-gencontrol with the version on the command > >

Re: linux/unix to NT

1997-12-03 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Dec 2, 1997, at 14:48, Mariusz Pagowski wrote: > Hello, > I learned about samba package allowing me to access disks > on NT machine from unix/linux. Rather the other way: you can see your linux volumes from NT (in the \\linuxbox\path style used by SMB). > But does samba allow me > to log

Re: Announcing supermount-0.6 for 2.0.32 (fwd)

1997-12-03 Thread Kenneth MacDonald
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi all! > > Passing on an announcement i've long been waiting for! :-) > > This kernel patch would be a very nice user friendly addon for Debian. > How about applying this patch to the distribution kernel? > > I'm currently compiling it in and will

Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-03 Thread Sten Anderson
I have recently downloaded a mirror of Hamm, but some of the packages appear to be broken. The following command: $ find . -name *.deb -exec dpkg -I "{}" ';' | grep 'not a debian' results in (slightly edited): dpkg-deb: `./debian/hamm/binary-i386/editors/emacspeak_7.0-1.deb' is not a d

Re: Changing Project Leadership (was: Debian Commercial Support)

1997-12-03 Thread Stephen Zander
Kindly ignore my last blather. I am now subscribed to debian-announce. Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Changing Project Leadership (was: Debian Commercial Support)

1997-12-03 Thread Stephen Zander
Bruce Perens wrote: > Now that I am leaving the project leader position, I have some options > open to me that would have been conflicts of interest for before... I assume this means that the results are in from the recent election. Was there any intention of announcing this to this list or did it

Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-03 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
Here I go again... I raised the question some time ago regarding the annoying duplicate messages I'm getting from all Debian lists; sometimes I'll get the same message up to five times. Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested several solutions, none of which where satisfying to me, because they w