On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:58:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There now appear to be a few search sites that cover a lot of mailing
> lists:
>
> http://www.reference.com/
> and
> http://www.findmail.com/
>
> Both already have many major linux lists (like [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> (for
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:33:49AM -0400, James A.Treacy wrote:
> For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the
> Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards.
> Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before,
> but am not adverse to any good publicity
Open C++ is a toolkit providing a meta-programming-level above C++. It
has a Xerox copyright which seems to make it DFSG-free.
Home page (with online ref. manual):
http://www.softlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~chiba/openc++.html
It would probably be nice to get this one into slink...
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: fast. Its not agood solution, so thats why I asked here about
: integrating bzip2 support into gzip.
Points well taken. You're just asking in the wrong place. You should take
this up with the gzip upstream maintainer. It is not a Debian packaging
is
Hi,
What is this policy group you are talking about? AFAIK, there
is no such beast; there is just an public, open mailing list, which
is more and less than a formal Policy group.
The mailing list was formed to reduce clutter on the devel
list, which is rapidly becoming a catch-
On 21 Apr 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Philip> Does that satisfy both sides ?
>
> This satisfies me. Indeed, this has been my position all the
> while, but evidently the joys of the fray and the intellectual
> stimulation offered by the flow of reason has been a feast for my
>
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, James A.Treacy wrote:
> For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the
> Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards.
> Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before,
> but am not adverse to any good publicity for Debian.
> The aw
Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> On 20 Apr 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Well, to take a different tack, what is the point of a policy
>> document at all when anyone can say "well, my package is an
>> exception and need not comply to policy."? If one ma
> Fonts for X could be stored as bz2 instead of gz, man-pages could be
> bz2.
No, that's actually not true. Changing how gzip-the-program behaves
would have no effect on X font handling.
Fonts are stored gzipped because there is a fast, free-enough-for-X,
zlib implementation. (The server hasn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply - catching up.
> IMHO speed is always relevant, and so is memory usage. This is the trap
> Micro$oft
> and Apple have fallen into. Just because the hardware is capable of running
> faster
> is no excuse for sloppy coding. I'm
Hi.
Philip> Does that satisfy both sides ?
This satisfies me. Indeed, this has been my position all the
while, but evidently the joys of the fray and the intellectual
stimulation offered by the flow of reason has been a feast for my
soul, and, added to my evident inability to coherentl
Sorry for the late reply - catching up.
IMHO speed is always relevant, and so is memory usage. This is the trap
Micro$oft
and Apple have fallen into. Just because the hardware is capable of running
faster
is no excuse for sloppy coding. I'm not saying everything should be written
in assembly
la
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> : Hmm... it's actually probably a good idea to bzip2 the X sources.
> : They're monstrous.
>
> Probably a good idea. However...
>
> The right way to handle this is for someone to broach the subject of usin
Hello,
I intend to apply as a maintainer (as soon as I find somebody to scan
my passport ;) and package:
- ras (http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/nc/)
Ras is a small utility that adds m extra files to a set of n files,
such that the contents of the n original files can be regenerated from
any n of th
> "jdassen" == jdassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jdassen> On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:45:27AM -0700, Karl
jdassen> M. Hegbloom wrote:
>> It is currently, but not for too much longer, sitting in:
>> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg/Public/Usenix-88-lexic.pdf
>>
>> Pl
> "Guy" == Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guy> It's just a silly bug. It calls that code from some scripts
Guy> which have fd0 dup'd elsewhere, so isatty(0) is false and
Guy> getlogin() fails.
Will someone please fix it? It's really annoying. Is it in the bug
sys?
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T
>What are the plans for the official CD?
main + contrib fit on one cdrom. so i propose
to use the official cdrom as long as possible.
people (not debian) should then create a third cdrom with
non-free source + binaries (parts), and maybe other stuff
(kde, netscape, whatever you want to include).
mark from novare here!
we determined last night that the disk where the dist archive resides is
bad and must be replaced.
i will have that drive replaced and restored as soon as possible so we
can get the
Project back on track.
again sorry for the delay, but we actually had two disks ( Micropoli
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 05:24:57PM +0200, Julien Ortega wrote:
> I am making a package with deb-make for squid (the original package is
> good but i want it to install in /usr/local/squid and not /usr/bin;
> /usr/etc ... )
>
> My package install squid, add a script in init.d but i want it, to
> cr
I am making a package with deb-make for squid (the original package is
good but i want it to install in /usr/local/squid and not /usr/bin;
/usr/etc ... )
My package install squid, add a script in init.d but i want it, to
create the cache directory whith nobody rights and launch squid -z,
this, onl
For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the
Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards.
Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before,
but am not adverse to any good publicity for Debian.
The awards page is at http://linux.miningco.com/library/awar
> On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 11:47:20PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote:
>> Modifying libc to catch common security goals is a laudable goal, but
>> such a libc should go to experimental.
This may be a stupid question, but *what* /tmp exploit are we trying
to fix?
I ask solely because /tmp should already hav
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:55:28PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> is there a list for cd-creators ?
Does anything speak against [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-cd@lists.debian.org
Description : This list is used to make announcements to cd
vendors.
Moderated : ye
is there a list for cd-creators ?
i think we need one. topics
- mirror file (if you only want to create a cdrom)
- createing cdroms
- improved check scripts, to make sure that all md5sums are ok,
the Packages (and *.gz files !) are up-to-date
- putting non-free on cdroms.
...
the debian of
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Szomor Attila wrote:
> --ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0]
> --Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
> I do not have idea what is a solution if you know it please send me an
> e-mail.
>
> /etc/ppp/options
> asyncmap 0
> cr
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 11:47:20PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote:
> Modifying libc to catch common security goals is a laudable goal, but
> such a libc should go to experimental.
Why change libc? Isn't there a kernel patch that makes /tmp safe? Why isn't
no-one using it?
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> If we include just the binaries from main and contrib, along
> with the disks-i386 directory, we seem to get 659241 kbytes. I
> can never quite remember whether a CD contains 640 or 650
> million bytes or megabytes, but this is TIGHT on space.
> Shovi
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 12:01:32AM -0700, Guy Maor wrote:
> The sizes are:
> 62997 contrib/binary-i386
> 326744 main/binary-i386
> 65237 non-free/binary-i386
> 31849 main/disks-i386
> 86526 contrib/source
> 690239 main/source
> 148075 non-free/source
>
> Since the official CD doesn't i
On 20 Apr 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, to take a different tack, what is the point of a policy
> document at all when anyone can say "well, my package is an
> exception and need not comply to policy."? If one may take that
> stance, I see no point in having a policy doc
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 10:24:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> After hamm is released I'm going to be re-engineering XFree86 a bit. An
> xserver-common package will be created,
I understand that will be necessary (or at least highly desirable) in future
anyway, since new releases of XFree86
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
> > > appropriate, though?
> > By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to u
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
> > appropriate, though?
>
> By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine
> upstream source (since the vast majori
I'm going to package up a map viewer for X called mayko xmap, plus some
sample maps. http://www.mayko.com/ .
(I sort of hate to package this, becuase it is binary-only, libc5[1], uses
motif, and is non-free. Many strikes against it. On the plus side, it
works well, is easy to use, and was a lot
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We should modify our libc so that opening a file in /tmp or /var/tmp -
> determined by simple string comparison of the filename passed to
> open(2) - fails if O_CREAT is specified without O_EXCL.
You also need to check whether the current directory is /tm
In the message identified by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you. That was the point I was so poorly trying to make. No
> denigration was intended (just a bit of jealousy at not having any spare
> time myself)
I'm not a developer, but I see how the debian IRC
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are
> useless. If a user had a value "pri=5", he would only have to do something
> like
> echo 'command' | at now
> to get 'command' executed at normal priority.
Yes, it's not very e
It's just a silly bug. It calls that code from some scripts which
have fd0 dup'd elsewhere, so isatty(0) is false and getlogin() fails.
Guy
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Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> msqld will only modify /etc/group when the needed group is missing.
I don't have msqld installed, so msqld might be doing the correct
thing. It's fine to add the group with 'groupadd -g 36 msql', but you
definitely shouldn't modify the file directly.
The sizes are:
62997 contrib/binary-i386
326744 main/binary-i386
65237 non-free/binary-i386
31849 main/disks-i386
86526 contrib/source
690239 main/source
148075 non-free/source
Since the official CD doesn't include non-free, there won't be a
problem for this release. All the binaries a
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Make that
> http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.02.ram
> if you just want the last hour. The Free Software segment is the
> second part of that hour.
It starts 27:20 minutes in.
Guy
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I agree with Manoj here.
Modifying libc to catch common security goals is a laudable goal, but
such a libc should go to experimental.
Guy
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Okay, I've got a strange problem here. I'm trying to build a .deb, using
the devscripts tools and dpkg-dev...
I get a utmp error when I try to build:
<
$ build
no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("brad") at
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I have seen a few messages about your "X Strike Force"
I find it interesting. Right now I kno wvery little about X but...
as I said...one of the main reasons I am interested in doing any of
this is that I want to learn
Not knowing much about X is one of the thin
Hi,
Well, to take a different tack, what is the point of a policy
document at all when anyone can say "well, my package is an
exception and need not comply to policy."? If one may take that
stance, I see no point in having a policy document in the first
place.
manoj
Why hav
In fact, it has been mentioned (on tar-forum, I believe) that gzip
(the program) will eventually include the bzip2 algorithm...
But in the meantime, it makes sense for dpkg-source to deal (ideally,
by having a set of original files and an explicit map [*not* a general
purpose shell script] of how
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 10:16:29PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> About 10 mins ago I posted a message to the debian-user list in a
> discussion of this package xfstt. The reason being that the package
> needs some work and I also have noticed it on the list of "Packages
> needing a new mainta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
About 10 mins ago I posted a message to the debian-user list
in a discussion of this package xfstt.
The reason being that the package needs some work and I also
have noticed it on the list of "Packages needing a new maintainer"
That is why I am writting you now (
I have taken over xpdf and should have xpdf-i (with support for encrypted
PDF files) upload to non-US soon. Thanks to Dirk for his help.
I also want to package gEDA, which is some electronics design software,
GNU EDA. So far they have a schematic editor running. It uses on gtk+.
Hamish
--
Hami
> I think we should stay away from delibrate non-compliance,
> even for laudable goals such as these. An experimental non-conformant
> libc (which I can install on a test system) is not something I shall
> object to.
Why not doing this: Each program when started, whe libc is initialized
On 20 Apr 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> Dale> The desire is to create a distribution that installs in the
> Dale> smallest disk space possible. I saw that requirement as being a
> Dale> smaller one than the functionality requirem
> I've just released version 0.24 which fixes this (and a few minor problems
> too).
>
> v0.24: 1998-04-21 (Craig Sanders)
> - added libstdc++, libslang0.99.34 (libc5), libslang0.99.38 (libc6),
>netbase, and netstd to the list of packages to install.
> - changed 'unstable' to 'frozen' in var
BTW, i've also made some changes to my http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup
site.
1. updated autoup.tar.gz to have the latest versions of all the needed
packages.
2. made it accessible as ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup (some people
requested this)
3. made a debfiles/ directory which
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > dpkg: regarding .../base/dpkg_1.4.0.22.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency
> > problem:
> > dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.8
> > libstdc++2.8 is not installed.
You know, we should really include libstdc++2.8 on the base disks if this
is now true.
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