Re: Coming to closure on ae...

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural configuration

Re: Tiny libraries

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 5 May 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: I have a package that uses two very small libraries, shhmsg and shhopt. I packaged the libs separately from the program that uses them, but it has been suggested that I just incorporate them in the package that uses them (snake4). The libs are

Re: Intent to package: eggdrop

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Johnie Ingram wrote: This software has served the #debian channel for over 9 months, and is GPL. From the README: Eggdrop is an IRC bot, written in C. If you don't know what IRC is, this is probably not whatever you're looking for! Eggdrop, being a bot,

PGP

1998-05-06 Thread The Gecko
Ok... I can't seem to find a linux PGP program -- commercial, shareware, freeware, open source, GPL, anything... can any one point me in the right direction -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++ P+++$ L++ E? W+++$

Re: PGP

1998-05-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 5 May 1998, The Gecko wrote: Ok... I can't seem to find a linux PGP program -- commercial, shareware, freeware, open source, GPL, anything... can any one point me in the right direction http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-5.html#ss5.11

Re: PGP

1998-05-06 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
The Gecko wrote: Ok... I can't seem to find a linux PGP program -- commercial, shareware, freeware, open source, GPL, anything... can any one point me in the right direction There is a list of sites that contain Debian files where to get pgp and such programs located at:

Debian volunteers needed for Atlanta Linux Showcase

1998-05-06 Thread Robert Edmonds
Volunteers are needed for October's ALS. I already have several possible people that can man the booth. We need people around, or close to the Atlanta area to be able to help man the booth (bring your screamer box, etc.) and also less obvious donations. Redhat will be there with its ubiquitious

Re: [dpkg] Installing software as a non privileged user - A suggestion

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
This is a great idea.Sysadmins can't keep up with the needs of an experienced user. I am almost sure dpkg won't do this now. There will be all sorts of problems with locations of files. To make sure every package supports this would add complexity and burden. We

Re: [dpkg] Installing software as a non privileged user - A suggestion

1998-05-06 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, May 5, 1998 5:52 pm -0700 G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a great idea.Sysadmins can't keep up with the needs of an experienced user. I am almost sure dpkg won't do this now. There will be all sorts of problems with locations of files. To make

Re: Coming to closure on ae...

1998-05-06 Thread Jules Bean
--On Wed, May 6, 1998 1:45 am +0200 Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or not

Re: Apt is cool (yay!) - What about bo?

1998-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: I love the staus display too. It is a bit jumpy though, maybe you want to printf the numbers etc. in a fixed-size field. Oh, and an expected TOA per package would be a nice finishing touch (I'm getting carried away I guess ;-). I was thinking of right

Re: dpkg-http and proxy cache

1998-05-06 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:25:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have squid cache i have dpkg-http there was a time, when it worked. i could do [U]pdate in dselect, and he used the version of Packages.gz in the Cache. i can check that he uses the cache, because if i stop the cache, he

apt and caching .deb's

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
Apt downloads all the packages and then installs them. Every RH and Debian network method I've seen does this. Is there a way to download a package, install it and throw the deb away, to save disk space ? If I wait too long between upgrades, I run into big problems.

Re: apt and caching .deb's

1998-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 5 May 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote: Apt downloads all the packages and then installs them. Every RH and Debian network method I've seen does this. Is there a way to download a package, install it and throw the deb away, to save disk space ? If I wait too long between

Re: hamm

1998-05-06 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to upgrade via FTP to hamm would be too painfull at 28.8KB! Hi, It depends on your pain threshold, I guess. I thought that too, until I started the bo testihng program a little over a year ago. Since then I have

Re: Apt is cool (yay!) - What about bo?

1998-05-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I also experimented with a veruy wide xterm, and doscovered that apt truncates the status line ;-( (I personally would not mind a wrapped line, or a long line, so I know what is going on rather than 'Waiting to coneect to blah.blah.blah.blah (122.122.122.122)'. Not that I am

Re: Intent to package: eggdrop

1998-05-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I guess we shold also remove rm. That program can be downright nasty in the hands of the uninitiated. What about mkfs? oh, man, the kind of damage _that_ does. Oh, you say that that can only harm the local machine? Well, we should take away all the MTA's then (is spam not 80% of

Re: Apt is cool (yay!) - What about bo?

1998-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 5 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I also experimented with a veruy wide xterm, and doscovered that apt truncates the status line ;-( (I personally would not mind a wrapped line, or a long line, so I know what is going on rather than 'Waiting to coneect to blah.blah.blah.blah

Re: Debian volunteers needed for Atlanta Linux Showcase

1998-05-06 Thread vaidhy
Hi! I am at Atlanta and a potential developer. I am willing to man the booth Please let me know !!! Thanks, Vaidhy From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 5 18:49:48 1998 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.novare.net [205.229.104.6]) by mail.wwdg.com

Intent to package SAML (math)

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
This is GPL'd, the package is nearly finished. Description: SAML is a C library for symbolic calculations, accompanied by some application programs (samuel, factorint, induce), and Python bindings. The library provides an object-oriented framework for

Re: Intent to package: eggdrop

1998-05-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 5 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I guess we shold also remove rm. That program can be downright nasty in the hands of the uninitiated. What about mkfs? oh, man, the kind of damage _that_ does. Oh, you say that that can only harm the local machine? Well, we should take

Re: Coming to closure on ae...

1998-05-06 Thread Carlos Barros
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote: What about trying to connext to X server, and if an error, do it in terminal mode. Which would result in opening X connections when working on the console. No, that's not

New APT version

1998-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I have compiled a version of APT for rex/bo. It was built on my 486 that runs some strange rex/bo mix and should work on every system from 1.2 onwards. For completeness I built up a matching version for hamm. http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.0.pre9-0.1_i386.deb

Re: Tiny libraries

1998-05-06 Thread Carlos Barros
On 5 May 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: I have a package that uses two very small libraries, shhmsg and shhopt. I packaged the libs separately from the program that uses them, but it has been suggested that I just incorporate them in the package that uses them (snake4). The libs

Re: New APT version

1998-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: This version of apt is probably the most effective way to upgrade from bo/rex. It has been tested in several bo upgrades and has undergone simulated upgrades for 18 different configurations, including a few rex systems. This makes me wonder if we should think about

Re: New APT version

1998-05-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Jason Gunthorpe wrote: This version of apt is probably the most effective way to upgrade from bo/rex. It has been tested in several bo upgrades and has undergone simulated upgrades for 18 different configurations, including a few rex systems.