On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an
official scripting language ?
Even if bash is essential, the standard shell is sh, not bash.
[ If you look at our
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Here's what imdb.com says:
Cast overview, first billed only:
snip
imdb.com lists the following named characters on the full cast page:
Tom Hanks Woody (voice)
Tim Allen Buzz Lightyear (voice)
Don
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
snip ... but there are times when you
just have to make a clean break. Going between libc versions was one
of those times, as was going from a.out to elf. Otherwise, what are
major number changes for?
This is simply not true. When we moved from
On 3 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
snip
b) we neeed to release more often, and on schedule
(I like guys proposal of an updated stable pool that can be
tested continuuls, frozen, and released fast -- since there are
never any release critical bugs in the stable pool, the
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
One complication I can think of - dselect and the ftp sites have the
concept of overrides, where Guy can change the section a package
is assigned to. This wouldn't be reflected in the /usr/doc
directory - of course, this might not really matter.
I think
On 25 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
By the current definition of Important:
[...]
sendmail
* dpkg-dev should not be there since no experienced user of another
Unix would expect it
* lilo should not be there because lilo is not part of UNIX
I read it differently:
``Important
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Rabone wrote:
Or if anyone interested, make up a special ROM with kernel etc in it, so
the machine will boot from ROM... Has anyone done this?
You'd need about 512 kB of ROM. Where are you going to put it? Ethercard
boot
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, David Frey wrote:
[...]
``Important programs, including those which one would expect to find
on any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an experienced
Unix person who found it missing would go `What the F*!@+ is going
on, where is foo', it should be in
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
Is there soemthing like a real rescue disk? Or are we talking about the
installation disks?
I was referring to resq installation boot disk.
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
[...]
I think we need to write two libraries:
1) libnfslock(or whatever)
2) libmailaccess (or whatever)
libmailaccess should be something like PAM for mail delivery, providing
access
to a user's mailbox by use of either
Just picking a nit.
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
[...](cu stands for callout, and is taken from SunOS).
[...] -- Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unless I'm mistaken (which has happened on occasion),
cu stands for call unix and is
with orphan packages
+ [...snipped...]
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 06:45:29 -0700 (PDT)
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# need elf X11
xasteroids-5.0 gone to Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# not elf-ized yet
kermit-190 gone to Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
If no one else wants it, I think I have room on my plate for ae. Is the
bug still outstanding?
You're the first one to speak up, so I guess it's yours.
I've cleared the multi-arch compatability bug in ae, and made
similar changes to clear the same
Agh!! Sorry.
to Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Peter Tobias wrote:
IMHO we should change our comm packages for Debian 1.2 to use
/dev/ttyS* instead of /dev/cua*:
I'm hardly expert in standard practices in this area, but I'm
under the impression that the cua* devices are for dial-out.
This may not be definitive, but I
Date: 07 Jan 96 18:07 UT
Source: cfengine
Binary: cfengine
Version: 1.2.14-3
Description:
cfengine: A tool for configuring and maintaining operating systems
Priority: Low
Changes:
* rebuilt for elf
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 237483 Jan 7 10:07 cfengine-1.2.14-3.tar.gz
Package: xserver-svga
Version: 3.1.2
Revision: 2
(and, I'd guess, other xserver packages as well)
The package won't install on a 0.93r6 system without a previous
X11 installation. It presumes the existence of nonexistent
things, and fails in postinst when they're not found.
Script started on
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There are a couple of things I want to set people straight on, in this
area:
* dpkg and other packages written especially for Debian don't have a
revision number because a revision number would be meaningless and
confusing. The most recent guidelines
How about
= = for less/greater than or equal to
Ok
for strictly less/greater thani
Ok
for less/greater than or equal to (backwards compatibility,
generates warning from dpkg-deb)
Ok but an fatal error from dpkg-deb would be better than just a warning.
How about no
should be changed
from kbs=^H to kbs=^?.
Or am I missing something which should be obvious to me?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Date: 03 Jan 96 02:24 UT
Source: ae
Binary: ae
Version: 493-10
Description:
ae: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* fixed some keymapping problems in ae.rc
* disabled #ifdef BADCURSES block in header.h
Files:
-rw-r--r--
Date: 01 Jan 96 03:41 UT
Source: ae
Binary: ae
Version: 493-9
Description:
ae: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt using ncurses shared lib
* changed ncurses-runtime dependency to ncurses3.0
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1
Date: 01 Jan 96 04:28 UT
Source: less
Binary: less
Version: 290-8
Description:
less: A file pager program, similar to more(1)
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt using ncurses shared lib
* changed ncurses-runtime dependency to ncurses3.0
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1
Date: 01 Jan 96 05:17 UT
Source: ee
Binary: ee
Version: 1.72-7
Description:
ee: An easy editor for novices and compuphobics
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* removed spurious dependency on ncurses-runtime
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root63866 Dec 31 21:16
Date: 01 Jan 96 04:01 UT
Source: beav
Binary: beav
Version: 140-6
Description:
beav: Binary Editor And Viewer (beav)
Priority: Low
Changes:
* rebuilt using ncurses shared lib
* changed ncurses-runtime dependency to ncurses3.0
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131150
total 15184
lrwxrwxrwt 1 1 debian 34 Jan 2 00:46 D -
/debian.org/ftp/debian/development
drw-rw-r-- 2 1 debian 512 Jan 1 21:00 HOLD
drwxr-xr-x 2 1 debian 1024 Jan 1 21:00 NOT-ANNOUNCED
drwxr-xr-x 2 1 debian 1024 Jan 1 21:00 NOT-COMPLETE
-rw-r--r-- 1
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
[...]
I'll note that while the man page suggests a #CHK_FAT=FALSE option,
the strings appear nowhere in the executables, leading me to suspect
that it isn't actually recognized.
Release information: debian 0.93r6
Thanks for reporting this. The
PACKAGE: ncurses-bin
VERSION: 1.9.8a-3
On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
I moved the tput package out of the distribution and into
/debian/private/project/obsolete a few weeks ago. Is there any reason we
should save it? I didn't delete it because I wasn't sure. I assume that
On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:
Fixed in less-290-7, just uploaded to pixar.
Don't you mean ftp.debian.org?
I think I uploaded it to pixar. There were several notices a
week or two back that uploads to ftp.debian.org should
On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
Actually, it should be in the distribution. Where should I put it?
The control file says Section: misc. That seemed to me to be the
most appropriate place.
On Sat, 23 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
I've created binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories under the
development tree. They're both empty at the moment, of course, but
they're ready for use whenever the development teams have something
to put there.
(BTW, I plan to rename binary to
John Larkin said:
I've just created a brand-new 0.93R6 system. Installing
xlib and xbase worked flawlessly.
That's a suprise, considering the problems I'm seeing. The system
I attempted the installation to wasn't quite virgin. I did a new
0.93R6 installation to it about a week ago, and have
*
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1 debian 721328 Dec 17 13:09 xlib-3.1.2-3.deb
226 Transfer complete.
ftp quit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
I we can either rename existing packages, or use the double-dash. I don't
care which. ...
The most reasonable approach seems to me (of course) to be the one
which I've been arguing -- a naming standard very close to current
practice, minimizing
/usr/bin/X11.old
fi
! if [ -e /usr/lib/X11 -a ! -L /usr/lib/X11 ]
then
echo Warning: /usr/lib/X11 was not a symlink. It has been moved to
echo /usr/lib/X11.old
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Fernando Alegre [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[...] the whole sunsite and tsx archives, which
store packages with an almost standard format. Even though they are not
Debian packages right now, some (many?) could be in the future. And the
debianized name should be as close to the upstream name
brian (b.c.) white [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If the extension can contain dashes, once again it could cause parsing
problems. Eliminating dashes (or dots, for that matter) here would
again make it fit into a regular expression.
Yup. Thanks for pointing that out. EXT should disallow dashes.
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:40 UT
Source: ee
Binary: ee
Version: 1.72-6
Description:
ee: An easy editor for novices and compuphobics
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt for elf
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root63763 Dec
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 04:02 UT
Source: elvis
Binary: elv-ctags elv-fmt elv-vi
Version: 1.8pl4-21
Description:
elv-ctags: generate tags and (optionally) refs files
elv-fmt: Adjust line-length for paragraphs of text
elv-vi: elvis, ex, vi, view, input -
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Dale Scheetz wrote:
less-290-5 has been patched for the /proc filesystem, except that when
you less a proc file, less eats the first character of the report.
Fixed in less-290-7, just uploaded to pixar.
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:12 UT
Source: ae
Binary: ae
Version: 493-8
Description:
ae: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* use elf ncurses libs instead of aout curses libs
* change
that, on my slow 6.65 BogoMips
system, the screen flashes annoyingly when I hit the ESC key using
the -21 version.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:17 UT
Source: beav
Binary: beav
Version: 140-5
Description:
beav: Binary Editor And Viewer (beav)
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt for elf
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131135 Dec 18
debian package, version 0.939000.
root:work# exit
Script done on Mon Dec 18 21:20:45 1995
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
1995
/proc/kcore is 16MB on my system. However, this doesn't seem to be
due to file size (I tried cat /usr/bin/* | od | grep trash and didn't
provoke a segfault).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Bill Mitchell writes (Re: New ftp method for dselect):
dchanges(1) seems to parse distribution filenames OK, though the
parsing code is pretty ugly. If it's broken, please let me know.
Seems to do it OK isn't good enough - we need something
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
RTFM bash(1).
Thanks for the pointer, Ian. I'm sure that you thought that
it would be very helpful
brian (b.c.) white [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I looked into this more closely and it seems that most of the packages
that once had dashes in the version stings are now gone. If neither
the version nor revision strings can have dashes, then counting -'s
will break up the filename without having
Bruce said, regarding Packages file info:
I think a field with the size _and_ MD5 checksum on the same line would
be helpful. We don't collect this information anywhere else, to my knowledge.
The sum(1) checksum might also be useful. I know that sum(1) has been
characterized here as totally
I haven't figured out how to create a .changes file yet (any pointers
would be appreciated) but it should look something like this:
You need the dchanges package. Ian Murdock has been holding off
moving it into the distribution. The last time I looked, it
was in
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
Well, we appear to have two options. We can (1) leave the development
release in an unreadable directory, as it is at present; or (2) move the
development release back into a readable directory, making it clear that
it's still under development.
Am I
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
The mount package contains a configuration file /etc/fstab.sample.
Would it not be better to include this file in /usr/doc/examples, or
does something actually depend on it being in /etc?
As far as I know, nothing depends on it being in /etc, so
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Karl Ferguson wrote:
... relocating the development release ...]
Ian, if you do decide to do number 2, could you please give us a little
notice by posting to devel beforehand? I just dont want to have to
delete and re-mirror the 1.0 stuff (as well as the other
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Stephen Early wrote:
xsnow (1.40-0); priority=LOW
I thought about packaging this, but interpreted the copyright as
requiring that it be placed in non-free, so I didn't. Just raising
a concern.
I rendered by system nonfunctional today. It wasn't entirely
unexpected, but it was disappointing.
I downloaded a snapshot of the development tree packages, and
ran dselect [I]nstall on them. (Ian J. -- FYI, this was with
dpkg-1.0.5, subsequent to the problems I've emailed you about).
The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) siad:
If their copyright is acceptable, why not put them in the package? FSF
(really Richard Stallman) is attempting to discourage the use of man
pages and replace them with info pages. Info pages have the disadvantage
of requiring a navigation mechanism to do
b54a6c19ee3bc8223e5939a954425b0e diff-2.7-8.diff.gz
8d04697816249e72ff0985c0ae23c37c diff-2.7-8.deb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
James A. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or
fails ?
[... (30 to 45 minutes on an old 486 w/ 8 megs RAM) ...]
Perhaps I should have postinst ask whether or not the .el file should
be generated? And have a script to go
8bd3325f8de28a4be13bf4404f1c7d8a e2-2.0.beta-3.deb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
We can't put stuff like this where just anybody can download it any
longer. Especially, we can't do that and call it 1.0. This isn't
entirely Infomagic's fault, in my opinion.
[...]
As I understand it,
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'Ian Murdock wrote:'
How about installing the kernel headers directly in /usr/include,
rather than linking them into /usr/src? I always assumed this was
standard kernel practice. Apparently, I was wrong. Are there any
opinions on the subject?
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Matthew Bailey wrote:
If you want an OUTGOING then someone will have to create one by manually
moving the files from Incoming over to OUTGOING.
Sounds reasonable to me. Files get uploaded to Incoming, and then
either moved directly or (my preference) moved into a
: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib (No such file or directory),
skipping
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
That's essentially identical to what I was proposing with just two
practical differences: (1) it uses numbers rather than names and (2)
it goes to more effort to hide things.
May be. I'm afraid I too-hurriedly deleted the message with your
-boldxterms
x1700-lm xenix xerox820 xterm-color
x1720 xerox xl83 xterm-nic
Suggest inclusion of terminal defs matching the compiled-in
fallbacks into /usr/lib/terminfo.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
, the backspace key should be recognized as kbs, and the DEL key
as kdch1.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Owen S. Dunn wrote:
Package: diff
Version: 2.7
Revision: 5
This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or
cmp.
Too true. It comes with info pages, which are not at all the same thing.
I think the current custom is to leave bug reports about
Since Infomagic has pressed the CDs, I wonder if it'd be possible
to get them to include an insert with distributed CDs explaining
the situation. Otherwise CD buyers are going to be put off debian
when they try it from the CD.
Just a thought.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
made from the distribution
site when the packages are moved into public view.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
Is this such a big issue? With your overseas FTP problems you can judge
that, but I'd feel more confident if the
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
I think ncurses wins an award for most packages from one source archive.
I'm not sure about that. I've had several instances of multiple
rapid-fire uploads due to upload glitches and due to my own
boneheaded errors 8^(.
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote:
And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database
w/o installing and purging?
Good point. This sounds like a serious user-upgrade issue. This looks
like a dpkg-guru question.
If the ncurses guys are going to keep blowing off binary compatibility,
then perhaps we should not mess with ncurses at all.
I suspect, especially now that we've got the package load spread around
more, that Debian will be able to keep up.
I'm just concerned that this is a losing
On 7 Dec 1995, Mark Nudelman wrote:
Bill,
Thanks for sending the info on the two fixes you made in less-290.
I don't quite understand the purpose of the first one. You said:
In screen.c, it's presumed that dumb terminals have termcap
capabilities. This isn't necessarily true. I added
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
A number of people have attempted or succeeded in using dpkg-nondebbin
or a dpkg compiled on their local systems to install Debian without
using the bootstrap floppies. As far as I am aware, this will yield a
system that is broken in various ways
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
Bill Mitchell writes (Re: dpkg-nondebbin and improper system installation):
Perhaps dpkg-nondebin should check if it's running on a debian
system and, if it is, either refuse to proceed or issue a strong
warning.
No, that's not the problem
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
Note that ls lists the length of /proc/filesystems
as 0, but read() will get more than 0 data. Less doesn't know that
/proc files are special in this way, and treats them as a 0-length file.
You could argue that this is a bug in the semantics of the
it as documented or by having it excised from the
program and the documentation until it's supported.
If you respond by email, please preserve the Subject and Cc fields of
this message so that our bug tracking system will be properly updated.
Thank you.
Bill Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(speaking for myself
I'm closing this bug.
The problem was lack of termcap support for keypresses. The current ae
package implements termcap support for keypresses, and is capable
of terminfo support. I'll release ae compiled for terminfo support when
a shared ncurses library is released.
Note: both /etc/termcap
+ Problem:
+ The color selection from /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.common works well on the
+ console, but not so in a rxvt---object files appear blue on blue and are
+ invisible because the tones of blue are actually the same in an rxvt. I
+ copied that colour section from that .gitrc.common. into
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, regarding package diffs:
Bill Mitchell writes (Re: watch-1.0-2):
Gunzip will choke on a zero-length compressed file, so I've been
gzipping a file which contains a single newline to provide a .diff.gz
file in this situation (legally gzipped, and legally
What's a wibble?
Never seen blackadder? :)
I saw parts of a couple of episodes. The only thing I recall about it
is Is he really crazy or has he just put underpants on his head and
stuck soda straws up his nose?. Never got into it. Most British
humor goes right past me (Except Monty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) said:
From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
The issue gets bigger as the connectivity gets worse. I think it's
a big issue, and I use a 9600 bps modem on a phone line which isn't too
terribly noisy most of the
Scott Blachowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout
and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion
that it ought to be called something else. with-aout perhaps.
[...]
Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
There should be no subdirectories within /bin.
Given the intention of FSSTND compliance, this is an absolute
prohibition.
They're just talking about /bin and not /usr/bin.
Oops. Right.
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Karl Ferguson writes (bogo-1.2-1 released):
Well, it's a tough job, but someone's got to be low enough to do some
small Debian packages :-) One day when I feel more confident I'll do
some real packages grin
Does anyone else think it would be a good
On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
We should encourage authors to package their programs individually rather
than dump them on Rik. Sometimes, we're going to have to make judgement
calls.
And someone commented that it'd have been better if all the programs in
upstream digest packages
PACKAGE: memtest
VERSION 0.1-1
root:/root# memtest 1024
Segmentation fault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Alvar Bray:
I have heard several other people say they have had corrupt
database files - how do they get corrupted? I have never managed to
corrupt mine (but then I, as the package maintainer, wouldnt would
I)
Possibly a SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGTERM, SIGKILL at an inopportune time.
and the ctrl-alt-* commands work OK during its
startup.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Andrew Howell wrote:
Is your 486 a dx? Do you have any video memory left over for a font cache?
How much RAM do you have? What kind of video card?
Dx -- dunno. Didn't take note when I had it open. I grepped
/var/log/messages for a bogomips figure, but that's apparently
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
[...]
I Having lots of packages is good, but half a dozen (probably often
poor) implementations of the same tiny script in half a dozen
different packages doesn't seem optimal to me.
I'd expect a rash of package contributions as hordes of new
debian
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
We should document what we ship as we ship it.
No argument, but that implies lots of work for maintainers
when initially building packages and when upgrading to new
upstream releases. I'm not sure that it's practical.
Some quick grepping around in my
On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
Bill Mitchell writes (convenience script for building a.out packages):
This is a script I've placed in /usr/local/bin/aout on my system.
It's intended as an aid in building a.out packages on an
elf-ized debian system. It's invoked as:
aout
On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Gordon Russell wrote:
Packages: base
The /etc/magic file does not allow the file command to identify
elf .a files from aout .a files very easily. Indeed, an elf archive
: archive
but an aout archive
: random archive
Would someone update this to something more
man programs.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote:
The info documentation included refers to /usr/local/bin/cfengine when
Debian's cfengine is installed in /usr/bin/cfengine.
I'm closing this without action.
I've looked at the cfengine info files, and I think it's clear
from the context that the
The following are my best guesses at answers. If I guess wrong,
someone with better information will correct me.
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[...] I have a few questions on this my first
debianization effort.
o Why is gawk a required package? And is there any reason why gawk
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