Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-17 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes: Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel versions in the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to provide that many versions of the kernel?? What about just keeping the last 2.0.x and the last 2.2.x ? It's also a lot of space on

Re: man preprocessor different than on Red Hat?

1999-09-16 Thread Guy Maor
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Slootman wrote: What happens if you pass the -pt option to man? $ man -pt -l ./powstatd.8 Then it works. From man(1): The filters are deciphered by a number of means. Firstly, the command line option -p or the

Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-16 Thread Guy Maor
Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by processing new packages from incoming. The procedure is basically this: You get a daily email report of new packages in Incoming. You run lintian on them and check for egregious errors, read the copyright file to see if

Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Guy Maor
Many of you are confused because you are getting messages that your packages are new when they really aren't, or perhaps dinstall is rejecting them because it can't find the orig.tar.gz. Because nonus is now divided into main, non-free, and contrib, you must specify this in the distribution or

Re: Pandora is born

1999-05-12 Thread Guy Maor
Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: only one question, were have the uploads landed? I mean, I am very happy that I got confirmation messages, but now I have REJECTED: Rejected: gnupg_0.9.5-1_m68k.deb: Old version 9.5-1' = new version 9.5-1'. but I cant find it on nonus in

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took the sources to cfdisk.c, ripped all the user interface code out, and replaced it with code that essentially does the following: You should try using sfdisk instead for things like this. It's the best of {s,c,}fdisk, but it has no frontend. Guy

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes: There was a suggestion a while back for the .changes file to have two fields, a Maintainer field and an Uploader field. If these are identical, then it's a maintainer upload, otherwise it's an NMU. If there's no Uploader field, then fall back to

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes: There was also the idea of running the announcement part of dinstall every ten minutes or thereabouts. I could announce new packages as they're processed. (They'd be announced twice then.) Are people actually sitting around all day waiting for new

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remember having looked at it but, IIRC, the source was less comprehensible, which at the time was the most important thing. I don't think you would have to make any changes. It's design to be easily run from scripts. Guy

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Guy Maor
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, are spaces legal, or not? Oops. The regular expression is correct, and the example is not. There may not be a space between `bug' and `#'. Guy

dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread Guy Maor
dinstall, the software which installs packages into the hierarchy, can now announce packages and close bugs for you. If you'd like to use this feature, upgrade to the dpkg-dev in my home directory on master. The changes are checked in to va's dpkg cvs tree. dinstall will look for a Format field

Re: bug? with file-rc

1999-01-31 Thread Guy Maor
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: It seems rather clumsy, though. Why was this scheme chosen, instead of one where the K scripts are run for the previous runlevel? K scripts are not supposed to shut down everything that was started from that runlevel. They are supposed to shut down

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread Guy Maor
Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, is it really a good thing to have dinstall announce the uploads? I often depend on the announcements to alert me to new versions in Incoming. In the new setup, the announcements won't come until the package is installed, which in some cases can be

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread Guy Maor
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, would somebody please document this in the Packaging manual? Otherwise, it won't be terribly useful as anybody that didn't see the message won't know about it. I'll document as soon as I'm convinced that the bugs are out. On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at

Re: What hack in ld.so?

1999-01-30 Thread Guy Maor
Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does it know that libc5 and libc6 are incompatable versions of the same library (different sonames), or does it feel that loading two libraries (libfoo, libc6) is better than loading three (libfoo, libc5, libc6). It recognizes libc, libm, and libdl in

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-30 Thread Guy Maor
Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Six orders of magnitude?? Bandwidth and latency are not the same thing. Guy

Re: dpkg port to HP-UX

1999-01-29 Thread Guy Maor
Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I remember well, some time ago someone posted his results on a port of dpkg to HP-UX. Believe it or not, I've ported dpkg to HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and Cygwin. (That's dpkg, dpkg-split, and dpkg-deb only. I wasn't interested in dselect at the

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-12 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guy Maor wrote: I'm suggesting that dpkg-scanpackages scan the dscs and put the section and version in the Source field, or perhaps add a new field Dsc which is simply the full path to the dsc, akin to the Filename field. Then downloading the source

Fix buildd@powerpc.debian.org bounces!

1998-10-11 Thread Guy Maor
---BeginMessage--- |- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator |- Message text follows: | Received: at Infodrom

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread Guy Maor
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is an ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid, with such recent things as debian-arm, so.. I think that's next:- No, sid is the permanently unstable distribution, where architectures that have yet to be released live. Guy

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-07 Thread Guy Maor
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Supposedly it is about ready to be released. Using a newly written MTA as our default sounds like a poor idea. Guy

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED](James A. Treacy) writes: It is clearly much more efficient if the .dsc files don't have to be retrieved. This is simply a matter of policy though. I guess you're talking about different things. Of course that package's dsc needs to be downloaded, but Jay fears that all the

Re: Finding a source package

1998-10-06 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James A. Treacy) writes: First, due to NMU uploads to other architectures, the source version may not match the version: in the package you are looking for. This could be corrected with dpkg-scanpackages, but that's not really the right thing to do. I don't know the best

Re: RETRACTED msql 2.0.3-4

1998-06-14 Thread Guy Maor
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My original objection was going to be base around the fact that passwd is Essential, but it turns out it isn't, my bad. I'd hate to be part of the current `Let's make foo Essential: yes and part of the base system, in fact let's make it the kernel'

My computer died

1998-05-05 Thread Guy Maor
My computer died last Saturday, and I'm still in the process of figuring out what's wrong with it. I'll hopefully be back by Friday. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?

1998-04-29 Thread Guy Maor
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds good. I know it sounds good. I just want to be sure that's it's the right thing to do. :) So my understanding is that only i386 and m68k are to be official 2.0 releases. alpha (and other) will wait for 2.1. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: disappearance of dists/stable link from ftp archive

1998-04-29 Thread Guy Maor
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9804/msg01409.html A reasonable amount of time has passed. I'll check a few randomly selected mirrors and restore the links if all is well. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?

1998-04-28 Thread Guy Maor
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I can see we only have disadvantages supporting hamm-powerpc. (no regular uploads, extra handling of security fixes to non-supported versions, frozen of _really unstable_ binary set etc.) I would make dinstall just throw all uploads for it

Only m68k and i386 in hamm?

1998-04-25 Thread Guy Maor
Is that correct? I ask because dinstall currently installs packages into hamm and slink by installing it into the former and symlinking it to the later. This causes unnecessary mirror traffic for those archs that will only be released with 2.1 because I must later move binary-* for those to

Re: weird utmp/perl problem

1998-04-25 Thread Guy Maor
Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's supposed to open /dev/tty instead of using stdin. This is the way it works on all the systems I could get people to check for me, which are Linux with libc5, AIX 4.2, Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5, DG/UX 4.11 and FreeBSD 2.2.2-R. I don't

Re: weird utmp/perl problem

1998-04-23 Thread Guy Maor
Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 21 Apr 1998 08:55:51 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) said: 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. Will someone please fix it?

Re: /bin/sh has no man page.

1998-04-23 Thread Guy Maor
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thing is that bash behaves different if called as sh or bash. Yes, find the section in the manpage that starts, If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: binary-CD exceeds 650 MB -- any solution?

1998-04-22 Thread Guy Maor
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but for symlinks pointing to something excluded from mirroring, it should download the file. this way i could burn a complete hamm... I turned the hamm-bo symlinks into files a few days ago. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /tmp exploits

1998-04-21 Thread Guy Maor
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-21 Thread Guy Maor
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: binary-CD exceeds 650 MB -- any solution?

1998-04-21 Thread Guy Maor
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

Re: /etc/group lossage

1998-04-21 Thread Guy Maor
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.

Re: weird utmp/perl problem

1998-04-21 Thread Guy Maor
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-21 Thread Guy Maor
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

Re: clarification needed: ldconfig in postrm?

1998-04-19 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This says nothing about the postrm. Should ldconfig ever be called in the postrm? It doesn't matter. ld.so reacts the same way to a library in the cache but not in the filesystem as to a library in neither place. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

dists/{bo,stable} temporarily unavailable

1998-04-19 Thread Guy Maor
I have to temporarily remove dists/bo and dists/stable. The problem is that dists/stable is a directory instead of a symlink, and converting a directory to a symlink will break many ftp mirror programs. The only semi-reliable way is to remove the directory, wait a while for all ftp sites to get

Re: packages which are links to bo

1998-04-19 Thread Guy Maor
I originally wanted to wait because it would increase the size of the archive. I just added up the sizes and it would cost 107 megs. It turns out that the entire archive is approaching 4 gigs (!!) so 107 megs is not that much. I'll convert them now so it will be easier for people to press CDs

Re: /etc/group lossage

1998-04-19 Thread Guy Maor
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking closer, I found a couple of packages (msqld and sudo) which updated /etc/group in what I would consider an insufficiently paranoid fashion. No package should modify /etc/passwd or /etc/group directly (save base-passwd). They should call adduser,

Re: Upgrading from bo to hamm

1998-04-10 Thread Guy Maor
LeRoy D. Cressy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves the following broken links reported by ldconfig: Those symlinks are part of libreadline2-dev. If you upgrade to

Re: sleep contains crypto stuff?

1998-04-09 Thread Guy Maor
I have seen this problem before with some overeager Configure scripts. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-08 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: Am I the only one who thinks the only correct prompts would be '$ ' and '# '? Barring that I suggest leaving the defaults, 'bash$' et. al. You're not the only one. I also prefer to leave the defaults. Any prompt in /etc/profile would be

Re: Is there a maintainer for the install doc?

1998-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it would be sensible to fix the ftp site. There is a debian/upgrades directory that contains hopelessly out-of-date info. Beginning of the README says: That directory is for people upgrading from 0.93R6 (libc4), when dpkg didn't have

Re: cannot access bug tracking database

1998-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again? Why again? Maybe we should install a cronjob to set the bit? Would it have to run more than once a day? Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: please tell me about release-critical bugs

1998-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Rather than maintaining this list, why don't you just set the severity of any normal release-critical bugs to important? That's what important is for! Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: bo-updates coordination

1998-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bash libreadline2 I'm willing to advise anyone that want to tackle this. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: FTP Archive cleanup

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Meskes, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure nothing depends on the older tcl an tk versions? If so, they need to be updated. We're only going to have 7.6/4.2 and 8. I'll start running pkg-order on the archive on a regular basis and file bugs on unmet dependencies. Guy -- TO

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote: Disadvantage: needs a patch for cron, to scan this directory as well as the usual user crontab directory, and to execute those cronjobs as root, not as a user. It's a small disadvantage, after all. I

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Meskes, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Couldn't we find a common way for packages to adjust other packages conffiles? The service registration mechanism I proposed earlier takes care of this easily. Netbase does this in the postinst: provide-service --install-hook services netbase

Re: Question/request concerning master

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes: 530-Sorry, there are too many anonymous users using the system at this 530-time. Please try again later. There is currently a limit of 10 530-anonymous users for your domain group. Sometimes the ftpd on master gets hung.

Re: Question/request concerning master

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been looking al over for this trick... Tried this one to, which did not work... In the beginning of your .xsession: eval $(ssh-agent) ssh-add /dev/null 0 to /dev/null is important; otherwise you won't get the X interface to ssh-add. Guy

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently managed to add some sources in my -dbg shared lib packages, to make them easily debuggable. (See bug#16038 on 30 Dec) I rather liked your solution to the problem of debuggable shared libs, but you need to figure out a way to not need to be

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: However, I don't know the history behind this. What is the reason for not including Section and Priority by default? Ian and I discussed it when I first started maintaining the archive. dselect always takes the section and priority from the

Re: [Fwd: Bug#16660: metro-motif-aout: depends on xcompat which is in project/orphaned]

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think Guy intended to move all packages that don't have source to project/orphaned. So libc4 and xcompat, among others, moved. If libc4 and xcompat are to remain in project/orphaned, I moved all old source packages to orphaned, and flat out removed

Re: intent to package quake2, qwcl, qwsv and unixded

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Roderick Schertler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got an expect script I use for my Quake servers which reboots them if they become stuck. Would it be appropriate to ship that and use it by default with the server packages? Go ahead and include it, but don't run it by default so that you

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
I still have a not-quite-finished upgrade of the experimental dpkg-ftp done. I fixed some bugs and added immediate configuration of pre-depended on targets and essential packages. I also improved the backend logic so that it will only use later backends if the version is newer. For example, you

FTP Archive cleanup

1998-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
I had written a script which checks the archive for missing and extra source and binaries some time ago. I've finally acted on its output. I've orphaned any old source packages. Some are obviously obsolete (such as tcl74, tcl75, tk40, tk41). Others are useful but have no active maintainer.

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I put all of that stuff in Incoming. It's going to get rejected if his key isn't in the keyring. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ldconfig warnings

1997-12-27 Thread Guy Maor
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my experience, the warnings have come from dangling symlink in the lib directories. I'm not sure how they get there. The dangling symlink could either be from a package which doesn't include the symlink that ldconfig would create, or because the

Re: Intent to package: `cvsweb-1.0'

1997-12-21 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: I'm planning to package `cvsweb-1.0'. Q: Where does it go? Experimental, or unstable/web? New software should typically go to unstable, unless it's really dangerous or something. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Service registration

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Say, ferinstance, that several revisions of a package are installed and there are subtly different arguments each time. Or, that package installation fails, is backed out, then installed then reconfigured? Several clients or servers? Clients would

Re: Service registration

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This will not work for packages like Gnus, bbdb, w3, hyperbole, vm, and psgml, since the compilation requires selectively preloading some files, or even running complex build-scripts during the compilation of the elisp files. Why can't they

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the binary changes, the version number should change. Things break if you don't increase the version number (e.g. automatic upgrade and bug reporting) and you don't have to a source release to do a non-maintainer release, just add a new entry to the

Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I agree that Gnus is the best thing since sliced bread, keep in mind those in other countries where net access is *much* more expensive. I hardly think the duplicate messages represent a significant percentage of their bandwidth. For these

Re: writev questions - epic maintainer speaks

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
According to Stevens on page 300, writev is atomic, so I would regard Linux's behavior as a bug. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp ppp-pam

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recommends: ppp-pam Recommends is for packages found together in all but unusual sitations. It's certainly not appropriate here. I wouldn't even use Suggests. Just mention it in the description. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: dpkg help wanted

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. If a user has amaya-static or amaya, dselect should replace it with amaya 2. If the above is true, thot-common is installed; I want dselect to remove it (and not allow it at the same time as the new amaya). 3. The ftp site puts the new

Excuse my recent broken emails

1997-12-18 Thread Guy Maor
For the past two days, I've been sending out email with a broken From address - using whatever dynamic IP I happened to be on at the moment. I finally noticed it just now and fixed it. Gremlins had snuck into my room and commented out (setq user-mail-address ...) ! So if you sent private email

Re: ppp pam (was: Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts')

1997-12-17 Thread Guy Maor
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: o By linking ppp with pam you are dragging libpam0g, libpam0g-util and libpwdb0g into base. This is fine, *as long as* it's been discussed and agreed first, I don't like 3 shared library packages being silently dragged into base. If we're going

Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)

1997-12-17 Thread Guy Maor
Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps you could point out how I could force all of those people with broken mailers and/or ideas to use one of your great mail clients, so I won't get four, five, six or more duplicates of the messages sent to the list. Gnus. -- TO

Service registration

1997-12-17 Thread Guy Maor
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that we should have some sort of install procedure (a la install-info) for emacs .el files. We keep going down this route again and again - info, elisp, menu, mime. Maybe we should generalize this? Let's provide a system where packages could

Re: status of bzip

1997-12-16 Thread Guy Maor
Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, perhaps the bunzip code could be included in the bzip2 package; That sounds like the best idea. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-16 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With debmake, new functionality was added all the time, and was added into the same debstd program, changing its behavior, and so different versions could have widly differing results on the same package. With debstd, each individual program has a

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-16 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How fast are isp's converting to pap? No point in putting a lot of work into dealing with chatscripts if they are going away soon. I believe that there will soon (if not already) be very few ISPs which don't support PAP or CHAP. chat isn't going to be used for

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-16 Thread Guy Maor
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought I'd call the PAM-free ppp package ppp-base, like perl-base. I'm still not sure about the best way to do this though. It looks like the only thing that needs to be different is the pppd binary, so: Should I make ppp contain only the pppd

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-14 Thread Guy Maor
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: [snip] I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis). Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm just going to keep

Ray Dassen, read this!

1997-12-14 Thread Guy Maor
Email to you is bouncing. --- Start of forwarded message --- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 20:10:44 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Leiden University, Dept. of Mathematics

Re: Bug#15859: libc5 in stable is horribly broken (fwd)

1997-12-13 Thread Guy Maor
Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry... I'm using perl, and these functions are not avalible.. *sigh* oh, yuck. You're just going to have to rewrite your routines to use the new structure. I'm sure you can figure out a way to dynamically determine which type of structure is being

Re: fdisk3

1997-12-13 Thread Guy Maor
G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The interface works the same as fdisk Um, no. There is no interface. sfdisk is driven completely by a config file describing the desired partition table. Furthermore, it's already on your hard drive if you're running hamm. It's part of

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread Guy Maor
David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So find someone to modify the libc5 in hamm to build both -dev and -altdev packages. It isn't that hard. That's really the only workable solution. David, I do think you ought to add the Conflicts to older versions of libc5 to libc6. This will prevent

Re: ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory

1997-12-13 Thread Guy Maor
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-switch -fno-strength-reduce -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps= 2 -malign-functions=2 -Demacs -I../src -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/db -I/usr /X11R6/include /usr/src/xemacs-20.3/lib-src/wakeup.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -ltermcap

Re: Bug#15859: libc5 in stable is horribly broken (fwd)

1997-12-13 Thread Guy Maor
Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure, no prob, IF I know what the differences are... :) Assuming you have libc6-dev and libc5-altdev installed, /usr/include/utmpbits.h has the new structure, and /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/utmp.h has the old structure. The new structure has many

Re: Where did packages in HELD-FOR-GUY go?

1997-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eloy A. Paris wrote: does anyone know where are all the packages that were in Incoming/HELD-FOR-GUY? This directory is empty now but at least samba (which I maintain) has not been integrated into hamm (and samba was in HELD-FOR-GUY). Oh no! I had a

Re: status of bzip

1997-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Michael Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of bzip when searching :-( The last time it was seen in non-us distribution. Because of the patent issue

Re: Bug#15859: libc5 in stable is horribly broken (fwd)

1997-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sick of trying to find a useful workaround for people who just want to install a few packages from hamm without upgrading the whole thing. There isn't one. I assumed you, as libc5-to-libc6 maintainer, knew that. Yes, it is theoretically possible

Re: status of bzip

1997-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Andy Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is different becuase the lzw patent holders (HP?) have given a general license for non-profit use of the patent. That's true. It's Unisys that holds the patent, btw. The patent on bzip is moot anyway, as bzip2 does not have any patents on it. It should

.dsc files failing pgp checks

1997-12-11 Thread Guy Maor
At one point, dinstall wasn't checking pgp signatures of .dsc files. These files have slipped through. Please reupload them, or I'll file bug reports: blt_2.1-6.dsc: pgp error courtney_1.3-3.dsc: pgp error data-dumper_2.07-1.dsc: pgp error dbview_1.0.3-3.dsc: pgp error ddd_2.1.1-2.dsc: pgp error

Re: Bug log ordering

1997-12-10 Thread Guy Maor
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (c) Supply both sets of pages. Surely the issue isn't important enough to double the mirror size? Either a or b, but certainly not c. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: What, why, where, utmp?

1997-12-05 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that one of the latest fixes to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned. They weren't - the size of the

Re: Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-05 Thread Guy Maor
Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody modify the upload scripts to check packages and source files before moving them from incomming or is that to mauch cpu? The install scripts do compare md5sums with the .changes and .dsc files, and they run dpkg-deb -f on all the .debs. Bit

Re: at_3.1.7-3_i386.changes REJECTED

1997-06-19 Thread Guy Maor
Hi! I'm on vacation for one month, so I'm not reading any email. I'll be back on July 14, and I'll respond to all my email by July 16. You will only receive this email once. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: libc6

1997-06-11 Thread Guy Maor
Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working on the xdaliclock package, and I will take it to libc6. I have merely recompiled it, and all has worked fine, except perhaps some warning (perhaps present with libc5: I have not installed alt-libc5 as yet). This is suspect to me, because

Re: How do we encourage bug reports?

1997-06-10 Thread Guy Maor
Thomas Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do we encourage users to submit more bug reports when something goes wrong? Perhaps the `bug' package should be priority standard? It does make bug reporting much easier. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Perl Police (was Re: Bug#10405: package naming)

1997-06-10 Thread Guy Maor
Brian S. Julin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However I will end up with a major headache if I cannot reliably map perl module names to debian package names. One solution is to simply add a new field to the control file. dpkg friends do preserve extra fields. `Perl-Module:' perhaps? Guy --

Re: problem with make

1997-06-10 Thread Guy Maor
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to set the variable CPPFLAGS in my debian/rules, so all processes called by make will have an evironment variable CPPFLAGS with that content. export CPPFLAGS = whatever will do what you want. You should, of course, be calling submakes

Re: Mirror mismatch

1997-06-09 Thread Guy Maor
There used to be a ro NFS mount of WebPages from wherever they actually are to /home/Archives/ftp/debian/WebPages. Then there wasn't. Now there apparently is again! Sue, did you change your mind about this? If not, contact Mike N. so he knows to take it back out. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

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