Re: configuring ISA PnP devices with kernel 2.4 isapnptools

2001-04-28 Thread Herbert Xu
. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
have downloaded it? You're missing the point. These kernels are only available after installation. They're not used on boot floppies. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key

Re: RFC: Thoughts on building modules

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
a single architecture changes. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-27 Thread Herbert Xu
the optimal kernel. This could be Guess what, that's how the current 2.4 kernel images are constructed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
Aaron Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've said before that over 2000 kernel configuration options exist and Most of which can be decided at runtime once you start using initrd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: RFC: Thoughts on building modules

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
stuff outside kernel-headers, either it's doing something wrong, or there's stuff in the kernel that needs to be moved under include/. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
for them. [1] The point of this exercise is not to make it easier for people who don't know how to compile kernels to be able to use optimised kernels. It is for those who don't have a grunty box to keep up with the them. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:58:10PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:30:31PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: [...] i think you've done a good job of summarising the issues. I agree as well. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Re: updating of /etc/rc?.d

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
1 8 0 f a 4 2 d f \n 11560001 [12:39:42 /tmp]$ I'm not sure if this is your problem, but there should be two final new lines. One to terminate the the MD5sum line, and one to terminate the record. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
called /proc/cpuinfo you know. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: RFC: Thoughts on building modules

2001-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
source uploads. Well, kernels/modules have traditionally required this kind of access. There's no way around it I'm afraid. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: problems upgrading stable libc6 to unstable libc6

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
%3a2.95.4-0.010407_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 The breakage shows up here. Looks like we need a predependency in libdb2 on the new libc6. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:28:30PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:31:46AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Because someone asked why the kernel-headers necessary. Their presence allows both our module maintainers and other maintainers to compile modules easily

Re: 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Herbert Xu wrote: That's the wrong solution. It prevents people who want to use ECN from using it. The correct solution is to disable it in /etc/sysctl.conf. However, I just had a look, and sysctl.conf is in procps which isn't essential

Re: 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:13:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Does this functionality mean disabling ECN or sysctl.conf? The former. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
a kernel-headers package for the glibc maintainer to use. In fact, it's exactly the same as before. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:54:33AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Herbert Xu wrote: That is the raison d'etre for kernel-headers. However, the new per-image kernel-headers exist solely for the benefit of module builders. Then you break things for no good reason

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:37:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I'm talking about people like VMWare, i.e., people who distribute binary only modules. Call *me* a cretin, but wouldn't that be non-free? Binary-only modules should be slain. Plus, they've

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
. why are they needed? For module builders. and while you're at it, how about answering the other questions that you ignored in my last message? Which were? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
umount -n /devfs mount -nrt ext2 /dev/legolas/root0 /mnt cd /mnt pivot_root . initrd EOF -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:47:48PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: They still suck, and they're still non-free. Who said that we were going to distribute them? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:00:01PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:49:48PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Who said that we were going to distribute them? If we don't distribute them, why in hell are we breaking mirrors by supporting them? Sounds dodgy to me. So

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
, as is mirror.aarnet.edu.au. Breaks a dist-upgrade (out-of-sync Packages, and actual packages). Prove that it is caused by the kernel images and I'll get rid of them. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
actually have any hard facts regarding mirrors broken by kernel images or do you just like spreading FUD? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:45:11PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:20:43PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: FUD. Show me what's actually broken. Mirrors. Slow. Out-of-sync. It's still FUD until you produce the evidence that it's caused by the kernel images. Prove

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
AND TEN MEGABYTES PER KERNEL RELEASE DOES NOT HELP MIRRORS WHICH HAVE ... Somehow I don't see how 2 has got anything to do with 1. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
against the right package, i.e., work out who's constructing what before you go off filing bugs. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
up much more space than one kernel source would. Just change the rules to not call make-kpkg build and make-kpkg kernel-image and you're set. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:33:25AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:30:47PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Kernel-headers-2.4.2 is built with the default config file, and the other ones are built with their respective config files. so, what's the difference between all

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:10:48PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:01:39PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: So that they can compile them? If you don't understand why we should do that, then there's no point in us two arguing about it. If they're binary-only, I doubt much

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:33:25AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:30:47PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Kernel-headers-2.4.2 is built with the default config file, and the other ones are built

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat breaks module builders

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
them down or even worse, you end up with module packages that don't work with the kernels. I'm happy to answer questions about how the kernel-headers can be used to make this process easier. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:14:18PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:06:21AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Bullshit. Why don't you do a diff instead of talking about something that you have no idea about? Do you deny that the file named autoconf.h contains precicely what I

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
that they're willing to compile it for your specifications. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:19:29AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I'm actually referring to all binary modules. But for binary-only modules in particular, since you don't have the luxuary of being able to recompile them, it's even more important to supply

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat breaks module builders

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:31:06AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:15:09AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I think your concerns are not well-founded. If you have a sane build system, then building them is as simple as a for loop. Have look at the way kernel-image-i386

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
. How are they going to compile a kernel if they haven't even installed Linux? The most important function of initrd is to reduce the number of kernel images needed on boot floppies to one. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
and make a modules package. The netfilter is modularised after all. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
are (mostly) really static. Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: modversions.h Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: version.h -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
to enlighten me are welcome. I'm talking about people like VMWare, i.e., people who distribute binary only modules. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm talking about people like VMWare, i.e., people who distribute binary only modules. I meant to say binary modules. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
if you want to compile binary modules with checksums. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:15:03AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:24:13PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: How are they going to compile a kernel if they haven't even installed Linux? that's obvious. by installing linux and then compiling a kernel. I hope you're being

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
kernel modules now that there are known hax0r stealth modules which exist purely to hide the fact that a system has been compromised. And what does this have to do with our discussion? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
the users compile the rest. Let's rewind the clock back to times when men were men, and they compiled everything on their own box :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
David Spreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:16:36PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: With the latest release, it's now down to about 80MB. In any case, we never release with more than one old kernel, nor with experimental kernels, so that would be 1 x 2.2.x, and at most 2 x 2.4.x

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
and set $KSRC? You can't build-depend on a source package. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
are: apt-get source kernel-image-2.4.3-i386 -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:26:37PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:13:57PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: You're ignoring our main disagreement. Which is whether most people should use precompiled kernel images or recompile them. no, i'm not. i keep on trying to get

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-11 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:19:10AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Herbert Xu wrote: Which is why it should only be killed in prerm/preinst. Which makes all the supposed simple restart solution for the runlevel problem fail in _all_ cases. Thank you for reminding me

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-11 Thread Herbert Xu
their packages, but run this utility just before they upload. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Xu
when you first upgraded didn't you? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Xu
(at least not without doing an fsck later). -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: This occurs when apt-move first moves the packages in, which is why you m= ust never move packages in by hand (at least not without doing an fsck later). my apologies.. I was under

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-05 Thread Herbert Xu
(and may even be damaged) with the current X settings. Single user mode. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Roland Bauerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: want. Shall we make something like 700 default? It would break some things like UserDir public_html in Apache, etc. In my school server You could make it 711. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-02 Thread Herbert Xu
standard. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-31 Thread Herbert Xu
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbert == Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herbert And this is Debian where we have a policy that says #!/bin/sh scripts Herbert need to be POSIX compliant. What policy says is: We were talking about echo -ne, not echo -n which ash

Re: dpkg-scanpackages arguments, output Packages files, and apt

2000-08-31 Thread Herbert Xu
/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:10:04AM +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote: It parses command line -en different from bash. Different getopts ;-) How does it differ? AFAIK, ash's getopts is POSIX compliant. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Xu
have a policy that says #!/bin/sh scripts need to be POSIX compliant. You cannot use it as a default shell without auditing all scripts. I use it on all my systems and currently nothing breaks. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-17 Thread Herbert Xu
form of netstat tool; for instance, when diagnosing routing snmpnetstat will show the routing table of routers that export it through SNMP. My point is that route in this case is simply a special case of snpmnetstat. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
be the ravings of a deranged lunatic. Which they are, as usual. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: int bradon; __asm__(.align 2,0x90\n1:\tdecl %0\n\tjns 1b : =a (=brandon): 0 (loops)); Make that int brandon; __asm__ __volatile__(.align 2,0x90\n1:\tdecl %0\n\tjns 1b : =a (brandon): 0 (loops)); Oh, and you should probably upgrade your

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Herbert Xu
a command that should be in the path (but look before you leap) is this: But I thought one of the main complaints was that /usr/sbin wasn't in the PATH. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Herbert Xu
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: But I thought one of the main complaints was that /usr/sbin wasn't in the PATH. Generally, maintainer scripts, and programs meant to be run by root, run as root. If a program expects

Re: DUL (was Re: RBL report..)

2000-04-03 Thread Herbert Xu
a spammer, it can easily be blocked, thus giving a relay's admin a very strong incentive to act. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
, now what's that thing called netstat(1) which happens to be in your package and also happens to have a flag called -p? :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
is essentially what netstat does with -p. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-17 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Permission policy

2000-03-16 Thread Herbert Xu
in from anywhere else in the world, he can request the privileges from that process. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-16 Thread Herbert Xu
. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: weird NFS problem

2000-03-12 Thread Herbert Xu
version here. Whether it will get into potato is up to the release manager. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 10, 2000

2000-03-12 Thread Herbert Xu
/main) Maintainer: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59642 nfs-server: conflicts with Standard package nfs-kernel-server Huh? Isn't this what it is expected to? They can't both be standard if they conflict with each other, see Policy. I will be uploading a new release with a symlink bug fix

Re: netstd split results in loss of functionality

2000-03-11 Thread Herbert Xu
does not update the inetd entry. The reason is that the old netstd did not enable tftpd by default, while the new tftpd package always enables tftpd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-06 Thread Herbert Xu
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 02, Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patent makes it non-free, so does the new license. Really? In my country RSA is not patented, why should I care about what happens in someone else country? Please have a look at our policy. -- Debian

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken /usr/lib/telnetd/login) that gives

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:36:36PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: If anyone has seen an existing connection die, please report that as a bug. what against? internet ?? My message was about telnetd getting killed, so of course it would be against

Re: should installed daemons automatically restart upon upgrade?

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
/etc/init.d/gpm instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
be upgraded (by whatever program that is in charge) one by one. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
. The same thing applies to other daemons being upgraded, including ssh. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
a public key mechism, not to mention that existin ssh clients would not be able to securely connect to obsd-ssh servers : They use libssl, which begs the question why isn't libssl in non-US/non-free? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:06 +1000 1999-10-02, Herbert Xu wrote: They use libssl, which begs the question why isn't libssl in non-US/non-free? Uh, because it isn't non-free? Here's a quote from the policy: `Non-free' contains packages which are not compliant

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: slink - potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
, back to the original problem, the best solution IMHO is just to run telnet/ssh and screen so that none of this really affects you. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key

Re: {R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

1999-10-01 Thread Herbert Xu
... The license issues seem to be sorted out for me. So I'll have a go at it. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-28 Thread Herbert Xu
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbert Xu wrote: I disagree. If a package causes a remote root exploit to be available, even if it's only in a very specific configuration, I would say that it is critical. No, it's grave. All security bugs are grave, it's part of the definition

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