Martin Schulze wrote:
But: 1st, I'm interested in stable, 2nd the katie db told me the path
from above, and 3rd why do potato and unstable/testing have different
.orig.tar.gz versions?
Oh, and how are we supposed to fix that?
Regards,
Joey
--
Unix is user friendly ... It's just
Thanks a lot folks,
you provided good arguments with these two bug reports. I've
considered the issue on my own as well and came to a different
implementation.
Instead of making syslogd/klogd controlled by init they will now be
restarted by regular cron scripts if they got lost in the meantime.
These packages have to be rebuilt for stable on i386 in order to let
the packages go into 2.2r5.
Please find URLs to source packages attached below for convenience.
When uploading, please take care of the distribution, which should
contain 'stable' and nothing else.
For further explanation
FYI,
maybe some other DD can pick out those security updates and upload
them to stable.
Regards,
Joey
Martin Schulze wrote:
The people who have prepared a security advisory should upload the
respective packages to stable as well. Hence please upload the
referring packages
What do people think?
Please copy mails that you consider important in this context to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] so they get recorded
properly.
Regards,
Joey
Florian Weimer wrote:
Package: klogd
Version: 1.4.1-8
Severity: wishlist
Tags: security
The package
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
Do I have to use brackets for you?
Well, jokes aside, a somewhat more clear description would be
helpful, I couldn't figure out what it really was immediately.
I'm happy to receive an improved description.
Regards,
Joey
Michael Piefel wrote:
Am 21.12.01 um 16:01:08 schrieb Gregor Hoffleit:
This is to say: In some instances, even no translation is better than a
bad translation.
Quite right, but this was just a quick hack. BTW, why should the
translation be better than the original? ;-)
Quite simple:
Sean Neakums wrote:
begin Adam Olsen quotation:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few
of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DWN as a forum for _this_
purpose i believe is bad.
Moin!
Hanno Terveen wrote:
i would like to contribute my part to the linux/open source comunity and ive
heard that you never get enough of people who translate stuff for you.
well, i speak both german and english and i thought i could be of use for
you`?!
im totally new to linux but im
These packages have to be rebuilt for stable on i386 in order to let
the packages go into 2.2r5.
Please find URLs to source packages attached below for convenience.
When uploading, please take care of the distribution, which should
contain 'stable' and nothing else.
For further explanation
[ Posted as requested by Courtesy Raphaël Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
[ Please respect the reply-to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Hello,
I have proposed the following general resolution a few days ago (my
initial mail to debian-devel-announce didn't get through). The
discussion takes place on
Michael Meskes wrote:
I tried activating the Euro symbol. To do so I have to activate it on
AltGr-E. So that should be easy. I just created a .Xmodmap file in my home
which contains:
keycode 26 = e E currency
This works if executed by hand, but not automatically. I verified that the
I'm awfully sorry for the delay, but I wasn't able to work on this
earlier again.
Here's a list of questions and answers that came up with the posting I
made last week.
Q: Is a requirement being a Debian developer?
No. It is my understanding that it would be good to have fresh
blood in
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
The graphs are indeed nice, what did you use to make them?
The graphs say `rrdtool', which is a pretty good hint :)
Indeed.
Here's the source for the thing.
http://cvs.infodrom.org/murphy/rrd-update?cvsroot=Infodrom-Tools
Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
Hi!
[Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed]
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote:
Gathering data happens all 30 minutes and I've let it run for a couple
of days before making this annoncement, so there are some data to
show.
It looks strange
Martin F Krafft wrote:
also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:42:44AM)
I would like to propose to form an Apache (web server) task force to
maintain the Apache packages currently maintained by Johnie Ingram
(netgod) (and potentially related packages if the need arises).
Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
[ I sent this to debian-testing a month ago, but the mailing list ]
[ doesn't exist anymore - it is not archived at http://list.debian.org/ ]
[ If there is a more appropriate list for this discussion let me know. ]
The list does exist. For some reason it wasn't
Hi,
are there some people around who live on the Philippines? I have
received an offer for the Debian Project to give a talk about Debian
and run a booth to demonstrate the our free operating system at the
conference taking place on November 5th. I don't know of any
developer we have on the
Current problems with Debian Security have led me into reconsidering
this issue which I thought about one year ago or so. Debian Security
is very crucial to our users and thus should be managed properly.
To help improve the situation I'm offering a very important job within
the Debian project.
Paul Slootman wrote:
There's a little problem with getting isdnutils into testing...
Finally, after more than a year after isdnutils was split up into more
logical parts, it's a valid candidate for installation, without anyone
filing an RC bug at the last moment. Now I'm wondering why it's not
That fanmail account was subscribed to 99 lists and got nuked now.
Regards,
Joey
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Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Hi,
I am getting more of these bug reports from autobuilders, and I would like
to suggest this.
Umh. When the auto-builders came up thiese kind of bug reports were not
appreciated and the porters didn't report them, they (espcially Roman, many
thanks) reported proper
One of our main servers, namely master.debian.org, is down after it
suffered from a disk failure. This was the main reason it was turned
off but unfortunately didn't come up again. Adam Heath is currently
inspecting the problem, and it seems that our data is still there
while the root disk was
If you would like to give a talk or tutorial at ALS please drop me
and Tiffany a line
Regards,
Joey
Tiffany Peoples wrote:
5th Annual Linux Showcase Conference (ALS 2001)
November 6-10, 2001
Oakland, CA USA
http://www.linuxshowcase.org
Sponsored by USENIX and the Atlanta Linux
Martin Schulze wrote:
If you would like to give a talk or tutorial at ALS please drop me
and Tiffany a line
Regards,
Joey
Tiffany Peoples wrote:
5th Annual Linux Showcase Conference (ALS 2001)
November 6-10, 2001
Oakland, CA USA
http://www.linuxshowcase.org
Sponsored
Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3
=
Up-to-date version on http://master.debian.org/~joey/2.2r3/
I'm still preparing 2.2r3 and will send reports so people can actually
comment on it. I'm sortof responsible for this release, however
Anthony Towns has to
Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3
=
Up-to-date version on http://master.debian.org/~joey/2.2r3/
I'm currently preparing 2.2r3 and will send reports so people can
actually comment on it. I'm sortof responsible for this release,
however Anthony Towns has to
Hi there,
I have received a whole bunch of notifications for conferences and
exhibitions in Germany next year. I would love Debian to be present
at each of them, with both, a booth and a talk. This should not be
too difficult since there are about 70 Developers in Germany with half
as much new
.
[...]
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
O: manpages-de -- German manpages
I'd be willing to take them, if it's just for the Debian maintainership
and fixing the few outstanding bugs. However, Joey, I see you are also
Please take over Debian maintainership.
the whole project's leader. The webpages
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
running dpkg-scanpackage i386 over Packages
i get (over is size 0)
! Package msn-transport (filename i386/msn-transport_1.0-2_i386.deb) is
repeat;
ignored that
I'd like to send out a reminder.
Peter Novodvorsky wrote:
Hello!
I want you to know, that Sky Events will hold four conferences and
exhibition in eastern europe called Linux Expo Road Show. Conferences
will be held in Praha, Budapest, Warsaw and Moscow, and exhibition --
only in Moscow.
It's a converter XLS-HTML, XLS is used by some proprietery software
from the Dark Side...
http://www.xlhtml.org/xlHtml-0.2.7.2.tar.gz
Regards,
Joey
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Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
From the we-are-everywhere department:
Debian proudly presents:
F I V E N E W L I S T S C R E A T E D
List: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org
This mailing list is designed to help coordinate the
maintenance of the teTeX packages and related software in
Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux?
Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document?
Regards,
Joey
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Please always Cc to me when
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux?
Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document?
IIRC, Debian was originally funded by the FSF, who wouldn't have it
any other way
SOETE Joël wrote:
Dear all,
I run Debian 2.1r4 on a PC with an amd486 120 MHz and 16Mb of ram.
I also recompile last release of Ckermit. To manage installed software, I
would like make a package with this soft.
I found also package sources (.dsc, orig.tar.gz and diff.gz files) of a
Richard Braakman wrote:
Package: balsa (debian/main).
Maintainer: Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58662 balsa: It doesn't work.
I have analyzed the balsa does not run problem. It turned out
that it run well after I removed the ~/.balsarc file. Thus this
bug is only a configuration issue.
I'm
We're back from CeBIT exhibition, taking place in Germany from Feb
23rd to Mar 1st. Several developers have met there and presented both
Debian and Debian-related distributions. We've had a lot of fun and
appreciated the contacts we were able to make. We're trying to
summarize our experiences
Michael Meskes wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:53:38AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
LinuxTag
LinuxTag is Europe's largest Linux exhibition and conference. Apart
for a free conference program and free exhibition there is enough
space for Free Software projects, including Debian
Richard Braakman wrote:
I removed these packages from frozen today.
Package: xexec (debian/contrib).
Maintainer: Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Also removed from unstable]
56762 xexec: GPLed software linked against non-compatible Qt2
According to this short description it needs to be
Michael Stevens wrote:
Package: emacs19
Version: 19.34-21
Hi.
Unable to update to latest stable release -- typescript
of failure attached.
Script started on Wed Mar 8 11:43:42 2000
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[1m~[m# [Kaapt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package
Debian-List HOWTO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
November 8, 1999 Martin Schulze
Chris Rutter wrote:
The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right?
I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2,
but I thought I received a message from the security team about
r3 last week somtime. Just wanted to check before I filed a
boring bug
Steve Greenland wrote:
I liked a lot of these ideas, but:
On 12-Sep-99, 20:22 (CDT), Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our current situation results in our stable release being hopelessly
out-dated and the unstable release not being releaseable. That's
quite bad for a lot of our
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
Just a quick inquiry --
Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
Regards,
Joey
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
Paul Slootman wrote:
On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
: The dnsserver returned:
:
: DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found
: (authoritative).
Doesn't look like the DNS is set up yet. Also
.
Debian will have a free booth, staffed with.. somebody
Contact: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]
German Events [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Involvement: Free booth, organized by Debian maintainer
Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
--
A mathematician is a machine
Branden Robinson wrote:
Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't
happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2).
Err, can you please wait for this until a) debconf has been accepted and
b) there will be proper support for it and c)
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And an updated version is at
http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO
I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for
inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted
James Troup wrote:
Eh, calm down, Joey. I not only can, but should and have decided that
GnuPG keys must be verified before they enter the keyring, i.e. I'm
not going to add a random key from a random developer without proof it
comes from that developer. I'll hope you'll be so kind as to
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
All it means is that GPG should be used in a mode where it will not
interoperate with PGP 2.x. This is what Joey's HOWTO recommended more or
less.
So correct it.
You seem to want to give it away rather strongly, so I'd be happy to pick
it up and add a few
- * NMU for slink
- -- Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:57:04 -0500
+ -- Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:21:39 +0100
super (3.11.7-1) stable frozen unstable; urgency=high
Apparently we need a cluebat for one of our security officers...
Yep, I do
Hi,
recently I have been fouled by some very nasty incidents which made me
think that I have made something wrong with our boot floppies.
Here is the story.
I've created German boot-floppies, but only regular ones, no tecra
images. I had to create a slink cd set for a German distributor
Matthias Klose wrote:
Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with
apt-get? Or is the reorganisation not finished? Currently neither of
the following lines work:
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian unstable
Justin Maurer wrote:
If you have a compiler packaged, somebody else is working on kernels,
i am not sure when the kernel changes will be merged into the linus kernels.
whispervger/whisper
would you like me to start a list on the ift server? i expect it will be
extremley low traffic until
Justin Maurer wrote:
Justin, can you find out if those machines are binary compatible.
I've heard that there are two general types flying around (5i and
3i, iirc). I wonder if one new architecture is enough or if we
need both - like for mips.
which two machines? the ones the puffins
Justin Maurer wrote:
consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel,
when
one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those
who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan
to order myself a machine when my
Justin Maurer wrote:
i'd like to request debian/pa-risc. i am packaging binutils as we speak.
after this, i will package egcs. however, there will not be a working kernel
for a number of months. with egcs and binutils, packages should be able to
built even before there is a working kernel :)
Inaky Perez Gonzalez wrote:
Package: general
Version: N/A
Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when
upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful.
I have received a report about upgrading as well. He failed...
But: There were two things which
I have received this, you'd know better what to do.
Regards,
Joey
Jeff MacDonald wrote:
Greetings,
Today we (PostgreSQL INC.) made our Initial Press Release at
http://www.pgsql.com/release.html
Regarding the beginning of techincal support etc.
Also we are
Good morning fans,
I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example
the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the
Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is
supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer.
However, there is a new service which has been opened
Hi,
I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package
the CoolEdit HTML editor?
From: http://www.netins.net/showcase/Comput-IT/cooledit/
CoolEdit is a text editor for the X Window System. It provides many
features that are very useful to programmers.
Things like:
*
FYI: I have sent in two abstracts for talks at the Linux Tag,
one of them is about Debian GNU.
Regards,
Joey
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David Stern wrote:
Hi,
About a month ago a developer posted that he had a special boot disk
image in his debian.org home directory to alleviate a hang at install
time, but I can't locate the post now.
I only know about www.master.debian.org/~doko/
Regards,
Joey
--
The only
Vincent Renardias wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
thanks for the NMU without asking the maintainer FIRST, AGAIN :-///
No problem, I will mail you next time.
Note: the last upload of this package was last month and there is no reason
for a quick uplaod since there
WHO
needs the mSQL database?
For quite a while I'm very unhappy with it. For half a year I have
worked actively in moving to a different db. Yesterday I ported the
last remaining program at home which was based on mSQL to PostgreSQL
though a general SQL API.
There are however some programs
severity 31824 important
thanks
Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
shouldn't we mark #31824 (html2ps: can't execute) as critical?
html2ps does not work at all with this bug. Fortunately the bug
can be fixed by deleting an erroneous character in the script.
I believe we should. netgod will upload a new
Joop Stakenborg wrote:
I have done some posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I
never get an answer and nothing really happens.
The most easiest way to reach the maintainer is to enter IRC,
server irc.debian.org and /msg netgod.
Is anyone reading the wnpp mail?
Generally yes, but only frequently
Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:54:55PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
End of June.. sounds like I'll be able to be there. Does anyone know any
cheap places to stay for a couple of days in the neighborhood?
I am
Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian
package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it.
I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate if
s/o else would step forward.
As Ruud reminded me isdnutils
Brian White wrote:
nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions
This is important??
I don't know what this bug is referring to, but there is a new dpkg-ftp
which can handle multiple servers. I wrote a dpkg-multiftp method for
the same reasn, the new dpkg-ftp
Steve McIntyre wrote:
Santiago Vila writes:
smail is still optional, but conflicts with exim, so it should be extra.
hello-debhelper conflicts with hello, and has absolutely no extra
functionality over ordinary hello, so the binary should be removed, in
either case it should be extra.
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
When selecting all packages of a certain priority there should be no
conflicts.
I think that if I try to install every package with priority extra
some things will start complaining very loudly..
Isn't that what Santiago pointed
A fixed version has just been uploaded to Incoming.
Regards,
Joey
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Hi,
here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian
package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it.
I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate
if s/o else would step forward.
Regards,
Joey
--
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Martin Schulze wrote:
Hi,
here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian
package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it.
I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate
if s/o else would step forward.
As Ruud reminded me isdnutils
Andy Mortimer wrote:
Solution:
multicd has to copy the Packages files into $methdir/multicd/ and
access them directly instead of the available file.
Since this needs a redesign of the installation method and I'm somewhat
short with time I'd appreciate somebody sending me a proper
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them *all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
dependency/conflict check *before* the deep
- Forwarded message from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Package: dpkg-multicd
Version: 0.11
Severity: important
I'm awfully sorry but apparently I have to file an important bug report
against this pkackage (or dpkg?). It should be fixed before we release
slink.
First the symptoms
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution
screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report them
*all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
dependency/conflict check
Santiago Vila wrote:
There are in total *ten* dselect Dependency/conflict resolution
screens.
(using the PageForward key). Am I *really* required to report
them *all*,
or may I ask our kind ftp.debian.org maintainers to do a *serious*
Santiago Vila wrote:
package foo needs to be priority extra since foo and bar conflict and are
both optional.
Fine, but why should this be more quickly fixed than the same text sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] against ftp.debian.org?
Both should be fine, the bug report should be even better. I
The messages resulted from a toasted news gateway. Within minutes after
the incident we have taken action and have blocked that system from further
posting as well as informing its maintainer. Since our mail system is
very fast several such mails went through, at least 1-5 per list.
Regards,
ToDo List for the Boot Floppies Package
I guess you all know that new slink boot floppies have been uploaded
today bu the leader of the boot floppies team, Enrique Zanardi.
Please test them and write appropriate bug reports if you discover
problems with them.
I've talked to Enrique about things
Avery Pennarun wrote:
I think we should play a simple game of numbers, and I think FTP statistics
are a good place to get those numbers :)
Since this script will only really be useful to CD-makers, this project
would be mostly independent of dpkg-multicd or whatever.
But not independent of
Drake Diedrich wrote:
Povray 3.1 (a raytracer) has been released, and I've had a request to
package it. Unfortunately, 3.1 deleted experimental features in 3.0
(halos), and does not have the patches I applied to the 3.0 codebase (PVM,
isosurfaces). Some of the new 3.1 features are already
reopen 24893
thanks
Alex Romosan wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes:
sysklogd (1.3-29) unstable; urgency=low, closes=24893
.
* Re-Applied patch provided vom Topi Miettinen with regard to the people
from OpenBSD. This provides the additional '-a' argument used
Gregory S. Stark wrote:
You'll also find the new version which has the offending code removed:
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/sysklogd_1.3-28_i386.deb
Does -29 have it reinserted? I'm seeing the same problem.
Yes. That was the intention - which failed again. *sigh*
Alex Romosan wrote:
Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i just installed sysklogd 1.3-29.1 on one of my systems. i'll let you
know if i have any problems with it or not. thanks.
well, i can't send any mail out, and there is nothing logged to
syslog. i can't su either. looks like
Stephen Crowley wrote:
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 11:20:28AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote:
: On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 06:07:17PM -0500, Stephen Crowley wrote:
: Ok, i just apt-get upgraded about an hour ago, to my horror i can no
: longer
Christopher Barry wrote:
Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot:
http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208pid=128#147
Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole
bunch' of code names?
scnr
Joey
--
GNU GPL: The source will be with you...
Avery Pennarun wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
What do you mean by break? If you restart syslogd you have to
restart some other programs as well (squid, teergrube, inn, named come
to my mind.)
Can you explain this? This doesn't sound
If the package replaces the utilities from findutils and is commandline
compatible, you might want to find out how dpkg-divert and update-alternatives
work. I'd vote for update-alternatives. In any case please negotiate with
the findutils maintainer.
Regards,
Joey
Brian Ristuccia
Martin Schulze wrote:
I brought it up already but nobody jumped on.
Great, this time people were sensitively watching.
Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images.
Everybody agrees?
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
Philip Hands wrote:
So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This
does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib,
non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds.
This needs to be addressed quick!
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
to support
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
method when it reads in the CD info.
Indeed, why don't we do that instead of
I feel that this is an appropriate addition to the common dict
client.
GTK-based Dictionary Client
This package provides a graphical frontend to dict, which is a client
that queries the dictd server. Since it is TCP based, it can access
servers on the local host, on a local network, or on
Brent Fulgham wrote:
I'd like to chime in --
It's a real annoyance that the base disks don't set up lilo to let you
boot into multiple operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to
dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and generate an appropriate lilo.conf
file?
This would be nice.
Hi,
just a short remark on the version I uploaded today. The methods
don't require the regular `Packages' files but use their own ones
which are named `Packages.cd' or `Packages.cd.gz' resp.
This makes other methods of dselect still work with the new cds.
However this requires two sets of
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