Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen Early
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: Mar 29 15:20:15 apocalypse sendmail[7886]: e2T8qEi03048: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .greenend.org.uk, ctladdr=branden (1000/1000), delay=11:28:01, xdelay =00:00:21, mailer=esmtp, pri=6332789, relay=chiark.greenend.org.uk. [195.224.76.132], dsn=4.2.0,

Bug#4557: Last file on iso9660-image always corrupted

1996-09-23 Thread Stephen Early
Winfried Truemper writes: This error can be reproduced as follows: bash bash mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 cd /mnt Have you checked to make sure that this isn't a problem with the loopback filesystem? I will test mkisofs on a raw disk partition shortly; I can't do so just yet because I

Re: Diffs-only for XFree?

1996-09-14 Thread Stephen Early
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I noticed that in the rex/source archive there is currently only the complete XFree-3.1.2 source tree. Are there any means to get ahold of just the Debian specific diffs for it, even if they are quite a lot? We need to get X11 for m68k debianized, but

xsnow-1.40-1

1996-01-04 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- xsnow (1.40-1); priority=LOW Package: xsnow Version: 1.40 Package_Revision: 1 Maintainer: Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: Snow in your X server xsnow brings Christmas to your X server. A nice waste of CPU time... Changes: * copyright clarified

Re: what do the X11R6 virtual package names *really* mean?

1996-01-01 Thread Stephen Early
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Mark W. Eichin wrote: standards/virtual-package-names-list.text lists: X11R6 XFree86 R6, including base system xR6shlibXFree86 R6 shared library only I've put together a package of xterm_color (an xterm that supports ANSI

Bug#2061: xbase-3.1.2-5 fails install on 0.93R6 system

1995-12-21 Thread Stephen Early
On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: Package: xbase Version: 3.1.2 Package_Revision: 5 Installation of this package fails in preinst on a newly-installed 0.93R6 system because /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 do not exist. The patch below corrects this problem. However, with this patch

Re: Linux Kernel 1.3.47 Uploaded

1995-12-20 Thread Stephen Early
On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Simon Shapiro wrote: 2. I'd like to throw away the 387 emulation for the compiled kernel. Anyone knows why I should keep it there? I do not believe it to be necessary for the installation, but i have been wrong before. The kernel will not boot on systems that don't

Bug#2040: xserver-mach32 won't do 1024x768x16bpp...

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: This is a documented bug in the original source---I believe I sent a patch that could be used to create a xserver-mach32x or something that would be compiled to allow users who wanted to to drive their cards at something resembling its

ftp.debian.org mirror available in UK

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
I have a mirror of ftp.debian.org on my machine which I am willing to make available to people in Europe. The mirror is available by anonymous ftp to myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk This mirror will only be available until June 1996. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/X11/Xresources (xbase-3.1.2-5)

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Robert Leslie wrote: I wouldn't have noticed these except I found the new xterm didn't log anything into utmp; should this really be the default? It should log to both utmp *and* wtmp by default. Could this be changed?

xsnow-1.40-0 (new package)

1995-12-17 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- xsnow (1.40-0); priority=LOW Package: xsnow Version: 1.40 Package_Revision: 0 Maintainer: Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: Snow in your X server xsnow brings Christmas to your X server. A nice waste of CPU time... c74e59f4680e26b2eb6fc321b0f33860

xpilot-3.4.2-1

1995-12-15 Thread Stephen Early
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- xpilot (3.4.2-1); priority=LOW Package: xpilot Version: 3.4.2 Package_Revision: 1 Maintainer: Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: Multi-player tactical game XPilot is a multi-player tactical manoeuvering game for X and Unix workstations. Players

Re: X package shared library problem

1995-12-15 Thread Stephen Early
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: Can this be considered to be a bug in ldconfig? Which part, deleting the link in the first place or not recreating it? The latter is not a bug. Ldconfig will never create the links needed by ld as long as I'm maintaining it. Deleting something

New X packages now available

1995-12-14 Thread Stephen Early
I've announced them on debian-changes, and they are currently sitting in the queue on the European upload site. You should be able to get them from ftp://myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk/pub/sde1000/debian/X11 until they arrive at ftp.debian.org Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2021: man pages for lrzsz corrupt

1995-12-13 Thread Stephen Early
Package: lrzsz Version: 0.11 myrddin:~$ man lrz man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `R' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `v' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `s' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `i' man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `o' man: ignoring

Bug#2006: elf xlib for tk40.

1995-12-12 Thread Stephen Early
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, David H. Silber wrote: Package: tk40 Version: 4.0p3-1 This requires elf-x11r6lib, which does not exist. I installed xlib-3.1.2-2, which does not seem to provide what I need, but is the latest xlib available. I then forced the install of tk40 and found out that I am

Bug#1986: stdio broken? Strange behaviour of fgets() and scanf()

1995-12-07 Thread Stephen Early
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, brian (b.c.) white wrote: for (ksnum=0; 1; c=fgets(buf,sizeof(buf),stdin)) { The third thing in the for structure only gets executed at end of the loop. 'c' thus has an undefined value on the first iteration which just happened to be NULL for you (hence the (nil)

Bug#1986: stdio broken? Strange behaviour of fgets() and scanf()

1995-12-07 Thread Stephen Early
Maybe that's it. Maybe 'fgets' is interfering with how scanf works. Does it still fail if you remove the 'fgets' from the for loop? Yes, it still fails. I tried removing the #define from the start of the string to be matched, though, and it no longer fails. OTOH, the original program (which is

GCC/binutils shared library search changes?

1995-12-07 Thread Stephen Early
Was either GCC or binutils (whichever is appropriate) changed between gcc-2.7.0-2 and gcc-2.7.2-1 or binutils-2.5.2l.20-2 and binutils-2.6-1 so that it won't find ELF shared libraries with names like libX11.so.6.0, only libraries with names like libX11.so? I ask because X has suddenly started

Bug#1986: stdio broken? Strange behaviour of fgets() and scanf()

1995-12-06 Thread Stephen Early
Package: libc5 Version: 5.2.16-1 (My libc5-dev version is also 5.2.16-1) The following program (which is similar in structure to one of the programs used in building xlib) loops forever when it reaches EOF on stdin: #include stdio.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { int ksnum,i; char

Bug#1925: rusers causes segmentation fault

1995-11-29 Thread Stephen Early
Package: netstd Version: 1.22-1 myrddin:~$ rusers garfield.chu.cam.ac. gdm1000 gdm1000 gdm1000 turing.chu.cam.ac.uk djs1012 Segmentation fault $ rusers garfield.chu.cam.ac. gdm1000 gdm1000 gdm1000 turing.chu.cam.ac.uk djs1012 tickle.chu.cam.ac.uk apw24 myrddin.chu.cam.ac.u sde1000 gdm1000 pw201

Re: Missing X references

1995-11-28 Thread Stephen Early
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Andrew Howell wrote: brian writes: I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem compiling a program which uses -lX11. For some reason, none of the symbols are resolved. Here is the output... [...] Was there a change to the X libs

Re: Missing X references

1995-11-28 Thread Stephen Early
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, David Engel wrote: I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem compiling a program which uses -lX11. For some reason, none of the symbols are resolved. Here is the output... You'll need to use the interim elf-x11r6lib package and