Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-19 Thread Steve Bowman
parsing. IMHO, attacking a new piece of source top-down seems to make comprehension easier. I'd start with main(). -- Steve Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Buckeye, AZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goodnet.com/~sbowman/ Powered by Debian GNU/Linux http

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Bowman
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:53:06PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: Fine with me; either interpretation would get traceroute into (/usr)?/bin. Same here, but .. On the other hand, fsck seems to be a good example of a program that can't do much for the unprivileged user.

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Bowman
that are missing depend on non-free. Lyx for example depends on libforms0.89 . Apt is used by debian-cd to set up the build and apt doesn't like broken dependencies. Steve -- Steve Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Buckeye, AZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-06 Thread Steve Bowman
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Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-06 Thread Steve Bowman
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 09:20:32PM +1000, Brian May wrote: On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:43:07AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: I think if you are going to use /usr/etc, programs should first check /etc, in case the system administrator wishes to override the sharable config file for the given

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-06 Thread Steve Bowman
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 05:30:13AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: BTW, I *like* the idea of moving stuff out of /etc to /usr/etc or maybe /usr/local/etc. It's not the /etc is too big, it's too messy. I just think that stuff in /bin and /sbin set an upper bound on what can be moved without

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Bowman
and keeping people from using it foolishly is a good thing. Just think of using or | in filenames. If you want to confuse operators and operands, you deserve what you ask for, but no one would call this a bug in bash (would they?). My 2c. Steve Bowman -- Oliver Elphick