On Dec 4, 1997, at 23:55, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution; we
are just pandering to broken software (decent software, like gnus,
allows on to set mailing list parameters [look for to-address] such
that group replies go only to the
I agree, but if feel the opposite --- == BS should be default
because most linux users come from the dos world, and the keys on a linux
terminal/xterm should act the same as in dos. Emacs users know more about
unix and therfore should know how to change stty erase
Um, how does a normal
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
BTW I'd be interested to hear any justification of why --- == DEL
Well, from a sheer visual standpoint, seeing an arrow pointing to the
left, like on the BS key (--), makes one think that pushing that
button's going to move the cursor that way, just
On 07-Dec-1997 01:39:39, Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Re: crontab -l outputs extra header]
Especially since that line is usually used in the prerm script, so
an upgrade won't help.. It might be worth it to locate all the packages
that do this, and file a bug report against
(I posted this on debian-policy, and got zero-response (maybe because
the original Subject: looked like an bug system acknowledgement :-().
I would still like others to comment on this issue -- basically
introducing arbitrary differences from the upstream version.)
On 29-Nov-1997 12:52:45,
Well, from a sheer visual standpoint, seeing an arrow pointing to the
left, like on the BS key (--), makes one think that pushing that
button's going to move the cursor that way, just like the other arrow
keys. I've NEVER understood the funky behavior of the BS key on *nix.
I think we
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[ Deleted the part where the doubters once again fail to bother to
yprove that ldconfig isn't necessary (Hint: the onus isn't on me; I
don't care anymore, I *know* the policy manual is wrong, if you think
otherwise, do something about it, either way I'm
On 08-Dec-1997, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Kai == Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 06.12.97 in
Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If I set a reply-to address for the list manually, then having it
munged is not just being
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 09:50:59PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
There are now 143 packages in the list, with upgrades on the way for 6
more. Progress seems to have stalled on this front. Perhaps the
remaining packages are truly uninteresting :-)
It could be that, but also there are some
Hello!
I've ported dpkg (dselect and everything) to Solaris, Digital Unix,
and FreeBSD. Basically, the programs themselves run, and if I override
dependencies, etc., then I can install stuff. I've made a number of
packages for each of the platforms, mostly gnu stuff.
I'm planning on writing a
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 10:22:54PM -0500, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
Hello!
I've ported dpkg (dselect and everything) to Solaris, Digital Unix,
and FreeBSD. Basically, the programs themselves run, and if I override
dependencies, etc., then I can install stuff. I've made a number of
packages
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 08:51:38AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
Now that's a problem. I did the same. I also did fix all open bugs in
lshell. A few minutes ago I tried to see which version is on master and
found none in incoming, none in REJECT and no new one in hamm. What
happened? What do we
I solved my problem: I'd also upgraded smail and the new version
wasn't prodding my ISP. I needed to reconfigure Smail using
the smailconfig --force option. The default method of starting
from inetd didn't work for me: I now have a smail daemon running
and it works perfectly. Hope this helps
Does it provide any access control methods? I'm currently running redir via
inetd and can use tcpd to protect access. Can I do something similar with
rinetd?
Michael
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Okay I'll do that and name it 2.01-8.2. Also I found the problem with my
first upload. It had a distribution entry stable unstable which is
absolutely wrong (shouldn't use cut and paste without checking first).
This package must not go into stable.
As for the closing of the bugs, wasn't that just
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 09:43:44AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
Okay I'll do that and name it 2.01-8.2. Also I found the problem with my
first upload. It had a distribution entry stable unstable which is
absolutely wrong (shouldn't use cut and paste without checking first).
This package must
Hello Java folks!
My absolute ignorance of java is causing me trouble.
I'm building a set of library packages that includes a java shared
library.
After a failed try with guavac (but I don't giveup), I succeded in
MAKEing the shared lib using javac.
The make stage creates a lot of '.class' files
Hello C++ folks!
I need a little help in building a C++ library.
I'm building a set of library packages that include C and C++ static and
shared libs.
The original makefile builds the C++ ones linking the full set of C and
C++ object files.
The C++ packages will depend anyway from the C shared
Hi folks!
I remember someone suggesting to tetach debugging symbols from libraries
to package them separately on a -dbg binary package.
* What is the way to do that?
* How can a detached symbol table be used to debug a program?
* Can such table be used both for shared and static libs or should I
Here are some of the changes HJ made that I think are important enough
for us to create a new version:
* nls/msgcat.c (catopen): Check if the message file is
really a file.
* libio/stdio/ferror.c (_IO_ferror):
* libio/stdio/putc.c (_IO_putc): New aliase for glibc
I plan to upload a new (libc6) version of this package. Since Bernd isn't
answering email right now I think the best is I enter my name as maintainer.
Michael
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Hi!
After having Debian installed on a number of machines here at our
university, I begin to wonder if there is any possibility to run an
unattended installation. Maybe someone knows the net-installation of
Solaris. You just drop the configuration in a file, provide some
config-files (e.g.
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
Does it provide any access control methods? I'm currently running redir via
inetd and can use tcpd to protect access. Can I do something similar with
rinetd?
You can probably use it in combination with ipfwadm entries. Deny all
incoming packets to the
Correct. But that's not the same. So I guess I keep using redir.
Michael
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Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire!
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Christian Meder wrote:
where do the packages install ? /usr/local/ or /usr ?
I install files wherever the packages want me to install files. That's
a package-build-time function, although the override feature in dpkg
works, presumably, I haven't tried it.
Perhaps it's
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
I've ported dpkg (dselect and everything) to Solaris, Digital Unix,
and FreeBSD.
Darn... He beat me to it with about a week... :) I was just about to do that
(FreeBSD) port my self, but... Atleast he have not made a HP-UX port yet :D
How about dirs
Hi,
I need to add a couple of lines to /etc/hosts.allow in qmail, because
otherwise qmail will not work under inetd. I presume I'm not supposed to
create packages that edit other packages conffiles, so how do I deal with this
?
The lines I need to add are of the form:
smtp: .YOUR.DOMAIN.:
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
How about dirs in the distribution, like:
- s n i p p -
binary-freebsd
binary-solaris
binary-hpux
- s n i p p -
I think it would be a colossal mistake to try to integrate these os's
into normal debian, at least any time which
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
How about dirs in the distribution, like:
- snipp -
but those would
have to be working really well for a long time before they could be
integrated.
unstable/binary-* ?
I'm officially orphaning ncftp and glimpse, for a couple of reasons.
The biggest is that I haven't used either in quite a long time---I'm
now an extraordinarily happy lftp user, and I long ago became fed up
with glimpse's sorry excuse for boolean searching and switched to (the
now free) swish.
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm officially orphaning ncftp and glimpse, for a couple of reasons.
I shall take over maintenance of ncftp, unless anyone objects.
Martin.
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Hi,
This is truly grotesque ;-), but if this is done, I would
withdraw my objections to reply-to munging, as the authors
information is always preserved.
__
( reply-to == debian-foo... ? noop :
(From == Sender ||
Hi,
Ian == Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ian Bdale asks:
In bug report 15091, Christian Meder suggests to me that I make
gzip predepend on libc6. It is not clear to me that this is a good
thing to do.
Ian Christian Meder is right. Packages that are Essential (ie, ones
Ian without
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Darn... He beat me to it with about a week... :) I was just about to do that
(FreeBSD) port my self, but... Atleast he have not made a HP-UX port yet :D
If there would be a port of dpkg to HPUX i would be very happy not
having to learn to make
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 10:22:54PM -0500, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
We at Mindspring plan on using dpkg to manage the software on all of
our server machines, if we can get it to do the job to our satisfaction
(which I think we can.)
For those of you in Europe, who may not be familiar with
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
If there would be a port of dpkg to HPUX i would be very happy not
having to learn to make packages with and using RPM! Anybody already
working on such a beast?
As soon as my HP is using HP-UX again (soon I hope), I'll start (that is, if
no one is doing
Tyson Dowd wrote:
As an aside, when munging reply-tos, if there is an existing reply to,
why not set the From: to that address.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Becomes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
This I
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 01:49:38PM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
(package-name@debian.org??) I'll raise something I thought about a while
I think it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually, but I'm not sure; I
only occasionally get mail to it -- all of it inappropriate
(everything I've gotten to xbase@
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until
a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the
packages from binary-pent instead
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 02:09:57PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm
sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different areas in
which I set proxy servers
In building a couple of perl extensions for Debian the other day, I
noticed that the version on the axp produced a dependency on the
loader and libc.
When I moved the same source over to my i386, I was told that the
resulting shared object was statically linked.
After a bit of puttering around,
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
We should have a standard place for these things - say:
/etc/proxies
http=http://www.proxy.company.com:80;
ftp=ftp://ftpproxy.firewall.com;
How about making this policy. I realise that most upstream packages will
Adrian Bridgett writes:
I think it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually, but I'm not sure; I
only occasionally get mail to it -- all of it inappropriate
(everything I've gotten to xbase@ in particular should have either
gone to debian-user or to [EMAIL PROTECTED], mostly the latter...)
Args, no!
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
at the time bo was released, the options for the kernel were 2.0.29 and
2.0.30. as 2.0.30 turned out to be unstable on some machines, debian
decided to use the 2.0.29 kernel. the only problem is :
buslogic flashpoint support started with 2.0.30
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
it's the obvious way... create another architecture tree, binary-i586
(gosh, that going to hit hard on the mirror eventually. Time to get yet
another harddisk for the Debian
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raul continues to suggest using a CGI program:
Er.. note that I'd also suggested using a proxy server. I even
supplied code for such.
We have more mirrors than places we can run CGI scripts.
Note that a proxy server can be run more places than a CGI
Hello!
For some inexplicable reason, I've been getting messages from you.
Actually, I have received a HUGE bunch of messages both last Tuesday
(2 Dec) and today (9 Dec). I don't consider myself very knowledgeable
about the technical aspect of e-mail or computer networking, which is
especially
Hello!
For some inexplicable reason, I've been getting messages from you.
Actually, I have received a HUGE bunch of messages both last Tuesday
(2 Dec) and today (9 Dec). I don't consider myself very knowledgeable
about the technical aspect of e-mail or computer networking, which is
especially
Hello!
For some inexplicable reason, I've been getting messages from you.
Actually, I have received a HUGE bunch of messages both last Tuesday
(2 Dec) and today (9 Dec). I don't consider myself very knowledgeable
about the technical aspect of e-mail or computer networking, which is
especially
Hello!
For some inexplicable reason, I've been getting messages from you.
Actually, I have received a HUGE bunch of messages both last Tuesday
(2 Dec) and today (9 Dec). I don't consider myself very knowledgeable
about the technical aspect of e-mail or computer networking, which is
especially
Hello!
For some inexplicable reason, I've been getting messages from you.
Actually, I have received a HUGE bunch of messages both last Tuesday
(2 Dec) and today (9 Dec). I don't consider myself very knowledgeable
about the technical aspect of e-mail or computer networking, which is
especially
Is there anything we can do about this luser sending the same annoying
message to debian-devel repeatedly?
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hi. i have windows nt and msdos on my hard drive partitioned as such:
MS-DOS | Windows NT
500 MB| 3.1 GB
and I want to install linux over ms-dos. BUT on the dos partition there
is a windows nt file which is VITAL and contains the nt boot record
(ms-dos mbr occupies the mbr space)
and if
Does that mean that Debian cann't be installed easily on a machine with
a Buslogic FlashPoint PT and no IDE disks? I'm going to buy a SCSI adapter
to replace the old AHA-1542CF I have right now, and based on a
recommendation on debian-user I'm going for the FlashPoint... and I think
many
[Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
at the time bo was released, the options for the kernel were 2.0.29
and 2.0.30. as 2.0.30 turned out to be unstable on some machines,
debian decided to use the 2.0.29 kernel. the only problem is :
buslogic flashpoint support started with 2.0.30 :-(
Mandark! == Mandark! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mandark! and I want to install linux over ms-dos. BUT on the dos
Mandark! partition there is a windows nt file which is VITAL and
Mandark! contains the nt boot record (ms-dos mbr occupies the mbr
Mandark! space) and if linux toasts
[ the orig. message is avail at:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9711/msg01597.html ]
Hi everyone,
I haven't heard many responses about the checklist, so I think it's
time to get started. I'd like to do this in several phases:
I. Get a few required packages for comments
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
grmonitor-0.53-2
The package says Christoph Lameter is the maintainer.
Good luck to Igor, it looks like some work. I tried to compile it
just now.
I did not see a reason to reupload the new version of the package (this was
before libc6 conversion), so
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No, I don't think that will do it. He's talking about ntldr and boot.ini,
which NT places in the root directory of the boot drive...in his case a
300MB FAT partition. If he reformats for ext2, the NT boot loader will
not exist anymore, and even his NT
I'm hoping to get my PGP keys signed by a known and registered debian
developer in the NYC area so as to comply with the Debian Developer's
Reference Section 1.2.
I'm located in Manhattan; specifically on the Lower East Side.
Any takers? Please reply to me offline. Thanks.
.A. P. [EMAIL
Matthew R. Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, I don't think that will do it. He's talking about ntldr and boot.ini,
which NT places in the root directory of the boot drive...in his case a
300MB FAT partition. If he reformats for ext2, the NT boot loader will
not exist anymore, and even
Do you have a little spare time?
Do you have some extra hard drive space?
Do you enjoy being the first to try something new?
Do you want to be on a low volume mailing list (compared to debian-user)?
Do you want to help debian become the most popular linux distribution?
Do you want women to adore
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On 9 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Mandark! == Mandark! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mandark! and I want to install linux over ms-dos. BUT on the dos
Mandark! partition there is a windows nt file which is VITAL and
Mandark! contains the nt boot
I'd promised to package up emacs 20 at some point (since that would
save the hassle of going back and forth to sure emacs19 and xemacs*
would all coexist :-) but I recently joined a new startup company, and
with some of the other projects eating my personal time, I'm just not
going to have time to
Hi!
It would be nice if anybody could write a new official entry for the
Debian distribution for my German Distribution HOWTO. Thanks.
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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa.
[...deleted...]
The inside story is: due to a problem with libc6, libc_create_key is
not declared as a weak symbol of libpthread, and it's not wrapped in
a macro which detects if the program is linked with
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa.
[...deleted...]
ok, this is the bug i was looking for. anyone know if there is a fix
for this yet?
Yep, download libc6_2.0.6-0.2 (prerelease
On 10 Dec 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
ok, this is the bug i was looking for. anyone know if there is a fix
for this yet?
Yep, download libc6_2.0.6-0.2 (prerelease 2) from
ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux/ and send [EMAIL PROTECTED] an email
with your experiences ..
THANK YOU!!
i
On Dec 9, 1997, at 00:59, Carl Mummert wrote:
Assuming no Sender line, or Sender = From, I beleive that the following
mapping is compliant with the standard:
From - Sender (Sender is omitted if
it is the same as From,
but it's not, anymore)
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:05:16 +1100 Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa.
[...deleted...]
In the meantime, you can link programs which do heavy inet_ntoa with
libpthread, it will cure the leak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) wrote on 09.12.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[ Deleted the part where the doubters once again fail to bother to
yprove that ldconfig isn't necessary (Hint: the onus isn't on me; I
don't care anymore, I *know* the policy
On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 07:38:00PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
BTW I'd be interested to hear any justification of why --- == DEL
Well, from a sheer visual standpoint, seeing an arrow pointing to the
left, like on the BS key (--), makes one think
I'm hoping to get my PGP keys signed by a known and registered debian
developer in the NYC area so as to comply with the Debian Developer's
Reference Section 1.2.
I'm located in Manhattan; specifically on the Lower East Side.
Any takers? Please reply to me offline. Thanks.
...A. P.
any news on libc6 2.0.6? an ETA, perhaps?
David Engel posted a week or so ago saying he's packaged it, and gave
a URL. I went and got it, and have been running it since with no
apparent problems.
Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: glibc
Version: 2.0.6-0.2
I'm not
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