After today's potato update my computer no longer knows about localhost.
Is this a known bug in some package or do I just need to reconfigure
something ?
Anyone else has similar problem ?
Sergey.
Well, if we paid, maybe we could get space in a somewhat more populated area of
the show, hence more publicity. If we can get around 3000 SETS of CDs(maybe
potato if it's out by the next LinuxWorld), and make a display of the release,
then it would definately help.
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:44:08AM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote:
Tyger Sunshine-Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If we don't, what is the point of pouring so much work into making
such a useful and _flexible_ distribution?
Well, everyone has their own answer to that, but I'm satisfied that
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:26:00AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Besides, any advantage in a nice OO design is lost by implementing it in C++!
There is no need to do it in C++. My whole point is that I think an OO
methodology would work well in this case simply due to the maintainability
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Lawrence Walton wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:00:04PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
After today's potato update my computer no longer knows about localhost.
Is this a known bug in some package or do I just need to reconfigure
something ?
Anyone else has
And thus spake Daniel James Patterson, on Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:30:31AM +1000:
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:26:00AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Besides, any advantage in a nice OO design is lost by implementing it in
C++!
There is no need to do it in C++. My whole point is that I
i'm finding that the spamdb is of little use these days, as most MTAs
today have built-in support for RBL, the DUL RBLs, rejecting mail from
unknown domains, and postfix even has regexp header checking now.
i had intended to rewrite the package properly in perl - i've always
considered the
John == John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John A couple of salaried positions would be nice. Full
John time PR staff, ...
Now *that* is something I could see value in.
--
Stephen
---
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Branden Robinson wrote:
There is apparently an egcs optimization bug that miscompiles a few object
files that are included in the X libraries.
Could you just compile those object files with optimization off?
Alternatively, if egcs 2.95 is out and packaged before I release -5
(probably next
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:33:24AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I'm surprised by this attitude; you seem to be suggesting that others
should not attempt a replacement, as yours already has Wichert's blessing.
You are completely incorrect. This is not mine, it is involves
Wichert as one of the
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 10:53:19AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 07:51:31PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
Also, I am not sure it is useful to distinguish between
use-restricted and patent-restricted, given that the consequences
would be the same.
the reason i
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
Market share and World domination are not goals I strive to
achieve.
Market share, no. But world domination? C'mon, admit it would be fun
to have the downtrodden of the world grovelling at your feet. Dogbert
has the
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:20:20AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
Argo-UML. It's a UML design tool, designed to export Java; however, its
nature makes it useful for any (distributed or otherwise) OO design project.
I don't have a URL with me.
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so that
it's easy to pick these babies out.
When this idea was tossed around for the first time (around Sep 1998) we
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
we're not here to get 100% market share, or 50% or even 20%. we're here
to make the best system we can and share it amongst ourselves and with
others, and also to encourage others to join in the effort.
IMO the property relations that exist
First question: If some major cash was donated to Debian, what would we
do with it? Seriously, do we have a purpose for it, or would we just
re-donate it to other projects? Sure that might look good for a story on
Slashdot, but I'm more interested in making headlines for Debian because
Marcus Brinkmann writes:
We all are blinded by dpkg. It works, yes. How long? The current
sources don't even build properly out of the box. Problems are
cropping up without people knowing how to fix them (see the bug
list). Even very simple patches and changes need months to get into
yet
BioPerl http://bio.perl.org/ is a nice set of Perl modules (not scripts,
BioPerl is useful for developers only) to deal with various biological
problems.
Debian developers will be pleased to learn that BioPerl is a cooperative and
anarchistic effort.
I subscribed to the debian-perl mailing
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 non-US
deb
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When this idea was tossed around for the first time (around Sep 1998) we
settled for profile-* packages.
I'm amenable to using 'profile-*' naming. Martin?
How about creating a new section ``profiles'' for
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:55:19 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with
apt-get?
Yes. Use
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib
non-US/non-free
Ray
--
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:55:19AM +0200, 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
This is my non-us section for apt, every now and then I use netselect to
find the best site..
Copy the 'SITE' one and edit to add more, conan.eecg.toronto.edu is good
for me as I'm in the US..
Zephaniah E. Hull.
# netselect conan.eecg.toronto.edu pandora.debian.org ftp.jp.debian.org
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:00:20AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
JM libgtop0 should be removed from the archive; it is obselete and
JM replaced by libgtop1. gnome-utils 0.99.3-1 depends on it -- but
JM gnome-utils 0.99.3-1 is also obselete, but I cannot find a
JM replacement, even though I
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 02:16:39 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
Erf, is unstable/non-US self-sufficient without stable non-US?
It works for me without an entry for stable.
Ray
--
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages,
on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new
(first question:) What do I need to do to recompile expect from the
sources? I have the following packages installed,
ii expect5.24 5.28.1-1
ii expect5.24-dev 5.28.1-1
ii tk4.2 4.2p2-7
ii tk8.0 8.0.4-2
ii tk8.0-dev 8.0.4-2
ii tcl7.6
methods are phasing out is just plainly wrong. Currently we have three
ways of booting the installation system: bootable CDs (requires a modern
BIOS), floppy disk and bootp (requires a netword card with the proper
ROM, and a bootp+tftp server on the same network). Our bootable CDs use a
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
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:26:00AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I think a good object-oriented design can be easier to follow too.
In circumstances where there is naturally some use for inheritance
it is very useful indeed. I don't see any natural inheritance in
managing packages, though.
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:38:16AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so that
it's easy to pick these babies out.
When
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
Well, I wan't to apologize to all who feel offended with my views and
ideas (whether they worth anything or nothing at all). I seems that I am
simply not capable of taking part in public discussions or I lack fluency in
Hi,
www.de.debian seems to have changed a little recently?
TCP connection to 'www.de.debian.org' failed: Broken pipe.
In the morning I got a different startup page for this server. Is this a
temporary reconfiguration? Im also having some problems with
ftp.de.debian.org
Ciao,
Christian.
GLilo is a GTK+ frontend to configure /etc/lilo.conf.
Homepage can be found on http://www.student.hig.se/~nd96pwt/glilo/glilo.htm.
--
Pedro Guerreiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your
Just FYI,
this is the response I got from swim's author. There's the URL I didn't
have in my last mail ...
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog 0C4CABF1 http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Le Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:24:08AM -0700, Aaron
I don't want to start a flame-war, so be gentle..
I was just mindlessly (in a tongue-in-cheek way) evangalising Debian on
a mailing list I'm on, and I got a private response from a SuSE user.
He had installed Debian from a CD (he didn't say which version, I'm
afraid) and 'vi fstab' to mount his
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:47:59AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
Then he had attempting to do something which would have worked in vi (he
didn't give specifics) but doesn't work in 'ae', which resulted in the
file getting mangled, and saved.
One solution would be not to try to imitate vi, or at
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:47:59AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
I was just mindlessly (in a tongue-in-cheek way) evangalising Debian on
a mailing list I'm on, and I got a private response from a SuSE user.
He had installed Debian from a CD (he didn't say which version, I'm
afraid) and 'vi fstab'
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I'll take packages:
libdbd-csv-perl
libtext-csv-perl
libsql-statement-perl
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] (current maintainer) agreed to
give me his packages.
- --
Piotr Dexter Roszatycki
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Version:
This is a loose/loose situation.
ae IS NOT vi, but can sort of simulate the more important vi commands.
However it doesn't even do that the same way, so real vi users are put
off byt the quit functionality.
The vi link was to satisfy those whose fingers can type nothing but vi.
Personally I
Hello,
I'm making a program using Linux pthread, from the glibc 2.0.7t.
There are few points that I'd like to understand more.
1) With linux Posix Thread, when a thread receive a signal (for
example a segmentation fault), do the other thread of the same program
Okay, next question would be then: Do we want to be paying for large
booths at trade shows? I agree, LinuxWorld was a _MADHOUSE_, but is it
something we want to spend donation money on? ie, do people think the
trade shows are that terribly important to us?
(I was at LinuxWorld and I
This is just a little reminder concerning PAMification of potato. I want
to urge all maintainers who's programs do any sort of authentication or
account management to seek PAM patches (or just enabling PAM if the
program already supports it). There are several ways of obtaining patches:
1) Check
Scavenging the mail folder resulted in Patrick Bertholon writing:
Hello,
I'm making a program using Linux pthread, from the glibc 2.0.7t.
There are few points that I'd like to understand more.
1) With linux Posix Thread, when a thread receive a signal (for
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:13:20AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:55:19 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with
apt-get?
Yes. Use
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib
Perhaps, but if we could get a better location, it would help a LOT, or to do
something to draw more attention, which really needs more space so people can
realize we exist. Perhaps getting 50 coppies of the Debian book to sell, with
the free CDs and more of the T-shirtsthe shirts were in
I'm going to promote Debian on some meetings at the local LUG
(www.sslug.dk). I would like to bring on some statistic about Debian
but I wonder how I find the canonical numbers of developers and
packages?
Is there som standard material for using on a booth at a LinuxShow or
is it all redone for
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No one needs to take on that job, as the BTS already reports all open bugs
twice a week to every developer.
I don't get such a report.
If this was simply a report to the list, once in a while, like the
critical bugs that need to be fixed list, there
Why don't you close the bugs?
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out.
Can the script please be disabled. There are better ways to find out bugs
you have open. Long-standing bugs are likely to be less important than
Hi,
First, I've got photos of the day at LinuxExpo. They're all either
1280x960 or 1024x768 JPEGs; by the time you read this or shortly
thereafter, they'll be up on my website at:
http://www.debian.org/~jgoerzen/lexpo-photos/
Well, yesterday was the first day at LinuxExpo. I arrived at the
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wrong. Brian White is no longer the release manager, so he has no special
privilege to send mails like this.
What special priviledge is necessary? The very fact that the bug has
been open for that long I think entitles anyone to send them out.
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes:
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On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:24:08AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
...
In particular, there are established ways of linking programs written in
any language against C based libraries. As far as I'm aware doing
Hi, All
how i suppose to manipulate routing tables in
kernel 2.2? After reading i've got the impression
that new ANK written iproute utility is way to go.
Ok, fired up dselect and installed iproute*.deb and
guess what? There is no iproute utility inside while
lots of docs talking about it.
any
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
[snip]
We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding
another Provides: to kernel images
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:33:33PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
Why don't you close the bugs?
I need a time machine :-)
Too many projects on, and I'm afraid that recently my Debian commitments
have suffered at the hands of other projects.
Adrian
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
* Marcus Brinkmann said:
ideas (whether they worth anything or nothing at all). I seems that I am
simply not capable of taking part in public discussions or I lack fluency in
English to express myself in a clear way.
Someone on IRC told me that there can't be a calm discussion about
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:35:47PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio was heard to say:
Scavenging the mail folder resulted in Patrick Bertholon writing:
Hello,
I'm making a program using Linux pthread, from the glibc 2.0.7t.
There are few points that I'd like to
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:07:25PM +0930, Ron wrote:
Hmm.. I'd have said full time QA staff. If we are gonna have hired
guns, let em blast at the bugs, then we *all* get value for our
money...
Yeah, it's probably more worth it to have hired people do the 'boring'
stuff that people are less
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a workaround, so that I can continue to use these libraries?
Write a small shared library providing _xstat and preload it.
I wrote this to do that, unfortunely it wasn't enough for my program
(a program compiled with the Portland Groups'
Hi,
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wrong. Brian White is no longer the release manager, so he has no special
privilege to send mails like this.
John What special priviledge is necessary? The very fact that the bug has
John
Hi,
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No one needs to take on that job, as the BTS already reports all open bugs
twice a week to every developer.
John I don't get such a report.
Because, unlike the nag reports, the
I've noticed that many people on this list are, of late, talking about
source-depends, but not doing anything about standardizing it... thus, a
psudo-proposal for you guys (psudo because I can't formaly propose anything;
I'm not yet a developer):
A new control-file field be added,
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 17:01:31 +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
I'm going to promote Debian on some meetings at the local LUG
(www.sslug.dk). I would like to bring on some statistic about Debian
but I wonder how I find the canonical numbers of developers and
packages?
I'm not aware of canonical
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 02:12:43PM -0400, James Mastros wrote:
So how does this all sound to you guys?
Well, it sounds like you repeated what about a dozen people have already
said. The concern is an automated way to generate the depends. The
autobuilders already use a semi-working type of this,
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:14:49PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
[snip]
We really should have a policy for things like this. How about
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fumitoshi
UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I don't know which (pseudo-)package I should submit to, so I post it
to this list.
I e-mailed this to a couple of people but got no response.
I am no longer the maintainer of this package, but no-one has yet taken
it over.
Tom Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it just me or is netscape crashing more recently? Every machine that I
have following unstable is having problems with netscape crashing, but the
machines following stable work fine.
I can only speak for myself, but I've been running Netscape (4.08, 4.5
hello debian developers,
i am new to this list. i have been following it for the past week
or so (as suggested on the debian web help page) to learn
more about how the process works and how i might be able
to contribute to debian in the future. i think you guys and gals
are doing wonderful work!
So how does this all sound to you guys?
Well, it sounds like you repeated what about a dozen people have already
said. The concern is an automated way to generate the depends. The
autobuilders already use a semi-working type of this, but it isn't perfect
and makes assumptions that can't
Maybe you could use some of the info in one of my articles on Debian
2.1 (try http://www.openresources.com), there are pointers there to some
unofficial info.
Regards
Javi
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
I'm going to promote Debian on
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 07:41:20PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
I don't know which (pseudo-)package I should submit to, so I post it
to this list.
I e-mailed this to a couple of people but got no response.
I am no longer the maintainer of this package, but no-one has yet taken
it over. Should
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:15:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo was heard to say:
OTOH, I wonder how much benefit binary diffs could really give. Since
every .deb is mostly gzip compressed data, wouldn't you often need to
retrieve the whole thing again anyway?
I believe in the thread I was
Here's what's been happening on debian-policy this week.
Amendments
Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages (#37257)
* Consensus.
* Proposed on 4 May 1999 by Ossama Othman; seconded by Marcus
Brinkmann and Marcelo
Bryan wrote:
Illo de' Illis wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:12:29AM -0700, Dean Carpenter wrote:
Now during installation, the exim preinst and postinst scripts would
source the install-response file, creating the variables with the
responses they need. At this point, it's just as
On uk.comp.os.linux, there's been a discussion of what license a
commercial company should release their program under.
I've been asked the following:
quote
Now why is allowing distributions to include your program a good thing?
/quote
I've replied with a few points, but I'd like to be able
On 21 May 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No one needs to take on that job, as the BTS already reports all open bugs
twice a week to every developer.
I don't get such a report.
Probably because you are not subscribed to the bug-report mailing list ;-)
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:07:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I was at LinuxWorld and I must say it was cool! Worth going, and even
worth the financial nightmare it created in my life that is just now
getting resolved a couple months later..)
We talked about this at the Expo last
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
someone (miquel, perhaps) made elvis-tiny a year or two back, and it fit
on the boot disk. would be nice if it could be made to fit again. elvis
isn't as good as vim, but it's much better than ae.
Better for the experts who know vi, not as good for the
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 07:12:30AM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
Perhaps, but if we could get a better location, it would help a LOT, or to do
something to draw more attention, which really needs more space so people can
realize we exist. Perhaps getting 50 coppies of the Debian book to sell,
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
someone (miquel, perhaps) made elvis-tiny a year or two back, and it fit
on the boot disk. would be nice if it could be made to fit again. elvis
isn't as good as vim, but it's much better than ae.
Better for the experts who
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:24:29PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
Similarly, zgrep '^Package:' Packages.{main,contrib,non-free,...} | wc -l
using the Packages files for the various distributions (main, contrib,
non-free, non-US/main, non-US/contrib non-US/non-free) should give a
reasonably
* Brian Almeida (Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:02:13PM -0400)
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:03AM +0200, Mail Delivery System wrote:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
Can we please block this guy?
It seems that there is a rewriting in the headers from
Return-Path:
some happy fonts for X, includes a couple of BIG fonts (bigger than
10x20) which are useful to me in resolutions higher than 800x600. GPL.
From the README:
These are character-cell fonts for use with the X Window System,
created by Jim Knoble. The current list of fonts included in this
package
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On Fri, 21 May 1999 14:57:26 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
Maybe joe or something? The standard joe package is way too big and
someone would almost certainly have to come up with a joe-tiny package or
something, but it'd at least work---compared to ae
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:34:16PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
Wrong. Brian White is no longer the release manager, so he has no special
privilege to send mails like this.
What special priviledge is necessary? The very fact that the bug has
been open for that long I think entitles anyone
JR == Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JR [master:inc]$ ~maor/dinstall/dinstall -n gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1_i386.changes
JR gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1_i386.changes
JR SKIP (too new)
JR Rejected: md5sum failed
JR md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1.dsc'
JR [master:inc]$
JR This
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:21:26PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Logrotation (#37342)
* Under discussion for 1 week.
* Proposed on 28 Apr 1999 by Balazs Scheidler; seconded by Brock
Rozen, Raphaël Hertzog, Brian Almeida, Marco d'Itri and Joseph
Carter.
* Change to using logrotate
Quoting John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
First, I've got photos of the day at LinuxExpo. They're all either
1280x960 or 1024x768 JPEGs; by the time you read this or shortly
thereafter, they'll be up on my website at:
http://www.debian.org/~jgoerzen/lexpo-photos/
Oh my gawd..that
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