On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:25:38PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
* Ryan Murray said:
to work, although I have no idea how Linux would react to having to
having
multiple devpts filesystems mounted at once. Probably best to try and
see :)
Both proc and devpts are mounted.
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:50:35AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
I'm trying to use GPG for signing my debian packages...
I've successfully created my new GPG secret key, and when I list my
keys and signatures, I get:
% gpg -v --list-sig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gpg: Warning: using
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:45:23PM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
Is it possible to use a key created by pgp5 for package signing ? The
key works for me when I use it with gpg, both the opposite is not true
(e.g. pgp5 is unable to verify a signature created with a gpg key). I am
no maintainer
Hello!
I have a package to test for security, license, and debian rules.
How to upload?
Do I have to change control file?
I think It must be put in project/test but how, just uploading it to
there?
--
bye
Carlos Barros.
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:08:59PM -0700, A.J. Rossini wrote:
Just for the record, some of us use CATI to get information from
subjects (voluntary participation) who can not come to a research site
for various reasons .
i have no problem at all with voluntary participation in surveys or
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
Is it possible to use a key created by pgp5 for package signing ? The
key works for me when I use it with gpg, both the opposite is not true
(e.g. pgp5 is unable to verify a signature created with a gpg key). I am
no maintainer yet and so I want to
My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato) produced
the following odd output:
Setting up tk8.2 (8.2.0-3) ...
Checking available versions of wish, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
(You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
Leaving wish
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
Thomas Schoepf wrote:
Have you tried Ben's getbugs.pl? Is it good enough?
I looked at it briefly, but it seemsed very slow. wget is easier.
I get:
Error: IO::Socket::INET: Connection refused
(use --help for usage)
... any comments? Ben? (I am most
Title: Linux Developer
Job Description:
Develop and maintain Debian packages related to our
solution within the standard Debian distribution as well as on our
opensource site (http://opensource.captech.com) as well as on our private
archives. Deploy and configure Debian/Linux systems. Setup and
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:36:58PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
Thomas Schoepf wrote:
Have you tried Ben's getbugs.pl? Is it good enough?
I looked at it briefly, but it seemsed very slow. wget is easier.
I get:
Error: IO::Socket::INET:
I'm not sure if this has been discussed extensively before on
debian-devel, but a quick search of the mailing list archives didn't
turn up anything, so here goes:
The output format of dpkg -l is terrible. Many package names exceed
the measly 16 characters allotted. Many, many times when trying
Hi,
Fri, 01 Oct 1999 19:16:37 +0900, Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
ITP: actx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
kmuto I intent to upload package actx.
kmuto actx is pretty mascot program for X Window System, it will catch
kmuto your heart. :-)
kmuto Copyright: GPL
Firstly I say, I'm not real
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
I usually use apt to fetch via ftp, but pointing it at a source archive
should do the same thing. Are you using it as a dselect backend, or are
you doing something else entirely?
I'm using it via dselect. I'll have to try that once more to be sure
At 00:57 1999.10.04 +0100, you wrote:
Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can they put limitations on your piece off work, I do not understand, do
they have a patent on wad files (I do not think so).
I don't think so either but they act like they had. IIRC, the deal
was : OK, we'll let
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 12:44:10AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
I'm not sure if this has been discussed extensively before on
debian-devel, but a quick search of the mailing list archives didn't
turn up anything, so here goes:
There are open bugs against dpkg on this, IIRC.
I have
to grep
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:31:35AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Simple:
grep-status -Pe '.*netscape.*' | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \
'install ok installed' | xargs dpkg --purge
Or simpler:
grep-status -P netscape | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \
'install ok installed' |
On Monday 4 October 1999, at 20 h 44, the keyboard of
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Staffan_H=E4m=E4l=E4?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the
potato release.
As explained, almost nobody installed potato. They installed slink (may be
only the base
On Monday 4 October 1999, at 21 h 8, the keyboard of Carlos Barros
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a package to test for security, license, and debian rules.
How to upload?
Did you read the documentations http://www.debian.org/devel/ and specially
Debian Developer's Reference?
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:58:06AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Or simpler:
grep-status -P netscape | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \
'install ok installed' | xargs dpkg --purge
Or simpler, and closer to the original intent:
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'netscape' |
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
[posted this to -mentors 40 hours ago without an answer, so
perhaps I'll try -devel instead]
I recently uploaded i386 packages that were build on a slink system
upgraded to potato's libc6 and C compilers (everything else is
slink). These
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a general rule, as long as you can run the result in potato without
using oldlibs packages, it should be fine. [ Personal note: Most of the
packages I maintain depend on libc6 and nothing more. For this reason I
have not upgraded to potato yet. This
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:00:46AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
So how many other developers are not using unstable?
Perhaps this should be taken up on another list, if you expect input
from more than a few people.
For what it's worth, I'm using a slink system with potato in my
apt/sources.list,
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:00:46AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a general rule, as long as you can run the result in potato without
using oldlibs packages, it should be fine. [ Personal note: Most of the
packages I maintain depend on libc6 and nothing
Could I clarify some stuff please?
Are we proposing that all mime-types have binfmt_misc setup? Does that mean,
the kernel will be able to `run' any file in mailcap? Is that what we really
want?
Daniel Burrows proposed that only certain entries would get executed,
He suggested that it would be
Joseph Carter wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:45:23PM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
Is it possible to use a key created by pgp5 for package signing ? The
key works for me when I use it with gpg, both the opposite is not true
(e.g. pgp5 is unable to verify a signature created with a gpg
Some more questions. Is it possible to recognise an html file by a couple of
magic numbers at the beginning? Most html starts html or HTML, but it is
not certian that it will look like this. Another thought is the possiblilty
of
running perl scripts without the bang path, but then how would
I intend to package qsstv. This is a slow scan television
receiver and transmitter using your sound card. Needs some minor
bug fixes in the qt1g package and some license clarification before it
can be uploaded.
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
* Ryan Murray said:
Have you tried actually mounting them in the chroot jail and then having
yes.
symbolic links to them from the real root? That way there is only one
proc,pts directory ever mounted...
You cannot symlink over a pseudo-root. It must all be below it.
You are
* Mikolaj J. Habryn said:
MH == Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MH Both proc and devpts are mounted. Doesn't matter whether I
MH mount them beforehand or whether a wrapper script does it
MH after chrooting - the same message appears. I suspected that
MH the devpts
Hello world,
I'm experimenting with a script to work out whether packages are
installable or not. I figured the world at large might be interested in
some of the results.
The following packages are not installable (ie, their Depends:,
Recommends:, and Conflicts: can't be concurrently satisfied)
Hi,
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Colin Walters wrote:
The output format of dpkg -l is terrible. Many package names exceed
the measly 16 characters allotted. Many, many times when trying to
remove packages that have long strings of dependencies, I have
to grep /var/lib/dpkg/status, and remove things
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:45:34AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
Note that this last is equivalent to:
grep-status -P netscape | awk '/^Package: /{print $2}' | xargs dpkg
--purge
which is better written as
grep-status -P -sPackage -n netscape
since this does not use an extra awk
HI,
due to absolute missing of dial up abilities (I don't even have a fixed
line any more :-) I have to orphane two of my packages:
dip - I'm crying in orphaning this, as I was putting a lot of care.
It's the tool to handle SLIP/PPP connection (both sides), and it
was the only one
On the German Debian list [EMAIL PROTECTED], an announcement of the
German Linux magazin was posted, that there is some space for Debian (and
other free projects like apache, kde, and gimp) reserved at Systems'99 in
Munich.
A computer (Athlon 500 oder PII/400), a 17 inch Monitor and Internet
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:13:51PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote:
Hello world,
I'm experimenting with a script to work out whether packages are
installable or not. I figured the world at large might be interested in
some of the results.
The following packages are not installable (ie, their
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a parallel problem to this thread: I have gpm installed for those times
when I am doing a lot of console work, but generally I don't run it because
it interferes with Quake II, among other things. So I did an:
update-rc.d -f gpm remove
I
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:50:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
This is getting a bit off the original thread...
Just a little ;)
IMHO, any magic type of database, is a hacked solution.
As long as the maguc type is based on the content of the file, it works
rather well. As we don't need a full
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:39:00PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
Agreed. I would always be reluctant to make all my documents executable
in order to get this to work...
This is indeed a bit ugly, but then, it's just a bit ;)
These are questions I can't answer. I seriously doubt the kernel will be
Santiago Vila wrote:
I wrote
I recently uploaded i386 packages that were build on a slink system
upgraded to potato's libc6 and C compilers (everything else is
slink). These packages (xcolmix and xplot) have this depends
line:
Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), libforms0.88, xlib6g (=
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 12:39:50PM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
Is it possible to use a key created by pgp5 for package signing ? The
key works for me when I use it with gpg, both the opposite is not true
(e.g. pgp5 is unable to verify a signature created with a gpg key). I am
no
Actually, deep down this is more a RFP, but I'm willing to do it
myself to see it happen. :-) I need this library to package the
Quasimodo modular, extensible, real-time audio/MIDI Environment for
POSIX-ish Operating Systems.
About:
This library implements a full callback system for use in
Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho:
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:45:34AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
grep-status -P netscape | awk '/^Package: /{print $2}' | xargs dpkg
--purge
which is better written as
grep-status -P -sPackage -n netscape
since this does not use an extra awk process.
On Oct 02, Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The patent makes it non-free, so does the new license.
Really? In my country RSA is not patented, why should I care about what
happens in someone else country?
--
ciao,
Marco
On Oct 02, Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MUA: mutt
This is not the default, the only two mail clients with standard priority are
mailx and elm++, do we recommend people run them?
I think mutt should have standard priority, nowadays is used by *many*
people and for new users is MUCH
As you may know, I have been working on a script to build selected subsets
of the distribution from source, to be used for constructing single CD
releases of ED (Essential Debian).
With the correction of my faulty grep|awk filter I have been able to build
more complex lists of packages (and can
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:00:38AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Oct 02, Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MUA: mutt
This is not the default, the only two mail clients with standard priority
are
mailx and elm++, do we recommend people run them?
I think mutt should have standard
Marco d'Itri wrote:
vi: vim
I am not arguring this should be the recommended editor, just the
recommended
version of vi. I do not think that any package should be the recommended
I agree... Why does it have a lower priority in alternatives than nvi?
Just so that the 'Standard'
My son just moved to Colorado Springs (booo! not that there is anything
wrong with Colorado Springs except the distance ;-( and while, over the
past several years, I have had no luck in getting him interested in Linux,
since he has moved, he has expressed an interest in learning to build
programs
I haven't been able to keep up with failed builds for the sparc buildd
daemon. So I'm asking for help (from maintainers and users alike) with
checking the logs and finding solutions (some are fairly simple, just
let me know). If you need access to a sparc for testing, all developers
have access to
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
These two lines should be run after you update your /etc/apt/source.list to
point to unstable.
Dave Bristel
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Staffan Hämälä wrote:
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 20:44:48
Previously Daniel Burrows wrote:
My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato) produced
the following odd output:
What version of dpkg do you have?
Wichert.
--
==
This combination of bytes
Hi All,
As you all probably know, ALS is from Oct. 12 - 16 at Atlanta. I am having
trouble running any kernel above 2.2.5 on my machine. If anyone is coming and
would want to help me with this problem, I would appreciate it. I can bring my
machine to the ALS hall.
Regards,
Vaidhy
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The second nit has to do with the way that dpkg assigns permissions to the
package files it creates. I'm not certain why, but I sort of expected the
files to be 664, not the 644 that it produces. If group projects are to be
managable, shouldn't members
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:21:26AM +, Andre Majorel wrote:
- should their contract be enforced on the tools ?
- if so, would that prevent them from going in the main section ?
Note the collections of wads on CD for $15 or so... I have one such CD.
The point is that you couldn't take the
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:13:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Packages with unknown dependencies:
clanlib0-display-fbdev-dev
clanlib0-display-ggi-dev
clanlib0-display-glx
clanlib0-display-glx-dev
clanlib0-display-svgalib-dev
clanlib0-display-x11-dev
I'd like to give away gradio and troffcvt to someone who is
interested in maintaining them. I am willing to maintain them
both indefinitely, but I do not use them any longer, so they
aren't really anything I'm excited about.
Neither one has any reported bugs. They have not yet been
converted to
Ciao *,
I state my complete lack of interest for tkstep, in both its
4.2 and 8.0 incarnations. 4.2 is now obsolete (as tk 4.2 is) and 8.0
is not kept updated by its upstream author. I use very few tk programs
myself, so i'd like to find someone to give these packages to. IMHO
both
On 05-Oct-99 Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote:
Hi All,
As you all probably know, ALS is from Oct. 12 - 16 at Atlanta. I am having
trouble running any kernel above 2.2.5 on my machine. If anyone is coming and
would want to help me with this problem, I would appreciate it. I can bring
my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes:
gradio is a simple program suitable for a newbie maintainer,
though I suppose we don't have any newbie maintainers given that
we don't have any new maintainers.
Even though I am not a newbie maintainer, I am willing to take this
package, if noone else
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud de Rooij) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes:
gradio is a simple program suitable for a newbie maintainer,
though I suppose we don't have any newbie maintainers given that
we don't have any new maintainers.
Even though I am not a newbie maintainer, I
From: Ryuichi Arafune [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WHEN do you upload to grep and sed with multi-byte extension?
If you left them not supported multi-byte, Japanese users will not be
happy to use debian. There is not enough time to release potato. If
you cannot upload grep and sed with
I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no tomorrow. I have a
dual-330, 256m ram, 384m swap. Update-menus calls install-menu, and I saw
that eating 280m of memory.
root 19580 21.6 83.3 282784 215152 pts/8 R15:51 0:13 install-menu
/etc/menu-methods//enlightenment-nosound
... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community
pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in
Atlanta? Or who wants to planepool with the Novare team from Dallas?
netgod
mwr Oh, and my /proc/kcore is over 50MB -- can I remove it and
On 05-Oct-99 Johnie Ingram wrote:
... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community
pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in
Atlanta? Or who wants to planepool with the Novare team from Dallas?
Joey Hess and myself are going. We have one
Adam == Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no
Adam tomorrow.
[...]
Adam Cease and desist at all costs.
Adam I have just been informed on irc that a fixed menu is in
Adam incoming. So, it should all be fixed
If you can't find a place, you are welcome to stay at mine.I got space for
threeif you can sleep in couch, more if you can sleep in a sleeping bag :)
Regards,
Vaidhy
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote:
... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503,
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 11:28:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Setting up tk8.2 (8.2.0-3) ...
Checking available versions of wish, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
(You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
Leaving wish (/usr/bin/wish) pointing to
Richard Kaszeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Martin Schulze writes (Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?):
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.
Good
Raul Miller wrote:
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:00:46AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
So how many other developers are not using unstable?
Perhaps this should be taken up on another list, if you expect input
from more than a few people.
A list other than debian-devel? A list with a charter of
MoiN
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:27:51PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
AFAIK, there is currently no way of `registering' update-rc.d
commands such that they are repested after an upgrade.
No, but you can move the S* links to K* links. This settings would be
preserved by update-rc.d because it
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