Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jon Eisenstein wrote: I'm now having problems with dpkg complaining about Available: and Size: fields from my /var/lib/dpkg/status. Should I just get rid of them? Or, as I asked before, is there a way to regenerate my status file so it complies? Interestingly, I tried to

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:21:58PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) And alias quit to exit. :) -d, who now uses dig -- Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-02 Thread Itai Zukerman
Again, could: http://bugs.debian.org/95981 have anything to do with this? -itai

Re: chroot bind?

2001-05-02 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:25:14PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Because it is a non-standard /var directory, I thought it would be helpful to name it after the package it belonged to. Just a follow up on this. Haven't spent much time on the actual package as its seems quite straight to do

architecture tags for BTS?

2001-05-02 Thread Colin Walters
Just a random idea: So now that the BTS has these tag things, I think it would be cool if there were tags for the various architectures. People often say [powerpc] or [alpha] or [hurd] in the subject, but tags could probably help porters more, especially if there was a way to search for all bugs

Re: $BL4$N@$3$X!!(B

2001-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
$B!z!z!z!z!z!z!z!!(BJust in Mail $B!z!z!z!z!z!z!z(B $BpJsDs6!4k6HL(B : G-Spot.com Is someone taking care of trying to avoid this kind of spam. For example, by filling reports about open-relays to orbs.org ? W.

How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, (B (BAt Wed, 02 May 2001 01:38:36 -0400, (BWolfgang Sourdeau wrote: (B (B $B!z!z!z!z!z!z!z!!(BJust in Mail $B!z!z!z!z!z!z!z(B (B $B>pJsDs6!4k6HL>(B : G-Spot.com (B (B Is someone taking care of trying to avoid this kind of spam. For (B example, by filling reports about

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Kenshi Muto
At Wed, 02 May 2001 02:39:40 -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: Do you have the ability to send me the entire header of their message? I would like to check this and I have deleted the original message... Here it is. FYI, `plala' is one of major ISP (also means contain many bad guys) in Japan.

Re: chroot bind?

2001-05-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:52:23PM +1200, Nicholas Lee wrote: Note though that in the mailing list there has been a little dis-content about /svr vs /var, etc etc. So it might not finalise for 2.2. Anyway, given the wording of FHS 2.2 S3.17 I figure /svr/domain would be a FHS-complinate

Re: imp broken in unstable?

2001-05-02 Thread Petr Cech
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:09:06AM +1000 , Brian May wrote: Hello, Recently, not long after I upgraded imp and horde to unstable, it broke :-( Now whenever I try to use it I can compilation warnings like this: Warning: This compilation does not support pg_cmdtuples() in

Re: RFC: English translation list

2001-05-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:20:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: English is Debian's de-facto language -- all of our developers have at least some proficiency it it, and all are required to create English documents, such as package descriptions, man pages, debconf templates, README.Debian files, and

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Here it is. thanks FYI, `plala' is one of major ISP (also means contain many bad guys) in Japan. -- Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from master.debian.org (master.debian.org [216.234.231.5]) by

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:27, Brian May wrote: Matt == Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs Matt from source packages and insert them into a SQL database. Matt My original intention was to allow apt-listchanges

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
reopen 95975 thanks Package: mutt Version: 1.3.15-2 Since upgrading to testing, mutt refuses to display iso-8859-1 high-bit characters such as u-umlaut (ΓΌ). Instead, \374 is displayed. :set charset shows charset=iso-8859-1; the message's Content-Type is: Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, 1 May 2001, David Whedon wrote: ... In that case it would be that fact that perl-base is 'priority required' that allows you to avoid a dependancy on perl rather than the fact that you are using ... It's not the 'priority required' but the Essential: yes of perl-base that makes sure

SGI's xfs

2001-05-02 Thread Matthias Berse
Hi, Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in debian? Are there kernel patches available and/or userspace tools being packaged? Since yesterday xfs 1.0 for linux is out and under gpl see http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010501/sftu043.html Thanks, Matthias --

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more importantly (to me anyways) is the question of why do we ship an ash that is completely different from the one the netbsd (upstream) and RH (another packager). Perhaps because we need a POSIX compliant shell? There are only two reasons that a

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Matthias Berse wrote: Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in debian? Are there kernel patches available and/or userspace tools being packaged? The userspace tools have been in unstable for a while already actually. Wichert. --

ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Chris Waters
Just wanted to let people know that I'm going to hijack the pilot-manager package. The current maintainer seems to be completely MIA; he hasn't uploaded a version in over a year. I emailed him and got no response. I use the package, and I did the most recent NMU. I'm cc'ing him this message --

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp or Content-Type: .* charset=euc-jp in header. All of Japanese who want meaningful discussions use the English language (Content-Type:

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
Roland Bauerschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does this allow you to remove a task package in an intuitive way? That is what this discussion was about. I am not exactly sure if debfoster does exactly this (at least it does similar), but this is what would call the perfect solution: %

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
close 95975 thanks On May 02, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I should now set en environment variable to get mutt working the way it used to, which was a reasonable mode of operation. IMHO that's in violation of policy section 10.9: A program must not depend on

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-05-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: The upstream developers are not friendly to non-portable features; I might be able to get it added under a config option. Thought so. My selling point is that this feature is completely optional: if it is compiled in, you're allowed to use a new authtype

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:09:46PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Perhaps because we need a POSIX compliant shell? There are only two reasons that a change goes into ash. It's either for standard-compliance or optimisation. If you wish to make a version of ash which is minimally-compliant it

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-05-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:38:38PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Anyway, I would like to have an smp kernel readily available in Debian. Mandrake for example installs the SMP kernel by default if the target machine is a smp box. If another kernel-image is needed to support that I can life

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager Linux for Pilot

2001-05-02 Thread Gabor Zoltan Csejtey
Hi, There's not so much activity on this list. Is there a Debian or other Linux for the Palm pilot? Gabor

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Chris Waters wrote: Just wanted to let people know that I'm going to hijack the pilot-manager package. The current maintainer seems to be completely MIA; he hasn't uploaded a version in over a year. I emailed him and He seems to be MIA: How often did you try to contact

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-02 Thread Ilya Martynov
AM Hallo! AM I was recently told in german usenet [EMAIL PROTECTED] AM that FreeBSD used this kind of approach, its package managment (iirc AM ports) remembered whether a package was requested directly or pulled in AM by dependencies. I hear about that first time. I think it is not true. FreeBSD

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? +55v

2001-05-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Alvin.. have you really been following this thread at all? On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:43:57PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: and if the power supply to the disk dies... than you're out of luck or if the powersupply tot eh motherboard dies... you'd be out of luck too So what? It's

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:09:46PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: There are only two reasons that a change goes into ash. It's either for standard-compliance or optimisation. If you wish to make a version of ash which is minimally-compliant it would probably

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote: Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although I'm not proposing a particular format): From my point of view, such information would ideally be: o not

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 02 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: close 95975 I disagree about whether the bug is closed, as you forget to notice parts of my message. However, I don't feel like petty BTS games (*) On May 02, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I should now set en environment variable to get

Re: Gnome bug 94684

2001-05-02 Thread Petr Cech
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:29:27AM -0500 , Steve Langasek wrote: On 27 Apr 2001, Christian Marillat wrote: *You* are a serious problem. If you don't want to change your configuration each time you did a apt-get upgrade, then install potato. testing/unstable is for real men (tm).

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:00:03PM +0900, Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have a little drastic idea. I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp or Content-Type: .* charset=euc-jp in header. All of

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 01 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Apr 28, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, but who have choose that nslookup is deprecated in favour of the other two tools ? The people who wrote BIND and developed a very large part of the DNS infrastructure, the group of people

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:27:56PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 01 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: nslookup is broken, please let it die its long-deserved death. What's broken about it, apart from the brokenness that's in the current version about the verbose warnings and missing

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 2.05.01 um 12:36:45 schrieb Adrian Bunk: Martin usually marks packages of MIA maintainers as orphaned. I think it's better if a few persons take care of this instead of many more people sending ITHs. Though I'm not absolutely sure about his criteria. Mailing the previous maintainer once or

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010502 13:52]: Though I'm not absolutely sure about his criteria. Mailing the previous maintainer once or twice should be part of the process; this makes it quite a lot of work and bookkeeping. ... and that's exactly why I've created mia-history

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2.05.01 um 12:36:45 schrieb Adrian Bunk: Martin usually marks packages of MIA maintainers as orphaned. I think it's better if a few persons take care of this instead of many more people sending ITHs. Though I'm not absolutely sure about his criteria.

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-02 Thread Jon Eisenstein
Again, could: http://bugs.debian.org/95981 have anything to do with this? It likely does, but I am unable to recompile dpkg as I can't install gettext.

g++-3.0 question

2001-05-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm not a C++ hacker, and would appreciate any help on this. In preparation for g++-3.0, I setup a Debian unstable chroot tree on a friend's Red Hat system. He is upstream for the `gri' package. It currently doesn't build on g++-3.0, and he wanted to port the code. He is stuck on a problem:

Re: g++-3.0 question

2001-05-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Peter S Galbraith | : Any advice on how to change the code? He's bitten by the namespaces thing. Adding std:: in front of vector might fix it. Or 'using namespace std;' -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Wed, 02 May 2001 15:00:03 +0900, Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a little drastic idea. I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp or Content-Type: .* charset=euc-jp in header. All of Japanese who want

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 2.05.01 um 22:46:46 schrieb Tomohiro KUBOTA: Do you think inhibiting all non-ASCII (including ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1) is too strict? Oops. That would block my mail because of my signature. I'd say let all of Latin-* through, it will just cause a few `?' on the readers side. You might

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Roland Mas
Michael Piefel (2001-05-02 15:58:27 +0200) : Am 2.05.01 um 22:46:46 schrieb Tomohiro KUBOTA: Do you think inhibiting all non-ASCII (including ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1) is too strict? Oops. That would block my mail because of my signature. I'd say let all of Latin-* through, it will just

dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Rob Browning
Are there any other docs than the manpage. I think I may have misinterpreted them (some elaboration there would be helpful). What's the proper usage of dpkg-statoverride? lintian told me that I should kill off emacs20's usage of suidregister in favor of dpkg-statoverride, so I presumed that

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e. djbdns? you really mean it? *brrzzzap* Suprise, you're dead. [1] EOT anyone? [2] Regards, Alexander [1] I happen to like that song... [2] Mutt has scoring abilities, right? djb sux,

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Rob Browning wrote: I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid mail. So which interpretation is correct? Neither :). The reason you always had to call suidregister was that that was also the

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 2 May 2001 06:57:50 -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: ... and that's exactly why I've created mia-history (pandora:/org/qa.debian.org/mia) 79 summary files... Hmh. Regards, Alexander -- UNIX is easy to use. UNIX is not necessarily easy to learn. Learn the difference. Alexander Koch - -

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Kenshi Muto
At 02 May 2001 16:10:35 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: Michael Piefel (2001-05-02 15:58:27 +0200) : Am 2.05.01 um 22:46:46 schrieb Tomohiro KUBOTA: Do you think inhibiting all non-ASCII (including ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1) is too strict? Oops. That would block my mail because of my

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: At Wed, 02 May 2001 15:00:03 +0900, Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a little drastic idea. I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp or Content-Type: .*

Runlevel for powersaving

2001-05-02 Thread pzycrow
I have a suggestion, Why not define Runlevel 35 as Powersaving mode console/powersaving mode graphics and put some laptop specific services in those runlevels. As I have done now I run mobile_update, hdparm, toshset, apmd, apm-sleep, noflushd in those runlevels, and kill other services like

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: The upstream developers are not friendly to non-portable features; I might be able to get it added under a config option. Thought so. My selling point is that this feature is completely optional: if it is compiled in, you're allowed to use a new authtype peer

Re: RFC: English translation list

2001-05-02 Thread David Whedon
Absolutely seconded. I have, for example, create a GRUB Howto in French, simply because it sounds to me stupid to try to write an original text that is not the best I can make (I don't say it's good, I just say it is better in the native language). I'd like to see the list as well. By the

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 02-May-01, 09:37 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously Rob Browning wrote: I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid mail. So which interpretation is correct? Neither :). The

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-05-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Nils Rennebarth | Instead of creating lots of different kernel-image packages what about | a package that can create a kernel-image from source and gives you a list of | some more or less generic kernel to choose from? Abusing debconf, since it is such a nice interface. ;) I'd prefer if

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-02 Thread Adam Heath
dpkg 1.9.4 is in incoming.

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

2001-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Steve Greenland wrote: Okay, now *I'm* confused. If dpkg is getting the default permissions from the package itself, doesn't that imply that Rob needs to ship the file properly sgid mail? He needs to ship it with whatever should be the default. Only if the default has to be changed

Re: RFC: English translation list

2001-05-02 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 2 May 2001 09:17:22 +0200 Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:20:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Absolutely seconded. I have, for example, create a GRUB Howto in French, simply because it sounds to me stupid to try to write an original text that is not

A second g++-3.0 question

2001-05-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The following (template instantiations), lines 48 and 49 of a file (which attached in full) template void reverse(std::vectordouble::iterator, std::vectordouble::iterator); template void sort(std::vectordouble::iterator, std::vectordouble::iterator compile in g++ 2.96, but they fail in g++ 3.0,

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-02 Thread Ed Boraas
Previously Matthias Berse wrote: Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in debian? Are there kernel patches available and/or userspace tools being packaged? The userspace tools have been in unstable for a while already actually. And the kernel patches are in

Re: problems with atari800

2001-05-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
Thanks to all for the fine pointers. I'm still unable to obtain any ROMs for the emulator. I guess I could ask on debian-user, and see if anyone has some copies they'd be willing to share. Anyone have any idea what the chances are of getting Atari to release some of this stuff into the public

Re: Runlevel for powersaving

2001-05-02 Thread Arthur Korn
Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have a suggestion, Why not define Runlevel 35 as Powersaving mode console/powersaving mode graphics and put some laptop specific services in those runlevels. I did a very similar thing on my notebook as well, it's really nice, but using apmd events for this

Re: Runlevel for powersaving

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Arthur Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at apmd(8), it seems change power would fit, but unfortunately it doesn't tell you wheter AC was plugged in or out. Your script could query `apm | grep on-line` or something. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! According

Re: problems with atari800

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:40:24PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: Anyone have any idea what the chances are of getting Atari to release some of this stuff into the public domain? It'd be Hasbro now, and from what I've heard, not great. Still might be worth a try. -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: A second g++-3.0 question

2001-05-02 Thread David A. Greene
Peter S Galbraith wrote: The following (template instantiations), lines 48 and 49 of a file (which attached in full) template.cc:48: non-template used as template template.cc:49: non-template used as template #include stdio.h

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

2001-05-02 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Wed, 02 May 2001 15:00:03 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: Is someone taking care of trying to avoid this kind of spam. For example, by filling reports about open-relays to orbs.org ? Maybe their ISP is not open-relay site, so it is impossible to block SPAM by orbs. I have a little drastic

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 02, Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e. djbdns? you really mean it? Actually this is one of the few things about which DJB is right. -- ciao, Marco

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 02, Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That looks like a requirement to remove a few lines of code, rather than to retire the whole program. So what else is wrong with it? The fact it hides important debugging information should be enough, but if you need other arguments please

ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-02 Thread Radovan Garabik
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server written in python. I am the author, package is already ready and being duploaded. License: GPL, with the addition: It can be linked with whatever you want, without any restrictions. (so that I can have a module in C there..

ITP: protux -- ProTools-like Digital Audio Workstation

2001-05-02 Thread ericvb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist a Digital Audio Workstation serving as a replacement for commercial ProTools-like programs. Licence is GPL. http://protux.sourceforge.net -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: ... - even if you had 2 power supplies... - most motherboards only has one atx power connector True. And if you went for redundant PS's and a mobo that supports

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server written in python. I am the author, package is already ready and being duploaded. Cool. The description will mention the differences between it and

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:30:21PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e. djbdns? you really mean it? yes. *brrzzzap* [2] Mutt has scoring abilities, right? djb sux, so... thanks for

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What makes you reacting so blind and childish? This is not the topic of this thread, just notice that there are debian people running djbdns - relaxed, bind-free. Not having real djbdns (+co) packages in debian is a pity.

rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread ericvb
11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using pigeons. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It would be nice to make a debian-package of it. Anyone interested drop me a line. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL

RE: rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-May-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using pigeons. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It would be nice to make a debian-package of it. Anyone interested

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Clint Adams
Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) It isn't readline, but check out the nslookup function that comes with zsh.

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-02 Thread David Starner
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David Starner wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server written in python. I am the author, package is already ready and being

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: Closed-source software is even more of a pity. DJB's license (or lack there of) makes it impossible to distribute binaries that aren't compiled by DJB himself. i certainly hope you speak out of ignorance, i would hate to think that

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: ... Every production server that I've seen that has 2 PSUs has both continuously running. At hopefully 50% capacity. Interesting. Could you post the list of brand names/vendors so that we'll know what not to buy. ... Of

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-02 Thread Harald Dunkel
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Is it possible to keep an eye upon package consistency on the hosts 'http.us.debian.org'? Each time I run 'apt-get update', some of the package lists on my machine seem to be outdated, even if the

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Shutko
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: Closed-source software is even more of a pity. DJB's license (or lack there of) makes it impossible to distribute binaries that aren't compiled by DJB himself. i certainly hope

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What makes you reacting so blind and childish? This is not the topic of this thread, just notice that there are debian people running djbdns - relaxed, bind-free. Not

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using pigeons. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It's just been done; see the latest issue of the Jargon file, Appendix A.

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Steve Greenland wrote: On 01-May-01, 12:50 (CDT), Vince Mulhollon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/01/2001 12:40:24 PM roland wrote: Vince Mulhollon wrote: From my poor memory, the generally agreed best idea is to setup two packages, vaguely like this:

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:33:27PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. But is it possible to set some kind of flag to indicate that I am

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:36:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2001, Chris Waters wrote: Just wanted to let people know that I'm going to hijack the pilot-manager package. The current maintainer seems to be completely MIA; he hasn't uploaded a version in over a year. I

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What makes you reacting so blind and childish? This is not the topic of this thread, just notice that

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:37:33PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may distribute a precompiled package if o installing your package produces exactly the same files, in exactly the same locations, that a user would obtain by

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:50:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using pigeons. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It would be nice to make a

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Just wanted to let people know that I'm going to hijack the pilot-manager package. The current maintainer seems to be completely MIA; he hasn't uploaded a version in over a year. I emailed him and Feel free to adopt the pilot-manager package... Darren -- [EMAIL

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of Jacob Kuntz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Closed may have been the wrong word. Non-free would have been more accurate. You can study DJB's code all you want, but not your own binaries ^

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using pigeons. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It's

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-) Hmm..Depends: pigeons (= 200lb) Why? We do not have 'Depends: CAT5 ( 30m)'.

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:52:04PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: Not having real djbdns (+co) packages in debian is a pity. As the maintainer of the djbdns-installer package, I feel obliged to mention that there are quite a few people using this package and they are quite happy with it. It requires

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Jacob Kuntz
from the secret journal of John H. Robinson, IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it says ``that a user would obtain by installing''SO this means: on (say) a Debian 2.1 system, if a user were to get the tarbal, and compile it against the default libs, as per the instructions, and install as per the

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Shutko
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it says ``that a user would obtain by installing'' Sorry, I thought he was referring to binary packages above. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Well, Jim, I'm not much of an actor either.

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-02 Thread PiotR
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:42:04PM +0200, PiotR wrote: If you short circuit both PS's outputs then the voltage is the same and there won't be any reverse current, neither in the data cables. So te load will be distributed

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:56:28PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Closed may have been the wrong word. Non-free would have been more accurate. You can study DJB's code all you want, but not your own binaries or modified source. again,

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