Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Is it really so difficult to handle this situation though? Using
Steve's test program on Solaris does as expected:
Yes, it would be quite difficult to do efficently. There's no good way to
tell that the
On 11-Apr-98, 18:35 (CDT), Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Re: fclose() manpage]
Nope, you're reading that backwards. It says that if fclose() returns EOF_
_and _errno_ = _EBADF_, then that means that the stream is not
open.
You people are being unbelievably pedantic.
But
David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally I'd prefer to have additional packages
dictd-web1913, dictd-foldoc, dictd-... (depending on dictd),
That's exactly what I had in mind. Sorry if my message left the
wrong impression. I envisage four source packages and seven or eight
binary
I think /usr/bin/update-menus may be broken.
Several packages give me an error when they try to install. Fvwmconf was
successfully added to the menus when I packaged it last month . Now
installing it gives error messages and update-menus fails. Has anyone
else seen this ?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
reassign 20587 general
retitle 20587 There's no current libg++ package
thanks
There is no std.h, this means that things like prcs won't compile.
This is not a bug in libstdc++2.8-dev. libstdc++2.8-dev contains the
standard C++ library, which does not
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frederic Peters wrote:
background where you type your login/password have to be in
only one color, no pixmap. Except that fact, I think a login
screen with only xdm (+xloadimage) can be really cool. I am ok
to make a great login screen. For graphics, I am not the man.
'Guy Maor wrote:'
LeRoy D. Cressy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when
upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves
the following broken links reported by ldconfig:
Those symlinks are part of libreadline2-dev. If you upgrade
I see the following whenever I leave X. I did the following to catch
it: xinit Xmsg 21. I snipped out all but what I thought relevant.
If you need more -- ask.[snip]
(**) FontPath set to
This means that you deleted a mwm conffile
/etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc-menu, or you never installed lesstif-bin. If
you touch that file, the error will go away.
I have lesstif-bin installed and I didn't delete
/etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc-menu . Some broken package may have deleted ,
On 12 Apr 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
Yes, it would be quite difficult to do efficently. There's no good way
to tell that the pointer you're passing is _really_ a FILE* pointer.
Once it's closed, the pointer's value is meaningless.
One cheap solution which will usually work is to put
i've run into a really strange problem, and i can't seem to figure it
out. i am attempting to link a program against Xpm and the linker
tells me it can't find it. this is the command:
g77 evtdsp_main.o xencode.o ../e815_analysis/dst/ftio.o getolevent.o \
getoesevent.o getofsevent.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ftp/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web# dpkg -i
netscape4_4.0-7.deb
Selecting previously deselected package netscape4.
(Reading database ... 61341 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking netscape4 (from netscape4_4.0-7.deb)
frozen should have 1.1-4 in it. This fixes some bugs that I have
closed. They are currently in slink. I put frozen unstable in the
changelog
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If it helps -- I do not have a /usr/lib/netscape dir but it still wont
install.
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Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frederic Peters wrote:
background where you type your login/password have to be in
only one color, no pixmap. Except that fact, I think a login
screen with only xdm (+xloadimage) can be really cool. I am ok
to make a
I wish to become a package maintainer, I stubbled across several really
nice applications. They are xfont3d and xfpovray. If no one else is
planning on making the applications into packages, then I will go ahead
and do it. These would be ready as soon as the code freeze is lifted, ie
debian
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 02:09:43AM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
Some choices here are:
1) A modified version of xdm-external+gtkgreet (from the web site
mentioned earlier in this thread.
[...]
They both would be easy, but with the first option I would be
concerned by the rapidly changing
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:44:22AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
One presumes that will stop very soon now. Both GTK+ and the GIMP are
very, very close to a 1.0 release. For the GTK+, one can assume that the
library interface will be stable for a while.
Like I said, this is probably a
At 10:27 +1000 1998-04-13, Herbert Xu wrote:
Regrettably, we don't have a libg++2.8.1.1 package yet.
Well that means prcs should be moved out of hamm unfortunately unless we back
off to libg++272.
One of the problems with a libg++2.8.1.1 package is that it would need to
build libstdc++28 as
At 21:47 -0700 1998-04-12, Joey Hess wrote:
dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer
Errors were encountered while processing:
netscape4_4.0-7.deb
I'm very confused by this, since I have netscape4 and
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:28:15AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Congratulations! You have just introduced a subtle bug on your
system. It may work, and possibly never cause a problem, but
there is a bomb ticking away, waiting to explode ;-)
Which bug is that? If it's really that
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 11:38:18PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
Also, I now see what you ment by your ticking time-bomb comment. If you
change the symlinks, user programs are no longer in sync with glibc. This
can, as Linus pointed out in your quoted text, cause interesting
failures though I
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:23:41AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
Please do not use force unless you understand what you are
doing, and also understand that others may not be able to help
recover a hosed system.
Agreed, and thank you for the information. I now understand how the
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On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official
CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)?
gettext is in experimental so that it will *not* be included in CDs...
If
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 11:07:02PM -0500, Alex Romosan wrote:
and the error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
but the library exists:
ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4*
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 12
Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
A question which comes to my curious mind... is there a way a program
running as root can ask the kernel things like do you support modules and
module versioning? or is the above script which hung my machine without
so much as an oops from 2.1.82 till 2.1.89 the only
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I actually originally reported it against sysvinit but he reassigned
it to mount. I have set its priority to critical because it can (and
HAS!) cause extensive data loss; definately not a wishlist issue!
I will let the mount
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They both would be easy, but with the first option I would be
concerned by the rapidly changing state of the gtk libraries. (Red
Hat is basing some gui apps on gtk, so users are unable to install
newer versions of the gtk libraries without breaking these
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
Perhaps we could use XDM-External for this? It allows you to use another
program instead of the default login
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we start putting experimental things in CDs, then we should create
another distribution really-experimental, since experimental
seems not to be safe enough...
Or create an expirmental priority.
The policy manual says:
extra
This contains
Just installed Debian on an old machine using these: no _absolute_ show
stoppers:
When loading modules:
iso-8059- is all that appears for the iso-8059-1 etc. modules
Partitioning disks:
Initially, I partititoned /dev/hda into /dev/hda1 (root) and /dev/hda2 (swap)
and mounted /dev/hdb as /usr
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:19:03PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
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On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official
CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)?
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
I wish to become a package maintainer, I stubbled across
several really nice applications. They are xfont3d and
xfpovray.
Can you provide an URL? What do these apps do?
Marcelo
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if i replace -lXpm by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 the program links
fine. does anybody have any idea what's going on here?
ld only looks for libXpm.so, not for libXpm.so.version. In Debian,
libfoo.so is part of the libfoo-dev package, not of the libfoo package, as
you need the header files
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'Guy Maor wrote:'
LeRoy D. Cressy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when
upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves
the following broken links reported by ldconfig:
Those
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:27:25AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
Regrettably, we don't have a libg++2.8.1.1 package yet.
Well that means prcs should be moved out of hamm unfortunately unless we
back off to libg++272.
Unfortunately, yes.
Please ask the prcs upstream authors to move away from
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:32:12AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I also had a very similar problem with -lXt, the only difference is that I
used altgcc for compilation. Btw, what is the prefered way to use it?
I don't think there's just one right way to use it. Personally, I'd try
something
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Hi.
Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian.
It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it
widely. This means that even if it is not accesable by dselect, we
should not put it on CDs yet.
If a package
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 04:50:05PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
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Hi.
Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian.
It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it
widely. This means that even if it is
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:40:57PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
Perhaps we could use XDM-External for this?
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 12:56:49PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
A question which comes to my curious mind... is there a way a program
running as root can ask the kernel things like do you support modules and
module versioning? or is the above script which hung my machine without
so
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 01:48:00PM -0500, Ian Jackson wrote:
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reassign 20873 pftp
Bug#20873: netscape4: doesn't work with 4.05
Bug#20564: Netscape4 wrapper doesn't work with Communicator 4.05
Bug reassigned from package `netscape4' to `pftp'.
What
Hi,
Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Daniel I'd also recommend that people upgrading directly from bo
Daniel upgrade to this package instead of the one in frozen, as this
Daniel package's preinst cleans up the old bo config. files (the name
Daniel of the config. files
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Daniel I'd also recommend that people upgrading directly from bo
Daniel upgrade to this package instead of the one in frozen, as this
Daniel package's preinst cleans up the old bo
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Hello!
I received the following mail by our debian-developper David Frei. It
seems that there is a little problem about the copyright of the x3270
code...
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Date: 12 Apr 1998 22:45:14 +1200
I have installed altgcc, and libc5-altdev. I can't find a lib[cg]++-altdev.
altgcc contains g++, but there is no c++ library for it to use. Help!
I am trying to compile apt for use on bo. apt compiles fine on hamm for me.
Adam
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In general, I think that it is the system administrator's responsibility
to ensure that that filesystems mounted through a PCMCIA card -- whether
SCSI, IDE, NFS, or other -- are properly unmounted before the PCMCIA
utilities are shut down. For NFS directories that
Hi,
Personally, I am inclined to think that if your release fixed
bugs, and introduced not too many new features, it should go
into frozen.
Secondly, new maintainers do not have a corner on errors and
bugs; and I am of the opinion we treat people no different that what
their
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 13.04.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian.
It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it
widely. This means that even if it is not accesable by dselect, we
Joop wrote:
I have the intention to package:
colrconv-0.99.2: curses based convers client
xconvers-0.4: convers client for X and lesstif
I was going to do that one, but you can and I'll clean up tnt and dpbox.
- Craig
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