Uploaded gtk+1.2 1.2.8-3 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-01-06 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded libtabe 0.1.9-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-01-06 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:54:04 +0800 Source: libtabe Binary: libtabe0 libtabe0-dev libtabe-db Architecture: sparc Version: 0.1.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By:

Uploaded bc 1.05a-13 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-01-06 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:38:12 -0600 Source: bc Binary: dc bc Architecture: sparc Version: 1.05a-13 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian/SPARC Build Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL

Re: Broken dpkg-source in the newest dpkg (warning).

2001-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Luberda wrote: dpkg 1.8.1, which was installed a few hours ago, comes with broken dpkg-source. You can't make your packages with it. Please see #81152 and #65021 for more info. Hmm, I just built a diff.gz with it and it is fine. Does the bug only occur under some circumstances? --

Re: BIND 9.X, shared libraries, and package pools

2001-01-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian May) writes: Does bind come with multiple libraries? Yes. Four, I think. Ok, I haven't looked at our policies for shared libs for a while, and I obviously have some reading to do. Thanks for the warnings. Bdale

mail-followup-to and Mutt

2001-01-06 Thread Neil Schemenauer
To get the mail-followup-to header to work in Mutt you must use the subscribe command and not the lists command to indicate which mailing lists your on. If you use lists then Mutt thinks you are not on the list and adds your address to the mail-followup-to hedaer. It took me a while to figure

Re: Broken dpkg-source in the newest dpkg (warning).

2001-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Robert Luberda wrote: dpkg 1.8.1, which was installed a few hours ago, comes with broken dpkg-source. You can't make your packages with it. Please see #81152 and #65021 for more info. Hmm, I just built a diff.gz with it and it is fine. Does the bug only occur under

Re: Broken dpkg-source in the newest dpkg (warning).

2001-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Argh. I just grepped every source package in the archive, and these are broken: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/ftp.debian.org/ftpfind |grep diff.gz | xargs zgrep -l '+++ /dev/null' ./pool/main/d/docbook-stylesheets/docbook-stylesheets_1.60-1.diff.gz ./pool/main/g/guppi/guppi_0.35.2-4.diff.gz

Re: BIND 9.X package status

2001-01-06 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:48:47AM +1100, Brian May wrote: I have to wonder if it is really worth having a different name for the newer package version. Are the versions really that different? Personally, I would prefer to have apt-get automatically upgrade the package, and that will be

ITO: wterm

2001-01-06 Thread Mark Triggs
Hi, Due to lack of time on my part, but more importantly due to a discontinuation of upstream development, I'm orphaning my packages 'wterm' and 'wterm-ml'. If anyone wants to take over this package, please let me know. Regards, happy new year, etc..

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-06 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:08:44PM +, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 19:03:45 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: - x25tap - kerneli crypto patches - ReiserFS In that case ReiserFS is a really bad example, it might never

Re: mail-followup-to and Mutt

2001-01-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 06, Neil Schemenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the same error. Perhaps the Mutt manual should be updated to make this more clear. README.Debian. -- ciao, Marco

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2001-01-06 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 01:05:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Happy new year from this side of the world, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three packages (w3mir, webmin, and fancylogin) that were definitely available in Debian main some time ago, and that

Re: maybe ITP rsync mirror script for pools

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Gervai
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:57:07PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: Please don't encourage private mirrors! I have been the administrator of ftp.it.debian.org since a long time, and I notice there are many sites doing nightly mirrors for their own use. I believe their own use is a bit too broad.

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:04:52PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am working on the Debian package of lilo and am writing code for auto-generating lilo.conf files. Presumably, if there is a /etc/lilo.conf file already on the system, you will ask whether to

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Makholm
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 Don't assume devfs! A lot of us uses it, but before our standard kernel uses it our lilo package shouldn't assume it unless it is very sure that it will work.

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Scott Ellis
Goswin Brederlow wrote: the Author of tar changed the --bzip option again. This time its even worse than the last time, since -I is still a valid option but with a totally different meaning. This totally changes the behaviour of tar and I would consider that a critical bug, since

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Cosimo Alfarano
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: Don't assume devfs! A lot of us uses it, but before our standard kernel uses it our lilo package shouldn't assume it unless it is very sure that it will work. He shouldn't assume it even if debian standard kernel package uses it. A

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Scott Ellis wrote: Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The changelog explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar. I'd prefer portability and consistancy any day, it shouldn't take that long to change any custom scripts you have. I always use long

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Christopher Yeoh wrote: So: Is there a *technical* reason to change /etc/debian_version other than it being just nicer? This information could instead be stored in /etc/lsb-release. One of the reasons for the creation of this file was to standardise across the

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 06:06:47AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: Just FYI, as of now, the package available in sid/unstable does NOT ask to save your /etc/lilo.conf. If you install the current deb backup your lilo.conf file first. If you've done the upgrade already note that it does save it

Re: mail-followup-to and Mutt

2001-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:13:22AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 06, Neil Schemenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the same error. Perhaps the Mutt manual should be updated to make this more clear. README.Debian. ITYM README.UPGRADE. -- - mdz

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Please verify lilo.conf by hand and send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better than a specific address. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Please verify lilo.conf by hand and send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better than a specific address. Not if he isn't the current maintainer of

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:58:48PM +0100, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: Don't assume devfs! A lot of us uses it, but before our standard kernel uses it our lilo package shouldn't assume it unless it is very sure that it will work.

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Yeoh
Santiago Vila writes: This information could instead be stored in /etc/lsb-release. One of the reasons for the creation of this file was to standardise across the distributions the name and format of the file which contains this type of information. Interesting. Is that file in /etc

Re: rsync mirror script for pools - first pre alpha release

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== esoR ocsirF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to set up our local partial mirror to run without attendance through multiple releases. If I hard code the release candidate name into the mirror script, wont it just break when testing goes stable? The problem is

Re: Upcoming Events in Germany

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May 19-20 Berliner Linux Infotage http://www.belug.org/infotage/ Intresting. Gotta check my calendar for a vistit to my parents in Berlin during that time. July 5-8 LinuxTag 2001, Stuttgart http://www.linuxtag.org/

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmpmount -o loop foo 1 Why don't we just patch mount to use /var/run/mtab? I don't know about any other program which modifies it. -- ciao, Marco

Re: diskless package and devfs (Linux 2.4.x)

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, would anyone object if I made the diskless package depend on devfs support from 2.4.x in future versions? Please do. MfG Goswin (a devfs fan).

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin Brederlow wrote: the Author of tar changed the --bzip option again. This time its even worse than the last time, since -I is still a valid option but with a totally different meaning.This totally changes the behaviour

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 07 January 2001 00:46, Adam Heath wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:08:05PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Please verify lilo.conf by hand and send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better than a

[devfs users]: evaluate a patch please

2001-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, there is a bug in the mc package, that most likely is related to devfs. I can't reproduce it, nor does it seem to be common. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=57557repeatmerged=yes mc hangs occasionally on starup on the VC. There is a patch on the buttom of the report.

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:19:36PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Christopher Yeoh wrote: This information could instead be stored in /etc/lsb-release. One of the reasons for the creation of this file was to standardise across the distributions the name and format of the

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:49:59PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmpmount -o loop foo 1 Why don't we just patch mount to use /var/run/mtab? I don't know about any other program which modifies it. because /var is not always on

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The changelog explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar. I don't see the reasoning in the changelog, but I may just have missed it. I'd prefer portability and consistancy any day,

What is wrong with kde2.1 and unstable ?

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Meding
Hi all, as of three days ago, every attempt to do a dist-upgrade tries to uninstall almost every kde package. What is wrong there. Maybe the package maintainer knows ? Thanks in advance Greetings Michael Meding

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 00:46, Adam Heath wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Also, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really be better than a specific address. Not if he isn't the current maintainer of lilo. True. So how do I get registered as

Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Eray 'exa' Ozkural
Package: general Version: N/A; reported 2001-01-06 Severity: important After I upgraded from potato to woody on an i386 machine, I observed a strange sympton I login as root. It doesn't matter where, console, X or from network... When I check the environment, normal user environment is present.

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-06 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
Quoting Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: == Sami Haahtinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or, can rsync sync binary files? Of cause, but forget it with compressed data. Doesn't gzip have a --rsync option, or somesuch? Apparently Andrew Tridgell (Samba, Rsync) has a patch to do this,

[authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Eray 'exa' Ozkural
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.0.1-9 Severity: important When I try to start X server as a user, the X server complains that the authorization has failed and terminates. Likewise when trying to login from gdm (tried other display managers, too) I can't paste anything now but as far as I can

Re: What is wrong with kde2.1 and unstable ?

2001-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as of three days ago, every attempt to do a dist-upgrade tries to uninstall almost every kde package. What is wrong there. Use dselect or some apt frontend to find out what the conflicts are or what dependencies are missing. It's easier for you to do this work yourself

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:42:30AM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote: Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The changelog explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar. I'd prefer portability and consistancy any day, it shouldn't take that long to change any custom

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
reassign 81397 gdm thanks On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:20:42PM +0200, Eray 'exa' Ozkural wrote: Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.0.1-9 Severity: important When I try to start X server as a user, the X server complains that the authorization has failed and terminates. Likewise when trying

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread exa
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:36:33AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: reassign 81397 gdm thanks hi branden, if you read the bug report carefully, you'll see that I complain about not being able to login from *anywhere* including gdm. I'm working on it now, and it seems I can't start X as a

ITP: lib-bsf-java

2001-01-06 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Package: wnpp Severity: whishlist It seems like this package have not been packaged yet. Even if quite a lot of packages needs it. Url: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/bsf/ License: IBM Public License (is that an ok license?), url:

Re: ITP: lib-bsf-java

2001-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: wnpp Severity: whishlist ATTENTION! The original message was cc:ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to two Debial mailing lists. Subscribers to these lists risk inadvertantly opening new unrelated bug numbers if they use a standard wide reply

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Miles Bader
Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS: Why not change the Solaris version to be compatible with the widely used linux version? I'm sure there are more people and tools out there for linux using -I then there are for solaris. One point the maintainer has made on the gnu mailing lists in

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001, Eray Ozkural wrote: Anyway, here is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. xinit: unexpected signal 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Is this normal? Users could start their X servers before upgrading a couple of

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:17:40AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: One point the maintainer has made on the gnu mailing lists in response to complaints about this change is that there has actually been no *released* version of gnu tar that uses -I for bzip (I don't know whether it's true or not).

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread exa
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:18:56PM +0100, Samuel Hocevar wrote: You might be interested in RTFMing, or checking past bugs, or having a look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. I did RTFM mf. Got any idea why this is happening? The problem is that we just upgraded, didn't alter anything and ended

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 06 January 2001 15:08, Joey Hess wrote: Russell Coker wrote: I have just uploaded LILO 21.6-2 to Woody. I have made it use debconf for all the common settings (I can configure lilo.conf for all my machines using only debconf). Please test it and let me know of any other

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:20:58AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:17:40AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: One point the maintainer has made on the gnu mailing lists in response to complaints about this change is that there has actually been no *released* version of gnu tar

Re: ITP: lib-bsf-java

2001-01-06 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:17:33PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: wnpp Severity: whishlist ATTENTION! The original message was cc:ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in addition to two Debial mailing lists. Subscribers to these lists risk

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 06 January 2001 16:22, Chris Rutter wrote: On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? There's absolutely no need or necessarily a desire to do so; besides which, the point is moot: if you're in the automation arena, you'll

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001, Eray Ozkural wrote: I did RTFM mf. Got any idea why this is happening? The problem is that we just upgraded, didn't alter anything and ended up with a broken xinit. How can this be possible? Dunno. Shit may happen, you know. But I don't think it's worth Cc:ing

Re: Upcoming Events in Germany

2001-01-06 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-01-06 Goswin Brederlow wrote: == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: July 5-8 LinuxTag 2001, Stuttgart http://www.linuxtag.org/ http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/Debian/events/LinuxTag2001/ Already planed to be there. I will be there any way, but I have to work out some

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-01-06 Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:58:48PM +0100, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: Don't assume devfs! A lot of us uses it, but before our standard kernel uses it our lilo package shouldn't assume it unless it

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:43:10AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: I think that your argument is equivalent to someone complaining that unstable is broken. Of course it is, nothing has been finalized and it is, by definition, unstable. If you want stability, use the released version, not

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:40:53PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: On 01-01-06 Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:58:48PM +0100, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:33:57PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: Don't assume devfs! A lot of us uses it, but before our

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Stone
Since solaris compat is now a release goal for tar, should we also expect dramatic changes in the behavior of the following options? (Some of these are actually supported on more platforms than just solaris; gtar is the only oddball.) F i k l o P -- Mike Stone

useradd problem(!)

2001-01-06 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello When I first installed Debian GNU/Linux on this machine, I reconfigured it so that there is a central user-group called users which all users of this system belong to. I have now reconfigured it back to the default: /etc/adduser.conf [...] USERGROUPS=yes [...] When running useradd,

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread exa
This is my answer to a private mail (it seems...) I don't want to talk about these in private. Please note the reason why I carried this bug report to the list. On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: You've already gotten into Branden's permanent shitlist.

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager? Here you are!

2001-01-06 Thread Thorsten Wilmer
Hello Petr Èech wrote: Adam Lazur wrote: The ability to install more than one version of a package simultaneously. Hmm. SO you install bash 2.04-1 and bash 2.02-3. Now what will be /bin/bash 2.04 or 2.02 version? You will divert both of them and symlink it to the old name - maybe, but but how

Re: useradd problem(!)

2001-01-06 Thread Malcolm Parsons
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:52:54PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: /etc/adduser.conf ... When running useradd, though, I get the following: useradd and adduser are two different programs from two different pacakges, the configuration of one does not affect the other: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 05:18:56PM +0100, Samuel Hocevar wrote: You might be interested in RTFMing, or checking past bugs, or having a look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. I did RTFM mf. Clearly not, or you would know that XFree4 requires explicit

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jan 06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmpmount -o loop foo 1 Why don't we just patch mount to use /var/run/mtab? I don't know about any other program which modifies it. If we use /var/run/mtab, how does mount update it when

Re: [devfs users]: evaluate a patch please

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, there is a bug in the mc package, that most likely is related to devfs. I can't reproduce it, nor does it seem to be common. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=57557repeatmerged=yes mc hangs

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:29:35PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: What is this supposed to mean? There are many users here suffering from this problem since this is a multi-user system and none of them have the time to learn the peculiarities of x. They, and I, just want to use this stuff and I

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam == Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? Adam kernel-package doesn't do them anymore. This is not quite correct. The

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager? Here you are!

2001-01-06 Thread Goswin Brederlow
== Thorsten Wilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Petr Èech wrote: Adam Lazur wrote: The ability to install more than one version of a package simultaneously. Hmm. SO you install bash 2.04-1 and bash 2.02-3. Now what will be /bin/bash 2.04 or 2.02 version? You

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Saturday 06 January 2001 16:22, Chris Rutter wrote: On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not? There's absolutely no need or necessarily a desire to do so; besides

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
This is my answer to a private mail (it seems...) I don't want to talk about these in private. Please note the reason why I carried this bug report to the list. Well, sorry but now you're in MY non-permanent (YET) shitlist for violating netiquette, and I'll have to acknowledge that Branden Was

Re: useradd problem(!)

2001-01-06 Thread Juan Fuentes
* Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello When I first installed Debian GNU/Linux on this machine, I reconfigured it so that there is a central user-group called users which all users of this system belong to. I have now reconfigured it back to the default: /etc/adduser.conf [...]

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Eray == Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eray This is my answer to a private mail (it seems...) I don't want to talk Eray about these in private. Please note the reason why I carried this bug Eray report to the list. You have the gall to quote private email on a public

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell I have a new version online at http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ . It adds Russell /boot/vmlinuz-* automatically and doesn't look for anything in the root Russell directory. Please try it out and let me know what you think.

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread exa
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:16:22PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: 2a. Install (or recompile) the specific packages from unstable that fix the bugs That I should have done... -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: lilo.conf

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 Russell label=part1 Russell table=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Eh? I have an SCSI only machine which does not do devfs. Does the postinst handle that?

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread exa
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:43:15PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: You have the gall to quote private email on a public list, and expect people to accord you any attention whatsoever? Have you ever heard of nettiquette? There is nothing personal in my reply and neither in quoted text

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread exa
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: Branden, please understand this for what it is meant: Branden does not like to be poked. He seems to like even less to be poked by you. Please don't poke him, he'll bite back and we get to watch the fallout. Great kiss ass.

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Makholm
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At the moment, if there is no lilo.conf, the kernel-image postinst creates a functioanl lilo.conf that takes into account Is this wise? I assume that in a perfect world the lilo package would be better to configure itself than some random

ITA gnucash?

2001-01-06 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi I just want to ask if somebody knows if the maintainer is still active. Gnucash have now quite a lot of bugs and there is a new stable version. If he is not active anymore I'll gladly adopt this package. // Ola -- - Ola Lundqvist --- / [EMAIL

Re: BIND 9.X, shared libraries, and package pools

2001-01-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:44:01AM +1100, Brian May wrote: Josip Oh, of course. (Packages including several shared libraries Josip suck as far as our naming scheme is concerned :o) Does bind come with multiple libraries? If so, I think they should really be split up, according to

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:56:41PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: You have the gall to quote private email on a public list, and expect people to accord you any attention whatsoever? Have you ever heard of nettiquette? There is nothing personal in my reply and neither in quoted text

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: Branden, please understand this for what it is meant: Branden does not like to be poked. He seems to like even less to be poked by you. Please don't poke him, he'll bite back and we

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: That mailing search stuff has some weird problems, yes. As for not being written down anywhere, the postinst asks you about it. I think there is a manpage for Xwrappers.config, but it's not installed in my system. There is.

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Erik Hollensbe
(this is not directed specifically at anyone) I don't quite get this... This list is moderated. Is it not too much for the moderator to moderate these postings and/or the user instead of drawing hte hounds just because one guy things a bug should be in a different spot? Some logical discussion,

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:01:42PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: Branden, perhaps the XFree4 server package should check if the previously-installed version was a 3.3 server, and offer to set up the Xwrapper.config file appropriately? I considered this, but judged that the cost of writing a

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread exa
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:28:53PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: There is nothing personal in my reply and neither in quoted text and ~~ Um, there is. The thing that caused you to say Great kiss ass to hmh. Well, his answer to the

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Peter == Peter Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At the moment, if there is no lilo.conf, the kernel-image postinst creates a functioanl lilo.conf that takes into account Peter Is this wise? You are asking my opinion? Absolutely.

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:00:38PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 04:39:43PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: Branden, please understand this for what it is meant: Branden does not like to be poked. He seems to like even less to be poked by you. Please don't poke him,

Re: Bug#81397: [authorization] fails silently for normal users, cannot start server

2001-01-06 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hi Erik! On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Erik Hollensbe wrote: I don't quite get this... This list is moderated. Is it not too much for Not that I know of. I have a hard time finding the logic in wasting your time complaing about how your time is being wasted. What does this solve? Humans are hardly

Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Eray == Eray 'exa' Ozkural [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eray After I upgraded from potato to woody on Eray an i386 machine, I observed a strange sympton Eray I login as root. It doesn't matter where, console, X or Eray from network... Eray When I check the environment, normal user

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-06 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Of course the -I option to tar was completely non-standard. The changelog explains why it changed, to be consistant with Solaris tar. I'd prefer portability and consistancy any day, it shouldn't take that long to change any custom scripts you have. I always use long options for

How to report bugs (was glibc thing)

2001-01-06 Thread Greg Stark
Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The preprocessor macro seems to be undefined. There are also other subtleties while using pthread lib, such as the __USE_UNIX_98 stuff, which I really don't know (I only use c++, and UNIX_98 sections don't seem to come along. Why is that?) ...

ITP: worker - filemanager

2001-01-06 Thread Rick Younie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist worker is a two-paned directory utility much like the Amiga's DirectoryOpus. License is GPL. Home page: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker Screenshots: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/wscreenshots.php3

What to do about /etc/mtab

2001-01-06 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmpmount -o loop foo 1 Why don't we just patch mount to use /var/run/mtab? I don't know about any other program which modifies it. because /var is not always on the same partition as / /etc/mtab shouldn't exist, all the information should be handled by the kernel

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-06 Thread Greg Stark
Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: Changes in version 1.9.2: Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf for Debian (Bug#8181). oops, except that mod is *ancient*. way before potato.

Re: LILO 21.6-2

2001-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: Also currently if you don't have debconf configured to display high priority messages then the configure phase of installation won't run. The problem line is: db_text high lilo/createdit You probably want to use the 'note' data type, not 'text'. See the debconf

testing ipv6 tools

2001-01-06 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Maybe I'm missing some important pieces, but is there someone who can get this to work ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ik5pvx # ping6 fe80::250:4ff:fe38:a630 connect: Invalid argument the address is the site-wide one automatically assigned to the eth0 of another computer on the lan. here's a strace

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