Hello,
there was a disussion on debian-testing about problems with dselect in
installing the package leafnode with nn:
I think you misunderstood or thought that I had misspelled;
There's a news reader called _nn_. It keeps insisting that I replace
leafnode with inews or inewsinn.
Well,
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:03:31PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Anyone know the scan specs for a 12.1 SVGA High-contrast DSTN
laptop display?
Depends on your Chipset. Try Modprobe to find out. The usual Laptops
are driven by Cirrus Chips. There is a Readme in the X11 lib Directory and
there
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:36:26PM -0700, David Welton wrote:
Debian has gone without xmem for a while. Am I the only one to have
noticed this? Do either the xproc or xcontrib maintainers want it?
If not, maybe they could indicate the source to make a seperate xmem
package. I don't know if
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 08:24:15PM +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
memstat - Identify what's using up virtual memory.
it is packaged
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:18:54PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
We found an incompatibility between Java on Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 and on Debian
2.0.r2 Could anybody suggest how to find out, if it is a bug in Debian Linux
or JDK?
You have to use getLocalHost() on a connected Socket, not on
Hello,
I would like to see a possibility to stop apt-get from downloading all
necessarry packages. Eighter by breaking the download (like it is possible
with dpkg-ftp ^c) or by giving the amount of files i want to download.
This will give me the possibility to upgrade my system even with a small
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 10:03:30AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
nope. i create all new accounts with bash (*csh sucks). the problem also
occurs with ppp logins - in fact, that was how the problem was noticed.
perhaps cpu seconds limit enforced by ulimit?
See ulimit -a
Greetings
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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 11:30:26AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
nope. the messages printed are specifically mentioning either 1) that
the idle timeout has been exceeded, or 2) that the daily time limit has
been exceeded.
Only on serial lines or on telnet/ssh/console, too? Are u sure there are
thanks for the NMU without asking the maintainer FIRST, AGAIN :-///
Note: the last upload of this package was last month and there is no reason
for a quick uplaod since there are no critical warnings pending for FROZEN.
Thanks for the patches anyway, I will include them in my working copy. Would
Hello,
who would liek to take the lilo package over?
There are a few pending bugs, most of the dealing with the lack of an
intelligent install script (which should be included in the bootfloppies,
too).
Greetings
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On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:27:15AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
I wouldn't mind taking lilo
Ok, looks like Vincent Renardi took the package over and has uploaded an -4
already. Thanks.
Bernd
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 06:24:28AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
Star Division did a fix for Red Hat's applications CD, but has not
made it available to anyone else. See http://lwn.net/1999/0513/.
It is money that matters?
Greetings
Bernd
Hello,
in ircII i have patched the bin to search in /etc/irc/scripts/
I provide a small local which does not install much scripts, just a few
setups. This script will be moved from the inst scripts if they are found in
/usr/lib/.
I will need to move the ircII scripts which are provided with the
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:01:18PM +0200, Michele Bini wrote:
How will u handle DNSSEC? Can you develop this part and the hooks outside
the states, so we can put it on non-US?
You can't do that, because silly US exports rescrictions cover crypto-hooks,
too. But you can put other, generic
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 03:58:02AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
so far.
I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
Hello,
I intend to make a Debian GNU/Linux Package from Fwctl. Therefore I will
have to make 2 Packages, one for fwctl and one for
libnetwork-ipv4address-perl. ipchains-perl is already a debian package.
I have obtened both from http://indev.insu.com/Fwctl/ and will upload the
files soon to the
Hello,
just in case anybody is interested, i put the deb package for fwctl on my
experimatel debian archive: http://sites.inka.de/lina/debian/
fwctl*deb (depends in libnetwork-ipv4add-perl) is a tool which can generate
ipchains rules from a higher level config file.
The package is not yet
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I hope some shovelware cd makers will burn their beta
onto cdr and sell it for those of us without T1 lines.
I wonder if Corel will allow this... and I wonder why I should use a system
which is not open source...
Greetings
Bernd
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:08:23PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
And nearly four months later, the package has 92 bugs, 16 with patch
and a lot even without a single response.
This is not true. Stop bothering me. Most of the patches are not valid.
Please work on the bugs which are tagged as
Hallo,
according to db.debian.org we have two sparc machines (aric and vore) for
Developers. However vore seems to be unable, and on auric I can't log in.
(it wont ask me for the pubkey i have in the databse and it wont accept the
password)
I need a sparc64 test system to debug a bus error
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:26:46AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote:
Sorry it has taken so long for me to get you this info.
thank you very much Blars for the help, this is much apreciated.
the bus error on sparc64:
#0 0x701029cc in inet_aton () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00013f84 in INET_resolve
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I have not used OpenLDAP in big systems for several years, so I can not
tell I am an expert with it. If I am wrong, and it is possible to
implement some type of Class of Service with OpenLDAP, I would
apprecciate you tell me.
Personally I would use a
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If a package is failing to build or to function on some architecture,
your job as that package's maintainer is see if it can be fixed (talking
to porters and/or upstream if it's beyond your skills)
BTW: is there a way to get build failures by mail?
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:03:47PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Bernd?
I dont like the prposed solution, i am looking for a more generic one. The
pressing problem is to display IPV6 netstat on 80char widt correctly without
truncation (#254243).
I guess this will require some changes to the
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The principle is the same: /lib is used only for the minimal system required
for booting, and everything else should go in /usr/lib. /run should be used
only for junk that needs to be stored early in the boot sequence, and
everything else should go in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
However there a big differences: /var/run is much smaller than /run, and if
sorry i meant to say: /var/run is much smaller (bytewise) as /usr/lib.
Gruss
Bernd
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and if it is placed in a tmpfs (which is really the best thing
anyway) it doesnt matter under which mountpoint it is located.
It does matter, because /run needs to be usable before other
filesystems are mounted, and a filesystem
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I hope this will be solved soon!
use nameif.
Gruss
Bernd
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If /run is tmpfs, it means everything stored there eats virtual memory.
So a musch metter strategy would be to move everything from /run to
/var/run at the end of the boot process.
tmpfs stores run ressources in vm more efficiently (since they are
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
use nameif.
This has been suggested before but AIUI nameif has problems/limitations
renaming eth0.
Well, you just cant use existing names (this could be fixed, however i am
not sure if this is needed)
I am currently not sure which limitation that is
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:04:23PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
Quite the contrary. tmpfs needs vm space even if nobody needs the data
Yes, we are talking about a few pages in swap space at most.
And I am not sure if not used is valid here, since symlinks and
sockets would be in memory even if
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/var/run/screen, which aren't guaranteed to stay small at all. On one
particular samba fileserver I checked, /var/run is less than two orders of
magnitude smaller than /usr/lib. :)
if this is a busy fileserver, it is mapped to memory anyway.
Gruss
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aren't really there anyway, I have never heard of non-swappable in-memory
filesystems.
the ram disks, afaik.
Those are: Solaris, *BSD and The Hurd. Solaris and all of the BSDs can do
VM-based filesystems that are nearly identical to tmpfs. I don't
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to do.
2. nameif has issues when using /etc/mactab. I can't remember the exact
problems as I can't access that machine right now, but I couldn't get
nameif to work that way.
you should not try to assign ethX because of the not-temp-rename problem.
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Will that work for sockets?
or mmaped files? (however not sure if there are any on early boot).
Like /var/run/samba/*.tdb
Greetings
Bernd
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe with an seperated E-Mail and track it.
Check the E-Mail in a delay of 5 minutes. Write a script (we do not
want to download Packages.gz, if there is no Pakage of interest) which
check, whether the new package is installed on
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The issue threatening the Debian Sparc port is not so much lack of
hardware (and certainly not older hardware), but rather people who spend
time on hunting down and fixing (kernel) bugs and working on architecture
specific packages like silo.
Do we
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I saw a comment a few days back that vore was back up (see below).
this really should be in the hosts database, it is hard to find information
if it is that distributed.
Thanks
Bernd
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I think the single-user system is the last one that alternatives handling
should optimize for, since the *one* person who's going to know to type
nvi instead of vi, and the one person who can fix the alternatives if he
doesn't like them, is the admin...
Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the 2006 key takes (say) 15 months to compromise, then it is fine
to use it to sign and verify the new key on 1/1/2007, so long as you
perform that verification before March...
Or be able to proof the date of signing.
IOW using the old key to sign
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to me that this kind of computation depends intrinsically on
how long it takes to compromise. If it takes eleven months, then
we're currently screwed. It seems unlikely to me that this kind of
analysis has taken place, which makes it
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but it breaks a long term usage like web of trust.
The Debian archive key does not take part in the web of trust.
Anybody who has passed the OpenPGP NM checks should not sign that key.
Thats right, I was not refering to the usage as archive key,
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On 12/30/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/22/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/16/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/16/05, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I think you can tell pretty clearly that Bernd has no objection at all
to NMU's.
yes, but please not for wishlist bugs. Again: there are bugs open for
net-tools where help is requested, I would love to have patches for those.
Generally I am not aware
Paul TBBle Hampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe the one-true-stable-key idea is the way to go after all...
One key by distribution?
Gruss
Bernd
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Paul TBBle Hampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although as Steve Langasek has pointed out, the Sarge-Etch upgrade will
be hard unless the etch key becomes available to Sarge users who've not
touched their system since Sarge r0a... I guess this comes down to
making the etch key available in some
I uploaded ircII-4.4M to incoming on master for frozen and unstable. This
should fix the mentioned bug, also I cant find a note about it in the
upstreams changelog file.
Greetings
Bernd
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:12:49PM +0100, Volker Ossenkopf wrote:
I need some advice to solve a recent bug report regarding a
frozen package.
You could make it suid to a user who has 2 additional groups. In that case
the program should reset its uid after the devices are open (same would be
Hello,
need to spell check it, but i guess it might be helpfull anyway:
aptitude
(c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany
aptitude is a front-end to apt and dpkg, the Debian GNU/Linux Package
Management tools. It tries to provide a nice user interface to every-day
package management
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:33:43AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
(c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany
Please don't assert copyright without including a license.
Actually there is no difference if the line is present or not, as long as i
dont claim otherwise it is my intelectual
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:03:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
I see you need to know a lot of keys. I think that is non-intuitive;
a full screen interface should have pulldown menus (perhaps with
shortcuts), a command line interface has switches.
Well, actually pull down menus are
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:47:29AM -0400, David Grill Watson wrote:
It wasn't like that before - and should something be done about that? It
seems pretty broken to me.
you can just link root's xauthority file to yours. or use XAUTHORITY=
Greetings
Bernd
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:05:58PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote:
But I am interested
what you think about this crazy idea to remove
version numbers (like debian2.2) from debian?
How do u call slink? Old Stable? :)
No i think it is not a bad idea to have a version number. The only question
is
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:49:27PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote:
Could anyone please explain this to me? Did Corel do anything to their files
that makes apt think it has to upgrade although its up-to-date? Or is this
a bug in apt?
I see this quite often, so it is a bug in the curret apt lib.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Vincent L. Mulhollon wrote:
Perhaps any package can live in unstable, but any package that has a
release critical bug older than 1 week is zapped from stable and placed back
in unstable. Upon next package upload, it will be reinstated into stable.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
(especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of
downloading changed packages..)
I dont have a example right now, but on my system aptitude will download the
same package again and again. So in case it
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three
different references and finally install the build-depends package to
find out what I could leave out of by Build-Depends stanza. It would
*much* easier for
Hello,
if i take for example:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/update_excuses.html
adns 1.0-3 (low)
Maintainer: Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
adns is 27 days out of date!
out of date on alpha: libadns0, libadns0-dev (from 0.8-2)
out of date on i386
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 06:14:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
That's not entirely trivial, so it might take a while, but it does seem
like a decent idea. What sort of reports would we be talking about,
exactly?
Well, would be enough for me to get a mail like the one i get from
debinstall
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:04:42PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
Some days ago I uploaded mutt 1.3.12 to experimental.
Please test it, because if people will not complain I'm going to upload
it to woody.
Besides that I am unable to turn off the APOP trial on each POP-3 Fetch
(Documentatio issue I
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:12:19PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote:
Or did I got completely confused and misunderstood the case?
First we need to solve the IMHO broken Alternatives Settings of those Perl
Packages. They messed up my System more than one. perl-5.6-base is removing
all the old perl
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -, Moshe Zadka wrote:
I would do, but I'm not at all sure if mod_perl works with Perl 5.6.
Last I heard, they weren't playing well together.
Works for me with slash. I only need to fix the Perl alternatives.
Greetings
Bernd
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:50:14PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Oh, they generally get filed, it's just that some package maintainers don't
do a damn thing about them[1].
what about localisation of app-default, I see XEarth ships with
# ls /etc/X11/*/app-defaults/XEarth
Hello,
depending on libapache-mod-perl is not enough for my new package slash to be
runable on a Debian box, sinde libapache-mod-perl does not
reconfigure/activate the mod_perl Module in postinst.
Am I allowed to check for the comemnted mod_perl line in apache's config and
offer the option to
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:48:55PM +, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
It turns out that although he had received notification that the
updated package had been installed, ftp.debian.org did not reflect
this.
I guess this is because ftp.debian.org is only a mirror, like all other FTP
Servers,
Hello,
ist it possible to make libgd not depend on xlibs? This will install a lot
of unwanted stuff on servers and it even seems to habe problems with
dependencies currently.. looks to me like netsaint which depends on libgd1g
is not moved to testing because libgd1g is not in testing, yet. xlibs
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:23:24PM +, Mark Seaborn wrote:
As I suggested before, it would be easy if different processes could
have different views on the filesystem. This is feasible on the
Hurd. Linux is not as flexible, unfortunately.
There are a few ways to do it, but I guess it is
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:19:27PM +0100, Petr ?ech wrote:
I think not. It's uses X libs so, ...
Hmm... currently I am a bit confused ybout all those dependencies (xlibs,
xpm4g, ...) so i will wait till this is resolved to make further comments. I
tried all the time hard to keep away and X
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:42:51PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
2. the remote host determines the real IP address via ESP and uses
that instead of the correct address.
tcpdump and masquerading is somewhat tricky.
It's a well knon kernel feature and the reason for it is, that is is much
faster for
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 01:22:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
then you need to either update sparc and alpha, or you need to bug the
ftpadmins to remove the binaries from those architectures if the package
Actually If I look at the ftp.denian.org Bug List there are quite a lot of
open bugs,
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:12:44PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote:
for all of you looking for a graphical start screen, this is the right patch.
I've modified it a little bit
so more init scripts are supported and a additional patch against the latest
linux-2.4.0-test12 is part of
this tarball
Hello Sam,
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:27:44PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
In order to actually get something done in an electronic office, we
need a certain amount of infrastructure.
Thanks for your work. I'm now looking into it. I think besides the packages
you are working on, for a
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:06:18PM -0800, Erik Hollensbe wrote:
And why are packages being REMOVED (lib-pg-perl for example) when I dist
upgrade?
Because thats what dist- stands for. If you dont want to remove conflicting
or sperseeded packages, then dont use dist-upgrade but upgrade.
apt-get
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:46:09PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
Setting up lm-sensors (2.5.4-2) ...
/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_ptym%d=2: command not found
/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_ptys%d=3: command not found
/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_tts%d=4: command not found
/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_cua%d=5: command not found
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:52:41AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
BTW. Why didn't you post a bug report about this?
I did, I only bcc'd it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that replies wouldn't spam
the bts.
I filed the critical Bug Report #80197 20 days ago... even the old perl
packages
where broken
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:08:23PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
depricating -I in Debian Package
sounds very good.
besides that -j (junkzip?) is NON-DESCRIPTIVE at all. -Z or -2 would be
better... but thats an Upstream Issue I guess.
Greetings
Bernd
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:46:42PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
Please verify the situation regarding ia64 and get back to me.
Sorry about the list posting. I just hit r without looking.
Besides HP I think also Compaq may be able to offer one. They have an
Account on IA64 on their TestDrive Web
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:24:32AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
(In defense of GNU fileutils, I don't think I've seen any two Unix
versions of df with compatible output either. The HP-UX 11 output is
truly, ahem, interesting.)
HPUX has a df and a bdf, as far as i remeber. and they ship a GNU
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:52:08PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
This would prevent the NMUers from doing things like debhelper/debconfizing
packages without the maintainer's consent, as well as keep NMU bugs down.
Well, but other problems like broken dependencies on binary packages dont
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:50:26PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote:
The IBM SCSI disk I have here has a jumper to delay spin up depending on
SCSI ID so that an array of those would spin up sequentially if they all
had those jumper set (and different IDs, which they need anyway).
Sorry I missed the
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:13:37PM +0200, Niklas Hoglund wrote:
Have I misunderstood that a signature is a kind of checksum. What purpose
does adding a checksum to a checksum have? If the signature is invalid the
.deb should not be trusted, but thrown away and redownloaded.
Because a cracker
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
if the maintainers won't do that, we need a policy paragraph to force
them.
No you need patches to help them.
Greetings
Bernd
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On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:09:51AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
that looks like it may be a configuration errorwhy else would it be
trying to mmap /dev/null?
this is a elf function, not sure what it is used for but a lot of programs
do this. Thats why you need /dev/null in most chroots for
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:06:41PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
In the end it makes very little sense for a3rd party to provide debs.
It makes sense for the debian user, dont u think?
Greetings
Bernd
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:03:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Which is why I ask for the second option -- a tarball. Let Debian, Gentoo,
BSD, whoever do their own packaging. This includes any of those groups'
users.
Debian wont package most of the non free software.
Greetings
Bernd
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
I guess you thought about http://snapshot.debian.net/ instead of archive?
s.d.n main page explicitely says that removed pkgs will be retained there. So
there's no problem recovering the latest version from
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 01:21:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
filesize4194303 kbytes
on bash umlimit -f is in blocks, perhaps thats the problem?
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 01:08:28PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
Former tetex packages provided language.dat as a
conffile so if one changed (manually!) it then one would
be asked whether to replace it or not everytime at upgrading.
IMHO it should only ask if the file has changed upstream. I
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:05:49AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
So everytime we have to restart all binaries which use a library
involving security-problem. In additionm this problem affects not
only debian packages, but user-built binaries.
Well, this is why it is most often described in the
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
Repetitive, largely useless to the user messages like those should
be removed and put in a file like SPONSORS or whatever. I would
NOT use any program that is going to spew out poinless stuff
when I do not want to see it.
one could
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:54:36AM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote:
I have made the package with debconf and I was about to upload it
but I talked with some friends and they told me to ask you all first
before make this upload. This is because this change could affect
the default Debian
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 01:18:02PM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote:
you can add the following sources to your sources.list
deb http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan/debian unstable main
deb-src http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan/debian unstable main
apt-get does not work, but i installed it
Hello,
(this mail is send to the debian developers and to francis, the upstream
author)
Martin, while maintaining the archive, contacted me, because he wanted to
remove the orpahaned ipchains-perl module. He noticed, that my fwctl is
depending on it.
Personally I love fwctl and use it on some
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:02:05AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
$ chmod -w f; touch -d 'next year' f; ls -l f
-r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 666 2004-05-13 03:02 f
You can only do that if you have write permissions to the directory the
file is in; if not:
which is not quite true:
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:59:24PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
But how can I protect _myself_ from _myself_?
you cant, since you always can change the permissions of the file back to
writeable.
Protection from yourself, especially if you are root are extended Unix
features (like for example
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:05:07PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
Reminds me of a bug in the old Icon systems that the schools used
in the early 80's or so. The immutable(+i) flag couldn't be removed,
even by the superuser because then you'd be modifying the file, which
wasn't allowed cause of
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:57:27PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
No one seems to have responded, or?
yes, i will file a bug report to remove the package from unstable/testing.
esecially since no upstream response was received.
Greetings
Bernd
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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:34:37AM -0500, michael d. ivey wrote:
Stock Kwiki 0.13 doesn't have anything. Our local version has a basic
RCS checkin
dont want to argue here, but there are enough Wikis which do support that.
PErsonally I use Tavi (mysql) which is only missing file uploads.
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
* New Upstream Version (closes: #176227, #188308, #90276)
Changelog abuse. This is only a valid entry if all 3 of these bugs were
requests for a new version, which they were not.
to me it reads: fixed by the new version.
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:55:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
It's much more helpful to write this as:
yes of course, but the question is where the line between helpfulness and
usefulness is :)
At least I think it is not a good idea to talk about abuse if maintainers
save themself some work.
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