NNTP news-readers and leafnode/inn (was: seems OK so far)

1998-06-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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,

Re: Laptop: DSTN scan specs for X?

1998-06-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: xmem ?

1998-10-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Intend to package: memstat

1998-10-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 08:24:15PM +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: memstat - Identify what's using up virtual memory. it is packaged

Re: Local IP address / Java Incompatibility

1998-10-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

apt: small download

1998-10-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 Bernd --

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Uploaded lilo 21-3.1 (source i386) to master [NMU]

1999-01-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

seeking new maintainer: lilo

1999-01-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL

Re: seeking new maintainer: lilo

1999-01-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Star Office 5.0

1999-05-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: [RFD] epic4 - default script ?

1999-05-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Strategy: DNS server in main for potato?

1999-09-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

ITP Network::ipv4addr and fwctl

1999-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

experiemntal fwctl

1999-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: corel linux demo

1999-10-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-11-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

sparc64 system?

2005-11-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Bug#340384: backtrace running nonstripped

2005-12-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Fedora Directory Server port to Debian ?

2005-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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?

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-12-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Bernd Eckenfels wrote: 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

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I hope this will be solved soon! use nameif. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: /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

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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

Re: Debian Installer team monthly meeting minutes (20051214 meeting)

2005-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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.

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt PARALLELISM

2005-12-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: [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

Re: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2005-12-28 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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

Re: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2005-12-28 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2006-01-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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...

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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,

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2006-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT public key updates?

2006-01-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

[bladi@EUSKALNET.NET: Fwd: ircii-4.4 buffer overflow]

2000-03-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 - Forwarded message from bladi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date:

Re: Permission policy

2000-03-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Bug#69090: strange su / which / apt behaviour

2000-08-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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.

Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

2000-08-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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.

Re: APT problem

2000-08-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: the experimental mutt package

2000-12-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 -- (OO) -- [EMAIL

Re: X 4 and app-defaults

2000-12-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

libapache-mod-perl does not activate the module

2000-12-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: out-of-date ftp.debian.org

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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,

libgd's dependency on xlib stops netsaint from testing

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

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

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: libgd's dependency on xlib stops netsaint from testing

2000-12-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: tcpdump bug???

2000-12-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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,

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Boxed Penguin Prototype showcases customization of Debian to build infrastructure server

2001-01-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Configure error for lm-sensors (2.5.4-2)

2001-01-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: resolution of the tar -I issue

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (

Re: IA-64?

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: NMUers: STOP BEING STUPID

2001-04-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

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

2001-04-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: RFC: Signed packages and translations

2001-09-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: guaranteed non-interactive installation and upgrades

2002-12-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org}

Re: Problems with XFS patch and SMP

2002-12-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: What should go into How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format?

2002-12-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org}

Re: What should go into How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format?

2002-12-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Bug#189313: general: tcsh displays erroneous limit data

2003-04-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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?

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

2003-04-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: lilo with debconf

2003-04-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: lilo with debconf

2003-04-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

fwctl and ipchains-perl - any takers?

2003-04-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

2003-05-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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:

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

2003-05-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

2003-05-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

Re: fwctl and ipchains-perl - any takers?

2003-05-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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 -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. )

Re: Debian Wiki

2003-05-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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.

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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.

Re: Accepted directory-administrator 1.3.5-1 (i386 source)

2003-05-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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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