Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: It is in fact detrimental for a third group, people who are trying to extract the version in which a given bug was fixed. Aah, but if the bug wasn't fixed due to a change in the package, then it is misleading

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:34:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: 2. debian/changelog readers -- No change. They have lost a slight bit information that is irrelevant for the purpose of documenting Debian changes. I am one of these readers. I do

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-25 Thread Herbert Xu
in the upstream changelog for the above example. Please do not generalise the practice of individual upstream authors. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-29 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-30 Thread Herbert Xu
as the bug would've been closed anyway. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Herbert Xu
automatically. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-02 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:34:50PM -0600, John Galt wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: I for one am sick and tired of useless Debconf messages popping up during installation or being sent to me via email when I'm upgrading hundreds of machines automatically. Would you prefer

Re: Debconf or not debconf

2003-07-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Joe Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:23, Herbert Xu wrote: I'd prefer no interaction at all during installation. I'm perfectly able to read documenation thank you very much. Happily, the noninteractive debconf frontend exists. And getting hundreds of emails after

Re: Kernel build dependencies for prepackaged modules

2003-07-03 Thread Herbert Xu
*no documentation at all*. How many Debian users are there that will use lm-sensors and i2c modules for a prepackaged kernel on a non-i386 architecture? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-03 Thread Herbert Xu
of the standard. Standards get their value from having a rigid procedure for updates and modifications. Software do not. Do you know that you will be fighting the infamous GFD? Good luck! -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-04 Thread Herbert Xu
the specifics of this case but perhaps they were worried about the possibility of pulling ssl into a GPLed program accidentally? If that's the case then it's certainly a valid reason to reject the package. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel question: initrd/cramfs

2003-07-12 Thread Herbert Xu
? It's much easier to build the drivers into the kernel. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Herbert Xu
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly off-topic, is there any tool to easily determine reverse build-depends? apt-cache showpkg -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Herbert Xu
to mark those packages which should be essential but can't, e.g., libc6 or mawk. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Herbert Xu
has root anyway. If the player has root then why are discussing the possibility of the player cracking into the games group? -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: time(1): Return value and sys/wait.h macros

2003-08-02 Thread Herbert Xu
$$' will return different things. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-29 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-31 Thread Herbert Xu
of the maintainer. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-31 Thread Herbert Xu
they happen to fix bugs in the Debian BTS makes no sense. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-31 Thread Herbert Xu
. Specifically, the message translations. This might be OK for translations. But for anything else, if something goes wrong, then it's the maintainer's fault since he is the one who decided to let the patch in. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: To what extent should Debian modify the kernel? (Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!)

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse

2003-09-24 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: To what extent should Debian modify the kernel? (Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!)

2003-09-24 Thread Herbert Xu
. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: To what extent should Debian modify the kernel? (Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!)

2003-09-24 Thread Herbert Xu
be included. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse

2003-09-26 Thread Herbert Xu
, it is weaker than the Debian change criterion since it does not demand all Debian changes to be listed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-26 Thread Herbert Xu
-2.6.0-test5 was released Sept 8. Yes I know. I plan to stick to a monthly release schedule unless there is something drastically wrong. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: To what extent should Debian modify the kernel? (Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!)

2003-09-26 Thread Herbert Xu
it when 2.4.23 is released. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [PATCH] 2.2 kernel bug in utimes() and its results (m4 FTBFS, coreutils breakage, etc.)

2003-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Bug#212525: Package contains non-free GNU FDL material

2003-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
of a crime, one should not obey it without careful deliberation. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-image-2.4.22-1-k7 apm and usb-uhci problems

2003-09-29 Thread Herbert Xu
. The solution is to either upgrade to 2.4.22-2 which has just entered unstable or boot with acpi=off. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-29 Thread Herbert Xu
the same effect through IPSEC policies. The only show stopper with tunnels is the lack of SNAT support. Even that isn't very difficult to resolve. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: The IPsec kernel problem

2003-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
as the patch is easily reversed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
is much the same as keeping up with any other kernel tree. The answer is to use a proper revision control system. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-10-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Herbert Xu | Very few people really need cramfs if they're building custom kernels. | This is because initrd only makes sense when you're building for a | large number of machines. If you're building a custom kernel, just | compile in all

Re: Kernel source 2.4.22 and ipvs problems

2003-10-06 Thread Herbert Xu
kernel with IPVS is 2.4.20. You can either use a vanilla kernel, or unapply the IPSEC patch as documented in the README.Debian file. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: Kernel source 2.4.22 and ipvs problems

2003-10-06 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Kernel source 2.4.22 and ipvs problems

2003-10-07 Thread Herbert Xu
be difficult as IPVS is already part of 2.6. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-16 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-17 Thread Herbert Xu
due to a libpam upgrade. Please refer to the discussion that arose on debian-policy when this last came up. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http

Re: Package libc6-dev depends on linux-kernel-headers

2003-11-05 Thread Herbert Xu
source package. This requires it to be in a different binary package too. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-07 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-07 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Kernel 2.4.22-k7-1: initrd cannot mount proc from cramfs image

2003-11-11 Thread Herbert Xu
mountpoint This is a builtin command. /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab are NOT supported. If you're using busybox then try regenerating the initrd image with BUSYBOX=no. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au

Re: possible compromise for ITP: linux?

2003-11-12 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: ftpmaster accepts packages that have been rejected a few days ago

2003-11-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: too many things to be sure (my primary doubt was with flogiston). Try searching for phlogiston instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote: Herbert Xu: Please discuss this on debian-devel before filing further bugs. IMHO, there's no need to discuss this to death -- .desktop files make sense, therefore packages should supply them. There's no sane way

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-03 Thread Herbert Xu
the distribution. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-patch-acl

2003-12-05 Thread Herbert Xu
of this patch is scheduled to be included in 2.4.24, so the work required If it is, then there may be nothing to merge at all. Cheers, -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP

Re: Anonymous upload queue

2003-12-05 Thread Herbert Xu
disappeared without a trace. And all uploads of my existing packages are just sitting in the queue indefinitely. The changes files seem to have been moved/removed, but they certainly aren't being installed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

2003-12-08 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Xu
, inefficient, or buggy). The reason is that we need hotplug support or something similar before RAID autodetection will make sense. If you don't have the underlying devices there RAID autodetection will not work. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-11 Thread Herbert Xu
in the original meaning of the word `kung-fu', which is simply time spent doing things. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Xu
derivation? I used ? (that's UTF-8) as the reference. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Accepted kernel-image-2.4.22-i386 2.4.22-2woody.2 (i386 source)

2003-12-12 Thread Herbert Xu
? Against which package ? I have uploaded 0.1.32woody.5 previously but it was rejected by the Stable Release Manager. You can get it from http://master.debian.org/~herbert/woody/ -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-13 Thread Herbert Xu
://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Bug#1764: /bin/kill segfaults

1995-10-25 Thread Herbert Xu
memories about Pascal :) PS NSIG is the largest valid signal number + 1. -- A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites -- --- kill.c.orig Wed Mar 22 05:57:31 1995 +++ kill.c Wed Oct 25 15:33:21

Bug#4002: base wipes out utmp wtmp

1996-08-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 The installation of this package wipes out the file /var/run/utmp and creates /var/run/wtmp which really should be in /var/log. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Bug#4001: w segfaults on empty utmp

1996-08-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: procps Version: 1.01a-1 This isn't really a problem as utmp usually should not be empty but still w should not segfault. The reason I stepped on this is because the base package wipes out the utmp file.

Bug#4010: perl-tk doesn't work with perl 5.003

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: perl-tk Version: b11.02-2 It puts stuff into /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002 which is not searched by perl 5.003 and consequently nothing works :( -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Bug#4011: simple c++ program segfaults

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
) { ofstream ofst; ofst.ofstream( argv[1]); ofst.form( %s\n, Hello world); ofst.~ofstream(); } -- Running it with the argument of 'test' produces a segfault. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Bug#4015: xterm xterm.color sets broken TERMCAP

1996-08-04 Thread Herbert Xu
reliable source of info. It also makes anything that uses libslang unusable as it thinks my TERMCAP is too simple :) This should be disabled by default. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Bug#4011: simple c++ program segfaults

1996-08-07 Thread Herbert Xu
the code. But I guess the more important question is that the crash did not seem to be related to the destructor. That is, it crashes even without the call to the destructor. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu

Bug#4068: pgs in perl-tk does not work

1996-08-07 Thread Herbert Xu
/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4099: typo in fvwm2 man page

1996-08-11 Thread Herbert Xu
the selected window to the desktop specified as \fInew_desk\fP. .IP XORvalue \fInumber\fP -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4100: pixmap dumps core (bad depth?)

1996-08-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4118: xosview doesn't use XUSERFILESEARCHPATH

1996-08-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: xosview Version: 1.3.2-6 The program doesn't access the directories listed in XUSERFILESEARCHPATH but it does read the default file in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults.

Bug#3857: Core dump caused by Xaw3d!

1996-08-13 Thread Herbert Xu
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Bug#4391: gzip -cd gives incorrect output

1996-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
consoles. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites -- begin 600 a.gz M'XL(#,A+3(``V$`[=,[EMAIL PROTECTED];?T_IP,9JXH$[EMAIL PROTECTED]V?5_Q

Bug#4392: xfishtank coredumps at 16bpps

1996-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: xfishtank Version: 2.2-1 As the subject says, xfishtank dumps core at 16 bpp. It works fine at 8 bpp, at least on my machine. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key

Bug#4391: gzip -cd gives incorrect output

1996-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
exists for 2.0.12 on an alpha. And gzip on SunOS 5.5 doesn't have this problem. So which kernel did you use? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other

Bug#4430: gcc -O coredumps

1996-09-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2.1-1 Compiling the attached file with the -O flag kills cc1. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4518: xauth bug

1996-09-20 Thread Herbert Xu
! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4486: clock bug

1996-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
The problem still exists with util-linux_2.5-6. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Re: list of bashisms

1997-05-18 Thread Herbert Xu
usually refer to the solaris manpage. But I suppose the manpage for ash should work too. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Removing packages with critical bugs

1997-05-23 Thread Herbert Xu
I've just read a few messages complaining about the removal of xemacs from bo. Why don't we simply move those packages with critical bugs to contrib? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http

Re: splitting /var/lib/dpkg/status and handling desc translation

2001-09-15 Thread Herbert Xu
these mails soon, I will have to impose a site-wide ban on mail from that location. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Herbert Xu
bug is still there. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#66135: libtool_1.3.5-1(unstable): wrapping of binaries fails with -D__LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL__

2001-09-21 Thread Herbert Xu
the bug, look it up in the BTS. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: bind9-chroot

2001-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Need some shell scripting help

2001-12-23 Thread Herbert Xu
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer print -l * Or the portable printf %s\n * -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-25 Thread Herbert Xu
... -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-28 Thread Herbert Xu
. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Herbert Xu
can die in an OOM situation. Are you going to put all daemons into inittab? You should be trying to avoid OOM situations in the first place. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-29 Thread Herbert Xu
up such ugly work arounds for kernel bugs or incompetent admins? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-29 Thread Herbert Xu
like syslogd is meant to be the last ones to be killed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-29 Thread Herbert Xu
it... The OOM killer should already do this as it is, no modifications are required... -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-04 Thread Herbert Xu
is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-06 Thread Herbert Xu
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:54:16PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: You can now get POSIX online for free... URL? Subscribe at http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: LVM + XFS/Ext3 (Was no space left on device: LVM, Gnus -- dpkg, apt-get ?)

2002-01-08 Thread Herbert Xu
Tille, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to use ext3 file systems in the LVM partitions and I wonder if there is something like xfs_growfs for ext[23]. Not that I would apt-get install ext2resize -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-08 Thread Herbert Xu
that it uses. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [ccheney@cheney.cx: libqt2 libpng2 resolution]

2002-01-10 Thread Herbert Xu
, then you won't be able to have both of them installed at the same time. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread Herbert Xu
root fs in fstab. 3. Regenerate the initrd image mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.17-586tsc /lib/modules/2.4.17-586tsc 4. Run lilo -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key

Re: Potato-Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Herbert Xu
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