Re: Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-15 Thread Steve Dunham
On Jan 15, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Steve Dunham wrote: I haven't had time for Debian in a long while - I've held on for a while because I've enjoyed working for Debian, but I don't think I'll find time again. Now I'm renovating a house and have s

Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-14 Thread Steve Dunham
that I have neglected my packages for so long. I'd like to offer these three packages for adoption: x-symbol, xmix, and oneko. x-symbol is probably the most used of these and needs someone who knows emacsen and a little TeX. The others could probably disappear without anyone notic

Re: project: vitual partial mirror with CGI/dpkg-repack

2002-12-08 Thread Steve Dunham
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:30:13PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: I will not do it myself since I know nothing about CGI programming, CGI programming is easy to learn ;-) CGI scripts or programs get whatever the client sends on his URL, starting after the '?' as a parameter, r

Re: Need other languafes then english, german and french

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Dunham
in that directory. You will have to switch fonts depending on what locale you are using. The command: locale -ck code_set_name charmap can tell you what charset you need to use. Viel Glück, Steve Dunham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham

Re: racoon ISAKMP implementation for IPsec

2002-12-03 Thread Steve Dunham
d the setkey program from iputils to do IPSEC. Both of these (and the library) need headers from a recent kernel source tree. I've attached my changes to get racoon to compile, in case you're interested. Mostly tweaks because our glibc has functions that the source doesn't think __l

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Shyamal Prasad wrote: Russell> Surely someone must have written something similar to TCP Russell> but implemented on top of UDP. Too many people have tried this ;-) Try SCTP, a recent attempt to deal with the "reliable UDP" solution: The 2.5.50 kernel has a SCTP implementation. Dunno how

Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

1999-09-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be > sufficient: > > / 32M > /var 96M > swap 32M or more. > /usr all the rest > /home is a symlink to /usr/home > /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp So what happens to the s

Re: debian O'Reilly book cover is up

1999-09-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.ora.com/catalog/debian/ > I just noticed this page has a book cover for forthcoming "Learning Debian > GNU/Linux" book from O'Reilly. > What do people think about the art? Looks like that guy has climed onto a > bucking bull -- or is it a GNU? -

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Dunham
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:24:08AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > [...] > > Notably, I'm going to be writing it in C++. This will add > > about 270k to the boot disks' root image, but as the floppy > > install methods are for the most part

Old Library dependencies Re: Release Plans (19990513)

1999-05-13 Thread Steve Dunham
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Please send followups to this mail to debian-devel, not > debian-devel-announce) > This is what I learned from the responses to the previous announcement. > Boot disks: > CD Images: > Architectures: > PAM: > Perl 5.005: Library dependenci

Re: Release Plans (19990513)

1999-05-13 Thread Steve Dunham
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > PAM: > > Ben Collins sponsored full pamification as a release goal. The main > > packages that need work are the shadow suite, and xdm. > /me blinks... > has nis (the p

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Steve Dunham
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > Previously Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Do I have access to the net within that environment? I just have some > > pre-release slink CDs, so I have to upgrade to the current point > > release by ftp (by an ISDN line - it is accessed like a NIC

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-10 Thread Steve Dunham
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/05, Richard Braakman wrote: > > | * glibc 2.1 upgrade > | As far as I know, this project is largely complete. There are one or two > | bugs left in the backward compatibility code, and there's the question > | of what to do with /dev/pts. > N

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) writes: > Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In my opinion, this problem is not sufficient to warrant an upload at > > this time since, contrary to the bug reporters claim, it does not > > prevent the packing from functioning. It is annoying, yes. > In

Re: WARNING: Re: debhelper & /usr/bin/passwd

1999-02-01 Thread Steve Dunham
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > Previously Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > Is there any way of changing that default behaviour (e.g. some config > > file) apart from recompiling dpkg? I'd like to leave it disabled at all > > times no matter what the default is in the current dpkg

Re: gnuserv/gnuclient problem

1999-01-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Dunham wrote: > > > ii xemacs20-bin20.4-13Editor and kitchen sink > > > ii xemacs20-nomule 20.4-13Editor and kitchen sink > > ^ > > The problem only shows up wi

Re: gnuserv/gnuclient problem

1999-01-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, January 29 1999, Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro > > te: > > |Hi, > > | > > |Is the gnuclient/gnuserv broken in XEmacs ? Using the latest versions > > |from potato I am no more able to start a gn

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 07:27:28AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > Does it? You mean, that hack in ld.so that adds /usr/lib/libc5 to the > > library search path in certain circumstances? The hack is incomplete, > > you just have to fix it. > Have

Re: gnuserv/gnuclient problem

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, January 29 1999, Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro > te: > |Hi, > | > |Is the gnuclient/gnuserv broken in XEmacs ? Using the latest versions > |from potato I am no more able to start a gnuclient :-( Is anybody else > |experiencing this ? >

Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

1999-01-29 Thread Steve Dunham
Anders Hammarquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The patches that I sent you should be completely safe. But the > > resulting packages have only been tested by me. (As I said, I took > > out the -pedantic flag on the altdev stuff - the other changes don't > > touch x86 at all.) > Right, at lea

Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

1999-01-28 Thread Steve Dunham
Note to Def Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is what I hope to be the final test build of XFree86 3.3.2.3a-9; if > there are no significant problems it will be released with that version > number. This test build addresses all four release-critical bugs currently > outstandi

Re: Reality check!

1999-01-24 Thread Steve Dunham
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would see this as a RH-style - so a rather bloated kernel which includes > lots of stuff as standard, and asks them the pertinent questions all at > once at the beginning, and then gets on with it. Excuse me, but RedHat actually boots on my laptop bec

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-23 Thread Steve Dunham
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:02:52PM -0500, Brian White wrote: > > No. We had enough problems upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. This would > > be a major change and have corresponding reprocussions. I'm sure it's > > very stable, but it will have incompati

Re: how rpm does it (Re: Dpkg Update Proposal)

1999-01-22 Thread Steve Dunham
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I said before, rpm does have the capability to install 2 different > versions of a package simulantaneously. Here's how it works, to the best of > my knowledge. > User interface: > Rpm differentiates between installing a package and upgrading a package.

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is installed in slink. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Dunham
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I > Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. > Martin> Not even worth mentioning. > > Er, in which

Re: gdselect alpha 2 (BUG Report)

1998-10-09 Thread Steve Dunham
"Shaya Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -Original Message- > From: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >alpha 2 is released at http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ > I was trying to compile it, had a little problem with some includes on glib, > which I overcame, but it seg faulted

Re: another problem maybe relate to lesstiffg

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Dunham
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just saw that nedit's layout changed. Between menu and text there is a hug > gray area that hasn't been there before. Since I also experienced missing > buttons in mpsql I wonder if both are related to lesstifg. Guess I try to > reget the old version.

Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Dunham
"Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. > That's really fine. > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, > list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why? Configuration g

Re: Live file system

1998-10-07 Thread Steve Dunham
Keita Maehara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've been working on a CD specific install that basically delivers a > > "standard" system with "cp -a" that could be used to also construct a > > "live" file system. I'll let you know how it works out, if I can ever get > > back to working on it. > I

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I 100% agree w/ you. Now make it work (-: I have compiled Imlib on > my own box and I can link w/ only -lImlib. However every other > person I know of, linux or otherwise needs to use the -l libs. > Imlib is merely a common interface to the gfx libs. It hide

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:57:25AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > > Let's do something compatible with Red Hat (unless there are good > > reasons not to). Synchronizing SONAMEs is one of the goals of the > > LSB. If we are going to switch to libjpeg62 - let'

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > libjpeg6b is broken and shouldn't be used by any new packages. It > > > doesn't respect the upstream maintainers choice of soname, namely > > > libjpeg.so.62, and hence makes Debian incompatible with Red Hat

Re: Imlib NMU

1998-10-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun 04 Oct 1998, Brian Almeida wrote: > > > I just talked to Shaleh, the previous Imlib maintainer. It was > > intentional to use libjpegg6a for imlib. 6a and 6b do not play > > well together. Your NMU > Is it necessary that they play _together_

Re: An X version of dselect for slink

1998-10-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 03:18:13PM +0200, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote: > > Hi, > > Enrique Zanardi schrieb am 02. Oktober 1998: > > > Moving X to the base disks (Auch!) and configuring X just after the first > > > reboot (hard task for a newbie). I'm not exc

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-22 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What sorts of things can pam do? I only know that for example a > > long program that uses PAM works regardless of weather the > > password file is shadowed or not, but can it do more advanced > > authenti

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-22 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: > > I asked once earlier, but no one responded: > > Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? > Gregory, I'm sorry I cannot provide good technical information. I do > know that we had backed ou

Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: > I asked once earlier, but no one responded: > Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? You can look at Red Hat for examples. > Where should they be installed? Is there some way to register them, or some > script to run to offer the sysa

Re: LyX: just about the only word processor in debian

1998-06-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am just, out of my inherent curiosity, curious whether LyX still exists > in the hamm distribution. > This was the only available word processor that came with Debian. > I know that it is technically a "pain in the ", > and that anyone who can type > 50WPM can b

Re: libungif?

1998-06-19 Thread Steve Dunham
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all complaining > that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it be? There's no > libungif package, according to www.debian.org/packages.html. They are in slink. The depends in gnome is screw

Re: Any Swim 2.1 users?

1998-06-18 Thread Steve Dunham
Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I posted this question in debian-user and got no reply :( May be some of > experts could help me out. > Our university kindly bought us Motif for Linux (SWim 2.1) from Linux System > Labs (http://www.lsl.com). On the CD they send there is an

Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian 2 ships with Gimp 1 take that redhat :-) > That's assuming that we can get Hamm ready and ship it before RedHat's _next_ > release. They already have 72MB of fixes for 5.1. :) (10MB of fixes to the libjpeg problem I mentioned earlier, 31MB for

Re: just Dumb

1998-06-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Ray Kinsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Er, > > Hey all, I have a a few small problems, > > I was messing about today on irc.debian.org doling out tech support while > playing around with apackage called Dumb it is a free Doom Graphics > engine. Anyway I got it to compile after some light s

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Steve Dunham
"James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a > list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would > help cut down duplicate bug reports. Now, I'm forced to download a > list of *all* the bugs. What about h

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:45:56AM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote: > > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd. > > > To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > The problem is that the Debian installation kernel tries to be all things > > > to all people. As there are machines that boot from SCSI d

Re: APT 0.0.16

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) writes: > > > APT 0.0.16 is available for both bo and hamm. Please let me know if there > > are any bugs that got missed, I'm getting very few bug reports these days. > It is running pretty fine, but there is one thing

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-11 Thread Steve Dunham
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > Tried booting from a floppy created with dd? > > > > Same problem, if memory serves correctly. Will check it out asap. > Upon reflection it occures to me that there are two other possibilities > 1)

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > They are only giving discounts to OCLUG members, but since I'm in OCLUG, > > I could probably approach the appropriate people to do some enquiries. > > I wouldn't hold your breath though. OCLUG is very RedHat b

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: > > >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network > > >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a

Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? The pictures of these machines look really sexy, and I've heard that rumors that they have decent performance and near $1k prices (with video input and two ethernet ports).

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Dunham
Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 03-Jun-1998, Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 23:38 -0700 1998-06-02, Tyson Dowd wrote: > > >Manoj addressed most of the big differences in his mail. One that he > > >missed (or glossed over) is the difference in generation of packages. >

Re: Non-interactive install proposal

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Dunham
Andreas Degert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Drake> On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:48:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >> > > >> What is the benefit of keeping packages in an unconfigured > > >> state? > > Drake>It's a reminder to me t

Re: Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS: The Linux community will not lose me! I'm planning to join Bruce' > effort to set up a new base distribution. If Debian should decide to > support the new base distribution, too, perhaps I could act as person > of contact for Debian. You shoul

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2 - They seem to lack a well formed index file, I couldn't find any > > rpm index on their ftp site. > Presumably, this could also be addressed by work. [Since it's not > specific to the rpm format, but the rpm site.] There is an index file i

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bruce Perens wrote: > As I see it there are two major problems that preclude using APT with RPM > as it stands, > 1 - They don't actually have package dependencies. They have > dependencies on files - big difference. > 2

Re: Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Only if we are wrong. We should endeavor to do what the upstream > maintainer does unless it is flat wrong. We are not RH, maybe they > should make their sonames match ours. No, we should both do what is > right. I definitely advocate following the upstream

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I checked, Debian and Red Hat were not compatible. (e.g. libpng and > > libjpeg have different sonames.) > How did this happen? Shouldn't we try to rectify this ASAP so that there is > binary compatibility? O

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-20 Thread Steve Dunham
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 03:13:24PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > GNOME is currently not very stable and things are changing very > > rapidly. Jim Pick is the GNOME guy for Debian. Give it a few more > > weeks and I think you will see more. > The

Re: dpkg memory usage

1998-04-15 Thread Steve Dunham
d rewrite the whole database after every update. Ok, I'll concede this on the atomic and error handling points. I didn't know that dpkg was designed that robustly. I guess a libdpkg would fix the startup time issues and if I want "dpkg -S" to work faster, I can always write

Re: dhcpcd

1998-04-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A long time ago, you wrote: > > Is dhcpcd still up for grabs? If so I'd like to take over the package > I asked you once before if you still intended to make a new upload, you said > yes, soon, but I'm still listed as the maintainer. Dhcpcd has some bugs t

Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-13 Thread Steve Dunham
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Frederic Peters wrote: > > > background where you type your login/password have to be in > > only one color, no pixmap. Except that fact, I think a login > > screen with only xdm (+xloadimage) can be really cool. I am ok > >

Re: dpkg memory usage

1998-04-11 Thread Steve Dunham
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was upgrading packages on my 64 meg system today ant noticed: > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 24785 root 18 0 12680 12M 568 S 0 0.1 20.0 5:36 dpkg > Yes, that's almost 13 megs used by d

Re: Building apps for a pilot

1998-03-15 Thread Steve Dunham
Dermot John Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a newbie to the Pilot (haven't actually bought one - waiting for the > Palm III to arrive in the shops). > I see there is now a binutils for the pilot and I've seen mention of using > GCC to cross compile for the 68000. Surely to build apps fo

Re: interactive sound configuration utility

1998-01-08 Thread Steve Dunham
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I understand that the modularized sound drivers are now standard > on Linux 2.0.32 and above. Given that, I think it would be good > if we had a setup utility for sound, like the one provided > with OSS/Linux. Hmm, I didn't know this was in 2.0.32. I'

xtar, xtar-smotif, xtar-dmotif orphaned

1998-01-07 Thread Steve Dunham
The source package "xtar" and resultant binary packages "xtar-smotif" and "xtar-dmotif" are now orphaned. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the standard > > source. Just where do these patches come from and why are they necessary? > > > > Is the fact that I _have_

Re: Paranoia, "pristine sources", turnkeys, compiling, configuration

1997-12-18 Thread Steve Dunham
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You might have a look at how Free and Open BSD do things with their > ports system. It doesnt seem that attractive as a package management > system (try installing Xemacs over a 28.8 on a 486;-), but it is done > quite well, and with standard unix tools.

dpkg help wanted

1997-12-18 Thread Steve Dunham
I'm preparing the new version of amaya. (I believe it's ready except for this one final detail.) The version I'm releasing is amaya_1.1c-1, it is going into the "web" section of hamm (main distribution). I want it to be an upgrade path for the following: amaya-static_0.95-1 amaya_0.95-1

Re: Proposal to package propsel

1997-12-02 Thread Steve Dunham
Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just saw this on c.o.l.a. and want to package it: > Title: propsel > Version:27-Nov-1997 > Entered-date: 27-Nov-1997 > Description:propsel is for people who work with more than a single > X11 display on t