Re: FREEZE RESCHEDULED

1999-11-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:23:44AM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote: Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was too hasty when declaring this freeze. Adam di Carlo assured me that the boot-floppies are just not ready yet, and won't be for a number of weeks even if they get help. Also,

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 1, 1999

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 12:15:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: fileutils (main) Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 39680 rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty still fails, it only suppresses the message bbs:~# rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /var || echo not empty

new package suggestions and offer to take over others

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
-platform) I think I should be able to handle the packages as well as work on the debsums since binary security is of special interest to me. Ben Collins UnixGroup Admin NASA LaRC

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
prevent it, unless I'm missing something. - Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] UnixGroup Admin - NASA LaRC On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Matthew Parry wrote: The parts of the kernel code that would allow closed source modules to work with it. -BEGIN PGP

Developers in Virginia USA

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm looking for a developer in VA, USA, that would be willing to meet me and sign my pgp so I can submit the app for becoming a maintainer. I can give more details in private email or by phone. Thanks - Ben

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Ben Collins
should probably be closed? It is closed now, I wanted to wait for dinstall to confirm prior to closing it. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-19 Thread Ben Collins
the floppy when they have physical access any way, and 3) it is way more secure than suid root, at worst if the program is exploitable, you only stand to lose floppy data as opposed to your entire machine. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Collins
. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Collins
themselves. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Collins
. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Collins
would appreciate them greatly. As for now, I'm simply going to re-familiarize myself with the source and diff. thanks, Ben -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Collins
will be in my first upload pending comments concerning this proposed naming scheme (i hope no one has any objections :) NOTE: This naming scheme will reuire the ppp-pam package to be renamed, any problems with this? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 09:48:33AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Since no one else has spoken up, I will take over pam. I will also look How do you know? You waited just 4 hours before drawing that conclusion. Isn't this a bit early

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Collins
. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Collins
. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Collins
slink/sparc and I see no incompatibilities. Then again the box isn't running X, any of the other sparc devs out there have any input on which kernel provides the 'safest' X for sparc? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Collins
that there IS a problem - e.g. are we going to provide ppp1 and ppp2? That sounds like trouble to me. The current ppp in slink works with the latest kernels. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux

Re: libc5 sources missing for sparc

1999-01-24 Thread Ben Collins
of the other ports try to use it by accident. Do we really need lib5 since we don't even have any libc5 binaries for sparc? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc

[bcollins@debian.org: Uploaded cgiwrap 3.6.3-1 (source i386) to master]

1999-01-24 Thread Ben Collins
This package was upgraded to a new upstream release to fix a few potential problems with our old version. Since we are so deep in freeze right now I would appreciate people who use (or may not use) cgiwrap to test it thoroughly. Thanks, Ben - Forwarded message from Ben Collins [EMAIL

Re: DFSG v2 Draft #5

1999-01-25 Thread Ben Collins
. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: DFSG v2 Draft #5

1999-01-25 Thread Ben Collins
. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: dpkg port to HP-UX

1999-01-25 Thread Ben Collins
-dpkg-9812/msg00021.html) In that message I merely express an interest - it's a cool idea. In fact, I think Ben Collins has a working system on Solaris - check out earlier emails in the same thread. Yes, he was talking about the very same port :) In fact if any one is interested, I've dumped

LSH (GPL'd SSH)

1999-01-25 Thread Ben Collins
and having it as a seperate module (similar to GnuPG's approach). Thanks, Ben -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-26 Thread Ben Collins
/ and it would work just as well as far as the system is concerned. What we need to decide is, do we want to go with the standard, or make a new standard simply because we don't want to change? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LSH (GPL'd SSH)

1999-01-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:50:52PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 16:49:57 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: NOTE: For those that are on the ball, they do seem to be considering removing idea from the base source and having it as a seperate module (similar to GnuPG's approach

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-26 Thread Ben Collins
setup. Where is the compromise here that we need? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
and web design (strong, as in 8 years working experience) I would have thought my knowledge to have been useful. Ben (who isn't getting an attitude, just wanting clarification) -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
the offer simply because I whined about it, but thanks, and sorry for any misunderstanding. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL

Re: ¿Misuse of Debian name and logo?

1999-01-29 Thread Ben Collins
;) -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread Ben Collins
? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation

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

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
be the same passwords as the system. This is a serious security hole, we need to close before release. --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL

Re: dinstall can now announce packages close bugs for you

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
to the wrong address. Right, but it may serve to decrease the risk. Just a thought, and maybe future add-in. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc

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

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
modes. These are protected files, and the admin expects other things to honor these modes. With out the suggested fix, it leaves the system vulnerable, and the admin has a false sense of security with his web server. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben

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

1999-02-01 Thread Ben Collins
of. How can I check if a binary is linked statically to gettext? The binaries are stripped, so I don't have symbol information. What about some strings output? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU

[Fwd] Uploaded pam 0.66-1 (source i386 all) to master

1999-02-02 Thread Ben Collins
: libpam0g-dbg libpam-runtime libpam-doc libpam0g-dev libpam0g-modules libpam0g-cracklib libpam0g Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.66-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libpam-doc - Documentation of PAM libpam-runtime - Runtime support

Re: ITP: bg5ps

1999-05-15 Thread Ben Collins
current state. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --

Re: optimisation??

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
are somewhat preferential, and are not good for common builds. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:45:04PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: well, for the cross compilers, i'm doing /usr/lib/parisc-xxx e.g, /usr/bin/parisc-egcs /usr/bin/parisc-as etc. You should really use standard gnu style, such as parisc-linux-{gcc,as,ld,...} and

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
How about a 2.2 and 2.0 version? We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): Package: kernel-image-2.2.7 Version: tr.pre0 Section: base Priority: optional Architecture: i386

[PRE-ANNOUNCE] DPKGv2 Project

1999-05-20 Thread Ben Collins
specification which needs to be finalized. This is the milestone we have been waiting for prior to making a formal announcement. Thanks for your patience, Ben Collins

Re: [PRE-ANNOUNCE] DPKGv2 Project

1999-05-21 Thread Ben Collins
said and do what ever they want to. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --

CALL for PAM support

1999-05-21 Thread Ben Collins
non-related ones :). This is related to #1 above. If after all this you still have questions, please feel free to email me directly. Sincerely, Ben Collins

Re: Source-depends?

1999-05-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 02:12:43PM -0400, James Mastros wrote: So how does this all sound to you guys? Well, it sounds like you repeated what about a dozen people have already said. The concern is an automated way to generate the depends. The autobuilders already use a semi-working type of this,

Re: CALL for PAM support

1999-05-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:56:32PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: BenC == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BenC This is just a little reminder concerning PAMification of BenC potato. I want to urge all maintainers who's programs do any BenC sort of authentication or account management

Re: Source-depends?

1999-05-23 Thread Ben Collins
;) -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --

Re: CALL for PAM support

1999-05-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a libapache-mod-pam, which enables apache auth using PAM modules, already packaged. It has some drawbacks due to permissions (apache runs as www-data so it cannot access /etc

Re: How to handle the jargon file?

1999-05-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:43:11PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: ESR's perfered format is html. The jargon file is now avaliable as a single 2Mb html file jargon.html, which works quite well, if it does take a little while to load into lynx. The other option is a .tar.gz file containing all the

Re: latest login,passwd + PAM upgrade

1999-09-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:42:56PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: Hi, After the today's upgrade of the login and passwd with PAM support I have found one problem. It seems that there's something wrong with the pam_limits module. After enabling it for login I get the 'Module unknown' message

Re: latest login,passwd + PAM upgrade

1999-09-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:58:28PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: * Ben Collins said: Sep 15 16:41:38 jester login[30897]: PAM unable to resolve symbol: pam_sm_open_session Sep 15 16:41:38 jester login[30897]: PAM unable to resolve symbol: pam_sm_close_session Any cure

Re: More pam_limits trouble

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 03:53:06PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: Hi, The pam_limits module refuses to disable limits as described in the docs. It refuses to parse lines like: grendel - (where dash is separated with one or more spaces/tabs) - it reports 'invalid line' for such

Re: More pam_limits trouble

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 04:49:59PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: * Ben Collins said: It accepts only, e.g.: grendel - cpu [digit] Which is of no use, because setting the limit to 0 doesn't mean disabling it... Any advice? :) Hmmm...looking at the source

Re: More pam_limits trouble

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:09:05PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: * Ben Collins said: Hmmm...looking at the source, it wont accept a line with less than 4 arguments, yet you are correct that the documentation say otherwise. Let me work on this. I'll have it fixed

Re: Hosed system during package build

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 04:38:56PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: This is a first for me! As you may have noted from earlier postings, I have been working on a source build process for distribution construction. During the build of one of the source packages, the system went away. What kernel

Re: Hosed system during package build

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 11:21:17AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale I'm going to take my time recovering from this, as there Dale are things still on hda1 that I am likely to want saved. Any Dale helpful hints about how to keep

Re: fds_bits

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:06:09PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:34:44AM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: compiler error: vrweb-1.5/src/common/Dispatch/fdmask.C:99: `fds_bits' undeclared (first use this function) problem code: if (fds_bits[i]) { declaration

Re: Hosed system during package build

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:26:15PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 16-Sep-99, 13:21 (CDT), Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale I'm going to take my time recovering from this, as there Dale are things still on hda1 that I

Re: Which gcc builds potato?

1999-09-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 10:19:48AM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: OK, I have recovered to a slink system, and I'm ready to upgrade it to potato, which raises the above question. There are two gcc versions available in the archives. Which one is being used to build the system? Will either work? The

Re: Which gcc builds potato?

1999-09-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:49:29PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: On 21 Sep 1999, Ruud de Rooij wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, what, if anything, is being built with egcs? Nothing, since egcs does not exist in the distribution anymore. Well, egcs 1.1.2-2 is still

Re: libtool .la archives - name collision?

1999-09-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:40:21AM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: Hmm - it strikes me that there may be a potential problem with including .la archives with library packages. The filename for the libtool file is independent of the version number of the library. ie, libfish2 will ship with a

Re: libtool .la archives - name collision?

1999-09-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:54:10AM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: BC == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BC No because the .la files only go into the -dev package for the BC library, Section 4.2 of the policy manual, according to my reading, seems to disagree

Re: sash

1999-09-23 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:53:45AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying things? I don't have

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for September 24, 1999

1999-09-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:22:31PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Quoting BugScan reporter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug stamp-out list for Sep 24 00:06 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 263 Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 12

Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:46:18AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: So, if you're getting a Perl binary that's 0600, it's either you, apt-get, or dpkg. More specifically it is dpkg doing the breaking, but it's perl's fault on how it is setting everything up. You will note that these

Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:42:28AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: I notice that bash doesn't do any shenanigans like this. Is this a relic of bygone days and I don't need to do this funky stuff anymore? That would make things much easier for me. Nothing to do but test :) Ben

Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 03:00:35AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: I inherited this when I inherited the package in November of 1995. It was setup this way so that after the removal of the previous Perl package and before the installation of a new Perl package,

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for October 1, 1999

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 12:15:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: fileutils (main) Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 39680 rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty still fails, it only suppresses the message bbs:~# rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /var || echo not empty

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 02:16:03PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote: restrictive); see below for details. [ RSA is no longer included. ] [ IDEA is no longer included. ] IDEA was the only part of ssh that made it non-free, prohibiting commercial use. Wrong, RSA makes it non-free, and so does

[ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Collins
This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1] (I'm not sure if we ever had this support), yet the shadow programs attempt to use it. For example we convert the group file to shadow, even though glibc does not contain the calls to get this info. If you look at the

Re: [ISSUE] No support for shadow groups, yet we perpetrate to have it

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:28:53AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:53:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: This may sound silly, but in fact, glibc does not support shadow groups[1] Indeed. I think we can drop this idea altogether. How many people do use passwords

Re: ITP: buglist?

1999-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:35:11PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Schoepf wrote: this is a perl script I've written, because I was fed up with manually fetching bug reports and storing them into a directory structure so that browsing still works. Now, when I type 'buglist -r -d

Re: ITP: buglist?

1999-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:08:13PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:13:56PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On the same subject I invite everyone to test out getbugs which is at http://www.debian.org/~bcollins/getbugs.pl. It's a Net::LDAP script that This needs a direct

Re: ITP: buglist?

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:36:58PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Schoepf wrote: Have you tried Ben's getbugs.pl? Is it good enough? I looked at it briefly, but it seemsed very slow. wget is easier. I get: Error: IO::Socket::INET:

call for help with failed sparc package builds

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Collins
I haven't been able to keep up with failed builds for the sparc buildd daemon. So I'm asking for help (from maintainers and users alike) with checking the logs and finding solutions (some are fairly simple, just let me know). If you need access to a sparc for testing, all developers have access to

Re: permission denied on owned files

1999-10-06 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:02:57PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: Something else strange just happened during an autobuild pass. All of the subdirectories in my build tree have suddenly become inaccessable to the build user, who owns all the files and directories. Here is what I get:

Re: Packages NOT removed from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:53:13PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: If we drop perl-5.004, is there a good reason why we do need to rename an essential package? (from perl-base to perl

Re: dpkg logging wrapper

2000-03-10 Thread Ben Collins
. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Ben Collins
of work to work out the pcmcia kinks. There is nothing wrong with 2.2. What I want is 2.2.15 in potato, nothing more. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-12 Thread Ben Collins
have not seen any good reason other than so we can have it in there. Technically there is nothing in 2.[34].x that 99% of the people can't get out of 2.2.x. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
on 4.0 until we see how it fits into all of the archs. I think it would be a good idea to release an update for potato specifically to support kernel 2.4 when it releases however. Sounds like a really doable thing. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: important bug - war (openldapd #57469)

2000-03-14 Thread Ben Collins
soon enough. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:01:15PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:08:43AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Woody should be running 2.3 or pre-2.4. That should have been among the first things to change. We are knee deep in a release cycle. We should not be expending our

Re: important bug - war (openldapd #57469)

2000-03-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:13:52PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Next time please email me with correct version numbers and Ben explain things a little better, other than just it still Ben doesn't work. I've never been able to reproduce

Re: Becoming a developer

2000-03-14 Thread Ben Collins
debian-mentor to see if any other HAM people would be willing to take you under their wing. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-14 Thread Ben Collins
. Ignoring frozen does not. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-14 Thread Ben Collins
for the stable release? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:24:29AM -0700, John Galt wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: snip First of all, you need to check your numbers. Last I checked there were ~350 official developers in the keyring. Right, so this proves my point in that we should encourage developers

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-16 Thread Ben Collins
-confold, so that if there is no default, it will choose to keep the old conffile. Problem solved :) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
PROTECTED] 59420 kaffe_1:1.0.5e-0.3(frozen): bad register names on m68k 59575 kaffe: jit3 not supported on sparc build I've NMU'd a package which fixes both of these, last night. Package: libpam-modules (debian/main) Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60287 libpam-modules: Spurious

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
) This looks like a system problem. Looks like gzip is getting killed (the Broken Pipe). What kernel is this person running? -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:09:07AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: prc-tools (debian/main) Maintainer: Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] 51647 prc-tools: fails building on sparc Ben This is going to either require me to port

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: try running: dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the start of that line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file. i don't have

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Ben Collins
imake config files Will NMU shortly. Package: xview (debian/main) Maintainer: Martin Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60536 xview: compile expects sparc to be sunos Will NMU shortly. --Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Ben Collins
-devel-changes list to send to and write some extra procmail stuff into sending it to the write outlist. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-20 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Ben Collins
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Re: Compiling Error

2000-03-22 Thread Ben Collins
below is the needed change, and I've had to do it many times when we made the move to glibc 2.1 on sparc. It is correct, and portable. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux

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