Re: Kernel compilation

1998-02-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All very good points except alot of people including myself prefer compiling their own kernels for various reasons. But at the same time run into packages that require the debian package version even though you have same or newer self compiled kernel installed. Not to

Re: alphas

1997-07-22 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
issues. gcc doesn't doesn't have as sophisticated an optimizer, for instance. Depending on what you intend to do, this may or may not be an issue. Mike. -- Michael Alan Dorman Head of Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]Louis Calder Memorial Library (305) 243

Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

1997-06-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: The uncompressed one was used to make psdatabase. I don't know if it is still needed. The installation process deletes the uncompressed image. It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the compressed image for that, though. Mike.

Re: year-2000 testing

1997-04-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: If you can do so, please try running your system with the date in the year 2000 for a while. Richard Stallman asked if we had tested that GNU software is free of year-2000 problems, and I think it's a good idea. Fortunately we don't have too many COBOL

Re: Frontpage and Debian

1997-04-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can download them from the rtr.com site, and then you just need to add to the httpd.conf for Apache (or the equivalent on other httpds): I found the old debian package and got it to work by downgrading. Yes, but you've just broken several other packages

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

1997-04-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search /usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to put into /usr/local/lib is the shared libraries used by ld.so during program loading. This path is on the list of

Re: Zmodem recovery

1997-03-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Jeff Shilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Minicom doesn't recover when I have partial files. Well, technically, it's lrzsz that acts that way. This is because there is no recovery code in lrzsz (at least, there wasn't any last time I looked really hard---however I no longer actively use zmodem, and

Re: Emacs-based mail programs with IMAP

1997-03-21 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any such emacs-based MUA's that support IMAP? Does gnus do so? Someone is working on an IMAP backend for gnus, but it is not, to the best of my knowledge, there yet. I will mention that if you use dxpc, emacs-with-X over a PPP link is quite

Re: lprng problems

1997-02-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm surprised at the big push towards lprng because it seems just as hard to configure, the documentation seems disorganised, etc. Well, I'll agree that the documentation isn't a work of art, but I, personally, have found it no harder to configure than

Re: JDK not working

1997-01-22 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: naoma: ~$ java java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java naoma: ~$ jdb java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java naoma: ~$ javac java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java Any clues on what the problem may be? Well,

Re: WANTED: pthreads package

1996-12-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Zachary DeAquila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyone feel like taking a shot at a libpthreads package? I'm thinking of the kernel threads library, not the userthreads one that's already there. Or is it already incorported into some base package someplace? Done, just hasn't worked its way out

Re: Debian for AXP?

1996-11-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: Mike Neuffer, Bdale Garbee, Miquel and Danny of Cistron, and I have all purchased DEC ALPHA Multias in the past two weeks. This bodes well for a 1.2 release on them. You can add me to the list, as well as a couple of other Debian users here at UM. I

Re: Buslogic SCSI

1996-10-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what would you say is the best performing SCSI controller (in wide or ultra flavor)? Is the 2940UW the best? I have no benchmarks, but I am partial to the DPT controllers. I've got the Fast SCSI-II (PM2124) in my desktop machine, and the Fast-Wide

Re: Apache virtual domains.

1996-09-21 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, how do people add virtual domains using apache, i tried the following - i added this line to the S20apache runtime file; ifconfig eth0:1 servername up but this didnt work. ifconfig eth0:0 111.111.111.111 route add -host 111.111.111.111 dev

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

1996-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My suggestion of tagging the files as conffiles was thought as a solution to your problem, if the files change. That's the problem, though---it's not a solution at all. Consider if the application introduces a new resource, without which the

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

1996-09-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, couldn't the files in app-defaults be marked as config files (DEBIAN/conffiles) in the packages? Only if you want Ian Jackson to post a bug report against your package---conffiles do not belong in /usr. Please look at /usr/doc/X11/debian.README

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

1996-09-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, a sysadmin might want to have a way to make a global override. For example, to configure Mosaic to use a proxy. Wouldn't it be nice if the relevant scripts allowed this? All that is needed is that they use /etc/X11/app-defaults/Foo, if it

Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

1996-09-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Backups would be much easier if _all_ the configurable files are in /etc and /usr can't be mounted readonly if one has to change the app-defaults file. (Shouldn't, as a simple rule, all files that are referred by the debpkg-conffiles be placed in

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-08-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
a waste of time for the maintainer to create packages for executables that are going to expire. Better to let him save his energy for the next release. Mike. -- Michael Alan Dorman Head of Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]Louis Calder Memorial Library (305) 243

Linux is trademarked...

1996-08-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
to c.o.l.a. for a little more information. Mike. -- Michael Alan Dorman Head of Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]Louis Calder Memorial Library (305) 243-5530 University of Miami School of Medicine

Re: Anyone want xanim as a deb package

1996-08-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just got xanim compiled on my system with full for cinepack and indeo enconding, I also compiled in sound, but I have no idea if it works since I don't have a sound card on my linux box. If anyone want it, I will try to put it together as a

Re: dpkg-ftp troubles

1996-05-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joe Reinhardt writes: I am having trouble with dpkg-ftp 1.4.0. I repeatedly get this error when trying to install: You should upgrade to 1.4.1, though, if what you have is truly 1.4.0 They shouldn't affect anything. Unless they're adversely affecting your