Martin Konold writes:
> Qt comes with source. Any gpled sw can be distributed with soure or
> binary of Qt.
No, I believe you are wrong (or at least, that the issue is _much_
more complicated than you suggest). The GPL requires:
2. [ source code distribution and modification ]
...
b) You
I've read your document, and though I'm obviously no good at figuring
out whether it'll be any good for beginners I've attached my one
detailed comment about it.
Thanks for your work !
Ian.
In s.2, Select:
> I suggest installing little more than a bare minimum at this point as
> you will have am
Stephen Early writes ("Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta"):
> On Thu, 2 May 1996, James D. Freels wrote:
> > Can I install v 1.1 over the existing v 0.93R6 installation as a usual
> > package (or whole sets of packages) upgrade? I could not find
> > instructions on how to do that.
>
> Yes, yo
Francisco Avelino da Silva writes ("installing debian1.1 in a free partition "):
...
> * using dselect: I am a newer debian user (3 weeks ago I installed the
> 0.93R6 version at the first time), so I began the installation
> using the dselect program. It works fine, but I had the following obstac
David M. Smith writes ("Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous ftp"):
> I've just enabled anonymous ftp to my Debian 1.1 Linux box according
> to the instructions in the ftpd manpage. [...]
Oh dear. Of course the right thing to do is to install wu-ftpd.
Could the ftpd manpage be change
David M. Smith writes ("Re: Ftpd annoyance - DIR doesn't work for anonymous
ftp"):
> > "Mark" == Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mark> (There's something to be said for having the debian ftpd package
> Mark> either handle this or include a script to do so... even if it
> Mark> means
Scott Barker writes ("Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta"):
...
> I assume you mean the dpkg in unstable/binary/base, since I couldn't find any
> "upgrades" directory. BTW, is there an ELF version of dpkg? I only saw an
> a.out version.
Yes, there are both a.out and ELF versions. There's been
Guy Maor writes ("Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta"):
> On Mon, 6 May 1996, eckes wrote:
> > Why isnt the new dpkg simply stored into the stable Tree? Then a normal
> > dselect run would update it. Isnt the new dpkg stable or imrpoveed enough?
I didn't consider the new dpkg stable enough. It
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: uudecode?"):
> On Sun, 5 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> > 1. That is equivalent to the simpler command
> > dpkg --search uudecode
> >
> > 2. Both work if and only if the user has the matching package installed.
> >Grepping the Contents.gz file searche
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1
installation notes.)"):
...
> Looks OK (we can include a mouse interface). But what is required more then
> a new look is the ability to list only the 'installed' packages, or select a
> singe package to be installed/removed, a
Jean Orloff writes ("Re: disabling daemons from init.d "):
>[Ed Donovan writes:]
>> like to conserve as much memory as I can. My question is, what's the best
>> way for me to disable the services started by the init scripts like
>> netbase netstd, etc, while not deleting the files? At first, I mo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: disabling daemons from init.d"):
> > Simply remove the S* links from the rc?.d
>
> I had a similar problem. If I install a package and move its cronjob from
> cron.weekly to cron.dayly, will the cron-file be replaced on an update?
> Wouldnt it be better to store all
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)"):
> > Absolutely. If Bruce finds some time the dpkg and dselect ought also be
> > modified to show up a small "WARNING" message.
>
> Those are Ian Jackson's programs.
Yep. I think the right way to do this is to describe the le
Erick Branderhorst writes ("find question (and xargs)"):
> this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway
> because it is very debian related too:
>
> I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them
> with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remov
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome writes ("Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1
installation notes.)"):
...
[ dselect in Tk/Ctk ]
> I think this would be a very interesting (and useful) project, that
> could be worked in a distributed group fashion, just like the whole
> Debian. Of course, I'm wi
Stephen Early writes ("Re: X Windows"):
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> > >
> > When I run the script it seems to run ok, produces no output, and returns
> > the prompt. However, killing fvwm2 still produces a new login screen (even
> > when you do it severa
Rick Macdonald writes ("Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs"):
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>
> > I also found that lockchk in line 156 of rmjob.c is doing a
> >
> > if (kill(cur_daemon, 0) < 0) {
> >
> > I don't think it's right to send a signal number 0, at least it
I know that there are many people who don't like dselect.
I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive
suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is
volunteering to do the work on a new interface.
Suggestions for improvements that don't involve a complete
re
Carlos Carvalho writes ("Re: Bug#3038: SOLVED: can't remove print jobs"):
> Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 May 1996 14:24:
...
> >This means that kill(,0) is almost always a mistake.
> >
> >Could you check to see whether lpr is failing to chec
Manfred Wassmann writes ("Re: 'unsupported packages' (was Re: uugetty?)"):
> On Tue, 7 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > Here's a suggestion:
> > If you're going to go to the trouble of compiling a missing program
> > for your system, it's only a few extra steps to add the debian control
> > files
Guy Maor writes ("Re: random post"):
> On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
>
> > > No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated
> > > MAKEDEV script from devices.tex.
>
> > here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script:
>
> Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at
Scott Barker writes ("more trouble with 1.1 upgrade"):
> I got a message from dpkg when installing cron:
>
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/savelog', which is also in package debian-utils
>
> Is it the same savelog?
Yes. cron needs t
Kai Grossjohann writes ("Re: dselect complaints"):
> [Ian Jackson:]>>>>> On Sun, 19 May 96 14:34 BST, Ian Jackson
> > I know that there are many people who don't like dselect.
> > [...]
> > Suggestions for improvements that don't involve a co
r Davis, the next message I see from you should contain either an
apology or (the announcement of) your contribution of code or
documentation to the Debian Project. I do not want to hear any more
suggestions, criticisms, defences of your attitude &c from you. If
you persist I'll killfile you.
Yours in anger,
Ian Jackson.
(I'm speaking personally, here; please don't take any of this as
anything official to do with the project.)
(Please note crosspost, and reply only to the appropriate list.)
The dselect in dpkg 1.2.x has had several changes made to it which I
hope will make it more powerful, less likely to encourage users to use
it in ways which will seriously damage their system[1], and easier to
see what's going on and
Scott Barker writes ("Re: more trouble with 1.1 upgrade"):
> Ian Jackson said:
> > Yes. cron needs to have savelog removed.
>
> ok. So what happens when I install the new cron, and /usr/bin/savelog isn't in
> it? Won't dpkg remove it, since /usr/bin/savelog
Scott Barker writes ("really old bugs"):
...
> The mirror at debian.org is severely out of date. The mirror maintainer seems
> to know this, as there is a message there saying so. I was wondering if this
> was going to be corrected soon?
No, but it may be corrected eventually :-). We're working o
Andrew Stephen writes ("Cron"):
> How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a script. I
> have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I am getting
> hundreds of messages a day.
Make the cron jobs not produce any output unless there's an error.
cron only sends mai
Brian C. White writes ("Re: How to handle new packages"):
> > As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine
> > the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever else.
> >
> > Suppose I want to upgrade a single package. I grab the .deb file.
> > But now what? The Packa
Manoj Srivastava writes [ SuperCite undone - iwj ]:
> Brian C White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So... Should there be a restriction against listing the
> > kernel-image as a dependancy in another package?
>
> No, since if you follow the recommended method of generating
> kernel images,
How about having each pager program use update-alternatives to provide
a possible variant of /usr/bin/pager, and then having man configured
by default to use /usr/bin/pager ?
This would mean that man couldn't tell that less was being used and
give it all those funky arguments with the name of the
Steve Preston writes ("Re: How to handle new packages"):
> [Ian Jackson:]
> > If you just want to tell dselect about it, rather than installing it,
> > you can say `dpkg --update-avail foobar*.deb', but it seems rather
> > silly just to do this by hand :-).
&
Derek Lee writes ("PGP & MailCrypt"):
> Is there a debian package of PGP2.6.3i?
> (Is it located outside US? I have only looked at US ftp servers.)
No, there isn't. I haven't had time to build 2.6.3 yet - we're still
on 2.6.2.
Any non-US developer who feels like packaging 2.6.2 should do so, bu
H. J. Lu writes ("Re: kernel headers"):
> >
> > This has already been debated enough. Debian will continue to include
> > known-working kernel headers with libc unless and until that
> > arrangement proves to be unworkable. As I have time, I will continue
> > to encourage H.J. Lu and other Linux
Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"):
...
> $ dpkg --install package_x.deb
...
>gzip:stdout: Broken pipe
>dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
>dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install)
> subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status
Richard Lovison writes ("sysklogd upgrade"):
> I recently upgraded from syslogd 1.3-2 to sysklogd 1.3-6 manually using
> dpkg. When I started dselect I was informed that syslogd and sysklogd were
> in conflict, the configuration files for syslogd were still on the system.
> I proceeded to purge sys
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: gzip and dpkg problem"):
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >This means that SIGPIPE was set to SIG_IGN when dpkg started. For
> >reasons too complicated to explain here this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: gzip and dpkg problem"):
> On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Please do tell us what the problem is if you find out. Telling us
> > which ways of logging in cause the problem and which don't will help
> > us a lot :-).
&g
Juhani Luhtanen writes ("Howto upgrade 0.93 --> 1.1"):
> Is there anywhere a simple step-by-step guide on how to go and upgrade
> one's debian?
1. Install the latest a.out dpkg from the `upgrades' directory, for
example `dpkg --install dpkg-1.2.3.deb'.
2. Run dselect and go through Access/Updat
Craig Sanders writes ("lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo
(continue))"):
...
> if dpkg were to keep a list of all selected files and a list of
> pathnames to available deb files, then it could simply iterate through
> the list of selected packages.
The information is already in
Dominik Kubla writes ("Re: des encryption.. "):
> Look at my SSLeay Package (not yet fully functional) at
>ftp://ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local/
>
> It contains the whole familiy of des commands. (BTW. This is the first
> Debian package to actually use /opt, so make sure your root par
Rob Browning writes ("Consensus about /bin/perl."):
> So what was the decision about /bin/perl, and the packages that depend
> on it right now (kernel-*, etc). Should it be a symlink, or should
> these packages just be fixed?
Both.
> Just wanted to know so know whether or not I should create the
Joey Hess writes ("new to debian; some questions"):
...
> Does debian use the "user groups" system that redhat uses, that makes each
> user be in a group containing only themselves, so the umask can be set to
> 002? I see in /etc/group that each user does get placed in their own
> group. But I see
Craig Sanders writes ("Re: lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo
(continue))"):
...
> Extracting the status line is easy. finding where the files are located
> isn't so easy.
You can get dselect to find the files for you.
> maybe it's simpler to just leave the job of finding wher
Randy Gobbel writes ("How to make dselect shut up?"):
> I've installed xpaint on my system, and every time I run dselect it complains
> about pbmplus being unavailable--even though pbmplus has been superseded by
> netpbm, and I have netpbm installed. Is there some way to get deselect to
> stop com
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Pablo Bianucci writes ("Non debian packages"):
...
> 3) Make an attempt to 'debianize' the packages, installing them under
> /usr/local with dpkg (my 'own debianization', in fact).
If you use dpkg it's perfectly acceptable to put the files in /usr,
rather than /usr/local.
Ian.
Bruce Perens writes ("Dpkg feature request"):
...
> Thus, I'll ask Ian Jackson. How about three flags to dpkg?
> --select package-name [package-name ...]
> Selects a list of packages for later installation.
> --deselect package-name [package-n
Ervin D. Walter writes ("gs 3.53 and up"):
...
> Now, the wierd parts. First, these errors don't occur every time, and
> they don't occur in the same place every time. Second, the exact save
> .ps file sent through gs 2.whatever or gs >= 3.53 *compiled with
> optimizations turned off* works perfe
Daniel Lynes writes ("Re: Non-existent .deb's"):
> On Thu, 22 Aug 96 00:28 BST, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >If you delete the `Packages' files, or fail to download them, dselect
> >will offer to scan the .deb files that are actually on your disk.
>
> But, this
Kevin M. Bealer writes ("Bugs"):
> I've submitted these two bugs to debian bugs, and got no
> response; I submitted them again, and still got no response.
> (Has the list address changed recently?) I could try again, but
> then I would have to wait again, and so on, so... (In
> otherwords, sorr
Christoph Lameter writes ("Re: "man" crashes"):
...
> Here is the output from what you suggested:
> mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-source.1 is a dangling symlink
> mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechangelog.1: No such file or
> directory
> mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/dpkg-parsechange
Randall Shutt writes ("DPKG Remapping table"):
> Does anyone know where the dpkg remapping table is? I need to remap
> pentium to i386 due to my recent installation of a pgcc compiler. Trouble is,
> somehow, dpkg --print-arrcheticture returns pentium. Tends to hose lots of
> install stuff a
Package: base
Version: ?
Kevin Buhr writes ("Re: dselect and ftp"):
...
> You did nothing wrong: when I installed Debian 1.1.5, I noticed that
> the "dpkg-ftp" had been *automatically* deselected, and I had to
> manually fix that. I just forgot to file a bug report about it.
Ahh, the light dawns
Bill Wohler writes ("Making filesystems at installation time"):
...
> The idea with all this installation stuff is to avoid having user
> actions interspersed with automatic actions that take a while. This
> also goes for dpkg -GROEB --configure--all the packages that require
> user interv
Martin Dinkloh writes ("dselect 1.3.9: cursor keys locked after search"):
> In dselect 1.3.9 the cursor keys do not work anymore after having done a
> search (with '/').
This is a known bug in ncurses, recorded as #4298, #2962 and #3974.
Ian.
Haakan Ardoe writes ("Source Packages"):
> how does the source packages work? If I understand everyting right I am
> supposed to unpack them with dpkg-source -x .dsc. But then I need the
> .dsc file, which not seems to be included in any of the availble
> source packages. Where can I find or gener
Sebastian Kuzminsky writes ("inconsistency/confusion in aout-svgalib of Debian
1.1"):
>I'm not sure this is the right place to send this bug report...
>
>There's an inconsistency in Debian 1.1. When the aout-svgalib
> package is installed, it puts the libary files in
> /usr/i486-linuxaou
Stoyan Kenderov writes ("/dev/audio & /dev/dsp Device or resource busy ???"):
...
> The sparing comments in the source point to an IRQ or DMA conflict when one
> gets constant "Device or Resource busy" mesages on each:
>
> cat blabla.au > /dev/audioor
> cat uuhuu.wav > /dev/dsp
Have you inst
Zenaan Harkness writes ("wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror
farm for all debian sources"):
> git at alioth is coming along very nicely and was a great step
> forward for Debian (thank you Ian).
Why are you CCing me ? I had nothing to do with alioth or salsa.
(Maybe your proposed
k with chroots.
sbuild is the build tool.
To make a chroot you can use sbuild-createchroot or, err, I forget
what it's called, schroot-buildd-setup or something ? Maybe someone
else will pop up with the answer.
Ian.
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Daniel Baumann writes ("Debian Live Lenny Beta1"):
> * The rescue flavour, containing system rescue and forensic related
> packages, is missing in this beta release.
I've spoken to Daniel and the main question here is determining the
right list of packages for the rescue flavour.
So in a sp
Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)"):
> In reading through the archives, I have to say that the GR proposal was
> both buried in all the broader discussion of systemd, rather long and
> convoluted reading, and not well publicized.
If four other DDs send me and Matth
only OS which deliberately
> removes connectivity present during installation.
Can someone point me to the bug report about this ?
Ian.
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a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
he case.
Comparing to other distros can be very helpful but generalised
statements that they don't have this bug is less useful than looking
into how they solve the problem.
Ian.
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ar bug. So I have CC'd it.
Ian.
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bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"):
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Brian wrote:
> > One user calls it a "sick joke". After five years and with no attempt
> > to rectify the situation, I'm beginning to have sympathy with that view.
Debian, like all ordinary software, is
bw writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"):
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694068#47
> > seems to sug
asn't easier. gparted, maybe. If someone else still wants to
do that please X-Debbugs-CC me.
Ian.
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from mount. Based on Patch from Jon Boden.
[ Ian Jackson ]
* Add myself to Uploaders, as part of adopting the package.
Closes:#811377 (RFA bug).
* Add Benda Xu to Uploaders, as requested in #811377.
[ Ben Hutchings ]
* Keep /usr mounted read-only on shutdown (Closes: #757083)
-- I
Ian Jackson writes ("sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9"):
> If you are running testing (stretch) and using sysvinit, I'd
> appreciate it if you could install the new sysvinit packages from
> unstable (sid).
Thanks to those who replies already. I have had fav
Jimmy Johnson writes ("Re: sysvinit - call for testers of 2.88dsf-59.9"):
> Hi Ian, I ran your test, just so you know I have /user on root.
> # uname -a
> Linux jimmy-1 4.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.6-3 (2017-01-28) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Before your patch: # cat /proc/1/comm
> systemd
>
> Aft
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