On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 05:39:51PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> Why is our default not mingetty. Several other dists use this. For
> almost all Linux boxen this is the right choice. It is easier on mem
> and cpu than agetty. Anyone who needs the other gettys also knows how
> to change their getty. I
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
> Hmm..
>
> I don't see any version of ncftp 2 in frozen?
>
> Someone said it was GPL (and hence free) now? And someone else said it had
> gone into hamm/main, but I don't seem to have it in my packages file...
ncftp_2.4.3-1.deb is in main/net. There was
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 00:48:38 +0200 Martin Schulze wrote:
>> Do others have an oppinion on it, too, or is it just Ray and Marco?
> I'm against (too much opportunities for spammers)
FWIW I'm in favour of archiving outside Debian. You can't fight spam by
h
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> bug 21164 does not seem to be a bug in the libc.
> it is instead a kernel bug.
FWIW, I just tried it on my Debian 2.0 2.0.32 machine:
$ ./yyys
Killed
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> On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 05:39:51PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> > Why is our default not mingetty. Several other dists use this. For
> > almost all Linux boxen this is the right choice. It is easier on mem
> > and cpu than agetty.
Can this be quantified, please?
Changing the default will disrupt t
I just upgraded to 0.0-11 of fakeroot and cannot get it to work. All
programs started with fakeroot with a segmentation fault.
Anyone else experiencing this problem?
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Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I'm pretty sure that a program must be either entirely GPLed,
> >> or contain no GPLed parts.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raul Miller writes:
> >More precisely, the non-gpled parts must not have terms which prevent
> >compliance with the
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:09:25PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
> > whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
> > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
> > parties und
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 08:16:58PM -0700, David Welton wrote:
>
> So why haven't we seen this enforced, or has it happend but quietly?
> I do note that there is no kemacs.., but there are things like
> krpm.. hrm.. I'd have to look at the list, but... one would think that
> at least RMS would enfo
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So why haven't we seen this enforced, or has it happend but quietly?
> I do note that there is no kemacs.., but there are things like
> krpm.. hrm.. I'd have to look at the list, but... one would think that
> at least RMS would enforce things under the FSF'
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was, for those of you who are not mind readers, of course referring
> to the Qt stuff. My mind was half out the door...:->
Oh.. er... I still don't understand what you were trying to say.
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Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
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On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:49:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So why haven't we seen this enforced, or has it happend but quietly?
> > I do note that there is no kemacs.., but there are things like
> > krpm.. hrm.. I'd have to look at the list, but... on
Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : 2.0 with or without wu-ftpd? (Those bugs are listed in Brian White's
> : "list of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm")
>
> Yes, wu-ftpd is depreciated, since all it's functionality is in
> wu-ftpd-academ. The only problem is: how c
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My main point was this: if the GPL has this clause about the
> components of a program being free, what with the large quantity of
> programs being Qtized, why haven't we seen any action?
I don't know. Where are these large quantity of programs?
Most li
The inittab setup is not different. However, the only way to switch
gettys is to change thme by hand. This is because of agetty's priority,
I could not remove agetty. As far as quantifiable numbers -- I have no
idea. However from a simple look, mingetty has NO serial dial in
support or what not
Why is ps -ax considered "deprecated". Using a hyphen in a command is
accepted and standard practice. Last I checked it is also POSIX as well
as w/o. tar -zxvf and tar zxvf are the same and should be ok. Why is
ps different?
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> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shaleh> Why is ps -ax considered "deprecated". Using a hyphen in
Shaleh> a command is accepted and standard practice. Last I
Shaleh> checked it is also POSIX as well as w/o. tar -zxvf and
Shaleh> tar zxvf are the same and sho
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > bug 21164 does not seem to be a bug in the libc.
> > it is instead a kernel bug.
>
> FWIW, I just tried it on my Debian 2.0 2.0.32 machine:
what means FWIW ?
> $ ./yyys
> Killed
this shows, that you have the b
Yes, emacs19 is in Incoming for frozen and unstable, in fact, the
second version is there because people actually snarfed the first one
(which was unstable-only) and filed bug reports (yay.)
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Can someone explain the following message to me?
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
library /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot (soname 0, path
/usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0, dependency field Depends)
This is with fakeroot 0.0-10 and dpkg 1.4.0.22.
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Monolith Internet Services offers a public dynamic dns service -- I think
it would be nice to offer a working, tried framework for
auto-initialization of such a doodad.
Anyway, this will be my first package. I will have it ready in two
days, but that sa
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:40:32AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> The inittab setup is not different. However, the only way to switch
That's not true, it is -- getty requires a speed, even for a virtual
terminate, while mingetty doesn't support that.
As to the numbers, I just started up a getty on my bo
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:42:38AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
> wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
> If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
Every machine I've seen won't boot with two
I also got this warning, which makes me nervous. Anyone care to explain to
me what is happening?
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp-xlib6/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6.1': `
./debian/tmp-xlib6/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6.1 =>
./debian/tmp-xlib6/usr/lib/libc5-c
hm. after updating some packages i found out that old directories still
exist. (the older packages didn't clean themselves the right way)
should there be a possibility to do something like
dpkg --overall-consistency-check
to check the whole system ?
e.g. every package that has a checkscript gets t
Package: fakeroot
Version: 0.0-10
Branden Robinson wrote:
> Can someone explain the following message to me?
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
> library /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot (soname 0, path
> /usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0, dependency
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 09:26:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hm. after updating some packages i found out that old directories still
> exist. (the older packages didn't clean themselves the right way)
> should there be a possibility to do something like
> dpkg --overall-consistency-check
>
After upgrading to hamm, I have experienced the two following
problems. First, gpm no longer seems to work with my mouse. I have a PS/2
M$ Intellimouse, which used to work fine as type ps2. I tried that setup,
under which it only moves the cursor erratically and seems to randomly
select tex
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>Yes, wu-ftpd is depreciated, since all it's functionality is in
>wu-ftpd-academ. The only problem is: how can I handle this?
Btw, folks, the term is deprecated. Note that there isn't an 'i'. It
means (loosely) "It's still around but don't use it. It's going
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 04:03:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Monolith Internet Services offers a public dynamic dns service -- I think
> it would be nice to offer a working, tried framework for
> auto-initialization of such a doodad.
Sorry to disappoint you, but...
$ dpkg -s mlddc
Pac
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 02:57:38PM +, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>
> Mitsubishi relates to it's logo... once you have decyphered that the logo
> is actually a diamond. And once you are told Mitsubishi means diamond. Get
> the point?
Actually, AFAIK, Mitsubishi stands for "Three Diamonds". Mi
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:25:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > FWIW, I just tried it on my Debian 2.0 2.0.32 machine:
> what means FWIW ?
For what it's worth.
Note: there are several useful acronym lists / search systems on the web,
e.g.
h
i realy like cruft a lot ! i strongly suggest to all developers to check
their systems, and improve the packages.
cruft is a program in debian-incoming, it looks at package files, diversion,
alternatives, etc. and reports broken symlinks, files not owned by any
package, files in users home not own
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 08:25:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > FWIW, I just tried it on my Debian 2.0 2.0.32 machine:
> > what means FWIW ?
>
> For what it's worth.
>
> Note: there are several useful acronym lists /
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 02:17:18AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I also got this warning, which makes me nervous. Anyone care to explain to
> me what is happening?
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
> `debian/tmp-xlib6/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6.1': `
> ./debian/tmp-
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, lintian has two errors with it (manpage not compressed, old-fsf-address)
> but there are no bugs filed. It doesn't include the debian changelog
> in /usr/doc/mingetty, either (lintian doesn't seem to notice?). I may do
> another upload to fix these
The package f2c (fortran-> C) which I mantain contains a script
fc which is supposed to make f2c seem like a real compiler. It was
part of the original f2c netlib distribution, but it is very
antique and has three bugs currently filed against it (no man
page, use of /tmp, name conflict with bash i
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The inittab setup is not different. However, the only way to switch
> gettys is to change thme by hand. This is because of agetty's priority,
> I could not remove agetty.
As I mentioned before, there is no agetty package, it's in util-linux.
[It would be good
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 09:32:33AM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Also, lintian has two errors with it (manpage not compressed,
> > old-fsf-address)
> > but there are no bugs filed. It doesn't include the debian changelog
> > in /usr/doc/mingetty
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:40:32AM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> > The inittab setup is not different. However, the only way to switch
>
> That's not true, it is -- getty requires a speed, even for a virtual
> terminate, while mingetty doesn't support that.
D
More formal definitions:
>From Jargon File (4.0.0/24 July 1996) [jargon]:
deprecated /adj./ Said of a program or feature that is
considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out,
usually in favor of a specified replacement. Deprecated features
can, unfortunate
We already have a mlddc client package:
Package: mlddc
Version: 3.2.2-4
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6
Installed-Size: 27
Maintainer: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: A client for the Monolith dynamic DNS.
mlddc is a client for the Monolith ( http://www.ml.org )
dynamic DNS ( DYNDNS, http://
Alan> The package f2c (fortran-> C) which I mantain contains a script fc
Alan> which is supposed to make f2c seem like a real compiler. It was part
Alan> of the original f2c netlib distribution, but it is very antique and
Alan> has three bugs currently filed against it (no man page, use
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:54:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm copying this to David Engel, whom I consider to be our library guru.
> David, am I right that this self-dependance can be ignored?
Yes.
David
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Corey Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After upgrading to hamm, I have experienced the two following
> problems. First, gpm no longer seems to work with my mouse. I have a PS/2
> M$ Intellimouse, which used to work fine as type ps2. I tried that setup,
> under which it only moves the cur
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On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 04:03:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> It is already packaged by John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in March. :-)
>
[snip]
>
> Nice idea. :-) The current mlddc package does nothing like
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On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> If memory servers, someone took the package from John but I can't recall who
> it was.
>
[snip]
thanks for jumping to my rescue guys, I just about had a package built ;).
Oh well. I'll have to go find somethin
On %M 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
(That I was still too lazy to fix my attribution line in .muttrc)
> thanks for jumping to my rescue guys, I just about had a package built ;).
> Oh well. I'll have to go find something else to do... It's pretty hard,
> every time I think of something it's already t
Is that correct? I ask because dinstall currently installs packages
into hamm and slink by installing it into the former and symlinking it
to the later. This causes unnecessary mirror traffic for those archs
that will only be released with 2.1 because I must later move binary-*
for those to slink
Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's supposed to open /dev/tty instead of using stdin. This is the way
> it works on all the systems I could get people to check for me, which
> are Linux with libc5, AIX 4.2, Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5, DG/UX 4.11 and
> FreeBSD 2.2.2-R.
I don't und
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 06:11:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> If you're running a hamm (Debian 2.0, frozen) you might like to look at
> cruft (cruft_0.9.4_i386.deb, still sitting in Incoming; try
> ftp1.us.debian.org:/pub/debian/Incoming
> or your favourite Incoming mirror) which does s
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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uhm, Hate to tell you, but I already packaged mlddc I belive you can find
it in slink (or maybe still incoming) but Mlddc already has a maintainer.
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> Monolith Internet
I was wandering, is there a DEC Alpha version of Debian linux or are you
planning on doing one ? I know there is a RedHat version, but...
Thanks for your time
David
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