rsync problems with Debian mirrors.

2000-09-03 Thread rob
Hi I've got a problem with rsync. The same thing happens with all the mirrors I have tried. I'm using rsync 2.4.3 from woody. Other info below. Thanks -- Rob Murray Script started on Fri Sep 1 14:41:59 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/hda6/realhome/debian/test$ rsync --version rsync ver

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-26 Thread Rob Browning
als here when gnu.org was compromised (for example). -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Re: Bug#278288: ITP: python-gtkmvc -- Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for pygtk

2004-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
). > For more information please visit <http://sra.itc.it/people/cavada/mvc/> Does look interesting, though. -rob -- Words of the day: munitions CESID supercomputer offensive information warfare

Re: apt-proxy v2 and rsync

2004-10-28 Thread Rob Weir
nable this option, which is not currently done. -rob -- Words of the day: strategic jihad argus airframe Sears Tower BLU-114/B

Is membership in staff supposed to imply root access?

2004-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
we changed our policies or perhaps my memory is mistaken. Also, I wonder if our handling of /usr/local isn't a bit inconsistent since it doesn't look like we include /usr/local/lib in the ld.so defaults. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.e

Re: Is membership in staff supposed to imply root access?

2004-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
so it's not a big deal. I'm not sure where I got the idea things were otherwise. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
nting its use seems rather pointless in the end. -rob -- Words of the day: BCCI offensive information warfare JPL undercover Mena Etacs

Re: Bug#298354: ITP: gtk2-engines-clearlooks -- An attractive gtk engine with a focus on usability.

2005-03-06 Thread Rob Weir
D]> > * URL : http://maop.puntodeb.net/ Hrm, I can't seem to find anything about it at this URL...perhaps there's a more specific one? -rob -- Words of the day: BRLO AK-47 Rule Psix Crowell Noriega MDA ISEC red noise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Rob Taylor
I do not > have the time required to be a good DPL. I feel the need point out that the current DPL and one DPL candidate, Matthew Garrett, havn't expressed support for this proposal in its current form. Rob Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Rob Taylor
ight be better have a trusted builder keyring, with strict rules on what makes a trusted builder (it seems rather a different set of issues to that addressed by the DD criterion)? Thanks, Rob Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Rob Taylor
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:27 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Rob Taylor wrote: > > > Do you think it might be better have a trusted builder keyring, with > > strict rules on what makes a trusted builder (it seems rather a > > different set of issues to that addre

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Rob Taylor
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:44 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:06:19PM +0000, Rob Taylor wrote: > > Yes, that makes total sense. Would there likely be major objections to > > this? > > > > Even less (likely zero) testing of packages by the main

Re: Reporting a bug that's already been reported...

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rather than be scattered to the four [why four?] winds. N, S, E, and W -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
ttle and didn't find anything, but feel free to tell me to RTFM if the answer's in the M. What do you do about packages whose upstream source is already being managed by CVS and already has $Id$ markers, etc in it? Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
ious diffs against the upstream source. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

time stops on latest kernels

1997-05-28 Thread Rob Browning
cpu usage. I know that 2.1.26 doesn't have this problem, but I'm not sure where it was introduced. I have a suspicion that it's related to the new multiprocessor code... Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Problem with either xbase or ssh.

1997-05-30 Thread Rob Browning
moving ssh makes the problem go away. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-06-01 Thread Rob Browning
Right, I had heard that these were reasonably good flags for the pentium: -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Possible Xaw{3d,95} bug / Re: Debian freeciv bugs

1997-06-04 Thread Rob Browning
used in gv. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

New package notices via bug tracking system.

1997-06-11 Thread Rob Browning
, and the bug system makes a nice reminder once I've been notified. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: mgetty-voice

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
1t/x6jjXWExPpAQHJ3AQAzCFQxj/UTucMd9cy96jkWjGNzpNajFoU 6635Yo/hKkwHpXpHE1I82E+xjKxJh33x+m9zv3opiNSWxA0KE4b3FuNmgzwvfSow PNi+boWuu45wj1UwnjPuTY1meO8dXkQwTB0JMHT7SFjOCWTzYKnfJE5YtweaCkwM zWYQvCDSLrE= =8t1x -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: mgetty-voice

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Sorry about the runaway mail headers in my previous article re-post. Emacs was hiding them from me. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
vely busy mailserver, and though I'm only familiar with sendmail, it'd be nice to know if one of the others would be a better choice. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
d to do that here with X (3.2). -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
often by just using a mutex to make sure that no more than one thread is in the library at any one time. Of course this can be defeated by unsafe libraries that call each other internally. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
IFO scheduling fairness (I guess I expected them to, even though the POSIX standard doesn't require it). I had to write C++ wrapper objects that use their own queues or I tended to get starvation in situations where I really didn't expect it. On the up side, not having these guarantees

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
compiling the X libs, they pick up macros for stdio that are not thread safe, and can cause segfaults when X tries to print things. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
&the_state_guard); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { pthread_mutex_init(&the_state_guard, NULL); /* other stuff */ } See "man pthread_mutex_init" and other pthread_* man pages in libc6-doc. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RFC: libc6 policy supplement 2nd try

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
regularly to >debian-devel by Helmut Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This is a good idea. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
y non-threaded Linux program can be thought of structurally as a multi-threaded program with just a single thread. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
n to the problem and then package it for Debian. Finally name it something other than libdebian, and we'd probably have a good chance of getting others to start using it in their upstream sources for all platforms. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &qu

Debian's mail daemons

1997-06-15 Thread Rob Browning
l its advantages over sendmail and other older mailers, but I'd rather have a more independent source. Happy to hear personal opinions too. Also should the qmail package in experimental be considered at all ready to go? Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: Debian's mail daemons

1997-06-16 Thread Rob Browning
Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (I'd vote for exim if uucp is guaranteed to work) Ok, so what are the arguments for exim over qmail (at least why do you prefer it?) I've heard arguments for qmail and exim over sendmail. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Rob Browning
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This really is an _excellent_ idea! So, we just need a volunteer to > implement and maintain this "upstream library". (The packaging for Debian > should not be a problem.) Ideally we could provide C, perl, python, etc versi

Orphaning dftp.

1997-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
supposed to be doing). Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Orphaning dftp.

1997-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
n wait a bit and see if anyone else wants dftp. If not, it's yours. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-18 Thread Rob Browning
other than ease of configuration. I'm more interested in > performance and design considerations that impact on security and > the ability to configure (flexibility). Ease of configuration can directly impact the likelihood that the program will be set up properly, and hence be secur

Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-19 Thread Rob Browning
as I think) that it would greatly help. Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
fail across NFS in certain situations, but I'm no locking expert. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
don't have access to the machine right now, and I'm only really familiar with booting from a HD via lilo. What would I need to do to test this if I get the machine back? Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
don't agree on the schemes and the order of their use, you can end up with nasty deadlock situations. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
"Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, show me how to search a HTML version of the bash info documentation > for a concept and I'll believe you. Absolutely, anything without regex and incremental search is broken and unacceptable for documentation purpo

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
when booting bzImage from the hard drive too. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
h this complexity (level of detail) should just be handled by dselect's next generation, and making the separate packages allows quite a bit more flexibility. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tried it, and it hangs when booting bzImage from the hard drive too. > > Please tell me exactly what ThinkPad model this is. I believe it's a 365X (16MB, ~800MB drive). -- R

Re: Rescue disk and Thinkpads (problem identified).

1997-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
se computers to test new boot floppies. > > Sounds good to me. I'll check the model number and get back to you > (not my laptop). And I'd be ahppy to test possible solutions. Me too. I should be able to get the machine now and then for testing. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Anyone made a qmail-1.01 experimental package.

1997-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
I was going to try out qmail, and I just wanted to see if anyone had made a package of 1.01. I mailed Christian, but I haven't heard back from him yet, and I thought someone else might have packaged it for their own internal use. Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
to my previous comment about searching. To revise: any documentation tool that doesn't support incremental, recursive, and regular expression searches is not acceptable IMO. As far as I know, that leaves out most html browsers at the moment. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
avoid the problems with trying to guess where the current packages chown files. Just what I recall... -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bug: cross-device link

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
locks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 156148938 5870 60% / /dev/hda4 256622 132644 110723 55% /usr It's probably something obvious, but I don't see it. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > libmailaccess should be something like PAM for mail delivery, > providing access to a user's mailbox by use of either Maildir, or > dot-locking (via libnfslock say), or whatever other method --- as > selected by the user. Soun

Re: Bug: cross-device link

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
ion because earlier versions didn't speak PCMCIA properly with that machine's modem... Sounds like a kernel problem (ouch). I suppose closing the related bug would be in order. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
ut dpkg-source is still broken...) Oh, I had actually forgotten that the newest tar can already do what we want. Now we just need to figure out how we want to use it. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bug: cross-device link

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
t; the directory-cache code built in. I just god confirmation from someone on debian-user with the same "ispell problem", so it's pretty certain it's 2.1.43 now. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bug: cross-device link

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
ut the directory-cache code built in. I just got confirmation from someone on debian-user with the same "ispell problem", so it's pretty certain it's 2.1.43. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Rob Browning
th zgrep and the shell, for > example. That was me. I guess the cgi approach would make stuff like recursive incremental searches (a la C-s in the info tool) out of the question, but I kind of figured that was a losing battle. It's too bad, I really find it quite useful. -- Rob --

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Rob Browning
#x27;s doing) or w3 one of these days with recursive page prefetching/searching... Oh, and I do agree with both the general principle of a unified documentation system, and that html is probably the best common destination format right now. I'm mostly just grumbling my feature wishlis

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread Rob Browning
. Well, if we do this, we need to make sure to handle the case where people do something like: chown -R 755 debian/tmp/usr/bin chown g+s debian/tmp/usr/bin/special-binary i.e. later commands would have to override previous ones. (probably obvious, but I just wanted to make sure this was kept

Re: Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-03 Thread Rob Browning
ar as I can tell, there are corrupted files on master. I had to re-upload perl-tk (with a new revision) to fix the problem. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: Need someone to take some of my packages.

1997-12-03 Thread Rob Browning
t;relatively untestable" packages, and would fair better under someone > elses care. > > Please contact me if you are interested in any of these packages. I'll take m4 for you. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5

Re: Config file management utility

1997-12-04 Thread Rob Browning
uld just have a file in /usr/lib/cron/auto (or whatever) which would be used to (re)build the contents of this section whenever a relevant package was installed. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Config file management utility

1997-12-04 Thread Rob Browning
le: The only advantage to the monolithic section I can see is that then you only have one block that the tool is ever manipulating, and since the entire block is regenerated anytime any piece changes, it seemed like it might make the setup less affected by minor corruptions. Proabably not a big deal e

Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-04 Thread Rob Browning
ny of the others. Is this possible? I've looked through the ld info pages several times and haven't found anything that works. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you only have access to the sub-libraries as *.so files? Yes. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &

Re: Linking (ld) problem with package.

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
handle this) I'll just figure out some other way to deal with it. I think I can restructure the make process to get access to the .o files earlier. Thanks, though. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
it *really* necessary to provide the upgrade? Don't forget that installing this *minor* upgrade would break *all* the packages like perl-tk that depend on a particular version of perl. Come to think of it, I think I need to change my perl-tk Depends to be more restrictive... -- Rob Browning

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
th the right name to the original tarfile. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Does it conform our demands?

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
n.org rather than debian-devel. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Does it conform our demands?

1997-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to disagree with Bob on this issue. I had a 3c905 a while back It's Rob :> > and at that time the kernel driver (v0.40) had serious problems but > mostly when run on 10Mbit. Now that the 2.0 kernel series ships version &

Re: Thread safe X libs?

1997-12-10 Thread Rob Browning
-Wall -o testx testx.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXt $ testx Xt thread safe: 1 -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Our future compiler and default compile option problems.

1997-12-10 Thread Rob Browning
eptions, so even if we wanted to make it the default, we couldn't just specify it for both compilers. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Our future compiler and default compile option problems.

1997-12-10 Thread Rob Browning
case for any Debian libraries. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, though. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-11 Thread Rob Browning
x27;t know if cp -a is frowned upon, but if so, I need to change at least one of my packages. In any case, here's a reasonable substitute: (cd src-dir && tar cf - .) | (cd target-dir && tar xpf -) -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 2

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-12 Thread Rob Browning
des the stuff, then a week later realizes that someone may be trying to hack their system. The go to "who" (and friends) to see what's going on, and they get an empty listing. This is going to cause someone to need heartburn medication. (Hope I've got my facts straight and I&

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-14 Thread Rob Browning
ded commands up to the current packaging tool standards. FWIW, I agree that Ian's objections are valid, and I think his approach should be preferred if someone gets the chance to implement it. (Sorry if I misrepresented your objection, Ian.) -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP finge

Re: I take debmake

1997-12-15 Thread Rob Browning
ery package built with them include a specific version dependency to guarantee reproducable builds. That's pretty ugly IMO. All that said, I understand the vaporware argument. I'm not talking about whether or not we should continue to maintain debmake/debhelper, but about where future deve

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
"Adam P. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down should use > 'run-parts' against, say, the directories /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/. Stunningly good idea. Make it so :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
about how this package should be handled. I'm planning to cooperate with the xemacs and emacs (19) package maintainers to make sure we support the simultaneous installation of all three packages. The new main package will be named emacs20, and there will be an auxilliary emacs20-el pa

Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
about /usr/libexec? Am I correct in assuming that it should still be avoided until FHS? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
t will be. I don't think that the old and new emacs will be sharing many files. > The use of /usr/libexec is currently under discussion on debian-policy. > Please wait a few more days until we've decided of how to treat this > directory. No problem. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
"Adam P. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, you're talking about moving Xemacs arch-independant files from /usr/ > lib/xemacs-XX.XX to /usr/share, right? No, this is only for emacs20, James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> maintains xemacs. > I think t

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
es somehow so that when say emacs20 is installed, it will knows to go find these files and byte compile them to a private location. This, of course, only applies for packages with .el files that are compatible with more than one of the emacsen. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
a scalable solution. > The most important thing is that the shared directory issue is > solved, and this is best done by not compiling elisp files from > packages otherwise unrelated to emacsen. I agree that the shared directory is important; I disagree with your solution. -- Ro

Re: Debian-devel subscriber count

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
"Simon's Mailing List Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I'm not a developer (yet), but am in the process of switching > various servers from Redhat to Debian, and wanted to get a feel for > how active the developer community is. Hope we didn't

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
cs installed will be wasting about 5MB of hard drive space for no reason. [1] Though is it really that big a deal as long as it gets forked off to the background like the TeX or manpage rebuilds? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
(and are willing to try). But first I want to make sure we have a clear idea of what the issues and possibilities are. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
lled?) Oh, I'm planning for that to be automatic. The emacs maintainer will just have to have an appropriate call in the postrm. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t

Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
after the horses have eaten the chickens. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please also involve the people who maintain emacs lisp > packages as well, since the decision shall have major impact on us. Oh, of course. I certainly meant to include you. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerp

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
ractice, at least, is that code changes are not a necessary criteria. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
files for all the byte-incompatible emacsen within one debian package. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
one central location to > stuff things into. Absolutely. > Requiring all packages to come compiled with both variants is NOT the > way to go. It will waste diskspace, both on users and for the > maintainers of packages containing elisp, that now *has* to have both > variants ins

Re: Service registration

1997-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
able to handle the more complex emacs cases as well. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Near and long term plans for the new emacs20 package.

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
bugs worked out before tackling the bigger issues. Comments? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
arguement used to invoke pppd will *never* be crucial, you shouldn't mangle it. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Recompiling elisp files (Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.)

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
nk at this point I favor Guy's service registration proposal, but there are some details that have to be considered. I won't be doing anything about any of this fancier stuff for a couple of weeks, though. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A

Re: Service registration

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
#x27;s no reason the hook file for tm in Guy's proposal couldn't just execute (cd && make) I do agree that there are other complexities to work out. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRI

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

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
king a mistake. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note, that I'm not saying that I can come up with a good argument why > > it would be important to be able to make this distinction (or to even > > do what I'm depi

Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
very carefully!) If emacs' current mechanism *is* compatible, then I could save some hassle. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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