Here is a better version of my patch, which also supplies the home
directory to adduser.local.
Ian.
--- /usr/sbin/adduser Mon Jul 10 02:10:53 1995
+++ /usr/local/sbin/adduser Thu Sep 28 19:31:07 1995
@@ -671,14 +671,14 @@
$this_file = $home_dir . "/" . $file;
I noticed this today, too, but I forgot about it until now.
Basically, after logging in and noticing "Permission denied", I did
a "cd /", and then a "cd", and everything appeared to work normally
after that.
It shouldn't be happening, of course, but this is how I got around it.
[ Only to debian-devel--this kind of outburst in public makes us look
very unprofessional. ]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 20:41:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
All of the users out there retrieving the distribution that are getting
it via a tar file from my PERSON
I have quite a backlog of failed uploads from my cron job. There
seems to be some kind of very strange thing going on:
$ cd /
$ echo ~
/home/debian.org/accounts/iwj
$ cd home
$ ls -al
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 28 22:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 1024 Sep 27 16:53 ..
lr-xr-xr
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 16:15:50 PDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Would it make sense to further virtualize X11R5 and X11R6 and
provide a virtual X11 package for use as a dependency? If we
don't do this, what happens when X11R7 is released? Must all
X11R6-dependent pack
>some significant complexity for developers of libraries. I'm not sure
>how elf handles this -- possibly the program specifies which version
>of the library it's looking for and there's an instancing scheme to
>select one of several releases of a function for cases where there's
>been an interface
Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1503: How to remove fvwmr5"):
> Package: fvwmR5
> Version: 1.24r-
> Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
> Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
> Reporter: repair 0.1
> Subject: How to deinstall fvwmR5
>
> I tried the following commands but no luck.
>
> #
Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1502: Uniform lists in debian.control"):
> Package: ltxtool ltxgraph termical mtools wu-ftpd
>
> All the above listed packages have a list of items in their description
> in debian.control. In order to improve dselect and how it is presented
> to the user it w
Dick Arnold writes ("Re: problems with elv-vi package install"):
> [...]
> I had problems installing elv-vi also and found out when using update
> alternatives you also need debian/binary/devel/perl-5.003.deb.
> I think update alternatives needs /usr/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm which is in the
> above men
On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, Michael E. Deisher wrote:
> auto-pgp is not pgp. It is still under GPL. Please move it back into
> the distribution. Ian Jackson is the author. You can ask him
> yourself if you are in doubt. :-)
This might be a non-problem, but I thought I'd raise a flag on it
just in
Package: base
After an uneventful install, I logged in to find that /etc/services has
apparently been overlooked.
I realize that there was some discussion as to whether or not it actually
belonged in netbase, but it has to be a zillion times more relevant to the
base installation than, say, smb.
All of the users out there retrieving the distribution that are getting
it via a tar file from my PERSONAL MACHINE!!! FTP.DEBIAN.ORG!!! PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE don't get it with a .gz extension due to the fact only a
handful of files are not gziped and they total less that a meg!
Please be conside
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 16:47:52 -0700
From: Michael E. Deisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:13 EST, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * auto-pgp and pgp has been moved into `non-free' due to the fact
> that it cannot be distributed commerc
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 16:29:57 -0700
From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> * ncurses-runtime has been moved into `misc'.
It belongs in "base". "dpkg" depends on it.
I was under the impression that the terminfo files for the common
terminals (linux and v
On Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:13 EST, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> * auto-pgp and pgp has been moved into `non-free' due to the fact
> that it cannot be distributed commercially. Ian Jackson says that
> an earlier version of PGP that was distributed under the GPL can
> replace the newer, more r
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Were you doing this in the dselect automatically started after
> installing the base system? In this case, dselect is started from a
> shell script (namely, /root/.bash_profile). Could this be the
> problem?
Does dpkg attempt to suspend itself rather than fork off a sh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> * ncurses-runtime has been moved into `misc'.
It belongs in "base". "dpkg" depends on it.
Bruce
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On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> FYI, I'm planning on releasing new versions of the xbase and pppd
> packages tomorrow.
>
Do you have the newest releases of the PPPD code from Al Longyear? If you
don't I have it around here somewhere :)
Costa D Rasmussen:
I wish we had setterm. I noticed it was missing and thought I must
be ignorant about how to do without it.
What's the drill here? Do we need to lobby the author, write a clone?
setterm was written by Ted Ts'o. He thought it was such a trivial
program that it didn't
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 20:28 BST
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I was using dselect for the first time (for real), and it is very,
> very nice. However, while it was upgrading my bash.deb, it stopped to
> query about the confile '/etc/profile'. Fair enough, it was
> diff
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:27:57 -0700
From: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Can't we retire this thing ?
Yeah, but not _now_. After the release.
I'm not sure that any packages use it, but many packages source it.
In the next release of sysvinit, Bruce,
FYI, I'm planning on releasing new versions of the xbase and pppd
packages tomorrow.
Several changes were made to the FTP archive this morning:
* The binary, ms-dos, and source directories have been moved into
a subdirectory called `debian-0.93'. This will make it easier to
support two versions of the distribution at the same time.
* All packages in the `system' section have bee
Did anyone volunteer to update ghostview and xxgdb before the release?
These are the last two packages that use the old "R6" naming scheme
for X11 packages. I'd like to update these packages before release.
If nobody wants to do this, I will, but I already have too much to do.
I'd appreciate it i
Who is the maintainer of the bison package? I noticed that we still
include version 2.3. Version 2.4 was released a few months ago, and
does not have the same restrictions that previous versions had (i.e.,
the parsers generated by bison can now be used in non-free software).
Could we get this up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What's the drill here? Do we need to lobby the author, write a clone?
First, research the current copyright status and confirm it with the author.
Then, if you have to, lobby the author. Only if that fails, write something
better and GPL it.
Bruce
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I wish we had setterm. I noticed it was missing and thought I must be
ignorant about how to do without it.
What's the drill here? Do we need to lobby the author, write a clone?
Costa
> (Bruce Parens [sic], I hope you're listening) The idea that sprang to mind
> as I read your scenarios was that we should have either an optional
> base disk or a very well described recipe for adding NFS to a new
> system. An NFS disk makes a lot of sense to me.
There are a few different iss
Package: gs
Version: 2.6.1pl4
Revision: 5
The gs manual page mentions two options
-dXO=[units]
Specify the origin from the left side of the page.
<..>
-dXO=[units]
Specify the origin from the top of the page. Legal
<..>
Ignoring the man page bug that on
I think there was a copyright problem with "setterm" that caused us to
remove it from the distribution a long time ago. If I recall correctly,
it didn't allow distribution for a fee, which is of course essential to
our CD-ROM redistributors.
Several of the programs in util-linux had ambiguous or p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Can't we retire this thing ?
Yeah, but not _now_. After the release.
Bruce
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I like Ian Jackson's idea of ditching the functions file better than
my patch. I was wondering who used those calls but figured it was one
of those requisite Debian things.
Costa
David,
I liked your letter. Since you were painting in broad strokes I see
no need to pick nits but I think many of your site management concerns
would be better handled by a tool like cfengine than a client-server
model for dpkg.
(Bruce Parens, I hope you're listening)
The idea that sprang to m
Kenny MacDonald writes ("Bug#1495: dselect spelling in help screen"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 0.93.77-0
>
> I think there may be a spelling mistake in one of the dselect help
> screens.
>
> There is a line which says ...
>
> ' ... conflicts/vdependencies ...'
>
> If that really means virtual dep
Kenny MacDonald writes ("Bug#1496: dpkg returns to dselect on SIGSTOP"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 0.9375-0
>
> This happened under .75 and I don't know if it is still a problem
> under .77. Ian, you'll know if you changed anything about this.
No, I haven't.
> I was using dselect for the first
CD Rasmussen writes ("Bug#1499: "):
> Package: sysvinit
> Version: 2.56-6
>
> Problem Description:
>
>When I try to run "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" I get a usage statement.
>This is when xdm is already running.
>
>Most of the init.d scripts source the init.d/functions file which
>would n
Package: miscutils
I can't find the setterm program (distributed as part of util-linux)
anywhere in the distribution (the output from "grep setterm Contents"
is empty, and this program is not on my freshly installed, fairly
complete Debian system at home).
It is not currently part of any package,
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: FTP arrangement"):
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 12:03 BST
>From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I'm confused. I thought we had an incrementally upgradeable system ?
>What is the purpose of the extra directory ?
>
> [ bleeding edge vs. stable ]
Ah, it become
Ray,
Ian moved stuff around on the FTP site, and it's broken the WWW interface to
FTP.
Thanks
Bruce
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Just a few thoughts on installing Debian on Networked systems. (I was
going to wait to introduce this topic until after the release, but people
are already discussing it so I'll put in my $.02 now.)
People have been talking about installing packages on Debian systems which
share certain partitio
I would also like to have the capability to switch between multiple versions
of the same library. That would simplify a few multi-platform-GUI sorts
of tasks. Figuring out how to do that using ELF has got to be simpler
than figuring out how to make a shared ELF/a.out library.
It might be _possible
Ian Murdock:
No, I'm not saying this at all. I'm saying that fairly soon our
primary emphasis (from a development point of view) will be the ELF
distribution. We'll still update the a.out distribution, of
course, but it'll become less and less of a priority from a
development point
Ian Jackson writes:
>
> Package: xntp
> Version: 3.4s-0
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -i in/xntp-3.4s-0.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package xntp.
> (Reading database ... 16257 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xntp (from in/xntp-3.4s-0.deb) ...
> Setting up xntp ...
Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.77-
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Error messages are corrupted
# dpkg-deb --version
Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg-deb' package archive backend version 0.93.77.
Copyright (C) 1994,1995 Ian Jac
I reported that adduser creates a .bash_profile file in the invoking
user's current directory. On examining the code, it seems that if
/etc/skel contains a .login or a .profile it will write those too.
Below is a patch that I believe will fix the problem. It also adds a
new feature: after creati
Package: fvwmR5
Version: 1.24r-
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: How to deinstall fvwmR5
I tried the following commands but no luck.
Erick
# dpkg --list | grep fvwmR5
# dpkg --status fvwmR5
# dpkg --remove fvwmR5
#
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