On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1535: GPL gone LGPL exist"):
>[...]
> This is very interesting. The same thing has happened to my system.
>
> The file /usr/doc/copyright/GPL doesn't seem to be in any of the
> packages on the src.doc.ic.ac.uk mirror of ftp
Does anyone know why "get dirname.tar" has been disabled on the ftp
site. I noticed that are .notar files in most directories. Does this
mean that "get dirname.tar" is disabled from those directories? I
asked Matt Bailey about this but he didn't know why this was
happening. Is anyone else havin
Ian Jackson:
This is where the problem starts :-). Obviously this can be done
fairly easily if you're willing to have the user download a list of
all the files included in every package, plus their sizes. I don't
think that's reasonable, though; even compressed, the Contents file
f
Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1535: GPL gone LGPL exist"):
> I had a weird error on my machine. The file containing the text of the
> general public license /usr/doc/copyright/GPL is gone, the file
> /usr/doc/copyright/LGPL is still there. I don't know what did delete this
> file but I 'm quite s
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Sizes and Packages in dselect "):
> I think I have the algorithm to do this. Please see if the following makes
> sense. I can give you pseudocode (or real code) if necessary.
>
> For each file in the files list, find the deepest existing directory
^^
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r
Revision: 6
The system.fvwm pretty much requires m4 (you get errors in your
~/.xsession-errors, not to mention the fact that it's basically unusable)
but it's not even recommended by the package.
Mike.
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"And I swear that I don't have a gun."
On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> [... good thinking snipped ...]
> Does this make sense? I can elaborate if you like.
One additional point occurs to me. Some packages (perl? others?)
consume significant space in postint processing. Size info
for this could be ballparked by the maintai
PSHIFT(1) USER COMMANDS PSHIFT(1)
NAME
pshift - paradigm shift utility
SYNOPSIS
pshift [-zzeitgeist] [-rragelev] [-v] [-c] [-wn] [+|-n]
DESCRIPTION
The pshift operator performs a paradigm shift on its input stream
within t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I can't think of a good way to support this, so I don't intend to.
> There will be one disk usage figure per package; users with several
> filesystems are presumed to know what they're doing.
I think I have the algorithm to do this. Please see if the following makes
se
Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos
compatability"):
> PACKAGE: dpkg (and the ftp site)
>
> The "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files do not have ms-dos
> compatible filenames. Depending on the tools used, manipulating
> these files on, MSDOS filesystems can be a proble
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: Bug#1535: GPL gone LGPL exist"):
> On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1535: GPL gone LGPL exist"):
> >[...]
> > This is very interesting. The same thing has happened to my system.
> >
> > The file /usr/doc/copyright/GPL doesn't s
Erick Branderhorst writes ("Sizes and Packages in dselect"):
> * diskspace requirements (displayed/registered)
> [...]
This is on the wishlist, and I think I know how to support it.
> This will become more difficult when the different directory's where
> parts of the packages are going to are mou
Package: strace
Version: 3.0-1
I needed to recompile strace so that it didn't use /proc//mem to
get the arguments to system calls. This is because /proc//mem is
only available to root on my system, since having it available to
anyone else is a security hole in even the most recent development
ker
I had a weird error on my machine. The file containing the text of the
general public license /usr/doc/copyright/GPL is gone, the file
/usr/doc/copyright/LGPL is still there. I don't know what did delete this
file but I 'm quite sure I didn't do it manually. Is some package perhaps
hardlinking/soft
Package: adduser
Version: 1.94-1
Firstly, it doesn't honour the --home option except when creating
`system' users. This is clearly silly. If I say
adduser --home /u2/fred fred
then I want fred's home directory to be /u2/fred.
Secondly, it doesn't set the setgid bit on home directories that it
Ian,
If you installed the base-0.93.6-6 package in pre-release/ over an
existing system, it would overwrite a few conffiles. I am uploading a new
one that doesn't have this problem, it will be base-0.93.6-7.deb .
YOU MUST USE A CURRENT VERSION OF DPKG to install it. Older versions of
dpkg would o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Noone in their right mind changes root's shell.
I guess you've diagnosed me, then! I did change it to "csh", and did not
move csh's binary to /bin because my /usr is on the same drive as root.
If anything got so bad that csh wasn't available, I'd be using a floppy root
t
Package: procps
Version: 0.97-4
-chiark:~> who
ian :0 Oct 3 12:15
[...]
-chiark:~> w
1:34pm up 3 days, 1:29, 8 users, load average: 0.57, 0.37, 0.35, 1/69
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
ian :0 12:15pm75days 525:15
[...]
Ian.
Kenny MacDonald writes ("Dselect / dpkg interaction."):
> After talking to Stephen Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> last night about
> my understansing of the current way which dselect and dpkg handle the
> 'Z' conffiles option, he came up with one possible solution I thought
> should be aired.
>
> At
Andrew Howell writes ("Bug#1531: syslogd continues to write to old file after
savelog"):
> I just looked into this a little more. It seems that the /var/run
> file for syslog has changed. /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd tries to
> do this.
>
> kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
>
> but the file in /var/r
Raul Miller writes ("Re: ld.so (fwd)"):
> Ian Jackson:
> : IMO the real solution is to have a real FTP method for dselect that
> : only gets the first few bytes of each package to check what it is.
> : This is doable, but someone has to go and write it.
>
> Sure, but this doesn't exist yet. Is it
On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Noone in their right mind changes root's shell. Creating an
> alternative root account with a different login name and tcsh as a
> shell would be the right thing to do.
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought that both bash and tcsh would be
available at all
Kenny Wickstrom writes ("symbolic links within /bin"):
> I was just looking around in /bin and noticed some symbolic links that
> may be incorrect. My system is 0.93R5+++ (I update the base regularly).
> The links I wonder about are
> csh -> ../usr/bin/tcsh
> rmail -> /usr/sbin/
Bruce, would KISS the tiny shell with common commands builtin be
useful to you? Its used in the SAR, search-n-rescue, boot disk.
I added code to it to handle df so I got to know it pretty well.
It uses the readline lib for command line edit and replay.
This think could save a bunch a space. That'
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Dselect / dpkg interaction. "):
> In the case of the startup script running dselect, there is no interactive
> shell to take over when "dselect" gets a stop signal. Thus, you'd simply
> have to fork a shell at a lower level.
That's right. When the DPKG_NO_TSTP variable i
>
> : this is great for backwards binary compatability, something Linux
> : has excelled at.
>
> With all due respect, Linux has been worse about this than many other
> platforms, especially where C++ programs are concerned. FreeBSD, for
> example, has been more stable over the past couple of y
After talking to Stephen Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> last night about
my understansing of the current way which dselect and dpkg handle the
'Z' conffiles option, he came up with one possible solution I thought
should be aired.
At the moment, dselect sets an environment variable, and dpkg then
test
Since I cannot get through to ftp.debian.org this morning, I've put
the ispell-dictionary-devel.tar.gz file up for anon ftp at
/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub/ispell-dictionary-devel.tar.gz
If somebody else wants to upload to ftp.debian.org, then please go ahead.
Kenny.
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| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "http://
I knocked up this text this morning, before going away for a week, as
I've had some interest from people wishing to see more ispell
dictionaries. I'll probably read my mail at the weekend, but I won't
be sending any out until next week, probably Tuesday.
I hope this is enough to let interested pe
Package: repair
Version: 0.1-1 (last "1" by hand)
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Repair doesn't give debian revision
Repair seems to be searching in the file /var/lib/dpkg/available to
find some info about the
Erick Branderhorst writes:
>Repair seems to be searching in the file /var/lib/dpkg/available to
>find some info about the specific package. It however never seems to
>find the debian revision number. I took a quick look in the script
>and it seems to search for a sequence "package_revision". In th
I was just looking around in /bin and noticed some symbolic links that
may be incorrect. My system is 0.93R5+++ (I update the base regularly).
The links I wonder about are
csh -> ../usr/bin/tcsh
rmail -> /usr/sbin/rmail
rnews -> /usr/sbin/rnews
smail -> /usr/sbin
I tried KISS a while back. It's a step in the right direction, but doesn't
have all of the programs I wanted, and wasn't as robust as I'd like it to be.
I then wrote something with the tiny utilities like KISS, but no shell.
It's intended to be linked into another small shell like "ash". I think
Ia
In the case of the startup script running dselect, there is no interactive
shell to take over when "dselect" gets a stop signal. Thus, you'd simply
have to fork a shell at a lower level.
Bruce
Let's try this again, filling in the Subject field instead of the
Cc field.
This bug is assigned to "nvi, elvis". Since elvis and nvi now use
update-alternatives, I've requested that this be reassigned to vim.
This bug is assigned to "nvi, elvis". Since elvis and nvi now use
update-alternatives, I've requested that this be reassigned to vim.
I haven't been able to reproduce this bug with my version of tcsh
so I'm closing this bug.
Andrew
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Package: xbase?
Version: 3.1.2-2
There is a directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults", which
contains defaults for various X applications. Are these defaults intended
to modified on a system basis? If so, the directory should be under /etc
and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults should be
I don't understand how to use the "Contents" file on ftp.debian.org
(and mirrors). First of all the explanation in the header should refer
to "Contents" or "Contents.gz" and not to "CONTENTS". This is minor
but anyway.
>From the "Contents" file:
> You can use this file to determine which package c
I just looked into this a little more. It seems that the /var/run
file for syslog has changed. /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd tries to
do this.
kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
but the file in /var/run is now this
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root3 Sep 28 13:53 syslogd.pid
Andrew
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Package: syslogd
Version: 1.2-11
As you can see below the syslogd is still writing to daemon.0 after
savelog ran on Oct 1st.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 Oct 1 06:47 /var/log/daemon
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm207110 Oct 3 11:52 /var/log/daemon.0
root97 0.0 0.8
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