New developer looking for packages

1995-11-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have recently joined this list, and I am not sure what the protocols are yet, so please go easy on me. I have been on the user list for a long time, but have only recently installed debian, and (finally) I would like to contribute to the project. Since time is the major c

Bug#1876: trn installation bugs

1995-11-20 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: trn Version: 3.6 Revision: 2 The postinst lacks a $: *** trn.postinst.oldMon Nov 20 16:28:04 1995 --- trn.postinstMon Nov 20 16:28:22 1995 *** *** 18,21 read server ! echo server >news/server --- 18,21 read server ! echo $server >news/server But

Re: Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread Rob Browning
> "D" == David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> No, but there was some info in my package announcement. I'll D> upload it as elf-announce. Does anyone want to write up something D> more substantial? Documentation is not my strong suit and I will D> also be going out of town soon (conven

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-20 Thread Matthew Swift
Ian Jackson writes: > > Matt Swift writes: > > > > # ensure proper permissions and ownership > > chown --recursive root:texmf $DIRS > > chmod --recursive ug=rwX,o=rX $DIRS > Our packaging guidelines say that the things should be owned by > root.root in general. Is there a good reason to us

convenience script for building a.out packages

1995-11-20 Thread Bill Mitchell
This is a script I've placed in /usr/local/bin/aout on my system. It's intended as an aid in building a.out packages on an elf-ized debian system. It's invoked as: aout { normal command line } #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/i486-linuxaout/bin:$PATH "$@"

Re: Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread David Engel
> I just performed a new debian installation on an extra partition on my > drive using the stuff from debian-1.0 and the new elf packages so I > might be able to help with some development, and I had a couple of > hitches. Is there any readme about moving to elf (i.e. should I RTFM)? No, but ther

ELF migration: some answers

1995-11-20 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Note: when I talk about packages here, I don't mean packages in general, but only development packages (like compiler, linker, binary utilities etc). Q What are The Fine Manuals? A * 'ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective" by H.J. Lu. HTML version near http://www.debian.org/Documentation

Bug#1875: sudo problem

1995-11-20 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: sudo Version: 2.0pl1-20 > Craig Sanders writes: > > >BTW, where should I send bug reports to? debian-user isn't the right > >place, of course. > > Read /usr/doc/bug-reporting.txt > > >|- Message log follows: -| > > no valid recipients were

libtermcap - where is it?

1995-11-20 Thread Kenny Wickstrom
Hi, I am working on converting to ELF so that I can rebuild the few packages I maintain. The conversion seems to have gone fine, however, when I build tin, it is trying to link with libtermcap.a. I have installed libc4, but should I be using this termcap library? Or should there be one in t

Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread Rob Browning
I just performed a new debian installation on an extra partition on my drive using the stuff from debian-1.0 and the new elf packages so I might be able to help with some development, and I had a couple of hitches. Is there any readme about moving to elf (i.e. should I RTFM)? Anyway, I noticed t

Re: TERM=linux & ncurses-1.9.7a...

1995-11-20 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Mike" == Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Also, I seem to be missing untic or infotocap or anything that would let Mike> me look at the entry, so I'm sort of at a loss to guess where the problem Mike> might lie. Try infocmp linux Siggy -- email: [EMA

TERM=linux & ncurses-1.9.7a...

1995-11-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
There seems to be some problem(s) with the 'linux' entry in the terminfo database. I recompiled minicom to use it (figured I'd get the ELF version out of the way) and now all of the dialogs are broken --- specifically, I get extraneous `1m` strings in unusual places. This doesn't happen if I ru

ELF and fpic

1995-11-20 Thread Andrew Howell
Can someone who knows a bit about elf and fpic tell me when do you use fpic? Is it just for compiling shared libraries or what? What compiler options should we be using for compiling stuff under elf? Andrew -- Dehydration - 34%, Recollection of previous evening - 2%, embarrassment factor - 91%.