Can someone point me at the cannonical source for RPM and its
documentation? [My net connection is a bit flakey at the moment.]
Thanks,
--
Raul
> I still don't see what's wrong with the FreeBSD manpages. They were written
> specifically for the GNU programs we're using, and they have been useful to me
> on a number of occasions.
If their copyright is acceptable, why not put them in the package? FSF
(really Richard Stallman) is attempting
> I believe the flag may indeed be unnecessary; the source for umount indicates
> it will not attempt to update /etc/mtab when unmounting the root partition,
> regardless of its read/write status, because the partition ends up being
> remounted read-only by the kernel anyway.
That's a good feature
> -umount -a -n
> +umount -a
This may be a "umount" bug. When you unmount the root filesystem, it is
actually the same as remounting it read-only because of special-case code
in the kernel. Umount will attempt to change /etc/mtab to match the un-mount
of root, and will fail because /etc/mtab is no
A few days ago, all of the symlinks for the ms-dos file names
disappeared from the package directories.
Intentional?
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...RickM...
> I'm closing this bug report because there's no intent to address this
> issue.
>
[snip]
>
> Yes, if the manpages are generated automatically from the info files.
> Otherwise, sorry, it's probably too much of a pain to maintain it,
> though I might be willing to put in man pages but say they're no
> Package: sysvinit
> Version: 2.57b-0
>
> Package: mount
> Version: 2.5-1
>
> I'm not sure which package this reports belong to.
>
> The new umount (from mount-2.5-1) does not have a '-n' option.
> This option is used by some of the scripts from the sysvutils package.
I believe the flag may indee
On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, brian (b.c.) white wrote:
> Where precisely is the Incoming directory these days?
>
ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project/Incoming
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Matthew S. Bailey
107 Emmons Hall
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
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... Any resemblance between the abo
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.8
I tried the new dpkg but version number and dpkg-split aren't correct.
Transcript below.
Erick
~/new# dpkg --status dpkg
Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.
Package: mount
Version: 2.5-1
The mount package does not install a /usr/doc/copyright/mount file or link.
Ray
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POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened
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- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.57b-0
Package: mount
Version: 2.5-1
I'm not sure which package this reports belong to.
The new umount (from mount-2.5-1) does not have a '-n' option.
This option is used by some of the scripts from the sysvutils package.
If this is a sysvinit bug, it is fixed by the
"James A. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or
> > fails ?
> [... (30 to 45 minutes on an old 486 w/ 8 megs RAM) ...]
> Perhaps I should have postinst ask whether or not the .el file should
> be generated? And have a script t
>
> Package: auctex
> Version: 9.2y-7
>
> The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or
> fails ?
The postinst steps through the tex directories and generates .el code
for auc-tex's use. This process can take a long time on slow
machines.
I decided to background it, and
Where precisely is the Incoming directory these days?
Brian
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice,
Package: netstd
Version: 1.22-1
While heavy NFS access is going on (for example, someone installing
Debian from my NFS-exported mirror), named serves a huge number of
requests which presumably come from nfsd. Should nfsd be performing such
a large number of lookups?
Steve Early
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I'm closing this bug report because there's no intent to address this
issue.
- Begin Included Message -
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 11 19:50:58 1995
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 19:50:30 -0800
From: Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: diff 2,7, and lack of man
ATTENTION shared library developers. If you have packages with shared
libraries in /lib, please read this.
> > I already have the patch and will be rebuilding libc5 shortly.
>
> Another thing I came across this hour during the build of netstd-1.25-1:
>
> gcc -o ypserv server.o yp_svc.o yp_xdr.o
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, David H. Silber wrote:
> Package: tk40
> Version: 4.0p3-1
>
> This requires elf-x11r6lib, which does not exist. I installed xlib-3.1.2-2,
> which does not seem to provide what I need, but is the latest xlib available.
> I then forced the install of tk40 and found out that I a
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up'
by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package Ref Subject
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 bugs):
gpm 1669 shutdown hangs on gpm -k until mouse is moved
Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 bugs):
xypi
Package: cern-httpd
Version: 3.0-4
A user just complained that the httpd log files were empty. It looks like
the new logfiles were created, but httpd carried on writing to the old ones.
Steve Early
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> Package: gdb
> Version: 4.15.1-1
>
> If I run "gdb file", gdb says "no such file or directory". If I run
> "gdb `pwd`/file", it works.
It works for me. What libc5 are you using?
David
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Ian Jackson wrote:
> I was logged into chiark as ian. I have permission (according to
> .rhosts files) to log into myrddin as iwj10. root exists on myrddin;
> ijackson and nonexistent do not.
>
> The bug involving quoting the remote dpkg -l invocation appears to be
> a bizarre interaction between
Hi,
I just uploaded a new package, mailagent-3.44-1. First, a
blurb:
>>Randal L. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RLS> Or, if you are a *real* power user, use mailagent. I found it
RLS> to be more feature-ized than procmail, and I had been using
RLS> procmail extensively.
RLS> B
Hi,
Since new packages are not publicly available, I'm only
announcing on debian-devel. I forgot to announce dist-3.60-1, so
this is the first announcement I am making, I am appending the
description field in the control file.
DESCRIPTION: Tools for developing, maintaining and distribu
Hi,
Since the new packages are not being publicly available, I'm
only announcing this on debian-devel.
manoj
Date: 12 Dec 95 06:08 UT
Source: c2man
Binary: c2man
Version: 2.40-3
Description:
c2man: Graham Stoney's mechanized man page generator
Priority: Low
Changes:
*
Thanx Bruce :-)
I am and I care. It took me years to learn to accept symbolic links.
Now that I am used to them and find them useful you want to take them
away from me?!
No, seriously, I reponded already to this and say; leave them alone.
They cost very little, simple for the human to resolve,
Package: gdb
Version: 4.15.1-1
If I run "gdb file", gdb says "no such file or directory". If I run
"gdb `pwd`/file", it works.
Bruce
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