On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Packages which are not essential in and of themselves, but are
> essential merely because they (for example) provide shared libraries
> for others should probably not be marked essential.
>
> The dependency scheme will prevent their premature removal, if
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Bruce Perens writes ("coming soon"):
> I am changing "init" in a few ways:
>
> 1. The "initrunlevel" file is moving to /etc from /var/log.
> Currently, init gets sick if /usr is unmounted. I may look
> at an alternative to using this file, so that it can better
> t
brian white writes ("Packages Files "):
> I notice that the "Packages" file in the debian-1.0 directory lists
> pathnames relative to ALPHA-TEST directory instead of the root
> directory of the distribution as is the case will all the
> other "Packages" files. This makes little sense to someone wh
brian white writes ("Package Verification "):
> I'd like to suggest another field to be automatically added to the
> "Packages" files that exist at the top of each hierarchy in the
> distribution. I'd like to see a "Checksum:" field that can be used to
> verify the correct download of these packag
Michael Alan Dorman writes ("Re: newest ncurses"):
> On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> > I'm now uploading ncurses-1.9.8a-2 & co. It is also available for ftp
> > from lot49.med.miami.edu:/pub/linux/ until it gets cleared at
> > ftp.debian.org.
>
> I forgot to mention that you wil
Raul Miller writes ("Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops"):
> run-parts should probably not do what it normally does, when a laptop
> doesn't have AC power. This could be implemented with something along
> the lines of:
What does AC power have to do with run-parts ??
run-parts is just a utility to ru
David Engel writes ("Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release"):
> [ and earlier: ]
> > > The runtime package installs the shared libraries as lib*.so.3.0.new
> > > and then renames them to lib*.so.3.0 in the postinst script. This is
> > > fine for not disturbing running programs when the package is being
>
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Default organization: is there a site config file?"):
> It seems to me that this information is not news specific
> (mailers could utilize it too), so should this file be installed
> instead in /etc, also, which package should take responsibility?
Mailers do (sho
Michael Alan Dorman writes ("Re: ncurses build options..."):
> I forget who holds the keys to the virtual package stuff. Would whoever
> does that please register me an ncurses-dev package, in order to simplify
> this for ncurses as it is for tcl/tk?
You can do this yourself. Look in project/s
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: ncurses build options..."):
> [ much deleted ]
> It seems to me that the the sequence would go something like this:
> ...
> 4. User says something like "dpkg --remove --force-essential list_of_libs".
No, users should not need to use --force-remove-essential. I was
worr
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: debian-1.0 availability"):
> > [wuarchive] systems/linux/tsx-11/distributions/debian/debian-1.0/sources
> > is empty !!!
>
> I thought the GPL only required you to provide the sources
> _when_someone_asks_for_them_.
>
> We did learn a lesson today.
My reading of the GPL
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: re:-O2 or -O3 ? "):
> > >Does anyone disagree with Brian White ? If not I'll change the
> > >guidelines back to recommending -O2.
> >
> > Brian's right. Stick with -O2.
>
> But some verbage in the guidelines about -O3 and tradeoffs with -O2
> would probably be a good
> Robert> 2. /usr/bin/fax should probably no longer be listed in conffiles.
>
> No! It is a conffile because /usr/bin/fax, a bash script, was the
> only place to set your local fax settings as serial port, modem capabilities,
> INIT strings, phone number, prinyer what have you.
While /usr/bin/fa
Robert Leslie writes:
Robert> Package: efax
Robert> Version: 07a-2
Robert>
Robert> 1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should
Robert> probably now say /etc/efax.rc instead.
Thanks, I will modify that for the next release.
Robert> 2. /usr/bin/fax should prob
I'll try to add PCMCIA support to the follow-up release of 1.3.47. 47
is already stable and I'd rather not de-stabilize it. It will be
released tonight or tomorrow.
Any volunteers to check it as I have no way to test it.
Also, I have a PCMCIA 130 MB disk. I have written UnixWare drivers for
it
Raul Miller writes ("Re: Bug#1984: dpkg won't install cdtool"):
> begin 644 dpkg-out.gz
-chiark:~/junk> cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/workbone.postrm
#! /bin/sh
rm -f /usr/bin/workbone /usr/man/man1/workbone.1
-chiark:~/junk>
Honestly ! Why was this done ? I suggest the package maintainer read
some of
Hi Bjoern,
I have been entertaining this thought. Maybe as a followup to 1.3.47
(due out tonight or tomorrow). Last I checked it barfed on 1.3.xx
kernels but maybe I am wrong. I also have no way to test it as my
PCMCIA adaprtor is out of the system (no slots) and my only PCMCIA
devices are a mo
Raul Miller writes ("Re: Comments..."):
> Raul Miller:
>> It would be even nicer if there were also a facility to register files
>> as part of a certain package, especially if it also had options to
>> register config files.
>
> Ian Jackson:
>I'm somewhat confused. Can you give a
Package: efax
Version: 07a-2
1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should probably
now say /etc/efax.rc instead.
2. /usr/bin/fax should probably no longer be listed in conffiles.
3. The software looks for spool files in /usr/spool/fax, but:
a. It should probably look i
Raul Miller writes in email to me:
> I presume you're familiar with the gnu conventions for labelling
> target/host architectures? [e.g. i486-unknown-linux]
>
> If not, I'd like to draw your attention to them.
Yes, I am, thanks.
Do people think the architecture names as handled by dpkg should
Michael Alan Dorman writes ("Re: ncurses build options..."):
> If you mean "during the time it takes them to do the other upgrade" when
> you say "for a bit", then I think you're right. I would like to confirm
> some dpkg behavior, though:
>
> Take ncurses-base-1 and ncurses-term-1. The decisi
From: "Eddie Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The printer works fine on DOS.
Eddie,
You must have the "lp" module in your /etc/modules file.
Try "insmod lp" and see if the printer wakes up.
I know my printer doesn't move until that module gets loaded, so I'd guess
that's what is wrong with your syst
I suppose it would be trivial for the script to "cmp" the old file and the
new and not replace the old file if they match.
Bruce
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Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pixar Animation Studios
Using: Debian 0.93R6 from ftp.debian.org.
On: 80386 DX 40
With: I/O card with a parallel port attached to...
And: HP Deskjet 500.
The printer works fine on DOS.
After booting Debian GNU/Linux the printer will not print,
the printer's own RESET button does nothing,
and the Power On Reset doesn't h
The package "ical" no longer runs with the new tk4. It seems to rely
on the older filename.
Brian
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In theory, theory a
If the new xlib and xdevel packages are installed in the wrong order then
the various *.so symlinks for the new libraries won't be made correctly.
Check that the /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so symlink exists and points to
libX11.so.6, and if it doesn't then re-install xdevel.
This is quite a nasty pr
> > Which part, deleting the link in the first place or not recreating it?
> >
> > The latter is not a bug. Ldconfig will never create the links needed
> > by ld as long as I'm maintaining it.
>
> Deleting something that you are not responsible for creating is probably
> not a good idea.
Agree
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote:
> > Can this be considered to be a bug in ldconfig?
>
> Which part, deleting the link in the first place or not recreating it?
>
> The latter is not a bug. Ldconfig will never create the links needed
> by ld as long as I'm maintaining it.
Deleting someth
> The problem is caused by ldconfig; when it is run in the xlib postrm, it
> deletes the .so link. It doesn't replace this link when it's run in the
> xlib postinst.
This is why I suggested a couple of days ago that ldconfig should not
be run from any postrm scripts. It should only be run from p
Hi...
I'm just wondering - does the Packages* and Contents* files really need
to be updated every day? There are no new packages being put in the
0.93 area, and therefor I'm no so sure we have to... Just saves the
mirrors downloading the same files over and over and over again etc.
...Karl
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Package: xpilot
Version: 3.4.2
Package_Revision: 1
Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: Multi-player tactical game
XPilot is a multi-player tactical manoeuvering game for X and Unix
workstations. Players h
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416 wenglish perl doesn't fl
Package: fileutils-3.12
Revision: 3
The package seems to contain ELF executables, yet does not depend upon libc5.
Mike.
--
"I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."
hi,
as far as i can tell, PCMCIA support is not present in the boot kernel
-- i've tried 0.93R6 and 1.0 (from InfoMagic) -- of the bootstrapping
disks. this is a drag for people with Notebooks and PCMCIA ethernet
cards or SCSI+CDROMs, and it seems other distributions (Slackware and
RedHat that i
Here are new versions of libdb, libgdbm and libreadline.
Please note that this version of libgdbm will break the current perl
and man pages. Please wait for new version of these packages before
upgrading.
Feedback is appreciated.
Regards,
Ray
Date: 14 Dec 95 18:33 UT
Source: libdb
Binary: libdb1
Ian, are you working on an elf version? If not, I would be willing
to work on it if it's not too complicated. I've never handled a
package before, so I'd like to start out easy.
I only brought this up because I've been doing some Motif work, and
without an elf xpm, I have to link in the *huge*
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