Just an idea, no flames, etc intended:
Could maintainers who have packages that create directories/etc in
/usr/local make sure they do it in a way that is friendly to
nfs-mounted /usr/local?
Example:
On all of our debian 1.1 machines, /usr/local is an nfs mounted
directory, and on all but one of
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
>
> I only put slang-lib0931.deb at
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/debian/slang-lib09931-1.deb or
> ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf/debian. I'm hoping to get slang-09933
> out, but I've been plagued by hardware problems and too much
> consulting work.
Wel
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.13elf
I'm running dselect in an xterm. I go to the "[S]elect" part of it, and
the up and down addor keys scroll through the list of packages. But when I
type "/mosaic\n", to search for mosaic, the arrow keys stop working.
ctrl-p and ctrl-n still work, as do pageup and pa
'Maarten Boekhold wrote:'
>
>On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
>
>> Package: slrn
>> Version: 0.8.8.4-1
>>
>> This version of slrn appears to depend on a version of slang-lib that's
>> not been packaged yet. slang-lib_0.99.23-1 is the newest version of slang
>> I can find as a .deb on ftp.debi
You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
> Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"):
> ...
> > The GNU configure scripts usually match on i[3456]86-*-*) for
> > architecture support, so that's not a problem.
> >
> > I usually do something like:
> >
> > a = $(shell dpkg --print-architecture)
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Erik B Andersen wrote:
> Package: util-linux
> Version: 2.5-5
>
> /sbin/clock seg. faults. The following illustrates this problem:
I can't duplicate this. I'm running 2.0.15, libc5.2.18-10. I skipped
2.0.14 but doubt that that's the problem. Are you on a m68k perhaps?
Th
Package: msql
Version: 1.0.16-2
When I try to run any of the msql programs, it fails to connect to remote
databases. Connecting to these from a 1.0.14 client works fine.
$ relshow -h gate
Connect: Connection refused
Error connecting to database : Can't connect to MSQL server on gate
I have been trying to use dpkg --compare-versions in a perl script I am
working on. The command seems to execute ok, but I get nothing back from
it. How do I tell if the command has been successful or not?
TIA,
Dwarf
--
aka Dal
Does anybody have or know where I can find the msql 1.0.14 packages?
The newer ones don't seem to work (for me at least) at all.
Please respond by email or copy me on any reply as I have not been able
to resubscribe to the debian-devel list lately.
Brian
Package: bind
Version: 4.9.3-P1-3
If you say yes at the appropriate prompt, bindconfig will create zones
called `localhost' and `0.0.127.in-addr.arpa'. This is correct, but it
could go further -- all of 127.0.0.0/8 is loopback, so it could provide the
`127.in-addr.arpa' zone with one entry, `1.0.
Package: base
Version: 1.1.0-14
/etc/passwd has
majordom:*:30:30:majordomo:/var/majordomo:/bin/sh
The group should be `majordom', not `majordomo'.
Guy
Package: mawk
Version: 1.2.2-1
Mawk doesn't report an error when writing to a full filesystem:
$ mawk '{print}' < /etc/motd > /dev/full
$ echo $?
0
Probably no write error is catched. Gawk does it's job correct:
$ gawk '{print}' < /etc/motd > /dev/full
ga
Package: aout-gcc
Version: 2.6.3-13
$ gcc -bi486-linuxaout hello.c
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
$ gcc -bi486-linuxaout -v hello.c
gcc version 2.7.2
/usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/cpp -lang-c -v -undef -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=7
-D__ELF__ -Dunix -Di386 -D
Package:
Package: win32gcc
Version: 2.7.2.cygnus.960412-1
$ cc -bi386-unknown-cygwin32 -c binary.c
cc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
>From strace:
access("/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-unknown-cygwin32/2.7.2/cc1", X_OK) = -1 ERRNO_2
(No such file or directory)
acc
Kevin M. Bealer writes ("Bug#4257: request-route would be better as conffile"):
...
> The modules packages contains a file /sbin/request-route. This is run by
> the kernel to create routes as needed.
>
> The script's comments suggest is it very configurable, and I usually
> configure it heavily .
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?"):
...
> Pine is in non-free because it's copyright places restrictions on the
> distribution of source. Xforms has more severe restrictions on the
> distribution of source than pine does. It is my understanding t
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Bug#4238: mirror requires perl"):
...
> On the other hand, we seem to have (had ?) a policy of relying on (at least a
> rudimentary) perl in the base system --- but I cannot find anything on that
> in the programmers and policy manuals of dpkg-1.3.8. So should timezone.pl
dpkg 1.3.10 contains version 2.0.0.0 of the package maintainers'
manuals. With this release the new source format is made official.
Maintainers should start thinking about converting their packages.
There is no rush yet, but packages which you're updating anyway are
probably best converted now.
You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
> Rob Leslie writes ("Bug#4218: Problems removing INN"):
> ...
> > dpkg: error processing inn (--purge):
> > cannot remove `/var/spool/news': Device or resource busy
>
> Would it be better if I made dpkg treat this as a warning ?
> (It happens one of the directories in a
Michael Meskes writes ("Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages"):
...
> I've scanned through this list and found quite a lot of packages I never
> read an announcement of. I usually read debian-{devel,changes,user,private}
> so I take it I should have found this announcements. But I never have. Did I
> ju
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu"):
...
> The GNU configure scripts usually match on i[3456]86-*-*) for
> architecture support, so that's not a problem.
>
> I usually do something like:
>
> a = $(shell dpkg --print-architecture)
>
> ifeq (i386,$(a))
> arch = i486-debi
On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I have read all of the discussion. Just because I'm a week behind on
> my email doesn't mean I'm not reading it.
>
> However, since you seemed so insistent, I went back and had a look at
> what arguments people might have presented.
>
> I found a rather
Package: diald
Version: 0.14-4
For some strange reasons I cannot install it:
(Reading database ... 30731 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking diald (from .../ftp/diald_0.14-4.i386.deb) ...
-*- ATTENTION -*-
Your kernel does not seem to have SLIP devices.
Susan G. Kleinmann writes ("Bug#4263: dpkg-source requires patch"):
...
> # dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
> dpkg-source: extracting sgmlspm in sgmlspm-1.03ii
> dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory
> dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2
...
patch is onl
Susan G. Kleinmann writes ("Bug#4262: dpkg-source requires cpio"):
...
> # dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
> dpkg-source: failure: exec cpio: No such file or directory
> dpkg-source: failure: cpio gave error exit status 2
...
> Installing cpio cured the problem, but suggests that the newest
>
Package: mount
Version: 2.5j-1.1
In many traditional unices, swapon can take a "-s" option. This means
list the partition (or files) currently in use. Linux's swapon doesn't
have this option, but it would be nice if it did.
I don't think this information is made available outside the kernel;
per
Since there weren't many testers of the shadow packages I decided to upload
it. Please test it! There will still be some bugs. So be careful.
The problems I know about are:
1) adduser doesn't work anymore
2) xdm doesn't work anymore
3) The dependency are not yet correct. In particular I think I
Package: ircd
Version: 2.8.21-1
The doc files have incorrect permissions and ownership:
ls -l /usr/doc/ircd gives:
total 146
-rw--- 1 root root 768 Aug 3 21:54 2.8-New
-rw--- 1 999 meskes 1898 Dec 2 1994 Advertisement
-rw--- 1 999 meskes 55
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Date: 25 Aug 96 19:47 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: fdutils
Version: 4.3-5
Binary: fdutils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
fdutils: Floppy utitlities
Changes:
fdutils (4.3-5)
Package: ircd
Version: 2.8.21-1
In the postinst hostname is called with option -fqdn. However, there is no
option 'q' nor an option 'n'.
Michael
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>
> Package: xosview
> Version: 1.3.2-6
>
> Xosview only reads the file XOSView (and ~/.Xdefaults) when evaluating
> its X resources. It does this by doing all the reading by foot (calling
> XrmGetFileDatabase() etc.).
> This is IMO the wrong way to do it; the application should use
> XtGetApp
Ian Jackson writes:
> Obviously if you've done it right having the binary check itself
> whether rgid or getgroups includes `floppy' and having it only
> executable by group floppy have the same security effect.
Yes, it checks getgroups.
> However, there are other differences: having the permissi
Yves Arrouye wrote:
> Package: cron
> Version: 3.0pl1-33
>
> Here is what I get:
>
> marin13# dpkg -i cron_3.0pl1-33.deb
> (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
>
> Preparing to replace cron (using cron_3.0pl1-33.deb) ...
> start-stop-daemon: unable to
Package: ncftp
Version: 2.3.0-5
Ncftp dumps core when invoked in an xterm window of width 160 or more.
Looks like this is a ncftp bug and not a ncurses ones... Dselect works
just fine in wide windows, and so does pine.
Christian
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