Buddha> The executable should be recompiled. There are a few outstanding
Buddha> bugs on the fortune package, some dating back over a year, that
Buddha> could easily be fixed by a repackaging. I could be wrong, but it
Buddha> seems as if the maintainer has abandoned it.
Raul> More lik
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I am having problems getting date to produce the date in the format for
> the changelog.
Run the program `822-date'.
Guy
Hi,
Michael Meskes wrote:
> Could anyone with an m68k machine please check if the packages work? There's
> no real change to the i386 version except the maintainer.
I did so - shouldn't the runtime version depend on elf-x11r6lib?
DEBIAN/control:
Package: xforms
Version: 0.81-3
Architecture: m6
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Buddha Buck wrote:
> That sounds good... However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces:
> netstd. As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one
> package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing
> popclient replaces all of netstd.
(This isn't CC'd to the bug database, just a question)
At 01:51 PM 9/10/96 +0100, you wrote:
>When I boot, the ne2000 clone (a Genius 2000 II) is not
>detected. Other Linux boot disks from Slackware and
>Redhat (containing pre-2.0 kernels) both detect the card
>no problems. Subsequent upgrading
> That sounds good... However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces:
> netstd. As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one
> package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing
> popclient replaces all of netstd.
I thought it meant the package replace
Christoph> tcpdump and traceroute are essential network diagnostic
Christoph> tools.
But only for root.
Christoph> Somehow they need to fit into the scheme. Before the netdiag
Christoph> package I manually changed permissions on all machine I
Christoph> installed because our administr
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.14
When I try to build a package dpkg-deb complains:
mycroft# dpkg --build debian/tmp-dev ..
dpkg-deb: building package `libtclobjc-dev' in
`../libtclobjc-dev_1.1b3-1_i386.deb'.
dpkg-deb: unable to create
`../libtclobjc-dev_1.1b3-1_i386.ddebian/tmp-dev/DEBIAN/conffile
The NE2000 driver is in a module. Use the "modconf" tool to configure it,
or "modprobe ne io=0x", where is the I/O bus address of the card
in hex. You might be able to make it work without the "io=" part, I wasn't
sure if that is possible or not from a glance at the driver source.
We coul
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dale> Ian, how do you do this? Anybody?
>
> Just Use the 822-date Ian provides with dpkg:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> 822-date
> Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:38:13 -0400
>
Coolness! Works fine! Was I supposed to see this in the docs somewhere?
Dale> Ian, how do you do this? Anybody?
Just Use the 822-date Ian provides with dpkg:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> 822-date
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:38:13 -0400
I'd rather use the emacs changelog mode, though.
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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Hello you out there,
for you in Europe, using chiark as relay to master.debian.org ... since
the procedure of uploading to Incoming and moving to ../queue is
somewhat error prone, I've written a little perl script (using
ftp.pl and lchat.pl from the mirror package) to do this
for me.
If somebody
Due to circumstances beyond my control my email addresses
@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk are going to go away very shortly.
The new addresses are:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - general stuff, dpkg, &c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - bug system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - if you reply to anything I sent
I am having problems getting date to produce the date in the format for
the changelog. It is probably just ignorance, although I have read the
date manpage frontwards and backwards, there is no definition of datestr.
The closest I have gotten is:
date -d "+%a, +%d +%B +%Y +%T"
which gives the err
Package: bootdisk
Version:
When I boot, the ne2000 clone (a Genius 2000 II) is not
detected. Other Linux boot disks from Slackware and
Redhat (containing pre-2.0 kernels) both detect the card
no problems. Subsequent upgrading to 2.0 for Redhat
still finds the card.
Here is the listing for Slac
Alright I tried all the ideas I had. What shall I do to get consistency
with network diagnostic tools that should be be in the hads of
troublemakers?
I know the adm group is not the right one. Shall I try to set up a new
group of users being able to use network diagnostics?
tcpdump and traceroute
Package: netdiag
Version: 0.2-3
The postinst script copies the tcpdump binary from the tcpdump
package and the traceroute binary from the netstd package to /usr/bin
and makes them setuid root.adm. This allows all users in the existing
adm group to use tcpdump to get the unencrypted passwords that
> Michael Shields wrote:
> >
> > > Suggestions:
> > >
> > > 1) Remove popclient from netstd, or
> > > 2) Update the popclient in netstd and eliminate the separate package.
> >
> > I had already packaged and uploaded popclient before noticing this.
> > I'm not sure it needs to be in netstd; if we
Hallo Christoph!
}Package: sysklogd
}Version: 1.3-6
}
}klogd seems not be able to find the /System.map file. I get the following
}messages from the kernel on bootup:
Have you tried this with 1.3-11, too? If so I will upload a new
release within the next days.
Regards,
Joey
--
/ Mart
> Package: www.debian.org
>
> The home page at
>
>Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux
> URL: http://www.debian.org/
>
> has a link to
>
>Linkname: Mailing List Archives
>Filename: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
>
> The latter pages seems not to have been updated since June 9
> The home page at
>
>Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux
> URL: http://www.debian.org/
>
> has a link to
>
>Linkname: Glimpse HTTP Search
> URL: http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html
>
> Submitting a search from the form there (or from any of the
> sub-directory pages) with Lynx (
Package: fsp
Version: 2.71-4
The distribution fspd uses /var/tmp as cache dir. According to FSSTND
/var/tmp is for 'temporary files, used to keep /tmp small'. However, the
contents files of fspd cached here are not temporary. Unless the archive
changes these files will remain unchanged all the tim
Note: I havn't added in the ability to use passive mode because the
perl module Net::FTP dosn't like it - or I am doing something wrong.
If anyone has any info about this please help.
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On Sep 5, 3:23pm, Bruce Perens wrote:
} Subject: newsgroup creation RFD - draft
} I think it might be time to go for a set of newsgroups. I would keep
} debian-devel and debian-private on mailing lists, but possibly move the
} server (if we can't find Anders). Here is a draft RFD. Discussion pleas
Package: fvwm2
Version: 2.0.42-BETA-0
fvwm2 doesn't include the FvwmClean (aka NoClutter) module, even
though it references it in the system .fvwm2rc. Preferably it should
include this module, but if not it shouldn't be referenced.
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Shields, CrossLink.
Package: www.debian.org
The home page at
Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux
URL: http://www.debian.org/
has a link to
Linkname: Mailing List Archives
Filename: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
The latter pages seems not to have been updated since June 96.
I used to be able to f
Package: www.debian.org
The home page at
Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux
URL: http://www.debian.org/
has a link to
Linkname: Glimpse HTTP Search
URL: http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html
Submitting a search from the form there (or from any of the
sub-directory pages) with Lynx
Package: sysklogd
Version: 1.3-6
klogd seems not be able to find the /System.map file. I get the following
messages from the kernel on bootup:
Sep 6 05:32:01 hur kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Sep 6 05:32:02 hur kernel: Cannot find map file.
Sep 6 05:32:02 hur kernel: Co
Michael Shields wrote:
>
> > Suggestions:
> >
> > 1) Remove popclient from netstd, or
> > 2) Update the popclient in netstd and eliminate the separate package.
>
> I had already packaged and uploaded popclient before noticing this.
> I'm not sure it needs to be in netstd; if we take it out, I ca
Dirk> No, because you need to first edit do_deletes locally to adapt the
Dirk> $del_only variable to your site. Or change your $max_delete_files
Dirk> setting.
Chris> Could reasonable defaults be provided? If not, then certainly
Chris> there are more trivial questions asked by postins
> Package: fortune
> Version: 2.1-1
>
> The /usr/games/fortune executable is a.out rather than ELF. Either a
> dependency upon the old a.out libraries should be added, or the
> executable should be recompiled.
>
The executable should be recompiled. There are a few outstanding bugs on the
fort
Package: popclient, netstd
Version: 3.05-1, 2.07-1
The netstd package provides popclient 2.21, and the popclient package
provides popclient 3.05. These two versions aren't completely
compatable.
Neither package conflicts with the other, yet both provide
/usr/bin/popclient, /usr/man/man.1/popc
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> When I uploaded debiandoc-sgml 1.0.5 the .changes file below was
> included. As you can see it said `Distribution: unstable'. However,
> I see that the package has not been installed into unstable but into
> project/experimental. It should be moved, and
Package: most
Version: 4.5.0-1
Filenames passed to a shell by most are not properly escaped:
$ most '/usr/doc/tapes/SPEED&MEMORY.gz'
/usr/doc/taper/SPEED.gz: No such file or directory
This allows trojan horse filenames to be constructed:
$ echo gotcha | gzip > 'bug;cp `which sh` hole; chmod u+
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