On 5 May 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
>
> I have a package that uses two very small libraries, shhmsg and shhopt.
> I packaged the libs separately from the program that uses them, but it
> has been suggested that I just incorporate them in the package that
> uses them (snake4).
>
> The libs are ge
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
>
I don't know if this has been discussed here before.
Is it possible for a non privileged user to use dpkg to install a package
under the user's home directory? I know this kind of installation is not
perfect. But sometimes it is helpful. What are the pros and cons of this
kind of an approach?
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
>Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Am I the only one reading the following in the way that derived works are
>> forbidden?
>>
>> " ...provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact
>> and is not made part of any program either in whole or in
> "Peter" == Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> The main configuration file is /etc/inetd.conf. If xinetd is
Peter> installed the first time it should create /etc/xinetd.conf
Peter> based on the current /etc/inetd.conf. If you install a package
Peter> that adds an entry to /etc/in
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 11:23:38AM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> Craig Sanders wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 May 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > Jim Pick writes:
> > > > I must admit, I've been entirely negligent in following the policy
> > > > discussions - due to lack of time, I've skipped the
This software has served the #debian channel for over 9 months, and is GPL.
>From the README:
Eggdrop is an IRC bot, written in C. If you don't know what IRC is,
this is probably not whatever you're looking for! Eggdrop, being a
bot, sits on a channel and takes protective measures:
Hi!
Is anybody working on packaging the German LinuxFocus magazine? If not,
I#ll do it.
cu, Marco
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James Troup wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you alive? I think Santiago is having evil ideas about hijacking
> packages.
>
> --
> James
I _am_ alive...just barely. Unfortunately, it looks like a) most of my
mail for the past month ended up in the bit bucket, and b) I'm no longer
going to have time to
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am I the only one reading the following in the way that derived works are
> forbidden?
>
> " ...provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact
> and is not made part of any program either in whole or in part [...]."
We need explicit permission to
You may find the first section of the Introduction to "The Debian Linux
User's Guide" (found at www.linuxpress.com) of some interest. It is titled
History, and was, for the most part, written by Ian Murdoch, so you can
trust its accuracy. ;-)
Luck,
On Tue, 5 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> O
Joost Witteveen wrote:
> Hi, Joey,
>
> At the moment it's really difficult for me to apply those patches to xaw*
>
> Could I beg you (or anyone else) to do a NMU?
I will do one ASAP, and releases for bo as well.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Trying to upgrade via FTP to hamm would be too painfull at 28.8KB!
Hi,
It depends on your pain threshold, I guess. I thought that too,
until I started the bo testihng program a little over a year ago.
Since then I have updated from rex to bo, then bo to hamm, and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I remember Debian 0.04. Basically, it was what we'd nowadays term "base +
> bootfloppies" - an minimalistic base system on which to build the
> distribution. Even then, mailing lists were central to development, and
> development was a group effort.
T
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 03:42:28PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> I understand your concern here, but there is no restriction against
> distributing modified binary, only modified source.
Am I the only one reading the following in the way that derived works
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reading your draft, I see discussion of the importance of the goals,
> but not the importance of the standards -- or at least, not in as many
> words.
Fair enough.
Do you think the small change you recommended satisfy this need? Or are
you asking for some
i have squid cache
i have dpkg-http
there was a time, when it worked. i could do [U]pdate in dselect, and he
used the version of Packages.gz in the Cache.
i can check that he uses the cache, because if i stop the cache, he fails.
i can check, that the cache caches the file with Netscape.
but i d
I have a package that uses two very small libraries, shhmsg and shhopt.
I packaged the libs separately from the program that uses them, but it
has been suggested that I just incorporate them in the package that
uses them (snake4).
The libs are generally useful and they are distributed separately
Hi, Joey,
At the moment it's really difficult for me to apply those patches to xaw*
Could I beg you (or anyone else) to do a NMU?
Thanks!
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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 09:44:41AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Hi,
> > While we are talking about obsolete packages, what is the
> > story on these? I mean, I would not like to just remove all the
> > picons packages (why are they marked obs
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether
> > or
> > > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggest
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 11:25:40AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've been testing some simple ftp clients and qftp looks like the best
> > option, with cftp going second on the list. If you have any comments or
> > suggestions, now is the time, so
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> > > configuration situations that
Andrew Tridgell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'll be releasing a "anonymous rsync" package soon that you guys might
> like.
Wonderful, this might obviate my need for mirror in many cases.
One thing though, is there any chance you might consider a pair of new
options: --regex-include and --regex
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been testing some simple ftp clients and qftp looks like the best
> option, with cftp going second on the list. If you have any comments or
> suggestions, now is the time, so let's hear those horror/love stories
> about one or the other.
My favo
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What exactly are your objections to Emacs' compile-mode and
> gdb-mode? I find them to be quite useful. Perhaps you could write
> some extensions that would make them more useful to you.
I used to use CodeWarrior back when I was a Mac user (yes, I was), a
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Shouldn't have to be, especially for someone as Perl-savvy as you.
Being known as perl-savvy. Don't know whether to be insulted or
complimented :> a dark, hidden shame...
Seriously, the problem with mirror's inclusion/exclusion mechanism is
that
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> > configuration situations that break the method.
>
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
[snip]
I guess I should learn to read faster since it has already been mentioned
many times.
Anand
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
> configuration situations that break the method.
How about just checking for the existance of the DISPLAY vari
> >>This is a draft.<<
>
> I've written a document which touches on what I feel are important
> meta-policy issues. It's a little bit of history, a little bit of
> speculation, and a bit of an essay on how I think of debian.
>
> I'm sure other people have different ideas. I hope none of what
>
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > *** x11 Opt tkdesk 1.0b4-2.1
>
> this package could use blt8.0-unoff
Actually, it can't, but that's because other bits of tkdesk are
incompatible with tcl/tk 8.0. As the upstream source of tkdesk comes
with its own blt, that's gettin
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 10:29:50PM -0400, SEGV wrote:
> I'm sitting here looking at my unused copy of Visual Studio 5.0 for
> Windows, and thinking of the pathetic UNIX IDEs I have used in the past
> two years.
>
> - SparcWorks on Solaris
> - Softbench on HP-UX
> - ladebug etc. on Digital UNIX
Manoj Srivastava writes:
> Hi,
> While we are talking about obsolete packages, what is the
> story on these? I mean, I would not like to just remove all the
> picons packages (why are they marked obsolete)? What about ckermit?
> How many of these are actually obsolete, and how many just ha
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:10:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
> and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
> the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
I remember Debian 0.0
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just installed apt_0.0.8. My impression is that it is significantly faster
> > than dpkg-ftp. Could be pyschological, though ;)
>
> No, it probably is. It advoids alot of the time consuming st
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 11:59:36AM +0200, Tobias Josefsson wrote:
> I was just wondering when Debian release 2.0 is going to be released...
> Does anyone know?
Yes, I know. When it's ready :-)
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On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:35:19AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does the kernel source package in hamm (kernel-source-2.0.33
> 2.0.33-7.deb) include the patch for fat32?
Yes, it does. From "/usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.33/changelog.debian.gz":
"...
kernel-source-2.0.33 (2.0.33-3) stable unst
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
> and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
> the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
My memory doesn't extend back that far, nor
Does the kernel source package in hamm (kernel-source-2.0.33 2.0.33-7.deb)
include the patch for
fat32? I am getting patch failures (.rej's) trying to apply this patch to
earlier sources from bo, so I used a generic
2.0.33 kernel source from sunsite archive. I will upgrade to hamm when it
is read
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 20:15:16 +0100, I wrote:
> We have a little conflict here:
>
> - The netbase maintainer says telnet should stay in netstd.
>
> - I don't want to put the whole netstd (~1.2MB uncompressed) into the
> base system. (That would be one base floppy more).
>
> - Files in the base
Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> > Jim Pick writes:
> > > I must admit, I've been entirely negligent in following the policy
> > > discussions - due to lack of time, I've skipped them entirely.
> >
> > Me too.
> >
> > > I suspect that most of the other "older"
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 05:31:20PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > some time ago I expressed the intent to package fontinst
> > (a TeX/LaTeX package). I asked the author about the licence
> > an
Hi there!
I was just wondering when Debian release 2.0 is going to be released...
Does anyone know?
Thanks
Tobias Josefsson
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Hi,
I am writing a little font manager for debian (dtm, you can find
it in slink) and some time ago I proposed to put all the fonts
(the one independent from arch) in /usr/share/fonts. If the fonts
have both outlines and metrics like type1 fonts we can use subdirs:
/usr/share/font
James Troup wrote:
> > *** gamesOpt xtet42 2.02-8
> >
>
> Moved to some `Dead' directory in master, I can't remember the
> location of offhand. Copyright renders it undistributable IIRC.
Actually, these is no known copyright, and the author cannot
Hi,
Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer,
and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted
the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
"If you find yourself having to do something which seems to
conflict w
Yes, in fact, I apologize for not noticing your response -- I'd
forgotten that I sent it in from another account which I don't check
as often (*blush*) so after sending my rant, I then went back and
found it in my mail box. Oops.
Also, I didn't know that it had been orphaned; that would certainly
> Seems to be working much better. I just installed it on our main servers,
> the client gets,
>
> treacy 29488 4.4 5.2 3768 3320 p5 S20:32 0:15 rsync -avz
> treacy 29511 7.9 9.8 6660 6164 p5 S20:33 0:23 rsync -avz
>
> And the server gets,
>
> treacy 15724 9.7 6.5
[List people, please do not CC: Andrew, I'm cc'ing this to the list to
follow up on the thread I started earlier.]
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> > We at Debian have been using rsync to mirror our ftp and web archives and
> > unfortunately in our case rsync uses a massive amount of
I believe the `Cygnus Foundry', by Cygnus, is a
UNIX-based IDE - not certain, though. But like
most commercial UNIX software, it costs a pretty
penny.
-c
SEGV> I'm sitting here looking at my unused copy of Visual Studio 5.0 for
> Windows, and thinking of the pathetic UNIX IDEs I have used in t
Even XEmacs with Sparcworks integration doesn't do it for me. So
basically I use XEmacs to edit my source and make files, and the command
line to compile. I debug with whatever debugger is best for the platform
I am using that day.
What exactly are your objections to Emacs' compile-mod
I'm sitting here looking at my unused copy of Visual Studio 5.0 for
Windows, and thinking of the pathetic UNIX IDEs I have used in the past
two years.
- SparcWorks on Solaris
- Softbench on HP-UX
- ladebug etc. on Digital UNIX
Even XEmacs with Sparcworks integration doesn't do it for me. So
ba
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Speaking for binary-powerpc there will not be 2.0. I hope we'll
> be ready for 2.1. I wonder if it would be useful to remove
> binary-powerpc from hamm completely and only work on slink.
Speaking of the powerpc distribution, how's it doing? Is there
[On fmirror:]
Rob> It's syntax made it really easy to specify things like "I want a
Rob> mirror of unstable and frozen, but only the {disks,binary}-{i386,all}
Rob> stuff. To do the same thing in mirror syntax is a much bigger hassle.
Shouldn't have to be, especially for someone as Perl-sav
Dirk,
On Mon, 4 May 1998 12:52:52 -0400 (EDT), Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> The auto-pgp package has been touched since November 1995, and has
> currently seven open bugs filed against it.
> If nobody objects, I will adopt auto-pgpt by uploading a version
> which corrects the 7 b
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 10:56:43PM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 11:28:20AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> > I have been working on the xfstt package to take it over. Until a few
> > days ago there was only one bug of "Wishlist" priority filed against
> > it which is
Hello,
> Eloy> Hi, my package ncpfs provides a shared library (libncp). When trying
> Eloy> to build using dpkg-buildpackage, debstd gives several errors about
> Eloy> not being able to find dependencies for the binaries in the
> Eloy> package.
>
> Errors or warnings?
Actually they are
>>This is a draft.<<
I've written a document which touches on what I feel are important
meta-policy issues. It's a little bit of history, a little bit of
speculation, and a bit of an essay on how I think of debian.
I'm sure other people have different ideas. I hope none of what
I've written mak
Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> > someone on tcsh-dev found that bug - I sent in the particular patch as
> > a bug report, but haven't heard anything (on this or on the
> TCSH was orphaned for six months. I took maintainership three days before the
> freeze. I have since s
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are there any alternatives to rsync that don't use as much memory?
(Assuming that you don't mind requiring ftp access...)
One of fmirror's stated design goals is to use as little RAM as
possible, and it has a much nicer inclusion/exclusion semantics
Michael Meskes wrote:
> Jim Pick writes:
> > I must admit, I've been entirely negligent in following the policy
> > discussions - due to lack of time, I've skipped them entirely.
>
> Me too.
Me three. I am but a humble physics student ( ;-) ) who wants to
package a few science things for
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