Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Michael Dietrich
> So, if you have them ready, please release 4.05 debs. I'm eager to test > them. :-) mee too, i would like to see it on alpha... -- see header -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Rob" == Rob Tillotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Kpilot comes with its own version of libpisock, which is Rob> built and statically linked independent of whether you have Rob> another one already on the system. I haven't looked deeply Rob> at the code, but I would ass

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Rob Tillotson
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but kpilot doesn't depend on libpisock3 -- perhaps it's not dynamically > linked? It should be, though. Kpilot comes with its own version of libpisock, which is built and statically linked independent of whether you have another one already on the syste

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-17 Thread Andy Mortimer
Dear all, I'm a little late with this, unfortunately, but here goes anyway ... Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was told that dselect has problems with hamm being distributed on > more than one cd rom. Ian Jackson suggested that we should take a > look at dpkg-mountable. This mea

Re: Hamm CD layouts

1998-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
> Has any consensus been reached about the best layout to be used for Hamm > disks? I've written several 3-CD sets for people so far using a simple > layout (below), but it would be nice to be able to produce to produce ones > similar to the official ones... > > Disk 1: Main binary (i386, bootab

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Raul Miller
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some people don't use dpkg, don't use debian, and still will burn a cdrom for > a friend. a tar.gz is much better ... Or a brief note that says use "ar x blah...deb" to extract the tar.gz file. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)(still intending)

1998-06-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:02:07PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > > As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape > > 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. > > I will be moving my focus t

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Adam Heath wrote: > > > As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape > > 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. > > I will be moving my focus to version 4.5, which is s

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Behan Webster
John Goerzen wrote: > > pilot-manager -- Perl/TK hotsync tool (waiting for me to download and > try it out) pilot-manager is already packaged. In fact I've been using it for weeks already. griffon:~> dpkg --status pilot-manager Package: pilot-manager Status: install ok install

Hamm CD layouts

1998-06-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Has any consensus been reached about the best layout to be used for Hamm disks? I've written several 3-CD sets for people so far using a simple layout (below), but it would be nice to be able to produce to produce ones similar to the official ones... Disk 1: Main binary (i386, bootable) Disk 2:

Re: removal of dhcp-beta?

1998-06-17 Thread peloy
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, dhcp-beta is the only version that can be used with multiple > subnets; if that's the case, taking it out makes the dist lose > functionality. (A real bummer if there are no problems with dhcp-beta > other than the name.) Oppsss!! I didn't know th

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Therefore, I believe that I will just dump the tar.gz's of John> binutils, gcc, and gdb into the toplevel of the package's John> tar file (or maybe the debian/ directory, I dunno), and then John> all I have to do is cha

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> kpilot -- KDE hotsync tool Hm.. kpilot seems to have been statically linked with libpisock. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% dpkg -l 'libpi*' 1:38PM Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/In

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> I'd like feedback on it. I have opted to package it as it > John> is done upstream; that is, all the programs in one thing. > > Okay, here's a bit of feedback. :) > > prc-tools includes almost all of its files in /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/,

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and > John> should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was > John> quite a chore to package but it is quite exciting what can > John> be done with it! > > Wonderfu

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:02:07PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape > 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. > I will be moving my focus to version 4.5, which is scheduled to be > released tomorr

Re: intent to package: rplay

1998-06-17 Thread lantz moore
>> RPlay is a flexible network audio system. RPlay, written by Mark Boyns >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is provided under the GPL. >> >> Package: rplay Version: 3.3.0a2-4 Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 >> Suggests: xpm, mpg123 Andreas> uh ? why suggest mpg123 ? rplay can use mpg123, as well as ot

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi, I have now successfully built the GCC, gdb, binutils, John> etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and John> should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was John> quite a chore to package

selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris who wants to install on a laptop. I'd hate to see him go RH. I think he has a network card. Maybe apt and a remote archive works pretty well now for installing ? John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Intent to package: mailman

1998-06-17 Thread Johnie Ingram
(And probably pipermail too, if the author produces an actual copyright statement.) new debian package, version 2.0. size 154772 bytes: control archive= 4612 bytes. 73 bytes, 3 lines conffiles 968 bytes,21 lines control 7003 bytes, 10

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> Great! So will the official hamm CD images be jolietized? :) i didn't test the booting right now, but people told me it was fixed in 1.12a4. unless new problems or bugs show up : yes. andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: how to disable locales?

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 11:41:33AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > dpkg-repack needs to parse some dpkg output that is internationalized. So I > need to force dpkg to output this in english. There seem to be a lot of > variables that control which language is used, LANG, LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, > etc. Which

how to disable locales?

1998-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
dpkg-repack needs to parse some dpkg output that is internationalized. So I need to force dpkg to output this in english. There seem to be a lot of variables that control which language is used, LANG, LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, etc. Which of these do I need to unset before running dpkg? -- see shy jo

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi, I have now successfully built the GCC, gdb, binutils, John> etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and John> should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was John> quite a chore to package

Re: removal of dhcp-beta?

1998-06-17 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 10:55:26AM -0400, Brian White wrote: > There is a bug against dhcp-client-beta that is causing it to be removed > from Hamm. Should all "dhcp-beta" packages be removed or is omitting just > this one okay? I need to know asap. Thanks. dhcp-client-beta is seriously broken

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The stock kernel mounts this CD (mount -t auto /dev/hdd cdrom) >> as joliet... it /spits: >> >> The writer is installed on a machine running 2.1.103 (the >> support for my controller is better with 2.1.10x)

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> The stock kernel mounts this CD (mount -t auto /dev/hdd cdrom) as joliet... > it /spits: > > The writer is installed on a machine running 2.1.103 (the support for my > controller is better with 2.1.10x), but I used the CD to freshly install > Debian on a couple of PC's and to upgrade my own comp

Re: removal of dhcp-beta?

1998-06-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Probably it is a good idea to move the dhcp-beta's to Slink but just > so we do not provide beta packages in our next stable release. AFAIK, dhcp-beta is the only version that can be used with multiple subnets; if that's the case, taking it out make

Re: removal of dhcp-beta?

1998-06-17 Thread peloy
Hi Brian, Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a bug against dhcp-client-beta that is causing it to be removed > from Hamm. Should all "dhcp-beta" packages be removed or is omitting just > this one okay? I need to know asap. Thanks. The "important" or "critical" bug report is aga

Re: Base system tarball Q [XTerminal]

1998-06-17 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:49:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok I found out there is no resolv.conf (duh I know..that gets created by > a script when I configure the network...which obviously never happens) > I also found out that I hafta do a chroot . bash --login > once to get it to con

pgp key signing howto

1998-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked me to post the URL of this little faq on how to exchange pgp public keys: http://god.ml.org/~robert/HOWTO-PGP-Key-Signing Please reply to him. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-17 Thread Jose Marin
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:18:52PM +0100, Jose Marin wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Gu Xiangqian wrote: > > > Would you do me a favor? I want compile a Fortran program > > > with g77: > > > program gg > > > integer i > > > i

Re: GNUPLOT breaks GPL

1998-06-17 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Edward Betts wrote: > > > * Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to > > * distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed > > * as patches to released version. > > Ahem... it look

Re: GNUPLOT breaks GPL

1998-06-17 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Edward Betts wrote: > * Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to > * distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed > * as patches to released version. Ahem... it looks like gnuplot falls in the same category as pine and qmail.

Re: GNUPLOT [does not] break GPL

1998-06-17 Thread James Troup
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 15:37:30 $ ldd `which gnuplot` > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) > libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libc5-compat/libreadline.so.2 (0x40048000) > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4006a000) > libc.so.5 =>

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 06:55:13PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > What's wrong with having both? We already have dpkg*nondebbin.tgz. > > both is ok. do you want to create the package ? I would like to, but currently I'm busy building and testing boot-floppies_2.0.7. I may be able to try yo

HELP: hosed /etc

1998-06-17 Thread Will Lowe
In the process of installing a tape drive so I could back up /etc and my dpkg selections, I've managed to hose /etc ... just the top-level directory; all the subdirectories are fine. Is there some way (once I get a passwd file back, probably by copying over the passwd file from a rescue disk an

GNUPLOT breaks GPL

1998-06-17 Thread Edward Betts
15:37:30 $ ldd `which gnuplot` libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libc5-compat/libreadline.so.2 (0x40048000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4006a000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40073000) libncurses.so.3.

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> Please, note that I'm not saying that these scripts should be distributed > *just* as a .deb package. I'm saying that they should probably be > distributed as a .deb package *in addition* to any other form of > distributing them. I don't want to discuss "what is better". so, feel free to pickup

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> What's wrong with having both? We already have dpkg*nondebbin.tgz. both is ok. do you want to create the package ? andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

copyright question

1998-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
I would like to package a set of large mouse cursor fonts for X. These are useful on a laptop, where the cursor's hard to see. The fonts appear to be the standard X cursor fonts, scaled up by certian factors (so they are a little blocky). As such, I expect they come under the same license as the X

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:06:13PM +0200, Ronald Lembcke wrote: > I had the same problem with my selfburned hamm cd's... > the debian-hamm kernel seems to prefere joliet over > rockridge with mount -o nojoliet the symlinks worked... I used Andreas' tarball v 0.12 (which contains mkisofs)

Re: xntp3: init script is not very policy-compliant

1998-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
Raul Miller wrote: > Briefly, this command line: > f=/tmp/fifo; rm -f $f; mkfifo $f; ( sleep 100 <$f 0>$f &); sleep 2; echo >$f > will kill your interactive shell > > I'm a bit surprised to find this, um.. undocumented feature in three > shells of supposedly different lineage. I should note that

Re: xntp3: init script is not very policy-compliant

1998-06-17 Thread Joey Hess
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > I think we need a way to install a package without automatically having its > server part configured and running. This is needed in many packages (e.g.: > ssh). I agree. This is also an issue when you do something like dpkg --root=/mnt -i foo.deb -- when you do that,

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 06:07:32PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > sad news : after i created cdrom images with -J (joilet) option, > the symlinks were broken : plain 2.0.33 sees them as files, > but 2.0.34pre (with joilet patch) understands them. Andreas, I don't know if this has been fixed,

removal of dhcp-beta?

1998-06-17 Thread Brian White
There is a bug against dhcp-client-beta that is causing it to be removed from Hamm. Should all "dhcp-beta" packages be removed or is omitting just this one okay? I need to know asap. Thanks. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:18:52PM +0100, Jose Marin wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Gu Xiangqian wrote: > > Would you do me a favor? I want compile a Fortran program > > with g77: > > program gg > > integer i > > i=999 > > print*,i > > stop > >

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-06-17 Thread Jose Marin
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Gu Xiangqian wrote: > Would you do me a favor? I want compile a Fortran program > with g77: > program gg > integer i > i=999 > print*,i > stop > end > But G77 cannot do it. Yes I wish that the default of > integer

New editor posibly...

1998-06-17 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I spoke of a editor before of a editor that was akin to dos edit. I have talked to the author, the source has been placed under gpl. The source can be found here http://www.blkbox.com/~jyork/edit-0.1.tar.gz It's fairly small, Very easy to use... but it needs

Re: fonts messed up in emacs after last hamm update

1998-06-17 Thread Jens Ritter
Thomas Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > after the last upgrade from a hamm mirror the X font metrics in > emacs are completely messed up such that any text becomes > unreadable and the characters seem to be placed in the > window randomly. > > Since this problem occurs also when di

Re: xftp: in main but no source??

1998-06-17 Thread sjc
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:42:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:41:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I noticed xftp on the WNPP as being orphaned, and it is a program that > > I have used and sort of like (but always thought it could use some work) > > xftp, s

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-17 Thread Gu Xiangqian
Dear Sir/Madam, I am Meteorologist from China. Would you do me a favor? I want compile a Fortran program with g77: program gg integer i i=999 print*,i stop end But G77 cannot do it. Yes I wish that the default of integer and float has 8

Re: Laptop: DSTN scan specs for X?

1998-06-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:03:31PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Anyone know the scan specs for a "12.1" SVGA High-contrast DSTN" > laptop display? Depends on your Chipset. Try Modprobe to find out. The usual Laptops are driven by Cirrus Chips. There is a Readme in the X11 lib Directory and t

Processed: f

1998-06-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 23340 general Bug#23340: Quite a bad error from libstdc++2.8 Bug reassigned from package `libstdc++2.8' to `general'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs databa

Re: apache_1.1.3-6 preinstall script giving errors

1998-06-17 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Douglas Bates wrote: > > I was having trouble installing apache_1.1.3-6 on a bo machine that > had an earlier apache (1.0.x) installed. I kept getting an error in > the pre-installation script. I thought it was because of the previous > version so I removed the previous version. Now I still can

Bug #23000

1998-06-17 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Herbert Xu wrote: > That's just simply true. If you have a short memory, let me remind you that > sendmail's default MDA in bo is, surprise deliver. So it is perfectly > reasonable to have procmail not setuid on a bo system, which is what I did. Does sendmail

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:31:15PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo > > to download that package (it's a "binary-all" package, isn't it?) and use > > it. Moreover, people can use the bug tracking system to report bugs. >

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Adam Heath wrote: > As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape > 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. > I will be moving my focus to version 4.5, which is scheduled to be > released tomorrow(Wednesday). I checke

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo > > to download that package (it's a "binary-all" package, isn't it?) and use > > it. Moreover, people can use the bug tracking system t

Bootfile locations for rbootd?

1998-06-17 Thread Alan Bain
Rbootd is a remote boot daemon for HP workstations and needs to have a hardcoded directory for storage of the boot file which is served to the workstations (say SYS_UBOOT -- the NetBSD loader). Previously this lived in /export/hp/root but I was thinking this isn't really in line with the FSSTD. W

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
Regarding the idea of doing the cd construction scripts as a .deb Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no, a package is not a good idea. Would the .orig.tar.gz for such a package not be exactly what you intend to produce anyway ? In which case, you can satisfy both camps by just addi

Re: intent to package: rplay

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>RPlay is a flexible network audio system. RPlay, written by Mark Boyns ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is provided under the GPL. > > Package: rplay > Version: 3.3.0a2-4 > Architecture: i386 > Depends: libc6 > Suggests: xpm, mpg123 uh ? why suggest mpg123 ? why xpm ? is there a package called "xpm" at all

new package: newsview

1998-06-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
I did upload to experimental "newsview", a very interesting X based newsreader. The author orphaned it, I hope someone will continue the developement. Most significant features are the thread widget and many different styles (athena-like, motif-like, nextstep-like, openlook-like, etc). -- ciao,

fonts messed up in emacs after last hamm update

1998-06-17 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, after the last upgrade from a hamm mirror the X font metrics in emacs are completely messed up such that any text becomes unreadable and the characters seem to be placed in the window randomly. Since this problem occurs also when displaying a remote emacs on the local X server, it might be a

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>> i don't think that a package is the right place for such stuff : >> many people want to burn debian cd's before or without installing debian >> hamm. > >Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo >to download that package (it's a "binary-all" package, isn't it?) a

Re: xftp: in main but no source??

1998-06-17 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:41:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed xftp on the WNPP as being orphaned, and it is a program that > I have used and sort of like (but always thought it could use some work) > xftp, so I thought I would grab the source. > > xftp is in main in both hamm and

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo > to download that package (it's a "binary-all" package, isn't it?) and use > it. Moreover, people can use the bug tracking system to report bugs. > I don't think a package is such a wrong place. some people don't use dpkg

Need help with file-rc

1998-06-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! file-rc has one release critical bug. I can't reproduce this bug on my systems that use file-rc. At the moment I don't think that I'm able to track it down - mainly due time shortness. Could somebody please review it and investigate the problem. I'd appreciate a non-maintainer upload if ne

Re: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Drake Diedrich wrote: ... >/usr/doc/postgresql-doc/FAQ.gz >-- > 2.11) How do I tune the database engine for better performance? > > There are several things that can be done. You can disable fsync() by > starting the postmaster with a '-o -F' option. T

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
I found the entire kernel/hw clock issue quite confusing. (eg , when to use the uct flag ) The man pages help a little. A clock howto would be quite helpful. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

xftp: in main but no source??

1998-06-17 Thread sjc
I noticed xftp on the WNPP as being orphaned, and it is a program that I have used and sort of like (but always thought it could use some work) xftp, so I thought I would grab the source. xftp is in main in both hamm and slink, but the source code is nowhere to be found! I looked in hamm, I looke

Re: Laptop: DSTN scan specs for X?

1998-06-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:03:31PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Or the secret to configuring a plug-n-play built-in modem? > > (You don't have to answer the second question; it's not fair of me to > ask yet, I've not tried very hard to find the answer myself yet.) That's the easier questio

Laptop: DSTN scan specs for X?

1998-06-17 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Anyone know the scan specs for a "12.1" SVGA High-contrast DSTN" laptop display? Or the secret to configuring a plug-n-play built-in modem? (You don't have to answer the second question; it's not fair of me to ask yet, I've not tried very hard to find the answer myself yet.) -- To UNSUBS

Re: [comp.lang.modula3] ANNOUNCE: Release of PM3-1.1.6 with LINUXLIBC6 support

1998-06-17 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Anthony" == Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> I'm no expert, and I don't know how to fix the problem, Anthony> so if any developers are interested, please try to Anthony> compile it. :-) (They've got the *.src.rpm package, that Anthony> probably means it comp

Base system tarball Q [XTerminal]

1998-06-17 Thread sjc
I have been tossinbg around the idea of using Linux to take a small PC (like a P100 or a 486) and setting it up as a glorified X Terminal. I decided that since debian is clean, and what I use...I will base it on debian. I want to be able to have the system be diskless, and get its entire running f

Unidentified subject!

1998-06-17 Thread Ray Kinsella
> > And if you don't want to install just about every debian package > you can get by with a lot less than 1GB. > My i386 installion at home is only 300 megs in total (C: Regards Ray (Darksun - irc.debian.org#debian )

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> We are working on a report of failure in US/central WRT Daylight DS> Savings Time, right? DS> There is one variable we haven't nailed down yet. The hardware DS> clock can be set either to local time or GMT (UTC). As I DS> rememb

INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Adam Heath
As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. I will be moving my focus to version 4.5, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow(Wednesday). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug Terrorism

1998-06-17 Thread Herbert Xu
Brian White wrote: > severity 23000 normal > -- > > > The reason that sendmail broke is that you made a DELIBERATE modification > > to procmail that sendmail wasn't expecting. While I agree that sendmail > > should probably be more graceful about handling it, it is not a > > release-critical erro

Re: Bug Terrorism

1998-06-17 Thread Herbert Xu
Scott Ellis wrote: > No, you're not hiding this on the bug tracking system any more. Neither are you. > The reason that sendmail broke is that you made a DELIBERATE modification > to procmail that sendmail wasn't expecting. While I agree that sendmail That's just simply true. If you have a sho

Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-17 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 06:00:11PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote: > They already have 72MB of fixes for 5.1. :) (10MB of fixes to the > libjpeg problem I mentioned earlier, 31MB for X fixes, and > miscellaneous security fixes including programs that were accidentally > setuid...) Anyone want to hazard

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 16 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > I'd say something like: "If your time changes for daylight savings > > > time, use these options. Otherwise, use these." > > > > > > Somet

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 02:00:41PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... > > Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. > > If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of > Indiana-Eastern, and Arizona... as well. These should be linked to th

Re: License question

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Thanks to those of you that commented on this. The author replied to my e-mail, saying "GPL is cool for me!" so our problem is solved :-) John Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I've already written to the author, but can y'all tell me if the >following license is acceptable in main

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I'd say something like: "If your time changes for daylight savings > > time, use these options. Otherwise, use these." > > > > Something needs to be done on the bootdisks, too. > > OK

Re: License question

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
"Jules Bean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gotcha. Well, I think that the license could be made more explicit > > about permitting redistribution, etc., but as is I don't see any > > actual problems. > > I would suggest you email the author for clarification. I have already sent him an e-mail

intent to package: rplay

1998-06-17 Thread lantz moore
RPlay is a flexible network audio system. RPlay, written by Mark Boyns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is provided under the GPL. Package: rplay Version: 3.3.0a2-4 Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 Suggests: xpm, mpg123 Installed-Size: 521 Maintainer: lantz moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: RP

Re: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-17 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:03:22AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > No DBMS syncy after each transaction. Most systems do it every 30 seconds. > Support for that will be added to Postgres later on. And with 80 TPS I think /usr/doc/postgresql-doc/FAQ.gz -- 2.11) How do I