Re: lilypond, egcs and libc6 2.0.7u? (or Cyrix?)

1998-10-14 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello Paul, On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sun 11 Oct 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: > > it spitted out the following error messages: > > > > out/template2.o: In function `global constructors keyed to Cursor > *>::operator-(Cursor) const': > [...] > > > I am using the following on my

Closing freetype2-dev/freetype1 bug report.

1998-10-14 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello, I have since re-uploaded both freetype (freetype2, freetype2-dev, freetype-tools) and freetype1 (freetype1, freetype1-dev) and the latest versions have been successfully installed on Debian master. Thus, the conflict issue should no longer exist. :-) Cheers, Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian White wrote: > mount 27421 mount: fails to parse existing /etc/fstab [10] > (Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) I've just fixed this in a non-maintainer upload with prior negotiation with the official maintainer. -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's f

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > Brian> Could I get some official word on which architectures wish > > Brian> to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > > > I don't think sparc is ready to go, though Johnnie or Eric may see it > > differently. > > > I'm neither Johnnie nor Eric but I think the basic to

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Jules Bean
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 12:14 am +0200 "Christian Meder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:25AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: >> > "Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Brian> Could I get some official word on which architectures wish >> Bria

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /usr/src/modules//, and runs ./debian/rules . >> Additionally, the following information is provided in the >> environment: >> a) KVERS Contains the kernel version >> b) KSRC Contains the location of the kernel sources >>

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Enrique Zanardi wrote: >> Are we going to include "apt" in the base system? Its package >> ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but >> currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A "multi-cdro

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Christian Meder
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:25AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > > "Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> Could I get some official word on which architectures wish > Brian> to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > I don't think sparc is ready

Intent to package: yard

1998-10-14 Thread Dima Barsky
I'm going to package Yard. It is a suite of Perl scripts for creating rescue disks. More info at http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/ Any comments/suggestions/objections? Dima.

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread peloy
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following are packages I feel we can remove: > > pcmcia-modules-2 27395 pcmcia-modules are totally broken out of the box > [11] (Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > pcmcia-source 26657 pcmcia-source: Needs this patch to work on 2.1.118+ > kerne

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > Oh, i can generate a kernel-image_2.1.125-1_powerpc.deb along with source > > and dsc files and upload it to master, but will you and the other arch > > maintainer agree with this?? > > If it's a powerpc package only, I don't see why there would be a problem. > It should get installed automati

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend, and apt has the backend. -- see shy jo

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
James Troup wrote: > They don't compile from freshly unpacked source. How odd. Other maintainer must work substantially differently than I, then. > Another thing is that i386 maintainers _won't_ notice is two of our > most common problems: YAFHIC386 in debian/control's Architecture and > debian/f

Re: yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > | After the first crash it run but wasn't able to display the icons. > > Hehe. I complained to the author about the same thing. He told me that > I was lucky because the current pixmaps were so ugly. Then I got > suspicious and did: > > my_favourite_image_viewer /usr/share/

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Cort Dougan
Please wait about 2 days. Geert and Paul have finished the last of their commits and I'm putting in a few small changes today and tomorrow. }Yes, last rumors say that linux-2.2 came out short before christmas. } }Oh, i can generate a kernel-image_2.1.125-1_powerpc.deb along with source }and dsc f

Re: yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | > *-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | | > | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | > | | > | Davide isn't maintaining this package anym

Intent to package: blinkd

1998-10-14 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, I will upload blinkd, a small client/server pair, that let's blink your keyboard LEDs (numlock and scrolllock) in a rate that signals e.g. the number of incoming calls on your voice box or number of facsimiles in the spool. The software is written by myself and GPLed. This is my first deb, i

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > > We need a 2.1.x kernel source package, which isn't available for debian. > > > > I don't see why you couldn't create one just for the powerpc arch. Either > > way, v2.2 of the kernel should be available before v2.2 of Debian. > > Yes, last rumors say that linux-2.2 came out short before chr

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > Are we going to include "apt" in the base system? Its package > ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but > currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A "multi-cdrom-apt" > method should be added qui

RS6000 MCA distribution ??

1998-10-14 Thread Anton J . Gamel
Hi! Has ANYONE got a faint IDEA where to get ( for our pile of RS/6000 220 MCA ...) an IBM RS/6000 Microchannel - RISC linux ?? It is mentioned in the introduction to MCA linux in www.linux.org - There should be a DEBIAN PS/2 - MCA distribution ... Is it feasable that it could be "simply" crosscom

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > We need a 2.1.x kernel source package, which isn't available for debian. > > I don't see why you couldn't create one just for the powerpc arch. Either > way, v2.2 of the kernel should be available before v2.2 of Debian. Yes, last rumors say that linux-2.2 came out short before christmas. Oh

Intend to package manpages-hu

1998-10-14 Thread Szalay Attila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This package contain manpages in hungarian language bye Sasa - -- PGP ID 0x8D143771, /C5 95 43 F8 6F 19 E8 29 53 5E 96 61 05 63 42 D0 For my pgp key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNiT

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Philip Hands
> So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This > does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib, > non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds. > > This needs to be addressed quick! > > Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method

Re: Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to > > master.debian.org's > > incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. > > > > The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new > > uploads will be processed after 18:30 GMT that day. > > Due to wor

Re: Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: > All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to master.debian.org's > incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. > > The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new > uploads will be processed after 18:30 G

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > > > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > > > PowerPC has more or less given up on making 2.1. We're moving well, > > but I'm of the inclination we shouldn't release until we have a truly > > stabilized libc - o

Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to master.debian.org's incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new uploads will be processed after 18:30 GMT that day.

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: > htdig 25412 htdig: htdig ignores config file stuff/absolute > pathnames compiled in [70] (Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Fixed last week, remembered to close it today :) -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: ttyquake?

1998-10-14 Thread Richard Braakman
Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Is it my imagination or was someone working on ttyquake? It's just too cool > to miss Debian 2.1. I was; but it was too difficult to get the keyboard handling just right so I forgot about it. I can send you what I have, if you like. Richard Braakman

Re: Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both > or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the > submittors? You need to close both, imho. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin > and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) > | > | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking > | care of this one, t

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:23:04PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > I'm working on it. But even if I get it to compile with Debian > > sources, we still would need another soname for this. > > I was going to respond to your earlier message(s), but I see you're > ahead of

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Michael Sobolev
Same things happens to me. Today I upgraded two things sendmail and syslogd (what a coincidence! :). After few minutes I found that `ps ax' shows a lot of sendmail processes. Everything looks like that after restarting *syslogd* information goes into appropriate files for few minutes. Then it s

ttyquake?

1998-10-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Is it my imagination or was someone working on ttyquake? It's just too cool to miss Debian 2.1. Adrian

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:52:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Tom Lees wrote: > > I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. > > This looks quite impressive. Good work! > > One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses > strange size. The y-stretc

Re: dropped from private? (was Re: Packages that disappeared)

1998-10-14 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:02:57PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > You're back on it. Michael isn't since he uses a pile of different > email addresses. Please always contact the listmaster in case of Oh boy you bet. This is getting ugly. I have a private account I can only read from home, a busi

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-14 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 02:46:35PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Maybe the subject is a bit harsh, but currently users trying to > install Debian on a Notebook face more problems than users installing > it on a desktop computer. Compared with other Linux distributions It worked very well for my o

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > > PowerPC has more or less given up on making 2.1. We're moving well, > but I'm of the inclination we shouldn't release until we have a truly > stabilized libc - or at leas

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread John Lapeyre
smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) This one also refers to the version of perl which has been removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.phy

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-14 Thread Raul Miller
Matthew Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Linux becomes more popular the hardware manufacturers will start > giving away drivers with the hardware, as they do for WIN95/NT/Mac. If > we give them the option to release the drivers as closed source then > most of them will. But if we force them to

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too? Yelp! This bug is now closed,

Intent to Package - qiv (new maintainer)

1998-10-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
This is a useful utility... qiv - Quick Image Viewer Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlib image viewer. Features include zoom, maxpect, scale down, fullscreen, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, slideshow, flip horizontal/vertical, rotate left/right, del

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: > > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html > > The startup image isn't available. It is now. I'm too lame to type. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just

Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the submittors? -- The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to it's feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds) [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too? Already uploaded. Closing bugs

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. But I have a problem with gdselect. The first time I ran it, i was logged in a non-root account. It worked and was able to browse t

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! hurd-i386 is certainly "not ready". BTW: Considering the great amount of Cc:s in the original post, I have decided to trim a little bit the

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) | | panorama: | www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html | | I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be | stable enough to put in . It compiled OK and it actually seems useful. It has a long way to go before it can compete with POV-Ray. I

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On 14 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? > > panorama: > www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html > > I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be > stable enough to put in distribution?>. In general, if you get the sources from alp

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-14 Thread john
Matthew Parry writes: > Why give them the option to release closed source when we can force them > to release free versions? I don't believe we can. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Could I get some official word on which architectures wish Brian> to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! I don't think sparc is ready to go, though Johnnie or Eric may see it differently. Ultrasparc definately

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Lakofski wrote: > Hi, > > Going to contradict myself after some more investigation that I've done: > > Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just > checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more > logs. I don't know if this is un

latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Hi, Going to contradict myself after some more investigation that I've done: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is universal (only checked 2 daemons), but

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Enrique Zanardi wrote: > Are we going to include "apt" in the base system? Its package > ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but > currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A "multi-cdrom-apt" > method should be added quick. NO! It does not _obsolete_ other met

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > perl 27604 Perl @INC needs /usr/lib/perl5 [7] (Darren > > Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > perl 27738 perl: @INC does not contain /usr/lib/perl5 [0] > > (Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > This doesn't affect the current perl version but the version to be >

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Michele Bini
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Helmut Metzdorf wrote: > Hi, > [...] > The situation: > > a self written programm (i'd like to run 24 hours a day) renders my > computer unusable for any other task. my observation says that the > cause is that my program relies heavy on file-io and my cu

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! > perl 27604 Perl @INC needs /usr/lib/perl5 [7] (Darren Stalder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > perl 27738 perl: @INC does not contain /usr/lib/perl5 [0] > (Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) This doesn't affect the current perl version but the version to be used in

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Samuel Tardieu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Brian> ada-rm 27918 ada-rm: This large package should be architecture: Brian> all [0] () This is fixed and the bug has been closed. Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: lat

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:32:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hi, > > I brought it up already but nobody jumped on. > > Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images. [...] > So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This > does not fit on one si

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Jim Pick
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! ARM is nowhere near being release ready (we just started). Cheers, - Jim

Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. The following bugs are for packages I don't think we can ship 2.1 without: apache-c

Harmony?

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
I'm surprised that previews of harmony haven't been packaged yet. Is it really that unuseable? Are an Debian developers working on harmony? PS: I don't know why I have this sudden rush of "We should package"- emotions. Perhaps it's a reaction to the freeze. -- The only way tcsh "rocks" is w

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: > Probably 4-6 weeks. I'd like to ship it before the end of November. Fantastic! > Guy, is there any problem with freezing the alpha architecture some time > after the main freeze? About the only thing I'm really concerned with is egcs. As much as I ha

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | > gCAD: > | > gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ > | > > | > >From what I can tell, this isn't really useful, so I don't know > | > whether there is any point in packaging it yet. > | > | I just took a look at gcad. It compiles and

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > So far, Alpha is looking "near" ready and we are shooting to release with > slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some big egcs > issues SOON or else we

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | > gCAD: | > gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ | > | > >From what I can tell, this isn't really useful, so I don't know | > whether there is any point in packaging it yet. | | I just took a look at gcad. It compiles and runs. During startup | it doesn't fin

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! So far, Alpha is looking "near" ready and we are shooting to release with slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some b

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? > > panorama: > www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html > > I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be > stable enough to put in distribution?>. Good luck. > gCAD: > gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ > > >

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:39:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I would think that using make-kpkg to create the modules > packages is not a bad idea anyway. I think it's a great idea, and works really well with pcmcia on my notebook. > /usr/src/modules//, and runs ./debian/rules .

Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? panorama: www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be stable enough to put in . gCAD: gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ >From what I can tell, this isn't really useful, so I don't know whethe

[inigo@bipv02.bi.ehu.es: (small) ANNOUNCE: gcad 0.0.2 (and CVS)]

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Is somebody going to work on this one? Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends. --- Begin Message --- Well, just a few letters to announce that gcad 0.0.2 can be downloaded from: http://gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-14 Thread Raul Miller
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let's say I write a Qt program (and confirm that it works by > > > linking it against Qt in the privacy of my own home) and then I > > > include it (the source code) in a book as a programming example, > > > and I GPL the whole book. Philip Ha

Intent to Package xwatch, xplot and xcolmix

1998-10-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Pending approval of my application for maintainer-ship, I intent to package the following for contrib (none will make it into slink): Package: xwatch Depends: libc6, libforms0.86, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) Suggests: syslogd Description: Xwatch monitors logfiles and displays in an X window. The disp

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Brian White wrote: > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > Brian > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) PowerPC ha

Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Re: sendmail logging disappeared (fixed)

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Removed and reinstalled sendmail binary, working again. Mysterious. On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Thomas Lakofski wrote: > From: Thomas Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:05:43 + (UTC) > Subject: sendmail logging disappeared > > hmmm, just re

Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

sendmail logging disappeared

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Lakofski
hmmm, just rebooted for the first time in 20 days and my sendmail daemon isn't doing any logging. no problems in /etc/syslog.conf, and sendmail invoked by pine drops logs in the right places. daemon logs its invocation and then goes about its business (correctly), but doesn't log anything as far

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-14 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Moving this to debian-devel, discussion doesn't belong in the bug report. ] [ Killed the Cc: line. ] > James Troup wrote: > > There is no i386 port in as much as i386 maintainers 99.5% of the time > > _don't_ compile packages from scratch, which is when

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Jeff McWilliams
Rob Browning writes: > Assuming I understand you correctly, and this is a program of your > own, add a call to nanosleep(2) at an appropriate point. You can tune > the positioning and duration of the sleep to balance your needs. > Note that what would be really nice here would be something like

Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I brought it up already but nobody jumped on. Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images. finlandia!joey(tty11):~> grep '^Size:' /pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages|awk '{sum+=$2} END{print sum / 1024 / 1024}' 764.438 finlandia!joey(tty11):~> gr

Antwort: Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-14 Thread
>The problem is that I wrote the program in the first place... And it isn't tcl, >its perl.. (with perl-tk as the gui-lib). Oops I messed up the language. Should have checked more carefully. But still would you mind someone else making the program fit the Debian guidelines? I thi

login time limits in slink???

1998-10-14 Thread Craig Sanders
anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily time limits on serial lines? i've hunted all over (even to the point of grepping every file in /etc, /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin) for it and can't find it anywhere. how do i turn it off? i don't want time limits. c

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 01:45:04PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > These commercial sound drivers are a real hassle, since the user must [valid complaints and security issues elided] > good hardware support is to Linux's success, I don't consider binary-only > support good support at

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ? [binary only support != good support]

1998-10-14 Thread luther
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:53:54PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: > As Linux becomes more popular the hardware manufacturers will start > giving away drivers with the hardware, as they do for WIN95/NT/Mac. > If we give them the option to release the drivers as closed source > then most of them will.

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-14 Thread warp
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:36:54AM -0700, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Ok, do we have a consensus? > > 2.8 should go back in slink, but marked as a oldlib. > > > > All packages which we have source to should be recompiled with 2.8 if > > possable?

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ? [binary only support != good support]

1998-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 01:45:04PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > These commercial sound drivers are a real hassle, since the user must [valid complaints and security issues elided] > good hardware support is to Linux's success, I don't consider binary-only > support good support

Re: lilypond, egcs and libc6 2.0.7u? (or Cyrix?)

1998-10-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 11 Oct 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: > it spitted out the following error messages: > > out/template2.o: In function `global constructors keyed to Cursor *>::operator-(Cursor) const': [...] > I am using the following on my Cyrix P166+ (133 MHz) computer: > > ii libc6 2.0.7u-2

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 14 Oct 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote: > d) Try using NFS. This slows down the i/o bound resource hog enough to > leave the machine usable for interactive tasks. Yes it's ugly, but > scheduling in 2.0 is suboptimal, and nice doesn't have much effect on i/o, > only CPU. An extra disk dedicated

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
Can you explain to me what "parts" of the kernel can or cannot allow "closed source" modules? Even the way the system is setup now, any developer can create a module, and distribute it in compiled form without source code. I'm not sure how Linus could or couldn't prevent it, unless

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 12 Oct 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > to increase communication betweenm the ports and between porters and > > > non-porters, I'd propose a new list: > > > > > > debian-porting > > > or sim. > > > > I fully support this proposal (The name debian-porting seems fine to me) > > No, we h

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, do we have a consensus? > 2.8 should go back in slink, but marked as a oldlib. > > All packages which we have source to should be recompiled with 2.8 if > possable?^

Re: Pine can't display attachments

1998-10-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Joerg Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That might work... > > > > There is a 'pinepgp' package (or was anyway), you could try that one... > > Which does NOT provide this feature! Maybe this is a bug :-) You are of course right... I haven't used pine in years, so... :) pinepgp only chec

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Waters wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Just in case we misunderstand each other, you're not listed in my > > list of new maintainers. Thus the new-maintainer have not yet > > received your application. > > No -- maybe I'm missing something, but the Developer's Reference seems > to say

rpc.fakelockd available for Solaris/Linux NFS

1998-10-14 Thread Philippe Troin
I've been struggling with this for a couple of days, so I wanted to share my solution... * The story: If one mounts a NFS directory on a Solaris box, then Solaris just _assumes_ that there's an rpc.lockd sitting on the other side. Linux 2.0 NFS implementation doesn't come with the NLM protoco

Re: nfs security problem, debian missing

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > 'got a mail about this mountd bug today. you see the list of vendors - > but as you can see: debian is missing. why? how can we get on this > list next time? > > - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > Appendix A - Vendor Information > > Below is a list of the vendors who ha

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:12:26PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't > work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe that > the best thing that can be done to support laptops is to create boot disks > w

Re: Pine can't display attachments

1998-10-14 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On 13 Oct 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Joerg Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > my pine cannot display attachments like this but it's only pgp-signed > > text: > > [...] > > > Kann anyone tell me how to add this mime-type? > > Try adding the following lines to ~/.mime.types > >

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:47:46PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrique> About the "approved method", I guess it is through the > Enrique> bug tracking system, but I don't mind downloading a > Enrique> patch, and it m

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-14 Thread warp
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:54:27PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Ray" == Ray writes: > > Ray> Personally, I'd rather see the packages that still depend on > Ray> libstdc++2.8 recompiled for libstdc++2.9 . > > Of course, of course, nobody's arguing that. APT will be recompiled >

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