Sorry, this probably belongs on -devel... I'll post it there too. About
the design, I personally like the penguin for Debian GNU/Linux, have
something similar for Hurd (meaning a red profile of a GNU head or
something) and something different (maybe plain nice graphical text?
There was a nic
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > But is that specific problem Debian/slink related..? That is, does it work
> > correctly with potato?
>
> No, it does not work correctly with potato either. It seems to be a
> general incompatibility with 2.2
2.2 did something bizzar to how the p
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x
> compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen.
> I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago.
> Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol.com/~vincent/
>
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> Vincent Renardias wrote:
> [There is text before PGP section.]
> >
> > Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x
> > compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen.
> > I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago.
> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jules> Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am
Jules> baffled that anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for
Jules> drawing straight lines and ellipses.
Wichert> Why is this a change in rules? I
Previously Jules Bean wrote:
> Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am baffled that
> anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for drawing straight lines and
> ellipses.
Why is this a change in rules? I've never seen it written anywhere that
you are obliged to use the gimp. I w
Previously Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> kerneld is replaced by something else, etc.
Kerneld is replaced by a kernel thread, so it has become obsolete. The
modutils package in slink has been able to handle that change for quite
a while now.
Wichert.
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Vincent Renardias wrote:
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>
> Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x
> compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen.
> I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago.
> Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol
Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x
compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen.
I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago.
Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol.com/~vincent/
(NB: there are _2_ binary packages to install: util-linu
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:28:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How about adding that the xvidtune program is in the xf86setup package? Some
> users may be confident enough about their X configuration not to bother
> installing xf86setup, and then miss xvidtune.
As of version -9, xvidtune is
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:22:36 GMT, Marc Haber wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:26:05 -0800, you wrote:
>>Major services generally get a root entry from me. Some people
>>think it is ugly but there is some purity in cd'ing to /www/somebusinesssite/
>It
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:23:34PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> Quoting Juergen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I personally thing either the ftp hierarchy should go to /var/ftp, or
> > the www data should move to /home/www (the latter I'd prefer).
>
> /home/(ftp|www) is just plain ugly. (It's
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:26:05 -0800, you wrote:
>Major services generally get a root entry from me. Some people
>think it is ugly but there is some purity in cd'ing to /www/somebusinesssite/
It outright violates the fhs, though.
Greetings
Marc
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Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because I, like every other user should do, read the documentation, and thus
> read you need util-linux 2.9g. And if it works for you with lower versions,
> does it always work? Yes, maybe, no, maybe not. I don't even want to take
> the risk of 'yes i
Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a) If you DO NEED a > 128 MB swap file you are in serious trouble.
Not if you have 2G ram.
--
Raul
I wrote:
> On the contrary. The "military", at least in the US and the UK, act in
> accordance with the laws of their respective nations, which require them to
> obey the civilian governments. It is those governments, not the
> "military", that are signatories to treaties (not that I know of any
Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm forced to agree. Support for swap partitions > 128 mb is a new
> feature; a mkswap that doesn't support it isn't a major incompatability.
> Few people will need the feature anyway, and if they do need it the simple
> workaround is to use multiple 128 mb partitions.
Okay, rea
On Tue, 26 Jan, 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> This one is easy. Install this as your cron job:
>
> grep straying /bin/cat; touch /bin/cat; free /bin/cat
$ grep straying /bin/cat; touch /bin/cat; free /bin/cat
touch: /bin/cat: Permission denied
total used free shared
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I just discovered, unfortunately, that you need the util-linux package
> > from potato (unstable). Rest of the things in slink are fine with
> > 2.2.0!!
>
> Why's that? I'm using the one from slink with 2.2.0 and it works just
> fine. I've been running 2.2.0-pre6 for a co
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:33:01PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:21:56 -0500, Tim \(Pass the Prozac\) Sailer wrote:
>
> >I have about 50 machines with all 4 DIMM slots filled with 128M sticks.
> >I have *8* 128M swap partitions, and it's not enough since the (*&[EMAIL
> >PROTE
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:36:53PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> I just tried to match the Changes file from Linux-2.2.0 with the slink
> distribution, and was happy to find out that almost every requirement
> mentioned in that file is fullfilled by the packages (versions) in slink.
> Howe
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> I'm forced to ask: what for?
I'm forced to agree. Support for swap partitions > 128 mb is a new feature;
a mkswap that doesn't support it isn't a major incompatability. Few people
will need the feature anyway, and if they do need it the simple workaround
is to use mult
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> In my more than honest opinion, I think util-linux 2.9g should be included
> in slink. Developments in the computer business are going fast, as everyone
> knows, and on the day slink will get released, I think a lot of people who
> are going to upg
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:21:56 -0500, Tim \(Pass the Prozac\) Sailer wrote:
>I have about 50 machines with all 4 DIMM slots filled with 128M sticks.
>I have *8* 128M swap partitions, and it's not enough since the (*&[EMAIL
>PROTECTED]
>users run progra
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:59:29PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> I just discovered, unfortunately, that you need the util-linux package from
> potato (unstable). Rest of the things in slink are fine with 2.2.0!!
Why's that? I'm using the one from slink with 2.2.0 and it works just fine.
I've
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 03:03:14PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> I'm forced to ask: what for?
>
> a) If you DO NEED a > 128 MB swap file you are in serious trouble. You
>should get more ram; the induced cost of extremely slow operation is much
>higher than that of two lousy DIMMs.
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:03:14 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>c) The argument "something on the kernel wants it" doesn't hold. For that
> matter, the kernel wants coda, and that's in project/experimental. What
> did you say? That coda is not es
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:51:03PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > an easy fix for that? Splitting the packages is a possibility, but
> > libgeda is of absolutely no use on its own yet, and I don't think there
> > is anything for a libgeda-dev.
>
> I ha
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:36:53PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> I just tried to match the Changes file from Linux-2.2.0 with the slink
> distribution, and was happy to find out that almost every requirement
> mentioned in that file is fullfilled by the packages (versions) in slink.
> However
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > Another problem: bootpc from the netstd package does not work with 2.2.
> > Btw the kernel has bootp support itself, but it can't be used with pnp
> > network cards which need isapnp initialization. So my network setup wh
Hi,
With this message, I know I'm going to touch a rather sensitive subject, but
however, I think it's worth it.
I just tried to match the Changes file from Linux-2.2.0 with the slink
distribution, and was happy to find out that almost every requirement
mentioned in that file is fullfilled by the
Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> Another problem: bootpc from the netstd package does not work with 2.2.
> Btw the kernel has bootp support itself, but it can't be used with pnp
> network cards which need isapnp initialization. So my network setup which
> used bootp breaks with 2.2...
But is that specifi
J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
>> Another freeness issue (albeit a relatively minor one) is that currently
>> lsh requires scsh (which is non-free) for the generation of include files
>> (they are pregenerated in the tarball; the scsh scripts are needed only
>> for development). It would be nice if someone
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> Also, Stephen Crowley noted that new dhcp-packages should be included in
> slink, because the ones that currently are in slink ain't compatible with
> Linux-2.2 either, but maybe he can explain that himself :)
Another problem: bootpc from the netst
Raul Miller wrote:
> We'll have to keep around the empty xfnt* packages indefinitely (should they
> need to be created) until a better solution is available, no matter what.
Surely a small set of *empty* packages will not be a great problem
in terms of disk sapce in master.
> I think you missed t
Oops, sorry. Bad formatting, here is the right one:
I have a computer lab with 20 Debian machines. Suppose I want to upgrade
them to slink and I want the new font packages to be installed (like most
people will also want). Do you mean that I should enter dselect and select
them by hand on each of
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I reiterate my challenge. Demonstrate to me a manner in which a
> hamm system upgraded to slink, which keeps the old X font and static
> library packages, will be broken.
Oh, I forgot to tell you something:
I have a computer lab with 20 Debian mach
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the current state of things, a Debian system which is upgraded by
> dselect from hamm to slink, from slink to potato, from potato to potato+1,
> and from potato+1 to potato+2 may have, say, X version 5.5, and xfonts
> version 3.3.2.3-2.
>
> Do you th
Hello
I would like to package my self written script system pcd2html which
creates commented HTML pages from a Kodak Photo CD using user
supplied options for convert from ImageMagick and describing text.
Informations are available at
http://www.physik.uni-halle.de/~e2od5/debian/pcd2html.html
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I reiterate my challenge. Demonstrate to me a manner in which a
> hamm system upgraded to slink, which keeps the old X font and static
> library packages, will be broken.
I hope you will agree that sometimes we have to think about the future.
With
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > modutils, gcc, binutils, libc5, libc6, ldso, procps, sysutils, psmisc,
> > hostname, loadlin, shellutils, autofs, nfs-server, bash, ncpfs,
> > pcmcia-cs, ppp, util-linux.
> >
> > If you get the versions of these packages that are in the currently
> > frozen Debian dist
Branden Robinson:
> [...]
> Only now do you seem to be concerned.
No, this has been a frequently asked question for some time in
debian-user. I should probably add it to the Debian FAQ.
Please, note that I'm not blaming you for not having thought about this
problem *in advance*. I just want to se
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Will some guru tell us what critical packages we need to update in order
> to use 2.2 ?
I'm not a guru I guess, but I can cut&paste something from
linux/Documentation/Changes:
- Kernel modules 2.1.121 ; insmod -V
- Gnu C 2.7.2.3
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:33:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any
> > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear
> > weapons under their international treaty obligations)
>
> On the contrary.
Hi,
In response to an issue on -legal, I am reopening the debate on how free
those parts of debian which are not software (or not precisely software)
should be.
IMO, this debate should be conducted on -policy, and I ask all replies to
this message to trim the CC: line.
This issue was discussed i
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:23:34 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
>/home/(ftp|www) is just plain ugly. (It's a real pain when you're trying
>to share nfs home dirs between web servers, for example.) I use /var/ftp
>on my own system (well, actually /var/local/f
On 26-Jan-99 Randy Edwards wrote:
>One question I had was out of the two options you list above, which
> category do you see our present logo falling into: the liberal license or the
> official logo? Or would this new logo contest be used to choose logos for
> both categories?
>
Because of t
Will some guru tell us what critical packages we need to update
in order to use 2.2 ?
kerneld is replaced by something else, etc.
I guess that if I'm asking that means I should wait for a proper
Debian upgrade. Or does kernel-image-2.2.0-i686_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
have all the dependencies sorted out
Andrew writes:
> You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any
> laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear
> weapons under their international treaty obligations)
On the contrary. The "military", at least in the US and the UK, act in
ac
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Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am baffled that
> anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for drawing straight lines and
> ellipses.
gimp won't run on smaller machines.
Also, there's Rick Hohensee's caligraphic patch for (if I reca
"Guenter Geiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... and it is solved now :)
>
> Actually I have to say, if I would have been the one who was supposed to fix
> the
> bug, it would have taken me another hundred days, and probably I would have
> lost
> my last hair upon this ...
>
> But luckily, t
This is getting WAY out of hand here. How about this:
The mail spool MUST be accessible through /var/mail AND /var/spool/mail,
and spool files MUST take the form /var/{spool/}mail/$LOGNAME. Either
/var/mail or /var/spool/mail, or both, MAY be symbolic links to another
directory. It is RECOMMENDED
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:42:18PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Can you *guarantee* that the package now called xfonts-base will *always*
> have the same functionality and will always be *identical* to the one
> called xfntbase in hamm?
>
> Can you *guarantee* that the package now called xlib6g-s
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, it's in San Jose California, March 1-4th.
Thanks. Then I can't volunteer, although I frequently seem to find myself
in San Jose :-)
Later,
Dale
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Hi,
>>"Ted" == Theodore Y Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ted> I keep hearing people claim that distribution folks are saying "ick",
Ted> but I haven't heard any technical reasons besides, "Moving spool
Ted> directories is hard".
Fine. Here are a few.
I, and a number of other
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing
> gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize
> the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current
> contest (dreams) ends. Det
reassign 28850 general
thanks
This bug is now fixed in gettext_0.10.35-7.
However, somebody should check that every suid application in slink which
is statically linked against gettext is recompiled with the new gettext.
(Maybe doing "gettextize -f -c").
Thanks.
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Daniel Martin wrote:
>
> If we are going to have a gimp.org done contest, I would like to see
> that the rules allow people to use things that are not gimp, but that
> are DFSG free software. I find the command-line pnm tools very useful
> in manipulating images, and it woul
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > an easy fix for that? Splitting the packages is a possibility, but
> > libgeda is of absolutely no use on its own yet, and I don't think there
> > is anything for a libgeda-dev.
>
> I have found this in
I am trying to write a perl script that needs to make some
calculation based on free space in several partitions. What's the best
method for checking the free space in a file system using perl? Without
using backticks and unix commands, is there any better mean to do it?
--
Eduardo Marcel
I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing
gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize
the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current
contest (dreams) ends. Details and submissions will be at the usual
site: http://c
Source: simulpic
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
Package: simulpic
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Microchip PIC device simulator
This software allows to simulate the execution of any program
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
>
> > On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> > > logos: one logo with a liberal license that people
Greetings,
We have just released auditd version 1.10 for linux.
Auditd is part of the linux kernel auditing toolkit. It
will capture auditing trails created by the kernel audit
ing facility from /proc/audit, filter them, and save them
in specific log files. For the moment,
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:27:13PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'll give you one solid reason, uniformity across unix platforms is a
> > must have if unix, especially free unices, are going to succesfully
>
> If we are in marketing mode let me point out we are not Unix in the first
> place and that
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> A package I maintain uses libtool. To remove the rpath stuff, I
> apply this patch to configure.in. Now lintian tells me that the executables
> have rpath set too! Is there an easy way to fix that?
>
> Also, because this package (geda) includes a libr
Previously Steve Greenland wrote:
> 1. We have to agree on *two* logos :-).
No, we have to agree on a *set* of logos: we simply request that each
submission consists of two logos.
Wichert.
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This combination of byte
A package I maintain uses libtool. To remove the rpath stuff, I
apply this patch to configure.in. Now lintian tells me that the executables
have rpath set too! Is there an easy way to fix that?
Also, because this package (geda) includes a library, debhelper
is generating an shlibs file for it. Bu
[I am cross-posting this to debian-devel and to the plplot mailing lists.]
Hi Geoffrey,
Thanks for the announcement of this much awaited new snapshot of PLplot.
Being the maintainer of both plplot and octave-plplot packages for Debian
GNU/Linux, I would like to add some comments to your message:
Thanks for the binary but...
when trying to boot with it the kernel uncompreses, gives the message
booting kernel and then stops. My machine is a cyrex 686 200. Does the
binary only work for intell chips? I noticed that specific suport for
non intell chips is a feature of 2.2.0. I guess this means
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:42:18PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Upgrading a system from hamm to slink should make the system to be in the
> same state as if slink had been installed from scratch.
Indeed. All of my systems have remnants of base and timezone remaining.
(Actually I just discovered t
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:19:20AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> I'll give you one solid reason, uniformity across unix platforms is a
> must have if unix, especially free unices, are going to succesfully
> dominate the market. Sun/AIX/HP-UX/OSF/SCO are not going to change,
> but we could prove ou
> I'll give you one solid reason, uniformity across unix platforms is a
> must have if unix, especially free unices, are going to succesfully
If we are in marketing mode let me point out we are not Unix in the first
place and that C:\> is the standard
> I don't see a connection between /var/spoo
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> > logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and
> > another, more restricted
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:50:52PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 16:49:57 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > NOTE: For those that are on the ball, they do seem to be considering
> > removing idea from the base source and having it as a seperate module
> > (similar to GnuPG's appr
> I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and
> another, more restricted logo for things like official CD's and so.
This seems like a logical solution. Having the official "Debian" logo
could p
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:33:27PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:09:34PM -0500, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> > > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> > > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> > > that for al
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 16:34:58 -0500, Daniel Martin wrote:
[my rant deleted]
> I have yet to learn how to navigate this area, and am often surprised
> at how strongly an offhand comment is taken.
Smilies might have helped. In this case, your comment really triggered me. I
seldomly flame, but in
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 16:49:57 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> NOTE: For those that are on the ball, they do seem to be considering
> removing idea from the base source and having it as a seperate module
> (similar to GnuPG's approach).
Another freeness issue (albeit a relatively minor one) is that
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > You have yet to explain what will BREAK if people continue to use the old
> > > font packages. Not in the future, RIGHT NOW.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think it would be great for Debian to get 2.2 in to slink, even if it is
> priority extra.
I agree it should be included. We can change the priority so it's not
automatically installed and warn people that it is experimental/might break
things in dselect's descript
> But I don't think the FHS should be specifying the actual location of
> the files at all. True, the FHS should not cause too much pain for the
Ok good we agree on this
> The only thing that really matters is what pathnames applications can
> count upon to work. Given that the rest of the wor
The keyboard of Kragen Sitaker emitted at some point in time:
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> > that for all compliant distributio
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> (BTW, is kernel-headers still needed? libc6-dev ships with a full set of
> headers, doesn't it?)
Right, but those are for 2.0.36 and the ones that come with 2.1/2.2 are
different (and yes, I need those new ones thus I have to manually edit the
things in /usr/include everyt
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:39:07PM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote:
> Hm, now theres a worrisome compile message. :-)
>
> Anyway, for you early adopters, I've made source and debs available at:
What about uploading everything but the kernel-image package for Slink,
now that Bryan has said he will acc
> At least that way applications that want to use the same dirctory as the
> vast majority of other Unix systems will work without needing a special
> case for Linux. However, I would much rather see us adopt the full,
> correct solution, rather than this half-measure.
How can changing from /var/
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:33:16AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> hamm was released with a pre-selections wrapper, where you could chose
> certain sets of pre-selected packages. it works, but could use some
> improvement and probably needs to be updated for slink - there's a good
> place for you to
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. swinstall (HP-UX native I think) seems to support dependencies.
> > It's pretty ugly though and I don't know if there's a command line version.
>
> Yes, you can drive swinstall fr
GLADE is the implementation of the Distributed Systems Annex for GNAT,
the GNU Ada95 compiler.
Since there already is a GLADE (a Gtk GUI builder), I will call the
package gnat-glade since this is really a GNAT add-on.
Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Hmmm. swinstall (HP-UX native I think) seems to support dependencies.
> It's pretty ugly though and I don't know if there's a command line version.
Yes, you can drive swinstall from the command line. It's not pretty, but it
works.
Unfortunately, there
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 04:20:51PM +, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Many of you are painfully aware that there are some issues in slink that are
> impractical to correct before release.
>
>
> xbase -> xbase
>twm
>xterm
>xbase-clients
>xdm
>xf86setup
How abo
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:26:19AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
> >What if someone gets hold of the Linux kernel and uses it to guide nuclear
> >missiles? (Well, at least they have to share their changes with us :))
>
> Only if they distribute the control systems :>
You'v
Dale E. Martin wrote
> Then I tried to use idraw, which I've used in the past a _bunch_ of times.
> It keeps segmentation faulting on me, and so I went to look at
> bugs.debian.org and the bug report about this is over 100 days old.
... and it is solved now :)
Actually I have to say, if I would
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task.
>
> I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a
> logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria
> I remember off the top of my head ar
Hello ,
Best regards,
Dmitry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:09:34PM -0500, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> > that for all compliant distributions, /var/mail *MUST* be a valid way of
> > reach
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:15:37 + (GMT)
> but I haven't heard any technical reasons besides, "Moving spool
> directories is hard". When I and others have pointed out that moving
> the spool directory isn't required; just a symlink, I have hear
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:11:47PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> > logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and
> > anot
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > You have yet to explain what will BREAK if people continue to use the old
> > font packages. Not in the future, RIGHT NOW.
>
> Oh, you have yet to explain why a clock bomb is *not
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