Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 3:56:02 PM, Richard wrote:
> Did you *ever* even *attempt* to read the FHS? It took me less time
> for me to find this than it did for you to whine about not having a
> specific cite.
Did anyone else who were quoting from it? All of them did the same thing
I di
Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> gpg: Signature made Wed Sep 15 12:08:31 1999 EDT using DSA key ID 2FA3BC2D
> gpg: Good signature from "Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
> gpg: There is no indication that the si
Steve Lamb writes ("Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian?
[was: ...])"):
>Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 11:25:11 PM, Jakob wrote:
>> software. FHS states that /usr must be sharable over a network - e.g. if I
>
>Thank you for finally providing a very good reason for a new to
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > "Chris" == Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Chris> For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost*
> Chris> all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections
> Chris> made through `telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMe
> "Chris" == Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost*
Chris> all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections
Chris> made through `telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMed
Chris> `login', I once aga
Le Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:04:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman écrivait:
> If people really want this I guess I could trivially add it to bugscan.
> It already scans the BTS database twice a day anyway.
Not to mention, that a list of this kind does already exist here :
http://master.debian.org/~hertzo
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Great work guys. Just a query though -- is the web server on
> www.debian.org working properly? It takes me several minutes to retrieve
> the home page lately! No other sites exhibit this problem.
AFAIK, but one other person did mention this - can you
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> How does one generate an RSA key using the gpg-rsaref package?
It isn't possible. The gpg-rsaref does not have key generation code
included. Also, AFAIK gpg does not have an option to generate a PGP 2.x
key - it only creates OpenPGP keys.
> How does
For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost* all the
time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections made through
`telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMed `login', I once again
have the hostnames correctly appearing in FROM again. Does anyone
know why this wasn't working for
gpg: Signature made Wed Sep 15 12:08:31 1999 EDT using DSA key ID 2FA3BC2D
gpg: Good signature from "Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
gpg: Fingerprint
*- On 15 Sep, Peter S Galbraith wrote about "ttyS0 vs cua0"
>
> How universal is the use of ttyS0 instead of cua0 in other
> distribution (e.g. Red Hat)? I told the upstream maintainer
> of powstatd (a UPS monitor) that I has changing cua0 to ttyS0 in
> the docs and config file for Debian, and h
Quoting Zen-O-Phobia:
> Well, http://zophar.net has one.
You mean http://zophar.net/roms/nes.html ? It looks like
there are three freely redistributable ROMs, including the original
NES Elite (which was released by the author recently for redistribution).
There's more
Hi,
Is anyone else seeing all this header drivel in everything that Anders
mails, or have I got something in my gnus setup totally screwed ?
The scattering of 's in the Subject seem somewhat suspicious to me.
Cheers, Phil.
Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In-reply-to: morpheus's mes
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 1:44:38 PM, Raul wrote:
> Then perhaps this entire discussion should be moved to the fhs-discuss
> list.
Operative word was, well, was. Discussion over. Someone finally read
what I wrote and provided what I asked for instead of trying to beat me into
submission
> Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 12:20:43 PM, Anders wrote:
> > As long as you don't count the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard".
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:32:13PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Considering this thread was a criticism of the inclusion of it into that
> standard, one cannot count th
I made irda-utils package. It is GPL.
deb http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian ./
deb-src http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian/source ./
Currently, I'm not a developer. However, I sent a mail to
new-maintainer team 6 months ago.
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[EMAIL PROT
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 12:37:41 PM, Anders wrote:
> > Thank you for finally providing a very good reason for a new top level
> > domain. About the only thing missing, IMHO, is a specific cite from the
> FHS
> > (section number would be good) but I'll take your word for it.
> On pa
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Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 10:27:47 AM, Jonathan wrote:
> Source code is not variable. Once its downloaded and compiled, it just
> sits there. The whole point of a "ports" collection is that for a given
> package, you have the corresponding source to every binary. That does not
> change. It
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How universal is the use of ttyS0 instead of cua0 in other
> distribution (e.g. Red Hat)? I told the upstream maintainer
> of powstatd (a UPS monitor) that I has changing cua0 to ttyS0 in
> the docs and config file for Debian, and he said he'd chan
Will someone please notify me when Steve Lamb becomes a reasonable person.
As of 2 minutes ago, all mail from him is being sent to /dev/null by
procmail.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:08:22PM -0500, David Welton wrote:
> I think that as many packages as reasonably possible should migrate
> towards them. They work pretty well, but I don't believe in forcing
> them on people if they are really opposed.
So even if we did decide to do what you suggest, I
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> See, this little subthread came from that where someone said
> /usr/packages, which was shortened to /usr/pac (IIRC), then /usr/pkg,
> whereupon I jumped right back in and pointed out /var/pkg and forgot the lib
> in /var/lib/dpkg.
Source code is not va
>>>Steve Lamb wrote:
> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 11:25:11 PM, Jakob wrote:
> > software. FHS states that /usr must be sharable over a network - e.g. if I
>
> Thank you for finally providing a very good reason for a new top
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 12:29:30 PM, Anders wrote:
> Then can you tell me how your three steps are easyer and faster them our
> one step?
How are you going to get the data on to the drive without a minimum
installation on it in the first place?
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 12:20:43 PM, Anders wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Nor is it the case with /opt.
> As long as you don't count the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard".
Considering this thread was a criticism of the inclusion of it into that
standard, one cannot count that. I
I am doing this message wrong to prove a point. First of, Johnny, my name
is Steve, not Steven. Johann, I would appreciate it if you used it correctly.
Secondly, what you are doing is what I am doing here. Reply first, and then
quoting. If you had read the FAQ in its entirety you would have
>>>Steve Lamb wrote:
> Now, *YOU* tell *ME* how that translates into reinstalling, configuring
> and restoring all data.
Then can you tell me how your three steps are easyer and faster them our
one step? Restoring everything from one tape in one moment usally gets
done faster (as long as we
>>>Steve Lamb wrote:
> Nor is it the case with /opt.
As long as you don't count the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard".
/ Balp
Previously David Welton wrote:
> Sounds like an interesting idea - are you going to come up with some
> code to demonstrate how things work?
If people really want this I guess I could trivially add it to bugscan.
It already scans the BTS database twice a day anyway.
Wichert.
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Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 9:45:58 AM, Jonathan wrote:
> Steven, you have no clue what we were even talking about do you. Go away.
I know enough to quote properly. I know enough to know that where this
whole branch of the thread started was about stuffing a database of possible
"packages
How universal is the use of ttyS0 instead of cua0 in other
distribution (e.g. Red Hat)? I told the upstream maintainer
of powstatd (a UPS monitor) that I has changing cua0 to ttyS0 in
the docs and config file for Debian, and he said he'd changed it
upstream too if that's what everybody uses.
Do
Good god. Steven is even quoting Tom Christianson wrong. Tom said not to
stick the WHOLE message at the bottom, where it doesn't provide context.
What I have been doing falls in the realm of "providing context".
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Goody, I get to use this. Thank Tom Ch
>>>Steve Lamb wrote:
> Sure I can. Now, *YOU* tell *ME* why you can't see the similarities
> between /usr/local and /usr/opt in the above scenerio. I mean, if /usr is
If it wan't for that the rest of the Unix univere in about 20 years ago
started to use the /opt mhiracy for this you should
Steven, you have no clue what we were even talking about do you. Go away.
Playing devils advocate is fine. You aren't even doing that right.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 2:09:38 AM, Gerhard wrote:
> > /usr/pkg would be much better ;-)))
> /var/pkg e
Klee had an interesting idea on this, that makes more sense I think. If
you look at all the different kinds of programs that are being packages
you notice that a lot of them fall into quite well-defined categories
such as Imake-based, automake-based, GNU-style, etc.
It would make sense to make a
Previously Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Now what if the upstream developer expects bug reports in a web-driven BTS
> like Jitterbug ? How can I record in the BTS that I have submitted the
> report into the upstream BTS ?
If I remember correctly the address that the BTS uses can in practice be
any stri
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Erm. Speak Freely employs crypto (it's in non-US/non-free). If gphone
> employs crypto as well, shouldn't we find a non-US maintainer and a non-US
> download location for it?
Sorry, I probably should have elaborated. gphone will work with
speakf
Yep, the debian-beowulf list is pretty silent. Now that I'm going to be
installing an x86 cluster within 2 weeks, I might get my hands on some useful
clustering software before the code freeze. Drake Diedrich says he can sponsor
the packages, so it'd be great to package the good stuff. There's a
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 14:16:14 -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> and is also compatible with the speakfreely program for Windows and Unix.
Erm. Speak Freely employs crypto (it's in non-US/non-free). If gphone
employs crypto as well, shouldn't we find a non-US maintainer and a non-US
download l
Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 7:22:08 PM, Michael wrote:
> You have no point. You're making much ado about nothing.
I had a point, you just couldn't comprehend it, apparently.
> The reason is that we need a place for ISV's to put software.
This was never disputed by me.
> People have bee
gphone (aka gnome-o-phone) is an internet telephone with a gtk
interface. It uses GSM compression, and thus should be useable over
reasonable modem connections, and is also compatible with the
speakfreely program for Windows and Unix.
http://www.math.okstate.edu/~droland/gphone/gphone.html
Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 11:25:11 PM, Jakob wrote:
> software. FHS states that /usr must be sharable over a network - e.g. if I
> should not be an issue there, either. However, the license for application
> Foo may state that it
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 9:40:22 AM, Branden wrote:
> On the contrary, you seem to believe your opinion should carry at least
> equal weight to all the precedent and tradition that conflicts with it.
No, I have asked for and never got a valid *TECHNICAL* reason for it. It
took well over
Hi.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hands) writes:
> Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
(snip)
> > May I ask what the point of these enhanced mbr's is, since all of these
> > features are available from the boot loader (eg LILO)? I've always had my
> > LILO conf
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:30:20PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > > > Joey Hess' debhelper scripts are a good API, maybe it would be
> > > > good to standardize on them to some degree.
> > > No.
> >
> > I didn't say "make them THE standard"
> What did you mean then?
I think that as
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 7:36:37 AM, Marek wrote:
> For another time you show your ignorance.
Hardly.
> ftp is a user which CAN LOG into the system and which does log into the
> system.
For what purpose, pray tell? Why would this daemon enjoy privileges
others do not?
> majordomo
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 6:25:12 AM, Marek wrote:
> * Steve Lamb said:
>> Considering one can install a fairly robust system (FreeBSD, Debian) over
>> FTP/NFS in under an hour and it takes 2-3 to go through a gig of data I would
>> much rather reinstall the programs and retrieve the rela
Paul Slootman wrote:
> What happens if you pass the -pt option to man?
$ man -pt -l ./powstatd.8
Then it works. Running that option on the _installed_ page like so:
$ man -pt powstatd
doesn't work.
The uptream author said I should be able to view the man page
using:
$ gtbl powstatd.8 | nro
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 6:03:47 AM, Marek wrote:
> * Steve Lamb said:
>> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 3:53:40 PM, Raul wrote:
>> > Actually, the biggest problem with Windows is that it's not a standard.
>>
>> But it is.
> Oh? Show me an RFC or anything of the kind that makes WIndows sta
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 5:49:09 AM, Marek wrote:
> Huh? /opt IS a standard, and yet you opt (sic!) against it? So what IS your
> point anyway?
Well, if you would *READ* you'd get it. Instead you just want to argue.
>> Windows is the standard in business computing. So let's all ju
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 5:45:24 AM, Marek wrote:
> * Steve Lamb said:
>> Again, please do not reply above. It is rude.
> No, it might be inconvenient for YOU, but it's not rude. You are rude, all
> the time.
Goody, I get to use this. Thank Tom Christiansen for this one. It was
wr
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:48:35AM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
> While I agree that being completely i386 oriented on the web page, I will
> point
> out that the vast majority of systems out there are x86 based(I don't like the
> i386 since I've prefered AMD CPUs over Intel since the 486 days). T
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 2:09:38 AM, Gerhard wrote:
> /usr/pkg would be much better ;-)))
/var/pkg even more so. Oh, wait, that would be too close to /var/dpkg.
Which is what, exactly? I don't have such a directory on my system.
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:55:43AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
> I've had another early-morning idea. I think a metric called a "bug
> index" should be invented. It would be calculated like this: every
> severity of bug would be given a weight, say:
Sounds like an interesting idea - are you goin
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 4:15:52 AM, Marek wrote:
> As usually, you weren't listening. Somebody in this thread has said why it
> is good to use /opt for third-party (usually commercial) packages:
I am listening. Others aren't thinking. Let me use your example as an
example.
> /usr -
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 2:09:38 AM, Gerhard wrote:
> /usr/pkg would be much better ;-)))
/var/pkg even more so. Oh, wait, that would be too close to /var/dpkg.
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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:21:28AM -0700, Andrew Fear wrote:
> Just looking for someone to talk to about getting 3dfx on the Debian
> releases going forward. Thanks.
The ideal person would be Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks,
--
Raul
Title: Distribution
Hi,
Just looking for someone to talk to about getting 3dfx on the Debian releases going forward. Thanks.
Andrew Fear
3dfx Interactive, Inc.
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed 15 Sep 1999, Philip Hands wrote:
> >
> > I know there is some pathetic kudos about how many signatures you have
>
> Is the "pathetic" part the reason why you don't have any? :-)
Ah, I'd not updated my key in the keyring since I joined. Well no
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do you prove to whoever is able to erase the package that you
> are who you say you are? I.e. how do you convince them that they
> should in fact erase the package?
You do that by sending them a message signed with a new key, that you
have had sign
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:41:11AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The specific problem is that with multiple "optional" helper packages
> available, all are being used somewhere to build some package, so, if you
> want to build all packages in Debian, you _must_ first install _all_ of
> the helper pa
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 06:57:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:12:44PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > No, I knew what the rationale was and I don't agree with it one bit.
> > > In
> > > short, their rationale is wrong and we're repeating the mistake.
>
> > We
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:19:34PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
[...]
> > With dinstall a compromise is short lived and can be undone by erasing the
> > effected package. Creating a new key and getting people to sign it cannot
> > really be undone.
>
> How do you prove to whoever is able to erase
Previously Frederic CELLA wrote:
> can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of www.debian.org)
The webpage has a postscript version of the logo iirc. This should make
it trivial for them to produce a 300dpi logo (or whatever other
resolution they desire).
Wichert.
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Now what if the upstream developer expects bug reports i
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:34:24AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> To stop the annoying FAQ:
> --
> Subject: ARRGGH!!! HOW DO I GET RID OF LINUS!
Who wants to do that ? You're silly.
Gregor
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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:58:28PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Ben Collins said:
>
> > > Sep 15 16:41:38 jester login[30897]: PAM unable to resolve symbol:
> > > pam_sm_open_session
> > > Sep 15 16:41:38 jester login[30897]: PAM unable to resolve symbol:
> > > pam_sm_close_session
> > >
> >
On Wed 15 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> The man page defines a table like so:
What happens if you pass the -pt option to man?
Paul Slootman
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In the preparation of a package, I've come up against a man page
made for Red Hat that doesn't process correctly for Debian (at
least on slink).
The man page defines a table like so:
[cut]
Hit ^C to stop after you see something like:
.in +3
.TS
tab(#);
l2 s2 s2 s4 s2 s4 s
l2 l2 l2 l4 l2 l4 l.
p
* Ben Collins said:
> > Sep 15 16:41:38 jester login[30897]: PAM unable to resolve symbol:
> > pam_sm_open_session
> > Sep 15 16:41:38 jester login[30897]: PAM unable to resolve symbol:
> > pam_sm_close_session
> >
> > Any cure for that?
>
> Update to the latest PAM 0.69-6 in incoming. Some one
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:42:56PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After the today's upgrade of the login and passwd with PAM support I have
> found one problem. It seems that there's something wrong with the pam_limits
> module. After enabling it for login I get the 'Module unknown' mes
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 05:43:21PM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
> How to switch to GnuPG for developers..a very brief mini-HOWTO
> --
Very nice mini-HOWTO. But I still have several questions:
How does one generate an RSA key using the gp
Hi,
After the today's upgrade of the login and passwd with PAM support I have
found one problem. It seems that there's something wrong with the pam_limits
module. After enabling it for login I get the 'Module unknown' message and
the syslog records what follows:
Sep 15 16:41:38 jester login[308
* Steve Lamb said:
> > > >> None of this describes one bit why it has to be a top level
> > > >> directory.
> > > > Because it fits the Unix tradition of lazy typists. Im a lazy typist.
> > > > Hear my carpal tunnel fingers cry out as they type the extra 4
> > > > characters in /usr/opt
>
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:54:15PM -0500, Erick Kinnee wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:23:50PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > > No.
> >
> > Uhm, WTH is that about? No, what? No, they suck? No, don't standardize?
>
> No, don't s
* Sven LUTHER said:
> > > > How do you know I don't do just that, via symlinks? I bet you'd never
> > > > have
> > > > guessed I have /usr/src/linux symlinked to /sys
> > >
> > > OK, now argue it as a standard for everyone as /opt is.
> > /opt is a de-facto standard. By usage. By tradition.
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:04:01PM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote:
> >>>Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Depends on what you have on there. If it is stuff that is easily replaced
> > from source, recompile. I'd backup the sources, not the programs
> > themselves
> It's almost always faster to recreate ev
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> If all I'm doing is trying fix something, usually just invoking 'make'
> will do it (or some subtle variation that a glance at the rules file
> will make clear). Once it builds, I do 'debian/rules clean' and then
> restart the package build, to ensure
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:43:59PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Steve Lamb said:
> > Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 2:39:46 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> > >> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 3:14:37 PM, Federico wrote:
> > >> > IMHO, /usr is what we (Debian) control, /usr/local is what I (the
> > >> > sysa
>>>Steve Lamb wrote:
> Depends on what you have on there. If it is stuff that is easily replaced
> from source, recompile. I'd backup the sources, not the programs themselves
It's almost always faster to recreate everything (idenical) from back
that from something else. (I suppost don't have
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:12:44PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > No, I knew what the rationale was and I don't agree with it one bit. In
> > short, their rationale is wrong and we're repeating the mistake.
> Well, I'm glad we have you around to give us the unambiguous,
> unquestionable
* "Frederic" == Frederic CELLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Frederic> They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN
Frederic> LOGO. can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of
Frederic> www.debian.org)
Check out http://www.debian.org/logos/. They can use the open use
logo, the p
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:39:19AM +, Marc Haber wrote:
> >Considering one can install a fairly robust system (FreeBSD, Debian) over
> >FTP/NFS in under an hour
> If a broadband internet connection is available, yes. That doesn't
> apply to all sites.
Who said anything about an inter
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:59:40 +, Frederic CELLA wrote:
> They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN LOGO.
At http://www.debian.org/logos/ you can find the logos as xfig source and as
postscript. (Use ghostscript to produce the logo in your favourite bitmap
format at your fav
* Steve Lamb said:
> Considering one can install a fairly robust system (FreeBSD, Debian) over
> FTP/NFS in under an hour and it takes 2-3 to go through a gig of data I would
> much rather reinstall the programs and retrieve the relatively small data
> (/etc, btw, is data).
I can't believe wha
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
> I'm sure that most people don't check with the central key servers
> every time they check a signature.
>
How should I do this? Is it automated? Can pine/mutt do it while I'm
online?
Flocsy
URL: http://flocsy.spedia.net MAIL:[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Sep 14, "David N. Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It would be nice if more packages built as if you were running a
>regular make, instead of restarting from the beginning (running
>./configure again), and in a more consistent manner.
I proposed many times dh_configure to debhelper maint
On Sep 14, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I signed my DSS key with the old RSA key and then asked people who
>> signed the old key to sign the new one with their DSS key.
>> This is easy and secure.
>Again, no it isn't. How do they know that someone didn't steal your pgp
>key?
* Steve Lamb said:
> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 3:53:40 PM, Raul wrote:
> > Actually, the biggest problem with Windows is that it's not a standard.
>
> But it is.
Oh? Show me an RFC or anything of the kind that makes WIndows standard? The
fact that it is installed on almost every OEM equipme
They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN LOGO.
can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of www.debian.org)
if problem email to me. if not. i sen d to them this friday.
bst regards.
Frederic.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:34:55PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> > I'm not a debian developer yet (and seems like I won't even attempt till I
> > feel that new maintainers are welcome),
>
> If you've got a really useful package done up that you think wou
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:45:24PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Steve Lamb said:
> > Again, please do not reply above. It is rude.
> No, it might be inconvenient for YOU, but it's not rude. You are rude, all
> the time.
>
> > Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 3:34:05 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> > >
* Steve Lamb said:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:49:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >> So why /opt and not /usr/opt with the possibility of /usr/local/opt?
>
> > Because unlike opt and local, there really isn't a difference between
> > /opt and /usr/opt -- except that one's a standard. Why n
* Steve Lamb said:
> Again, please do not reply above. It is rude.
No, it might be inconvenient for YOU, but it's not rude. You are rude, all
the time.
> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 3:34:05 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >> Then why /home/ftp instead of
* Steve Lamb said:
> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 2:39:46 PM, Jonathan wrote:
> >> Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 3:14:37 PM, Federico wrote:
> >> > IMHO, /usr is what we (Debian) control, /usr/local is what I (the
> >> > sysadmin) control, /opt is where third-party package builders (e.g.,
> >> > Cor
On 14 Sep 1999, Philip Hands wrote:
> Obviously, if we're life-long friends, and I send you a new key signed
> with my old key, and then you phone me up and establish that I really
> did send it to you, and that your pretty certain that it is me on that
> answered the phone, then a face to face me
* Branden Robinson said:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 05:59:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 5:40:28 PM, Raul wrote:
> > > As it happens, I already pointed you at the answer to that question,
> > > you were just too lazy to take the hint. So [me being a fool], here's
> >
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:34:55PM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> I'm not a debian developer yet (and seems like I won't even attempt till I
> feel that new maintainers are welcome),
If you've got a really useful package done up that you think would add to
Debian, get someone to sponsor you.
If you
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