On Sep 19, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I suggest compressing source code by bzip2
>Many CD resellers add something to 2nd source cd
>and it will make A LOT of free place for them (100-150 MB!!!)
>Bzip2 is no problem because it is possibly a
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Darren Benham wrote:
> Bugs are no longer deleted!!! We don't have a way for you to access them
> directly but there's an "official" location in the database where they're
> being archived. We're trying to decide how to serve them up... by
> requesting a bug number, obviousl
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:02:47PM -0400, Greg Johnson wrote:
> Here's one (happend to me). I have a '+' at the end of my /etc/passwd file
> for nis. sash tried to add the new root acccount at teh end of /etc/passwd
> AFTER the +. didn't work.
That was sash 3.3-5
Sash 3.3-6 already addresses t
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:46:09PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Raul Miller wrote:
> > Also, if you can anticipate any failure modes where sash would damage
> > the password file I'd appreciate hearing about them. It's already
> > the case that if sash has any problem writing out the new password
> >
Aaron Van Couwenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS linux/CREDITS
> --- v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS Mon Aug 9 16:05:54 1999
> +++ linux/CREDITS Wed Aug 25 17:29:45 1999
> @@ -689,14 +689,11 @@
The fourth line is made of two pairs, repres
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:20:12PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Also, if you can anticipate any failure modes where sash would damage
> the password file I'd appreciate hearing about them. It's already
> the case that if sash has any problem writing out the new password
> file that it won't install
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:12:06PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Not really. I named it dpkg-reconfigure for a reason. :-)
Excellent! :)
> Oh, that's not the problem. Dpkg-repack should pick up that file fine. What
> it won't pick up is the actual answers you've given to the questions, which
> are st
Hi all -
I just need to completely understand grep output before I can finish a
project I'm working on right now. I was wondering if someone could give me
an explination of unified diff output syntax.
I know that it's context based, and that a + signals an addition while -
means the reverse. Ho
Raul Miller wrote:
> Also, if you can anticipate any failure modes where sash would damage
> the password file I'd appreciate hearing about them. It's already
> the case that if sash has any problem writing out the new password
> file that it won't install it.
I think you should just use useradd
Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Depends: php3 (>= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (>= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server,
> php3-mysql
Just noticed this... you'll need (php3-mysql & php3) | (php3-cgi-mysql &
php3-cgi), which can be reduced to php3-mysql | php3-cgi-mysql (they'll
pull the apropriate m
from the description:
utalk uses a protocol, based on UDP, which ensures a quick response
even over links with high packet loss, allows editing of previously
typed text, including scrollback, deletion and overstrike, and
provi
Scott Barker wrote:
> Excellent. Hopefully if debconf gets folded into the base system, dpkg itself
> will be able to run this directly, rather than it be an extra step for the
> user. For example, instead of running (manually, or through apt):
>
> dpkg -i
> dpkg-reconfigure
>
> you could just r
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:23:50PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> It's now possible in two ways. First, there is the dpkg-reconfigure program,
> which you pass a package name, and it lets you see all the questions again.
Excellent. Hopefully if debconf gets folded into the base system, dpkg itself
wil
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 03:15:47PM -0500, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote:
> B) Offender does not relent and/or makes funny faces at us
> Of course we are horrified by the funny faces, but how do we defend our
> licensing? Perhaps we need a lawyer for this part.
I suggest that we tell them that th
On 20 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Depends: php3 (>= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (>= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server,
> > php3-mysql
>
> Is it really not able to work with anythi
Scott Barker wrote:
> 2) I think I presented this suggestion backwards. According to debconf's docs,
>a user will be prompted for the answer to a question only if they haven't
>already answered that question, and only new questions will be presented.
>I'm suggesting there be a way for a
On Sep 20, Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As you see, aclocal, automake, ... are all rerun, i.e. a new
>Makefile.in is generated. (Probably a change in the Debian patch to
Yes, this is the problem, another developer found it. But I have no idea
about how to solve it. I Cc: -devel, maybe
Disclaimer: In light of recent events some might be tempted to do some of
this. Don't. This is only an idea for what might be done in the future.
In the past when a licensing issue has come up, someone like Bruce or ESR
has stepped in as the "ambassador" to the offender. However, it seems that
we
Philip Hands wrote:
> Presumably variable names can have more than one / in them ?
Yes.
> If so, it might be worth calling such variables something like:
>
> shared/news/server
>
> to avoid name space pollution, and to emphasise the fact that there is
> not a package called ``news'' (virtual
Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Depends: php3 (>= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (>= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server,
> php3-mysql
Is it really not able to work with anything but localhost? And if
that's not the case, why req
Source: phpmyadmin
Section: contrib/web
Priority: extra
Upstream-Source: http://www.phpwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/>
Home-Page: http://www.phpwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/>
Description: a set of PHP3-scripts to adminstrate MySQL over the WWW
Copyright: GPL
Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Tobias Ratschiller <[EMAIL P
Le Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 06:42:48PM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman écrivait:
> I believe I have a gotten a good build of an updated gnome-libs. And
> I only cursed Joey for the problems with dh_shlibdeps a little bit.
>
> It is currently a little lacking in the changelog department---that
> kind of go
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:30:37 -0500, David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
>> Yes, either this or a FIFO expiration policy on /var/cache/apt/packages
>> which gets automatically applied whe
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
> Some people have suggested providing a package, say 2.2, with all
> the 2.2.x source patches. (I didn't look at the size, but the patches are
> sometimes small and sometimes 1.5 MB). It is not too inconvenient to
> apply the patches to get to a spec
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
>
> The only feature it lacks is the ability to do automated account setup from
> another script. (Which is the ONLY thing that apache does better than Roxen).
> Maybe I'll tinker a bit and make a module for auto-creation of new web
> accounts
> from a
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:37:43PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> Will this affect people who upgrade? It would be very unpleasant to upgrade
> from slink and have a new root user.
Hmmm...
> Even for new installs, I disagree with your decision. sash is useful
> without another root account; howe
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:07:33AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> 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 avail
Michael,
If you want we can divide them between us (also to share the load :-).
Thanks,
Ardo
Stevie Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am Son, 19. Sep, 1999 schrieb Michael Alan Dorman:
> > Stevie Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > libxml-parser-perl
> > > libxml-dom-perl
> > >
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Hirling Endre wrote:
endre>On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
endre>
endre>> which would reduce the effort of the ftp maintainer and speed up
endre>> upgrading our ftp archive from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13. The dependencies
endre>> between the kernels and the kernel dependi
I orphan the following two packages:
libapache-mod-fastcgi (non-free)
I just uploaded version updated for Apache 1.3.9 and FHS, so if anyone
wants it, it shouldn't be difficult to take it.
emacs-czech
Emacs 19 is obsolete, there is no need to use it anymore after 20.4
release. If you thi
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:53:01PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Raul Miller wrote:
> > > They don't touch the root account. Instead, they clone
> > > it as sashroot and set the shell on the cloned account.
> > >
> > > This is mentioned in the package description.
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 03:39
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unless someone else is working on this, I intend to package the
> Font::Metrics::* modules for perl. libhtml-tree-perl needs them to
> successfully use HTMMML::FormatPS.
Let me know when it gets out of incoming, and i'll gladly change
libhtml-tree-perl
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:43:03PM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn was heard to say:
> sawmill README:
>
> Sawmill is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like
> scripting language--all window decorations are configurable, the basic
> idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible
Unless someone else is working on this, I intend to package the
Font::Metrics::* modules for perl. libhtml-tree-perl needs them to
successfully use HTMMML::FormatPS.
--
Stephen
---
"If 8-year-old boys discharging loaded firearms into their own legs
isn't necessary to the maintenance of a well
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Anders Arnholm wrote:
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:18:53 +0200
> From: Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Robert Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ProFTPd being lame
> Resent-Date: 19 Sep 1999
You are correct. Of course, many people forget about this since they think of
Roxen as a web server, and ftp being a secondary feature. Of course, with all
the Apache fanatics out there, many have never even checked out Roxen.
Dave Bristel
I was thinking more that, if we are going to remove a buggy package because of
the bugs, we should still provide it, since there are some people that are
looking for that package. Maybe a section of main called "buggy" if it's still
included for completeness?
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> Jon Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to
> > discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian.
>
> The primary MTA? does that mean that more than one MTA ca
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>You don't have permission to access /~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/ on
>this server.
Damn, that was lame of me. Fixed.
Mike.
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's at http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/. I'm
> >uploading it now, and my DSL line doesn't give me infinite bandwidth, so
> >you might wait five or ten minutes.
>
>
> Roxen does, at least if you have different IP numbers, I can't get IP-less
> vistual hosting to work with ftp sessions. And as a ISP the security issues
> of
You can't get name-based virtual hosting with FTP. The protocol doesn't
transmit a hostname.
I have debianized the newest available version of grace which should fix
most of the bugs mentioned in the BTS. I have contacted the maintainer
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but he did not respond. Since I am
not an official developer I cannot upload the package. Can someone do it
for me? Th
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> > I've read (or at least skimmed) the tutorial you posted, and it
> > looks like the various configuration variables are associated with a
> > package via the template "foo/variable". What about variables that are
> > logically share
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> which would reduce the effort of the ftp maintainer and speed up
> upgrading our ftp archive from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13. The dependencies
> between the kernels and the kernel depending modules could be realized
> using versioned dependencies, couldn't th
On 18 Sep 1999, James LewisMoss wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:13:49 +0200 (CET), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Santiago> David Welton wrote:
> >> Xemacs21 - runs *autoconf* to generate other makefiles, which are
> >> then run. [...]
>
> autoconf doesn't generat
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Maybe I don't see all the problems, but why don't we name the packages
>> kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0 2.0.38-
>> kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2 2.2.12-
> This stops people from having multiple versions of 2.? kernels i
Hi,
I wrote a new draft of a document on i18n.
It is available at
http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/linuxwork/i18ndoc.html.
Now the document is written in HTML and separated into a few files.
Translation into English is almost finished.
> i noticed that there is no mention of utf-2000 -- p
Erick Kinnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> > Jon Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to
> > > discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian.
> >
> > The
>>>Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> I suggest kindly pointing this out to those who start their scripts with
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl.
Even thou the rest of the world may be wrong it till exist, and one
sometimes has to make the best to interact even with an erratic world,
that is the main reason why soft
I have ITP'd FPC, the Free Pascal (Delphi/BP7 compatible) Compiler..
Unfortunately it's a BIG package and one I haven't had a chance to finish.
It doesn't quite buildpackage yet from what I have here because when I
left it I was in the middle of a major debian/rules cleanup. BUT, anybody
familiar
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:18:54PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> > > Does anything special happen if the a message is signed?
> > Other than it gets processed? Nope...
>
> Oh, do you mean that it will work with [EMAIL PROTECTED] If so then I
> understand what you are saying, if not then I don't.
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's at http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/. I'm
> uploading it now, and my DSL line doesn't give me infinite bandwidth,
> so you might wait five or ten minutes.
403
[Olaf, if you have any comments I'd like to hear them, otherwise please
feel free to disregard this mail.]
It was pointed out to me that this "error" might have been deliberate; Red
Hat might be able to choke down giving credit to Debian developers for
finding bugs, but not fixing them.
Hopefully
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:20:11AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
>
> How are multiple identd packages going to know which one belongs in
> inetd.conf without the use of alternatives?
All of them will add inetd entries, but only one will be enabled.
--
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian
Well.. as of the past few days.. expired bugs are archived instead of
deleted. Now... from the main bug page... you can request these bugs by
either the bug number, or by package name.
For the time being, there is also a list of packages with entries into the
archive.. also linked from the ma
> This is unnecessary unless something actually is going to depend on it. None
> of these packages overlap in their fs name space. The only thing they have
> in common is the inetd.conf entry. This is easily managed with update-inetd,
> just like finger and others.
How are multiple identd packa
James LewisMoss, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>I have xemacs 21 packages aptable at
>"deb http://va.debian.org/~dres xemacs21/". I would appreciate
>some people trying them out and seeing what problems you find (please
>report directly to me rather than bug tracking system).
Well
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> There's not a lot I can do about this beyond advising the sysadmin that
> it's a good idea.
what about asking it before doing the actual cloning ? (should be
defaulted to no, imho). as i see the postinst for 3.3-6,
it does not ask...
--
[-]
Raul Miller wrote:
> > They don't touch the root account. Instead, they clone
> > it as sashroot and set the shell on the cloned account.
> >
> > This is mentioned in the package description.
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 03:39:30PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> I suppose you have considered the security
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I suggest compressing source code by bzip2
Many CD resellers add something to 2nd source cd
and it will make A LOT of free place for them (100-150 MB!!!)
Bzip2 is no problem because it is possibly available on every
Debian system and I
I suggest compressing source code by bzip2
Many CD resellers add something to 2nd source cd
and it will make A LOT of free place for them (100-150 MB!!!)
Bzip2 is no problem because it is possibly available on every
Debian system and I dont want religious answers here.
ICQnix is a clone of ICQ intended to resemble the Mirabilis client as
much as possible. It is placed under the GPL, with the exception that
it may be linked to Qt. I will upload in a day or so if no one objects
(I searched the archives and wnpp and didn't see anyone had dibs on this,
but if I mis
Roland Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe I don't see all the problems, but why don't we name the packages
> kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0 2.0.38-
> kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2 2.2.12-
This stops people from having multiple versions of 2.? kernels
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