Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should I file a bug report against the bug system?
> (Filing a bug-report against myself is hard in this case because
> I can't fix it ;-).)
I think if you reupload your packages with the correct Maintainer field, then
the bug system will fix itself.
--
Ruud de Rooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> (of course, this attack can be prevented using mount options to
> disable setgid executables on all filesystems where users have write
> access)
But the user can still leave a process running with the privileges after he
logs out. Now whenever he logs
> Debconf integration doesn't seem all that likely, as the two are
> fairly orthagonal. (In the Debian world, configuration and
> configuration files seem to be rather distinct things.)
Yes, they're pretty distinct, but it seems a little counterintuitive to
have to "configure" a package twice: o
On 16 Mar 2000 16:06:34 -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> I've had the same thought, but not enough time to begin such a project.
> I wonder if there would be some way to integrate this with the existing
> debconf system -- if it uses the same interface, etc., end-users will be
> much happier.
I plan to
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:39:41PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 16, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Which is a waste of effort if the user can create a sgid shell.
> Do you really mount user-writeable directories without the "nosuid"
> option?
1. Depends on the environment. Unf
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:17:56AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> > However, I'ld like to see a standard meta-info files about
> > the package, which had informations necessary to create a packages, like
> > compilation commands, files (including inf
Umm,
Ok spam on the devel list?? What the hell is the world coming to.
Josh
Hello all,
I have packaged swapd -- demon that checks free memory and if system
needs more virtual memory, this demon makes another swapfile and adds
it to the system.
There is a problem with the kernel, because by default it has
MAXSWAPFILES set to 8 which with 4 Mb swap files makes only 32 Mb of
Carlos Barros wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:19:39PM -0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
>
> > Yann Dirson wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> > > ** RHide: a curses-based IDE for FreePascal, with Borland look-and-feel
> > > http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho/rhide/rhide.html
> > [snip]
> >
> > I'm
On Mar 16, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Which is a waste of effort if the user can create a sgid shell.
Do you really mount user-writeable directories without the "nosuid"
option?
--
ciao,
Marco
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What's wrong with terminfo ?
Every time I install new upgrade from potato everything in /etc/terminfo
disappears, stuff in /usr/lib/terminfo then has a bunch of links pointing
to non-existing info in /etc/terminfo and generally things dont works.
i.e. trying to start mc with /usr/lib/terminfo poi
> - When apt runs to upgrade packages, it will call a new program (which
> I plan to write) in the same way that it calls
> dpkg-preconfigure. TNP would scan the list of upgraded packages,
I've had the same thought, but not enough time to begin such a project.
I wonder if there would be some
I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink. I recently upgraded
to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the display became significantly
worse. I have not seen any reference to such a problem anywhere I have
looked. Since I do
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:25:10PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> In /etc/apt/sources.list add these lines:
>
> DPkg
> {
> Options {"--force-confdef";}
> }
>
> This will make dpkg always choose the default option to the conffile
> questions. If there is no default, it will still prompt (not likely
sounds nice.
there's another thing about apt-get which IMHO should be changed (if this
option already exists i'm sorry for being too lame for the docs): my
connection often suffers time-outs and i afterwards have to do a
--fix-missing. i think it would be nice if you could tell apt-get to try
agai
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:18:25PM -0500, Tom Rothamel wrote:
> One of the minor annoyances in Debian is the prompting that goes on
> during package upgrades. It's not the fact that the prompting
> occurs... I like the fact that it doesn't silently redo the system
> configuration... but rather the
One of the minor annoyances in Debian is the prompting that goes on
during package upgrades. It's not the fact that the prompting
occurs... I like the fact that it doesn't silently redo the system
configuration... but rather the fact that it occurs thoughout the
upgrade process.
Debconf helps matt
hi
i just packaged my 'perlbeat' (http://tools.desire.ch/perlbeat) and am now
looking for people to test it and for a sponsor.
thanks
stefan
>
> I don't think bugs like this should slow down our release cycle at all. IMO
> this bug should be downgraded to normal.
>
> Comments anyone?
>
sounds fair, and little items (sorry) like metamail should not hold us up.
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right now there are 4 ways to produce PDF's (AFAIK)
[...]
> That said, my current favorite method is to use gs 6.0's ps2pdf, my
> documents all have eps figures!
>
> There are other problems however - ...
> Another problem is that the times font
I checked and REALPLAYER_HOME was set to the G2 directory (from an old
manual installation). I changed it to /usr/lib/RealPlayer7 and
realplayer started working. Then I deleted REALPLAYER_HOME
environmental variable altogether and it still worked. This would
indicate that it isn't required, but i
Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Andrew D Lenharth wrote:
>
> > > I'm in the midst of doing this myself. There are even two impeding
> > > pieces of consumer electronics about to hit the market which will play
> > > an ISO-9660 CDROM with mp3's on it.
> >
> > I did t
16.03.2000 pisze Michael Meskes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Now that xfs per default does not listen on a tcp port anymore, could
> anyone please tell me how to configure x (i.e. XF86Config) to use unix
> domain sockets instead?
e.g. by setting the FontPath to `unix/:-1'
regards,
Jubal
--
[ Miros/l
Now that xfs per default does not listen on a tcp port anymore, could
anyone please tell me how to configure x (i.e. XF86Config) to use unix
domain sockets instead?
Thanks.
Michael
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Te
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 14:12:49 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> > try this hypothetical release method out:
> >
> > there are two trees. let's call them devel and production. debian saavy
> > folks (maintainers) run devel. new packages are uploaded to devel where
> >
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > After reading this nice diskussion with all it's aspects, I want to
> > complete the mess and suggest a "distribution" called
> > e.g. "progressive" beetween stable(frozen) and unstable.
>
> I gather you h
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > It is my task to use always the same address or is it a bug in the
> > bug system?
> Neither. Do as you wish :)
:) So far the funny side of this aspect, but together with the fact
that there are problems in sending PM to the maintainer (see a running
thr
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:55:31AM +0200, joost witteveen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Until recently I only had a PGP key, and as
> suggested by /usr/share/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz, I've
> now generated a GPG one, signed it with my PGP key, and
> submitted it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> A couple of hours
Michael Stone wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:27:18PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Ed Szynaka wrote:
> > > How does this account for drastic changes to something
like libc that
> > > might take weeks or months to shake out?
>
> Build daemons could take care
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Mon 13 Mar 2000, Stephen Zander wrote:
>
> > > "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Joseph> Only 6000? We must be getting lazy. 6000 is way too
> > Joseph> easy. Better try for 8000.
> >
> > Now one ever thought t
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 outstanding Bug)
> * Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 outstanding Bug)
>
> The e-mail addresses are both valid, but it's the same maintainer
> (at least I get the mail from both :-
Hello
cited from
Debian bug reports by maintainer
This page lists the package maintainers against whose packages there
are outstanding, fowarded or recently-closed bug reports. A maintainer
--> by the way here is a typo.
...
> "JR" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JR> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:47:41PM +1100, Mikolaj J. Habryn
JR> wrote:
>> If you haven't sent from a root account there is a chance that
>> our list server has inserted a line like "Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>> which c
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:47:41PM +1100, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
> root isn't even mentioned in the headers.
This is the only occurrence:
> > Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.95.13.18])
> Why is this feature even in place?
Isn't it obvious? :)
> You should not
On Mon 13 Mar 2000, Stephen Zander wrote:
> > "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joseph> Only 6000? We must be getting lazy. 6000 is way too
> Joseph> easy. Better try for 8000.
>
> Now one ever thought the Dow would break 10k: took 'em 10yrs to get
> from 3k t
On Mon 13 Mar 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> > Also, when upgrading mime-support, it always offers to replace the
> > conffile /etc/mailcap, which is NEVER a smart thing to do. Maybe
> > /etc/mailcap should be one of the base files, and not part of
> >
Hi, ive been hanging around boot-floppies for a while, and am interested
in minimum debian systems.
I think what your trying to do could well cover a lot of ground
boot-floppies tries to cover, if your not familiar with how the debian
boot floppies work, you may get a bit out of it, i love the mkl
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, paul wrote:
> I had the same problem (and same output) when doing "apt-get upgrade" last
> night. I used "apt-get clean" and "apt-get install man-db" before trying
> "apt-get upgrade" again. The problem went away, so I thought it had been a
> hardware problem on my end, b
This is *still* happening. Will someone please do something about
it? root isn't even mentioned in the headers. I get this error when I
mail with one of my complex cookie'd from lines, and don't when I
simplify it. Why is this feature even in place? Does it add any kind
of value to stop root use
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:36:49AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> David Webb wrote:
>> I had the same problem. Installing libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 fixed it on my
>> system.
>
> I cannot reproduce this. Works fine for me without that library installed.
>
>> You also have to make sure the REALPLAYER_HOME e
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:43:22AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > BTW: there is a idea for settig groups for console access to devices
> > like cdrom, floppy, sound, mic, cam... so each user who logs into the
> > sonsole will get added to that group
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:43:22AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:12:49PM +0100, Volker Ossenkopf wrote:
...
>
> BTW: there is a idea for settig groups for console access to devices
> like cdrom, floppy, sound, mic, cam... so each user who logs into the
> sonsole will
David Webb wrote:
> I had the same problem. Installing libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 fixed it on my
> system.
I cannot reproduce this. Works fine for me without that library installed.
> You also have to make sure the REALPLAYER_HOME environment
> variable is set correctly.
Nor can I reproduce this.
--
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:26:17PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I tried the woody installer on a potato system. It installed
> realplayer, but it doesn't seem to work. No messages or core
> dump--nothing happens. I also tried installing the tarball and
> installing the .deb created by running alie
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Denis Barbier writes:
> On 15 Mar 2000, Christoph Martin wrote:
>
> > Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:11:03PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > > > Since the teTeX in slink works fine and the one is potat
Hi Branden,
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 10:32:06PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hmm. I am using the following patch, which I got from slashdot of all
> places:
>
> --- xc/config/makedepend/cppsetup.c.origSun Mar 12 15:47:41 2000
> +++ xc/config/makedepend/cppsetup.c Sun Mar 12 15:
I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
a debian package. I'd like to contribute it, and I'm willing to
maintain it, since I'm doing so anyway here where we use it.
However, I do not have time to keep up with this mailing list,
and after perusing www.debian.org, and this
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:21:14PM -0800, Robert Stone wrote:
> Package: mgeupsd
> Architecture: any
> Conflicts: powstatd, bpowerd, genpower
Provides: ups-monitor
Conflicts: ups-monitor
This will catch all the other ups daemons.
I am packaging Network UPS Tools (NUT). I have finished and am jus
Package: mgeupsd
Architecture: any
Conflicts: powstatd, bpowerd, genpower
Description: UPS monitoring software for MGE (Merlin Gerin) Pulsar UPS series
It operates in the usual for Linux UPS daemon way, i.e. if the UPS changes
status, it creates /etc/powerstatus and sends SIGPWR to init. Mgeupsd
* Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000315 18:25]:
> I'm interested. I'd like to be able to make a boot disk with ntfs &
> vfat support so I can use it as a rescue disk for hosed windows boxes.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to see a shell script that asks what network card the
> target box uses and creates
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:16:42PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> > We can't just say "add 10 points if the window manager is
> > internationalized" without telling the possible thick-headed American
> > package maintainer how to determine whether it is or not. :)
>
> I have thought that users can
Steve Greenland:
> > Hmm, it's ok for you to "misrepresent" other people's arguments, but not
> > the other way around, as follows:
Craig Sanders:
> > > so why do you have a problem with infrastructure (i.e. package pools in
> > > one form or another) which makes it easier to build a snapshot im
udmsearch is a website indexer and, I'm going to package it!
More info about it at http://mysearch.udm.net/
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MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> De
Hi.
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:04:47PM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote:
> > Korean (and maybe Japanese) X users often see the Netscape titlebar
> > incorrectly displays Korean web page title. Many of the window
> > managers still don't care about this a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
You know, the whole concept of 'a release' is orthogonal to the way I think
about Debian. We've been through that before, too, and I understand the
various reasons that it's important for us to "make a release" from time to
time... but I doubt any of my m
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:43:22AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> BTW: there is a idea for settig groups for console access to devices
> like cdrom, floppy, sound, mic, cam... so each user who logs into the
> sonsole will get added to that groups, then your program does not need to be
Which is a
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:41:01PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 15-Mar-00, 01:06 (CST), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > DO NOT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH.
> >
> > your "argument" for want of a better term is obviously so poor that you
> > have no choice but to misrepresent mine to m
On 15-Mar-00, 01:06 (CST), Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DO NOT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH.
>
> your "argument" for want of a better term is obviously so poor that you
> have no choice but to misrepresent mine to make your "points".
Hmm, it's ok for you to "misrepresent" other people's a
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Hi,
I have a start on packaging "The Visualization Toolkit", as described
at http://www.kitware.com/vtk.html
Interested persons may see my preliminary efforts at
http://master.debian.org/~bottoms/debs/
I am accepting comments on my choice of package
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:18:24 +0530, Syed said:
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:17:54 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> said:
> Andreas>
> http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb
> Andreas> Size mismatch E: Una
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:12:49PM +0100, Volker Ossenkopf wrote:
> I need some advice to solve a recent bug report regarding a
> frozen package.
You could make it suid to a user who has 2 additional groups. In that case
the program should reset its uid after the devices are open (same would be
t
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:02:31AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> ??? - packages auto moved to here after basic criteria met (e.g.
> in unstable for 2 weeks with no bug reports). can't remember
> what this stage was to be called.
i feel a need to write some more about
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:35:16PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 15:06:57 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > It wouldn't help with out and out buggy programs but at least it
> > would catch dependency problems.
>
> It would catch problems with the dependencies a package
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