Re: nice demolition job ... epilog

2000-09-14 Thread Debian Linux User
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... > > Have you already put some meat? > Yes, but unfortunately it was all devoured immediately by ravenous wolves. Barely raw as well... and apparently there was some indigestion therea

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread John Galt
I thought the netbase breakup was because of a old-BSD/GPL license incompatibility... On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > John Galt wrote: > > The big package breakups have historically been related to licensing > > issues > > Not as far as I can remember. The X breakup and the netbase brea

Re: kernel BUG [Was: Re: rm and ls don't work for large files]

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Hansen
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:39:33AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 28 Aug 2000, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 02:52:01PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > The problem here, as I mentioned in an earlier reply before this got > > > crossposted to l-k, is that "our" versio

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
John Galt wrote: > The big package breakups have historically been related to licensing > issues Not as far as I can remember. The X breakup and the netbase breakup, for instance, had nothing to do with licenses that I know of. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Have you already put some meat? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: > When I wrote, that the proxy variables were ignored just my description > was wrong. May be they are used but they are used in an other way > than if I use settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf. While trying several different > proxy-settings (sorry, don't re

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: > >From /var/lib/dpkg/available: > Package: makedev: > ... > MD5sum: 7f6b97b984c246ead2c7be45ce4f1678 > > /var/cache/apt/archives/partial> md5sum makedev_2.3.1-46_all.deb > 7f6b97b984c246ead2c7be45ce4f1678 makedev_2.3.1-46_all.deb Please use apt-cache

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I like it, but why not fold this functionality in update-rc.d itself? > update-rc.d --query ? And why not define update-rc.d --list as well.. Well, for starters I don't grok perl, and I wasn't about to let that little detail stop me from writing

Re: determining if we're using db.h from libc6 or libdb2?

2000-09-14 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:38:07PM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Domenico Andreoli, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >i don't know how much what i'm going to say would be of help, but if you > >added > >a new check in configure.in in order to let your source know what kin

Re: mp3 encoding patents.

2000-09-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:57:10PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 13-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry to bring up this subject again. > > I just wanted to know that can't mp3 encoders be distributed from a non-us > > site where the policies are much more relaxed ? > > > the pate

Webmin: we're almost there

2000-09-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Of course the moment I decided to upload 0.80 they released 0.81. Luckily most of the modifications survived intact. I'm just fixing up a few little things. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: determining if we're using db.h from libc6 or libdb2?

2000-09-14 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Domenico Andreoli, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >i don't know how much what i'm going to say would be of help, but if you added >a new check in configure.in in order to let your source know what kind of db.h >you have? you could be pretty sure that your sources are getting compiled

too funny to not pass on...

2000-09-14 Thread Seth Cohn
from debian-freshmeat, where we are talking about setting up the new DFMR (Debian Freshmeat Repository) Seth: b) apt-get able, so it's a ftp and/or http site, and a single line to stick into etc/apt/sources.list Jeff Covey of freshmeat: this would rock. we'll have to work with the apt codi