On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:05:50AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Martin. Yes. I tried. Do you think I'm a newbie or something? Why
> do you think the file is owned by root? It's on windows partition...
Hold on ... this is an msdos partition mounted? If so, check out man
8 mount; specificall
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:23:52PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>> still haven't tried 2.2.18. The video= options seems to be
>> completely ignored, and Linux boots up as if it wasn't there.
Hamish> Did you check /pro
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
http://www.namazu.org/~satoru/ttyrec/>
Description: A tty recorder
ttyrec is a tty recorder. A recorded data can be playback with the included
ttyplay command. ttyrec is just a derivative of script command for recording
timing information with microsecond accur
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
(already submitted to the BTS, is #80263)
homepage URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuzz/
d/l URL: http://download.sourceforge.net/fuzz/fuzz-0.6.tar.gz
author: Ben Woodard (ben at valinux dot com)
Fuzz is a debugging utility that checks for buffer overflows
a
Has anyone looked into packaging the Openwall patches for the kernel? Their
licensing is kosher. If nobody else steps up, I'll probably do it.
--
- mdz
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:02:16AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Hello,
>
> depending on libapache-mod-perl is not enough for my new package slash to be
> runable on a Debian box, sinde libapache-mod-perl does not
> reconfigure/activate the mod_perl Module in postinst.
>
> Am I allowed to chec
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:03:14PM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
> How about an "apt-getd" debian daemon.
>
> Use a apt-get client to remotely mess with another workstations packages.
> Messing with only one workstation at a time is boring. How about multicast
> to configure a hundred workstatio
Hello,
depending on libapache-mod-perl is not enough for my new package slash to be
runable on a Debian box, sinde libapache-mod-perl does not
reconfigure/activate the mod_perl Module in postinst.
Am I allowed to check for the comemnted mod_perl line in apache's config and
offer the option to ac
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:26:57PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
>
> 195 days is a lot of time to have an important package orphaned. At 6 or
> so months of "orphaned-ness", if a maintainer is not found, one should and
> IMHO must look at the very real at that point possibility of going on
> without it
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Branden> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:58:47PM +1100, Brian May
Branden> wrote:
>> I seem to have problems booting Linux 2.2.18 via NFS root
>> image. **2.2.17 works fine**, but 2.2.18 says "No NFS servers
>> availabl
For reasons ranging from (lack of) time to obsolescence, I'm hereby
orphaning fakebo. If anyone likes it well enough to take it over,
speak up now. If no one steps forward in the near future, I'm going to
officially request it's removal, as it has a security bug filed against
it (#76314). It doe
"Eray Ozkural (exa)" wrote:
>
> Try to reproduce what I do there. The permissions on parent
> are irrelevant. That's a vfat filesystem. Permissions are
> same everywhere anyway if you wonder.
Sorry sorry sorry sorry. Permissions on parent of course do matter
as you express. However, in this case
Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> At a guess, I would say this is a non-bug.
I'm saying that I can't rename a file using gmc which I *can*
otherwise rename. So your first guess in not very accurate.
You know how to rename something in gmc, yes? You do that
in the properties of a file, by editing the na
"Eray Ozkural (exa)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Check it out for yourself:
>
> orion:Stuff$ ls -ald desktop.*
> -rwxrwxr-x1 root windows 125 Nov 20 1998 desktop.ini
> orion:Stuff$ mv desktop.ini desktop.what!
> orion:Stuff$ ls -ald desktop.*
> -rwxrwxr-x1 root windows
Previously Christian Kurz wrote:
> |dpkg-scriptlib -- dpkg-perl and dpkg-python (142 days old)
>
> Is any package using functions of dpkg-perl or dpkg-python? If yes, I
> think someone should take care of this packages and the bugs that are in
> them. If not, could we move this packages from our
Hi Martin,
cross-posting to debian-devel because your assessment of the
bug is totally wrong.
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I can rename a directory to which I have permissions in shell
>
> > orion:mp3$ ls -ald Rob\ Zombie/
> > drwxrwxr-x2 root windows 16384 May 21 2000
So, it seems that I will maintain catdoc, not you? Am I right?
Thanks,
NIDD
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:23:52PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> still haven't tried 2.2.18. The video= options seems to be completely
> ignored, and Linux boots up as if it wasn't there.
Did you check /proc/cmdline to see if grub actually passed it to the kernel?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[E
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:03:03AM +, Mark Seaborn wrote:
> Of course. I know this. It is repeated many times on this mailing
> list. But it does not have to be so. Why should upgrading package X
> affect unrelated package Y? If one user wants to use packages from
Package X and package Y
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:30:13PM +1030, Matthew Tuck wrote:
> - if my apt download was terminated halfway through and I have no
> internet time left, I would still get to install my fully downloaded
> packages without messing around with dpkg and trying to work out the
> dependencies manually
ap
195 days is a lot of time to have an important package orphaned. At 6 or
so months of "orphaned-ness", if a maintainer is not found, one should and
IMHO must look at the very real at that point possibility of going on
without it. If this necessitates further changes as in removal of an
entire ar
[This message has been submitted as a wishlist bug against wnpp; the
bug number is 80584.]
Crypt::SSLeay allows LWP::UserAgent objects (among others) to
correctly perform GET and POST operations over HTTPS.
Since it uses SSL, the package will depend on libssl095a (and
build-depend on the appropri
Isn't there rudimentary ACL implementation in the kernel? An ACL would do
the job nicely...
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Peter Eckersley wrote:
> >
> >
> > If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I
> > can set permissions:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTEC
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 10:47:17PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:18:54AM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:25:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > > just wanted to point to wv which seems to do a much better
> > > job than catdoc, and also o
msg.pgp
Description: PGP message
Sorry if I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm going to look into doing
something similiar to what Dwayne's doing, with a heavy Java slant. Anyway,
I wrote up a wishlist of sorts here :
http://www.devel.e-plagiarism.com/~entropy/proposals/jam.html
The ideas seem sound, but I haven't had too many p
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, [iso-8859-1] Petr Čech wrote:
> > |mhash (235 days old)
> No. I'm not sure if gorgo orphaned it or not. php4 builds an extension with
he says, `i think i did... about the time when i orphaned php'
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[-]
``And there are plenty of other innovative pieces of software such
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Toni Mueller wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to have a feature in the BTS. That's the ability to select a
> minimum (maximum?) version of a given package to search for. Should
> shorten the sometimes rather longish lists of bug reports (and thereby
> helping to read them fast
Hello,
I'd like to have a feature in the BTS. That's the ability to select a
minimum (maximum?) version of a given package to search for. Should
shorten the sometimes rather longish lists of bug reports (and thereby
helping to read them faster and closer, too. I may volunteer to do it,
but would
++ 28/12/00 00:51 +0300 - Peter Novodvorsky:
> ++ 27/12/00 16:03 +0100 - Dr. Guenter Bechly:
> > Oops, I already adopted the package on 24th Dec. Sorry, but I did not know
> > that anybody else was interested in adopting it. It had announced my ITA a
> > day before.
>
> I have upload catdoc only k
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
>
> Hi,
> |mhash (235 days old)
>
> Has this package been dropped from unstable? If yes, can we close the
> wnpp-bug about it?
No. I'm not sure if gorgo orphaned it or not. php4 builds an extension with
this library. Dunno, how
++ 27/12/00 16:03 +0100 - Dr. Guenter Bechly:
> Oops, I already adopted the package on 24th Dec. Sorry, but I did not know
> that anybody else was interested in adopting it. It had announced my ITA a
> day before.
I have upload catdoc only know and closed the bug. sorry.
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:18:54AM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:25:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > just wanted to point to wv which seems to do a much better
> > job than catdoc, and also operates from a script if desired.
> > Apparently only the GUI is "missing".
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:41:43PM +, Mark Seaborn wrote:
> > I want a system where I can install multiple versions of a library
> > (or any package really) and say which version I want each program
> > on the system to use, possibly on a per-user b
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:23:52PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> At the moment I have:
>
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda1 video=0x319
try:
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda1 video=vesa:0x319
How about an "apt-getd" debian daemon.
Use a apt-get client to remotely mess with another workstations packages.
Messing with only one workstation at a time is boring. How about multicast
to configure a hundred workstations instead, all at once? And then have a
proxying apt-getd server multicas
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:58:47PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > I seem to have problems booting Linux 2.2.18 via NFS root
> > image. **2.2.17 works fine**, but 2.2.18 says "No NFS servers
> > available, giving up".
> [...]
> > Any ideas what is going on?
What kernel rev and NFS version are the NF
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +, Marc Haber wrote:
> I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for
> all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page
> (http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=$package) and
> then comparing the version number
In addition to the previously-mentioned pipelining that installs
packages as soon as they're downloaded, so their deb can be deleted,
and has careful sequencing so that a package is not downloaded until
its dependencies have _already_ been met, it would be nice ...
to have the package requesting f
On 11 Dec 2000 20:18:58 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:40:56AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > apart from that, mozilla's great. much better, faster, more stable than
> > netscape. still crashes occasionaly, but that's acceptable for a beta
> > program.
>
> Has anyone h
Ola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote "The big problem is as I see it, to
implement it. I'm not familiar with the background work that the server
do so I'm not the right person ot do it, I think. Are you willing to
implement such a system?"
I will try some experimentation on a local system, and see if I
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:58:47PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> I seem to have problems booting Linux 2.2.18 via NFS root
> image. **2.2.17 works fine**, but 2.2.18 says "No NFS servers
> available, giving up".
[...]
> Any ideas what is going on?
This may not have anything to do with it, but IIRC, Al
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:26:25AM +, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:28:59 -0500, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >It sounds pretty easy to implement; just stat() and compare the inode number.
>
> That won't catch a file being copied and truncated since the inode
> s
> "exa" == exa writes:
exa> I use bash. Is this zsh better? :)
Yes.
--
Stephen
"A duck!"
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:25:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:10:19AM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote:
> > ++ 20/12/00 12:52 -0700 - Bdale Garbee:
> > > I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I
> > > will continue my cu
I'd like to send out a reminder.
Peter Novodvorsky wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want you to know, that Sky Events will hold four conferences and
> exhibition in eastern europe called Linux Expo Road Show. Conferences
> will be held in Praha, Budapest, Warsaw and Moscow, and exhibition --
> only in Mosco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > running dpkg-scanpackage i386 over > Packages
> >
> > > i get (over is size 0)
> >
> > > ! Package msn-transport (filename i386/msn-transport_1.0-2_i386.deb) is
> > > re
Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a
> script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages
> appears in woody.
>
> I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for
> all packages that we have backported fro
Hi.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:27:43 +0100,
on Re: X 4 and app-defaults,
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what about localisation of app-default, I see XEarth ships with
>
> # ls /etc/X11/*/app-defaults/XEarth
> /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/XEarth
> /e
* Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001223 22:47]:
> Hello!
>
> I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to
> replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch
> and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and clean as
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:37:17 -0500, Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>apt-cache show $package|grep Source
in a perl script, ugly. But a possible way to do it.
>Then use that value in the url (in this case db)
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=db
"No such changelog".
Mi
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a
> script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages
> appears in woody.
>
> I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for
Hi,
we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a
script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages
appears in woody.
I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for
all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page
(http://cgi.
With the introduction of the packages pool, I'm going to propose the
following change to the Packages files:
1. The filename tells what the Packages files contains:
Packages files should be independent of the their location, therefor the
name has to reflect their contents, i.e.
"Packages-$
Hi,
> > > I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I
> > > will continue my current level of inactive ownership of the package until
> > > such time as someone takes it over.
> > I'd like to adopt this package.
Oops, I already adopted the package on 24th Dec. Sorry
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:11PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> I have the helix version installed:
> (Also this version should replace libgtk-doc, shouldn't it?)
Whenever any helix packages are involved, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the
appropriate place to report problems. Not debian-devel.
> #dpkg
In Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:42:49 +0100 Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum
veritate scripsit :
> > silo (0.9.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
> > * New upstream
> > * Took over silo's packaging
>
> > -- Erick Kinnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:54:23 -0500
>
> > Which I assumed mea
In Wed, 27 Dec 2000 00:19:19 +0100 Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate
scripsit :
> > I've seen one in lyx-cjk bugs. It's cosmetically annoying.
> > I really would love to remove it but there would be quite a lot of
> > trouble (and fear that legitimate info could be lost).
>
> Tell me
I have the helix version installed:
(Also this version should replace libgtk-doc, shouldn't it?)
#dpkg -s libglib1.2-dev
Package: libglib1.2-dev
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 367
Maintainer: Helix Code, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: glib1.2
Vers
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:06:30PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
>
> If it's so important, why is it orphaned? I'm thinking that if the SPARC
> folx can't be bothered to maintain their bootloader, perhaps the port's
> utilization of resources needs to be called into question... What's the
> point in D
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:03:30PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> Hm, have you tried running grub-install --recheck and then
Won't run:
feivel:~# grub-install --recheck
install_device not specified.
Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
Install GRUB on your drive.
-h, --help
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:50:14PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Oh, they generally get filed, it's just that some package maintainers don't
> do a damn thing about them[1].
what about localisation of app-default, I see XEarth ships with
# ls /etc/X11/*/app-defaults/XEarth
/etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP
Hello,
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:10:19AM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote:
> ++ 20/12/00 12:52 -0700 - Bdale Garbee:
> > I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I
> > will continue my current level of inactive ownership of the package until
> > such time as someon
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:28:59 -0500, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>It sounds pretty easy to implement; just stat() and compare the inode number.
That won't catch a file being copied and truncated since the inode
stays the same.
Greetings
Marc
--
-
On 00-12-27 Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:59:16PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > >
> > > |silo (195 days old)
> > >
> > > Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's
> > > currently st
On 00-12-26 Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> >
> > |silo (195 days old)
> >
> > Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's
> > currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache
> > search silo.
> Yo
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:14:54PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > This is a big nuisance. I spent months working on a project with
> > a shared directory without individual user groups. Worse yet, you
> > can end up with a CVS repository full of files with user-only
>
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> This is a big nuisance. I spent months working on a project with
> a shared directory without individual user groups. Worse yet, you
> can end up with a CVS repository full of files with user-only
> permissions (using a local CVS repositor, rather than remote).
>
Ok. Th
Just one simple small thing for me, please: An installer that is smart
enough to realize that it is about to overflow the disc, so it deletes
any .deb files that have been downloaded and already installed. (This
bit me once while doing an install over PPP.)
Cheers,
Richard
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|_) /
Peter Eckersley wrote:
>
>
> If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I
> can set permissions:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l plot-against-fred
> -rwr--1 pde fred 1 Dec 27 17:12 plot-against-fred
>
> Of course, I need root access to do it :(
Le Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:24:34AM -0800, Joey Hess écrivait:
> liblocale-gettext-perl
> libmldbm-perl
> dpkg-ftp
Those 3 are mine. I've just done it. No need to file a bug.
> perl-5.005-suid
This one should not be updated :)
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.lin
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:31:48PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote:
> I just did a Google search on "duelling banjos debian" and came up with
> nothing -- just two hits to our archives from the "dualling banjos" thread
> that happened one of the previous times we got this strange request.
I don't know
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure that solves all the problems - I'd like apache-perl
> > recompiled against perl5.6, and so the rest of modules.
>
> I would do, but I'm not at all sur
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> First we need to solve the IMHO broken Alternatives Settings of those Perl
> Packages. They messed up my System more than one.
See the BTS, there are patches (#80143). Someone should NMU it, it's absurd
it's been left so broken for so long.
> perl-5.6-base is removing
> a
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> > > I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm
> > > annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is tha
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