One thing that strikes me as excellent about Debian is the build
system. The autobuilders and tools make it very likely that package
builds are reproducible and a variety of tools like debhelper make it
easier to do the "right thing" in many circumstances than doing
something wrong. I've come a
> "Martin" == Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> Since the base system comprises our most important
Martin> packages, virtually all of which are installed on any
Martin> Debian system, your help is really needed! While Bug
Martin> Squashing Parties usually fo
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:14:22PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:35:37 +0530
> Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am working on packaging intel-rng-tools. It is the daemon to utilise
> > the RNG on i810 boards. Let me know if anyone is working on this. I
> shall
>
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:30:31PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> [...]
i think you've done a good job of summarising the issues.
i hope we can resolve this soon.
craig
--
craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0
Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810
Dave Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i'm an idiot. i wasted bandwidth and answered my own question.
Don't worry about it.
Just in case anyone else was confused, I'm still in favor of having at
least *one* precompiled kernel per-architecture, so no one *has* to
compile a kernel, but if they
[from rob browning]
> > prevent us from having a minimal set of kernel packages per arch,
> > maybe even just one, and then having a kernel-custom package that pops
> > up a debconf gui when installed, listing all the available
[from myself]
> [*] now, in fairness i often use the stock kernel anywa
> I think someone else suggested something similar, but what would
> prevent us from having a minimal set of kernel packages per arch,
> maybe even just one, and then having a kernel-custom package that pops
> up a debconf gui when installed, listing all the available
> configurations[1], and once
David Schleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I develop/maintain several packages that compile kernel modules
> outside the kernel source, and understand a lot about what is
> necessary to compile modules outside the kernel. I have yet to see
> a header package in any distro that is actually useful
A more-or-less frequent occurrence with gnome upgrades is that
something changes which causes preferences to get hosed. Each time I
notice such a problem, I have reported a bug report, and each time,
Christian Marillat has decided to ignore the issue.
This is a very significant user issue; peopl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I've thought for a while that perhaps update-rc.d should have a
> --persistant option that would do the same thing as "remove" AND add a
> K symlink in /etc/rc9.d/ -- a valid but unused runlevel -- so that
> users could permanently disable things in one swift commandline.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
> now what do we have?
>
> kernel-image-version--
To be more complete we could have:
kernel-image
I've said before that over 2000 kernel configuration options exist and
it's obviously not feasable to make a standard binar
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:33:50PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:07:50PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
> > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > i am, and always have been, talking about the bloated number of
> > > kernel-{image,headers} packages.
> >
> > I
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:33:31PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> It's not compressed, and therefore not patented. I say this because
> `libungif'
> can read it. Or can libungif read LZW compressed gifs but not write them?
the latter.
-john
On 25 Apr 2001 17:23:50 -0700
Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "RB" == Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Not to mention that it's a grodie patented GIF.
>
> ~ESP, fan of http://burnallgifs.org/
It's not compressed, and therefore not patented. I say this becaus
[cc list is an attempt at stakeholders for this issue. If I missed
people, I'm sorry. If I annoyed people by ccing them even though they
read the list, well I'm sorry too, but there are a fair number of
people who tend to want to be explicitly cc'd when an issue pertains
to them.]
Summary: He
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, we do have equivalent kernel packages for most of the (e.g.)
> PowerPC variants. There it is a little more necessary than here, since
> the kernels only boot on one flavor. There'll be even more when I
> start building kernel packages on
> "RB" == Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RB> The Debian banner that is shown on VA / SourceForge or
RB> whatever pages, still says Debian 2.1. Don't we have something
RB> more up to date?
RB> http://www2.valinux.com/images/ads/2.gif
Not to mention that it's a
The Debian banner that is shown on VA / SourceForge or whatever pages,
still says Debian 2.1. Don't we have something more up to date?
http://www2.valinux.com/images/ads/2.gif
Roland
--
Roland Bauerschmidt
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:28:46PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> I investigated the suggestion you provided, and there is one problem with it
> for me: I use Maildir to hold my email, and not the mbox format. What solution
> is there for me? Otherwise I like it very much.
assuming a relatively r
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:07:50PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > i am, and always have been, talking about the bloated number of
> > kernel-{image,headers} packages.
>
> I have to admit, I strongly disagree with having separate packages for
> every fla
I investigated the suggestion you provided, and there is one problem with it
for me: I use Maildir to hold my email, and not the mbox format. What solution
is there for me? Otherwise I like it very much.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:08:22PM +, Frederico S. Mu
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> >
> > What it does use for crypto is openssl's libcrypt,
> > wich is NOT needed when used as a simple (traditional)
> > rotate system. So Debian can ship audit[d], and if
> > a user wants it's advanced crypto support, she/he should
> > install openssl package.
> >
>
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:52:53AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> ECN trips broken stuff. Happy now, Oh Mighty
> Pedant? :)
You could say the same thing about Debian. It can be incompatible with
broken brains warped by certain other OS's...
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Doesn't the user have to belong to the relevant group anyway?
> We already control access to things like floppy drives, sound
> cards etc through groups, so cd burning is another good example.
-rwxr-sr-x1 root cdrom 498
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:52:08PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> This would prevent the NMUers from doing things like debhelper/debconfizing
> packages without the maintainer's consent, as well as keep NMU bugs down.
Well, but other problems like broken dependencies on binary packages dont
g
>
> What it does use for crypto is openssl's libcrypt,
> wich is NOT needed when used as a simple (traditional)
> rotate system. So Debian can ship audit[d], and if
> a user wants it's advanced crypto support, she/he should
> install openssl package.
>
does it dlopen this? in other words, if I h
> "Herbert" == Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Herbert> I doubt the increase is going to be that significant.
Herbert> Since most of these will eventually become part of the
Herbert> mainstream kernel or get dropped.
I hope that is not actually the trend we see.
>> im
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i am, and always have been, talking about the bloated number of
> kernel-{image,headers} packages.
I have to admit, I strongly disagree with having separate packages for
every flavor of i386 machines. What about the other architectures as
well? Should
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:58:52AM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:48:24PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> > Hi Jimmy!
> >
> >
> > > but I don't have the time right now to remember how to write a procmail
> > > recipe
> > > to filter out the list into a separate folder to p
Blake Barnett wrote:
>Call me crazy, but I can't seem to get into the database anymore. The
>postgres user didn't have a password before and it won't accept a blank
>password anymore. The postgres user was the only user and so there's no way
>to get in to modify him. Am I just being dens
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Package: ng-cjk
> Priority: optional
> Section: editors
> Installed-Size: 164
> Maintainer: Yasuhiro Take <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: ng
> Version: 1.4.3.1-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1), libncurses5, ng-common
> Filename: pool/main/n/
"Steve M. Robbins" wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:03:03PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> > Since it is in non-us, at least for now that means it will not appear on a
> > official debian cd.
>
> When I burned the 2.2r2 iso's last December, there was both a
> "crippled" and a "non-us
Steve M. Robbins wrote:
[Info on Boost snipped. This is a reply to a discussion
about wnpp bug #95251 (RFP: Boost) and is purposely not
CC'd to bugs.debian.org because it doesn't add any
relevant information to that thread. ]
Great idea. In fact, Raphael wrote a message to debian-devel in March
<
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
> > > + xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days!
> > > gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc
> >
> > that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications, which I find
> > silly
>
> Why does xcdroast need to be set
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:52:24PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > IIRC it also disallows SGID, which breaks some games that only want to
> > write to hi-score files.
>
> Guess that will force them to get a clue and write a sgid helper
> then.
... and over tim
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:03:03PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> Since it is in non-us, at least for now that means it will not appear on a
> official debian cd.
When I burned the 2.2r2 iso's last December, there was both a
"crippled" and a "non-us" ISO for the first CD ("binary-i386-1").
On 25-Apr-2001 Arthur Korn wrote:
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry schrieb:
>> as long as lograte can be installed first, then I can later
>> install auditd and everything will just work, sure.
>
> I can't use logrotate with msyslog, it won't work, logrotate is
> just too limited. This would mean I have to
Here's what I do:
1. apt-get update
2. apt-get dist-upgrade -uf
if this breaks then,
3. dpkg --configure -a
then
4. apt-get dist-upgrade -uf (the -f flag is especially important here)
and repeat 3-4 until it finishes. Sometimes I might apt-get install or
remove a package that is explicitly me
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry schrieb:
> as long as lograte can be installed first, then I can later
> install auditd and everything will just work, sure.
I can't use logrotate with msyslog, it won't work, logrotate is
just too limited. This would mean I have to move msyslog to
non-US, since I will make it
> Previously Shaul Karl wrote:
> > [00:44:26 /tmp]$ dpkg -l doc-linux-text
> > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 69953
> > package
> > `ng-cjk':
> > EOF during value of field `MD5sum' (missing final newline)
>
> Show is that line and the few lines around it please.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:35:37 +0530
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am working on packaging intel-rng-tools. It is the daemon to utilise
> the RNG on i810 boards. Let me know if anyone is working on this. I
shall
> otherwise upload it tonight.
Isn't there a kernel driver for that?
Regards,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:05:03AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:16:30PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > It may be a minor catch-22, but ECN is currently so broken, that only power
> > users should be using it, as the rest will just continue flooding the
> > netfilter list w
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:55:36PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Daniel Stone wrote:
> > No way should we be pushing ECN to the masses. It should stay in the domain
> > of people like DaveM, until routers get fixed.
>
> The same DaveM who said he would enable ECN on vger to force
> p
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:52:10AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Yes, I know this. The bits are officially "reserved" in the RFC. Some people
> took this to mean, "must be zero".
This reminds me of my favourite quote from RFC2795:
The Version, Sequence Number, Protocol Number, and Reserved fiel
On 25-Apr-2001 Arthur Korn wrote:
> Hi
>
> I got an offer from the friendly people at Core-SDI to make
> auditd (server part of theyer BSD licenced, in development, log
> management software) a full (read: better) replacement for
> logrotate.
>
> Will a package in non-US/main have any chance to
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:48:24PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Hi Jimmy!
>
>
> > but I don't have the time right now to remember how to write a procmail
> > recipe
> > to filter out the list into a separate folder to prevent my inbox from
> > getting
> > too large. (Any help on this would be
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:53:13PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2001 21:49, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > True, but often very little, if anything, gets done. about it; seeing as
> > it's just a very small percentage of Linux users. A lot of people are in
> > the production mentali
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 21:49, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:12:48PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > No. ECN should be compiled in to all kernels! The issue is whether the
> > sysctl is set to enable it by default or not.
> >
> > I think that we should all be using ECN and r
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:53:20AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > [OK, ECN isn't
> > broken, the routers are, I know, but same effect. ECN breaks stuff].
>
> No, you still are incorrect. The routers are already broken. Use of
> ECN merely exhibits ev
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:48:22AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Why enable ECN at all, if all it effectively does is break stuff? AFAIK,
> > there's no systems out "in the wild" that actually use ECN to make a
> > difference. All that's happening is
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:12:48PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> No. ECN should be compiled in to all kernels! The issue is whether the
> sysctl is set to enable it by default or not.
>
> I think that we should all be using ECN and reporting the bugs to the people
> who run the broken routers.
Hi Jimmy!
You wrote:
> Please CC me in any replies, since I am at the moment not subscribed to
> debian-devel. I intend to become a Debian developer, and then I will
> subscribe,
Please let me know when you apply, so I can advocate you.
> but I don't have the time right now to remember how to
Hi
I got an offer from the friendly people at Core-SDI to make
auditd (server part of theyer BSD licenced, in development, log
management software) a full (read: better) replacement for
logrotate.
Will a package in non-US/main have any chance to be accepted as
full replacement for logrotate? As I
With new sendmail 8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-3 executing 'mailq' answer me:
can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
from this message it seems that adding the user to
/etc/mail/trusted-users can solve the problem, bu
Quoting Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [OK, ECN isn't
> broken, the routers are, I know, but same effect. ECN breaks stuff].
No, you still are incorrect. The routers are already broken. Use of
ECN merely exhibits evidence of the colossal brain-damage in the routers.
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010425 13:32]:
> It would be nice if this were more widely advertised (for example, it
> doesn't appear to be linked from http://qa.debian.org/). Such a list
fixed.
--
Martin Michlmayr
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Why enable ECN at all, if all it effectively does is break stuff? AFAIK,
> there's no systems out "in the wild" that actually use ECN to make a
> difference. All that's happening is that peoples' systems are being
> broken.
> Which is sub-optimal.
I wou
Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> what's the story with console packages in testing? I see
> console-tools and console-utilities that conflict with each other,
> console-common that replaces console-data... and there's nothing
> in my /usr/share/keymaps so I can't check if loadkeys will fix
>
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Hierarchical notebook (hnb) is an ncurses program to organize many kinds of
data in one place, for example addresses, todo lists, ideas, book reviews or
to store snippets of brainstorming, to make a structured packing list or just
to take random notes. It can expor
Hi. I am a new package maintainer in charge of my first Debian package. The
package, an email client named althea, has just been installed into unstable
last night. It is an IMAP email client, but I don't believe it supports reading
locally through the mbox format files in /var/spool/mail (which is
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:16:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> A kernel-module must be built with the EXACT SAME environment as the kernel
> being run. This means they need an EXACT match of headers. The ones that are
> included with glibc are generic, and will NEVER match the running kernel(even
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> + locale-vi uploaded 202 days ago, out of date by 192 days!
> + locale-zh uploaded 190 days ago, out of date by 188 days!
> probably should be removed from the archive as of glibc 2.2.x
> (conflicts with glibc > 2.1.94, ex
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:55:54PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:54:23AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > what's the story with console packages in testing? I see
> > console-tools and console-utilities that conflict with each other,
> > console-common that replaces conso
Oui, va voir :
http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
David
Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:06:49PM +0200 wrote:
> il y a-t-il une version de debian pour Mac?
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM
il y a-t-il une version de debian pour Mac?
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:02:47AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> mkfs doesn't fry harddrives, it fries data on harddrives. However, using
> wrong video settings can actually destroy certain monitors.
Would any of those monitors even work after you dug them up from the
bottom of the dusty parts close
On 25-Apr-2001 Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> It's not silly, it is an extremely good idea. I'm very pleasantly
>> surprised to hear that they did that. It is basically not possible to
>> write safe suid X programs.
>
> IIRC it also di
* Joey Hess
| Daniel Stone wrote:
| > Here's where theory and practice come into play. I only have a small chunk
| > of 203.36.158.* (113-127, afaik), so how can you DNS-delegate that? At
| > least, if there is a way, Telstra haven't figured it out yet.
|
| This is actually quite doable, you jus
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> > Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > Then you break things for no good reason. These "module builders" you
> > > speak of should be using the same headers as glibc.
> >
> > Absolutely definitely not. User
Another tighter configuration provided the provider is using atleast
BIND8 is to add the following to their 158.36.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA zone
$ORIGIN 158.36.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
$GENERATE 113-127 $ CNAME $.113-127
$GENERATE 1-2 113-127 NS ns$.example.com.
In this example the BIND8 server
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:02:47AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > If we left everything to "you have to be smart enough", then let's just
> > leave out the entire linux kernel, most of the software in Debian, and
> > go for a minimum cygnus install. Let's
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
> If we left everything to "you have to be smart enough", then let's just
> leave out the entire linux kernel, most of the software in Debian, and
> go for a minimum cygnus install. Let's just ditch all non-i386
> architectures. Hell, let's get rid of everyt
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > Then you break things for no good reason. These "module builders" you
> > speak of should be using the same headers as glibc.
>
> Absolutely definitely not. Userland is different from kernelspace,
> and headers need
Daniel Stone wrote:
> Here's where theory and practice come into play. I only have a small chunk
> of 203.36.158.* (113-127, afaik), so how can you DNS-delegate that? At
> least, if there is a way, Telstra haven't figured it out yet.
This is actually quite doable, you just need to have a clued isp
Anthony Towns schrieb:
> + libvoxel uploaded 357 days ago, out of date by 347 days!
> has a year old "doesn't build" bug, 60985
I hacked at it at BSP#3, nothing depends on it, and the bug is
_really_ obscure (that's not only me saying this). I asked the
maintainer wheter it would be OK to re
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:52:09PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Why enable ECN at all, if all it effectively does is break stuff? AFAIK,
> > there's no systems out "in the wild" that actually use ECN to make a
> > difference. All that's happening is that peopl
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> I was sometime trying to build a package on a big endian machine (I
> have only intel at home). So I used one of the .d.o big endian
> machine and the unstable chroot. There is the build-essential
> installed IIRC. But for my compil
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:22:46AM +, Takashi Okamoto wrote:
> I send mail to Kandata authors Mr. Wakaba and Mr. Uchida.
> I confirmed above copyright is not accurate at following points:
>
> - Omega font haven't been used already (Mr. Uchida's said)
>
> - "Other part" (Kandata sp
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:07:58AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
[...]
> task-python-dev just depends on -imaging-tk.
>
> So this means python can't be updated without also updating palm-doctoolkit
> and python-imaging, and those can't be updated without updating python.
>
> Further some of the bi
Hi!
At Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:07:42 +,
Takashi Okamoto wrote:
> Sure, but in the fact I judged by document in kandata distribution.
> It says:
> (kandata font is included various fonts)
> --
> [Watanabe mincho]
> > --- Watanabe font Copyright notice
> > Undocumented.
> > Bu
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 14:16, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > Why enable ECN at all, if all it effectively does is break stuff?
> > > AFAIK, there's no systems out "in the wild" that actually use ECN to
> > > make a difference. All that's happening is that peoples' systems are
> > > being broken. Whi
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:22:36PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Do I have to check all dependencies in all 54 python packages in the pool
> (10 architectures, 4 arch-dependent packages, 4 arch-independent packages),
> to see what's the reason that keeps the packages out of testing ?
> All I can
> "Steve" == Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> On 23-Apr-01, 18:52 (CDT), Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Steve> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This would prevent the NMUers from doing things like
>> debhelper/debconfizing packages without the maintainer's
>> consent, a
Hi there,
I have splitted the lids packages into two packages per version. One
who includes the kernelpatch and one the admintool. My problem i now uploading
themwould cause problems and work because there would be conflicts
with the existing lidspackages. Is it possible to get fast _all_
lidspac
Previously Daniel Kobras wrote:
> Isn't the xcdroast/cdrecord suid/sgid stuff about grabbing realtime
> scheduling priority? You can't control this via group ownership.
You could start a suid helper that passes you a new capability though.
Wichert.
--
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:41:29AM -0700, Mattia Monga wrote:
> I have just packaged tkrat, a tk based mail client that is able to
> sign, encrypt, etc. by using an external pgp/gpg program.
huh you are *years* to late:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ apt-cache show tkrat
Package: tkrat
Priority: optional
S
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:50PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
> > Why does xcdroast need to be setgid? I think it's terrible to have any user
> > able to burn or screw up a burn... why can't they use sudo or su?
>
> Doesn't the user h
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Then you break things for no good reason. These "module builders" you
> speak of should be using the same headers as glibc.
Absolutely definitely not. Userland is different from kernelspace,
and headers need not match at all. Feel free to search debian-devel
or lin
I have just packaged tkrat, a tk based mail client that is able to
sign, encrypt, etc. by using an external pgp/gpg program.
The Debian Developer Reference (6.2.4) reads:
Do not upload to ftp-master packages containing software that is
export-controlled by the United States government, nor to t
On Apr 25, Anthony Towns wrote:
>+ diablo uploaded 125 days ago, out of date by 115 days!
> doesn't build on sparc, no bug filed
It's an obsolete version which should be removed anyway.
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Marco
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:54:33AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > > That is the raison d'etre for kernel-headers. However, the new per-image
> > > kernel-headers exist solely for the benefit of module builder
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:16:30PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:52:09PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > Why enable ECN at all, if all it effectively does is break stuff? AFAIK,
> > > there's no systems out "in the wild" that actuall
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
URL:
http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net
License:
GPL
Description:
This package provides an update service for the Free dynamic DNS hosting
service at dyndns.org.
Ipcheck.py is the only UNIX dyndns.org client rated at
Compliant. The Debian ddclien
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:46:55AM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> > > + xcdroast uploaded 152 days ago, out of date by 142 days!
> > > gtk/setgid problems, see 92230 etc
> >
> > that's new change in gtk 1.2.9 to disallow suid applications,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:16:30PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
>
> It may be a minor catch-22, but ECN is currently so broken, that only power
> users should be using it, as the rest will just continue flooding the
> netfilter list with "Netfilter breaks all my websites!". [OK, ECN isn't
> broken,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:53:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The following packages haven't been uploaded this year, and also haven't
> made it into testing for a while. If people could go through and make
> sure the maintainer knows about the issues, or do NMUs as appropriate, or
> work out wh
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:54:33AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > That is the raison d'etre for kernel-headers. However, the new per-image
> > kernel-headers exist solely for the benefit of module builders.
>
> Then you break things for no good reason.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:23:35PM +0200,
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
a message of 81 lines which said:
> How about the following as a start:
Thanks!
> Is this the right list for such things? Is there a more appropriate list?
There is apparently no debian-ldap (it might be usef
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I'm not sure what the solution is for m68k...
Simply use an Architecture line that does not include m68k.
Wichert.
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Previously Daniel Stone wrote:
> No way should we be pushing ECN to the masses. It should stay in the domain
> of people like DaveM, until routers get fixed.
The same DaveM who said he would enable ECN on vger to force
people who want to subscribe to lkml to fix their equipment?
Wichert.
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