Re: chroot bind?

2001-05-01 Thread Nicholas Lee
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:25:14PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Because it is a non-standard /var directory, I thought it would be helpful > to name it after the package it belonged to. Just a follow up on this. Haven't spent much time on the actual package as its seems quite straight to d

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Itai Zukerman
Again, could: http://bugs.debian.org/95981 have anything to do with this? -itai

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:21:58PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) And alias "quit" to "exit". :) -d, who now uses dig -- Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > I'm now having problems with dpkg complaining about Available: and > Size: fields from my /var/lib/dpkg/status. Should I just get rid of > them? Or, as I asked before, is there a way to regenerate my status file > so it complies? > > Interestingly, I tri

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Sam Couter
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > debfoster does not do what I described, as you can see by its description. I use it on my system for precisely that, only I don't limit it to just task packages. > How does this allow you to remove a task package in an intuitive way? That > is what

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:28:09PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: >I know about apt-listchanges but, AFAIU, it extracts the changelog from >the .deb files. So you cannot get this changelog before downloading the >.deb packages. It's when I'm still in dselect deciding which packages to >

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Francois Gouget wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > [...] > > > >Yum. I'd love to see the changelog in dselect before I decide whether > > to upgrade a package or not. > > :-) > > apt-get install apt-listcha

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:56:10PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > > packages and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to > > allow apt-listchanges to

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Jon Eisenstein
I'm now having problems with dpkg complaining about Available: and Size: fields from my /var/lib/dpkg/status. Should I just get rid of them? Or, as I asked before, is there a way to regenerate my status file so it complies? Interestingly, I tried to recompile dpkg with the patch mentioned previous

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > [...] > > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > > packages > > and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to allow > > apt-listchanges to display change

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not only does that show that Solaris 2.6's shell does not set IFS, windlord:~> printenv IFS windlord:~> /bin/sh -c 'echo x-${IFS}-x' x- -x windlord:~> uname -a SunOS windlord.stanford.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 Looks set to me, alt

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Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > How does this allow you to remove a task package in an intuitive way? That > is what this discussion was about. I am not exactly sure if debfoster does exactly this (at least it does similar), but this is what would call the perfect solution: % apt-get install task-foo t

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > packages > and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to allow > apt-listchanges to display changelogs for packages before downloading them, > but > such

ITP: stklos -- A fast, light, R5RS-compliant Scheme System

2001-05-01 Thread mdanish
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine, STklos can also be compiled as a library, so that one can easily embed it in an application. The salient points of STklos are: * efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing - Multiple Inheritance, - Ge

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:30:23PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A cleaner implementation would be to create a simple program or script that > > would attempt to remove a given package and (recursively) all of its > > dependencies, skipping any that

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Sam Couter
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A cleaner implementation would be to create a simple program or script that > would attempt to remove a given package and (recursively) all of its > dependencies, skipping any that are depended upon by packages outside of the > set of packages being ma

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? +55v

2001-05-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi yes gnd should be connected... if +5v, +3.3v is NOT connected together... and assuming you have 2 powersupplies.. and if the power supply to the disk dies... than you're out of luck or if the powersupply tot eh motherboard dies... you'd be out of luck too in which case.

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs Matt> from source packages and insert them into a SQL database. Matt> My original intention was to allow apt-listchanges to Matt> display changelogs for packa

Re: postgresql and libssl - Bug#95146

2001-05-01 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:13:49PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I have to reiterate a query about what to do with postgresql in view of its > now being linked with libssl. > > Since this question is currently being referred to legal advice, do you > want me to move postgresql into non-us, which

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-01 Thread David Whedon
> > for some, I need rather complex text processing. Since perl isn't > > essential, writing the script in perl would make the package depend on > > perl while this is unnecessary for normal operation. Would this be > > acceptable or should I find a better solution? > > > > If you

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:12:29PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > open("/var/lib/dpkg/status", O_RDONLY) = 4 > fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > old_mmap(NULL, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0 > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ I'd say it

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:27:32PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > Did you check whether the contents of /var/lib/dpkg are intact > > (specifically, the status file and info/*.list)? > > The status file exists but is empty, and the info/*.list seem to be intact. status should theoretically be r

RE: Two debconf issues

2001-05-01 Thread Simon Richter
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > If you use debconf you are using perl (-: of course awk is your friend and > mine. Hrm, since that stuff will also tend to get ugly when written in awk, I think I'm going to use perl then. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Jon Eisenstein
Alright, so, with the help of many people on the list and my own perusal of my lost+found, I've discovered that my problem is indeed the fact that I'm missing my status file. The one I found is broken, but I have an older version on a backup. Anyone know of a way to regenerate my status file? Even

RE: Two debconf issues

2001-05-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-May-2001 Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions > have arised: > > - At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real > configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial, > for s

Re: BTS feature?

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Steve" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> I don't follow your reasoning. Are you suggesting that the Steve> bug submitters will be less annoyed if the bug is closed Steve> after 30 days, rather than immediately? Why would that be? Instead of forcing maintai

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > On Tuesday 01 May 2001 12:34, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any > > > needed situation: > > > > What version? > > The current - 1.9.2, and previou

Two debconf issues

2001-05-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions have arised: - At the start of my config script, I import all settings from the real configuration file, if it exists. For some settings, this is trivial, for some, I need rather complex text processing. Since per

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> The autoconf folks try very hard to write portable code. They go to > ridiculous lengths to support every major flavour of OS, compiler, > make, and shell. Indeed, Zack's tests show that only the recent ash > behaves differently. > more importantly (to me anyways) is the question of why do we

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:34:31AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is likely that the folks who wrote autoconf did not invent this > > idiom for setting and re-setting $IFS. They probably borrowed the > > idea from existing shell code, meaning that

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:42:04PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > If you short circuit both PS's outputs then the voltage is the same and there > won't be any reverse current, neither in the data cables. So te load will be > distributed between both PS. In power combining applications like these, balanc

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:46:42PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Monday 30 April 2001 00:04, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I don't see why. Nor is this any different to any external drives. > > > You have a hefty ground connection

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Jon Eisenstein
> Did you check whether the contents of /var/lib/dpkg are intact (specifically, > the status file and info/*.list)? The status file exists but is empty, and the info/*.list seem to be intact.

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Jon Eisenstein
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed > > situation: > > Maybe try strace'ing it (of course if you have strace installed)? In this reply, I'm replying to many questions and support from diffe

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in the environment, and which postdates 4.4BSD and SVR4, and I'll shut > up. The burden is on you to do this. I believe I have adequately Well thanks to a bug in Netscape, I went to its search page instead of whatever I was trying to open, and the my c

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve M. Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is likely that the folks who wrote autoconf did not invent this > idiom for setting and re-setting $IFS. They probably borrowed the > idea from existing shell code, meaning that the "breakage", as you put > it, will be widespread indeed. Please re

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed > situation: > > dpkg -i foo > Segmentation fault > > Dselect: Update > Okay > Dselect: Select > Segmentation fault > > dpkg --unpack fo

Re: postgresql and libssl - Bug#95146

2001-05-01 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Petr" == Petr Cech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Since this question is currently being referred to legal >> advice, do you want me to move postgresql into non-us, which >> will force any packages depending on it into non-us too, or >> should I leave it alone pending resol

Re: BTS feature?

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:51:39AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Steve M. Robbins writes: > > I don't follow your reasoning. Are you suggesting that the bug > > submitters will be less annoyed if the bug is closed after 30 days, > > rather than immediately? Why would that be? > > Many bug submitt

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 12:34, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any > > needed situation: > > What version? The current - 1.9.2, and previous 1.9.0. The problem is that dpkg can not parse some infos abo

Re: postgresql and libssl - Bug#95146

2001-05-01 Thread Petr Cech
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:13:49PM +0100 , Oliver Elphick wrote: > I have to reiterate a query about what to do with postgresql in view of its > now being linked with libssl. don't do it > Since this question is currently being referred to legal advice, do you > want me to move postgresql into no

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed > situation: What version?

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Itai Zukerman
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed > > situation: Maybe it's this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/95981 The patch is trivial. Try dowloading the source and rebuilding dpkg (that's what I

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:10:32PM -0500, Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:44:21PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > I had an idea (and a working script) to extract changelogs from source > > packages and insert them into a SQL database. My original intention was to > > allow

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:50:51PM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > Oh, I don't know if it's an ugly hack. Think about it, theres one program > or system that handles conflicts and dependencies. Why not rely on it? > Making multiple programs to do the same function (installing and removing > pack

Re: Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed > situation: Maybe try strace'ing it (of course if you have strace installed)? Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~

Dpkg problems

2001-05-01 Thread Jon Eisenstein
I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed situation: dpkg -i foo Segmentation fault Dselect: Update Okay Dselect: Select Segmentation fault dpkg --unpack foo Segmentation fault dpkg --help Okay What can I do? I downloaded

Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default

2001-05-01 Thread kaneda
On Thursday 19 April 2001 17:33, Nathan Dabney wrote: > How about we first ask the user upon install if they want to be able to > accept outside connections at all. > > I think this thread could be solved by designing a few types of installs > and giving defaults for host.deny and host.allow and ot

Re: Bug#95801: won't let me upgrade perl from stable to unstable

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:57:57PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > And it doesn't matter for you either, because I reassigned the bug to > perl-base. If you continue to argue and say that it is not a bug > (somewhere; anywhere) that I can't upgrade from stable to unstable I > will ignore your messages.

Re: Unable to complete dselect install

2001-05-01 Thread Petr Cech
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:56:50PM +0200 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a problem with updating my Debian system. It is running the unstable > version with kernel 2.4.3. When I run dselect and update the package list > everything goes well. Then I try to install some packages (and

Unable to complete dselect install

2001-05-01 Thread grofur
Hi, I've got a problem with updating my Debian system. It is running the unstable version with kernel 2.4.3. When I run dselect and update the package list everything goes well. Then I try to install some packages (and update some existing packages). Downloading goes well, but then: the package

Unable to apt-get dist-upgrade / upgrade whatever...

2001-05-01 Thread grofur
Hi, I've got a problem with updating my Debian system. It is running the unstable version with kernel 2.4.3. When I run dselect and update the package list everything goes well. Then I try to install some packages (and update some existing packages). Downloading goes well, but then: the package

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Vince Mulhollon writes: > Oh, I don't know if it [task-abc-remove] is an ugly hack. The obvious thing to do when one wants to remove a package is to remove the package. To an ordinary user "task-abc" is a package. He is not going to figure out that the way to remove it is to install another pack

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:44:21PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages > Mail-Followup-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:12:24PM -0400, Dan Chr

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-May-01, 12:50 (CDT), Vince Mulhollon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/01/2001 12:40:24 PM roland wrote: > >> Vince Mulhollon wrote: > >> > From my poor memory, the "generally agreed best idea" is to setup two > >> > packages, vaguely like this: > >> > > >> > Package name: task-abc > >> > C

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:12:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Is there a way to upgrade all currently installed packages which have > had an urgency=high version uploaded to the archive since I last > upgraded? (And any necessary dependencies, of course.) I'm thinking > of this for the unst

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread PiotR
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2001 16:11, PiotR wrote: > > A good solution for this might be to connect the first PS's output to the > > other, so the voltage is the same, and there's no massive current flow > > across the data cables. > > That

upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Christensen
Is there a way to upgrade all currently installed packages which have had an urgency=high version uploaded to the archive since I last upgraded? (And any necessary dependencies, of course.) I'm thinking of this for the unstable distribution. The idea is to frequently do such upgrades to get any

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 28, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, but who have choose that nslookup is deprecated in favour of the >other two tools ? The people who wrote BIND and developed a very large part of the DNS infrastructure, the group of people who knows about DNS more than most other peop

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 05/01/2001 12:40:24 PM roland wrote: >> Vince Mulhollon wrote: >> > From my poor memory, the "generally agreed best idea" is to setup two >> > packages, vaguely like this: >> > >> > Package name: task-abc >> > Conflicts: task-abc-remove >> > Depends: abc, bcd, cde, def >> > >> > Package name:

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
Vince Mulhollon wrote: > From my poor memory, the "generally agreed best idea" is to setup two > packages, vaguely like this: > > Package name: task-abc > Conflicts: task-abc-remove > Depends: abc, bcd, cde, def > > Package name: task-abc-remove > Conflicts: task-abc, abc, bcd, cde, def Please,

Re: BTS feature?

2001-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Steve M. Robbins writes: > I don't follow your reasoning. Are you suggesting that the bug > submitters will be less annoyed if the bug is closed after 30 days, > rather than immediately? Why would that be? Many bug submitters never respond to requests for additional information. Example: let's s

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 01 May 2001, Brian May wrote: > > "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henrique> Fetchmail is not the best tool for dealing with the > Henrique> Debian developer mail accounts, plain and simple. > > Why not? Because there isn't a IMAP or POP3 server

Re: intent to package palo

2001-05-01 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 01 May 2001 10:10:09 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > > palo is the PA-RISC/Linux (architecture specific) boot loader Hello, this is not the right way of doing an ITP... you should send it as a bug to wnpp and include aditional information... (like its web page, its license and so on

intent to package palo

2001-05-01 Thread bame
palo is the PA-RISC/Linux (architecture specific) boot loader -Paul Bame [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:27:46PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I am suggesting is that katie has a list of such cases (although > > I'm not proposing a particular format): > > From my point of view, such information would ideally be: > > o n

Re: BTS feature?

2001-05-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:38:06PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > during the latest debate on the BTS, I thought of a new feature > which would be really useful in the BTS. > > Instead of the maintainer sending a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying "this is not a bug" (which only > serves

Re: ash word-splitting changes break shell scripts

2001-05-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:15:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 07:48:07PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > I can keep this up just as long as you can. > > Everyone around here knows that I just love this game. Children! > In any case, your script is still broken. I'm o

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Perhaps it would be useful to create a new archive section for Debian-specific > tools. Christian Hammers writes: > I like this idea. Do others have other opinions about this? I like it also. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Whos bug is this? doc/sendmail-doc/op.ps.gz - "Error: /invalidfont in findfont"

2001-05-01 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Package: ??? Version: ??? Severity: snafu Not sure who to report this to or how to fix it so I can read this manual soon. Please advise. Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --nostringval-- Times-Italic Font Times-Italic 280374 Times-Italic --nostr

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:47:34PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Perhaps it would be useful to create a new archive section for Debian-specific > tools. There seem to be more written all the time, and it would be nice to be > able to easily browse a list of them. Things like apt-zip, grep-dctrl,

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 05/01/2001 03:09:16 AM Sam Powers wrote: >> While we're discussing what's wrong with task packages, I'd like to pick on >> them a little more: >> Task packages make things like task-gnome-desktop very easy to install, but >> removing the packages which are installed can sometimes be really tou

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henrique> Fetchmail is not the best tool for dealing with the Henrique> Debian developer mail accounts, plain and simple. Why not? (not trying to argue here, just genuinely curious). I would have though that fetchmail-s

Re: Bug#95801: won't let me upgrade perl from stable to unstable

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, xsdg wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is the correct answer, but do you have the >> newest apt, apt-utils, debconf, debconf-utils, and dpkg >> installed on that box? Steve> Does that really a

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julian> Subscribe with @d.o address. Filter the mail on master. Julian> Forward anything you want to see to your regular email Julian> address, leaving nothing on master. Now why didn't I think of that? ;-) In the past, I s

Re: Bug#95801: won't let me upgrade perl from stable to unstable

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Now, hold my hand. Your installed perl-base looks like Jason> this: The installed stuff is not relevant. There is nothing wrong with my existing setup. apt-get is happy with it as is. However it won't let me upgrade. 1.

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-05-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:19:29AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > This is the point where I disagree. I really hate having to build my > > own kernel just to do some tests with a fresh installation. > > so you have spent good money on a high-end SMP machine but you're not > willing to put in 5(*)

Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?

2001-05-01 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:18:20AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:05:08PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > Is this an inconsistency with the above quote from section 7.6, which > > uses the word "may"? > > Yes. Ah, you see my point now :) Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EM

Re: problems with atari800

2001-05-01 Thread Paul Martin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:05:33PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > $ host -a www.signus.demon.co.uk > www.signus.demon.co.uk MX 10 punt-1.mail.demon.net > www.signus.demon.co.uk MX 10 punt-2.mail.demon.net > > So, it seems there are at least MX records for this address, but no A or > CNA

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:17:21AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail > Matt> server, as I do. > > In my case, my MTA server is on the wrong side of my permanent > 28.8kbps

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2001 00:04, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I don't see why. Nor is this any different to any external drives. > > You have a hefty ground connection between the power supplies anyway > > (the mains, plus the metal case a

Re: Fwd: Re: [GB]Conflict with name libgb.so

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:42:26PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > > Hi.. just received this from the primary Gnome Basic author. > > I'll make the suggested changes and merge the Gnome Basic stuff into > /usr/lib/libgbrun.so; Stanford GraphBase need not be touched. Great, thanks! Julian -- =-

Re: debbugs can now send bug mails to someone different than the maintainer

2001-05-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:35:56AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > No; at present, we only have to enter the correct entry in the > > changelog, keeping "Debian policy list " > > in the control file Maintainer field. Then all of our uploads are > > considered NMUs and we have to close the bugs manual

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 30 April 2001 00:04, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:14:35AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > In a regular setup the IDE controller and the drive get power from the > > same source. So if the signals on the cable have more current going one > > way than the other then t

Re: 404's

2001-05-01 Thread Doug Porter
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:00:18PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > > > > rsync --exclude "Packages*" debian/pool > > rsync --delete debian/pool (If old packages are even deleted) It is probably a good idea to hold off the Sources* and Release* files too and then at the ve

Re: Bug#95430: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-01 Thread Herbert Xu
severity 95430 normal quit On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 07:48:07PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > severity 95430 critical > quit > > I can keep this up just as long as you can. Everyone around here knows that I just love this game. > > > (tests) ... except that ash does honor IFS from the environment

Re: ITP: ttf-japanese-kandata

2001-05-01 Thread Takashi Okamoto
At Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:54:02 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Big question is what did Mr. Wakaba used as the base of glyph. And how > far modification later affected the total collection. If he started > with then popular PC9800's ROM fonts with mere 16x16 bitmap fonts as > starting point of making TT

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-05-01 Thread Sam Powers
While we're discussing what's wrong with task packages, I'd like to pick on them a little more: Task packages make things like task-gnome-desktop very easy to install, but removing the packages which are installed can sometimes be really tough, if you just wanted to try out gnome, for example. P

SGML Question - help?

2001-05-01 Thread Stephen M Moraco
Hi, I'm new to SGML (Month+) and cannot for the life of me sovle this and am finally posting to this list for help. I'm trying to generate HTML from an article document. I'm using jade. I'll use what-ever solves my problem, i am not tied to jade.

Re: Bug#95801: won't let me upgrade perl from stable to unstable

2001-05-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 May 2001, Brian May wrote: > Jason> No, it means you can't do this specific situation you asked > Jason> for, you said dist-upgrade works, so you can in fact > Jason> upgrade to unstable! > > I don't recall saying that. If so, I did, I am sorry, I must have been > confused at t

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-01 Thread David Nusinow
On 30 Apr 2001 15:30:48 -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > As always, that would be true if they weren't installed by default. The > > current method requires too much prior knowledge. > > This could be put as a question whenever someone installs Debian > GNU/Linux. Something like "Do you want to

BTS feature?

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
Hello, during the latest debate on the BTS, I thought of a new feature which would be really useful in the BTS. Instead of the maintainer sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying "this is not a bug" (which only serves to annoy submitters who are convinced otherwise), you should be able to se

Re: Bug#95801: won't let me upgrade perl from stable to unstable

2001-05-01 Thread Brian May
reassign 95801 perl-base thanks To restate this bug report in simple terms: It is simply not possible to install perl-base[1] from unstable as it conflicts with perl-5.004-base[2] which is a required package in stable, and no longer exists in unstable[3]. > "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL

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