Re: Two debconf issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: >Simon Richter wrote: >> I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions >> have arised: > >That's "debconfiscated"[1]. No, that's what lilo did to install-mbr... - -- Sacred cows make th

Re: SGI's xfs

hi, On May 2, 8:34pm, Rahul Jain wrote: > Subject: Re: SGI's xfs > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:03:09AM -0500, Nathan Scott wrote: > > > > In addition to Ed's kernel debs and the XFS userspace - ie. > > xfsprogs, xfsdump, attr packages - you'll also want a recent > > mount package (supports mount

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enough said. Fuck him. On Wed, 2 May 2001, Gerrit Pape wrote: >http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html - -- Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:27:56AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Instead could you skip step 1 and do it: > > 1. apt-get install foo > 1.1 apt queries SQL server "SELECT * FROM packages WHERE package=foo, > architecture=i386, operatingsystem=linux" > 1.2 apt gets result, and installs package. > > Th

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:54:17PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you don't mind downloading the packages, you can just use > > apt-listchanges. It will sort its output by urgency, and you can use that > > information to decide which packages

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > These ideas sound great to me. In case they don't get implemented, or until > > they do, would it be hard to cook up a script that does what I want, even if > > it involves downloa

Re: rfc1149

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a > > Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a > > way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-) > > > > Have

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > These ideas sound great to me. In case they don't get implemented, or until > they do, would it be hard to cook up a script that does what I want, even if > it involves downloading the packages to see the changelogs? If you don't

Re: SGI's xfs

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:03:09AM -0500, Nathan Scott wrote: > > In addition to Ed's kernel debs and the XFS userspace - ie. > xfsprogs, xfsdump, attr packages - you'll also want a recent > mount package (supports mount by-UUID and mount-by-label for > XFS, documents the XFS mount options, no nee

Re: Two debconf issues

Simon Richter wrote: > I'm currently debconfizing one of my packages, uptimed. Two quoestions > have arised: That's "debconfiscated"[1]. > - 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

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

Hi, At Thu, 03 May 2001 03:24:25 +0900, GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Wed, 02 May 2001 15:00:03 +0900, > Kenshi Muto wrote: > > I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain > > "Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp" or > > "Content-Type: .* charset=euc-j

Re: rfc1149

> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think >> maybe a Debian package would have to go into contrib though, >> unless you can find a way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-) JHV> Haven't you heard the expr

Re: SGI's xfs

hi there, On May 2, 11:22am, Ed Boraas wrote: > Subject: Re: SGI's xfs > > Previously Matthias Berse wrote: > > > Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in > > > debian? Are there kernel patches available and/or userspace tools > > > being packaged? > > > > The usersp

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? > > I had an idea (and a w

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:07:29PM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Feel free to adopt the pilot-manager package... Cool, then I guess it doesn't count as hijacking any more. Hi, Darren, glad to know you're still around and in one piece. I was starting to get a little worried. cheers

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:01:44AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> I discussed the idea a bit with James Troup, and one of his > Matt> concerns was that the database would be centralized, not > Matt> distributed over many

Re: rfc1149

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:20:30PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a > > Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a > > way to squeeze pigeons into a

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I discussed the idea a bit with James Troup, and one of his Matt> concerns was that the database would be centralized, not Matt> distributed over many mirrors like the packages themselves. Matt> This would be a scalab

Re: imp broken in unstable?

> "Petr" == Petr Cech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petr> old php4 or some strange build. version? Standard php3: ii php3 3.0.18-12 A server-side, HTML-embedded scripting langu nothing nonstandard that I am aware of ;-) >> Warning: PostgresSQL query failed: ERROR: Can

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

hi ya > I think if you use a diode to connect the outputs you are limiting > the current flow in one way only. And why would you want to do this? the diodes need to be power diodes... vs signal diodes given you cannot tie the power supplies at two diff voltages together... you have to isolate

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

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:52:03PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > > I think if you use a diode to connect the outputs you are limiting the > > current flow in one way only. And why would you want to do this? > > Could this topic die or go

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

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > Also I didn't understood why Alvin said "If one PS dies you are dead" I > believe it will only fail to power those drives attached to them. This would only work in a raid >=1 setup. You'd have one one drive on PS1, and its mirror on PS2 md

Easy removal of tasks (was Re: Proposing task-debian)

On Wednesday 02 May 2001 13:51, Simon Law wrote: > apt-get install { -remove } > > which happens to be REALLY ugly. Better to have apt-get support > task-removals. For example: > > apt-get remove --remove-task [--purge] { } > > Simon I think Roland's suggestion[1] of a new Installed

Re: rfc1149

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:07:36PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a > Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a > way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-) > > Hmm.."Depends: pigeons (>= 200lb)" O

Re: rfc1149

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a > Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a > way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-) > Haven't you heard the expression "free as a bird"? Pigeons be

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

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > 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

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:13:08PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > from the secret journal of John H. Robinson, IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > it says ``that a user would obtain by installing''SO this means: on > > (say) a Debian 2.1 system, if a user were to get the tarbal, and compile > > it against

Re: rfc1149

On 02-May-2001 Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:50:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using >> pigeons. > > African or European? > pidgeon, not swallow (-:

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:13:08PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > from the secret journal of John H. Robinson, IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm not sure if this has come up before, but since DJB likes to install in > /var, wouldn't any Debian package fail the policy check? that is just qmail and the

ITP: ttf-kochi

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intent to package `ttf-kochi', High-Quality Free Japanese TrueType Font (Mincho). Features: ttf-kochi is high quality, free, mincho Japanese TrueType font. Its face is very smooth and beautiful compared with current free Japanese TrueType fonts. It has hinti

Re: rfc1149

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:50:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using > pigeons. African or European? Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~porridge/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0A

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:56:28PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "Closed" may have been the wrong word. Non-free would have been more > accurate. You can study DJB's code all you want, but not your own > binaries or modified source. ag

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

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > 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 distribut

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it says ``that a user would obtain by installing'' Sorry, I thought he was referring to binary packages above. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Well, Jim, I'm not much of an actor either.

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

from the secret journal of John H. Robinson, IV ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > it says ``that a user would obtain by installing''SO this means: on > (say) a Debian 2.1 system, if a user were to get the tarbal, and compile > it against the default libs, as per the instructions, and install as per > the

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:52:04PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Not having real djbdns (+co) packages in debian is a pity. As the maintainer of the djbdns-installer package, I feel obliged to mention that there are quite a few people using this package and they are quite happy with it. It requires

Re: rfc1149

> Actually, I think it has been implemented recently. I think maybe a > Debian package would have to go into contrib though, unless you can find a > way to squeeze pigeons into a .deb ;-) > > Hmm.."Depends: pigeons (>= 200lb)" > Why? We do not have 'Depends: CAT5 (<< 30m)'.

Re: rfc1149

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using > >pigeons. See > > > >http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt > > > >Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protoc

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

from the secret journal of Jacob Kuntz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Closed" may have been the wrong word. Non-free would have been more > accurate. You can study DJB's code all you want, but not your own binaries ^

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

>Just wanted to let people know that I'm going to hijack the >pilot-manager package. The current maintainer seems to be completely >MIA; he hasn't uploaded a version in over a year. I emailed him and Feel free to adopt the pilot-manager package... Darren -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: rfc1149

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:50:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using > pigeons. See > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt > > Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It would be nice to > make

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:37:33PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > You may distribute a precompiled package if > > > > o installing your package produces exactly the same files, in > >exactly the same locations, that a user w

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > What makes you reacting so blind and childish? This is not the topic of > > > this > > > thread, just not

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:36:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Chris Waters wrote: > > Just wanted to let people know that I'm going to hijack the > > pilot-manager package. The current maintainer seems to be completely > > MIA; he hasn't uploaded a version in over a year. I

Re: package servers inconsistent?

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:33:27PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > [...] > > Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short > window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. > > But is it possible to set some kind of flag to indicate that

Re: Proposing task-debian

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Steve Greenland wrote: > 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 li

Re: rfc1149

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using >pigeons. See > >http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt > >Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It's just been done; see the latest issue of the Jargon file, Appendix A.

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What makes you reacting so blind and childish? This is not the topic of this > > thread, just notice that there are debian people running djbdns - relaxed, > > bind-free. N

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > Closed-source software is even more of a pity. DJB's license (or lack there > > of) makes it impossible to distribute binaries that aren't compiled by DJB > > himself. > > i cert

Re: package servers inconsistent?

Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Is it possible to keep an eye upon package consistency on the > > hosts 'http.us.debian.org'? > > > > Each time I run 'apt-get update', some of the package lists on my > > machine seem to be outdated, e

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

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: ... > > Every production server that I've seen that has 2 PSUs has both > continuously running. At hopefully < 50% capacity. Interesting. Could you post the list of brand names/vendors so that we'll know what not to buy. ... Of >

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > Closed-source software is even more of a pity. DJB's license (or lack there > of) makes it impossible to distribute binaries that aren't compiled by DJB > himself. i certainly hope you speak out of ignorance, i would hate to think t

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server > > written in python. > > > > I am the author, package is already ready and bein

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

> Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) It isn't readline, but check out the nslookup function that comes with zsh.

RE: rfc1149

On 02-May-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using > pigeons. See > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt > > Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It would be nice to > make a debian-package of it. Anyone intere

rfc1149

11 years ago IETF described a IP protocol to transport IP datagrams using pigeons. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt Sadly enough, noone has still implemented this protocol. It would be nice to make a debian-package of it. Anyone interested drop me a line. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL P

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What makes you reacting so blind and childish? This is not the topic of this > thread, just notice that there are debian people running djbdns - relaxed, > bind-free. Not having real djbdns (+co) packages in debian is a pity. > Closed-

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:30:21PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e. > > djbdns? you really mean it? yes. > *brrzzzap* > [2] Mutt has scoring abilities, right? djb sux, so... thanks

Re: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server > written in python. > > I am the author, package is already ready and being > duploaded. Cool. The description will mention the differences between it

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

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > ... > > - even if you had 2 power supplies... > > - most motherboards only has one atx power connector > > True. And if you went for redundant PS's and a mobo that >

ITP: protux -- ProTools-like Digital Audio Workstation

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist a Digital Audio Workstation serving as a replacement for commercial ProTools-like programs. Licence is GPL. http://protux.sourceforge.net -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server written in python. I am the author, package is already ready and being duploaded. License: GPL, with the addition: It can be linked with whatever you want, without any restrictions. (so that I can have a module in C there.. s

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On May 02, Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That looks like a requirement to remove a few lines of code, rather >than to retire the whole program. So what else is wrong with it? The fact it hides important debugging information should be enough, but if you need other arguments ple

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On May 02, Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: >> See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e. >djbdns? you really mean it? Actually this is one of the few things about which DJB is right. -- ciao, Marco

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

At Wed, 02 May 2001 15:00:03 +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: > > Is someone taking care of trying to avoid this kind of spam. For > > example, by filling reports about open-relays to orbs.org ? > > Maybe their ISP is not open-relay site, so it is impossible to block > SPAM by orbs. > > I have a little

Re: A second g++-3.0 question

Peter S Galbraith wrote: The following (template instantiations), lines 48 and 49 of a file (which attached in full) template.cc:48: non-template used as template template.cc:49: non-template used as template #include Nit: #i

Re: problems with atari800

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:40:24PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Anyone have any idea what the chances are of getting Atari to release some > of this stuff into the public domain? It'd be Hasbro now, and from what I've heard, not great. Still might be worth a try. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Runlevel for powersaving

Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looking at apmd(8), it seems "change power" would fit, but > unfortunately it doesn't tell you wheter AC was plugged in or > out. Your script could query `apm | grep on-line` or something. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Ac

Re: Runlevel for powersaving

Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I have a suggestion, Why not define Runlevel 3&5 as > Powersaving mode console/powersaving mode graphics and put > some laptop specific services in those runlevels. I did a very similar thing on my notebook as well, it's really nice, but using apmd "events" for thi

Re: problems with atari800

Thanks to all for the fine pointers. I'm still unable to obtain any ROMs for the emulator. I guess I could ask on debian-user, and see if anyone has some copies they'd be willing to share. Anyone have any idea what the chances are of getting Atari to release some of this stuff into the public do

Re: SGI's xfs

> Previously Matthias Berse wrote: > > Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in > > debian? Are there kernel patches available and/or userspace tools > > being packaged? > > The userspace tools have been in unstable for a while already actually. And the kernel patche

A second g++-3.0 question

The following (template instantiations), lines 48 and 49 of a file (which attached in full) template void reverse(std::vector::iterator, std::vector::iterator); template void sort(std::vector::iterator, std::vector::iterator compile in g++ 2.96, but they fail in g++ 3.0, with the error message:

Re: RFC: English translation list

Em Wed, 2 May 2001 09:17:22 +0200 Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:20:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Absolutely seconded. I have, for example, create a GRUB Howto in French, > simply because it sounds to me stupid to try to write an "original" text > that

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

Previously Steve Greenland wrote: > Okay, now *I'm* confused. If dpkg is getting the default permissions > from the package itself, doesn't that imply that Rob needs to ship the > file "properly sgid mail"? He needs to ship it with whatever should be the default. Only if the default has to be chan

Re: Dpkg problems

dpkg 1.9.4 is in incoming.

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

* Nils Rennebarth | Instead of creating lots of different kernel-image packages what about | a package that can create a kernel-image from source and gives you a list of | some more or less generic kernel to choose from? Abusing debconf, since it is such a nice interface. ;) I'd prefer if Herbe

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

On 02-May-01, 09:37 (CDT), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Rob Browning wrote: > > I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for > > the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid > > mail. So which interpretation is correct? > > Neith

Re: RFC: English translation list

> Absolutely seconded. I have, for example, create a GRUB Howto in French, > simply because it sounds to me stupid to try to write an "original" text > that is not the best I can make (I don't say it's good, I just say it is > better in the native language). > I'd like to see the list as well.

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: >> The upstream developers are not friendly to non-portable features; I >> might be able to get it added under a config option. > >Thought so. My selling point is that this feature is completely >optional: if it is compiled in, you're allowed to use a new authtype

Runlevel for powersaving

I have a suggestion, Why not define Runlevel 3&5 as Powersaving mode console/powersaving mode graphics and put some laptop specific services in those runlevels. As I have done now I run mobile_update, hdparm, toshset, apmd, apm-sleep, noflushd in those runlevels, and kill other services like pcmc

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > At Wed, 02 May 2001 15:00:03 +0900, > Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a little drastic idea. > > I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain > > "Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp" or > > "Content-Type

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

At 02 May 2001 16:10:35 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Michael Piefel (2001-05-02 15:58:27 +0200) : > > > Am 2.05.01 um 22:46:46 schrieb Tomohiro KUBOTA: > > > Do you think inhibiting all non-ASCII (including ISO-8859-1 > > > aka Latin-1) is too strict? > > > > Oops. That would block my mail becau

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

On Wed, 2 May 2001 06:57:50 -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > ... and that's exactly why I've created mia-history > (pandora:/org/qa.debian.org/mia) 79 summary files... Hmh. Regards, Alexander -- UNIX is easy to use. UNIX is not necessarily easy to learn. Learn the difference. Alexander Koch - <

Re: dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

Previously Rob Browning wrote: > I realized that maybe dpkg-statoverride was only intended for > the local admin, and that I should just ship my file properly sgid > mail. So which interpretation is correct? Neither :). The reason you always had to call suidregister was that that was also the mom

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: > See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e. djbdns? you really mean it? *brrzzzap* Suprise, you're dead. [1] EOT anyone? [2] Regards, Alexander [1] I happen to like that song... [2] Mutt has scoring abilities, right? djb sux,

dpkg-statoverride: usage question.

Are there any other docs than the manpage. I think I may have misinterpreted them (some elaboration there would be helpful). What's the proper usage of dpkg-statoverride? lintian told me that I should kill off emacs20's usage of suidregister in favor of dpkg-statoverride, so I presumed that mea

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

Michael Piefel (2001-05-02 15:58:27 +0200) : > Am 2.05.01 um 22:46:46 schrieb Tomohiro KUBOTA: > > Do you think inhibiting all non-ASCII (including ISO-8859-1 > > aka Latin-1) is too strict? > > Oops. That would block my mail because of my signature. I'd say let all > of Latin-* through, it wi

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

Am 2.05.01 um 22:46:46 schrieb Tomohiro KUBOTA: > Do you think inhibiting all non-ASCII (including ISO-8859-1 > aka Latin-1) is too strict? Oops. That would block my mail because of my signature. I'd say let all of Latin-* through, it will just cause a few `?' on the readers side. You might ar

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

Hi, At Wed, 02 May 2001 15:00:03 +0900, Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a little drastic idea. > > I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain > "Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp" or > "Content-Type: .* charset=euc-jp" in header. > > All of Japan

Re: g++-3.0 question

* Peter S Galbraith | : Any advice on how to change the code? He's bitten by the namespaces thing. Adding std:: in front of vector might fix it. Or 'using namespace std;' -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

g++-3.0 question

I'm not a C++ hacker, and would appreciate any help on this. In preparation for g++-3.0, I setup a Debian unstable chroot tree on a friend's Red Hat system. He is upstream for the `gri' package. It currently doesn't build on g++-3.0, and he wanted to port the code. He is stuck on a problem: :

Re: Dpkg problems

> Again, could: > > http://bugs.debian.org/95981 > > have anything to do with this? It likely does, but I am unable to recompile dpkg as I can't install gettext.

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am 2.05.01 um 12:36:45 schrieb Adrian Bunk: >> Martin usually marks packages of MIA maintainers as orphaned. I think it's >> better if a few persons take care of this instead of many more people >> sending ITHs. > >Though I'm not absolutely sure about his

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

* Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010502 13:52]: > Though I'm not absolutely sure about his criteria. Mailing the previous > maintainer once or twice should be part of the process; this makes it > quite a lot of work and bookkeeping. ... and that's exactly why I've created mia-history (pandora

Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

Am 2.05.01 um 12:36:45 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > Martin usually marks packages of MIA maintainers as orphaned. I think it's > better if a few persons take care of this instead of many more people > sending ITHs. Though I'm not absolutely sure about his criteria. Mailing the previous maintainer once

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:27:56PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 01 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > nslookup is broken, please let it die its long-deserved death. > > What's broken about it, apart from the brokenness that's in the current > version about the verbose warnings and missin

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

On Tue 01 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: > 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

Re: How to block spam (Re: SPAM:come on dream world..)

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:00:03PM +0900, Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have a little drastic idea. > > I think the mailserver of Debian.org may rejects mails which contain > "Content-Type: .* charset=iso-2022-jp" or > "Content-Type: .* charset=euc-jp" in header. > >

Re: Gnome bug 94684

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:29:27AM -0500 , Steve Langasek wrote: > On 27 Apr 2001, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > *You* are a serious problem. > > > If you don't want to change your configuration each time you did a apt-get > > upgrade, then install potato. > > > testing/unstable is for real me

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

On Wed 02 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: > close 95975 I disagree about whether the bug is closed, as you "forget" to notice parts of my message. However, I don't feel like petty BTS games (*) > On May 02, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >So I should now set en environment variabl

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