What family is the potato bug in?
Because I saw one in my back yard.
It was reaaly freaky.
Tell me .
Scripsit Jorge Bernal (Koke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CDCat is a graphical, multiplatform media catalog program which scans the
> directories/drives you specify and makes a list of the filesystem (including
> the tags of MP3s) and stores the result in a gzipped XML file.
Perhaps not "drives", unl
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> second, paxtest had some bugs which Exec-Shield exposed and made
> Exec-Shield appear better than it is. i've fixed them here and
> expect to release 0.9.5 today or so. the results now look like:
i downloaded the new 0.9.5 paxtest package and a
On 4 Nov 2003, Greg Stark wrote:
> So all it would take to make the tools handle this would be to somehow make
> apt aware of more revisions of packages. They're all in the pool after all.
> Short of making some king of humongous mega-Packages file with every revision
> of every package -- which a
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:12:38PM +, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> > All he had to do was install an older version of libc6 and every other
> > package
> > would have been happy. All the infrastructure is there to do this, the old
> > pac
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:48:09AM +, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote:
> I guess having kernel-image-vanilla and/or
> kernel-image-onlybugfix in debian would not hurt.
Or kernel-image-hx ... what caught me out was believing
kernel-image-2.4.xx or whatever was relatively pristine. However naive
that make
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:42:14PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> I'm confused by the concept of NMU: can anybody just arbitrarily upload
> a new version of a package? I have a feeling that are some controls but
> it seems pretty wild and wooly, and subject to abuse.
Any Debian Developer can, but not unno
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:17:12PM -0500, Alex Pennace wrote:
> A well meaning NMU to unstable can be helpful in the interim.
> Naturally, submit a bug to describe the NMU; a diff is useful. If I
> notice any problems I'll work with the uploader while the package is
> still in unstable.
I'm confus
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:22:35PM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote:
> I'd like to know if you are still working for your debian packages,
> specially libelfg0 which one of my packages may depend on.
>
> If you have no time, I'd like to take over this package since it's
> pretty important for me.
I hav
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:44:40AM +0100, Jorge Bernal wrote:
> What about this?:
>
> Description: media catalog program
> CDCat is a graphical, multiplatform media catalog program which scans the
>
> directories/drives you specify and makes a list of the filesystem (including
> the ta
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> since a few points have been made regarding $subject, let me clear
> up a few of them:
>
> 1. 'It seems that exec-shield does 99% of what PaX does'
this is not the case and i'm not claiming it. If you feel attacked, please
dont - i'll stipulate that
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Followup-For: Bug #212988
I just compiled a copy of turck-mmcache today, and absolutely love it.
It's working nearly perfectly on my system, integrating well with PHP4
and Apache. This doesn't seem like a terrifically difficult package to
put in: like all the
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:03:38 +1100
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe fix the capitalisation of CDCat to that which upstream uses.
What about this?:
Description: media catalog program
CDCat is a graphical, multiplatform media catalog program which scans the
directories/dri
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:00:57AM +0100, Jorge Bernal wrote:
> Description: a graphical catalog program
Catalog of what? Music, by the look of it. Can it scan anything other than
MP3s? if not, you could say it's an MP3 catalog program.
> The cdcat is a graphical multiplatform (Linux/Windows)
> yes. It's a compatible opt-in for something that cannot be enabled for all
> binaries, instead of an opt-out. You say it's a bug, i say it's a feature.
> A really bad analogy: it's like spam, you want to opt-in not opt-out ;)
That is indeed a really bad analogy. Security shouldn't be as unwan
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:20, Jorge Bernal (Koke) wrote:
> Description : a graphical (QT based) catalog program
As Matthew said, drop "QT based". Also drop the leading "a," and
"graphical" too, I think.
What you should insert is what sort of catalog program it is. For
example:
Description:
I juest copied some descriptions from the cdcat website and it seems the english
of the author is worst than mine ;)
Here is he modified result (I'll update the package tomorrow if there's no
other correction):
Description: a graphical catalog program
The cdcat is a graphical multiplatform (Lin
On 03-Nov-03, 16:22 (CST), Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that what is
> usefull for you is usefull for everybody.
No, I didn't, My point was to object to YOUR contention that anything
over 3 months old is "Useless". Woody Emacs w
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 21:54, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Ben Armstrong wrote on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> [...]
>
> > For two years, Justin Zeigler of OSEF has handed out Knoppix for Kids
> > CDs[1] to dozens of Trick-or-treaters visiting his house on Halloween.
>
> Sigh.. Ben, you
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Ben Armstrong wrote on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[...]
> For two years, Justin Zeigler of OSEF has handed out Knoppix for Kids
> CDs[1] to dozens of Trick-or-treaters visiting his house on Halloween.
Sigh.. Ben, your email comes five days too late. We could have had so
much fun now
Hello Developers,
I would like to inform you, that some important changes happened to
t1lib 1.3.1-4[1] package.
I changed the naming scheme. All binary packages contain version in its
name, i.e.: t1lib-dev is now named t1lib1-dev. Of course old packages are
provided as a dumb packages with depend
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Package name: libgetopt-argvfile-perl
Version : 1.06
Upstream Author : Jochen Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Getopt-ArgvFile/
License : Artistic
Description : simple supplement to option
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:20:26PM +0100, Jorge Bernal (Koke) wrote:
> Description : a graphical (QT based) catalog program
>
> The cdcat is a graphical (QT based) multiplatform (Linux/Windows)
> catalog program which scan your directoryes/drives you want and
> memoryze the filesystem /in
since a few points have been made regarding $subject, let me clear
up a few of them:
1. 'It seems that exec-shield does 99% of what PaX does'
i don't know the origin of that number above, for now i'll just
stick to the facts i know:
- PaX implements perfect non-executable pages on amd64, i
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:01:10PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> Hm, it appears to be true that not every single revision is here. But there
> are certainly more than just the unstable and testing revisions too:
>
> libc6_2.2.5-11.2_i386.deb 26-Sep-2002 11:32 3.2M
stable
> libc6
Hi there!
Well, this is to announce that I just [re-]packaged the Linux kernel. It's
not that I'm unhappy with the current (somewhat strange) way of packaging
Linux, but rather than I wanted to try something new and package it as a
standard Debian package (which means, sources in orig.tar.gz, deb
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...] Exec-shield "can" stop, but "will" stop is a completely different
> matter. I'll let the bugfixed paxtest tell this story, however.
i am 100% sure that by taking the range-property of exec-shield into
account you can construct 'bugfixed' mappin
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'm looking for someone to take over maintenance of the lm-sensors
hardware monitoring package, along with the corresponding i2c interface
kernel modules. These two packages have the same upstream and they're
pretty closely related, so it'd be nice if they had the
On Tue 4 November, spender wrote:
> I've spared you your precious time and gone ahead and done this for
> you.
You might have a better reception if you dropped the attitude.
Anyone reading the thread will quickly form the opinion that maintaining
PaX within Debian would likely require frequent i
Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [@ -legal: please cc me on reply as I'm not subscribed]
>
> Hi folks,
>
> We (Network UPS Tools project) are currently
> looking at creating a complete documentation
> set using docbook, for output formats and i18n
> reasons.
That's great. Thanks.
> T
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...] the main point of my argument: exec-shield=2 means enabling
> exec-shield on all binaries but the ones it is disabled for. This would
> be a secure-by-default design, and yet it's being recommended for
> "testing purposes" only? [...]
yes. It
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Knowing that:
> - NUT is a pure GPL project, thus we need a _free_
> documentation licence,
>
> So, what are your advices about choosing a _free_
> documentation licence for NUT?
Why not use the GPL to cover the documentation as wel
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:49:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > [...] Are you so certain that Exec-shield stops execution in shared
> > library bss/data? [...]
>
> no, it doesnt, this is the main (and pretty much only) substantial
> difference b
Hi Alex.
I'd like to know if you are still working for your debian packages,
specially libelfg0 which one of my packages may depend on.
If you have no time, I'd like to take over this package since it's
pretty important for me.
Thanks.
--
Andres Roldan
Fluidsignal Group <[EMAIL PROTECTE
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:51:52PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mar 04/11/2003 à 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> > Also, I think both you and Ingo will be interested to see the results of
> > a bugfixed version of paxtest. Are you so certain that Exec-shield
> > stops execution in sh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (local.debian-devel) you wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> * Package name: synaptic-touchpad
> Version : 0.12.0
> Upstream Author : Peter Österlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.h
Le mar 04/11/2003 à 16:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> Also, I think both you and Ingo will be interested to see the results of
> a bugfixed version of paxtest. Are you so certain that Exec-shield
> stops execution in shared library bss/data? Or did you just say it
> because that's what a pr
[@ -legal: please cc me on reply as I'm not subscribed]
Hi folks,
We (Network UPS Tools project) are currently
looking at creating a complete documentation
set using docbook, for output formats and i18n
reasons.
This improvement in the upstream will, by side
effect, (re)create a nut-doc package in
Hi there,
I would like to give three of my packages for adoption:
dumpasn1
This is a useful program if you work with files using the ASN.1 syntax,
eg. X.509 cerificates. I needed this in my previous job, but not any
more.
Upstream is responsive, no bugs.
tcpreen
This is a sort of proxy. It
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: synaptic-touchpad
Version : 0.12.0
Upstream Author : Peter Österlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
* License : GPL
Description : Synaptics TouchPad driver
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:11:43AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Suggested project: Create a package that, a-l-apt-move, pulls packages
> out of the apt cache and creates apt repositories from them. But make it
> create a new repository after every upgrade, by hooking into apt. And
> auto-add these re
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:53:04PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:10AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> | I refuse to use nvidia products, but I somehow doubt that boards based
> | on their nforce2 chipset work properly either.
>
> I have a machine using the nforce2 chip
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...] Are you so certain that Exec-shield stops execution in shared
> library bss/data? [...]
no, it doesnt, this is the main (and pretty much only) substantial
difference between exec-shield and PaX. Exec-shield will stop execution in
ET_EXEC binary
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:47:30AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> So all it would take to make the tools handle this would be to somehow
> make apt aware of more revisions of packages. They're all in the pool
> after all. Short of making some king of humongous mega-Packages file with
> every revision
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:56:37AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> > > It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer
> > > than about 2 years old.
> >
> > It would be helpful if people wouldn't make sweeping generalizations all the
> > time. Only a part of the new machines are
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Er no they are not all in the pool. The only packages in the pool are
> the current versions for stable/testing/unstable/experimental. There are
> also the few packages that haven't been completely compiled on all archs
> yet and so are still left in arc
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:56:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Now surely, Russell, a "security expert" such as yourself is capable of
> copy+pasting that last reject in the file. Doing this took one minute.
> I would imagine this was much less time than it took for you to write
> your i
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:53:36AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer
> > than about 2 years old.
>
> It would be helpful if people wouldn't make sweeping generalizations all the
> time.
> Also note that I use LSM on all my kernels, so anything that conflicts with
> LSM is something that I have no ability to test and therefore no interest in
> maintaining. I'm sure I could get PaX working with LSM, but it would take
> some work. Anyway I'll look into this matter after I upload
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:53:36AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer
> than about 2 years old.
It would be helpful if people wouldn't make sweeping generalizations all the
time. Only a part of the new machines are made with hardwar
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:10AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> Intel
> -
> i845 10 Sept 2001
> i875 14 Apr 2003
> i865 21 May 2003
The last two don't have AGP support before 2.4.23-preX (not sure if X
is 1 or not), and the on-board network cards which many of the the
motherboards b
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:45:10 +
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please apply the following patch:
Done :)
--
"Dios es real, a no ser que sea declarado como entero"
Jorge Bernal "Koke" http://sindominio.net/~koke/
Jabber-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || <[EMAIL PROTE
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:45:10PM +, Steve Kemp wrote:
> Please apply the following patch:
>
> --- config.cpp-orig 2003-11-04 15:36:58.0 +
> +++ config.cpp 2003-11-04 15:37:06.0 +
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
> #else
>if(getenv("HOME") == NULL)
> return 1;
> -
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:20:26PM +0100, Jorge Bernal (Koke) wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-11-04
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name: cdcat
> Version : 0.92
> Upstream Author : Peter Deak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://cdcat.sf
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:42:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Go ahead and do it. I could frankly care less if your users get owned.
In that case it seems safer to avoid using any software you helped
to develop.
Richard Braakman
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-11-04
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: cdcat
Version : 0.92
Upstream Author : Peter Deak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://cdcat.sf.net
* License : GPL
Description : a graphical (QT based) catalog progra
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:53, Peter Busser wrote:
> > I volunteered to make a package for exec-shield because it meets the
> > Debian criteria, I have time to do it, and it interests me. PaX would
> > take much more time so I can't do it.
>
> You cannot do it or you don't want to do it? In fact, anyon
Peter Busser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I volunteered to make a package for exec-shield because it meets
> > the Debian criteria, I have time to do it, and it interests me.
> > PaX would take much more time so I can't do it.
>
> You cannot do it or you don't want to do it? In fact, anyone ca
Peter Busser wrote:
Summary: i can see no significant differences between the paxtest output -
all the differences seem to be bogus, see the details below.
Fact is: There is a difference in paxtest output between PaX and exec-shield.
And it is not a difference in exec-shield's advantage.
Peter, no
Peter Busser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote:
>> > In fact, anyone can do it Russell, I'm pretty sure even you can do
>> > it:
>> Why not volunteer to make the .deb, get a sponsor and get it uploaded
>> then?
>
> Good idea! Already did that in fact. So who do
Christoph Martin schrieb:
> I have build unofficial Galeon 1.2.12 packages for Debian woody based on
> the Mozilla 1.5 packages backported to woody from
> http://debian.relativ.org/.
>
> Just add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://www.verwaltung.uni-mainz.de debian
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote:
> > the reply below is mostly a re-send of a mail i sent to you privately
> > but you repeat this argument again without any apparent answer to my
> > counter-arguments.
>
> I already suggested you to reread the PaX documentation, there are the
> answers
on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:57:34PM -0500, Greg Stark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> "Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > First, I think what Daniel Jacobowitz said is entirely true. Why didn't you
> > start with "testing"?
>
> Sure testing is less likely to trigger this.
Frankly,
* Peter Busser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031104 13:55]:
> You didn't touch the other facts in the list, because you know you don't have
> any proof to easily dismiss them. You would be my hero if you succeeded in
> improving on PaX. But in all honesty, exec-shield does not do that I'm afraid.
> In fact,
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:47:30AM -0500, Greg Stark said
> or perhaps a little less automatic,
>
> apt-cache show libc6
>
> to list the available revisions then explicitly
>
> apt-get install libc6:2.3.2-8
With a s/:/=/ and a sources.list line pointing at sid, say, two days ago
on http://snaps
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:18:00 +
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:54:25PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:04:11 +
> > Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Er, doesn't apt-get install libc6=2.3.2-8 do exactly this?
> >
> > No
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:39:46PM +0100, Peter Busser wrote:
> > Why not volunteer to make the .deb, get a sponsor and get it uploaded
> > then?
>
> Good idea! Already did that in fact. So who do I send this new kernel-source
> .deb to?
You can use the mentors service to exchange your packages w
Hi!
> the reply below mostly a re-sent of a mail i sent to you privately - but
> you repeat this argument again without any apparent answer to my
> counter-arguments.
I already suggested you to reread the PaX documentation, there are the answers
to your questions. There is no need to copy/paste i
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:54:25PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:04:11 +
> Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Er, doesn't apt-get install libc6=2.3.2-8 do exactly this?
>
> No because of a conflict with (file own by) libdb1-compat.
Uh, 2.3.2-8 is well after the
This one time, at band camp, Ian Murdock wrote:
>We have ported Red Hat's Anaconda installer to Debian;
This rocks. I have an extensive PXE+kickstart based server build system at
work and I was considering hacking d-i to read a kickstart configuration
file, this looks like it's saved me the troub
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:04:11 +
Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Er, doesn't apt-get install libc6=2.3.2-8 do exactly this?
No because of a conflict with (file own by) libdb1-compat.
Well, it was the problem I faced.
Best regards,
--
.''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **
: :' :
Hi!
> [NB: When reponsding using the web archives, please get the References
> and In-Reply-To: correctly. You may also consider setting MFT:]
I can't post from the lists.debian.org site.
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote:
> >> PaX would take much more time so I can't do it.
> >
> > You
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote:
> - Running paxtest shows the differences between PaX and exec-shield.
> Everyone is invited to run paxtest to see for yourself.
the reply below mostly a re-sent of a mail i sent to you privately - but
you repeat this argument again without any appar
On Nov 04, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:53:36AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
>> It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer
>> than about 2 years old. Neither my KT400 based machine nor my i875P
>> based machine could be insta
Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> So, please don't start insulting and accusing people for doing good work
> and proposing to do even more of it. If there are technical reasons that
> cause you to prefer that exec-shield does not become part of Debian's
> standard kernel, just put them on the table, but sa
Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Regardless updating boot-floppies when new kernels come out would be a
> good idea so that newbies with recent machines can still use Debian.
Iirc Eduard Bloch (blade) provides inofficial updated boot-floppies on
people.debian.org.
cu a
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 05:47, Greg Stark wrote:
> to list the available revisions then explicitly
>
> apt-get install libc6:2.3.2-8
>
> Actually this wouldn't really have helped my friend at all because he was
> unlucky enough that the *first* version of libc6 from unstable that he saw
> happened
[NB: When reponsding using the web archives, please get the References
and In-Reply-To: correctly. You may also consider setting MFT:]
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Peter Busser wrote:
>> PaX would take much more time so I can't do it.
>
> You cannot do it or you don't want to do it?
Russell has made it
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:10AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
| I refuse to use nvidia products, but I somehow doubt that boards based
| on their nforce2 chipset work properly either.
I have a machine using the nforce2 chipset and the Woody installer
doesn't recognise its IDE controller. (Proper
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:17:06AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> I challenge the assertion that this affects a large portion of users.
>
> In the past few months, I've installed woody on roughly 30-40
> different types of box, all aged 0-3 years, and only one was
> unsupported by woody (and that
Hi!
> I volunteered to make a package for exec-shield because it meets the Debian
> criteria, I have time to do it, and it interests me. PaX would take much
> more time so I can't do it.
You cannot do it or you don't want to do it? In fact, anyone can do it Russell,
I'm pretty sure even you ca
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:42:27 -0500, spender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Go ahead and do it. I could frankly care less if your users get
> owned.
> There's another exploitable bug in Exec-shield that I've known of
> for months. Maybe you'll find it after you put it into Debian.
> Maybe not.
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:47:30AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> So all it would take to make the tools handle this would be to somehow make
> apt aware of more revisions of packages. They're all in the pool after all.
> Short of making some king of humongous mega-Packages file with every revision
> o
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> I finally convinced a sysadmin friend of mine that Debian was the way and the
> light.
Ah, there's your mistake.
Don't do that. Anybody who uses Debian as a result of this sort of
evangelism is going to have a similar experience, so it
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:53:36AM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> It would be helpful if Debian could even be installed on machines newer
> than about 2 years old. Neither my KT400 based machine nor my i875P
> based machine could be installed using the standard Debian
> boot-floppies. I had to resort
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joerg> If it was a package then its available at
> Joerg> snapshot.debian.net
> Is this web only (tried both ssh and ftp)?
Yes.
But apt-able if you want.
For every single day you need. Read its webpage. :)
--
bye Joerg
bignachos: the famo
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:43:29PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 03-Nov-03, 14:21 (CST), Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > is even worse than unstable>
>
> Oh, not this crap again. Or perhaps you're contending that I've not
> gotten anything done at work in the last two years usi
A levelezőm azt hiszi, hogy [EMAIL PROTECTED] a következőeket írta:
> > > but I wouldn't touch Herbert's kernels with a ten-feet pole.
[]
> a) I can do better
Please do then.
I guess having kernel-image-vanilla and/or
kernel-image-onlybugfix in debian would not hurt.
> b) I don't do
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I finally convinced a sysadmin friend of mine that Debian was the way and the
> light. He started a new job and showed up on his first day to set up his
> machine by installing Debian. In short, things went horribly wrong and he
> started this new job by wa
> "Joerg" == Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joerg> Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Where can I find '= 2.0-1.33-2' (or something around that
>> number)? It used to be an 'attic' (morgue I think it is
>> called) on ftp-master. This however only have
> "Theodore" == Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Theodore> com-err is pretty safe and low-risk, so there should be
Theodore> no problem using the latest version in unstable.
Oki. Will do. Thanx.
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Greg Stark wrote:
> The only interface for rolling back is switching the entire machine to an
> earlier distribution and telling apt to try to downgrade -- which is unlikely
> to work. And worse, every time you run apt it only downloads and unpacks
> *more* packages, all of which, of course, fail a
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