Well, I'm officially removing myself from any questions of what should
be on what CD and whether to use isolinux or not. So don't look at
me, I need to focus on making sure boot-floppies work for 3.0, 3.0r1,
etc.
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ive. Not sure if slang-wide every was uploaded, either...
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"Brian Boerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Well, if you want it, take it up with the Kernel maintainer -- that
>> is, file a bug on kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-compact or
>> kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 or whatever.
>>
>> Do not make the request here -- we cannot do anything about it.
> I thought
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOKUBI Takatsugu) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> I'm the developer of the aacraid driver. I've noticed some old posts on
> >> your
> >> web site w/r/t this driver. If the maintainer of the debian kernel is
> >> including this driver
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am on debian-boot for a long time. The truth is that a lot of people are
> doing small things but nobody leads. No management. No decisions.
I would agree with this. Enrique would probably appreciate someone
taking over management and coordina
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And an updated version is at
> http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO
I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for
inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted to
the Developer's Reference so it c
Stevie Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was digging back through the mailing list, and found this message
> from around the first of April... the list of packages below caught
> my eye...
[...]
> > OpenXML (should be free)
> > XML4j (not sure if utterly free, but close)
> > Cacoon
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I will use equivs to get the skeleton, then change the needed things
>(I think I add an option to specify a README.Debian file on the
>command line or in the control file). equivs builds the package, but
>it leaves the tree. This is the one thing I will ch
> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Craig> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:16:18PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
>> Well put, Dale. I think you have done the correct thing here. If
>> the vi emulation is not sufficiently complete to work as expected
>> of vi, and esp. if it's real
> "Daryl" == Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daryl> i would like to install debian on a dell poweredge 4300 with a
Daryl> PERC/2 SC raid scsi controller from AMI. as far as i know there
Daryl> is no support during a debian installation for this card.
Daryl> there is support for this
> "BenC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BenC> This is just a little reminder concerning PAMification of
BenC> potato. I want to urge all maintainers who's programs do any
BenC> sort of authentication or account management to seek PAM patches
BenC> (or just enabling PAM if the progr
> "phil" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
phil> Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Maybe "vi" on the boot disks should simply say "vi didn't fit on
>> the bootdisk, so please use the self explaining 'ae' which will be
>> started right now" and forget about the bothersome vi
> "joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
joseph> It didn't work right console, that was my issue. It may work
joseph> better now, but the thing is still messy and the editor
joseph> doesn't allow you to do basic editor functions.
How can you sit there, with your bare face han
Followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this talk about the
Debian boot system is IMHO just "debating society" stuff. I have seen
very few well thought-out, practical suggestions in this thread.
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Two seperate functio
Please -- all replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Eduardo" == E O Fredrik Liljegren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eduardo> On a computer without CD-ROM one has to start by
Eduardo> disk, but that's ok.
Do you mean floppy, or the hard-disk option?
Eduardo> Then you get the option of NFS, but not
> "Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Philip> How about creating a new section ``profiles'' for them, so
Philip> that they are all grouped together in dselect ?
I think it's a little too early for new sections. The boot-floppies
team, in particular, wanted to see someone imp
Since I am interesting in having all the major free SGML stuff
included into potato, I intend to package docbook-xml from Norm Walsh
(which also includes the simplified docbook-xml DTD).
*However*, I am extremely busy as well. If someone else would step
forward to package these materials, I'd be
If anyone would like to take the 'addressbook' package from me, I
would appreciate it. I don't really have the time and tcl/tk
knownledge to maintain this package properly. There are a few
outstanding bugs which are pretty minor; the big bug is to break up
the package into the command-line and g
Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so that
> > it's easy to pick these babies out.
> When this idea was tossed aro
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated.
BTW, Lars Wirzenius, a cofounder of the LDP, just resigned as leader.
I'm not sure who will step up to the job. However, whoever takes the
job, I hope that the next leader of the LDP follows the p
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > what about creating empty packages only to satisfy dependancies and
> > be able to install loosy related set of packages. Metapackage
> > seems to be the right name for such creature ;)
> People already thought of that :) it was discussed on -gtk-gnome
"Brimhall, GeoffreyX L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Over the last few days quite a few cutting-edge development projects have
> been posted. In particular,
>
> Qt2.0 beta at http://master.debian.org/~heiko/qt2/,
> Configurator Panel at http://linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/~lages/cpanel
>
> Does debian
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 07:40:57AM -0700, Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote:
> > I'm trying to find the source code to the debian install program (Boot 1
> > and
> > 2) but can't locate it on the FTP. Can anyone point me to it?
>
> See the package bo
ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>>> Usually, you don't need to announce a maintainer change to the
>>> lists if it's already been agreed to by both the old and new
>>> maintainers, just mark something like '* New maintainer' in the
>>> change
Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the ideal solution would be to have a caching proxy based on
> rsync to communicate with the upstream mirror, and http (or a new
> apt method) to communicate with apt.
I was actually thinking the other day about why couldn't apt support
rsync://
Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>
> > On May 19, Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >This would make is easier for programs like ipmasq or leafnode or
> > >whatever to put hooks to start themselves up or shut themselves do
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10
> > weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that
> > archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes
> "brock" == R Brock Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
brock> And you really can't argue with a FEELING.
Oh -- well, I guess not. In fact, that kinda points out that there's
no really reason for carrying on any further debate.
brock> Yes, I don't doubt you have much experience... but only in
> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> Thanks to Tony Mancill for pointing out:
Dale> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/setup/3c5x9setup.html
Dale> The 3c5x9setup program takes the 509 out of PnP mode and lets
Dale> you set the base and IRQ addresses and write them into th
Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've set up debian upload queue in Japan. So please add the information
> about this to dupload.conf and developers-references section 6.2.x.
> Should I send it as wishlist to BTS?
Well, I've got it for the developers-reference side. I'll wait until
David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is why I suggested the new area, apart from main, non-free, and
> contrib. People who want the updates should have a nice, easily
> accessable place to find these packages. From a system
> administration standpoint, it's nice to know EXACTLY where
Gordon Deane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think Debian should have high quality Slink gnome binaries, because
> not everyone can afford to run unstable and building from source is
> quite a lot of work. Also, Redhat have this shipped :-)
We don't add new upstream versions into stable after r
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have a long history of overly optimistic freeze dates :-) I'd like
> to try something else this time. I note, though, that if we do manage
> to freeze on July 1, we'll be able to have a release in time for the
> Linuxworld Expo in August. That w
> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> "warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}'" if
Joey> $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; }
Ben> This is a nice solution.
Well, actually, in tonight's upload, I only enabl
> "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mitch> GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in
Mitch> the 0-99 range added to Debian?
Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe.
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.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I've been noticing that, even though we're all encouraged to use
>doc-base nowadays, that doc-base emits noxious and obnoxious warnings
>whenever it sees a format it doesn't recognize.
>
>I've just adapted libgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY instal
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > There is no requirement that I know of that any identification must be
> > written in English.
>
> It is practically very important to know what is acceptable and
> what
Takuro KITAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,I'm packaging software, t-gnus.
> (ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/GNU/elisp/chamonix/gnus/)
>
> t-gnus is latest branch of Semi-gnus.
> Semi-gnus is "Replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI."
> and Debian package is available. (main/news).
>
> SEMI is "L
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Voila. Elegant, uses the existing packaging system (i.e., no need to
> > skip the select step in dselect),
>
> This is the main point against your approach. We introduced the tasks and
> profiles to avoid going through the list of 3000 packages in
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make nice
metapackages which play nice?
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Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have heard that some self-candidates from Debian JP felt
> that the Debian Project rejects them as a maintainer,
> because:
>
> one of them had not receive no answers for long time,
>
>more than a month is too long enough for ordinary people.
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:06:58PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > * Working disk sets for all released architectures.
> > I don't know much about the plans for the boot-floppies yet. Could
> > someone volunteer as a contact person, or tell me t
Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been distracted by revenue production for a couple of months.
> Are we expected to upload our packages rebuilt for glibc2.1?
It wouldn't hurt but I don't think it's necessary. glibc2.1 can
drop-in replace 2.0 (unless you have a program that depends o
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [ woah, this is an old thread, but a good one to bring back. ]
Heh... yeah, I keep around email that I want to reply to, even though
it sometimes takes a month or so before I get a chance.
> Yes, the next frontend to apt (gnome-apt?) should handle t
[Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies]
> "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via
brandon> dpkg -get-selections and make for a cookie cutter install
brandon> (think large labs).
Eh... I don'
My take on the situation is that there are two reasons for why the
freeze takes a long time. The first is just fixing the release
critical bugs -- this commonly receives a lot of attention from this
list. The second is coordination between all the elements which are
required for release (boot-fl
Package: www.debian.org
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:31:32PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Now that's a good reason. Is there a plan for this? Is any help
> &g
Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IBM has released their DB2 database for Linux. I just got a CD from them in
> the mail, and
> since I am playing with it a bit for work, I thought I would write an
> install script for it.
Please please please write an installer package for DB2 on Linu
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I for one like what I see so far. I want to encourage Corel to
> improve Debian setup. I hope that you can either commit directly to
> the debian boot-floppies or at least start a world-readable cvs tree
> of your own. That way everyone will be able to lo
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Re: boot floppies and QT2. I guess there is no way around except to
> try to ask the boot floppies authors to include an exception clause. If they
> do not want to do this, it will have to be gtk or the framebuffer gui (I
> know nothing about this
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:02:26PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> > More importantly, the boot-floppies need quite a bit of work for
> > potato; Linux 2.2.x is too large for the rescue/drivers system, and
> > glibc 2.1 broke our library reduction hack.
>
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:23:14 +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm currently writting an article for an online magazine
> based on free software proyects called OpenResources
> (www.openresources.com) who where interested in having a preview of
> what Slink will
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:29:46 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have to say we are very far in the deep-freeze to consider
> breaking the dpkg-packge apart..
Actually, I'm just advocating the removal of the disk methods.
The only really release critical bit of this report is to
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:33:56 -0500 (EST), Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Someone might want to package this. From
> http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/:
FWIW, pdf{tex,latex,jadetex} already do a pretty nice job, too, if
you're just looking for hyperlinking from TeX-based systems.
--
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:05:34 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) said:
> * Heavily modified the boot floppies to make them simpler and
> less flexible; i.e., you aren't given choices about partitioning, it
> does it for you. Thus the install is idiot-proofed enough that even
> the guys
[CC's trimmed]
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:03:54 + (BST), "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> I still use nfs or mounted (I have /sunsite always pointing to
> sunsite, which is where I get my packages from) and dselect. It's
> always worked fine for me, so I feel no need to change.
It hasn
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:18:21 + (GMT), Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>> > "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It
Ben> seems pretty sane, except I realized since it
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:08:53 -0600 (CST), "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> said:
> I wouldn't mind it if everyone disagreed with what I'm saying. But
> it seems as if no one even understands what I'm saying.
Sorry about the plug for my own company in my last message. However,
I think I
On 19 Jan 1999 16:55:29 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Shawn writes:
>> I am all for a for-profit business forming as a value-added seller
>> of Debian products. Such a business could focus on
>> pre-installations, packaging and marketing, and user support.
> Exactly! This is just
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:52:44 -0500, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> After comparing the sources closely, I don't think they have forked
> the sources. All the diffs in the *actual* stylesheets are either
> CVS stuff changing, since they reimported norm's stuff
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:37:32 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Duh, I had the directory wrong, the correct dictory is
> /usr/doc/copyright/base. dpkg -S can't see where it is coming from
> though. The contents is also weird. Look at its copyright: Copyright
> (C) 1995 The Debian A
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >Essentially, Cygnus has forked the code.
>>
>> Huh.
>
>That might be a bit strong - I haven't really looked into the
>differences in depth. They are being
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I understand that Gnome needs db2* scripts... why do they need the Cygnus
>> stylesheets?
>
>They use them internally at Cygnus for their documentation. They are
>unsuppor
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I thought they needed this db2* scriptage. The db2* scripts kinda
>> suck if you ask me (and not comment from upstream on my specific
>> technical arguments why they su
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Soon, I'm going to upload a "cygnus-stylesheets" package. It's
>basically the same thing as the docbook-stylesheets package, but it
>has some modifications and additional hacks that Mark Galassi has
>added.
>
>This package is based on the same source as w
tdtd is an emacs lisp mode for editing DTDs, from Tony Graham.
ftp://ftp.mulberrytech.com/pub/tdtd/>
cdlabelgen is a small program to simplify the process of
generating labels for CD-ROMs. It was created by a friend
and co-worked, Brian Fitzpatrick, so even though I don't really
use this I'm a
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