dbackup possibility

1996-01-02 Thread David H. Silber
7;. It would be installed into /var/lib/dpkg/info along with the other package information as .backup. The backup script would provide on its standard output a list of files that should not be backed up, even though they are not listed in the .list file. What do you people think of this? T

When packages are installed.

1996-01-01 Thread David H. Silber
ould provide certain types of information depending on the arguments specified. -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup) <http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/> Wanted: Spare time. Programmer for hire.

Bug#2080: cern-httpd or dpkg leaves log files after purge.

1996-01-01 Thread David H. Silber
Package: cern-httpd -or- dpkg Version: ??? 1.0.7 After purging cern-httpd from my system, the log files remained. -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup) <http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/> Wanted: Spar

Bug#2006: elf xlib for tk40.

1995-12-11 Thread David H. Silber
to tk40 is my whole reason for switching to elf at this time, so this is kind of disappointing. Presumably, the maintainer of this package has it working on his system. What does he have that I don't? -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup)

Bug#2000: hello not elf

1995-12-10 Thread David H. Silber
essential. -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup) <http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/> Wanted: Spare time. Programmer for hire.

Bug#1905: netstd

1995-11-27 Thread David H. Silber
of the networking services. The usage message in /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs is incorrect. Someone has added a reload option. What is this supposed to do, anyway? Thanks, -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup) <http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/>

Bug#1904: dpkg-name

1995-11-27 Thread David H. Silber
Package: dpkgname Version: 0.4-0 In the man page, there is no mention of what you are renaming Debian packages /from/. I suspect you are renaming from ms-dos filenames, but the documentation should specify. Thanks, -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Well folks...

1995-11-21 Thread David H. Silber
> On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, David H. Silber wrote: > > > > > Is there a possibility of finding a machine to take over as > > ``ftp.debian.org'' > > while the upgrade happens? Too often it seems that a minor fix snowballs > > into > > a major

Re: Well folks...

1995-11-21 Thread David H. Silber
) > -- > Matthew S. Bailey > 107 Emmons Hall > Central Michigan University > Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup) <http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/> Wanted: Spare time. Programmer for hire.

dbackup-0.1-alpha.2 released

1995-11-21 Thread David H. Silber
l try tomorrow.) Date: 21 Nov 95 05:54 UT Package: dbackup Version: 0.1 Package_Revision: alpha.2 Maintainer: David H. Silber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: dbackup Binary: dbackup Priority: High, if you need something like this, else Low. Recommended: tar | cpio Optional: Depends: Conflicts:

Re: RFC: A default html file

1995-11-07 Thread David H. Silber
.ca/~edd Oh yes, there are various documents which are refered to by the man pages which are not, themselves, man pages. There are also a whole body of Internet RFCs out there. Both of these sets of documents would be nice to have as a Debian package. -- David H. Silber

Re: dpkg Selective Install

1995-10-04 Thread David H. Silber
ration file (/etc/dpkg ?) and an option within dselect to make these choices on a per-package basis. (The hacks that have been suggested will only cause confusion.) (More on this later, when I have more time.) -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proj

Bug#1537: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

1995-10-03 Thread David H. Silber
should be a symbolic link. -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup) <http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/> Wanted: Spare time. Programmer for hire.

Network Debian installation

1995-09-28 Thread David H. Silber
s, then files need to be duplicated onto the secondary partitions as they are installed. -- David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup) <http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/> Wanted: Spare time. Programmer for hire.