On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are
> correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is "evil".
I'm running out of space and wanted to move subdirs of /usr to
another partition. But because of
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> i have 40 identical computers here, and one of them has the same problems.
> i guess some trouble with the mainboard, but i'm not sure and could not
> investigate till today. all other machines work fine (with hard disk,
> 2 have network card probl
Well , its already off. Thanks for the tip. I downgraded to
2.0.33, and things are much more stable , so far, but I've seen a couple
of errors. I guess we'll have to wait a while longer and see if other
people report the same thing.
On 24 Jun 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> Are you run
OK, I was wrong , its happening now with 2.0.33 too. However, its
happening to all three ide drives. I'd better figure it out fast
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Christian Meder wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:24:52AM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> > A typical er
My file systems are getting trashed. I get errors and eventually
the system hung (couldn't shutdown). I switched back to 2.0.33 and
everything is fine. I'm not sure if overheating has something to do with
it as well.
A typical error message is (this occurs on 2 of three drive
If lurkftp is killed and started again (happens alot) it gets
everything that it already got again, even though its supposed to compare
with the local tree. Tell me if I am missing something, otherwise, I'll
file a bug.
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Let's not add more complication to the installation of the
distribution which is perceived to be difficult to install. Remember,
doing a few things by hand is a much bigger pain for a busy sysadmin who
is less experienced with Debian than the developers. I see a lot of
developer-centric
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote:
> Unfortunately, dselect not only doesn't upgrade from 2.0.7pre1-4 to 2.0.7-1,
> but it wants to upgrade FROM 2.0.7-1 TO 2.0.7.pre1-4 now! And moreover I have
> broken dependencies now, since apt_0.0.16 depends on libc6 >=2.0.4pre1. It
> implies th
Has anyone looked into a MetroX installer package, or the like?
It comes tar'ed or rpm'd .
I'm thinking of all the Thinkpads with a neomagic videocard. I
was trying to help a friend install Debian on one. (The tecra boot disk
didn't work, but who knows, maybe the floppies were
Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris
who wants to install on a laptop. I'd hate to see him go RH. I think he
has a network card. Maybe apt and a remote archive works pretty well now
for installing ?
John
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I found the entire kernel/hw clock issue quite confusing. (eg ,
when to use the uct flag ) The man pages help a little. A clock howto
would be quite helpful.
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To the extent that I have a goal in Debian , its packaging these
things (I've already done three or four) . For the time being, I am
putting it all in 'math'. We may want to change the name or granularity at
some point, if packging these things really takes off. I agree that 'sci'
would b
I haven't tested it, but it really looks like Gordon Chaffee's
patches are included.
homey 4 > rgrep -i -r 'fat32' .
./fs/fat/cache.c: fat_bits == 16 ? EOF_FAT16 :
EOF_FAT3
2);
./fs/fat/inode.c: int fat32;
./fs/fat/in
My last message couldn't have been more wrong ! Maybe there is a
difference between the perl interface to gdbm and some core perl function
that relies on it ?
On 7 Jun 1998, James Troup wrote:
> Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
Yes this is clearly a dynamically loaded module. There is no
question that the perl binary will run if /usr/lib/libgdbm.so or whatever
is absent.
homey 41 > locate GDBM
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/GDBM_File
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/GDBM_File/autosplit.ix
/usr/lib/pe
broke a lot of stuff)
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote:
>
> I sent a message to the maintainer , but haven't heard back.
> Is this something broken on my system ? I tried forcing removal
> of all my tetex packages and reinstalling.
> I get this whe
I sent a message to the maintainer , but haven't heard back.
Is this something broken on my system ? I tried forcing removal
of all my tetex packages and reinstalling.
I get this when trying to install tetex-bin .
Setting up tetex-bin (0.9-5) ...
/usr/bin/texconfig: No
They have included the FAT32 support. Many users need to mount
their win95 partition. Many can't even install without support, as they
need to install from a FAT32 partition. I had this problem installing on a
machine a few months ago. You had to patch 2.0.33 to get it.
John
J
On 4 Jun 1998, Andreas Degert wrote:
> If you look at config files like .emacs or /etc/profile where it's
> apparent that they use a structured language, it's much more clear
> that a configuration program can't grok each possible config file the
> user can write with an editor.
It's also
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
>
> What are the main differences/advantages/disadvantages of
> Debian's Packaging System vs The Other Guys (tm) ?
>
> I would appreciate any help in sorting these out (I already have
So would we !
John Lapeyre <[E
There is no possiblity that urgent bugs could arise in my packages
(because the packages are marginal) . But if the impossible happens,
please feel free to upload a fix.
John
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Does anyone know if something official is released? I have only
seen the irc transcript on slashdot.
John
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This is GPL'd, the package is nearly finished.
Description:
SAML is a C library for symbolic calculations, accompanied
by some application programs (samuel, factorint, induce),
and Python bindings.
The library provides an object-oriented framework for
Apt downloads all the packages and then installs them. Every RH
and Debian network method I've seen does this. Is there a way to download
a package, install it and throw the deb away, to save disk space ?
If I wait too long between upgrades, I run into big problems.
Ot
This is a great idea.Sysadmins can't keep up with the needs of
an experienced user.
I am almost sure dpkg won't do this now. There will be all sorts
of problems with locations of files. To make sure every package
supports this would add complexity and burden.
We coul
Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> > someone on tcsh-dev found that bug - I sent in the particular patch as
> > a bug report, but haven't heard anything (on this or on the
> TCSH was orphaned for six months. I took maintainership three days before the
> freeze. I have since s
Michael Meskes wrote:
> Jim Pick writes:
> > I must admit, I've been entirely negligent in following the policy
> > discussions - due to lack of time, I've skipped them entirely.
>
> Me too.
Me three. I am but a humble physics student ( ;-) ) who wants to
package a few science things for
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> I recall there being a discussion on this some time ago, I just noticed on
> master,
There is a bit of dicussion on it in the bug system. I
corresponded with the debian mainainter (Luis Gonzales) and the upstream
author. They think it is a pretty tough problem.
On 28 Apr 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Is that such a bad thing, really? I would rather that the
> policy documents be corrected, and held as a set of rules htat
> have to be followed, woth an exception for the items that happen to
Debian is great and everything, but it
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> The Minig Co? Not likely. I did a little bit of part time work for them
> and was even offered a job a year and half back. I refused to take it up
> because they were Gung Ho about NT. For one of my projects for them I
Yeah, it r
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, James A.Treacy wrote:
> For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the
> Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards.
> Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before,
> but am not adverse to any good publicity for Debian.
> The aw
> This means that you deleted a mwm conffile
> /etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc-menu, or you never installed lesstif-bin. If
> you touch that file, the error will go away.
I have lesstif-bin installed and I didn't delete
/etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc-menu . Some broken package may have deleted
I think /usr/bin/update-menus may be broken.
Several packages give me an error when they try to install. Fvwmconf was
successfully added to the menus when I packaged it last month . Now
installing it gives error messages and update-menus fails. Has anyone
else seen this ?
home
I like the idea of having all the material available in a form
that is as convenient as possible (ie alread .deb) .
But this is similar to the problem of packaging large scientific
packages which are interesting to only a limited number of people.
(similar, but different reasons fo
I added one line to the tcsh code, which seems to fix the infinite
loop problem. I sent the patch to the author and the Debian maintainer 24
hrs. ago. I expect to hear something over the next few days.
Perhaps the author will make a better fix.
If someone can't wait that long, m
Just played in AZ, US.
I had to listen to 50 minutes of crap about presidents and big
companies ! They should have put Linux first.
Stallman may be a bit of a crank, but I'd be upset too about GNU
being downplayed out of existence.
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tucson
of util-linux.
I was refering to fdisk3, which does have the same interface.
sfdisk may well be different.
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. But the there are
some situations where fdisk can't read a broken table and fdisk3 can , and
can repair it (saved my life once). I was thinking of adding it, as the
author suggests and as I did on my system, as fdisk3 . I suppose lack of
support for bug fixes is also a potential probl
4.lsm
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Install
Copying-policy: GPL
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> I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to
We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse .
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ations for choosing a system random number
generator? What if debian were the first unix to have a good random
number generator ? (is there another?) At least I should upload GPL'd
versions of the good generators (there is not much code) for people that
need them .
Or ?
G John Lapeyre &l
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote:
>
> > After several hours of effort, I have majordomo working with exim.
> > I never even knew what the different MTA's were , much less how to use
> > them. However, I
dmail', it chokes on some of the sendmail arguments. I only
figured it out at the end, or I would have switched to sendmail (I didn't
even know which MTA I had).
Does this constitute a bug ? Is exim so uncommon that no one
noticed it before?
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