Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages

2024-12-02 Thread Greg Stark
On Mon, Dec 2, 2024, 11:20 Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/2/24 18:39, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > This is not correct. Whether any of /usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/bin or /sbin > > share a partition or not has no relationship to whether a user can > > invoke a command, or whether that path is searc

Problem with Google APT repo

2016-06-17 Thread Greg Stark
Weird. I'm getting this: Err:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable/main amd64 google-talkplugin amd64 5.41.3.0-1 Hash Sum mismatch But as far as I can see the file I get at that URL from my browser does in fact match the md5sum and sha1 in the package description. As far as I can t

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-06 Thread Greg Stark
Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Regardless. Having people install fresh machines with things like > > Postgres 7.2 is just embarrassing. > > I am not embarrassed. Well perhaps you should be. Whenever they ask for support those users will be told the version their running is hopele

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
> > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > It would be helpful if people wouldn't make sweeping generalizations > > > all the time. "All the time"? ... -- greg

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
it being included? I've attached the original message including headers. --- Begin Message --- I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > What does that mean? I

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If apt kept even a single old revision in its cache then rolling back could > > be as simple as > > apt-get install -t previous libc6 > > That would be good. (Similarly for aptitude, of course.) > > One question occurs, however: should this also (tr

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Greg Stark
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... What does that mean? -- greg

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-04 Thread Greg Stark
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

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-04 Thread Greg Stark
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.

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:05:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > What started the chain of events was that a fairly routine minor bug bit the > > latest libc6 release. He's an experienced sysadmin though and wasn't the >

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
"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. But testing isn't infallible either. And it shouldn't be mean Debian shouldn't have better error handli

A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
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 wasting two days picking up the pieces. He's now

Re: How come X seems insistent on managing my XF86Config now?

2003-10-14 Thread Greg Stark
g list. I poked around /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86 and the xsf web pages and couldn't find any mention of a separate mailing list. I imagine it's there and I'm just blind. > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:20:01AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROT

Re: How come X seems insistent on managing my XF86Config now?

2003-10-08 Thread Greg Stark
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just answer the questions. Well there seem to be a lot of them. And a lot of them don't seem to have default answers. Or in some cases any reasonable answer given my setup. > It doesn't insist on "managing" your XF86Config-4 file now, it just in

Re: versions of -dev packages

2003-06-26 Thread Greg Stark
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is a script that finds different versions of installed binary packages > with the same source package name. > > Running this script on some of my systems gave me lots of interesting > information ... Indeed it seems to be finding me lot

Re: Status of fab and of his pkgs [Was: ITA: man-db, groff]

2001-01-09 Thread Greg Stark
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Moving to -devel. ] > > Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > > It's written everywhere: DON'T RUN MAN AS ROOT! Having no idea where it moved from or what the context was I'll blithely wade in with an opinion: Just because the bug is documented doesn't mean it's n

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-07 Thread Greg Stark
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > I've been meaning to bring this up for a while: > > Why on earth was this change ever made? > > I can't speak for whoever made the chang

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-06 Thread Greg Stark
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Changes in version 1.9.2: > > > > Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf > > for Debian (Bug#8181). > > oops, except that mod is *ancient*. way before

How to report bugs (was glibc thing)

2001-01-06 Thread Greg Stark
"Eray Ozkural (exa)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The preprocessor macro seems to be undefined. There are also other > subtleties while using pthread lib, such as the __USE_UNIX_98 stuff, > which I really don't know (I only use c++, and UNIX_98 sections don't > seem to come along. Why is that?)

Debugging X libraries

1999-09-16 Thread Greg Stark
There are no packages that have shared X11 libraries built with debugging symbols, are there? I wouldn't want to ask such a thing of the maintainer, there are enough complexities in the X packages as it is, but nobody would happen to have such an libX11.so for libc5 would they? -- greg

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Obviously I've misunderstood the behaviour of Emacs here - I'd assumed > that the internal form was the same regardless of whether one got > there via byte-compiling or not. Apparently this isn't the case! it certainly isn't. I have to question your results too, t

Re: Intent to package KerberosV

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
Bear Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My plan, back when I was exploring the idea of a US-only package > and/or derived distribution, was to use shared libraries and create > a special null Kerberos package which would return error codes, something > very close to the Kerberos 'bones' packag

Re: netscape crashes on potato

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
So the people who don't see crashes, which version of Netscape are you using? Do you use java successfully in Netscape? Do you have plugger installed? Do you have any other plugins installed? Which versions of libc are you using? # dpkg -l \*netscape\* | grep ^hi hi netscape-base-4 5

Re: xfstt 0.9.99 uploaded - some news with it

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Apr 28, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The MAIN process runs as root. This is because if it recieves a kill signal > >it needs to clean up its pid file. Can't do that if it was not root (not > >without the permissions on /v

Re: Intent to package: GREED

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
Leon Breedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Regarding curl, I'll be packaging an SSL enabled version only, as it seems > that policy doesnt cover a source package building for both US & non-US. There are a couple packages which do this, mutt-i etc. I think they all make some minor alteration lik

Re: GTK problems - not compiling

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
So it's not a bug and we're satisfied with the following situation? Some programs from other linux systems or even hamm systems will randomly seg fault. If any libraries from other linux distributions or even hamm systems are present on a potato machine when programs are compiled the result

Where are the boot floppies?

1998-04-16 Thread Greg Stark
They don't seem to be in the Incoming mirrors, are they somewhere else? There's someone who posts periodically saying he has an automatically built iso image and boot floppies somewhere but I can't find any of his posts in the archives. Thanks, greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: bashisms

1997-12-06 Thread Greg Stark
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To this end we really need a short document which details the differences, > the "right" way to do things and the definite "No-No"s. Maybe this should > go into the packaging manual, but initially it is probably better to have it > seperate as it wou

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread Greg Stark
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Stark writes: > > We've got be be a little more careful with the Replaces header. I just > > installed the libc6 version of comerr, and dpkg helpfully deinstalled > > e2fsprogs. > > That's perfectly nor