[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
> Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel versions in
> the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to provide that many
> versions of the kernel??
What about just keeping the last 2.0.x and the last 2.2.x ? It's also
a lot of space on
Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by
processing new packages from incoming. The procedure is basically
this:
You get a daily email report of new packages in Incoming.
You run lintian on them and check for egregious errors, read the
copyright file to see if its
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> > What happens if you pass the -pt option to man?
>
> $ man -pt -l ./powstatd.8
>
> Then it works.
>From man(1):
The filters are deciphered by a number of means. Firstly,
the command line option -p or
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> only one question, were have the uploads landed? I mean, I am very happy
> that I got confirmation messages, but now I have REJECTED:
> Rejected: gnupg_0.9.5-1_m68k.deb: Old version 9.5-1' >= new version 9.5-1'.
> but I cant find it on nonus
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, are spaces legal, or not?
Oops. The regular expression is correct, and the example is not.
There may not be a space between `bug' and `#'.
Guy
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I remember having looked at it but, IIRC, the source was less
> comprehensible, which at the time was the most important thing.
I don't think you would have to make any changes. It's design to be
easily run from scripts.
Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes:
> There was also the idea of running the announcement part of dinstall
> every ten minutes or thereabouts.
I could announce new packages as they're processed. (They'd be
announced twice then.) Are people actually sitting around all day
waiting for new p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes:
> There was a suggestion a while back for the .changes file to have two
> fields, a Maintainer field and an Uploader field. If these are
> identical, then it's a maintainer upload, otherwise it's an NMU. If
> there's no Uploader field, then fall back to
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I took the sources to cfdisk.c, ripped all the user interface code
> out, and replaced it with code that essentially does the following:
You should try using sfdisk instead for things like this. It's the
best of {s,c,}fdisk, but it has no frontend.
Guy
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, would somebody please document this in the Packaging manual?
> Otherwise, it won't be terribly useful as anybody that didn't see the
> message won't know about it.
I'll document as soon as I'm convinced that the bugs are out.
> On Sun, Jan 31, 19
Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm, is it really a good thing to have dinstall announce the uploads? I
> often depend on the announcements to alert me to new versions in Incoming.
> In the new setup, the announcements won't come until the package is
> installed, which in some cases can
"Oliver Elphick" writes:
> It seems rather clumsy, though. Why was this scheme chosen, instead of
> one where the K scripts are run for the previous runlevel?
K scripts are not supposed to shut down everything that was started
from that runlevel. They are supposed to shut down everything that
dinstall, the software which installs packages into the hierarchy, can
now announce packages and close bugs for you.
If you'd like to use this feature, upgrade to the dpkg-dev in my home
directory on master. The changes are checked in to va's dpkg cvs
tree.
dinstall will look for a Format field
Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Six orders of magnitude??
Bandwidth and latency are not the same thing.
Guy
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> does it know that libc5 and libc6 are incompatable versions of the
> same library (different sonames), or does it feel that loading two
> libraries (libfoo, libc6) is better than loading three (libfoo,
> libc5, libc6).
It recognizes libc, libm, and libdl
Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I remember well, some time ago someone posted his results on a port
> of dpkg to HP-UX.
Believe it or not, I've ported dpkg to HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and
Cygwin. (That's dpkg, dpkg-split, and dpkg-deb only. I wasn't
interested in dselect at the t
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guy Maor wrote:
> > I'm suggesting that dpkg-scanpackages scan the dscs and put the
> > section and version in the Source field, or perhaps add a new field
> > Dsc which is simply the full path to the dsc, akin to the Filen
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(James A. Treacy) writes:
> It is clearly much more efficient if the .dsc files don't have to be
> retrieved. This is simply a matter of policy though.
I guess you're talking about different things. Of course that
package's dsc needs to be downloaded, but Jay fears that all t
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Supposedly it is about ready to be released.
Using a newly written MTA as our default sounds like a poor idea.
Guy
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is an ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid, with such recent
> things as debian-arm, so.. I think that's next:->
No, sid is the permanently unstable distribution, where architectures
that have yet to be released live.
Guy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (James A. Treacy) writes:
> First, due to NMU uploads to other architectures, the source version
> may not match the version: in the package you are looking for.
This could be corrected with dpkg-scanpackages, but that's not really
the right thing to do. I don't know the best
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My original objection was going to be base around the fact that passwd
> is Essential, but it turns out it isn't, my bad. I'd hate to be part
> of the current `Let's make foo Essential: yes and part of the base
> system, in fact let's make it the kernel'
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This should also make GPL mods to Mozilla a no-no since that would mean that
> Mozilla would have to be GPL. Mozilla is NOT GPL. However RMS said GPL
> patches to Mozilla was still possible. Why is it possible for Mozilla and
> not for Qt?
The
My computer died last Saturday, and I'm still in the process of
figuring out what's wrong with it. I'll hopefully be back by Friday.
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A reasonable amount of time has passed. I'll check a few randomly
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Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sounds good.
I know it sounds good. I just want to be sure that's it's the right
thing to do. :)
So my understanding is that only i386 and m68k are to be official 2.0
releases. alpha (and other) will wait for 2.1.
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Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As far as I can see we only have disadvantages supporting
> hamm-powerpc. (no regular uploads, extra handling of security
> fixes to non-supported versions, frozen of _really unstable_
> binary set etc.)
I would make dinstall just throw all uploads fo
Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's supposed to open /dev/tty instead of using stdin. This is the way
> it works on all the systems I could get people to check for me, which
> are Linux with libc5, AIX 4.2, Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5, DG/UX 4.11 and
> FreeBSD 2.2.2-R.
I don't und
Is that correct? I ask because dinstall currently installs packages
into hamm and slink by installing it into the former and symlinking it
to the later. This causes unnecessary mirror traffic for those archs
that will only be released with 2.1 because I must later move binary-*
for those to slink
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thing is that bash behaves different if called as sh or bash.
Yes, find the section in the manpage that starts, "If bash is invoked
with the name sh, it tries to mimic the".
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Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 21 Apr 1998 08:55:51 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) said:
> >
> >> It's just a silly bug. It calls that code from some scripts which
> >> have fd0 dup'd elsewhere, so isatty(0) is false and getlogin() fails.
> >
> > Will someone p
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> but for symlinks pointing to something excluded from mirroring,
> it should download the file. this way i could burn a complete hamm...
I turned the hamm->bo symlinks into files a few days ago.
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Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are
> useless. If a user had a value "pri=5", he would only have to do something
> like
> echo 'command' | at now
> to get 'command' executed at normal priority.
Yes, it's not very e
It's just a silly bug. It calls that code from some scripts which
have fd0 dup'd elsewhere, so isatty(0) is false and getlogin() fails.
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Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> msqld will only modify /etc/group when the needed group is missing.
I don't have msqld installed, so msqld might be doing the correct
thing. It's fine to add the group with 'groupadd -g 36 msql', but you
definitely shouldn't modify the file directly.
The sizes are:
62997 contrib/binary-i386
326744 main/binary-i386
65237 non-free/binary-i386
31849 main/disks-i386
86526 contrib/source
690239 main/source
148075 non-free/source
Since the official CD doesn't include non-free, there won't be a
problem for this release. All the binaries a
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Make that
> http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980417.totn.02.ram
> if you just want the last hour. The Free Software segment is the
> second part of that hour.
It starts 27:20 minutes in.
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I agree with Manoj here.
Modifying libc to catch common security goals is a laudable goal, but
such a libc should go to experimental.
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Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes and yes. I've got a tree that has, among other things,
> debian-changelog.el working with the new emacs. I need to integrate
> the changes Miquel and Juan made.
This is easy to do with cvs.
cvs checkout -r v1_4_0_20 dpkg
# copy your changes
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looking closer, I found a couple of packages (msqld and sudo)
> which updated /etc/group in what I would consider an insufficiently
> paranoid fashion.
No package should modify /etc/passwd or /etc/group directly (save
base-passwd). They should call addus
I originally wanted to wait because it would increase the size of the
archive. I just added up the sizes and it would cost 107 megs. It
turns out that the entire archive is approaching 4 gigs (!!) so 107
megs is not that much.
I'll convert them now so it will be easier for people to press CDs or
I have to temporarily remove dists/bo and dists/stable. The problem
is that dists/stable is a directory instead of a symlink, and
converting a directory to a symlink will break many ftp mirror
programs. The only semi-reliable way is to remove the directory, wait
a while for all ftp sites to get t
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This says nothing about the postrm. Should ldconfig ever be called in the
> postrm?
It doesn't matter. ld.so reacts the same way to a library in the
cache but not in the filesystem as to a library in neither place.
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"LeRoy D. Cressy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when
> upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves
> the following broken links reported by ldconfig:
Those symlinks are part of libreadline2-dev. If you upgrade to
libreadline
I have seen this problem before with some overeager Configure scripts.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes:
> Am I the only one who thinks the only correct prompts would be '$ ' and '# '?
>
> Barring that I suggest leaving the defaults, 'bash$' et. al.
You're not the only one. I also prefer to leave the defaults.
Any prompt in /etc/profile would be overri
Toens Bueker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to see junkbuster-blank packaged. This patched
Surely the junkbuster maintainer can apply the patch to his version
rather than have a completely new version.
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David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> bash
> libreadline2
I'm willing to advise anyone that want to tackle this.
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Rather than maintaining this list, why don't you just set the severity
of any normal release-critical bugs to important? That's what
important is for!
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Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Again? Why again? Maybe we should install a cronjob to set the bit?
Would it have to run more than once a day?
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Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think it would be sensible to fix the ftp site. There is a
> debian/upgrades directory that contains hopelessly out-of-date info.
> Beginning of the README says:
That directory is for people upgrading from 0.93R6 (libc4), when dpkg
didn't have pre-dep
I still have a not-quite-finished upgrade of the experimental dpkg-ftp
done. I fixed some bugs and added immediate configuration of
pre-depended on targets and essential packages. I also improved the
backend logic so that it will only use later backends if the version
is newer. For example, you
Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got an expect script I use for my Quake servers which reboots them
> if they become stuck. Would it be appropriate to ship that and use it
> by default with the server packages?
Go ahead and include it, but don't run it by default so that you
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think Guy intended to move all packages that don't have source
> to project/orphaned. So libc4 and xcompat, among others, moved.
> If libc4 and xcompat are to remain in project/orphaned,
I moved all old source packages to orphaned, and flat out remov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes:
> However, I don't know the history behind this. What is the reason for
> not including Section and Priority by default?
Ian and I discussed it when I first started maintaining the archive.
dselect always takes the section and priority from the Packa
Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently managed to add some sources in my -dbg shared lib packages,
> to make them easily debuggable. (See bug#16038 on 30 Dec)
I rather liked your solution to the problem of debuggable shared libs,
but you need to figure out a way to not need to
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been looking al over for this trick... Tried this one to, which did
> not work...
In the beginning of your .xsession:
eval $(ssh-agent)
ssh-add
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) writes:
> 530-Sorry, there are too many anonymous users using the system at this
> 530-time. Please try again later. There is currently a limit of 10
> 530-anonymous users for your domain group.
Sometimes the ftpd on master gets hung. Whene
"Meskes, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Couldn't we find a common way for packages to adjust other packages
> conffiles?
The service registration mechanism I proposed earlier takes care of
this easily.
Netbase does this in the postinst:
provide-service --install-hook services netbase
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > Disadvantage: needs a patch for cron, to scan this directory as well as
> > the usual user crontab directory, and to execute those cronjobs as root,
> > not as a user.
>
> It's a small "disadvantage", aft
"Meskes, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are you sure nothing depends on the older tcl an tk versions?
If so, they need to be updated. We're only going to have 7.6/4.2 and
8.
I'll start running pkg-order on the archive on a regular basis and
file bugs on unmet dependencies.
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I had written a script which checks the archive for missing and extra
source and binaries some time ago. I've finally acted on its output.
I've orphaned any old source packages. Some are obviously obsolete
(such as tcl74, tcl75, tk40, tk41). Others are useful but have no
active maintainer.
I'v
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> OK, I put all of that stuff in Incoming.
It's going to get rejected if his key isn't in the keyring.
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In my experience, the warnings have come from dangling symlink in the
> lib directories. I'm not sure how they get there.
The dangling symlink could either be from a package which doesn't
include the symlink that ldconfig would create, or because the
li
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> I'm planning to package `cvsweb-1.0'.
>
> Q: Where does it go? Experimental, or unstable/web?
New software should typically go to unstable, unless it's really
dangerous or something.
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Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. If a user has "amaya-static" or "amaya", dselect should replace it
>with "amaya"
>
> 2. If the above is true, thot-common is installed; I want dselect to
>remove it (and not allow it at the same time as the new amaya).
>
> 3. The ftp site put
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Recommends: ppp-pam
Recommends is for packages "found together in all but unusual
sitations".
It's certainly not appropriate here. I wouldn't even use Suggests.
Just mention it in the description.
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According to Stevens on page 300, writev is atomic, so I would regard
Linux's behavior as a bug.
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While I agree that Gnus is the best thing since sliced bread, keep in
> mind those in other countries where net access is *much* more
> expensive.
I hardly think the duplicate messages represent a significant
percentage of their bandwidth.
> For these
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If the binary changes, the version number should change. Things
> break if you don't increase the version number (e.g. automatic
> upgrade and bug reporting) and you don't have to a source release to
> do a non-maintainer release, just add a new entry to
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This will not work for packages like Gnus, bbdb, w3,
> hyperbole, vm, and psgml, since the compilation requires selectively
> preloading some files, or even running complex build-scripts during
> the compilation of the elisp files.
Why can't
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Say, ferinstance, that several revisions of a package are installed
> and there are subtly different arguments each time. Or, that package
> installation fails, is backed out, then installed then reconfigured?
Several clients or servers? Clients would r
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think that we should have some sort of install procedure (a la
> install-info) for emacs .el files.
We keep going down this route again and again - info, elisp, menu,
mime. Maybe we should generalize this?
Let's provide a system where packages could
"Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Perhaps you could point out how I could force all of those people
> with broken mailers and/or ideas to use one of your great mail
> clients, so I won't get four, five, six or more duplicates of the
> messages sent to the list.
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James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> o By linking ppp with pam you are dragging libpam0g, libpam0g-util and
> libpwdb0g into base.
>
> This is fine, *as long as* it's been discussed and agreed first, I
> don't like 3 shared library packages being silently dragged into
> base. If we'r
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> STREAM_MAX is defined in
> "xopen_lim.h" as _POSIX_STREAM_MAX, which in turn is defined in
> "posix1_lim.h" as 8.
I agree that defining STREAM_MAX as _POSIX_STREAM_MAX is a bug, and
that you should file a bug with `glibcbug'.
The _POSIX_*_MAX def
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd suggest that all such packages only try to compile and package the
> libc5 packages if there is a libc5 installed.
No, that's a bad idea. A package might silently build incorrectly
because a developer didn't have libc5 or libc5-dev installed.
Unf
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I thought I'd call the PAM-free ppp package ppp-base, like perl-base.
> I'm still not sure about the best way to do this though. It looks like the
> only thing that needs to be different is the pppd binary, so:
>
> Should I make ppp contain only the pp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> How fast are isp's converting to pap? No point in putting a lot of
> work into dealing with chatscripts if they are going away soon.
I believe that there will soon (if not already) be very few ISPs which
don't support PAP or CHAP. chat isn't going to be used for anyth
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With debmake, new functionality was added all the time, and was added into
> the same debstd program, changing its behavior, and so different versions
> could have widly differing results on the same package.
>
> With debstd, each individual program has a
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, perhaps the bunzip code could be included in the bzip2 package;
That sounds like the best idea.
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Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 08:45:27PM +0100, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > I have taken over the maintenance of debmake (on a temporary basis).
> > Some time ago, Ian said he was going to write a replacement for it, so I'm
> > just going to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >My immediate problem is that I have the hardware clock set to GMT and
> >my system clock is never getting set to the local timezone.
>
> This might have been a bug in sysvinit-2.72-1 or -2
Yes, those versions
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sure, no prob, IF I know what the differences are... :)
Assuming you have libc6-dev and libc5-altdev installed,
/usr/include/utmpbits.h has the new structure, and
/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include/utmp.h has the old structure.
The new structure has many
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-switch -fno-strength-reduce -malign-loops=2
> -malign-jumps=
> 2 -malign-functions=2 -Demacs -I../src -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/db
> -I/usr
> /X11R6/include /usr/src/xemacs-20.3/lib-src/wakeup.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> -ltermcap
David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So find someone to modify the libc5 in hamm to build both -dev and
> -altdev packages. It isn't that hard.
That's really the only workable solution.
David, I do think you ought to add the Conflicts to older versions of
libc5 to libc6. This will prevent
G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The interface works the same as fdisk
Um, no. There is no interface. sfdisk is driven completely by a
config file describing the desired partition table.
Furthermore, it's already on your hard drive if you're running hamm.
It's part of util-li
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry... I'm using perl, and these functions are not avalible.. *sigh*
oh, yuck. You're just going to have to rewrite your routines to use
the new structure. I'm sure you can figure out a way to dynamically
determine which type of structure is bei
Andy Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is different becuase the lzw patent holders (HP?) have given a
> general license for non-profit use of the patent.
That's true. It's Unisys that holds the patent, btw.
The patent on bzip is moot anyway, as bzip2 does not have any patents
on it. It shou
"Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm sick of trying to find a useful workaround for people who just
> want to install a few packages from hamm without upgrading the whole
> thing.
There isn't one. I assumed you, as libc5-to-libc6 maintainer, knew
that.
Yes, it is theoretically pos
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Whoops, forget I said the above sentence, I can't seem to find bzip
> > anywhere in Debian... My fingers automatically typed gzip instead of
> > bzip when searching :-(
> The last time it was seen in non-us distribution.
Because of the patent issue
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> > does anyone know where are all the packages that were in
> > Incoming/HELD-FOR-GUY? This directory is empty now but at least samba
> > (which I maintain) has not been integrated into hamm (and samba was in
> > HELD-FOR-GUY).
>
> Oh
At one point, dinstall wasn't checking pgp signatures of .dsc files.
These files have slipped through. Please reupload them, or I'll file
bug reports:
blt_2.1-6.dsc: pgp error
courtney_1.3-3.dsc: pgp error
data-dumper_2.07-1.dsc: pgp error
dbview_1.0.3-3.dsc: pgp error
ddd_2.1.1-2.dsc: pgp error
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (c) Supply both sets of pages.
Surely the issue isn't important enough to double the mirror size?
Either a or b, but certainly not c.
Guy
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Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could somebody modify the upload scripts to check packages and source
> files before moving them from incomming or is that to mauch cpu?
The install scripts do compare md5sums with the .changes and .dsc
files, and they run dpkg-deb -f on all the .debs.
Bit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I know that one of the latest "fixes" to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the
> >lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned.
>
> They weren't - the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes:
> There's ~maor/masterfiles/mkcontents on master, but I don't know if
> that is the script that was actually used to create them.
That's it.
> Unfortunately, per-user crontab files are read-protected, so there's
> no way to trace a path from the weekl
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