searching for Raul Miller

2002-01-14 Thread John Lapeyre
Does anyone know if Raul Miller is active ? I and others have looked for him a bit. He took over pdl from me a couple years ago. I'd like to get it back (if he wants to get rid of it, of course). I sent a mail a few days ago and didn't hear anything. Thanks, John

Re: List of packages needing a new maintainer

2000-12-31 Thread John Lapeyre
*Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Below is a listing of packages needing a new maintainer. I know that In case someone wants to pick up a package, I'll note which packages (of mine) I think are likely to have some reasonably sized user base. Some others may be popular too, I just don't know about the

Re: 100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-23 Thread John Lapeyre
L PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://www.buoy.com/~tps > I have never found that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. > ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my > own.** > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread John Lapeyre
be shipped. But I can't see how you can argue that our only stable product should not be able to run on most new machines. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-01 Thread John Lapeyre
o UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: scanning my ports

1999-09-25 Thread John Lapeyre
very sorry to have wasted the time of your security team. Maybe you can avoid further waste of time, by accepting my retraction of accusations and realizing that now there is no evidence and no accusation of a security problem, and therefore, no reason to take action on a suspected security pr

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-21 Thread John Lapeyre
h>> I'm probably thinking too far ahead right now, though... hamish> hamish>Why would you install the package (which presumably includes hamish>configuration) and then immediately reconfigure it? I often make a mistake during configuration and then want to reconfigur

Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-20 Thread John Lapeyre
ernel, and the source size is not too big. I never use the debian source packages; there are probably additional technical issues. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
to put together a working system. 11 kernels is probably too much, but a couple of each might be OK. We (someone !) could also package the patches, which is a bit more of a pain for the user, but we could get all 12 new kernels without adding so much bulk to the archive. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris> chris>> The 2.0.37 and 2.2.x kernels keep hanging on my AMD K6-2. chris> chris>This sounds *bad*, BTW; have you checked around to see if anyone chris>else has had these kinds of f

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: herber>On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:57:54AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: herber>Try herber> herber>make "CC=gcc272 -D__KERNEL__ -I`pwd`/include" zImage I love this man ! Well, I had tried messing around with the /include fi

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: herber>John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: herber>> herber>> Hmm. Well my two potato systems are slightly different. One just herber>> compiled 2.0.36 with the patch. But the other one failed with the herber>> messa

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris> chris>>The link to suse doesn't work at the moment, but I'll give it a try. chris>> The blurb at cygnus does not look encouraging. I think it is claiming chris>

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris> chris>>Is it possible to build 2.0.x kernels under a reasonable chris>> potato build environment ? I tried "make CC=gcc272", but chris>> I still get failures f

building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
The 2.0.x kernels do fine in the same situation. I tried to find this issue in the archives, but did not find much. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Debian in a phrase

1999-05-22 Thread John Lapeyre
Well here is a little good press... http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/personal/19990524/tech.html Says, Caldera Makers of OpenLinux. Debian High-quality volunteer Linux. Linux Pro Corporate-aimed implementation from WorkGroup Solutions.

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
*Marek Habersack wrote: > Yes, yes. But you won't be able to use perl with C++ libraries. If you use the C interface to the C++ libraries, and reimplement OO in perl, yes you can. And the C++ wrapping has improved to the point that people are using it directly for some projects.

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
g on ? > > The only contributions to our packaging systems today are done with C++ > (apt), and perl (install methods). > -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
erested in making headlines for Debian because > we actually accomplished something cool rather than making them just to > make the average Slashdot reader think that Debian is as good as Redhat. A couple of salaried positions would be nice. Full time PR staff, ... -- John Lapeyre <[

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
rk for it. If enough (like Manoj) don't care, then we won't get commercial support and recognition. It's probably OK either way. They can't drive us out of business. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
I really like the how-to-install-gnome page. Other packages that could use similar pages are X, emacs, and communicator. I and people I have talked to can get confused trying to decide which packages to download and install. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuc

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
ounce that here to. This > is to prevent others from possibly investigating the source with an > eye towards taking over maintenance. I thought the same thing. An announcement of change of maintainership is appropriate for this list. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTE

possibly broken X development environment

1999-05-14 Thread John Lapeyre
ibICE.so.6: undefined reference to _sigjmp_save' /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to _setjmp' -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread John Lapeyre
machine and installed from them. For a single machine it is relatively painless. John -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE debian stuff

1999-05-10 Thread John Lapeyre
ed > or was a "god it would be nice" Is the debugging info necessary ? I wonder if it slows things down. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-10 Thread John Lapeyre
ly. I even improved the perl version and ruby still won. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread John Lapeyre
rate, I predict that, perl will be uploaded, dependent packages will be uploaded, and then months will pass before the release, during which time, the perl problem will be fixed and forgotten. ( I suggest keeping this message so you can repost it when it is found that perl 5.005 has destroyed t

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread John Lapeyre
d with this statement. AFAIK, no tentative freeze date has been set. Also, the problem of how to introduce the new package has been debated since before the slink freeze. It is apparantly a difficult problem. I imagine that, if the problem is solved before the freeze, perl 5.005 will be insta

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Lapeyre
There have been several packages allowed into main with a license like this. Some people don't like it however. Perl's license is even slightly more restricive. Except that now it can be licensed under the GPL as well. From: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2

Re: GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-28 Thread John Lapeyre
ftp1.us.debian.org now has everything to install all the gnome stuff libgtop0 is there too. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:32:28PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > > > > I guess I should add this to my last post about how bad the > > installation is. The boot floppies themselves and apt are quite good. > > G

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
expensive modem link. I guess I don't care too much about the cachet of having 2.2 in slink. I wonder if we'll put 2.4 in slink -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-24 Thread John Lapeyre
I guess I should add this to my last post about how bad the installation is. The boot floppies themselves and apt are quite good. Getting the base system on is easy for someone who knows what is going on. Probably not for a beginner. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-24 Thread John Lapeyre
good idea, because a full time employee could do quite a bit for the installation process in a few months, and contribute back to the project. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
symbolic links referencing the shared library. N: N: Refer to Packaging Manual, chapter 12 for details. N: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Removing Gnome [was: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1]

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Stephen Crowley wrote: crow>That is ridiculous, there is no reason to remove gnome before the freeze, if you FWIW, one of the slashdot commenters on the slink-freeze, commends slink for including gnome ( he did install the packages, too) . John Lapeyre <

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
FAQ-O-MATIC ! (Excuse my yelling, I just wanted to advertise ;) ) Why don't you put an entry in this nice, underutilized tool. And reward Mr. Grobman for his effort. See: http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
sappeared (!). This is characteristic of reading and writing outside of array bounds. (as determined by malloc) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread John Lapeyre
smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) This one also refers to the version of perl which has been removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
torin>>5.00[34], of course). torin> torin>That's good enough for me. I have boatloads of respect for Andy and his torin>understanding of Perl Install issues. That's how it will be for torin>5.005.02-3. Good, I think that will cause the least problems for

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Shaya Potter wrote: spotte> spotte>-Original Message- spotte>From: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spotte> spotte>> Lyx is currently in contrib. spotte>> Lyx is licensed under the GPL (version 2) . It is dynamically spotte>&

Re: [conrad@srl.caltech.edu: ANNOUNCE: Fulcrum scientific plotting tool update]

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
ew incarnation of yorick, which is already packaged John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
is no canvas widget. (I don't know if lyx uses one) The fltk author says that he is not working towards compatibility with forms. I can't get through to the site now to get the exact statement. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
r/doc/lyx/copyright definitly says that it is distributed under the GPL. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
) of Lyx. For instance, these binaries use .h files from libforms. Unlike KDE, it may be all original code, so that a single change of license from the developers will do. Am I missing something ? John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
ieces of GPL code. To do it right, you need to get each copyright holder licensing her code under GPL to allow the code to be distributed under another license, ie, the GPL+caveat. If you have a lot of code and a lot of sources, this could be a PITA. John John Lapeyre <[

Re: Perl

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
On 10 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: olet>*-John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> olet>| olet>| Perl 5.004 was in Incoming yesterday. You can get it from a olet>| mirror of incoming or wait a day or two and it will be installed. olet> olet>I can only find the orig source pac

Re: Perl

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
(Brian White) olet>[EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet> olet> olet>-- olet>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet> John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
perl, a feature that debian is not interested in. Why they (perl guys) did not leave /usr/lib/perl5 in the search path is not clear to me. Perhaps because they assume that othe modules will install in site_perl or local. But systems with package managers, like ours don't use these dirs.

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
eeze back a couple of weeks. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread John Lapeyre
opment strategy, it would be good to hear from them. I don't know if the perl people really expect everyone to redo the 'perl Makefile.PL ... ' process for every perl package evertime perl is upgraded, but it certainly looks that way. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucs

Re: Perl policy for managing modules ?

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
ems silly to require that they be rebuilt. I posted a message on perl5-porters asking for advice. We need to set a policy quickly, as quite a bit of slink has just become unstable. (Unfortunatley, I was using slink for daily science work. I don't have two machines.) John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl5.005 installation structure

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
nted to make extra-special sure before I dig into my perl packages, some of which need help bad in any case. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

perl5.005 installation structure

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
x27;t come because its not a bug. btw. Looks like some really cool stuff in the new perl. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Raphael Hertzog wrote: rhertz>Well it doesn't work out of the box as I expected it. First the rhertz>@INC isn't correct, it doesn't contain /usr/lib/perl5. Please rhertz>Darren can you correct it ? I downloaded the upstream source. It looks like the omission of /usr/li

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
ackage ? Thanks. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
hough some path-related bugs are introduced. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
-1_i386.deb John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: dh_make

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
and what you-all are talking about,... but doesn't policy require compiling with -g and then stripping ? Last time I read the policy manual, this was the case. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
in the Galbra>path. I have built packages and uploaded them to main only to find later that they depend on non-free libraries that appeared free when I found them on the web page. (note that when the lib later shows up as a dependency, it is listed as non-free) . John Lapeyre <[EM

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
going non-free, but there is a September 23 release which is still under the GPL . John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
h is nearly drop-in gsstar>compatible with libforms. I was under the impression that it was not really a drop in replacement. But I see that you are the maintainer... I guess I can give it a try. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

intent to package tochnog

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre
License: GPL tochnog is a finite element analysis program. http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c8/c813/tn_release/tnhome.html The author calls the executable 'tn' . I should probably change this to 'tochnog' or 'tng' or something.

GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre
xstab.html John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: An X version of dselect for slink

1998-10-02 Thread John Lapeyre
m not to do too much at once. A working GUI couldn't hurt in any case (unless it's buggy and trashes systems !) 15 days of testing isn't much. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread G John Lapeyre
rtition. But because of relative links pointing back up to '/', this is impossible. I hope there is a good reason for using relative links, because as it is , /usr must be on the same partition as '/' , or else consist of an entire partition. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
to get the floppy controller on an IO board to function yet (tried three IO boards) , tried everything I could think of. Does anyone have experience with this? John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
> Are you running with unmasked interrupts? > hdparm -v /dev/hdb > and look at the unmaskirq flag. > > If so try turning it off? John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
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

bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
46, sector 211869 John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

possible lurkftp bug

1998-06-24 Thread G John Lapeyre
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]> Tucson,

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread G John Lapeyre
ntric opinions on this list. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-21 Thread G John Lapeyre
oning it again after more experience. I'm not complaining, just suggesting. In the meantime, I've used apt to easily upgrade many times and hundreds of packages. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To U

MetroX installer.

1998-06-19 Thread G John Lapeyre
be the floppies were bad...) He'll probably end up going with RH, or worse, keep lose95 . Just a thought ... John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
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 John Lapeyre <[EM

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
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. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread G John Lapeyre
quot;. Maybe finer granularity would do it, but I don't > know what are the consequences of that. Perhaps I don't quite realise the > problem :) > > Sasha. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
e 2.0.33 package are added. > > Also has anyone packaged the Real Time linux kernel mods and utilities? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > John Lapeyre <[EMAIL P

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40015000) > 20:46:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ > > Until _that_ changes, perl can't not Depend on gdbm. > > -- > James > ~Yawn And Walk North~ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tetex-bin install bug ?

1998-06-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
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

tetex-bin install bug ?

1998-06-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
onfig: No $TEXMFMAIN; set the environment variable or in texmf.cnf. dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tetex-bin E: Sub-process returned an error code homey 55 > John Lapeyre

advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consesus on Linuxconf?

1998-06-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
th an editor. It's also not uncommon to see config files which just contain perl code. (Majordomo comes to mind) . Probably python programs do this too. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

1998-06-02 Thread G John Lapeyre
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 woul

leaving town for 1 week

1998-05-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
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 John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

corel porting apps to linux

1998-05-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
Does anyone know if something official is released? I have only seen the irc transcript on slashdot. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Intent to package SAML (math)

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
lator (samuel), a programming language (induce) and a program to factorize integers (factorint). John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

apt and caching .deb's

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
blems. Otherwise apt is impressive. When I show someone how it quietly upgrades 100 packages, it impresses the hell out of them. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: [dpkg] Installing software as a non privileged user - A suggestion

1998-05-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
kind of installation is not > perfect. But sometimes it is helpful. What are the pros and cons of this > kind of an approach? John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Run away TCSH

1998-05-05 Thread G John Lapeyre
n't see an obvious fix to the runaway problem. Luis fixed some bugs and worked on internationalization. Luis should be thanked for making any progress at all. (btw, I looked at master a few days ago and couln't find the new tcsh in incoming , nor in hamm , I'll have another

Re: Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-05 Thread G John Lapeyre
ling to do that because we appreciate the magnitude of the work of some of the key players. I hope Ch. is not leaving because of losing one battle (maybe its more). ( I am not taking sides on the number-of-maintainers-per-package issue, or on the how-to-challenge-policy-issue. Those

Re: Run away TCSH

1998-05-04 Thread G John Lapeyre
o produce it. Also I think I sent instructions on how to get it to occur under gdb (I had to use the 'attach' command) . John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: first proposal for a new maintainer policy

1998-04-28 Thread G John Lapeyre
. Strict rules and route for appeals for flexibility is the way to go. Rules are the only central authority holding things together. (Who holds the power to make rules is another matter.) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNS

Re: Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-22 Thread G John Lapeyre
non-essential crap on this list ....... (!) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-21 Thread G John Lapeyre
good publicity for Debian. > The awards page is at http://linux.miningco.com/library/awards/blapr98.htm Looks like they've put a good deal of effort into their site. I don't know who made the ratings(has good taste, I imagine) ... but notice Debian is the #1 site, while no other

Re: update-menus broken ?

1998-04-13 Thread G John Lapeyre
ckage may have deleted , but I didn't . Looks like two things are broken, whatever deleted or didn't install that file, and update-menus for not working when it's missing. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

update-menus broken ?

1998-04-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
deb) ... Setting up fvwmconf (0.18-1) ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) homey 6 > Cannot open file /etc/X11/mwm//system.mwmrc-menu /etc/menu-methods//mwm-menumethod: Aborting John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson

Re: Dictionary Packages

1998-04-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
for keeping it out of the archive). This discussion has come up several times in the nine months that I've been reading this list. It looks like the time is arriving for (someone with tons of time) splitting the archive in some way. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,

tcsh infinite loop patch

1998-04-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
long, mail me John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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