FYI: www.infrastructures.org

http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RFC Search engine in development

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Anti Open Source Psyops / "Mind Tweakers"? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

Happy un-halloween. The truth is out there -- apt-get into it, local shadow repositories potentially excepted. There _are_ organized groups of individuals who are actively attempting to dismantle or disrupt LUG's, and to discourage Linux advocates. They may attempt to discourage LUG's from forma

Oracle installer?

Has anyone created an Oracle 9i installer?

Don't let em make ya quit.

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=32424> No matter how ugly they get, don't become what you most hate. Let's win this fair and square, folks. And we will win, we have superiour technology and all the source code... but that's what they'll say. Build on str

Re: no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?

tly, this is filesystem implementation dependant. It is certainly true for ext{2,3}fs. What about the others, I wonder? This should be looked into, and perhaps documented in a paragraph of "man mkfs". -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free the Software http://www.debian.org/social_contract http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066

Re: LVM + XFS/Ext3 (Was no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?)

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille writes: Andreas> On 4 Jan 2002, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> I'm using LVM and XFS filesystems on my computer at home. This >> morning, after I pushed "g" from the Gnus *Group* buffer (to get new

Re: Debian.rpm

hing. Wichert, can you give us a hint, please? What keywords? -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free the Software http://www.debian.org/social_contract http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066

Re: Debian.rpm

ary doing it to my home system which will Tollef> only boot from the hard drive, no floppy, and won't boot Tollef> from the cdrom, though. :) Sounds as scary as my recent migration to XFS + LVM + GRUB. -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free the Software http://

Re: apt-get reinstall all

seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an "apt like" package fetcher + installer? "urpmi". Hahah. -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free the Software http://www.debian.org/social_contract http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066

IBM "Key alliances" ?

http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/> On the right is a panel listing "Key Alliances". Why are we not listed? It would be a good thing for Debian to ally with IBM, wouldn't it? If I had a job as a system admin at an IBM shop, I'd much prefer to use Debian than RH. -- ma

Re: Debian.rpm

>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:27, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> I think you can probably boot to it with a carefully crafted >> initrd that performs a pivot_root into the deboots

Re: Debian.rpm

I think you can probably boot to it with a carefully crafted initrd that performs a pivot_root into the debootstrapped chroot. Or, perhaps you could run a UML kernel there? Has anyone tried that? -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360

no space left on device: LVM, Gnus --> dpkg, apt-get ?

it notice that before filling the block device, and prompt me about it, so I can make some room somehow? (either by removing files, dpkg --purging something, or using the LVM tools to extend the logical volume and then the filesystem utility to grow the filesystem.) -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.)

es. -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.microsharp.com phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz' (which I was about to install): Value too large for defined data type

Not sure what to do here. Please advise... I will "fsck" it, but want to send this off before bringing my machine down, just in case. Preparing to replace qt3-doc 2:3.0.0-0beta4-1 (using .../qt3-doc_2%3a3.0.0-0beta4-2_all.deb) ... Document `qt3-doc' is not installed, cannot remove. Unpacking

Whos bug is this? doc/sendmail-doc/op.ps.gz - "Error: /invalidfont in findfont"

Ghostscript 6.50: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 -- mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Location of -doc documentation?

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> I just noticed that `apache-doc' puts the documentation under >> "http://.../doc/apache";, while `debconf-doc' puts it under

Re: Scsh (Was: Re: My orphaned packages.)

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On 11 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Daniel> On 10 Sep 2000

Scsh (Was: Re: My orphaned packages.)

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On 10 Sep 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> `scsh' ought to be taken over by someone who actually uses it. I've >> not even looked at it in over a year. Dan

My orphaned packages.

[ CC me in replies; I am not subscribed right now. ] I do not have time anymore to work on the packages I once maintained for Debian. I'm sorry that I did not properly orphan them. I just don't have time for it. My health is most important, followed by studies. I cannot live in a

Re: XEmacs/GTK 21.1.11

> "Joachim" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joachim> Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I fear, that it will take so much time, that we must have separately >> packaged XEmacs/Gtk meanwhile. And I fear, that latest upstream sources >> of XEmacs w

Re: installation problems

> "Massimo" == Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Massimo> having a free day and a spare harddisk today I tried to install a frozen Massimo> potato. I installed via nfs from a mirror of ftp.debian.org on a local server Massimo> done yesterday. I found a number of probe

Must hand off XEmacs21 project!

I will not, due to circumstances beyond my control, be returning to work for perhaps as long as six months. I must hand off the XEmacs 21 project. On master.debian.org in ~karlheg/src/ is a tar file with TODAY's fresh CVS repository archived in it. That should be installed on cvs.debian.o

Conference! Redmond?

I'd love to go to the conference. Let's go to Redmond and infiltrate Microsoft, or to the Portland area and infiltrate Intel. I'll hike there if I have to. I don't mind sleeping bag accomodations; I'm in Portland, OR, USA.

I need a job.

I need an entry level systems admin or programmer assistant job to pay for night school so I can get a degree. I am willing to relocate for the right job. Karl M. Hegbloom pgpUXrPjcPrPl.pgp Description: PGP signature

XEmacs21 project status.

mail; I think I've gotten unsubscribed also. I'll try and check mail again in a week at least. Karl M. Hegbloom. Hoping to still be the official XEmacs maintainer. (Even if I take off and go ski bum ) pgpt9zEgbI87b.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

ea of study... maybe if noone beats me to it, I'll work on that in five or six years. ;-) -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) Portland, OR USA Debian GNU Potato Linux 2.2 AMD K6-233(@266) XEmacs-21.2beta

Re: An 'ae' testimony

ilt and provided for rescue times, with `elvis-tiny' or somesuch on it? Can it be compiled against `Slang' with slang's curses emulation? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) Portland, OR USA Debian GNU Potato Linux 2.2 AMD K6-233(@266) XEmacs-21.2beta

A setuid bash doesn't give up root.

I've discovered something interesting. # cp /bin/bash /tmp # chmod u+s /tmp/bash $ /tmp/bash $ whoami karlheg # cp /usr/bin/zsh /tmp # chmod u+s /tmp/zsh $ /tmp/zsh # whoami root Perhaps we should have a policy that says all of our shells should follow the Bash behaviour?

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joseph> Save yourself some pain and use slang for the console Joseph> based installation. What makes `slang' a better choice than `ncurses'?

Re: Setup API, The next step (Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal)

aying jobs. What ever happened to `Yggdrasil Plug-n-Play Linux'? They have the best name for a Linux distribution out of all of them, IMO. It's occured to me that perhaps "Yggdrasil" would be a better name for Debian than "Debian" is. Karl M. Hegbloom, Student, Portland State University, OR, USA Time to read.

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

> "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think this is a very difficult point, how do you plan to >> solve this, choose the right Xserver and XF86Config file for >> the users system ? Or do you plan to use the fbdev server ? i >> think not yet all gra

Installing things into run-parts or .d directories.

What if a package is installed, and puts a script in a run-parts directory or into a .d directory, but isn't configured due to a missing dependancy? The newbie "sysadmin" doesn't know to look for it, and leaves it there, then gets email from cron. Per sends off a tech support question. This cou

Laptop: DSTN scan specs for X?

Anyone know the scan specs for a "12.1" SVGA High-contrast DSTN" laptop display? Or the secret to configuring a plug-n-play built-in modem? (You don't have to answer the second question; it's not fair of me to ask yet, I've not tried very hard to find the answer myself yet.) -- To UNSUBS

Re: [comp.lang.modula3] ANNOUNCE: Release of PM3-1.1.6 with LINUXLIBC6 support

> "Anthony" == Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> I'm no expert, and I don't know how to fix the problem, Anthony> so if any developers are interested, please try to Anthony> compile it. :-) (They've got the *.src.rpm package, that Anthony> probably means it comp

Something is corrupting `wtmp/utmp' again.

Any idea what's causing this? I think it *might* be pppd, but I'm not sure. `C-u M-! last' p*** [EMAIL PROTECTED]|*@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sun Jun 14 12:42 still logged in karlheg ttyp5:0.0 Sun Jun 14 11:37 still logged in karlheg ftp jhplip1

Zip disk install set?

I'd like to see a Zip disk install set. What should go on it? Emacs-nox man, groff info lynx pine mc (should be in base set, IMO.) There are man pages in the base set that I cannot read. Man isn't there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

I would like to have `mc' and the two packages it depends on placed into the base set. We could then get rid of both `elvis-tiny' and `ae', and be left with a powerful tool that is easy for beginners and experienced folks alike. There ought to be room for it; the total size of `mc', `gpm',

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> iii) It forces you to use fakeroot or sudo or super or Manoj> be root to Manoj> create a kernel image .deb file (this is not as Manoj> bad as it used to be before fakeroot) I question t

Re: Consesus on Linuxconf?

> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> [...] most files in /etc/init.d are marked as Wichert> conffiles. But only a couple of them actually contain Wichert> configuration-info. Have yous seen the "/etc/sysconfig" setup in Red Hat 5.0? I wonder if w

Re: problem with dselect and the "dists" hierarchy

> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> I think it's critical that we at least remove the horrid Ben> prompts asking you your block device for your CD-ROM, or at Ben> least make an intelligent guess and provide a default. There was a question in the local Linux

Re: 1.3 installation reboots on a thinkpad.

> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> I know it has been a long time since we have dealt with Dale> these problems. It is for this reason that I can't remember Dale> what the solution was. Dale> I have a client trying to install 1.3 and the kernel gets

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

> "Stephen" == Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> I was hacking around on xfstt earlier today. Neat. I packed up the ttf files from the Windows[1] that came with my Laptop, and am going to try them with `xfstt' after I get Debian 2.0 installed on it. :-) Step

`/etc/passd' locking glibc/shadow, PAM?

From what I can tell, the method for locking the passwd and shadow files is not the same in glibc and the shadow utils. Can anyone shed some light on this? Is anyone working on porting PAM from Red Hat to Debian? Is that planned? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

`MIT-scsh': May it go in the main distribution?

this, please. (cons.org is the home of CMU Common Lisp) 8<->8 From: Martin Cracauer Subject: scsh and CDROM To: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:45:55 +0200 Karl, don't know if

Re: Time to say goodbye...

> "Nils" == Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nils> [1 ] On Tue, May 05, 1998 at Nils> 11:23:38AM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: >> Craig Sanders wrote: >> > On Mon, 4 May 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: >> > > Jim Pick writes: >> > > > I must admit, I've b

Re: `Usenix-88-lexic.pdf': Paper refered to in gcc texinfo manual.

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> Ok, I will do that when `master' is repaired. http://master.debian.org/~karlheg/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: `Usenix-88-lexic.pdf': Paper refered to in gcc texinfo manual.

> "jdassen" == jdassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jdassen> On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:45:27AM -0700, Karl jdassen> M. Hegbloom wrote: >> It is currently, but not for too much longer, sitting in: >> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg/Public/Usenix-88-lexic.pdf >> >> Pl

Re: weird utmp/perl problem

> "Guy" == Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guy> It's just a silly bug. It calls that code from some scripts Guy> which have fd0 dup'd elsewhere, so isatty(0) is false and Guy> getlogin() fails. Will someone please fix it? It's really annoying. Is it in the bug sys? -- T

Re: guile1.3-1998.04.14: I missed the update-alternatives.

Fixed it this morning, but cannot upload to master. I asked on IRC, and `mark', a sysadmin at Novare says there was `scsi errors'. He's copying the disk. When `master' is back online, I'll upload. Hey! `guile-unexec' works! `tguile' will be uploaded soon, as well as `guile-scsh'. -- To U

Re: Mirror of Incoming

> "Ole" == Ole J Tetlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ole> I seem to remember that there are mirrors of incoming. Could Ole> anyone point me to one? master doesn't seem to fancy ftp at Ole> the moment and I have an acute need of the new guile packs. I will upload the guile packages

guile1.3-1998.04.14: I missed the update-alternatives.

Don't bug me to death... I missed the `update-alternatives' for `guile1.3', so the menu button won't work and you'll have to type `guile1.3' to run it. I've an update within a few days anyhow, and it's `unstable' only, so... geez, this is more work than I thought it would be. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

`Usenix-88-lexic.pdf': Paper refered to in gcc texinfo manual.

The `gcc' texinfo, "(gcc.info)Nested Functions", refers to a paper about trampolines, and references a server in Chili that no longer has the paper. I asked around a while ago about it, and got sent a copy of it in `pdf' format. I would like it if someone could put it up in a stable and permane

Re: Guile packages

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> I've decided not to take the guile packages from Jim Pick. Disregard that. I will proceed with the packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Guile packages

I've decided not to take the guile packages from Jim Pick. I don't have the time, I really need to study more, I'm not up to the task right now. I have a nice rules file if anyone wants it. I've decided to put my energy into learning to use the RScheme system, rather than Guile. It's a bet

Re: #19519: tmpreaper: Will not remove dirs

[ Please remove CC's of impertinent replies to the bugs address. ] Summary: `tmpreaper' will not remove empty dirs because the atime gets changed by `ls' or any touch of the directory. I've been asked to implement an option to delete empty dirs with (>= mtime+grace now). There is some diff

How to install editor lisp files?

There's some Emacs Lisp that I neglected to package with `scsh'. I would like to know how to go about having dpkg install it. What is the procedure? Where do I stow it, and how do I register it with both emacsen? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Is the `scsh' licence DFSG compliant? Please advise.

Attached is the COPYING file from `scsh-0.5.1'. May this program go into "main"? That would be wonderful. I would like to package `guile-scsh' as well. It bears the similar licence. COPYING Description: Binary data

Why isn't "/var/run" drwxrwxrwt ?

Why isn't "/var/run" set like "/tmp"? Shouldn't user-run programs be able to write a pid file there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Guile question: What was bug #14213???

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> [1 ] Jim> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: >> The changelog lists only a bug number, with no description of >> what the bugs were. They are no longer in the bug

Re: Is there a maintainer for the install doc?

You could use m4. There's an article about doing that in the Linux Gazette: http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue22/using_m4.html [1] Hope this helps. Footnotes: [1] URL located from `browser-history'! (Grin. It works!) -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegb

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Maybe you already knew this, but I just got around to looking Rob> at the movemail source for emacs 20, and it really looks like Rob> movemail already knows how to handle liblockfile. Check out Rob> MAIL_USE_MAILLOCK and

Re: Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> If someone wants to do this with me, just drop me a Christian> note. I'm just waiting for volunteers... I would like to help, but I don't think I've got the skills it would require right now. I'll try and take

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> The solution presented in 3.3.7 is that the "owner" of Christian> the conffile (cron in that case) provides a utility Christian> (like install-info, for example) through which other Christian> packages ca

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

This section is in my "/etc/crontab"... I see no problem with it. Perhaps there ought to be a thing like the script that updates inetd.conf for the crontab. I would also like an "/etc/cron.scripts" directory. #-- postgresql begin 0 4 * * * postgres/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.mainte

Re: Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

> "Marco" == Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marco> We could write a converter :)? I'd rather see a unified interface for that sort of thing than a kludgey converter converter scheme. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

> "joost" == joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: joost> Uhm, there's a slight problem with ifeq($visable, joost> "false",...). If we assign booleans to the string variables joost> ($visable etc are essentially strings), then I'd prefer joost> them to by default to have

Re: kernel headers---FAQ

> "adavis" == adavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adavis> I was able to install using adavis> --ignore-depends=linux-kernel-headers-2.0.32. I had to do the similar thing, and found that I also had to update the symlinks "/usr/include/{asm,linux}" by hand. I have the symlink "/usr/

Re: Yet another glibc pre-release

> "Stephen" == Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> David Engel wrote: >> Use -profile instead of -pg/-lc_p when profiling, e.g. $ gcc >> -profile -o t t.c Stephen> Thanks! That makes it a gcc bug instead. :) (-profile is Stephen> not mentioned anywhere in

`dpkg' severe bugs list is long.

Is there any reason why the fixing of the several severe bugs against `dpkg' is being put off? It installs everything under UID 1000, which could be problematic anywhere but on a home machine. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Troubl

Re: Intend to take over wmaker, application?

> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: >> my name is Marcelo Magallón, and I'd like to take over the >> maintainance of wmaker Joey> Yay!! Maybe we'll get a new version now. :-) Yes! When I tried it, the icons it made where like s

Re: my user on my box!

> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> If you want to give ceed access to floppy, cd, sound and Marcus> other, add "ceed" at the end of the appropriate lines in Marcus> your /etc/group file. This file controls the access for Marcus> common files and

Re: my user on my box!

> "Jon" == Jon Björklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as Jon> root but at the same time it shouldn't be root. There are several ways of doing that. `secure-su' lets you set things up so that certain users can `su' to bec

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

Along with this, in the similar thread, I think we should set aside a place in our "/usr/src/" for the building of Debian packages, using `cvs-buildpackage'. (which I promise to _try_ and grok this week.) How about... "/usr/src/debian/{build,work}"? It would be good to put into policy a nam

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Assuming you're right, and movemail is used for all mail Rob> locking, then if we patch movemail to use liblockfile, we Rob> should be fine. I volunteer to try rolling those patches into XEmacs 20.5. I think that configur

Re: slib and Debian ?

> "Jim" == Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> Here's a possible slibconfig script with support for Guile in Jim> it: I think you forgot to make the symlink: ln -s /usr/lib/slib /usr/share/guile/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: slib and Debian ?

I installed the slib-2c0, and applied the patch to ice-9/slib.scm, and made a symlink: total 7 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 12 08:23 1.2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 27 12:51 app lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 25 20:17 slib -> /usr/lib/slib/ -rw-r-

ldconfig, dangling symlinks - solution

The reason that ldconfig is reporting `file not present' is that a package has installed shared objects without also installing the symlinks. `ldconfig' makes the symlink when it's run, and when the package is uninstalled, it removes the file pointed to, but not the symlink. -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

... more to say, now that I read what I wrote... I don't think that the dot locking done by `movemail' is nfs-aware. You'd need to use libnfslock for that, I guess, or patch `movemail'. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: Immutable files

> "Topi" == Topi Miettinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Topi> Matthew Wilcox writes: >> >> From a security point of view, it might be considered >> worthwhile to install system executables (particularly the suid >> ones) and then mark them immutable. Topi> Sounds like a

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> OK, then I'll assume that we want to hack emacs to use Rob> liblockfile. This requires repeatedly calling touchlock() to Rob> keep the lockfile from being deleted during the period when Rob> the lock is being held. I th

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

> "Steve" == Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Steve, you can have it, if you like; I learned from >> repackageing it, perhaps you'll get something from it too. Let >> me know. Steve> All of this for such a small package... If you've already Steve> done the w

Re: debhelper: suggestions

> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> expr "`dpkg-parsechangelog`" : '.*Version: \(.*\).*\nDistribution:' I can't get that to work. I have much better luck with `gawk'. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

Re: debhelper: suggestions

> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> However, on second thought, using dpkg-parsechangelog is Joey> unappetising. Not only does it print out this annoying error Joey> message, but it takes a about a second to run. (on a p166) Joey> Since debian/rules files t

Re: debhelper: suggestions

>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> Note that I use `dpkg-parsechangelog', rather than the simpler: >> >> LINE=$(head -1 changelog) VERSION=$(expr $LINE : '.* (\(.*\))

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

wnpp> o Steve Kostecke has adopted wnpp> linuxlogo. Uh, I was told I could take the package, and have uploaded. Steve, you can have it, if you like; I learned from repackageing it, perhaps you'll get something from it too. Let me know. -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: debhelper: suggestions

e version of your package? The version of the package. Note that I use `dpkg-parsechangelog', rather than the simpler: LINE=$(head -1 changelog) VERSION=$(expr $LINE : '.* (\(.*\))') ... since I thought that the reason for using `dpkg-parsechangelog' was so folks could exper

menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

It occurs to me that the menu files ought to have fields for: Xresources to get `xrdb -merge'd when the program is launched. (lazy eval) (and removed perhaps, on the delete window hook? Does the X server gc?) Menu font, color, icon, a predicate for when it's greyed off (think scwm) XTerm

Intent to package: `cvsweb-1.0'

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debhelper: suggestions

SPI $Id: browser-history.c,v 1.1.1.1.2.3 1997/12/20 17:44:18 karlheg Exp $ Any ideas? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3.1+hamm Linux 2.0.32 AMD K5 PR-133 pgpzxhtol5jIs.pgp Description: PGP signature

"/etc/ld.so.conf" ordering

I was just trying to compile `browser-history', and the following thing happened: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/debian/Work/browser-history' gcc -ansi -O -Wall browser-history.c -o browser-history \ -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXmu -lX11 ld: warning: libc.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/libc5-compat

IconPath, menu

I've created a directory "/usr/X11R6/icons" for my own use. I think that we need to have something like that, and a keeper of the icons. All of the mini icons and whatnot from the various packages ought to be consolidated into one icon package. I think it should be someone who likes to draw

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

> "Bart" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bart> Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and Bart> configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . Bart> * Poof * Perhaps the `kernel-headers' install script ought to look for an existing /usr/src/linux

Re: 2.0.32, XNvidia, Vtk

> "Arto" == Arto Astala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arto> When configuring kernel it asks if I want to make boot disk. Arto> I did want. Then it asks something like "Hmm. You seem to Arto> have new superformat, want to use it?" and I felt I'm taking Arto> risks already and I do

Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)

> "Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kai> Remember there are people that can't stand Emacs. Bliss. :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

> "Todd" == Todd Graham Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Todd> Count mine as one vote for a new LOG_DEBIAN facility. And while we're at it, let's make one for HTTP also. Anything else? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tr

[SL Baur ] Schedule & version number change, new mailing list

I hope this doesn't bug anyone too much... I think it's relevant to the current Emacs/XEmacs threads, and adds better information to my last message in that thread, the one about unbundling elisp packages from XEmacs. This arrived a while after I'd posted that. --- Begin Message --- There has

Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

I wonder if `dpkg' tracks the installation date of a package, whether it should if it doesn't, or why it doesn't if that is the case. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: XEmacs elisp packages (was: Service registration)

Information on how to become a beta tester may be found in the FAQ. There are some exciting changes taking place! -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3.1+hamm Linux 2.0.32 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

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