Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We need to add a new field - call it anything you want - I called it > "Was-Part-Of:" in an earlier post, but I'm sure there's a better name than > that - "Previously:" maybe. > > Anyway, say slink contains a package 'foobar', version 1.2-3. The > main

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
> This is characteristic of reading and writing outside of array > bounds. (as determined by malloc) I linked it with Electric Fence. It didn't report anything though... M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Comput

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same problem here. I spent a little time trying to debug > it, but never finished due to a lack of time. It might have something > to do with gtk and themes, but I'm not sure. Where are the segfaults happening? I found a pretty nasty one with the

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) wrote: > Yeah, I got bit by that too, and it took me a while to find that... > maybe we need some sort of "transitional-recommends" field? Something > that is ignored if you are installing the package (to avoid causing > even more pain to dselect users, or someth

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only isapnp devices I know of are audio. Are there any SCSI or > enet devices? (If so a table would be necessary as they are discovered.) Yes, a lot of modern soundcards include an IDE controller, that is usually configured with PnP. Also, my curre

Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd. > To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do the device selection, > other than going through a list of drivers, trying to insmod each one > until you are successful. Wouldn't P

Re: Linuxconf not losing info.

1998-06-03 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Shaya Potter wrote: > > I believe linuxconf will version every change that it makes, i.e. if you > > make changes w/ linuxconf and see that it didn't work, you can go back to > > your previous configuration or any one of many previ

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

1997-12-01 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OTOH, if you make this too simplistic, then I fear you're going to miss most > of the problems: I'm sure the majority of developers do test their packages at > least a little bit before releasing them. I certainly do. But one of the > things Debian has bee

Awful problem with dpkg (once again)

1997-06-20 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi: Since I didn't receive any answer the first time I posted, I'm sending this again. Hope this time someone can help me, for I'm stuck with the problem and the only solution I see is reinstalling everything from the scratch (sometime I thought I would never had to do with Debian). Thanks a lot

Awful problem with dpkg

1997-06-18 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi: Trying to upgrade the machine of a colegue, I found and awful problem with dpkg I haven't managed to deal with. Apparently, the package database got corrupted somehow, preventing me from upgrading any package. For example, if I try to upgrade libc5 with dpkg -i libc5_5.4.23-6.deb I ge

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-17 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a suggestion for libraries: most users don't want or need to > know about shared libraries when installing and upgrading their system, > or when adding an app etc. I totally agree here. The Debian package format includes enough informatio

The enlightenment window manager

1997-05-30 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi all: I just downloaded the enlightenment window manager (see http://www.cse.unsw.EDU.AU/~s2154962/enlightenment/). It is somewhat slow and requieres a lot of memory and disk, but is very funny to see, anyway. I didn't resist the temptation and packaged it for Debian (together with its comp

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-26 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The credit should really go to Lars Wirzenius and Ian Jackson, > since this borrows from their work. If there is enough interest, I > could package this up. (Oh, this is a sh script, and only needs > dpkg-dev, no perl ;-) Please do so. CVS is