Re: What has happened to gnome-apt?

1999-09-18 Thread Mitch Blevins
Oliver Elphick wrote: > gnome-apt is no longer installable, because it depends on libapt-pkg2.5, > which does not exist. libapt-pkg2.5 was provided by apt 0.3.11 However, the latest version of apt (0.3.12) provides libapt-pkg2.6 So, if you want to keep gnome-apt, you should put a hold on apt (don

Re: Hints about future improvements

1999-05-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-devel, you wrote: > I was browsing the debian-devel archives recently and came across an old > thread on distributing binary diffs of packages. Did anything ever come out > of > that? It looked pretty intriguing but even the program mentioned (xdiff) > seems > to have vanished f

Re: Adding a global UID/GID?

1999-05-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-devel, Brian wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:13:39AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > >>>>> "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Mitch> GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in &g

Adding a global UID/GID?

1999-05-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in the 0-99 range added to Debian? SPECIFIC QUESTION: I've noticed in the course of setting up a CVS pserver that it is not very easy on Debian, and the default is not secure. I would like to either work with the existing cvs maintainer

Re: request for package

1999-05-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-devel, Wichert wrote: > Can someone please package plib, which is Steve's Portable Game Library. > It has a LGPL license so it can go into main without problem. > > The reason I want this is so I can try `Tuxedo T. Penguin, A Quest for > Herring' (http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/tux_aq

Re: Gnome-apt debs now available

1999-01-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > That gives nicer displays with APT - to do so you must generate the > > > package file in ~mblevin and put it in gnome-apt. > > > > I don't want to put a Packages in my b

Re: Gnome-apt debs now available

1999-01-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > You can fetch both gnome-apt and the required cvs version of > > apt by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./ >

Gnome-apt debs now available

1999-01-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
Who says package management can't be Sexy? Be the first one on your block to try Gnome-apt, the new GUI front end for the Debian package tool. It slices... it dices... it makes fresh pasta... and it has a groovy search function! debs for gnome-apt are now available at http://www.debian.org/~m

Re: debhelper & /usr/bin/passwd

1999-01-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-devel, I wrote: > Well, I got the deb and source and dsc from the mirror you pointed out, > and it _does_ have these files as symlinks in them pointing to > sysdb-wrapper. > > It doesn't look like a trojan (this weeks hot topic) because his pgp sig > matches the md5sum of the tarfile

Re: debhelper & /usr/bin/passwd

1999-01-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi Mitch, > > > Could you please post the version(s) you have and which mirror you > > got it from? > > Sure! chsh and chfn were also in debhelper! I got debhelper using > dselect/apt. Here is all the info you requested: > > % cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://http

Re: debhelper & /usr/bin/passwd

1999-01-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-devel, you wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just updated my potato system. The only two packages that were being > updated were debhelper and egcs-docs. I got a warning from dpkg that > debhelper (it seemed) was trying to overwrite /usr/bin/passwd. Due to all > of the trojan rumours flying

Re: possible debian cluster

1999-01-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
on taking some time off for rest and relaxation. It just happens that I think I would find setting up a large Debian cluster both resting and relaxing! So, if you need some help for a few days to a couple of weeks, and you plan on doing this late Feb or early March, I would love to come down and help out whoever you get to lead this. Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-16 Thread Mitch Blevins
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:21:06PM -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > FWIW - I have the same problem. No idled. No logoutd. > > No lines in /etc/porttime. Still get booted off the console > > after several hours. > > Perhaps it's

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
Craig Sanders wrote: > On 15 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: > > > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily > > > time limits on serial lines? > > > > I don't have this problem, and I haven't installed idled: > >

Intent to Package - qiv (new maintainer)

1998-10-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
This is a useful utility... qiv - Quick Image Viewer Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlib image viewer. Features include zoom, maxpect, scale down, fullscreen, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, slideshow, flip horizontal/vertical, rotate left/right, del

Re: new package suggestions and offer to take over others

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ben Collins wrote: > I spent some time setting up packages for 2 pieces of software i use since > I really like having all my stuff installable/uninstallable thru dpkg. > They are: > > Abacus Sentry v0.61: Port Scan detector > > [snip] I am interested in this one. Thanks. -Mitch