On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody).
> Pointer?
Oops. scsidev is a part of the scsitools package.
Remco
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The problem I have here is that the 'appropriate device' is not guarenteed
> to stay constant with respect to the SCSI bus and ID, the way IDE devices
> are for example. On my system (I believe this is actually the default)
> scd devices are group aud
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:15:18PM +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > Now, I like asclock and I want to keep it. I also want to be able to test
> > a couple of gnome apps (like irssi).
> >
> > Is there a way to make dselect SHUTUP! and keep away
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Package: smail (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Soenke Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [HELP] Mail to Soenke bounced.
> 59135 smail: Smail doesn't work with the latest libraries
Has anybody been able to reproduce this bug? I have been running smail
from xi
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Exactly. A better designed package manager would support modular package
> format handling. then we could simply do (let's call the package manager
> hpm for now):
>
> hpm -i blacksteel.etheme instead dpkg -i etheme-blacksteel.deb
> hpm -i realvid
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:13:56PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> >
> > So the people who don't see crashes, which version of Netscape are you
> > using?
> > Do you use java successfully in Netscape? Do you have plugger installed? Do
> > you have any other p
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Edward Betts wrote:
> All food for thought. Finally on a slightly serious note, sex(6) is quite
> explicit and some might find it offensive. We have fortune-off separate, so
> people can leave it uninstalled. I suppose the kernel source does include the
> word f*** a good few
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > I'd say installing debhelper 1.2.28 with --force-conflicts is a _very_ bad
> > idea.
>
> Unfortunatly, it looks like the current version of dpkg has
> --force-overwrite (which is what I meant to say above) enabled by default.
> And so a
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Ed Boraas wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote:
>
> >> The issue being that there IS a problem - e.g. are we going to provide
> >> ppp1 and ppp2? That sounds like trouble to me.
> >>
> >Real Question (not a snipe): Is there any reason everyone couldn't use a
>
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Jan 18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > It contains many interesting things that I know we disagree with. Someone
> > should look at it perhaps?
>
> Among the interesting things:
> ***
> > Reference 3.8-1(A)
> > The /opt directory exists and is searchab
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> On 14 Jun 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
>
> > passwd is required and that is enough. You can assume that all
> > required packages are always on the system.
>
> I disagree. Since you are able to remove a required-but-no
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
>
> Well, vrwave only needs a java runtime environment to run. The
> dependancies I've marked are related to jdk 1.1 (jdk1.1-runtime) or jdk
> 1.0.2 (jdk-shared OR jdk-static). Alas, I sent a mail to wnpp because I
> don't like thi
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> I noticed that apt is not yet in hamm. In my opinion, this is the
> currently the single most important issue for hamm: unless we have
> a real good reason, we should be focussing our efforts around putting
> apt into hamm.
IMHO, the single most importan
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > ae already does this, and provides a reasonably vi ish interface, just to
> > satisfy those whose fingers are only programmed for vi.
>
> Personally, I find ae's vi-compatibility even worse then normal ae: it
> tric
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > everyone can use joe. it might be very frustrateing but it's possible.
>
> We already have that with ae. Is Joe smaller than ae?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /bin/ae /usr/bin/joe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root ro
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 18:29 -0700 1998-06-08, Richard Braakman wrote:
> >Package: login
> >Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore
>
> As I quoted in a reply to 22191:
>
> Here's what the author says in libmisc/chowntty.
I will
> > close it..
>
> I (as the Samba maitainer) feel a bit guilty about this. Remco
> Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported this as a bug
> in Samba and I told him I was going to investigate but the truth is
> that I have done nothing to to my lack of time and my
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Norbert Veber wrote:
> The bug report pretty much says:
> xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok)
>
> What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration
> problem. I personally do not have/use samba, but I know of at least 2 p
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote:
[libpaperg contains binaries also needed by libpaper -> libpaper depends
on libpaperg, which is undesired]
> The possible solutions are:
>
> SOLUTION 1 (Suggested by Wichert)
> -
> Create the packages:
>libpaper -
On 5 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess we shold also remove rm. That program can be downright
> nasty in the hands of the uninitiated. What about mkfs? oh, man, the
> kind of damage _that_ does. Oh, you say that that can only harm the
> local machine? Well, we should ta
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Johnie Ingram wrote:
>
> This software has served the #debian channel for over 9 months, and is GPL.
> >From the README:
>
> Eggdrop is an IRC bot, written in C. If you don't know what IRC is,
> this is probably not whatever you're looking for! Eggdrop, being a
>
On 5 May 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
>
> I have a package that uses two very small libraries, shhmsg and shhopt.
> I packaged the libs separately from the program that uses them, but it
> has been suggested that I just incorporate them in the package that
> uses them (snake4).
>
> The libs are ge
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > > There doesn't seem to be a "reliable" method for determining whether or
> > > not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has "natural"
>
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> A few days ago (maybe a week or so? I am too lazy to look back and
> check...and it doesn't REALLY matter)
> I mentioned an interest in xfstt which is listed as needing
> a new maintainer and got no reply here.
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 12:25:56PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > What happened? Were the files simply removed? I was just downloading them to
> > test the new version.
>
> Oops. Sorry, yes, they were, hence my "WITHDRAWN" message on
> debian-deve
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
>
> >> xdm-shadow is already available.
>
> > Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the "pri=",
> > "umask=" and "ulimit=" fields in /et
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
> xdm-shadow is already available.
Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the "pri=",
"umask=" and "ulimit=" fields in /etc/passwd? And do cron and at also
know about these fields? If cron and at don't know about them and don
On 21 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> 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
> &g
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, David Frey wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:27:39PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> >The comment field is used by various system utilities,
> >such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present
> >in the comment field. They are
> >
> >pri= - set initial va
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:51:57PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > It's free as it seems from the first view. The second view tells
> > > you it's non-free, unfortunately.
> > >
> > > Nevertheless I'
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 06:58:45PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
>
> > > Package: tetex-bin
> > > Version: 0.9-3
> > > Severity: grave
> > >
> > > tetex-bin has the following depends line which cannot be resolved
> > > using hamm:
> > >
> >
On 9 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> Brian Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults
> > in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I
> > have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After delet
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
> I'm looking into packaging CMU's coda distributed filesystem. It is based on
> AFS, with enhancements to allow disconnected use. There are kernel drivers
> for
> it in the 2.1.x series and they are available as patches for the 2.0.x series.
>
> S
Hi,
I am having problems with lftp's filename completion. When I press ,
the program segfaults in a somewhat predictable manner. Does anyone have
the same problem? If there are more people with this problem, should I
file a bug report against lftp? I think it should at least have severity
'importa
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote:
>
> > the new navigator unpacks itself in
> > navigator-v405.x86-unknown-linux2.0 and not in the current directory.
> > you have two options. manually recreate the netscape tar file
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Here's the proposal:
>
> In addition to reading /etc/crontab, the cron daemon will also
> read each file in /etc/cron.d (chosen for similarity to init.d). Each
> of the files in cron.d is considered a crontab "fragment", and should
> be formatted exact
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> On 5 Jan, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >
> >> I think that /usr/src should the be domain of the local admin.
> >
>
> I disagree.
> /usr/local/src is for local admin.
Indeed. In general:
- /usr/local is for
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> For Deity at least is it VERY important that the version number of
> packages be exactly associated with the .deb file, there must never be two
> .debs with the same version that are not exactly the same. As soon as that
> happens it is no longer possib
On 5 Jan 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> Apparently there are some commercial packages which are only available
> in a.out format, so we ought to at least provide libc4. I don't think
> it's necessary to support development.
I agree. I think xcompat should also be provided, for the same reason.
Remco
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Raul Miller wrote:
> Todd Graham Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Count mine as one vote for a new LOG_DEBIAN facility.
>
> Is syslogd guaranteed to not lose events under debian?
No, you could go into single user mode, where syslogd is simply turned
off, and use dpkg to
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> I intend to package xscavenger, a lode runner like game (remember the good
> old commodore 64 days?).
>
> To be honest, I already did. I also contacted the author, and we work
> together on a new upstream release.
>
> The whole th
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> > > hamm: libc5-altdev, depends on hamm-libc5,
>
> OK.
>
> > > conflicts with bo-libc5-dev and
> >
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> >
> > > This still forces people installing libc6 to upgrade libc5 past a version
> > > that can be used with libc5-
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> For some reason, dselect just decided to remove a whole bunch of
> packages that I CERTAINLY DID NOT MARK FOR REMOVAL, like
> lynx, apache, mutt, gs-aladdin, and goodness knows what else
> since I hit ^C. The available packages list looks fine, so they
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
>
> > Why can't we do the following:
> >
> > In both bo-updates and hamm:
> > libc5: No conflicts, no depends (predepends on ldso, of course)
> > (solves the problem of not being able to upgrade easily
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> So use this, which should work on any Unix anywhere:
>
> cd ; find . -print | cpio -pdm
But then the package would have to pre-depend on cpio, which isn't even a
`required' or `essential' package. I think this is a bad thing to use in
a {pre,post}{
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've ported dpkg (dselect and everything) to Solaris, Digital Unix,
> and FreeBSD. Basically, the programs themselves run, and if I override
> dependencies, etc., then I can install stuff. I've made a number of
> packages for each of the
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
> Sorry, but don't we keep on agreeing that the <--- key generating DEL is the
> right thing to do ?
No, we don't.
> I could have sworn that I've been in several discussions that resulted in
> that
> conclusion, with the caveat that people should be abl
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