Re: pci.ids

2001-09-17 Thread Remco van de Meent
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Maybe we should create a pci.ids package with just this file and a > > script to download a fresh version from a suitable location. > > Where/which is the authoritative source for this file? > > If there isn't one, then things get quite difficult... There i

Re: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-05 Thread Remco van de Meent
T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > > But anyway - I agree that Debian should not be too conservative > > with regard to new networking technologies, so disabling ECN by > > default is not something I'd like to see happen. Give the user some > > short explanation and let him make the decision himself,

Re: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-05 Thread Remco van de Meent
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > Routers aren't forced to support ECN (although it's in their > interest) but they aren't allowed to drop ECN-flagged TCP packets. > > If you can't access a site, *they* need to fix their buggy router to be > ECN-tolerant. If they don't do so, they're violating RFC 793.

Re: digest version broken?

2000-09-13 Thread Remco van de Meent - Debian Listmaster
Seth Cohn wrote: > > Looks like digests are broken, could someone fix please? Digests are broken at the moment. I sent out a bunch of digests this morning, catching up with the email from the last couple of days. I hope it will be business as usual quite soon. Cheers, Remco. --

Re: libgd1 vs. libgd1g

2000-09-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > The libgd maintainer decided to drop support for a libc5-based > > libgd and renamed the libgd1g package to libgd1 (I personally don't > > think that this was a good idea as it might cause problems during > > upgrades). > > Do I interpret this right that I should file a

Re: Map on debian website - bug in apache?

2000-09-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
Paul Slootman wrote: > > On http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/developers.loc , there's supposed > > to be a jpeg of a world map with debian developers. On the main > > website, www.debian.org, there is. > > > > It seems that the .nl webserver is interpreting the filename > > "developers.map.jpeg" as

Re: ITP: freeswan

2000-08-17 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Sounds good. Can you bug upstream to include support for other > authentication methods eg SecureID? I'm stuck with a Windows IPsec > client until SecureID is supported. KAME (on BSD) doesn't appear to > do it either. SecureID is really in another "layer" of authentication.

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-17 Thread Remco van de Meent
Steve Greenland wrote: > > If 250 attend that's $175k. Plus some unkown amount to rent out a > > convention center. > > Something you might consider is that colleges and universities often > rent out dorm rooms in the summer. It wouldn't be plush, of course, but > you'd probably be able to get a d

Re: Intent to package: apcupsd

1999-05-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
Leon Breedt wrote: > apcupsd is a package to monitor and control APC UPS's. May I ask you where I can download its source code? :) I was looking for it some time ago and wasnt able to find any sources of relatively new versions of apcupsd. Anyways, great to have this package in Debian. Regard

Re: How to create those "Packages" files?

1999-05-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Thomas Schoepf wrote: > > How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a > .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? dpkg-scanpackages from the dpkg-dev package creates the Packages file. HTH, -Remco

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Remco van de Meent
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >So specify the section as `non-us/non-free' or `non-us/contrib'. It's > >fine to put something after that if you want to, `non-us/non-free/web' > >for example. It will just be ignored. > > How do I distinguish between "stable" and "unstable" in this scenario ? B

Re: Upload queue software?

1999-05-12 Thread Remco van de Meent
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can find the software to run a debian upload > queue? I thought it was packaged but I can't seem to find it using the > obvois searches.. There is a tar.gz file in project/misc. -Remco

Re: Packages I am orphaning.

1999-01-29 Thread Remco van de Meent
Joel Klecker wrote: > pciutils - Utils for listing/tweaking PCI devices in 2.1/2.2 kernels > > Bug-free, lintian-clean > There are some upstream alpha releases that would be nice to > have packaged somewhere, but not essential If noone objects, I'll

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Joey Hess wrote: > I'm forced to agree. Support for swap partitions > 128 mb is a new > feature; a mkswap that doesn't support it isn't a major incompatability. > Few people will need the feature anyway, and if they do need it the simple > workaround is to use multiple 128 mb partitions. Okay, rea

Re: What's needed for kernel 2.2

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I just discovered, unfortunately, that you need the util-linux package > > from potato (unstable). Rest of the things in slink are fine with > > 2.2.0!! > > Why's that? I'm using the one from slink with 2.2.0 and it works just > fine. I've been running 2.2.0-pre6 for a co

Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hi, With this message, I know I'm going to touch a rather sensitive subject, but however, I think it's worth it. I just tried to match the Changes file from Linux-2.2.0 with the slink distribution, and was happy to find out that almost every requirement mentioned in that file is fullfilled by the

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Gergely Madarasz wrote: > Another problem: bootpc from the netstd package does not work with 2.2. > Btw the kernel has bootp support itself, but it can't be used with pnp > network cards which need isapnp initialization. So my network setup which > used bootp breaks with 2.2... But is that specifi

Re: What's needed for kernel 2.2

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > modutils, gcc, binutils, libc5, libc6, ldso, procps, sysutils, psmisc, > > hostname, loadlin, shellutils, autofs, nfs-server, bash, ncpfs, > > pcmcia-cs, ppp, util-linux. > > > > If you get the versions of these packages that are in the currently > > frozen Debian dist

Re: What's needed for kernel 2.2

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Will some guru tell us what critical packages we need to update in order > to use 2.2 ? I'm not a guru I guess, but I can cut&paste something from linux/Documentation/Changes: - Kernel modules 2.1.121 ; insmod -V - Gnu C 2.7.2.3

Re: linux 2.2.0: "System is 666kB"

1999-01-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Enrique Zanardi wrote: > (BTW, is kernel-headers still needed? libc6-dev ships with a full set of > headers, doesn't it?) Right, but those are for 2.0.36 and the ones that come with 2.1/2.2 are different (and yes, I need those new ones thus I have to manually edit the things in /usr/include everyt

Re: apt-get install (for source)

1999-01-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > I finally worked out what a great feature apt-get install is. I was > > wondering whether anybody has thought of making an option such as -s to > > instead download the source files for the named package. > > There are a handfull of bugs about exactly that and indeed we

Re: something is f***ed

1998-10-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: : On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 06:07:17PM -0500, Stephen Crowley wrote: : > Ok, i just apt-get upgraded about an hour ago, to my horror i can no : > longer login, nor can I su, it just sits there doing nothing. I : > also cannot telnet to localhost. Someon

Re: Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: : gd 1.3 is now DFSG free, and works around the patent issues too. I have : uploaded a non-maintainer release of gd to main, thus, webalizer can go in : main. Sounds reasonable. Though, in the copyright file of webalizer, the copyright text of GD (1.2!)

Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-10 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey, I'm currently applying for being a Debian maintainer (using the Debian Developer's Reference). I created a package of the Webalizer software: Package: webalizer Status: install ok installed Installed-Size: 108 Maintainer: Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version