I'm looking at fixing a bug on one of my packages:
http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080229
... the binary in question isn't being built because it wants to use
dbopen(3).We seem to have a manpage for dbopen(3) but no library
that provides it. Is the only option to port the code to the
Oh, and ... archive.debian.org doesn't seem to be rsync-enabled. Is
there anyplace that has woody and *does* support rsync?
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:48:13PM -0800, Will Lowe wrote:
> It looks like Woody has moved to the archives:
>
> http://archive.debian.org/dists/woody/
>
It looks like Woody has moved to the archives:
http://archive.debian.org/dists/woody/
... I didn't see an announcment about it to any of the usual lists,
but perhaps I missed it. FYI, there probably still are companies
(like mine :) running large numbers of Woody boxes for legacy
applications wh
> It does exactly as suggested above:
> * remove existing symlinks
> * add stop with priority 0
> * remember original priorities when enabling them later on
... but is not scriptable. I'm thinking of environments like a large
number of hosts managed with cfengine -- update-rc.d is a handy
one-lin
> > This is an excellent question for debian-user. Or Google.
>
> And a question which has been answered countless times and is even
Given that this comes up so often, is there a reason not to add an
option to update-rc.d that does this? The problem here is that
"remove" sounds like "disable th
> Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every
> half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production
> systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS?
Sure I do. But I run a production environment with several hundred
machines in it. W
> mozilla-browser is 30 megabytes and duplicates the vast majority of
> firefox
Is 30M of disk space really that precious these days? I can't imagine
trying to run software that uses GTKMozEmbed on an embedded device
where space is truly at a premium.
And splitting hairs like this is partially
> Programming is not a matter of "ripping out code". Backporting
> requires actually understanding all the changes, not some kind of
> mechanical process.
Ok, point taken.
My argument is just that even if you backport the important features
of a new release into an old codebase, it's hard to m
> Part of maintaining a virus scanner may well include backporting
> things, and that may be a fair bit of work to do. There are
> But that doesn't mean that stability has become less important, it
At one point do we decide that the backport may have had a significant
impact on stability?
Say
> Is there any deb available for it?
Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it
seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb
containing 139 lines of perl.
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thanks,
> - Package installation, upgrade, deinstallation over the net[2]
> [2] think of 'apt-get --host webserver.my.org install apache'
> or security updates to be done on numerous machines
Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda
imposing. Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh t
> > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of
> > some sort (even if it's local-only, which is supported by eximconfig).
> This is true, but does it need to be world-accessible? There should
> be a way to either have it listen on localhost only, or not listen on
Sure
> Actually there are some packages that depend on a mail-transport-agent,
> (such as lilo->logrotate->mailx), yet one may not want to have an MTA
> running on certain systems. I suppose a dummy or minimal MTA may be
I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of
some sort
> That's a good hack, but I still think update-rc.d should support it
> directly. I was surprised to see portmap restarted after an ugrade when
> I'd previously done "update-rc.d -f remove portmap".
That was my feeling, that most users would probably wonder why it was
started again.
> if you leave at least one symlink in at least one runlevel, even if
> its a K link in runlevel 0 or 6 update-rc.d will refuse to add any new
> links. policy requires the use of update-rc.d so packages can't add
> any links so long as you leave at least one. if you find a package
> that does oth
> This will probably clash with a non-chrooted bind on the same machine.
> I don't like it.
Hmm, why would you have both?
> >I just put it in /var/secure-bind.
>
> I tend to put play chroots under my home directory, and chroots for
> production daemons under /var/chroot.
>
> A pity that the FHS doesn't comment on that.
How about /var/lib/bind/chroot?
> But that makes no sense ... I'm a Debian developer, but I have no
> access to any m68k machines. Yet potato, which includes some of my
> work, can't be released ... and I can do nothing about it?
According to http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, you can get an account on
kullervo.debian.org.
> > I tried, but it would not build and failed in several places.
>
> Ditto.
>
Yup. I have actually resolved most of these issues (not all), and I've
been thinking about setting up a package. I actually started working on a
package of the (still-alpha-quality) Gseq sequencer, but it needs some
> I am interested in becoming a Debian developer. The information in
> Debian Developer's Reference section 2.2 mentions that I can send in a
> copy of my ID to certify my identity, but it does not specify an
> address to send this to.
You would send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], along with the rest
> Debconf integration doesn't seem all that likely, as the two are
> fairly orthagonal. (In the Debian world, configuration and
> configuration files seem to be rather distinct things.)
Yes, they're pretty distinct, but it seems a little counterintuitive to
have to "configure" a package twice: o
> - When apt runs to upgrade packages, it will call a new program (which
> I plan to write) in the same way that it calls
> dpkg-preconfigure. TNP would scan the list of upgraded packages,
I've had the same thought, but not enough time to begin such a project.
I wonder if there would be some
http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
Did we already have a discussion about this?
Will
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FSViewer is a NeXT filesystem browser. It's available from
someplace under http://www.csn.ul.ie/~clernong/ (I'd give an exact link
but I don't seem to be able to connect to that host right now...)
Will
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> As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been
> popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be
> good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:->
Famous Free Software personalities?
Debian Stallman, Debian Raymond (ok, so I might get in trouble for tha
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
> The libungif package should be there too, though. Did you check
> incoming?
I eventually found it in "graphics" rather than "libs" ... I'm a little
unclear on whether that is in line with our policy or not.
Thanks for your help. I'm assuming t
I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all complaining
that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it be? There's no
libungif package, according to www.debian.org/packages.html.
thanks,
Will
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In the process of installing a tape drive so I could back up /etc and my
dpkg selections, I've managed to hose /etc ... just the top-level
directory; all the subdirectories are fine.
Is there some way (once I get a passwd file back, probably by copying
over the passwd file from a rescue disk an
On Tue, 5 May 1998, The Gecko wrote:
> Ok... I can't seem to find a linux PGP program -- commercial, shareware,
> freeware, open source, GPL, anything... can any one point me in the right
> direction
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-5.html#ss5.11
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Then if we want to change the licence we publish version 2 instead,
> leaving version 1 available but stating that it is no longer
> available. Users of the logo have to go and check each year that the
These last two sentences are a little wacky. You mean
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt
> > we also just set the 0
> > to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ?
> There is really no advantage to that. 64 bits will last
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh,
> I accidently typed in an incorrect path to the shell I wanted. Being
Learn to use sudo, when you need to work as root. It helps eliminate
some "oops"es that can really fuggle
On 29 Dec 1997, Marco Budde wrote:
> WL> Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory, which just
> That's ok.
> WL> It's going to get nuts if we have to have a non- directory for
> WL> every country, but maybe we'll have to do this. If that's the case,
> I would prefer a flag in
On 28 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Marco> But non-free is mirrored on several FTP servers in Germany. And
> Marco> a child could download the games from a German FTP server and
> Marco> this is not allowed.
Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory, which just
wouldn't get
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Jon Björklund wrote:
> What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as root but
> at the same time it shouldn't be root. Is there a way of fixing this??
Well, you can use sudo, which lets normal users to superuser tasks.
> And I do not want to go around su:ing
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Ted Holden wrote:
> with xxgdb, but I can't even get Tk 80p2 to configure and make under
> Debian.
Why bother? There are debian packages of tcl 8.0 and tk 8.0 at
ftp.debian.org, or you can search for them at
http://www.debian.org/packages.html
It means you'll have to upgr
On 26 Dec 1997, Marco Budde wrote:
> JH> Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current
> JH> x11 elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will
>
> Great, but then we need a new non-german section :). You're not allowed to
> give doom and quake (
how do I do it?
Will
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On 17 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> > download them is closing the barn door after the horses have eaten the
> > chickens.
Horses are vegetarians anyway.
Will
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > > Anytime I do "insmod sound" or run any program which causes kerneld to
> > > > have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while --
Thanks for your help. I managed to find another copy of an old .config
file for my kernel compiles,
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Did the same configuration work for a previous kernel? Which sound
> driver are you using anyway?
Seemed to work ok, previously. I was using kernel 2.0.30 for a while and
switched to 2.0.29 after reported problems with 2.0.30. My system is
entirely hamm,
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Anytime I do "insmod sound" or run any program which causes kerneld to
> > have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while --
> > between 30 and 60 seconds. Then it returns to normality and the sound
> > stuff works fine.
>
> What do
Anytime I do "insmod sound" or run any program which causes kerneld to
have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while --
between 30 and 60 seconds. Then it returns to normality and the sound
stuff works fine.
This problem doesn't occur when the sound module is unloaded either
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
> BTW I'd be interested to hear any justification of why <--- == DEL
Well, from a sheer visual standpoint, seeing an arrow pointing to the
left, like on the BS key (<--), makes one think that pushing that
button's going to move the cursor that way, jus
A package I'm maintaining, rosegarden, has come out with dependencies on
xlib6 AND xlib6g. I didn't do this by hand, I left the "shlibs" stuff in
the control file. I would purge xlib6 from the system, but a lot of
packages I need on a daily basis need xlib6. How do I correct this?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian
> to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient).
It's not really a very scriptable thing, I think. Following the HOW-TO
at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/libc5-libc
> You'll find this file on your favourite Debian mirror in
> /debian/doc/mailing-lists.txt. This file is a complete rewrite.
Hmm. I'm wondering about the last three paragraphs of this file:
1) Have we actually collected any money this way? :)
2) Shouldn't these read, now that SPI is incor
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it?
Yes.
Will
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