apt-cacher-ng (Was Re: New contributor experience)

2025-06-07 Thread Andy Smith
quot;. I too had got the impression that it was basically dead and have been wondering what to replace it with. Just a general purpose caching HTTP proxy? Thanks, Andy

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-11-27 Thread Andy Smith
h parses usernames out of logs will need to be aware of that. Thanks, Andy

Re: broadcast error messages, unofficial Debian 12

2023-12-13 Thread Andy Smith
l, Zutty, which also explains why it appears in all of your terminal windows. An example of suxh a Zutty diagnostic is here: https://github.com/tomscii/zutty/issues/43 though it is not your specific one. So, you probably want to seek support from Zutty, e.g. at their github issues. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Bug#996000: general: System does not boot with second monitor attached

2021-10-09 Thread Andy Simpkins
r after boot. Trying newer, back ported kernels, when they become available, is probably your best bet. You could try watching the kernel.org releases looking specifically for the mentions of i915, Rocket Lake, or UHD 750 beforue you try [1] Very best wishes, and good luck with trying new kerne

Re: testing for rootfs vs. /usr reproducibility regressions

2021-08-21 Thread Andy Smith
te already decided that it will be the only supported configuration for the next release after bookworm. At this point rehashing the whys of it would be repeating conversations had over the last several years, so I feel like it's a user documentation issue at this point if that's necessary. Cheers, Andy

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 05:54:33PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-18 5:07 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: > > I recommend understanding the issue before putting forth an opinion. > > > Maybe I shall correct what I said as it may be misunderstood. It&#

Bug#982668: ITP: ocaml-luv -- a OCaml binding to libuv

2021-02-12 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li * Package name: ocaml-luv Version : 0.5.6 Upstream Author : Anton Bachin * URL : https://github.com/aantron/luv * License : MIT Programming Lang: OCaml Description : a OCaml binding to libuv Luv is a

ITP: wnpp -- GNULOCSYS (Linguistic database management system) for Debian

2020-10-16 Thread andy klumpp
* Package name: ITP: wnpp -- GNULOCSYS (Linguistic database management system) for Debian Version : 1.9.5 Upstream Author : A.D.Klumpp * URL : https://github.com/AndreasDanielKlumpp/GNULOCSYS * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (C++) Description : GNULO

ITP: wnpp -- GNULOCSYS (Linguistic database management system) for Debian

2020-10-16 Thread andy klumpp
* Package name: wnpp Version : 1.9.5 Upstream Author : A.D.Klumpp * URL : https://github.com/AndreasDanielKlumpp/GNULOCSYS * License : (GPL) Programming Lang: (C++) Description : GNULOCSYS (Linguistic database management system) for Debian GNULOCSYS is

Re: Bug#968921: ITP: dotnet-core-3.1 -- Microsoft .NET Core SDK 3.0.100

2020-08-24 Thread Andy Smith
f the telemetry by default, before any information is sent? Cheers, Andy

Bug#944085: ITP: ocaml-uchar -- Compatibility library for OCaml's Uchar module

2019-11-03 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li * Package name: ocaml-uchar Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Daniel Bünzli * URL : https://github.com/ocaml/uchar * License : LGPL with OCaml-linking exception Programming Lang: OCaml Description

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-11 Thread Andy Simpkins
t see an issue. /Andy [0] "Respect user choice for opt-in parental controls and disable DoH if we detect them" https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-next-in-making-dns-over-https-the-default/ [1] In browser DoH will break a lot of 'parental control / supervi

Re: regarding non-free firmware for wi-fi and ethernet

2019-07-26 Thread Andy Simpkins
staller an not by final > installed system. I am somewhat surprised if this is correct... Regards /Andy

Testing release images - Call for help

2019-06-30 Thread Andy Simpkins
few days please do. if you find a critical problem there may just be enough time to fix it Let's make buster the smoothest release yet :-) /Andy [0] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Buster_r0

Re: Proposition: Simlify the Installation

2019-06-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
to do BEFORE deciding on how to go about this.  And for me that also means that the above points MUST be demonstrable in any prototype / first offering because experience has shown me that unless it is all baked in from the beginning such features are often impossible to add later. /Andy

Re: Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-05-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
dancy on a random binary blob (music / fonts / game levels / textures etc) and we wouldn't put that in main. It is my belief that we consider training data sets as 'source' in much the same way /Andy On 23 May 2019 16:33:24 BST, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> &

Re: Bits from /me: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-05-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
n is possible. Finally, Thank you for your work on this. /Andy

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-07 Thread Andy Simpkins
ould not be credited as having entropy. agreed - it provides a 'delta' that is especially useful for VMs (Serial numbers and MACs may be useful sources of 'psudo uniqueness' here > The seed file currently acts as this. I have no idea if the kernel > does anything like that itself, like the mount count of a > filesystem. It might be useful that we feed it some boot counter. > > > Kurt > > /Andy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-02-25 Thread Andy Simpkins
ther architectures (Mainly ARM at the moment I admit) /Andy

Re: package management symlink

2019-02-06 Thread Andy Simpkins
Sören please see: https://xkcd.com/927/ /Andy On 05/02/2019 06:20, Sören Reinecke wrote: Dear Debian mailing list community, I am Sören alias Valor Naram and I founded the project "goeasyLinux". I will help to make linux more user friendly. A short introduction to "goea

Re: Handling of entropy during boot

2019-01-21 Thread Andy Simpkins
ty to write, however I would be very happy to work on the design, UI and testing. Is this the right approach to take? Best regards Andy

Re: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2018-12-19 Thread Andy Simpkins
y put into words my thoughts...  +1 /Andy

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
Cheers, > Bret > Apologies for using the RaspberryPi as my example of a 'mobile' class SoC. IIRC the Pi was being used as the primary argument for switching away from OpenGL to OpenGLES as this is selling in large volumes. If the Pi already supports OpenGL then the argument to move solely to OpenGLES is reduced somewhat. I will try OpenGL on a RPi this week (I normally run RPi headless so no desktop installed). /Andy

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-24 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 24/11/2018 02:05, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Andy: explicitly CCing you because I think it answers part of a question you did but in another part of the thread. El viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2018 06:58:13 -03 Steve McIntyre escribió: On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 03:27:57AM

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-23 Thread Andy Simpkins
actually, all of them!) to either one or the other. El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 20:04:33 -03 Andy Simpkins escribió: On 22/11/18 22:33, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 15:37:29 -03 Dmitry Shachnev escribió: Hi all! The Qt framework can be b

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-22 Thread Andy Simpkins
rt *BOTH* OpenGL / OpenGLES? Mutually exclusive from an install POV, but give the end user the choice which to install? Why should we have one Architecture forced down a path different to another architecture? /Andy

Re: Opt-in to continue as DD/DM? (was: I resigned in 2004)

2018-11-13 Thread Andy Simpkins
clude that given the same events again you would probably have done the same things, acted the same way but wish that you could have acted without as much venom. In time you get more and more trouble free nights of sleep. In time... Andy //trying very hard not to break down whilst typing this.

Bug#913456: ITP: ocaml-ptmap -- Maps over integers implemented as Patricia trees

2018-11-10 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li * Package name: ocaml-ptmap Version : 2.0.4 Upstream Author : Jean-Christophe Filliâtre * URL : https://github.com/backtracking/ptmap * License : LGPL Programming Lang: OCaml Description : Maps over

Bug#908003: ITP: ocaml-qtest -- Inline Tests for OCaml

2018-09-04 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ocaml-qtest Version : 2.9 Upstream Author : Vincent Hugot Simon Cruanes * URL : https://github.com/vincent-hugot/qtest * License

Bug#903371: ITP: ocaml-qcheck -- QuickCheck inspired property-based testing for OCaml

2018-07-08 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ocaml-qcheck Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Simon Cruanes Rudi Grinberg Jacques-Pascal Deplaix Jan

Bug#881136: ITP: ocaml-rope -- Ropes ("heavyweight strings") for OCaml

2017-11-07 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ocaml-rope Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Christophe Troestler * URL : http://rope.forge.ocamlcore.org/ * License : LGPL-2.1 with linking exception

Bug#880641: ITP: ocaml-obuild -- simple package build system for ocaml

2017-11-03 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ocaml-obuild Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Vincent Hanquez and Jerome Maloberti * URL : https://github.com/ocaml-obuild/obuild * License : BSD

Bug#873897: ITP: ocaml-result -- Compatibility Result module for OCaml

2017-08-31 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ocaml-result Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Jane Street Group, LLC * URL : https://github.com/janestreet/result * License : BSD 3-clause

Bug#873896: ITP: ocaml-migrate-parsetree -- Convert OCaml parsetrees between different major versions

2017-08-31 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ocaml-migrate-parsetree Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Frédéric Bour and Jérémie Dimino * URL : https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocaml-migrate-parsetree

Bug#867238: ITP: ocaml-sedlex -- Unicode-friendly lexer generator for OCaml

2017-07-04 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ocaml-sedlex Version : 1.99.3 Upstream Author : Alain Frisch * URL : https://github.com/alainfrisch/sedlex * License : MIT Programming Lang: OCaml

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-27 Thread Andy Smith
there hadn't been time to include mention of the problem in the release notes. Not even one line. https://communities.intel.com/thread/77801?start=15&tstart=0 It was a big hit to my trust in Intel and I stopped buying s3610 SSDs after this, but I don't expect other manufacturers are any better. Cheers, Andy

Bug#865072: ITP: gen -- simple, efficient iterators for OCaml

2017-06-18 Thread Andy Li
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Li -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: gen Version : 0.4.0.1 Upstream Author : Simon Cruanes * URL : https://github.com/c-cube/gen * License : BSD Programming Lang: OCaml Description

Video-team sprint 4-6 November

2015-10-14 Thread Andy Simpkins
has kindly been sponsored by Cosworth [3] [4] We will be requesting budget for travel costs to enable a number of the team to attend (presently it is expected to be for 3-4 people) and should be sub £2500. Regards, Andy (RattusRattus) [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2015

Bug#800093: ITP: libdpkg-parse-perl -- module to parse various dpkg files into Perl Objects

2015-09-26 Thread Andy Beverley
Package: wnpp Owner: Andy Beverley Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdpkg-parse-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Adam Jacob * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/DPKG-Parse * License

Bug#714853: ITP: libcoverart-0 -- Library to access cover art from the Cover Art Archive (http://coverartarchive.org/)

2013-07-03 Thread Andy Hawkins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Hawkins * Package name: libcoverart-0 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Andy Hawkins * URL : http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libcoverart * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Library to access

Re: Bug#656142: ITP: duff -- Duplicate file finder

2012-01-17 Thread Andy Smith
s getting swapped out, when generally I would rather that the duplicate finder just got slower itself. Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: ITP: ipmiutil -- Easy-to-use IPMI server management utilities

2011-11-28 Thread Andy Cress
the others. The ipmiutil project is much more active than ipmitool, which has not had upstream developer activity since Feb 2009. It supports Windows servers, the others do not. So users who have mixed OS environments would prefer ipmiutil. Andy -Original Message- From: Bastian

ITP: ipmiutil -- Easy-to-use IPMI server management utilities

2011-11-28 Thread Andy Cress
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Cress * Package name : ipmiutil Version : 2.8.0 Upstream Author : Andy Cress * URL : http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Easy-to-use IPMI server management utilities The ipmiutil

pack filter

2011-06-01 Thread andy
products, More styles and quotation with pictures can be sent to you upon your reply! Looking forward to your inquiry! Best Regards Andy Sales manager Boli hardware industrial limited Tel: 86-0311-87789982 Fax: 86-0311-87769982 Web:http://www.bolifilter.com

Bug#604189: ITP: aweather -- A weather monitoring program

2010-11-20 Thread Andy Spencer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Spencer * Package name: aweather Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Andy Spencer * URL : http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/code/projects/aweather/wiki * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A weather

Bug#604185: ITP: rsl -- TRMM Radar Software Library

2010-11-20 Thread Andy Spencer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Spencer * Package name: rsl Version : 1.40 Upstream Author : NASA/TRMM Office * URL : http://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/software/rsl/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : TRMM Radar

Bug#603393: ITP: libgis -- A Virtual Globe library

2010-11-13 Thread Andy Spencer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Spencer * Package name: libgis Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Andy Spencer * URL : http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/code/projects/libgis/wiki * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A Virtual Globe

Bug#511980: ITP: Plumi -- Plumi is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone.

2009-01-15 Thread Andy Nicholson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Nicholson * Package name: Plumi Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Andy Nicholson * URL : http://plumi.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Plumi is a Free Software video sharing

Bug#507876: ITP: flactag -- A tagger for whole album FLACs using data from MusicBrainz

2008-12-05 Thread Andy Hawkins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: flactag Version : 1.1 RC1 Upstream Author : Andy Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://software.gently.org.uk/flactag * License : GPL Program

Bug#458183: ITP: twyt -- A command line Twitter client

2007-12-29 Thread Andy Price
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: twyt Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Andy Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://andrewprice.me.uk/projects/twyt * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python

Bug#448972: ITP: plumi -- Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone

2007-11-01 Thread Andy Nicholson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plumi Version : 0.1-final Upstream Author : Andy Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.plumi.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python

Compiz-fusion question

2007-10-21 Thread s-andy
Hi! I have found that compiz-fusion in official debian repository is not complete (or is not compiz-fusion at all). It misses such things as ccsm (seems like compizconfig-settings-manager?). I believe there is some reason for this (why it is not included). What is the reason? :) Many potential an

Bug#418424: ITP: pybackpack -- A simple incremental backup tool for Gnome

2007-04-09 Thread Andy Price
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pybackpack Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://andrewprice.me.uk/projects/pybackpack * License : GPL Programming

Re: Bug#397577: ITP: renrot -- A program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags

2006-11-08 Thread Andy Shevchenko
-- With best regards, Andy Shevchenko. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397577: ITP: renrot -- A program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags

2006-11-08 Thread andy shevchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andy Shevchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: renrot Version : 0.25 Upstream Author : Zeus Panchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Shevchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-09 Thread Andy Teijelo Pérez
erican companies, apply for this offering? I'm far from being interested in these computers, but I think it's worth asking. Note the country in my email address. Regards, Andy.

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-18 Thread Andy Smith
problem, you should do this..." how about reaching some compromise? It sounds like in the short term, Ian needs to discard some mail instead of rejecting, and in the long term master needs to be able to cope with this sort of thing. The absolute worst thing to do is to start generating bounces to these forged addresses however. My 2p, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: master's mail backlog and upgrade time

2005-11-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:51:10PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 15 Nov 2005, at 2:34 pm, Steve Langasek wrote: > > No: there is nothing "proper" about rejecting mail from a host > > that you have configured to forward mail for you. > > I can see where you're coming from, but it's unavoidable, isn'

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-08 Thread Andy Teijelo Pérez
ke, but let them fix it. Give them some time. They cannot go from violating to not-violating in zero time. They are clearly willing to correct their mistakes, it's not like they'll just leave thing as they are. Give them some time! Regards, Andy.

Bug#214946: Would like to take over this orphaned package.

2003-10-19 Thread andy lesniakowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Followup-For: Bug #214946 Description: Display and edit lyrics with XMMS This "X Multi Media System" (XMMS) plugin displays formated lyrics. It also contains a lyrics editor, which can be used to tag timestamps in a song. Upstream Author: Jan-Marek Glogowski <[

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Andy MacKay
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:50:59PM +0100, Hamish Marson wrote: > Ah right. Light dawneth. Yes, you make excellent sense. Basically ia32 > is so hacked about & wacky (In order to be backwardly compatible) as to > be very slow, yet ia64 is a new instruction set with none of the baggage > that it h

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Andy MacKay
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:43:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:39:25PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > Le Thu, Apr 10, 2003, ? 10:40:47AM +0100, Hamish Marson a ?crit: > > > I'm not sure how your logic works out that a 64 bit reg is going to > > > be faster than a 32b

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-31 Thread Andy Mortimer
override a "source" directory, basically like two lines in sources.list; the intention is that the main directory is a Debian mirror, and the local directory can be used for some upgraded pacakges if (for example) the mirror is on a CD-ROM or NFS. Andy -- Andy Mortimer

Re: Bug#32068: multicd can't reinstall removed package

1999-01-19 Thread Andy Mortimer
method. If this doesn't work for you, you could always make the copy at the end of the [U]pdate method, and then copy it back at the beginning of the [I]nstall method! (It's not the prettiest method ever, but it would work ...) Hope this helps, Andy -- Andy Mortimer

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread Andy Mortimer
rrors; it could certainly use that knowledge if it was available!) It could work either by reading Packages files from both CDs, or putting all the Packages files on both CDs. Also, another data point (and BTW, please don't think I'm being defensive) is that last time I looked at it, apt still required a fairly clean system to start with. Hopefully this has changed while I've been out of touch. OK, that's enough from me; fire away! Andy

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-13 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:28:06AM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote: > > Andy Dougherty, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >> > >> After some thought, I think I'd recommend that perl5.005_xx retain the > >> same directory structure that perl5.

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-10 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Andy Dougherty wrote: > [ perl5.005_02's default library is now /usr/lib/perl5/perl5.005, > and might change with 5.006, etc.] > > > Any idea how to handle this properly ? Maybe we need a sort of perl > > policy : package will have to install

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-09 Thread Andy Dougherty
e current perl version ? But > this does not solve all problems... Better idea ? Yes. Perl itself knows where it is installed. Install .pm things into $Config{'privlib'}. From the shell command line, you can get this same information with /usr/bin/perl -V:privlib. Andy Dougherty

Re: How can Debian accomodate new installation ?

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Dougherty
king, and they will need to be replaced too. (I suppose one could draw upon the a.out->ELF or libc5-libc6 experience to try to make a smooth transition, but I'm not sure it'd be worth it.) Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

Successful install from 2.0.7 bootdisks

1998-06-21 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
oesn't say it's North American masq_cusee doesn't show that it's IP-masquerading-cuseeme Not confusing once you've done it a couple of times / read debian-devel but _very_ confusing to a brand new user. Great job: easily ready as the final install disks IMHO. Hope this help

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-17 Thread Andy Mortimer
re included on the first cdrom and lower priorities are distributed > through the second one. (I also have another change which installs packages in order of priority, which is in my local tree, but unfortunately I coded too long after freeze for it to make it in. If people want it I'm h

Re: Predepends query

1998-05-09 Thread Andy Mortimer
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 May 1998, Andy Mortimer wrote: > > > I guess it comes down to: does breaking dpkg-mountable count as stopping the > > system functioning? Comments would be appreciated. > > A PreDepends will do nothing to a

Predepends query

1998-05-08 Thread Andy Mortimer
es down to: does breaking dpkg-mountable count as stopping the system functioning? Comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Andy -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I only smile in the dark, My only comfort is

Re: Uploaded perl 5.003.07-11 (source i386) to master

1998-05-07 Thread Andy Dougherty
rs *want* to upgrade their stable systems to 5.004_04 is another question, and it probably has different answers depending on whether or not the users run suid scripts vulnerable to the buffer overflow or whether they want the absolute stability of sticking with 5.003_07. Andy Dougherty [E

Re: "Visual" IDE?

1998-05-05 Thread Andy Kahn
mand lines. But you have to > admit that Visual Studio, and Metrowerks Codewarrior, are great IDEs. > > My question is, "Why is there nothing similar on UNIX?" ... have you tried "Code Crusader"? http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/ maybe this is what you're lo

Bootfloppies 12 April

1998-04-13 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
prompt: I had to use the rescue disk, make a bootdisk, use this to reboot into Debian and _then_ was able to run liloconfig and lilo. The initial lilo run asked me to install an mbr and make /dev/hda? bootable. This is a nasty and could easily catch people out. Hope this helps, Andy [Am posting

Can't find boot disks in Incoming

1998-04-12 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
will catch up ?? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New bootdisks ?

1998-04-12 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
I just deleted a message announcing updated bootdisks from ?? Enrique Zanardi ?? Can anyone post me the date/location for these ?? Andy [meaning to install Debian from scratch to delete Caldera Lite !] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Broken smail config

1998-01-11 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \[Andy\]
Subject says it all: newest version of smail is refusing to parse the config file so is failing to work. I may be able to send this: I may not receive it back. Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: status of bzip

1997-12-12 Thread Andy Guy
hen searching :-( > > The last time it was seen in non-us distribution. > > Because of the patent issue presumably. I've always thought that was > inconsistent as we have plenty of lzw/gif software in non-free, NOT > non-us. It is different becuase the lzw patent holders (

Elm not working (followup)

1997-12-09 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \[Andy\]
Hope this helps anyone else. Regards to all, Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

1997-12-01 Thread Andy Mortimer
at these checklists won't address. That little niggle aside -- and I'm sure you will be doing other things than just this -- the testing made a big difference to Bo, and it sounds like it's going to be even better for Hamm. Keep it up! Andy -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: auto compiling

1997-06-28 Thread Andy Mortimer
never use. Instead, make up a simple package of it, and stick it up for FTP somewhere (I would suggest experimental, but that's no longer allowed, is it? Where's the canonical place for this sort of thing now?). Then post your changes here, and interested people can download it themselves

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Andy Mortimer
-the-fly. This would save mirror space, but would require the doc-source to be installed (since it would have to Depend on the doc-source package). &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I found myself alone, alo

Re: Taking my leave/Packages available

1997-06-18 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 17, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote > svgalib (svgalib1, svgalib1-bin, svgalib1-dev, aout-svgalib which > probably doesn't need any further updates) > zgv I'll take zgv, and I'm quite happy to have the svgalib ones too if nobody else wants them. Chee

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 14, Rob Browning wrote > > Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Although how well this interacts with dynamically-loaded shared libraries > > is anyone's guess; > > What do you mean? I'm using libdl, to allow me to dynamically

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Andy Mortimer
s respect - that might be > your first concern. Without having looked at the source, I do know that it uses a fair few global variables for various things, unfortunately. Cheers, &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key

Re: thread support

1997-06-14 Thread Andy Mortimer
t this? If I'm going to need to change Giggle to be reentrant, I probably ought to start fairly soon, especially since it does make fairly heavy use of one global data structure. Even some simple example code would be very useful: which libraries are currently reentrant? Cheers, &E --

Re: points on future installation disks development

1997-06-09 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote > > Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote > > > > > > My ideas on boot-floppies' future: > > > > > > - rewrite dinstall in C - reasons: [snip] > > > - m

Re: points on future installation disks development

1997-06-08 Thread Andy Mortimer
do most of the coding' :) if you ended up using Giggle. I'm quite happy to help in any case, of course, but I know more about Giggle! Cheers, &E [1] I don't yet know where. :( -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I open my eyes, and look at the floor, And now I don't see you anymore. pgpXOXhUDeTjo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 1.3 installation report

1997-06-08 Thread Andy Mortimer
eeks, once I've got Manoj's pkg-order working; in fact, it'll do full ordering of the install by dependencies, thereby hopefully making a one-pass from-scratch install possible. I would have done this a while ago, except for exams, but they're thankfully now over! &E --

Re: Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen

1997-05-28 Thread Andy Mortimer
pproached me politely, I would be more than happy to explain what I've done; I would still be happy to do so. Had you limited this post to asking whether or not this could be the problem, I could have replied simply that it wasn't. But I found the second half of your post offensiv

list of bashisms

1997-05-18 Thread Andy Mortimer
omewhere, which developers could use to ensure that scripts which require bash use it explicitly? Otherwise, I'm hanging onto the bug reports, and I can make a list of the things which have come up, but since I don't know anything about it that's probably not the best solution!

dpkg/DEITY feature request (was Re: e2fsprogs_1.07-1 still in 'experimental' !)

1997-05-15 Thread Andy Mortimer
anism to somehow store *all* available versions in the Packages file, along with where they came from, and let the user choose which to install. How about it, guys? Could this go into Deity? Cheers, &E PS To get files moved/deleted on the FTP archive, file a bug against ftp.debian.org.

Re: New Source Formats and Source Package Verification

1997-05-13 Thread Andy Mortimer
ing implementations, and we should concentrate on working out what we want from this, rather than how we're going to get it. > Red Hat does. So? [snip summary] Obviously we're coming at this from very different angles, but the important points for me in Klee's proposal are portability and

upload: dpkg-ftp 1.4.3

1996-09-10 Thread Andy Guy
ftp Binary: dpkg-ftp Architecture: source all Version: 1.4.3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Andy W.P. Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: dpkg-ftp - Ftp method for dselect. Changes: dpkg-ftp (1.4.3) unstable; urgency=low . * Checks disk space * No longer connec

ftp method v2

1996-01-06 Thread Andy Guy
the last part of the Filename: field in the Packages file is the correct name of the .deb file. All of these seem reasonable and the current practice. NOTE to Ian: I havn't changed the default .deb filename to include two hyphens, it is a trival change but not really necessary n

New ftp method for dselect

1995-12-14 Thread Andy Guy
cks a .deb file. (see functions.sh for how I do it at the moment) I am leaving for xmas holiday on Saturday until the 4th of Jan and may well be off-line so don't expect any email responses in this period. md5sum: ca5e120e986ac01fc3a44438de8eb833 /home/andy/ftp.method.tar.gz -BEGIN PGP SI

What has happened to 1.0?

1995-12-09 Thread Andy Guy
- leave a 1.0 directory but have the warning README-DO-NOT-USE file. Andy. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMMkuRl994FoFqUU1AQFi1AQAll6q/odi77vIWsU5DLcXQu9ov/AXmedp 5/NdjFPH/Gs1z4wn27N+qI9K/Z8zsLWuI2165RuRsPerJiuRP96tCbxddzDgOYAE

Bug#1732: Bad arithmetic in new perl packages

1995-10-22 Thread Andy Dougherty
xact. Perl5 is pretty forgiving, and tries hard to print what you want, but doesn't always succeed. 2. The tests are running on a buggy pentium :-). > Fernando, I unfortunately have no idea what is causing this. Please > provide a short script which shows this behaviour (reliably i

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