Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:19:10PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > hasler/~ ll /usr/doc/copyright/base > > total 2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Dec 31 1969 debian.README > > Ben Pfaff writes: > > So what package does it come from, then, and what version? > > I don

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > hasler/~ ll /usr/doc/copyright/base > total 2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Dec 31 1969 debian.README Ben Pfaff writes: > So what package does it come from, then, and what version? I don't know. 'dpkg -S' can't find it. This machine was upgraded from 1.3: maybe i

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread Buddha Buck
> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Edward Betts writes: >> Are you sure it was /usr/doc/copyright/base ? > >hasler/~ ll /usr/doc/copyright/base >total 2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Dec 31 1969 debian.README > > So what package does it come from, then

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Edward Betts writes: > Are you sure it was /usr/doc/copyright/base ? hasler/~ ll /usr/doc/copyright/base total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Dec 31 1969 debian.README So what package does it come from, then, and what version?

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread John Hasler
Edward Betts writes: > Are you sure it was /usr/doc/copyright/base ? hasler/~ ll /usr/doc/copyright/base total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Dec 31 1969 debian.README -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 19 Jan, 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Ben Pfaff wrote: > > No such file appears in my copy of Content-i386 from 28 Dec 1998. > > Where are you getting it from? > > Duh, I had the directory wrong, the correct dictory is > /usr/doc/copyright/base. dpkg -S can't see where it is c

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:37:32 +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Duh, I had the directory wrong, the correct dictory is > /usr/doc/copyright/base. dpkg -S can't see where it is coming from > though. The contents is also weird. Look at its copyright: Copyright > (C) 1995 The Debian A

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Pfaff wrote: > No such file appears in my copy of Content-i386 from 28 Dec 1998. > Where are you getting it from? Duh, I had the directory wrong, the correct dictory is /usr/doc/copyright/base. dpkg -S can't see where it is coming from though. The contents is also weird. Look at its

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It appears Debian is older then we though :). Look at the contents of /usr/doc/debian/base: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Jan 1 1970 debian.README No such file appears in my copy of Content-i386 from 28 Dec 1998. Where are you g

Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
It appears Debian is older then we though :). Look at the contents of /usr/doc/debian/base: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Jan 1 1970 debian.README Wichert -- == This combination of bytes forms a message w