Incidentally, using a dpkg-buildpackage hacked to use gpg with my RSA
key, I was able to produce a signature that dinstall successfully
verified. Evil patch follows.
--- /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage~ Wed Apr 28 22:56:38 1999
+++ /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage Thu May 13 08:59:24 1999
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 05:19:44PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > (I did "gpg --no-options --load-extension rsa --load-extension idea \
> > > --clearsign -u 0x6494661D --secret-keyring ~/.pgp/secring.pgp \
> > > < testfile > testfile
[sorry for not getting to this message sooner]
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would fix it,
>but it doesn't.
Not true:
frantica:~/src/acct-6.3.5$ lastcomm | head
root ?? 0.00 secs We
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 03:37:32PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:59:12PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > :0
> > * ^Subject:.*\((alpha|arm|powerpc|m68k|sparc)\)
> > /dev/null
>
> A slight mod:
>
> :0
> * ^Subject:.*\((alpha|arm|powerpc|m68k|sparc)\)
> * !^Subject:.*so
I was trying to compile ssystem, which compiled a couple of weeks
ago. Now libc5 compatible libaries are trying to be linked. Is
this a potato problem, or my problem ?
cc -o ssystem cfgparse.tab.o lex.cfg.o ssystem.o init.o positions.o
joystick.o cmdline.o keyboard.o mouse.o scrnsht.o sun.o ti
Robert> [sorry for not getting to this message sooner]
No sweat.
Dirk> GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would
Dirk> fix it, but it doesn't.
Robert> Not true:
[..]
Well, that is good news. I _thought_ I had it working as well. Maybe I just
messed up o
> "John" == John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I was trying to compile ssystem, which compiled a couple of
John> weeks ago. Now libc5 compatible libaries are trying to be
John> linked. Is this a potato problem, or my problem ?
This may be related to the grave bug #376
Hi,
we all know that netscape communicator is fscked up with glibc2.1 :-(
(bus error when closing windows or with long credentials, hanging and
killing X when closed in this stage etc.)
Now Red Hat 6.0 ships with glibc2.1. I just checked dejanews and
couldn't find any problems reported by Red H
On 13-May-99 Bradley Bell wrote:
> has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff
> combination for reading man pages? 4mb is a lot for small systems, and
> reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity.
>
Maybe I am wrong here but, how else are you gonna do it? man pag
>
> Well, I wrote something simple in Perl for the last package, but Shaleh says
> it fails on his box. What does /usr/sbin/compare_kernel_version say for you?
> [ Note that I turned the $debug flag on here: ]
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> /tmp/compare_kernel_version 2.0
> 2.2 ? 2.0
> 2.2 >= 2.0
> [E
Gordon Deane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think Debian should have high quality Slink gnome binaries, because
> not everyone can afford to run unstable and building from source is
> quite a lot of work. Also, Redhat have this shipped :-)
We don't add new upstream versions into stable after r
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:43:58PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Which kernel-sources, running kernel, libc6, egcc, ... are you using ? I
> think on my build machine it is
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -l kernel-image-2.2.7 kernel-source-2.2.5 libc6
> egcc|grep ^ii
> ii kernel-image-2. edd
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:17:57PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
:
: On 13-May-99 Bradley Bell wrote:
: > has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff
: > combination for reading man pages? 4mb is a lot for small systems, and
: > reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity.
:
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 09:34:25PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> load-extension rsa
> load-extension idea
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp
> keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg
> keyring /home/jgg/.pgp/pubring.pgp
> secret-keyring /home/jgg/.pgp/secring.pgp
Okay, I did
Hi,
> GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would fix it,
> but it doesn't. The upstream author, with whom I generally had very good
> (albeit sporadic) contact is MIA. AFAICT the other dists don't distribute
> acct.
I am still using an "acct_6.3.2-2_i386.deb" package
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 04:14:00PM -0700, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> > a new version of jdk117 from blackdown (v3) has been released. apparently,
> > the problems with glibc2.1 have been resolved, though i haven't checked this
> > out myself.
> >
> > is anybody working on packaging it?
Hi,
I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package
the CoolEdit HTML editor?
From: http://www.netins.net/showcase/Comput-IT/cooledit/
CoolEdit is a text editor for the X Window System. It provides many
features that are very useful to programmers.
Things like:
* P
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:07:14AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> > I think you should look in http://va.debian.org/~bfulgham/ and download
> > the version of mozilla that is (hopefully) still there. If it works, and
> > if more people agree with it, I'll put it in potato.
>
> The only problem I had
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:07:14AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> > > I think you should look in http://va.debian.org/~bfulgham/ and download
> > > the version of mozilla that is (hopefully) still there. If it works, and
> > > if more pe
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:29:28AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> How is the other nicname "chiark", "elrangen", and "giano" named ?
> Are they named after the name of the location ?
The machines had those names in their FQDNs, ftp.uni-erlangen.de,
chiark.greenend.ac.uk, giano.com.dist.unige.it.
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 12:02:32PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > Everything seems to build fine according to Tinderbox. Let's
> > > try another build Josip and see how it works out. If we can't
> > > get it to build cleanly, I will pull CVS over my phone line at
> > > home and try building on m
> > It's in project/misc/debianqueued-0.8.tar.gz. It's no proper Debian
> > package because it runs on other Unixes, too (mine runs under
> > Solaris).
>
> Hmm, why does that prevent you from packaging it? :>
It doesn't really :-), but:
- A Debian package plus the still necessary .tar.gz is so
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 12:17:36PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 12:02:32PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > > Everything seems to build fine according to Tinderbox. Let's
> > > > try another build Josip and see how it works out. If we can't
> > > > get it to build cleanly, I
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 12:23:14PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > What about non i386 builds ?
> >
> > What about them? The upload will contain source, and you'll be perfectly
> > free to recompile it :)
>
> Yes, ...
>
> but mozilla is pretty big, 17MB i think, so the compile will use lots of d
"reportbug" is basically a complete rewrite of "bug" in Python,
hopefully bypassing all of the former's bugs (no doubt creating some
more, however).
Useful features:
* Architecture pseudo-header in system information.
* You can include text files in your bug report automagically.
* Configurable C
lv (http://edie.office.web.ad.jp/~nrt/lv/) is a less-like multilingual
file viewer.
From lv document:
* Multilingual file viewer
lv is a powerful multilingual file viewer. Apparently, lv looks like
less (1), a representative file viewer on UNIX as you know, so UNIX
people (and le
> > Also the mozilla web pages are not very informative about non-i386
> > compilability, but then maybe i didn't search in the right place ...
>
> I don't know much about porting, but I do know that it works on
> Solaris, and some versions worked on AIX and HP-UX... since those
> OSs run on diffe
Hi, I'm packaging x-pgp-sig-el for Debian .
Package: x-pgp-sig-el
Architecture: all
Depends: emacsen, pgp
Description: X-PGP-Sig mail and news header utility for Emacs.
X-PGP-Sig header utility for Emacs.
Liecence: GPL
--
Takuro KITAME
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTE
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:42:21AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > It is already in Incoming.
>
> It was rejected from it (see Incoming/REJECT), because of some
> no-distribution clause in the licence.
ok. i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs
gets away with it. whe
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 01:35:19PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> > > It is already in Incoming.
> >
> > It was rejected from it (see Incoming/REJECT), because of some
> > no-distribution clause in the licence.
>
> ok. i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs
> gets a
Martin Schulze spake thus:
> I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package
> the CoolEdit HTML editor?
The author works for the same company as I do, and asked me to
package it, but I really don't have the time.
I'd appreciate it, and I know he would, if someone could package
it
I've always had strange problems with Navigator & Communicator for Linux,
but I can't say that glibc2.1 has made it any worse for me. It works just
as poorly as it always has. It hangs a lot, crashes too often, etc.
I wouldn't have much hope for a stable, full-featured browser until
Mozilla appe
When I add the following line to ~/.gnupg/options (as someone suggested on this
mailing list) the "gpg" program segv's every time I try to decrypt data.
keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp
Russell Coker
I have added Ethernet cards to two machines, one my Linux box, the other
my partner's Win'95 machine. To reduce the configuration problems, I
installed Debian on the second drive of my partner's machine, reducing the
problem to two Linux machines connected through the same hardware.
Machine one is
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Michael Meskes wrote:
> keyring /home/meskes/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> secret-keyring /home/meskes/.gnupg/secring.gpg
I'm not sure, I think gpg may add them on its own?
> > PGP 2.x compatible signatures can be generated using this command:
> >
> > gpg --rfc-1991 -a --clearsi
Greetings,
There seems to be enough interest to form PDG-LUG (The Philadelphia
Debian GNU/Linux User's Group).
In order to try to accommodate people with families and suburban Debian
GNU/Linux users, we will have an optional ``social hour'' at a Center
City eatery BEFORE the 8:00 PM meeting.
PDG
Title: RE: Release Plans (1999-05-10)
>
> Yes, ...
>
> but mozilla is pretty big, 17MB i think, so the compile will
> use lots of disk
> space and compile time, so i prefer to know if it should
> work, or if there
> should be major problems to it, and not discover after a
> night's compil
My own reasons for wanting these updates in there is that we go frozen, and then
a major release comes out. Suddenly, Debian may be more stable, but MAJOR
packages are out of date. If we have the "updated" section available on the ftp
site, we can have these packages there for people to install,
On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:02:40 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> Glad to hear all of this. I just have one comment:
>>
>> > - The mktexlsr, mktexdir and mktexupd scripts must not be setuid.
>> >If they are, anyone could run them, which is unnecessary. Any
>> >extra privileges they requ
This is why I suggested the new area, apart from main, non-free, and contrib.
People who want the updates should have a nice, easily accessable place to find
these packages. From a system administration standpoint, it's nice to know
EXACTLY where to go to update the entire distribution automatical
Thank you Josip :)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:29:28AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> > How is the other nicname "chiark", "elrangen", and "giano" named ?
> > Are they named after the name of the location ?
>
> The machines
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:25:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > gpgm is not available anymore. I don't have an idea whether this is by
> > design.
>
> Oh? Hmm that I should look into, I've been using it :|
It is by desing. As of version 0.9.6.
--
Mike
I agree, I would like to see a system where major releases and minor
releases exist. (No, we really do not have this as I envision it). The
major releases would be the base system and libraries
(libc, X, kernel, compilers, etc) and the minor releases would be much
more frequent and only be non cr
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:26:09AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> > The machines had those names in their FQDNs, ftp.uni-erlangen.de,
> > chiark.greenend.ac.uk, giano.com.dist.unige.it.
>
> uhm,,, the FQDN of the new upload-queue host is "master.debian.or.jp",,,
>
> Do you feel that "debian-jp" i
The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload:
Package: ttfprint
Version: 0.9-1
Section: text
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung
Installed-Size: 246
Maintainer: Anthony Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
Ttfprint takes a Chine
Dale Scheetz writes:
> The only thing that looks strange here is the Bcast: and Mask:, but I
> didn't set them. It isn't clear that this is the failure either.
The ifconfig output looks fine. What does 'route -n' say?
--
John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PRO
Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > It's in project/misc/debianqueued-0.8.tar.gz. It's no proper Debian
> > > package because it runs on other Unixes, too (mine runs under
> > > Solaris).
> >
> > Hmm, why does that prevent you from packaging it? :>
>
> It doesn't really :-), but:
>
>
On 14 May 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> Dale Scheetz writes:
> > The only thing that looks strange here is the Bcast: and Mask:, but I
> > didn't set them. It isn't clear that this is the failure either.
>
> The ifconfig output looks fine. What does 'route -n' say?
I have had several suggestions,
David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is why I suggested the new area, apart from main, non-free, and
> contrib. People who want the updates should have a nice, easily
> accessable place to find these packages. From a system
> administration standpoint, it's nice to know EXACTLY where
I'm going to be in London next week (17/5 - 23/5) and would like
to meet up with other developers, so that I don't have to be all
alone at the pub :). Some key signing would also be nice...
Private email, please, let's not clutter the list even more...
--
We are GNU. You will be GPL'ed. Re
On Fri, 14 May 1999, David Bristel wrote:
> My own reasons for wanting these updates in there is that we go
> frozen, and then a major release comes out. Suddenly, Debian
> may be more stable, but MAJOR packages are out of date.
Andrew D Lenharth wrote:
> I agree, I would like to see a system
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is quite different. David said he wanted MAJOR packages included
> in the updates (e.g. X). You said you agreed, yet you talked of _only_
> minor apps being upgraded.
It's probably a good idea to make post-freeze major packages available,
but not
Rxvp is a validating XML parser. It's GPL'd. The code is already present in
Debian in non-free as part of festival (oddly, with a BSD-ish copyright); I
intend to package it as standalone code and possibly as a shared library
programs like festival can link to.
--
see shy jo
>
> Rxvp is a validating XML parser. It's GPL'd. The code is already present in
> Debian in non-free as part of festival (oddly, with a BSD-ish copyright); I
> intend to package it as standalone code and possibly as a shared library
> programs like festival can link to.
>
Is that rxp? I had ann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Rxvp is a validating XML parser. It's GPL'd. The code is already present in
> > Debian in non-free as part of festival (oddly, with a BSD-ish copyright); I
> > intend to package it as standalone code and possibly as a shared library
> > programs like festival can l
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is that rxp? I had announced an intent to package two months ago (never
> appeared in wnpp). If you want it, have fun. The project I was going to use
> it for has dried up.
In fact, the "v" in rxvp seems to be a figment of my imagination. :-) The
package is rxp.
--
The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date.
What can we do as a group to fix this?
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Anthony Wong wrote:
> The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload:
>
> Package: ttfprint
> Version: 0.9-1
> Section: text
> Priority: optional
> Architecture: i386
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung
> Installed-Size: 246
> Maintainer: Anthony W
> This is quite different. David said he wanted MAJOR packages
> included in the updates (e.g. X). You said you agreed, yet you
> talked of _only_ minor apps being upgraded.
>
> I be happier seeing a new X in proposed-updates if it's package
> maintainer were happier with it than the one current
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date.
> What can we do as a group to fix this?
One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS
--
Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the
or[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:29:09PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date.
>
> > What can we do as a group to fix this?
> One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS
Good idea! We just have a w
Here's the summary of what's been going on on debian-policy in the past
week. Let me know if you're finding these useful.
Current and upcoming amendments:
- libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages (#37257)
- logrotation
Active proposals:
- Patented software == non-f
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date.
>
> > What can we do as a group to fix this?
>
> One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS
>
Hmm, so newbie developer issues a bug against wnpp "ITP foo". When foo is
uploaded
>> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> Machine one is 10.1.1.10 and machine two is 10.1.1.20.
I believe the problem is you netmask.
Try
ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net 10.1.1.0
and .20 on the other maschine. You could use tcpdump to watch the
traf
> route add -host 10.1.1.10 dev eth0
> route add -host 10.1.1.20 dev eth0
>
> on both machines, the ping still doesn't work, but I get the PKT light on
> the hub to blink in time with the pings. This seems to indicate that the
> hardware is "doing the right thing". I still think there is something
I'm leaving tomorrow (saturday) on a week vacation to Greece. I'll
be somewhere sailing on the greek waters, trying to work on a tan
and check the sights.
Of course the timing is slightly bad: the discussion period for the logo
vote ends in the middle of the vacation. However I made arrangements
Hello, I am a member of Debian JP and use potato with
kernel 2.2.5.
I asked some question on tetex's environment of PostScript fonts
about ten days ago but I do not have any comments. So I again ask
with slightly arranging the question.
[1] teTeX's status(the latest one, I think)
nsx:~$ dpkg -l
Hi!
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hm... it would be valid, but no one would find it aesthetically
> correct :) But this is all not really important, it's just a
> string in a config file.
Thank you for your comment :) I see.
Other members in JP project told me their ideas: i.e.
"hi
Are there any objections for Ukai's taking charge of
New Maintainers Interview in Japan ?
If not, Please tell me the address to contact about this.
Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the correct address to contact ?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (me :) writes:
> Hi !
>
>
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 06:17:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date.
> >
> > > What can we do as a group to fix this?
> >
> > One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS
> >
>
> Hmm, so newbie developer issues a
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the
John> person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm
John> trying again.
Well, if you're happy for me to have it (again :/), I actually have a
-2 package b
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