Hello,
I intend to make a Debian GNU/Linux Package from "Fwctl". Therefore I will
have to make 2 Packages, one for fwctl and one for
"libnetwork-ipv4address-perl". ipchains-perl is already a debian package.
I have obtened both from http://indev.insu.com/Fwctl/ and will upload the
files soon to th
Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [2] Debian doesn't create this specific hard link, but it should.
> For example, my system has "/usr/bin/perl5.00503".
Well, we do have perl-5.X, sans subversion. Which is admittedly not
exactly what you refer to, but I thought that changes in man
From: "Martin Bialasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp
Date: 24 Sep 1999 09:31:49 +0200
> * "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Joey> You are under the mistaken impression that dh_dhelp is a
> Joey> debhelper program. It's not. Don't use it.
I fo
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 05:59:07PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> The criterion should be utility.
wrong. we've had this censorship discussion many times before. the only
criteria for inclusion in debian is:
- is it free?
- could someone be bothered doing the work of packaging it?
if the
Or crossover cable.
Dave Bristel
On 24 Sep 1999, Ruud de Rooij wrote:
> Date: 24 Sep 1999 17:16:06 +0200
> From: Ruud de Rooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Conference! - aro
According to Michael Alan Dorman:
> Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [2] Debian doesn't create this specific hard link, but it should.
> > For example, my system has "/usr/bin/perl5.00503".
>
> Well, we do have perl-5.X, sans subversion.
That's good, but it breaks the upstream
> In my understanding the bible packages belong into contrib *at
> best*, since it's value to the public is at least questionable if not
> offensive to muslims, buddhists(no not to them), hindus ...
youre trying to be politically correct
yuck !
i hoped for higher level of discusion than in
equal-ri
Here's what's been happening on debian-policy this week.
Please let me know if you think any proposals have a consensus.
Note: for details of the policy process, see
http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/ch3.html. Also, this summary is
available on the web at http://kitenet.net/~joey/policy-week
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:13:27AM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> Okay, then solve the problem of which one should actually work on the
> standard port? You can't use update-alternatives if the software is
> launched in a different manner. If you have such an advanced setup, it
> isn't really tha
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:34:28PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote:
> I do not like the idea of a daemon starting up with a default
> configuration that I have not double checked upon installation. I
> consider automatically starting with no choice a misfeature.
I think I agree.
I got a rude start
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during landfall
> and takeoff, as it interfer with the onboard radio equipement ...
This is a fiction perpetrated by flight attendants because many of them are
too dumb to te
About security on the BTS:
Don't introduce a system with `pre-security', let's use `post-security'...
what do I mean? The following: Make every action undoable and advertised,
e.g.: if someone manipulates a bug in any way the maintainer gets an email.
I think that that's how it's working now, so
* Ruud de Rooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990924 08:40]:
> Michael Neuffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > * Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990923 16:15]:
> > > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > > > Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't useful
> > to them, why don't we look at the popularity contest? A simple, bias-free
> > way of seperating programs on to the CD's,
Am 24.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ...
Moin Joey!
JH> > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for
JH> > dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no?
I would recommend using dwww and dhelp directly. dhelp#s parser is written
in C and uses a databa
Excerpts from debian: 25-Sep-99 Re: Useless packages (was R.. by David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Is there any reason to think it's not correct? More importantly, even
> if it is somewhat wrong, is there any reason to think it's not better
> than what we have?
Well, accurate for the data it gets doesn'
The Doctor What wrote:
> Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to even
> run *upon install*?
Because we need to decrease the number of questions asked at install time,
not increase it.
--
see shy jo
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:02:44AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> The Doctor What wrote:
> > Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to even
> > run *upon install*?
>
> Because we need to decrease the number of questions asked at install time,
> not increase it.
How about
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) writes:
> Am 24.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ...
>
> Moin Joey!
>
> JH> > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for
> JH> > dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no?
>
> I would recommend using dwww and dhelp dir
Also most daemons should fail binding to a port if multiple ones are installed
and they automatically
start. So unless they have conflicting files they shouldn't conflict. Instead
of conflicting
each package that suplies foo-daemon should just spit out an warning message on
install saying that
Seth R Arnold wrote:
> How about add one question: "Automatically start all daemons: [Y/n]"
>
> If they answer yes, then no questions. If they answer no, ask as many
> questions as you want. :)
>
> Of course, the downside of this particular question is ... not *all* daemons
> should be automatica
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Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>More specifically it is dpkg doing the breaking, but it's perl's fault on
>how it is setting everything up.
>
>You will note that these two binaries are in the perl package itself
>
>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom)
Subject: XEmacs21 project status.
Date: 23 Sep 1999 14:40:37 -0700
> As I mentioned, I will be returning to work soonish... within a week
> or two. I just verified that an anon CVS will work from "master".
> If anyone would like to have a look (please
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> I inherited this when I inherited the package in November of 1995. It
> was setup this way so that after the removal of the previous Perl
> package and before the installation of a new Perl package, there was
> still a Perl available. Since we always needed a Per
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:51:36AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't useful
> > > to them, why don't we look at the popularity conte
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:15:06AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote:
> Package: bluefish (main)
> Maintainer: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 45747 bluefish:
This bug is about an alpha compilation error, which was diagnosed and
fixed in July. The fix is not yet released, so I'm talk
* Michael Neuffer said:
> * Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990923 16:15]:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > > Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
> > > match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
> > >
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:39:41AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during landfall
> > and takeoff, as it interfer with the onboard radio equipement ...
>
> This is a fict
Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> You can easily override this on the command line or in the environment.
>
well...
Script started on Sat Sep 25 08:28:41 1999
lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ ls -l /usr/bin/{,e}gcc
ls: /usr/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why? What is the advantage of using doc-base?
You may want to read the documentation of doc-base...
It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can
automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using one
special format. doc-base give
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:31:08PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ alias gcc=egcc
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ make bzImage
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep
> scripts/mkdep.c
> make: gc
Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> Of course not, if you want to change the compiler for stuff like dependencies,
> you need to set HOSTCC. But for the problem at hand, which is compiling the
> actual kernel with gcc272, CC works just fine.
Doesn't work either:
lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:14:11PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>
> Doesn't work either:
>
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ export
> HOSTCC=/usr/bin/egcc
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ echo $HOSTCC $CC
> /usr/bin/egcc /usr/bin/egcc
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel
>
> make bzImage HOSTCC=/usr/bin/egcs
Indeed it does. I was too busy looking for a way to do it in the
environment... Can one use this with make-kpkg as well?
---
Filip Van Raemdonck
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
member of the
Hello,
just in case anybody is interested, i put the deb package for fwctl on my
experimatel debian archive: http://sites.inka.de/lina/debian/
fwctl*deb (depends in libnetwork-ipv4add-perl) is a tool which can generate
ipchains rules from a higher level config file.
The package is not yet start
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:23:42PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> >
> > make bzImage HOSTCC=/usr/bin/egcs
>
> Indeed it does. I was too busy looking for a way to do it in the
> environment... Can one use this with make-kpkg as well?
Probably not, perhaps you can make a patch...
--
Debian G
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:42:28AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> I notice that bash doesn't do any shenanigans like this. Is this a
> relic of bygone days and I don't need to do this funky stuff anymore?
> That would make things much easier for me.
Nothing to do but test :)
Ben
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 03:00:35AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> > I inherited this when I inherited the package in November of 1995. It
> > was setup this way so that after the removal of the previous Perl
> > package and before the installation of a new Perl package
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:02:44AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> The Doctor What wrote:
> > Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to even
> > run *upon install*?
>
> Because we need to decrease the number of questions asked at install time,
> not increase it.
Bzzt. Secu
Estimado Amigo y
Hermano:
Cierto día una voz en mi interior me pidió hacer algo por este
mundo, el único mundo donde podemos vivir.
Quiero pedirte en nombre de todos los
niños y las personas que sufren el dolor de perder a sus seres qu
http://www.linux-expo.com/international/index.html
bst regards.
Frederic.
Hello again Joey,
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Helen McCall wrote:
> > In the meanwhile; If you are prepared to accept funding from such a
> > source, there is always NATO. They fund many such things if they are
> > giving good participation to what NATO calls "Sensitive Areas".
>
> W
Previously Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > This bug is already known, reported, and is promised to be fixed in
> > the next dpkg(-source) upload.
I uploaded dpkg 1.4.1.11 yesterday which fixes this. It is currently
sitting in Incoming, so keep a close look at your
* "Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:02:44AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
>> The Doctor What wrote:
>> > Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to
>> > even
>> > run *upon install*?
>>
>> Because we need to decrease
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:27:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> The proposal, as I can see it, is to write a PAM module that could
> be added to /etc/pam.d/passwd to ask whether the just-changed root
> password should be cloned into the sashroot account. And that's a
> really elegant and clean s
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 03:32:25PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bzzt. Security is more important than usability. We're not building
>> windows 2000 here...
>
> Ii I install a daemon, I want to use it.
That doesn't account for daemons installed by
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 13:59:16 +0100, Helen McCall wrote:
> What is needed is for someone to compile a list of all Debian Developers
> and their geographical addresses.
We're already doing that - see https://db.debian.org .
Ray
--
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messa
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:29:35PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:39:41AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during
> > > landfall
> > > and ta
* Raul Miller said:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:27:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > The proposal, as I can see it, is to write a PAM module that could
> > be added to /etc/pam.d/passwd to ask whether the just-changed root
> > password should be cloned into the sashroot account. And that's a
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 24 Sep 1999, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>
> > In my understanding the bible packages belong into contrib *at
> > best*, since it's value to the public is at least questionable if not
> > offensive to muslims, buddhists(no not to them), hindus ...
>
>
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:11:17AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > Ii I install a daemon, I want to use it.
Do you want it for personal use, or do you want it available as a
public service?
--
Raul
Joey Hess writes:
> Ideally, if debconf were used, this one question would be asked the first
> time you install a daemon, and all other daemons would inherit it
> thereafter. Quite easily done with debconf..
That's the ideal, but what is the policy now? Should chrony ask a question
in its postin
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:18:04PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:51:36AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > Instead of each developer chose what packages are and
Greetings, I originally send this message to debian-powerpc and was informed
that this was a general problem. Any help would be appreciated.
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* "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Raul> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:11:17AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>> > Ii I install a daemon, I want to use it.
Raul> Do you want it for personal use, or do you want it available as a
Raul> public service?
If I install a finger daemon, I wa
On Fri, 24 September 1999 09:12:31 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> This is all very well, except for those of us who email from work, and
> have their PGP key at home...
Best point of all.
At work even on a "private" box my co-workers also have root
on it. I don't dare having my private key there.
Country Codes is an ISO 3166 country code finder. I'll upload it as
"countrycodes". Here is some example output:
% iso3166 -d ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk
Domain name : ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk
Top domain : uk (Great Bretain (iso 3166 code is gb))
Sub domain #1: org (Organizations)
Helen McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just been looking at the NATO web site, and they appear to have
> changed for the better in recent years. Now they make no reference to
> sensitive areas. Their science and technology programmes are now more
> generally aimed at promoting world pea
On 25 Sep 1999, Craig Brozef wrote:
>
> Uhm, they did just bomb Yugoslavia into the stone age...
and
> I hope that Debian does not resort to begging bald-faced liars.
Would it not be better if the money is spent on Debian than if on warfare?
--free software, not bombs--
ciao
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
: Dear Security Staff:
:I received 2086 connection attempts at several ports on September 22.
: The attempts were made from IP address pavlov.midco.net [24.220.0.13]
: The machine whose ports
Now that GNOME 1.0.40 is out for beta testing, I had a look at what needs
to be updated in potato.
Needless to say it would be great to have an up to date GNOME in potato
before the freeze...
==
Prerequisites for the gnome libraries
audiofile-0.1.9.tar.gz Audio file format libr
*Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Mr. Lapeyre,
>
> You do realise that pavlov.midco.net is part of the DNS rotation
> http.us.debian.org?
No, I didn't. I was using the mirror. I am in error. Obviously
the connections to several ports on my machine were a legitmate part
of the transfer of data to my
Hello,
We can do, without GIF, animations and we can generate images from within the
JavaScript source file ( no need to send tons of requests).
The technique has been successfully tested with Navigator 3.0x, 4.0x
and 4.6, and with Internet Explorer 4.0.
This MAY work with Opera ( JavaScript 1.1
This is also a very big issue for those who install "groups" of packages during
the install. I know that I was recently bitten by this when I chose to install
a number of "groups" of packages, and didn't realize that the masquerading and
redirecting versions of inetd were installed. It took some
Hi all,
I would like a couple people to look over this patch I have made to SSH.
It creates a new option that allows ssh to lookup RSA authentication keys
in a global file modeled after the shadow password file. The intent is to
allow users to place their RSA ssh key into the ldap directory and t
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> If nobody can see why this would be a bad idea I will
Jason> deploy this system on db.debian.org and the debian.org
Jason> machines in the near future. I hope that when lsh becomes
Jason> usable a similar patch to
Hello Craig,
I would guess that you are one of Aaron Sloman's students from the
University of Birmingham in the UK. Am I right?
My comment about NATO having improved was in respect of their
previous treatment of countries like Portugal, Greece and Turkey as
"sensitive areas".
My reservations abo
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