Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just sendet mailx -s "Merge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<... merge 219863 223355 close 223355 thanks and got the answer mentioned below. In fact my research showed that #219863 does not exist in the BTS. If this is a known issue (probably caused by the current administration issues) forg

Automatical loading 2.6 modules using module-init-tools

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/FAQ tells something about the reason why in RedHat modules are not loaded automatically. I'm missing any statement why this fails in Debian. I'm I missing something or is this a bug (at least a wishlist documentation one)? Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Automatical loading 2.6 modules using module-init-tools

2003-12-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Andreas! On 2003-12-10 8:34 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/FAQ tells something about the reason why > in RedHat modules are not loaded automatically. I'm missing any statement > why this fails in Debian. I'm I missing something or is this a bug (at least > a w

Re: Automatical loading 2.6 modules using module-init-tools

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Andreas Tille wrote: > /usr/share/doc/module-init-tools/FAQ tells something about the reason why > in RedHat modules are not loaded automatically. Sorry for the noise. I just had no module-init-tools installed when installing my self-made kernel-2.6test11 package and thus "de

Re: Initrd and software raid [was: Initrd rocks!]

2003-12-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the kernel raid1 autodetection only works if raid1 is compiled > into the kernel. That is true as explained in: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=105232695713715&w=2 In short, to get autostart with md compiled as modules, you need to

Re: Automatical loading 2.6 modules using module-init-tools

2003-12-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! On 2003-12-10 9:20 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Copy /etc/modprobe.devfs to /etc/modprobe.d/1devfs and run > update-modules. This should regenerate /lib/modules/modprobe.conf. Err, I just see that you didn't tell whether you are using devfs or the "old" ones. In the latter case, this soluti

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I just sendet > > mailx -s "Merge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<... > merge 219863 223355 > close 223355 > thanks > > and got the answer mentioned below. In fact my research showed that #219863 > does not exist in the BTS. #219863

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:22:42AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I just sendet > > > > > > mailx -s "Merge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<... > > > merge 219863 223355 > > > close 223355 >

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I just sendet > > > > mailx -s "Merge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<... > > merge 219863 223355 > > close 223355 > > thanks > > > > and got the answer mentioned below. In fact my research

/usr/bin/xpp with different functionalty in xpp and iraf

2003-12-10 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, since the respective maintainers don't seem to have acted upon this, I will address this here. Policy states: = 10.1. Binaries -- Two different packages must not install programs with different funct

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I just sendet > mailx -s "Merge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<... > merge 219863 223355 ] Debian Bug report logs - #219863 ] Bug is archived. No further changes may be made. > close 223355 You also can't merge an open bug and a closed

Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC, There is a parameter to mdadm (--scan?) that could be used for > this, but when I asked the initrd maintainer I was given a good reason > why it was not used (sorry; I can't remember what this was now; it might > simply be that the mdadm code is unrel

Bug#223536: ITP: xfce4-session -- XFce4 Session Manager

2003-12-10 Thread Oliver M. Bolzer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: xfce4-session Version : 0.1.3+20030922-1 Upstream Author : Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xfce/xfce4/xfce4-session * License

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, the `fu' in kung-fu means something like style or technique, so > apt-fu sort of makes sense if you think of as a tool for doing cool > things using the power of apt... :-) I'm afraid that although the character `fu' has many meanings, but style or

Re: [Firebird-devel] Orphaning Firebird RDBMS

2003-12-10 Thread marius popa
Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: Hi! I haven't (seriously) used Firebird since a year and there's no chance I'll be using anytime soon. It's low maintenance software though as upstream is focused on firebird 1.5/2.0 Therefore I am going to orhpan: * firebird * php4-interbase (depending on firebird) Dro

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:48, Herbert Xu wrote: > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, the `fu' in kung-fu means something like style or technique, so > > apt-fu sort of makes sense if you think of as a tool for doing cool > > things using the power of apt... :-) > > I'm afraid t

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > mailx -s "Merge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<... > merge 219863 223355 > close 223355 > thanks > > and got the answer mentioned below. It's your punishment for using the close command. DON'T! There is no need and no excuse. thank

Revocation list for old packages with security holes (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)

2003-12-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > What can we do with deb signatures? > > > > For our current problem, the integrity of the debian archive being > > questioned, the procedure would be easy and available to every user: > > > > 1. get any clean Debian keyring (or

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Anthony Towns wrote: > What research? It certainly shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/219863 . Not when I tried it some hours ago. I can't reproduce this, sorry. Moreover I wonder why it is missing from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=tipptra

Re: Revocation list for old packages with security holes (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)

2003-12-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > What can we do with deb signatures? > > > > > > For our current problem, the integrity of the debian archive being > > > questioned, the procedure would be easy and available to

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:47:28AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:49:25PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > | Alternate approaches (that involve significantly less work) > > That's the bit that I (and presumably others) am not convinced about. > You keep making this as

Re: Revocation list for old packages with security holes (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julian Mehnle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031210 13:40]: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > What can we do with deb signatures? > > > > > > For our current problem, the integrity of the debian archive being > > > questioned, the procedure would be easy and avail

Re: Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:18:21PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:49:54AM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > > > Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > It's "pass a few more text fields through to the menu methods, and > > >

re: debian pxe dhcp netinstall (debconf enterprise fai etc.)

2003-12-10 Thread Thomas Lange
on ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First i tried "fai", but while i liked the concept of > classes it was to much of a hassle and the number of scripts and > dependencies was to much to understand in 4 hours (after which i gave up). Did you try the simple example DEMO in FAI? Did you read chapte

RE: Revocation list for old packages with security holes

2003-12-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We could use a revocation list where signatures of packages with > > known security holes are listed as being revoked. Of course, you'd > > need to be online to check it when installing/updating packages. > > And the rev

Re: Revocation list for old packages with security holes

2003-12-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > "Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We could use a revocation list where signatures of packages with > > > known security holes are listed as being revoked. Of course, you'd > > > need to be online to chec

Re: Bug reports missing

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:19:57PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Anthony Towns wrote: > > What research? It certainly shows up in http://bugs.debian.org/219863 . > > Not when I tried it some hours ago. I can't reproduce this, sorry. > > Moreover I wonder why it is missing fr

Re: Building a distribution from source?

2003-12-10 Thread Peter Busser
Hello! > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 04:37, Jakob Lell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > maybe Adamantix is what you are wanting to do. It is based on Debian woody > Adamantix in now what we want to do, what we want to do is to improve Debian. ``We''? Who is ``we''? It is unlikely that you are one of them ro

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread Eric Wong
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > FWIW, the `fu' in kung-fu means something like style or technique, so > > apt-fu sort of makes sense if you think of as a tool for doing cool > > things using the power of apt... :-) > > I'm afraid that althoug

ITA: animals -- Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB

2003-12-10 Thread Jim Lynch
Subject says it all. -Jim -- Jam sessions community web site: http://jam.sessionsnet.org

Infinite http redirect loop from people.d.o

2003-12-10 Thread Jamin W. Collins
Not sure if this is still part of the ongoing recovery or something else, but people.d.o is producing an infinite redirect loop for any personal page request. $ telnet people.debian.org 80 Trying 192.25.206.10... Connected to gluck.debian.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET http://people.debian.org

Use opie on Debian central servers to prevent password sniffing?

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Freeman
At http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg3.html it says the Debian machines were compromised by password sniffing from other compromised machines. If you use one time passwords instead, then password sniffing doesn't yield useful information. As you probably know, t

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > > > > In which format shall application packages store > > > their menu information. > > > It doesn't matter, > > If you don't think the problem being discus

Use opie on Debian central servers to prevent password sniffing?

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Freeman
At http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg3.html it says the Debian machines were compromised by password sniffing from other compromised machines. If you use one time passwords instead, then password sniffing doesn't yield useful information and the damage from this

Re: Use opie on Debian central servers to prevent password sniffing?

2003-12-10 Thread Philippe Troin
Tim Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At > http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg3.html > it says the Debian machines were compromised by password sniffing from > other compromised machines. If you use one time passwords instead, > then password sniffing doesn't

Re: Building a distribution from source?

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:44:55PM +0100, Peter Busser wrote: > ``We''? Who is ``we''? It is unlikely that you are one of them royal people, > so > I take it you meant to say: > > Adamantix is not what I want to do, what I want to do is to improve Debian. That is correct, I agree with Russell

Re: Initrd and software raid [was: Initrd rocks!]

2003-12-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Florent Rougon [Wed, Dec 10 2003, 09:48:55AM]: > Note: this starts the root array only; the other arrays are started by a > "mdadm -A -s" from /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid. > > > IIRC, There is a parameter to mdadm (--scan?) that could be used for > > this, but when I asked the initrd

Re: Use opie on Debian central servers to prevent password sniffing?

2003-12-10 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
As I recall you are correct on this, atleast with Stable and testing... I have had OPIE setup for awhile on machines that only have admin accounts and no general user accounts and I recall having to turn off privilege separation on them to get it to work with the challenge-response system.

Re: Use opie on Debian central servers to prevent password sniffing?

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Freeman
From: Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I haven't look at OPIE for ages, but when using it with ssh, doesn't >it force you to turn privilege separation off in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Yes, using opie and pam and sshd all at once requires turning off privilege separation for sshd. Opie protects aga

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Scripsit Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > > If you don't think the problem being discussed matters, why are you > > participating in the discussion? >

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>- how to run madison and wanna-build > > > I thought the idea was for the unrestricted mirror to include a > read-only copy of the database madison consults. > > wanna-build presumably needs more real-time access, though. Ma

Re: recovery status update

2003-12-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:14:08PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - how to run madison and wanna-build > > I thought the idea was for the unrestricted mirror to include a > read-only copy of the database madison consults. > > wanna-build presumably ne

Re: Building a distribution from source?

2003-12-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Peter Busser wrote: > Fair enough. But if I were to improve Debian, I would put PaX in the default > kernel source. If you were to improve Debian, you'd have spent the five minutes it takes to realize that the only two very ways of getting PaX in the default debian kernel source is to get PaX incl

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Re: Building a distribution from source?

2003-12-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:05, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >   That is correct, I agree with Russell.  What _I_ want to do is improve >  Debian.  if for a while I have to go it alone and demonstrate mycode >  and pacakges work then so be it, but the ultimate aim is to improve >  Debian. This

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Henning Makholm wrote: > Have you quantified the "bloat" you are speaking about? Can the same > argument not apply to any i18n effort? Yes, using KDE2. The script removed any lines with "[""]" in them from KDE files (was possible at the time without incurring breakage) and wo

Re: Minneapolis, MN USA BSP + Keysigning

2003-12-10 Thread Scott Dier
Just reminding everyone of the BSP. Remember to RSVP if your coming, thanks! If you have RSVP'ed, thanks! And, for the record, you post your phone number online and *within days* some friggin creditor is looking for you to pay some bill for some other "Scott Dier". Actually, it was some guy's M

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread Miles Bader
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm afraid that although the character `fu' has many meanings, but > style or technique isn't one of them. Hmmm, you seem to be right, I was confused. :-( I don't have a chinese dictionary, but my Japanese dictionary lists a japanese version of kung-fu `ka

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:36:15PM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: | > Have you quantified the "bloat" you are speaking about? Can the same | > argument not apply to any i18n effort? | | Yes, using KDE2. [...] | Yes, the same argument applies to all i18n efforts. | | I18n is great, until disk usage and

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Miles Bader
Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seem to recall reading a number of complaints /from users/ in the BTS, > requesting .desktop files precisely because they are i18nalised. Others > have suggested expanding the current Debian menu definition to handle > i18n. That, to me, sounds like

Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages

2003-12-10 Thread Matthew Grant
Simple. Just take the kernel-source-2.4.34.tar.bz2 tar ball out of the sid system and recompile using make-kpkg under woody, using the apporiate config file On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 18:41, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Where I'm working, we have Debian stable deployed on a number of boxes. For > har

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-10 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃker
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd think that ideally, there could be some system-wide setting that > specified which languages to support (e.g. `english, french, korean'), > and upon installation, i18nalised files would be filtered to strip out > any `unsupported' languages. I suppose

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:54, Miles Bader wrote: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm afraid that although the character `fu' has many meanings, but > > style or technique isn't one of them. > > Hmmm, you seem to be right, I was confused. :-( > > I don't have a chinese dictionary, but