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ash internal). The second
of these is easily fixed (thanks to PMM) but the first and third
make me wonder if it should just be removed (and people encouraged
to use fort77 which solves the problem in a much more powerful
and elegant way). Any comments?
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n the best position for a new release as my own
machines are net-connected via a 1200 baud modem. When term recommences I'll
certainly do a new release. Alternatively I could fix the source (on my SGI
box),
if someone else had the time (and disk space!) to do a recompile.
Alan
(g77 and f2c package maintainer)
I intend to package abook (an ncurses address book program):
http://www.linuxstart.com/~jheinonen/abook/
License is GPL.
I have the package ready.
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would like to try and get involved - and personally know a maintainer who
can sponsor me. Should I go for 5.3.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.4 (latest upstream) or
attempting to backport the fixes in 5.2.3 (what is currently in potato)
Alan
f of the changes against the current debian source, get
> it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.
I will have a go then :)
Alan
; potato, check the other thread (I think it's on debian-qa).
Ok then... I won't do anything.
Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something
useful to do :(
Alan
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The citizens of the US have a little more power than the rest of the world,
> in that you have a *vote* as to who gets to fuck the rest of the
> world.
Well, didn't work that way last time...
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> SuSv3 aka POSIX was released one year ago.
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think it's too slow
(as an end-user).
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Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So am I. To bad it isn't lpr compatible at all (at least not
> lprng-lpr).
Well, lprng isn't lpr... but if there are clienty things you want,
you could probably use lprng's clients with CUPS's lpr server.
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Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, look, someone else who CCs when it is obvious the person they're
> responding to is participating right here.
Maybe you should stop whining and just set the Mail-Copies-To header,
which is generally respected by posters on Debian
eps, completes up to /Various\ , and doesn't go
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you don't need join Debian to do it.
I don't know if he really sees any reason as being a good one to try
to join Debian. I'd think the right to vote on policy that would
affect things that contributers are doing would be a good reason, but
nobody ever seems
rly simple username, like dsmith? Those can get caught by
spammers blindly sending to common usernames.
Now, if the username were something like hkja89ZJNhks8S12 and got
spammed, someone in the organization is probably selling usernames,
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On 11/7/09, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14:00:23 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>> On 9/5/09, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>> > change the init.d script
>> > handling to treat upstart jobs as init.d scripts, to provide an
>> > alt
Question #1: For creating packages, as per the suggestions in
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/#AEN88
There is this step that requires you to copy the control file from the
debian subdir to debian/DEBIAN directory. Could someone explain to me why is
this ste
I tried building using make-kpkg with --initrd binary options, and ended up
with a cpio archive. Why? I have no idea.
I looked at the output of the make-kpkg command and was unable to determine
which tool it was using to make the initramfs. I suggest some output be
generated that shows not only
Yes, I'm referring to the initrd.img-2.6.16.XX-bla-di-blah file that is
installed by dpkg when I install the generated kernel-image .deb file that I
created using make-kpkg (--initrd binary)..
On 3/26/07, Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007 12:09, Alan
On 3/26/07, Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007 12:09, Alan Ezust wrote:
> I tried building using make-kpkg with --initrd binary options, and ended
> up with a cpio archive. Why? I have no idea.
An initramfs is a cpio archive.
I am assuming that are you
let's say you need to build from source a program such as "gimp" which has
many library dependencies. You don't know what they are, and you want debian
to auto-install the -dev packages you need. apt-get build-dep is your
friend.
/etc/apt [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get build-dep gimp
Reading package l
Hi - i was wondering, I'm trying to run apt-get upgrade in a
non-interactive shell.
I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a
situation where the package has a configuration file which is newer
than what it is about to replace. I would like it to just replace the
configurat
On 7/5/07, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 05-Jul-07, 14:06 (CDT), Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Do den 5. Jul 2007 um 20:57 schrieb Alan Ezust:
> > I passed -y as an option, and then during the postinst, I have a
> > situation where the
Hi, I have a strange problem with apt-get over https:// protocol
I built apt-0.7.2 from source, for debian etch, because
apt-transport-https was not included in the repository.
Most of the time, apt-get update and apt-get upgrade work fine over
HTTP://, but what I've noticed is that after I chan
reshold is
pretty steep.
The single feature I'd most like to see added to the web interface is
RSS feeds, for the information on qa.debian.org, packages.qa.debian.org
and bugs.debian.org pages. Has anyone looked at doing this before? It
might make a good SoC project for next year?
Hi,
Unfortunately, there was no answer about this licensing issue.
Alan
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 09 August 2007 10:03, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> > > > No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to
>> replace
>> > > > the MS fonts.
&
I want to run alsaconf. It's not there.
i want to run snddevices script. It's not there either.
I search and search the ubuntu forums. In the end, it seems everyone
in ubuntu-land must resort to compiling alsa from SOURCE to get sound
on their laptop. WTF?!?
Obviously ubuntu is having serious prob
True, I *can* install debian, except that I was trying to use Etch,
and etch's installer crashed in the middle of its process, leaving me
with an un-bootable system, due to the recent-ness of my computer. I
didn't try Lenny yet on this laptop (dell D630) so I don't know if
this problem was fixed, b
Wow, that's the first Debian installer that made it all the way
through on this machine.
Thanks!
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On Dec 13, 2007 2:38 AM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:00, Alan Ezust wrote:
> > True, I *can* install debian
Thomas Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> number_pad is your friend. It's far easier to remember the keys.
I used to use the number pad, but then I got a laptop...
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Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and 0.1 are
> equivalent. then -6 > -3.
What exactly do you mean by numerically? Is 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 ==
1.0 == 10 == 10? What should be watched out f
those identical, though. I wonder if
fields should be zero-padded to equal width before comparison? So
comparing 0.01 and 0.1, you'd zero-pad 0.1 -> 0.10, and get the right
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you write a Free Software application that needs to display text,
> but you omit a good font, it's useless.
So all text editors should come with their own font?!
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"H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now that somebody mentioned it -- will /bin/true work, or is that a
> wishlist feature?
Is it in /etc/shells?
Here's what you do:
ln -s /bin/false /usr/local/bin/ftponly
echo /usr/local/bin/ftponly >> /etc/shells
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sory, but why not simply use "cat foo | lpr" ?
Or "rlpr", if you don't want to set up a printcap.
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Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> cat foo | lpr does not work for raw data (e.g. PS files for PS
> printers).
Huh? It works fine, depending on how you set up your filters.
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Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Realistically, are there any C++ apps on the planet that wouldn't choke
> an i386 to death anyway?
groff
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> I hope you can see the obvious flaws in your comments, and can learn
> from your mistakes.
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e "Emacs as an editor" may not make
much sense as a task (only a couple packages), a task which installed
most Emacs add-ons might be useful.
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space, tab and
newline characters. Implementations may ignore the value of IFS in
the environment at the time sh is invoked, treating IFS as if it
were not set.
That seems to indicate that sh is not required to ignore IFS in the
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There are billions and billions of ways you can tweak environment
variables to break shell scripts that don't bother. What's your
point? If I can tweak IFS to change parsing, I can also tweak PATH.
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> There are billions and billions of ways you can tweak environment
> variables to break shell scripts that don't bother. What's your
> point? If I can tweak IFS to change parsing, I can also tweak PATH.
So far, all I've com
Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looking at apmd(8), it seems "change power" would fit, but
> unfortunately it doesn't tell you wheter AC was plugged in or
> out.
Your script could query `apm | grep on-line` or something.
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odds that a different compiler will produce the exact
same files as his are unlikely. It means you have to link against the
exact same libraries as djb.
So, "makes it impossible to distribute binaries that aren't compiled by DJB
himself" sounds pretty accurate to me. It may
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it says ``that a user would obtain by installing''
Sorry, I thought he was referring to binary packages above.
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Well, Jim, I'm not much of an actor either.
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wow, that's the most creative spam I've ever read..it almost was worth the
> effort :)
Except there was really nothing there!
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't exist, which is just plain wrong!
> And it's not happening on potato.
Whee, I switched to Debian in time to catch the fury here, too.
Basically, the situation is:
Take it up with the glibc developers or set LC_COLLATE.
They aren't listening and nobody else can do a
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
so _everyone_ should be showing it as the "o with four little tick
marks". (What a weird character... it has to have a name, right?)
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cal" mailer over mutt, though I don't know whether most of them
can display different charsets correctly, or if they're limited to the
one in the font you specified.)
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David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mutt is pretty good about displaying different charsets, maybe even
> better than some of the "graphical" mailers.
Cool! Useful thing to know.
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The less
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> nope. your content-type was the same; and i opened it up in two
> different rxvt's one (the smaller one) spawned like this:
You're using an iso8859-15 font to display iso8859-1 messages. Don't
you s
Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢)
If you're going to try to use the euro, you should be posting as
"iso-8859-15", not "iso-8859-1".
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generic symbol to
provide a placeholder in a font where a real currency symbol can be
placed.
> However, xemacs-mule doesn't seem to support anything greater then
> ISO-8859-9, so it looks like I am out of luck here.
This is a good place for the Ob"Emacs 21 will support it"
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Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it
> because of a lack of alternatives.
http://subversion.tigris.org
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Pedro Zorzenon Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The author intends to incorporate my patch in the upstream, I'd like to
> know if "getenv" will work in DOS.
It's ANSI C.
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mmon, but that means that
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Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is that a good idea? I know the scripts have changed between GNU and
> Aladdin GS, to make things somewhat more secure. You naturally won't
> be able to use the Aladdin versions in gs-common, but that means that
> you will los
ize a script used by all these packages, which
knows how to translate various sources, so you can do
doc-gen ebook-foo pdf
and have it come out right? Or maybe hook it into debconf so on
installation, the format you wish is autogenerated
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Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is a maintainer, Martin Mares, listed at the top of those files.
> Don't know what the best place for the file is, I'm trying to keep it
> uptodate in the pciutils package (also by Martin).
Probably the kernel
ots of ram, after trying to allocate a REALLY BIG SCREEN.
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Time to check the source
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Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looks like it's only the purity in unstable (1-11). In fact, it looks
> like it's the termios patch put in purity 1-10 that is munging stty
> settings.
Yep, a typo... it wanted to query the settings, but actually set
them. Oops
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Suarez Soto) writes:
> So, am I the only one that even in 17" monitors uses 75dpi fonts?
Are you using 75dpi fonts on a 75dpi monitor, or just using 75dpi
fonts because you like them?
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ould add as much security to have but one copy of those files
modifiable only by root, read-only by anyone else (ie, the bind
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from bind, they can't modify the files... and if they could get root
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:42:24AM -0600, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> I think a BSP is in order.
Is there a dict dictionary with all these debian TLAs in it ?
I've dont think I've heard BSP before.
Alan.
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:40:38PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Alan James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there a dict dictionary with all these debian TLAs in it ?
> > I've dont think I've heard BSP before.
>
> dict-vera contains most
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> I don't know if my locale is causing it or what. The problem is that as
> soon as I try to gpg -e to edit a key I get the following junk.
[23:24:22] wesley:~ $ gpg --help|grep -e -e
-e, --encryptencrypt data
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ry" category?
Yes, you're screwed. If you have useful info in those saved sessions,
downgrade libc and unsuspend... or just remove the std file and
fsck/scandisk/whatever when/if you upgrade to 3.x.
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hink of the FDL as a
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Emacs flavors, or that they should include the byte-code for all
current (and future) Emacs flavors within the one package, even though
for most people that will be useless data?
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Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is debian for maintainers or users?
Users are well-served by not requiring a maintainer to release new
byte-compiled versions of a package for a new flavor of Emacs.
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/usr
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dmesg
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[1.005427] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[1.005432] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[1.005455] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[1.00] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded.
[1.005566] registered taskstats version 1
no problem,
lspci
-
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML
Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI
Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801F
Take two
On Sun, 2014-08-10 at 21:58 +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> On 10/08/14 01:38, Alan Wilson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > dpkg -s firmware-ipw2x00 | grep Version returns:
> >
> > 'Version: 0.36+wheezy.1'
>
> Ok, that is
atter
> of fact, I might not be able to resolve it by myself and if so, I'll
> point you to the correct people who will also require this information.
>
>
> On 08/08/14 03:41, Alan Wilson wrote:
> > Bluetooth seems to be behaving itself since I re-installed the
> > fi
t points?
Comments on any of the above? Do the BSDs have any bright ideas we can steal,
or is their df as embarrassingly bad at handling obscured mount points as
ours?
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FSSTD. What do people suggest I use? I was thinking of
/usr/local/rbootd. Note that the file to be served is NOT supplied with
the rbootd package and has to be provided locally.
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> It's clear that (e.g.) libc accompanies (e.g.) /bin/ls in Debian: They
> are both in main, and the package maintainer makes sure you get libc
> when you get /bin/ls. If you also think that libc is a "section of"
> (see section two) /bin/ls and so on, then the conclusion is clear:
> You're in con
> In my opinion, Qt is not a section of KDE, it is not derived from the
> KDE and it must be considered independent and separate from the KDE.
> In other words: The KDE's usage of the GPL does not cause the GPL, and
> its terms, to apply to Qt.
Indeed Qt is not part of the problem
>
>
> If I say, do what you want with my code, and you incorporate it in a GPL
> app, do you relicense my work? No, and you can't, because you're not the
Yes, you create a combined work bound by the GPL. And the GPL permits
components of a GPL'd item to be freer than GPL (by the GPL definition of
free
> files and libraries being linked together. Does that mean that you
> think Debian should convert libc and so on from the LGPL to the GPL in
> order to comply with the license of the GPL'd applications in main?
Arnt if you stuck to using facts you might be able to have a sensible
discussion
The
> > The GPL'ed apps require that the work as a whole must be distributable
> > "under the terms of the GPL". Do you think that means that I have to
> > re-license the individual parts?
>
> Will Debian remove Motif linked XEmacs from their ftp server?
> According to several Debian developers Motif
> However, the license for that derived work (I'll call it A) claims
> that the whole of A must be GPL'd. However, Qt is not part of A (the
> GPL says "section of"). Qt provides services to A, and A depends on
> those services: A very different thing.
Qt is part of the derived work. It is linked
> It's really a shame KDE chose the GPL. Many BSD people will tell you the
> GPL is the most restrictive free software license there is. It's the only
> widely used free license that prohibits use with a library like Qt under any
> circumstances at all. No special exception for system libraries,
> > And by now Sun would no doubt be shipping a binary only KDE that forbid
> > you to redistribute it and contained fixes you couldnt get back off them
>
> Ehm, the world hasn't gone to hell because not everything is GPL. Take
> for instance companies using FreeBSD, such as Whistle and Best Inte
> > And lots of people haven't kicked stuff back. Why doesn't *BSD run on an
> > SGI Indy - its because the BSD license didnt force all the neat stuff
> > to be contributed back. And there are thousands of other examples like it.
>
> I fail to see how this is all that much different from the GPL
>
ed with it. This is precisely
why an LGPL has to exist.
Alan
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