> Unfortunately, dselect itself also seems broken---when I select the
> 'U'pdate menu item, dselect exits with the following message:
>
> dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success
ObAOL: ME TOO111
Every item in dselect's main menu die()s with that message. Hmmm.
>clickity-click<
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:03:03PM +0100, Bjoern Brill wrote:
[...]
> I also had to forcibly reinstall with dpkg some "severly broken" packages,
> but I think this was only because I ran out of disk space in
> mid-upgrade (aaargh!).
[...]
Ah, yes. I know the woes of this well. Low disk space ca
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> what do you folks think [about 2.4.0 in potato]?
Gak! I hope not. As a distro, we should be very conservative in what we
put our 'good enough for you' stamp on. 2.3.$bignum/2.4.0 is feature-rich,
but not tested enough to be in deb
I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the
superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of
some programs in 'sbin' directories.
For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in
/usr/sbin). Other (questionable) ones mi
Gak! I'd like to unask the question (and I do promise to have myself
flogged soon) except for Jacob's sub-topic:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different
> catagory that ping?
That, I think, is a good
.2
m4
macutils
mailx
manpages
mime-support
mingetty
minicom
mpg123
pwgen
sc
sgml-base
sysklogd
untex
update
vim-perl
wenglish
wfrench
wvdial
...several packages that install stuff in /usr/man . Do these warrant bug
reports?
- chad
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Chad Miller &l
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:17:20PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Chad Miller wrote:
> > dpkg
>
> Looking at the changelog the dpkg manpage were moved to /usr/share/man
> in version 1.4.1.5, released Tue, 13 Jul 1999. I just checked and I
> have dpkg manpage in
I don't suppose there's a easy way to submit a batch of bug reports, eh?
- chad
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Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG)
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
> Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't suppose there's a easy way to submit a batch of bug reports, eh?
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:17:40PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Just do a
>
> for package in dpkg apt libc gpg bplay etc ; do
> sed
for man pages, tho. Release critical? Unlikely.)
- chad
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Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG)
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced".
First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')
amespace pollution for the majority that doesn't
> use mh (given that mh uses a lot of commands with overly generic names).
>
> If the mh bin directory is in the default path, what's the point?
Agreed.
- chad
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Chad Mil
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:13:22AM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:21:53PM -0500, Chad Miller wrote:
> > [cc debian-devel]
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:07:41PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> > > [...] Who wi
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is there any kind of Hardware Compatibility List for Debian(Woody)?
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:19:59PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Boot a Knoppix CD. If it detects and runs your hardware, it is supported.
> If it doesn't, it isn't.
[...]
> Wasn't there a hardwar
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