Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

As a user, I have to say that the "Provides/Conflicts" that happens with POP3 servers is annoying. I wanted to look at each of ipopd, gnu-pop3d and cucipop. I could only look at one at a time. It was ok in my case, because the machine I was using has very little pop3 traffic. But it was awkwar

Re: nasty slink -> potato upgrade problem

And/or make the new Perl pre-depend on the new apt, so the apt update will happen before anything else? On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > > Trouble ahead? > > Please run "apt-get install apt" before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt > > don't manage well the perl transition. This w

Re: netstd split results in loss of functionality

License problems: namely, there isn't one, and it's not clearly public domain, and nobody knows who the author is. On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Daniel Martin wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Why doesn't netstd depend: on all the packages it previously included? > >

Re: glibc-compat ???

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > > have? > > They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so

Re: RBL report..

This spam issue is so political. If you're stuck with a service provider who has a crappy mail service, and/or who has your IP listed on the DUL, I'll offer a solution. I run an ISP in Canada. We offer shell accounts, on a machine running Debian Potato, for a reasonable price ($10/month, or $60/

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

I just logged in on console as root, and ulimit -a reported 256 processes max. So I don't think the problem is with su. Maybe it's PAM? I wonder where this gets configured? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Brian Greenfield wrote: > >On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uek

Re: (g)mc-4.5.38-2 still broken

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:54:11 +0200 (CEST), Piotr Roszatycki wrote: >No no, it isn't mc script but only function in your ~/.bash_profile or >global /etc/profile. > >I'm afraid many people have some kind of function or aliases related >to _real_ mc binary and current mc wrapper can broke it. > >BTW