Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: > [debian-release: Read this if you care about the details. The executive > summary is to note that openssh 1:4.3p2-8 corrects an RC bug and should > be hinted into testing if its five days expire without any new RC bugs; > also that all other

Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2006-12-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 02:50 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:23:40 +1100, Robert Collins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 23:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: > >> Fortunately, all of this is only necessary for upgrades fro

Re: Moving conffiles between packages, redux

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 12:40 +, Colin Watson wrote: > But from etch onwards, the job consists of putting the file in a > different package and adding a Replaces. There'd be nothing for a > debhelper program to do. Sure, maybe a year ago it would have been worth > it - but it's now too late to

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 21:20 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am packaging a program for debian, and wrote a manpage and two patches > > for making it compile with libwxwindows. I am not very interested in > > being the author list: I would be a bit as

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:54 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Luigi Gangitano said: > > * Package name: squid3 > > > > This is the Squid Internet Object Cache developed by the National > > Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR) and Internet > > volunteers

Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3

2006-04-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:42 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:13:32AM +0200, Luigi Gangitano wrote: > > Squid 3 is not release ready. And with current plans should not > > release with etch. So squid 2.5 needs to stay in unstable/testing at > > least until etch is relea

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4

2006-05-10 Thread Robert Lemmen
cycles of packages that come from the same source are a problem as well, and are in a way forbidden by policy... cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:45 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think the core issue here is if we deem presenting purchased > > identification at an event designed to extend the web of trust > > acceptable behaviour. > > I don't thin

Re: Alternative keysigning procedures

2006-05-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 19:23 -0500, martin f krafft wrote: > Taking this to debian-devel... > > also sprach Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.28.1840 -0500]: > > (c) Allocate partcipants to the groups in a round robin following > > centrality order and starting with the most central. >

Re: These new diffs are great, but...

2006-06-29 Thread Robert Lemmen
ackages file. disabling diffs for file/cdrom urls makes perfect sense imho... cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#377402: ITP: oss-compat -- OSS compatibility package

2006-07-08 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: oss-compat * URL : http://aybabtu.com/rmh/deb/ * License : GPL Description : OSS compatibility package This package ensures that OSS support is provided in some way. On

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-25 Thread Robert Lemmen
lems in many tools, not only apt and dpkg, and also for people. reducing the complexity of the dependency tree *if it does not cost too much* is certainly a worthy goal that will pay off. removing circular dependencies is a way to reduce the complexity a lot that doesn't c

kfreebsd5-source (was: ITP: kfreebsd -- kernel of FreeBSD)

2005-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! In order to ease my maintainance tasks, I'm going to split the kfreebsd5 package into two source packages, as follows: kfreebsd5-source Provides packages "kfreebsd5-source" and "kfreebsd5-headers" kfreebsd5 Build-Depends on "kfreebsd5-source" Provides package "kfreebsd5"

Bug#290427: ITP: ltsp-utils -- LTSP administration utilities

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ltsp-utils Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : James McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ltsp.org/ * License : GPL Description : LTSP administration utilities Utilities for installing and managin

Bug#290421: ITP: zeiberbude -- A program for administering internet cafes.

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: zeiberbude Version : 2.0.4 Upstream Author : Christian Toepp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://zeiberbude.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A program for administering internet cafes. The pack

Re: debian-1.0 availability

1995-12-08 Thread Robert Leslie
I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu doesn't even carry the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers debian-1.0. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mount-2.5-1

1995-12-11 Thread Robert Leslie
Date: 12 Dec 95 02:22 UT Source: mount Binary: mount Version: 2.5-1 Description: mount: mount, umount, swapon, and swapoff. Priority: Low Changes: Upgraded to 2.5; built for ELF. Files: -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 45387 Dec 11 21:20 mount-2.5-1.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob

Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-12 Thread Robert Leslie
suggest the sysvinit scripts should indeed be changed. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/fstab.sample

1995-12-13 Thread Robert Leslie
As long as I've been updating the mount package, I have a question: The mount package contains a "configuration" file /etc/fstab.sample. Would it not be better to include this file in /usr/doc/examples, or does something actually depend on it being in /etc? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#1363: mount error messages do not match problem

1995-12-13 Thread Robert Leslie
mount point is in > the ramdisk. The problem was a screwed up filesystem. > > So, "mount" needs to be fixed so that it prints appropriate error > messages. Also the install program needs to be fixed so that it won't > let the user make silly mistakes like this. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#1363: mount error messages do not match problem

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
oduced and a solution found, or (b) it is agreed the problem likely no longer exists. (In either case, the report should probably be reassigned to address the installation issue, unless that's already been taken care of?) -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mount-2.5-2 uploaded

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
NB: This version doesn't address the umount -n issue. Date: 14 Dec 95 08:50 UT Source: mount Binary: mount Version: 2.5-2 Description: mount: mount, umount, swapon, and swapoff. Priority: Low Changes: * Added /usr/doc/copyright information * Added libc5 dependency * Enhanced one error mess

Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
#x27;s probably best that `umount' be as flexible as possible. I've sent a request to the util-linux maintainers to see why they changed it and if the option can be restored. Thanks. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

zsh-2.6beta12-1 uploaded

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
-2.6beta12-1.tar.gz 0b5cfa06f80ea1507d1f466e4e51a240 zsh-2.6beta12-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Robert Leslie
in /var/spool/fax instead, and b. This directory (and various subdirectories) are not created during installation (I have no idea what mode they should have?) -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Robert Leslie
> Robert> 2. /usr/bin/fax should probably no longer be listed in conffiles. > > No! It is a conffile because /usr/bin/fax, a bash script, was the > only place to set your local fax settings as serial port, modem capabilities, > INIT strings, phone number, prinyer what have yo

Bug#2034: xbase-3.1.2-5 xdm problems

1995-12-16 Thread Robert Leslie
the preinst script: 30: if [ ! -L /usr/lib/X11 ] 31: then 32: echo "Warning: /usr/lib/X11 was not a symlink. It has been moved to" 33: echo "/usr/lib/X11.old" 34: mv /usr/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11/old 35: fi -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xkeycaps-2.29-1 (new package)

1995-12-16 Thread Robert Leslie
rob156247 Dec 16 06:05 xkeycaps-2.29-1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root93393 Dec 16 06:00 xkeycaps-2.29-1.deb 7b78b5f4e1a44bb62c5aa84810ad8487 xkeycaps-2.29-1.tar.gz d2a87634dc508cd003447fbd7f123326 xkeycaps-2.29-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/X11/Xresources (xbase-3.1.2-5)

1995-12-16 Thread Robert Leslie
the new xterm didn't log anything into utmp; should this really be the default? Thanks. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2039: X server font erosion

1995-12-17 Thread Robert Leslie
G+L=Y-JL%4JM^Z"E%C#C!' MU(OH_("W,U_Z*YI^G697T5JH:X;L?XS!X*_8MC$IE8ZN_63*5LL9N@:68QSW M5,$ZU]3.=)(0IGA);6YC&R%[ZE:=\C0H#4LHW.(:][C(_C5!#9D6W.3N":$[ M;*YA>=I;,O:HJHJ2+$7OV,:+>J:!3I2/%*=KLM`"$COI<2/'#*7%6,;MC81= M:6X6QRIHXI:\LD*C5/>+-FHBU;[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"(HN7Q;$!E%-F#Y4UK2L9U4B M4X-2R#C$-*I(A>AF%WO=4&*U'Y$$%M#\6[C%AM6R$1NP7>$72!+C"#AJ=<\H MVUK*MP;)6$Z=:\GJ>M@,X[4H>LUFX!B6,AK?TL8R-J;_W(?BA2(V?HIM;S2* [EMAIL PROTECTED]&VZ4X7.KJ\NTBSU7CSE]"IP:X,ZIV4>N+*,@HG';R"G4._H MYJ%^ZUS*M132V`!5H=UWQ2SX_NU`S88FB:907W8]^Z$1ZGT.PG5KR3OILWW83<,-2AA6'9VV*MI!Y M?]YD[*MW[.7&@1EM8L9EQ&$]Y$6!]H=J+F)IMRS:-]OV*G(>L3E5^MH[$XG> F1=!S(`>II&[EMAIL PROTECTED]<'[R=NC!%7JEXWET&R[]T0D``#M5 ` end If I can provide any more helpful information, I will do so gladly. Thanks for any help. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2043: genksyms

1995-12-17 Thread Robert Leslie
t least expects to find it in /sbin. I made a symlink to pacify my system, but perhaps it should really be moved there? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2043: genksyms

1995-12-18 Thread Robert Leslie
nel makefile calls /sbin/genksyms explicitly, which is why I think *something* ought to be there. Actually I see now it is a kernel version issue: 1.2.13 calls /usr/bin/genksyms, while 1.3.47 calls /sbin/genksyms. What to do? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2045: smb[u]mount not suid root

1995-12-18 Thread Robert Leslie
installed suid root, they should also probably go in /bin or /usr/bin rather than /sbin? I'd prefer /usr/bin, but either would be fine. Thanks. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2045: smb[u]mount not suid root

1995-12-18 Thread Robert Leslie
rship of all files and directories to be the same as the user who mounted the filesystem. So, it doesn't work well to require root to mount an SMB filesystem for a user (say, the user's home directory on an SMB server) because all the files will effectively be owned by root. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ELF flex

1995-12-19 Thread Robert Leslie
off your hands. Feedback appreciated. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New ftp method for dselect

1995-12-19 Thread Robert Leslie
this will be kinder to software needing to parse package names. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2052: find over NFS

1995-12-19 Thread Robert Leslie
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-21 The `checksecurity' script should probably ignore NFS filesystems, or at least NFS filesystems which are mounted nodev && (nosuid || noexec). Otherwise this can have miserable effects esp. when the path to the NFS server crosses 14.4Kbps links. --

David J Meltzer: mailx-5.5 (slackware /bin/mail) security hole

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
FYI -- This appears to affect Debian's mailx as well. Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Forwarded Message Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 17:35:01 -0500 From: David J Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mailx-5.5 (slackware /bin/ma

Re: ELF flex

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
lex-2.5.2-2.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root rob129524 Dec 23 02:36 flex-2.5.2-2.deb b1f9161bb387a5f7261ad7a5d441493b flex-2.5.2-2.tar.gz d6ac69a49dd1808a05a163c39a10b4dd flex-2.5.2-2.diff.gz 54c0a83418af27526f3b617f3b07248b flex-2.5.2-2.deb Happy Holidays. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bind-4.9.3BETA26-3 uploaded

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
21:20 bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.deb 8aff8d674f3fd05ff8d830e09e442e9f bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.tar.gz 68de1d709aa1fe4e3eae526aee2153d2 bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.diff.gz a25d1e7a0bd8e7fa5d3ecac1d4bafe7d bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

figlet-2.1.1-1 uploaded

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
root root51163 Dec 23 23:22 figlet-2.1.1-1.deb a0cae762bfad7cae84e14373f11dccb3 figlet-2.1.1-1.tar.gz 51c6fd9d6018ed91af1777304174469d figlet-2.1.1-1.diff.gz 10d715c6fb1e9b940d31c276b5c3db65 figlet-2.1.1-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

zsh-2.6beta13-1 uploaded

1995-12-24 Thread Robert Leslie
9318701243ba104a6a25e54baf5dbf09 zsh-2.6beta13-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-29 Thread Robert Leslie
own into the resulting shell command above. I've tried many variations on quoting and backslashing, and none seem to give the desired results. Any ideas, or can this be classified as a bug? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4380: crippled anon ftp

1996-09-02 Thread Robert Komanec
ftpd(8)] seems to me the same as wu-ftpd(8). And the same maintainer... -- Robert Komanec mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UMEL FEI VUTcheck out if http://www.umel.fee.vutbr.cz is alive

Bug#4474: dpkg versus cron and at

1996-09-11 Thread Robert Komanec
t... :Approximate total space required: 0k :Do you want to select the files to get [n]: and NO files are downloaded, installed etc etc. The status changes to the original state then. (I got no responses from linux.debian.users) -- Robert Komanec mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] using MIME UMEL FEI VU

Bug#4491: msqld puts .tmp in wrong place

1996-09-14 Thread Robert Leslie
. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4511: nvi out of date

1996-09-19 Thread Robert Leslie
Package: nvi Version: 1.34-13 This version of nvi is quite old. Please can it be updated to 1.76 or later? It can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.bostic.com/pub/nvi-1.76.tar.gz Thanks, -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

archive help

1999-09-26 Thread Robert Thorncrantz

mod_perl unhappy with libxml-parser-perl

2000-03-08 Thread Robert Coie
stribution. -- Robert Coie Implementor, Apropos Ltd.

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Robert Thomson
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 06:30:40PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > i don't really feel that this issue pertains specifically to the kernel, or > X, or apache. it has much more to do with the fact that our release practice > makes it impossible to have Good Software Now. we spend all of our time > fixin

Re: aptitude

2000-03-15 Thread Robert Ramiega
PC. I tried to find it on download.stormix.com but failed -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate UIN: 13201047 | http://www.plukwa.net/ | the power of Source

ITP mgeupsd

2000-03-16 Thread Robert Stone
port of some kind of dos/ms-win software). This works for me, and I think other debianers with this family of UPSs might appriciate it. -Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with finger fo

Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Robert Thomson
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:24:47PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > One other question: Does anyone think having a "never ask about this > > config file again" option is a good thing? I'm torn. > > Not on a per-conffile basis, I think. Maybe there should be a way to make > the default for _all_ conffil

Intent to package: distmp3

2000-03-17 Thread Robert Woodcock
se shortly that places it under the GPL. Because it requires an mp3 encoder to function, it will go in contrib. Once it's there, I can make abcde use it transparently :) -- Robert Woodcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To the other one percent -- thanks for the passion and color!" -- Jeff Bezos

Re: aptitude

2000-03-18 Thread Robert Ramiega
. Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate UIN: 13201047 | http://www.plukwa.net/ | the power of Source

Re: noninteractive upgrades of packages

2000-03-21 Thread Robert Thomson
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:02:31PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > I'm interested in being able to upgrade packages noninteractively, > assuming that the postinst script itself is noninteractive. Search as > I might however, I can't find any easy way around dpkg's handling of > conffiles. I'm quite

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-22 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
"Martin Bialasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So a note that GNOME packages are available from the regular Debian > mirrors would be sufficient, no? Perhaps linking to an up-to-date list, like http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=gnome&searchon=names&version=unstable&rel

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-22 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Dylan Paul Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? traceroute is "deeper" than ping. It exposes things that the casual user neither sees

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Jacob Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > traceroute is "deeper" than ping. > > and that changes something? one cannot assume that because someone is not > logged in as root, they are a casual user. Why not? Non-casual users can start these programs from sbin nonetheless (see FHS rationale for

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:24:42PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Dylan Paul Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Robert Varga
and one needs to convert Redhat compatibility libraries to be able install it, and a patch from Oracle. I have heard it also broke Applixware, but I am not sure. Robert Varga

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unless the darkish colours get used as alternate background colours, they > are wasted. There only are 16 colours, so deciding to never use 4 > ({dark ,}{blue,red}) of them seems like a bad idea. Brightening them up so > they look good on a black backg

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Without going in depth as to what traceroute and ping are (a fruitless flame > war) Facts can not build a flame war. Opinions (about "depth" or somesuch) can. > suffice it to say that I disagree with your "deeper"

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the case of terminal colours, I thought most people really did > use black bg terminals, or at least dark something, like blue. Also, > real VT100s and VT220s have black bg screens with amber text. > There's a precedent for black bg terminals outside o

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-25 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > > > The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat > > > com

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-25 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Chris Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my question is, what are your thoughts on adding a signature to the > current Packages.gz file, or adding a similar *dsc file for it, > which is then signed? Do you want to sign each package entry, or the whole file? Whose signature would be used? > T

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Anthony Towns writes: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Do you want to sign each package entry, or the whole file? > > The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at least three minutes > on my hardware, and god knows how long on a

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes I know, I should probably extract all the "identities" from a single > PGP/GPG key and look for all those adresses in the Packages file. Or > something like that. Hmm, /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg lists 278 identities, while the Maintain

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Anthony Towns writes: > The only reason not to trust a key dinstall uses explicitly for signing > Packages is if you believe dinstall is compromised. If you believe that, > then you shouldn't be downloading .deb's *ever*, because you're immediately > running *untrusted* scripts as root on your sy

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Taupter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was poking update-alternatives, but didn't find a way to point my > default window manager to /usr/local/bin/gnome-session. FWIW, gnome-session is not a window manager. If you're sure you want to do that, you could issue: update-alternatives --install /usr

Re: Removing compiled-by-hand packages

2000-03-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Taupter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Does Debian install any stuff inside /usr/local ? That would be a bug. You can make sure with "dpkg -S /usr/local" (or "dlocate /usr/local" if you have the dlocate package) > 2. Is secure to the system integrity to _wipe_ /usr/local (no > daemons/services

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Anthony Towns writes: > Well, it'd be nice to be able to do so, to verify that a mirror hasn't > been compromised, but no, you're right. Actually I don't care that much if the mirror is compromised, if it affects only packages that I don't install. If it affects some of those packages, I will no

Re: MiniVend Debian package

2000-03-29 Thread Robert Ramiega
packages somewhere also? (www.ecoservice.de would be great as i'm from Poland too) I'm using PowerPC and would like to try MiniVend -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate UIN: 13201047 | http://www.plukwa.net/ | the power of Source

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
(I'm also a first-time aptitude user) Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Remark: I think I would find the overloading of the '-' key confusing. > Please consider using a different key for hold operations. 'h' seems > intuitive but might be pressed by novices as an attempt to get hel

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > most of the recent spam would have been blocked by using MAPS RSS > (relays.mail-abuse.org), though...and not by MAPS DUL. > > IMO, we should use both. individually they are quite effective in > blocking spam, but they are even better when used together

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:12:10PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Before all useful points are lost in the flamage, may I suggest that a > > X-Filtered-By: DUL > > or similar header be added to all list mail? >

Re: Strange behaviour

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I usually run my shell with LC_ALL set to de_DE. Calling 'printf "%1.1f\n" 1' > then gives me 1,0 which is the correct answer under the german locale. > > Now I unset LC_ALL to get the command to print 1.0 but wasn't able > to. printf is a bash builti

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-31 Thread Robert Hunter
f "route" prints its usage based on a 80x50 terminal - and does not output to stdout, so the user cannot pipe through "more" or similar! It is a good idea never to assume anything. -- Robert Hunter "I pack meat"

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-04-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but you have not "the right" (what loaded words!) to close the bug > reports. Feel free to ignore them, but don't close them without a better > reason. If communication with the reporter is necessary to fix the bug, and this communication is bro

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Anthony Towns writes: > There is an existing single-point vulnerability in *every* > mirror. Compromise the mirror and you can compromise every single Debian > user who upgrades from that mirror. You don't even have to try touching > anything at *.debian.org. Yes, and I'd very much see this vuln

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my home machine, I have an identity in .ssh/identity.pub. > I copied that into .ssh/authorized_keys on master (possibly using the > LDAP system). > I *also* copied it into .ssh/authorized_keys on my home machine. > > That extra copy on my home machin

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All packages can run things as root. Even the most simple game. Doing clandestine things in a install-script is harder than in a binary. -- Robbe

Re: DUL

2000-04-03 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
First I'd like to know what "dialup" includes means for you. Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It does seem that some people do find it beneficial to send mail > direct from their dialups (static or dynamic). I don't understand why > they think this is a good idea, There are apparently

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Anthony Towns writes: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 07:44:56PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Note that *any* keys that your agent holds can be snarfed by the > > admin(s) of any hosts where you ssh-in with agent forwarding enabled. > > As I understand it, you can't

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-03 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
intainer's key. The new keyring just includes a new version of the kicked maintainer's key with one additional revocation-signature. This new signature tells that this key is no longer trusted. Example: $ gpg --check-sigs testkey pub 1024D/36FF3F58 1999-07-24 Robert Bihlmeyer (Testkey -

Re: ANNOUNCE: First official release of "apt-show-source"

2000-09-01 Thread Robert Ramiega
imes lagged). It's very tedious task to lookup if there is newer version of Debian package available in sources. At least i find it very usefull (well right now i'm judging only on the basis of this mail <>) -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: _Jedi_ | Don&#x

Re: Odd 4 (figure four) - appears almost like two colons

2000-12-23 Thread Robert Edmonds
x G400. switching VTs and back fixes it, temporarily. switching to 24 bpp color fixes it permanently. -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Broken dpkg-source in the newest dpkg (warning).

2001-01-05 Thread Robert Luberda
acked with dpkg-source in version < 1.8. So I think that probably the best solution of the problem is to revert changes made in dpkg-source 1.8. Regards, Robert -- Robert Luberda * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * GnuPG: AEE0 1F85 3E63 8BAA CDF1 3D18 4E18 7570 9D30 9C3B *

Re: debian-x86-64 mailing list has been created

2003-05-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 10:34:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > $Subject. Enjoy. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-x86-64/ thanks Josip! CCing debian-devel as there likely are people interested around. -- Robert Millan make: *** No rule to make target `war'. Sto

Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license

2003-06-02 Thread Robert McQueen
(cc'ing debian-devel to discourage people from ITPing this, or filing more wishlist bugs on Gaim for me to include it, cc'ing Gentoo's maintainer for the Gaim emerge because they include Gaim-Encryption, cc'ing gaim-devel so everyone there knows, cc'ing fedora-devel because they currently ship the

Re: Gaim-Encryption plugin violates Gaim's license#

2003-06-02 Thread Robert McQueen
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:25:32AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > It should be noted that this can only be a violation of the GPL if > someone is distributing the encryption plugin in binary form. (Does > Gentoo distribute binaries of this software?) It is generally held that > it would also *not

Bug#198190: ITP: upx-ucl-beta -- an efficient live-compressor for executables (beta version)

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Luberda
- support playstation exes and probably has a lot of known and unknown bugs, so please use it only for testing! . NOTE: This package is based on the UCL library, which is licensed under GPL. Regards, Robert

Re: Developer Accessible Hurd Machine

2003-06-25 Thread Robert Millan
chine at a Hurd > developer's home or work. > > -devel: Is this something developers would like? > > -hurd: If consensus says we proceed, are there any volunteers for > hosting this? > > Please include me to replies to -hurd since I am not on that list. -- Robert Millan

Bug#200153: ITP: e2tools -- utilities for manipulating files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem

2003-07-05 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-05 Severity: wishlist * Package name: e2tools Version : 0.0.13 Upstream Author : Keith Sheffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://home.earthlink.net/~k_sheff/sw/e2tools/index.html * License : GPL Descripti

Re: Bug#200153: ITP: e2tools -- utilities for manipulating files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem

2003-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:35:29PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:24:21PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > E2tools is a simple set of GPL'ed utilities to read, write, and manipulate > > files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem. > > please exc

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-10 Thread Robert Millan
GNU version (which might be an incredibly bleeding-edge > pre-alpha thing, like for example mailutils was not so long ago)? bleeding-edge pre-alpha thing... well task-gnu-only will include the Hurd, won't it? ;) -- Robert Millan

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:58:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > One question: what's the point? Surely you want the best, not > > > neces

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-12 Thread Robert Jördens
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Oh guys. I'm waiting some 500 days now. I think that's a record (the current is around 470). And I'm still working and contributing. Some nice other DDs stepped forward and wrote mails to the DAM but that didn't cause anything. Robert. As

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Robert Lemmen
ld on m68k or arm is broken and needs to be fixed, even if it works on x86 by chance! cu robert pgpgsFwbEpqfT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Robert Lemmen
;t because i have no access to any arch except x86 and alpha. but that is only true for non-DDs like me and (i presume) you, DDs have access to all those architectures. cu robert pgpZltHXVd16H.pgp Description: PGP signature

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