Re: Bug#396117: ITP: cpufreq-detect -- detect CPU frequency control driver

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Hanson
to include it into the powermgmt-base package. >> I fully agree, it's silly to create a package for a 2 KB shell script. > > Chris, would you accept the cpufreq-detect script into powermgmt-base? Probably yes, but I'd like to see it before I decide. Does this have to

Re: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-10 Thread Chris Bannister
pported : Sarge(oldstable), Etch(stable), > Not supported: bo, hamm, potato, woody > - > Shortly before Lenny is released: > - > Supported : Etch(oldstable), Lenny(stable) > Not supported: bo, hamm, potato, woody, Sarge Hey ... what about slink? :-

Re: [desktop] ¿Dead?

2006-03-18 Thread Chris Bannister
Kev Which was because of a particulary long squawk? -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysklogd -17.1 NMU build broken in mips/mipsel

2006-04-02 Thread Chris Stromsoe
ome cases daily) log files on busy machines and have to do frequent rotations to avoid losing data at 2gb. sysklogd 1.4.1-17.1 has the patched rules file and builds correctly with lfs. What will it take to get a corrected -17.2 without the #include into stable? -Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Boot
body give me a helping hand in building a basic base-system that I can use to recompile other packages? How about removing all the Java dependencies from gcc-3.3, gettext, et al? Many thanks, Chris -- Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bootc.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Boot
On 29 May 2006, at 18:32, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 13:49 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: I'm starting work again on a thinned-down version of Debian I call PicoDebian. The idea of this new version is to replace glibc with uClibc, and generally slim down various packag

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 22:08 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: SLIND sounds interesting indeed, I've been using a buildroot-built system for mine so it was difficult getting dpkg built in the first place, but I've got it mostly all going. Al

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 30 May 2006, at 08:53, Alexander Shishkin wrote: On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Yes, I can see that could be handy. I'm guessing SLIND is based on woody? No, it is based on testing/unstable. Host part is mostly sa

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 30 May 2006, at 09:12, Alexander Shishkin wrote: On 5/30/06, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just make a list of everything you have installed and rebuild each package one-by-one until you've covered everything. I can't see where the problem is. In the real world (tm)

Software Patents: Was: Re: Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Walters
here can be some serious future problems for the open source community. Just my humble opinion on an old thread, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software Patents: Was: Re: Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Walters
mpany in question has to do is pull a TSR (a defunct role-playing game company notorious for threatening fan sites with lawsuits to get them taken down), and get their patented ideas removed - if that didn't work they could go with a restraining order or actually file the lawsuit... With no intentio

SQL Ledger and PostgreSQL: ID fault on create database

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Forsey
SQL-Ledger for our project.   Any help or guidance will be gratefully received.   Chris *** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by

Re: ping for missing maintainers

2006-06-19 Thread Chris Halls
y updates to these programs recently, and both seem > to have some ignored bugs in the bts such as > #336433 Already tagged pending in the BTS > #312969 Fixed locally but not yet tagged. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ping for missing maintainers

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Halls
e implementations are so different. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make -j in Debian packages

2006-06-25 Thread Chris Waters
t. But I don't actually care enough to write a proposal myself. Unless you guys want to wait until I _happen_ to find enough free time :) -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a s

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-10 Thread Chris Cheney
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:55:30PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Chris Cheney > > | Its all encumbered, there is a separate organization MPEG-LA that > | strictly deals with the licensing. It is quite surprising to me that > | ffmpeg was allowed into main. > > Accord

Bug#290603: ITP: rnc-mode -- editing mode for compact Relax NG syntax

2005-01-14 Thread Chris Lawrence
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: rnc-mode Version : 1.0b3 Upstream Author : David Rosenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.pantor.com/download.html * License : BSD Description : Emacs editing mode for RELAX NG Compact syntax This p

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-22 Thread Chris Cheney
en't "i386", they will be one of the following: darwin-i386 freebsd-i386 hurd-i386 kfreebsd-i386 netbsd-i386 knetbsd-i386 openbsd-i386 So they don't need depends on a kernel either, they just need their arch line to be set for the proper archs they support. Chris -- To UNS

Re: Do all frontends use the dpkg binary?

2005-01-23 Thread Chris Walker
I chose apt. Next time I'll file it against dpkg. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#1840: ncftp problems

1995-11-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: ncftp Version: 2.1.0 It is very easy to confuse ncftp into refusing to allow ^Z to suspend the process. One way I have done this follows (hard to represent visual mode, sorry): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ncftp > o ftp.debian.org > cd /debian/debian-1.0/source Now ^Z won't suspend the session

Bug#1841: man_db problems

1995-11-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: man Version: 2.3.10 1) man -k pattern gives error messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -k ftp apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. apropos: /usr/local/man/whatis: No such file or directory ftpusers (5) - file which lists users who are not allowed to use ft

Bug#1842: pari's user-manual has a permission problem

1995-11-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: pari Version: 1.39 Revision: 3 /usr/doc/pari/user-manual doesn't have global execute permissions on that directory, so it's hard to read the docs as a user. This is under debian 0.93R6, kernel 1.2.13, and libc 4.6.27. -- Christopher J. Fearnley|UNIX SIG Leader at PACS [E

mawk(1) , gawk(1) and package control files (questions)

1995-11-21 Thread Chris Fearnley
I have debianized mawk(1), a pattern scanning and text processing language (it's awk, really). I will upload it as soon as I get ELF installed. For now, I have a few questions on this my first debianization effort. o Why is gawk a required package? And is there any reason why gawk forcibly ins

Re: mawk(1) , gawk(1) and package control files (questions)

1995-11-21 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Bill Mitchell wrote:' > >The following are my best guesses at answers. If I guess wrong, >someone with better information will correct me. Thanks for the feedback. >Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [Deleted first part] >> o I'm not clear on the

Bug#1882: elv-fmt is broken

1995-11-21 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: elv-fmt Version: 1.8pl4-19 When I try to reformat a paragraph, with the command '!}fmt', in elvis, core is dumped. When I do it in vim or nvi, I get garbage instead of a reformatted paragraph. I tried reinstalling (and rebuilding the .deb package for) elv-fmt and the same effects were n

Re: convenience script for building a.out packages

1995-11-28 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Bill Mitchell wrote:' > >Scott Blachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout >> > and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion >> > that it ought to be called s

Bug#1921: dpkg,update-alternatives: 3 problems and a suggested patch

1995-11-28 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.6 1. Missing documentation: No man pages for dpkg, update-rc.d, and update-alternatives. 2. dpkg/update-alternatives doesn't give me the level of installation control I expected. If one wants to install each of elvis/nvi/vim (each of which provides vi), dpkg will a

Re: symlink in /usr/include (fwd)

1995-12-10 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Ian Murdock wrote:' > >How about installing the kernel headers directly in /usr/include, >rather than linking them into /usr/src? I always assumed this was >standard kernel practice. Apparently, I was wrong. Are there any >opinions on the subject? The only problem I see would be if I upgrade m

Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release

1995-12-10 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:' > >> The symlinks for lib*.so are in the runtime package. They should be >> in the -dev package. > >Makes sense. Done. It doesn't make sense to me. I thought that the runtime package would include all of the shared libraries that other programs might need. Isn't tha

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

1995-12-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Bill Mitchell wrote:' > >On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Owen S. Dunn wrote: > >> Package: diff >> Version: 2.7 >> Revision: 5 >> >> This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or >> cmp. > >Too true. It comes with info pages, which are not at all the same thing. > >I think the current

ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-17 Thread Chris Fearnley
This is a preliminary release. It seems to work, but I'm disatisfied with my handling of httpd configuration (basically there is none - you have to edit /etc/httpd/* by hand). And the server though compiled with gdbm support doesn't take advantage of the option of dynamicaly linking in modules.

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:' > >On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote: >> This is a preliminary release. It seems to work, but I'm disatisfied >> with my handling of httpd configuration (basically there is none - you >> have to edit /etc/httpd/* by h

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Alan Dorman wrote:' > >> /usr/lib/apache is my choice for serverroot. Where the documents go >> is site-specific. I'd like to also include an option to chroot httpd >> to /usr/local/http or somesuch. Can dpkg install a package under some >> arbitrary directory? If so then the preinst s

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Raul Miller wrote:' > > apache-httpd provides httpd (as does cern-httpd) so dpkg won't > install one until the other is removed. > >This isn't completely optimal (for the people who want to use apache >but also need a proxy server). Ideally, someone should write up a >mini-howto on how to wor

dpkg Replaces: field (was Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories)

1996-01-03 Thread Chris Fearnley
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > > Raul Miller writes: > Raul> It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and > Raul> that it did originally have some executables in it. > >Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl >Berry's kpathsea in the package n

Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-04 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:' >I've changed the postinst script to create a symbolic link in /var/log, >so that it will (hopefully) work in all cases. It is also backwards >compatible with other programs (UPS watchdogs etc) this way. > >If I don't get any replies saying "this is a bad idea" I'll

Thoughts on Replaces field (was Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories)

1996-01-07 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Ian Jackson wrote:' > >I think I'll have to support `Replaces' or something, so that old >packages can have all their files `taken away' and disappear >eventually. Here's the scenario that I hope a Replaces fiels might resolve. I'm working on the S-lang library. Both most and Midnight Commander

Re: Organizing "non-free"

1996-06-16 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Brian C. White wrote:' > >> > Sorry to bother you again, but I thought non-free was precisely for >> > packages which may not be sold on CDs. Now I am confused. >> >> You're not the only one. For example, shareware programs can be "sold" on CD >> but require payment for use. I'd be more specific

Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

1996-06-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:' > >Bruce wrote: >> Also, we should think about source packaging again. We are welcome to take >> anything we want from RPM source packaging, if that would help. > >RPM has the advantage that it include _pristine_ source (identical >(cmp or md5sum-wise) to the upstream sources,

Bug#3437: fvwm should not recommend fvwm2

1996-06-30 Thread Chris Fearnley
"Christian Hudon wrote:" > > Package: fvwm > Version: 1.24r-24 > > Fvwm shouldn't recommend (nor even suggest, IMO) another version of > itself (i.e. fvwm2). Hmm, I'm not so sure. In principle you are correct, but the fvwm2 package has all the pixmaps needed by fvwm-1.24 and fvwm won't run with

Bug#4081: xosview doesn't install a binary

1996-08-09 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: xosview Version: 1.3.2-4.1 It's in buzz-updates and # ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xosview ls: /usr/X11R6/bin/xosview: No such file or directory After installing the package.

New gawk and mawk packages uploaded, finally

1996-08-09 Thread Chris Fearnley
n the base disks? Here are the .changes files: Date: 08 Aug 96 05:13 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: mawk Version: 1.2.2-2 Binary: mawk Architecture: i386 source Description: mawk: a pattern scanning and text process

Bug#3952: Less annoyances

1996-08-12 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Christoph Lameter wrote:' > >A wish because of the heavy usage of gzipped files under debian: > >- Add functionality for less to automatically recognize a gzipped file >and view it correctly without having to resort to zless. I have code for that (or you can use most): First set some environment

Bug#4064: sendmail should recommend deliver, not depend

1996-08-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:' > >You (Michael Shields) wrote: >> Package: sendmail >> Version: 8.7.5-4 >> >> sendmail depends on deliver. However, in at least two common >> configurations -- null client, and delivery by procmail -- it will run >> perfectly without deliver. sendmail should only

Bug#4103: slrn epends on unavailable slang-lib09931

1996-08-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Maarten Boekhold wrote:' > >On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > >> Package: slrn >> Version: 0.8.8.4-1 >> >> This version of slrn appears to depend on a version of slang-lib that's >> not been packaged yet. slang-lib_0.99.23-1 is the newest version of slang >> I can find as a .deb on ftp.debi

Re: CC's on this mailing list

1996-08-30 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Lars Wirzenius wrote:' > >Spam does make furious, extra Cc's from mailing lists don't. They >just annoy me (see signature), and in theory they do cost me a bit. >Not enough to make me worry about it, but enough to write kilobyte after >kilobyte about it. > >I do wish that people wouldn't Cc me whe

Bug#4292: win32gcc can't exec cc1

1996-09-05 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Thomas Koenig wrote:' > >Package: > >Package: win32gcc >Version: 2.7.2.cygnus.960412-1 > >$ cc -bi386-unknown-cygwin32 -c binary.c >cc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory Hmm ... I installed this, wrote the classic hello world program and: $ i386-unknown-cygwin32

Re: Do we ever retire packages?

1996-09-05 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Meskes wrote:' > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I have argued before that a2ps and a2gs are effectively replaced by >> genscript, and that we should remove them. I think a similar case could be >> made for xosview as we now have procmeter. >> >> Opinions? > >Remove them. Move them to pro

Bug#4433: metamail has confounding postinst

1996-09-08 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: metamail Version: 2.7-8 I'm going to have to read the postinst script to determine what to say to this one: # dpkg --configure metamail Setting up metamail (2.7-8) ... New action 'view' for MIME type 'image/*'... --> package=metamailview=showpicture -viewer "xloadimage -view

Bug#4387: mirror doesn't provide do_unlinks as executable

1996-09-09 Thread Chris Fearnley
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > > Martin> Package: mirror > Martin> Version: 2.8-6 >[...] > Martin> The Debian mirror package only provides this script as an example. > Martin> I would appreciate movin it into the /usr/lib/mirror direcotory and > Martin> linking it to /usr/bin/do_unliks. > >No,

Bug#4449: dselect feedback missing

1996-09-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Barak Pearlmutter wrote:' > >Package: dpkg >Version: 1.2.14elf > >When you go through lots of dselect work editing the package selection >menu, then you're done (whew!) and you hit the big INSTALL button ... > >before dselect goes ahead and installs stuff, it should give you a >very short descript

Bug#4526: popclient now requires a ~/.poprc :(

1996-09-20 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: popclient Version: 3.05-1 $ popclient mail.host /s2/redhat/home/home.cjf//.poprc: No such file or directory This used to work. I'm disappointed that the new version isn't backward compatible. Since I'm resposible for maybe 10 pop servers on 5 different networks, I prefer to just put th

scp method for dupload?

1996-09-20 Thread Chris Fearnley
I was wondering if there is a way to use scp to transfer files to master? This would let me transfer the files without sending the passwd in the clear. I know master supports ssh, but I'm not sure of the procedure. Probably before anyone informs me, I'll have put a new version of mawk into Incom

Bug#4545: dpkg-gencontrol gets it wrong with certain package names

1996-09-21 Thread Chris Fearnley
ed descriptions): Source: slang Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 2.1.1.0 Package: slang0.99.34 Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: A C programming library for user interfaces - shared library S-Lang is a C

Re: Bug#4550: Build of "ae" fails since it's statically linked

1996-09-23 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Dale Scheetz wrote:' > >On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > >> The N option is used to statically link a program. What manpage were you >> looking at? > >The man page is for ld. The gcc man page says ld is used to link. >The gcc man page also says that -static is the proper option for

Bug#4561: dpkg-genchanges puts bad Maintainer: in changes file

1996-09-23 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Yves Arrouye wrote:' > >Package: dpkg-dev >Version: 1.4.0 > >It appears that the Maintainer: field in control is ignored, so the >Maintainer: field in the changes file is made with the name of the user >calling dpkg-genchanges and the name of the host the file is built on. >This is a problem, and

Bug#4567: gpm upgrade from 1.06-3 to 1.10-1 is not smooth

1996-09-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: gpm Version: 1.10-1 I tried installing libgpm1_1.10-1.deb and gpm_1.10-1.deb in that order. The library installed just perfectly, but when gpm's prerm tried to "/etc/init.d/gpm stop" ... it hung. The init.d script calls gpm -k which may have gotten confused by the new library?? I was able

Section: and Priority: in shared libs: Questions and PROPOSAL

1996-09-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
Greetings, I've prepared two binary packages from one "Source: slang" package: slang0.99.34 - A C programming library for user interfaces - shared library slang0.99.34-dev - A C programming library for user interfaces - development kit I wanted to set the following Section and Priority: Pac

New slang packages : jed slrn and other maintainers take note

1996-09-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
I have put my new slang packages on ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf/debian or http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/debian. The only reason I havn't put them on master yet is the questions I just posted regarding Section and Priority fields. Everything else about the package has been as well tested as I can

Re: Problems with dselect...

1996-09-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Dillon wrote:' > > >-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:50:32 -0400 >From: Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Clipped generic complaint about dselect's user unfriendlyness.] Wow one of my USENET "heroes" forwards a mail from another of my USENET "heroes" about

Bug#4601: Several small problems in Apache

1996-09-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: apache Version: 1.1.1-3 Many of the modules offered are called "*required*" which didn't seem to me to be required. Sorry, I forget which ones exactly. But I chose not to load common_log_module and got a syntax error due to the TransferLog directive. I also got a syntax error when "#Lo

Bug#4620: libgdbm1 conflicts with non-existant package perl5

1996-09-28 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: libgdbm1 Version: 1.7.3-11 Conflicts: libgdbm, perl5 (<= 5.002-2), man (<= 2.3.10-5) ^ Should read "perl". There isn't and never was a perl5 package. -- Christopher J. Fearnley|Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Bug#4627: gawk" clean target prevents build

1996-09-29 Thread Chris Fearnley
'llucius wrote:' > >Package: gawk >Version: 3.0.0-4 > >1) "debian/rules" clean target does not ignore errors when doing the >"make distclean" which causes the build to fail since there's nothing >to clean (not even a Makefile). Would you believe I ran into this problem when making my la

Bug#4644: dpkg --compare-versions reality and documentation differ

1996-09-30 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0 dpkg -h says: Comparison operators for --compare-versions are: lt le eq ne ge gt (treat no version as earlier than any version); lt-nl le-nl ge-nl gt-nl (tread no version as later than any version); < << <= = >= >> > (only for compatibility with control

Re: Shared libraries in packages. How?

1996-10-01 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Yves Arrouye wrote:' > > Hi, > I have recently made the package compface (can be found in unstabe) containg > the shared library libcompface. Now I am trying to make a package xfaces > that > uses this library. But I can't get dpkg-shlibdeps working. This is what is > says: > > # dpk

Re: sendmail/smail with relaying blocks?

1997-05-14 Thread Chris Walker
cted mail relaying on my largest exim site (an SG > Origin 200 machine with >1200 accounts) since relaying abuse by spammers > has only just become a significant problem. As Mark suggested below, most > use temporary accounts and the usual ISP's SMTP server. I think most > spammers

Re: dpkg verify mode for security?

1997-05-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Amos Shapira wrote:' > >I was asking over Linux-ISP about doing cleanup after breakins and got >many "use tripwire" answers, and one which says that RPM has a verify >mode which checks for files which were changed since they were >installed. Can the dpkg maintainers consider adding such a feature

Re: Sending closed bug notices to interested parties.

1997-05-20 Thread Chris Walker
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 1997, Chris Walker wrote: > > > Would some mechanism of saying "when this bug is closed notify me as > > well" eg by sending a specially formulated e-mail, or perhaps some web > > interface. Thi

Re: crons scripts should report status info in the mail

1997-05-21 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:' > >Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should be, I >think that all cron scripts should report in as they are run, and that >this should be made a standard. Here's why. But if they complete successfully they should be quiet. Maybe this would work: s

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-21 Thread Chris Fearnley
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:' > > So I say: PS1="[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ " =D No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' ! I guess this will become a flame war. So I'd prefer to leave prompt alone. Or maybe the boot disks can have a dialog script to help the user choose a prompt? --

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-23 Thread Chris Walker
e of this is if the packages file on master is not updated immediately after a package is added. These problems will presumably settle if the archive is unchanged for a couple of days. I strongly agree however that dselect ought to cope a lot better than it does at present. I've had it fall

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-23 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Raul Miller wrote:' > >> '=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:' >> > So I say: PS1="[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ " =D >On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote >> No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' ! >> >I'd prefer PS

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-05-25 Thread Chris Walker
Excellent summary. This problem needs sorting out. Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyways, I don't want to mess around with different meanings of > the Backspace/Delete keys all the time just because the author of Emacs > did this mistake! Absolutely. > Let me summarize (and

Humore (no, I'm not serious here (was Re: a.s.r manpages)

1997-05-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:' > >On May 26, Manoj Srivastava wrote >> Would the doc directory be better for man pages? Why games? > >Check out the manpages at http://www.bofh.net/man/: >lart - Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool - use a lart to adjust lusers' >attitudes >sysadmin - responsible f

Re: ssh and default home directory permissions (revisited?)

1997-05-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Carey Evans wrote:' > >I've removed group write permissions from my home dir because of the >programs like qmail and ssh which don't like it. I don't think >anything would break because of removing these permissions, so maybe >adduser should make home directories mode 755 (or 750)? Or 751. --

Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
root 534844 Aug 19 04:29 /usr/bin/perl-5.005 Strange; the date indicates a really old perl-5.005. Mine is: -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 534844 Sep 22 02:32 /usr/bin/perl-5.005* This is with version 5.005.03

Intent to Package: gtkpool

1999-09-26 Thread Chris Waters
gtkpool is a simple simulation of the game of pool (i.e. similar to billiards and snooker), written and copyright 1999 by Jacques Fortier, licensed under the GPL. Because Debian *always* needs more games. -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or

Re: A few changes

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Rutter
(unlikely; I watch /var/log like a hawk), the key is safe from those sorts of exploits. So, for anything lasting or really important, I use the home signature, from home. -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

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

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Rutter
#x27;, whinging about broken packages, or some other reason? I think any deeper idea (such as a database of `claimed' ports in /etc, or something) would be ugly, and best avoided in the name of non-intervention. -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

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

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Rutter
ainers add questions like these into their packages). -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

ITP: pptpd

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Cheney
I am appling to become a new maintainer. I am intending to package pptpd which is the point to point tunneling protocol daemon. Chris Cheney Please cc: me in any replies.

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

1999-09-27 Thread Chris Rutter
-- of course this doesn't help if some people have chosen /usr/X11R6/bin and some /usr/bin/X11, for instance. I'm sure a trivial utility could be made to do this. I suggest you compile a list of these sorts of problems, and set about trying to fix them in a sane way, if you have time. --

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

1999-09-28 Thread Chris Rutter
unds like a crude idea/slogan to try and reverse ratings like PCPlus hands out: "Debian -- for pros, don't touch it" (which I agree is a problem). -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Chris Cheney
I took a few minutes to check what versions of gnome packages were in potato and in /incoming to compare against the current gnome ftp site. The first column shows the version in debian and the filename is the version on the ftp site. *** means it does not appear to be packaged yet. -Chris

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Chris Cheney
> Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, no, it just means you're not aware of Debian's naming schemes > for library packages. > > > *** 541066 Aug 2 17:32 Gtk---1.0.2.tar.gz > > look for *gtkmm Ok I see it now. :) > > ***

Re: architectures, endianness

1999-09-29 Thread Chris Lawrence
ndian --is that true? At least on Linux, use /usr/include/endian.h to determine the machine's __BYTE_ORDER (which will be __LITTLE_ENDIAN, __BIG_ENDIAN or __PDP_ENDIAN). Thus there's no need for archit

Re: Swap setup on Debian

1999-10-01 Thread Chris Rutter
mpatibility for the sake of an extra few commands. -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

Re: Is XEmacs nonfree?

1999-10-01 Thread Chris Rutter
en copyright-assigned to the FSF is not worthy of inclusion in the GNU system. -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

NcFTP is free again?

1999-10-01 Thread Chris Cheney
. Thanks, Chris pgplbAlGZ2jfj.pgp Description: PGP signature

ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
aler and database backend, and you've got the idea. The concept here is basically to make it possible to turn mothballed 486es (or eMachines ;-) into interviewing stations running Linux for the cost of a network card, a good USR modem and a noise-cancelling headset (i.e. well

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over > > the telephone (although they can also be used in other contexts). > > Think of an "inst

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 02, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > > > For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over > > > the telephone (although they c

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
opinions on the survey topic). And unless you physically go door-to-door (or use followup phone calls), the response rates are atrocious. Chris -- ===== | Chris Lawrence | Get your Debian 2.1 CD-

Using Debian's make-kpkg to build kernels

2000-03-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Chief Technology Officer, LinuxForce Inc. Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (its the room with a big Q on the door) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract Debian's kernel-package package provides make-kpkg to help build kern

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Mar 18, BugScan reporter wrote: > Package: mkhybrid (debian/main) > Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60119 mkhybrid: patch required for making sparc bootable CD's Just uploaded with this patch; it's

Re: ITP: xzgv

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Lawrence
hors > > of xzgv have produced an X viewer that I can be happy with. > There was a long time since this ITP. Do you still plan to package > it? Unfortunately I didn't found it in the list of GTK+ > applications under www.gtk.org to have a look at it. Eh? xzgv has be

Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-24 Thread Chris Frey
Thanks. Please CC me on replies, since I'm not on the list. - Chris -- --- "Chase the dream, not the competition." - motto of the Nemesis Air Racing Team

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Chris Frey
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > 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

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Frey
signature at all, and this is the path I am currently venturing out on. Thanks for your responses! - Chris -- --- "Chase the dream, not the competition." - motto of the Nemesis Air Racing Team

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-29 Thread Chris Frey
ature, then update my system - even that will save me *hours* of work! - Chris

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