Re: ssl problems: gpg affected?

2008-05-14 Thread Karl Goetz
is extend to gpg keys and its signatures? That would make quite > an impact. The DSA said no. kk > > Best wishes > > -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#559134: ITP: shc -- a generic shell script compiler

2009-12-01 Thread Karl Goetz
them to be easily > readable by other people. Does this mean its a tool to make software no longer DFSG compatible? seems a bit odd to include in Debian. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your

Re: [Expat-discuss] RFH: Patch for CVE-2009-3560 in expat breaks the Perl XML parser

2009-12-23 Thread Karl Waclawek
lp to track this down? Any help is appreciated. > > [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3560 > [2] > http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/lib/xmlparse.c?r1=1.164&r2=1.165 > [3] http://bugs.debian.org/561658 > Could you please run the failing tests

Re: [Expat-discuss] RFH: Patch for CVE-2009-3560 in expat breaks the Perl XML parser

2009-12-28 Thread Karl Waclawek
cessing external entity reference > > (The DTD was copied verbatim from the example at > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-condition-sect ) I can duplicate this. The patch needs to be revised. Thanks for testing this. Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Bug#490240: ITP: onetime -- A command-line encryption program based on the "one-time pad" method.

2008-07-10 Thread Karl Fogel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Karl Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: onetime Version : 1.73 Upstream Author : Karl Fogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.red-bean.com/onetime * License : Public Domain Programming

Re: Package management unsafe?

2008-07-12 Thread Karl Goetz
which would respond by gpg-signed the challenge + the > checksum of current .Release file. How would all these schemes work with offline mirrors? eg, ones that are built, and used without an internet connection for a month. kk > > Franklin > > -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-09 Thread Karl Goetz
rage. Lets not forget there are people who will/do explicitly move *to* Debian because of its DFSG and freeness. kk > > - Ted -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-02 Thread Karl Goetz
e for that, which is not always true, and also, it's not > really easy to add automatic filtering support to any tools based on > that. Would something like apt-listbugs work? I know it doesnt address the offline issue, but seems to fit as a concept for the rest of the problem. kk > >

Re: Is The number of stable users dropping fast?

2008-12-21 Thread Karl Goetz
ian.org. Or some people are doing what I did - clean install from stable -> testing (to see the new D-I) and not installing popcon. > > I suspect this is because Debian is loosing users. :( Wasn't there one of these threads a little while ago? kk > > Happy hacking, -- Karl

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Karl Goetz
?). For both Sarge and etch a GR was passed saying "we'll fix it up after this", and its still not fixed. Of course... this is my understanding only... Karl. > Ondrej > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Karl Goetz
NM. Does this mean only packaging counts as "concrete actions"? If packaging is the only 'concrete action' accepted, the idea that users get a say *is* a joke. karl. > > Roland. > -- > Roland Mas > > Death *was* hereditary. You got it from your ancestors.

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:50 +, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:45:07 +0200, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >John Kelly, 2007-09-12 18:33:12 + : > > > >> Again, if Debian's highly esteemed social contract is for the > >> benefit of users, then why not let users vote?

Re: [Expat-discuss] RFH: Patch for CVE-2009-3560 in expat breaks the Perl XML parser

2009-12-29 Thread Karl Waclawek
issues directly on the comments of the bug entry on SourceForge. Without this we will have no clue what things were discussed and discovered while fixing a bug. Thanks, Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Karl Goetz
below or [1]) > > Yes, the FTP team is trying to be transparent, and that's great. > That's no reason to pick on other teams. As usually, "patch welcome" > applies (I guess;) Where was the criticism that started this thread posted to? I didn't notice it pass

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:59:11 +0300 Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:45:26PM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:58:48 +0100 > > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > > > Hi dear Teams, > > > > At the risk of getting invol

Is Robert Millan MIA?

2010-03-14 Thread Karl Goetz
gratefully accepted. [1] I'm happy to provide these details to MIA, but I'm a bit leery about providing them to the -devel list). thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social

Re: Is Robert Millan MIA?

2010-03-17 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:09:43 +0100 Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Hi again, > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:34:16AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > > I've not seen any life out of Robert since the middle of Febuary. > > I'm aware of several attempts to reach Robert, via Ema

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 8, 2010

2010-10-08 Thread Karl Goetz
number of packages offered up for adoption: 0 (new: 0) > Total number of packages requested help for: 0 (new: 0) um is this a bug, or does this run on a cleaned up testing? kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I w

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Karl Goetz
. Would you remove the 'country' question from d-i? else the timezone option would then be asking you for redundant information. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Karl Goetz
tates: > > New South-Wales No hyphen in nsw ( http://www.nsw.gov.au/ ) > Victoria > Australian Capital Territory > Queensland > Tasmania > South Australia > Northern Territory > Western Australia > Eyre Highway > Yancowinna county > Lord Howe Island That wou

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-23 Thread Karl Goetz
[1]. People know which capital is theirs, and there is a good chance they are in it. [1] Adelaide has 90%+ of the states population within 50km of the cbd > > An alternative was: Please skip this alternative :) kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: New maintainer behaviour with NMU and LogJam's hijacking

2002-12-02 Thread Karl Ramm
Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had been taking the full brunt of the responsibility for the > xscreensaver NMU, but since I was a pre-NM at the time and sponsors of > uploads are supposed to follow Debian policy as well, he ended up taking > most of the responsibility. This was a sim

Re: New maintainer behaviour with NMU and LogJam's hijacking

2002-12-03 Thread Karl Ramm

pbuilder and sid.

2003-04-24 Thread Shaul Karl
ce-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.8_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.3_i386.deb pbuilder: debootstrap failed -> Aborting with an error -> cleaning the build env -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t

Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-24 Thread Shaul Karl
vail > /var/lib/dpkg/available"; line in my /etc/apt/apt.conf DPkg section if this makes any difference. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> Previously Shaul Karl wrote: > > [00:44:26 /tmp]$ dpkg -l doc-linux-text > > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 69953 > > package > > `ng-cjk': > > EOF during value of field `MD5sum' (missing final newline) > >

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Package: ng-cjk > > Priority: optional > > Section: editors > > Installed-Size: 164 > > Maintainer: Yasuhiro Take <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Architecture: i386 > > Source: ng > > Version: 1.4

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Yes there is: > > > > [12:36:41 /tmp]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/available > > -rw-r--r--1 root root 2547713 Apr 25 00:46 > > /var/lib/dpkg/available > > [12:39:36 /tmp]$ od -cj 2547700 /var/lib/dpkg/

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> --pgp-sign-Multipart_Fri_Apr_27_01:25:02_2001-1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > At Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:14:01 -0500 (CDT), > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > Yes there i

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Shaul Karl
larly good example, as it's one of the > most completely broken Bourne shells shipped with a modern OS. It doesn't > even try to be POSIX-compliant. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > > -- > To

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-04 Thread Shaul Karl
ed or awk, even for exactly the kind of pattern > matching tasks that sed and awk are designed for. > > Perl ain't your problem, it really ain't. > > Jules > Can you compare Perl speed to Python? Just curious, have no prior knowledge on this. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sorry, broken packages

2001-09-04 Thread Karl Voit
t doesn't exist yet. (Again, since a couple of weeks!) Hope, that someone can give me a hint what I should do to fix these problems. -- Karl VOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graz University of Technology (Austria/Europe) Linux - because it works. (mostly ;) pgpUQiV9CWj2q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sorry, broken packages - solved!

2001-09-04 Thread Karl Voit
Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:23:37PM +0200, Karl Voit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > abiword: Conflicts: abi-fonts but it is not installable > >

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-08 Thread Shaul Karl
gt; PGP Key http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt > Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 > > I always put away what I take. > --- Ryuji Akai, "Star a way" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread Shaul Karl
problem is shared among Arabic and Hebrew. > > > Thanks > > > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account > at http://www.eudoramail.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "u

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > > Package: xfonts-intl-arabic > > Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful > outside of Emacs. > > > Please note t

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
2:16:42 David Starner wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > >> [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > >> Package: xfonts-intl-arabic > > > >Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful > &g

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:16:02PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > For a large set of programs, the solution is using QT 3.0 or libgtk 2.4 > > > (or is it 3.0?). > > > > I still do not find it satisfactory, mostly because it is not part of the > >

Re: O: libsafe -- Protection against buffer overflow vulnerabilities

2001-12-30 Thread Shaul Karl
g time this package has not been uploaded and the maintainer just orphaning it. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:42:21 +0200 Should I upload it? > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > The current maintainer of libsafe, Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL

craetion of /srv/ftp or /home/ftp by a ftpserver.deb

2009-02-18 Thread shaul Karl
1) (/srv/) SRV DATA FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY SYSTEM http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM asserts that: no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv 2) (/

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Karl Goetz
ciate them (users/lurkers, call them what you will) announcing it on -dev ... (Your not a DD, so STFU etc) > Thanks for the packages Robert! kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian user / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:11:42 +0200 Michael Meskes wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:12:21AM +0930, Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:45:11 +0200 > > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > > ... > > > Lurkers told you so in private mails? > &

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s

2009-04-27 Thread Karl Goetz
\ | sed -e 's,[ /].*,,' -e 's,(.*,,' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k 1 > 343 Claws > 329 Sylpheed Claws usually does this correctly, I think the exception is when the direct reply is the one you respond to. > > /me uses Debian's default MUA > /me tries

Re: Debian documentation permalinks

2012-05-30 Thread Karl Goetz
wiki. > > > > So I can't see a useful argument here, only FUD trying to talk > > people into using Mediawiki. > > > Hi there and thanks for your feedback. > > I'm talking about the fact that Debian has mail archives that may > include links to do

Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment

2012-09-18 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, 19:45:36 EST, Serge wrote: > 2012/9/11 Jon Dowland wrote: > > > I feel that the decision to change from GNOME to something else, on the > > basis of complaints about GNOME 3, should only be considered after > > we've actually released with at least one version of GNOME 3. >

Re: Reply to a RFP on the right way

2011-10-09 Thread Karl Goetz
Debian packaging, but it is my first > contribution to Debian project. If you are new to debian packaging, you might find the mentors helpful. http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ irc://irc.debian.org/debian-mentors thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-25 Thread Karl Goetz
l's name is “maddie”. Hopefully it won't be confused with (r)maddison :) thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Announcing derivatives patches and call for help and feedback

2011-10-31 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:34:47 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > As a (largely) non coder, what should I look for in (say) gNewSenses > > patches to know if it can be filtered out automatically? Are there > > any common i

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-02 Thread Karl Goetz
tp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/fhs-discuss/2011-August/000334.html thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-02 Thread Karl Goetz
reestandards-fhs-discuss This is not the proper location for FHS discussion, [1] is. [1] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-02 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:11:11 -0400 Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Nov 2011, Karl Goetz wrote: > > Not sure what you're trying to suggest here? The FHS *is* clear on > > what goes in /usr/games: > > games Games and educational binaries (optional) &g

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-06 Thread Karl Goetz
ot taking a stance on if it should be in or not). [1] elseware in the thread i saw a sourceforce fhs-discuss list. Is that the one? If so I'll go digging there. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: directory under /usr/bin -- Ok or not?

2011-11-06 Thread Karl Goetz
:) [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00401.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00434.html thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-11 Thread Karl Goetz
one system to another without rebuilding the initramfs? Seems like a step backwards for flexability. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

2011-12-12 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:11:55 +0100 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Mo, Dez 12, 2011 at 05:36:41 (CET), Karl Goetz wrote: > > [...] > > >> The initramfs on the other hand is made to fit. So if /usr isn't > >> on a networking filesystem (NFS) then you won

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-01 Thread Karl Goetz
is problem manifest for *anyone* trying to ssh from a wheezy system to a squeeze system? thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-02 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:40:33 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > > to fix a tiny problem which presents itself just for the length > > > > of the upgrade process, if at all. > > > > > > Correct. I

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Karl Goetz
e right things? shouldn't it be crossbuild-essential-$arch? it would help tab completion for apt, and would probably allow easier searching. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Doesn't contain source for waf binary code

2012-02-07 Thread Karl Goetz
thread, but would it be possible to patch the package to work with a packaged waf instead? thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-24 Thread Karl Goetz
s is insane. I agree it would be a blocker. We can't ask > all the maintainers of providing daemon packages to sign it, and > there's no reasons why we should force them to. Contributors *to upstart* need to agree to the canonical contribution agreement, I'm not sure what gives

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-25 Thread Karl Goetz
soon as > this is decided somehow, we could think of how to support kFreeBSD and > all the other stuff. Surely what it will support (and how it will be supported) would be part of a desision about 'technically best'? thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-06 Thread Karl Goetz
DMCA or your > equivalent $county_specific_law (and there are quite a few around the > world, unfortunately). I'm surprised, I thought DMCA applied to circumventing protections designed to 'protect' copyright. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http:

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-03-07 Thread Karl Goetz
not forget that there has been no real stable release yet. The lack of a stable release (where this means 'shipped as a full release arch for Debian') will be another factor in the popcon score: The appearance that its not yet ready for use. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group *** I've changed GPG key to 6C097260 *** signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Karl Goetz
> > > > I had a look in a CentOS VM, and I didn't see such file. Is it only > in RHEL? 19:33:06 (centos6) kgoetz@epicfail: ~ $ ls /etc/init.d/functions -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K Dec 19 12:00 /etc/init.d/functions (i note init.d is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Karl Goetz
ase header)... > Of course, in many cases, we need a bit more, this could be > implemented with things like START_OPTS / STOP_OPTS and > so on, and maybe some hooks for start/stop functions. Hopefully there is some way to know (as a user) that a service doesn't support restart (or

Re: Bug#693998: ITP: linux-minidisc -- Free software for accessing NetMD and HiMD MiniDisc devices

2012-11-24 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, 00:26:34 LHST, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 09:02:18AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > * Package name      : linux-minidisc > > > > Thats a strange name considering it bu

Re: "Do not CC me"

2012-11-25 Thread Karl Goetz
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, 07:27:31 LHST, Игорь Пашев wrote: > Hi there! > > I see many note in this list like: > "I'm registered to the list. So please *do not* Cc: me." > > So I'd like to note: > > 1. Some e-mail cleints make it hard not to CC. For example GMail has only > two options: reply and r

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-13 Thread Karl Goetz
%) > /tmp: No default (use general tmpfs default of 20%) 20% doesn't seem like a lot for /tmp when people try and compile something. While its not something most people end up doing, it does seem odd to make people change their tempfs size before they can start building packages for debia

Re: Bug#617867: ITP: morse-coach -- Koch method Morse code trainer for GTK+ and Pulseaudio

2011-04-13 Thread Karl Goetz
//mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/morse/ both appear to use pulseaudio, could you port your gtk ui to the existing morse? kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-25 Thread Karl Goetz
nstalled base and is relevant, although > proprietary > - Microsoft Virtual PC is likely also needed > - Citrix XenServer? Would this require the Debian project to go out and buy various bits of proprietary software to build the images with? thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-27 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:44:26 +0200 Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Karl Goetz schrieb: > > >> I think it's sufficient for starters to provide images for stable > >> (they can be updated for every few point updates if needed). > >>=20 > >> Wh

Re: Providing official virtualisation images of Debian

2011-07-28 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:12:02 +0100 Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:48:57AM +0930, Karl Goetz wrote: > > It seems bizarre to me that we require packages to build > > using software in main to be 'debian', but we wouldn't > > require it for

Re: Bug#637351: ITP: urfkill -- urfkill is a daemon for the management of the radio killswitches.

2011-08-10 Thread Karl Goetz
of the radio killswitches. Hi, How does it differ from rfkill, already in the archive? Perhaps the description could be updated to make this clear. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#638808: ITP: daimonin -- Daimonin is a fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game) which features a large gameworld with engaging background, and is developing many fun and

2011-08-22 Thread Karl Goetz
neither is able to speak on behalf of the project, and ftpmasters say of what gets in is final :)). thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-05-27 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
ROTECTED] Or should I make a digest and forward to them? Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

cgiwrap_3.5-1_i386.deb is available

1997-05-27 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
still reading the programmer and policy manuals.) You can find cgiwrap_3.5-1_i386.deb at: http://inetarena.com/~karlheg/Public/Debian/> This is my first try at a package, so let me know if there is anything about it that's not up to specs. :-) Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL

Re: wget... (was: Where is the mysql package?)

1997-06-01 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
d fill in the length and width attributes of an img tag, so that the browser will be able to preformat text around areas where a not-yet-arrived picture will be. `imgsize.el` is on my www page; click my forehead. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Por

1.2.X -> 1.3 upgrade report

1997-06-04 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
nded on `cron`, which for some reason wasn't installed...?? I don't have any idea where it went. I re-installed it, and `innd` configged. Who knows, huh? I have not rebooted yet. I might wait for deity before I do. ;-) It will be good to have packages install in the proper sorted order,

hare.sea.ixa.net ???

1997-06-04 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I keep seeing icmp packets leaving my system, in the `diald` Dctrl packet Q, from "hare.sea.ixa.net", and I don't know what they are from. Any ideas? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36

sendmail/deliver missing .dsc files

1997-06-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Both bo/source/mail/{sendmail,deliver}* are missing the .dsc files, at ftp.debian.org. Is there not one for those, or is it lost? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

`cgiwrap` packaged

1997-06-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
right now; if anyone would like to look over the .deb, it's available through the URL in my .signature. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: How do we encourage bug reports?

1997-06-10 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
tion. (not the man-db ones, just per-package manuals.) -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

File Locking

1997-06-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I want to learn how to set up a news box, so I'm going to fill a partition with a spool. (I wonder if I'll have it working by dark?) Footnotes: [1] I'm a beginner C programmer... strike that. Not programmer, but code reader, or person who attempts to understand code. ;-) [

Re: File Locking

1997-06-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> Karl, thanks for the nice summary! You're welcome. :-) Christian> On 16 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> ** Publib looks like it might already be t

File Locking

1997-06-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
veral more locking programs' source code, and read what I can get ahold of on the subject. `movemail', `lockfile', `maillock' (where can I find that?), `newslock' `qpopper', `sendmail', `libuuid', `sysid',... anything else I should read? -- Ka

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> I think flock can fail across NFS in certain situations, but Rob> I'm no locking expert. You can read the man page to open(3) for a partial explaination. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
ck for any file, not just mail spools. How does DCE do it, I wonder? I found libuuid in the ext2fsprogs. What's a lockd do? I will search for that today. Christian> We'll also provide "modules" for Perl/Python/etc. Can you use SWIG for that, once we make a .so? --

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
putting newsgroups and email in the same interface. And, in XEmacs, it's fully MIME capable, with sound and pictures and everything. (I've got to quit advertising.) Footnotes: [1] It's also in Emacs. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finger or ytalk: ht

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
ng, and lets us Miquel> safely share mail over NFS. A bit (a bit?!) of a hack, Miquel> though. May we have it? Please? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finger or ytalk: http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Portland, OR USA Debian GNU

Re: Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
not there anymore; I guess I can put it back up though. I'm not really certain that it's correct. It is very untested. Using `system' to call procmail's `lockfile' is a simpler solution, from perl or shell scripts. It will work fine from C too. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EM

Re: klogd?!

1997-06-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Anyone else having problems with klogd sucking up all Paul> their cpu time? Even with it fully 'nice'd, it still uses Paul> 100%. I wonder if `syslogd' died, or if

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-24 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
>>>>> Christian Schwarz writes: Christian> Wow! Thanks a lot for putting this library together. I Christian> think that is what we all have waited for. I'm glad it's done too. Christian>4. Someone (Karl?) should check the existing Perl Chr

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-27 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I used to be able to read gzipped html files with Netscape, but now it puts up a download dialog. I don't know how to make it able to pipe them through gzip again. Is it something to do with the MIME files in /etc? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finger or ytalk:

Re: Looking for help. . .

1997-06-28 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
tell `fdisk' (the Linux one) to just turn it into an ext2fs partition. That's what I did about 2 years ago. I've never regretted it. Welcome to the Debian GNU/Linux 'volunteer fire department'! Learn how, and grab a package. :-) -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Documentation stuff

1997-06-28 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
... what about the ability to install a documentation server on a LAN too? Jim> 7) Cacheing - I'm going to split the cacheing in dwww into a Jim> separate package. That way, it should be easy to improve it, Jim> not use it, or use something like squid instead. Ok here.

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
y print it? :-) If you want a printed copy, you start with the texinfo source, and make a dvi from it. I think that TeXinfo is better thought out, by people with far greater experience, than Linuxdoc SGML is. It can't be that hard to learn, either. If you can write a program, you can wri

Re: fixhrefgz, boa

1997-06-28 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
This is from the `boa' README.debian: Transparent compressed file support --- Boa supports transparent access to gzipped files and on the fly decompression of the served html pages. No references need to be changes to .gz. If a file with the extension .html cannot

Re: fixhrefgz, boa

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
>>>>> Karl M Hegbloom writes: Karl> This is from the `boa' README.debian: Karl> Transparent compressed file support Karl> --- Boa supports transparent Karl> access to gzipped files and on the fly decompression of the

`boa' vs `apache', running from x?inetd.conf, mime-types, mailcap

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
browsing C or perl source, I can press a few keys, and have the info manual to a libc or perl function in a second window in under a second. (I can put the cursor on a word, and with a few keystrokes, have W3 fetch its definition from the online dictionary, too.) Fernando> 7) A default searching/indexing engine should be Fernando> chosen. It would be marked standard, but not Fernando> important. Caching would be an option too. Yes. Jim Pick's `dwww' is the best one going. There's no reason why info files cannot be indexed also. With `gnuclient', info URI's could be opened in an emacs if that is the user's preference. (Koalatalk someday. ;-) ) -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133

Re: Summary of the html/info/webserver/whatever mess

1997-06-29 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
ssing which documentation Christian> format we use, though a few people think that we are). He was summarizing so we would know he was following along, and to relay back to us what he got from it. It didn't have to "bring us forward". -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M.

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