udev vs ldap at startup

2006-08-05 Thread Brian May
ng weird (and perhaps ancient history) on my computer? What should be creating the above users/groups? Could udevd be changed to make debugging these issues easier, e.g. maybe some sort of verbose mode? Should I file any bug reports, if so what packages? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-05 Thread Brian May
the conversion logic if it Robert> fails to operate for you. Already done so - the Debian bug report I quoted. Curiously though, the problems continue even after the archive appears to be converted successfully - if I do a diff operation, it reports all files as deleted, but if I try to rev

Re: dak now supports ~ in version numbers

2006-08-10 Thread Brian May
(<< 0.9~) Can I assume that the first one will accept version 0.9~rc1, but the second one wont? Or I have that wrong? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: piuparts unprocessed failed logs page

2006-08-10 Thread Brian May
all heimdal-kdc without the realm, and if the realm cannot be guessed by looking up the hostname domain, and if it cannot be found by debconf question, it makes no sense to continue. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev vs ldap at startup

2006-08-10 Thread Brian May
l Control OID: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.319 Control Value: 30050201000400 The second query is trying to find out all the groups root is in (is it possible to skip this???). I don't understand the first one. root is defined in /etc/passwd. getent passwd with the LDAP server down lists all local users (includi

Re: Use of generic init script names

2006-08-11 Thread Brian May
the same conffile or configuration file, even if the packages conflict (consider the purge operation - the maintainer scripts - will delete the file even if another packing is using it). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-11 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:01 +1000, Brian May wrote: >> Curiously though, the problems continue even after the archive >> appears to be converted successfully - if I do

Re: WTF ? (Fwd: Your message to Yaird-devel awaits moderator approval)

2006-08-14 Thread Brian May
at the bug report gets forgotten - and even then - it is very unclear what to do when the message isn't accepted (or rejected). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apache2.2 uploaded to experimental

2006-08-15 Thread Thom May
Hi all, As of today, Apache 2.2 is available from experimental (packagename: apache2-mpm-{worker,prefork} etc). New features include LFS support, and improved caching. For more info, see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/upgrading.html . N

Re: WTF ? (Fwd: Your message to Yaird-devel awaits moderator approval)

2006-08-16 Thread Brian May
d: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/confirm/pkg-med

Re: Trouble building heimdal using

2006-08-16 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Rüdiger" == Rüdiger Ranft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rüdiger>cdbs = 0.4.32 My first guess would be to try back porting cdbs first. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

heimdal & KCM

2006-08-20 Thread Brian May
eryone who installs heimdal-clients will probably want KCM, as it appears to be so much better then using /tmp. Might make it easier to have Debian package use KCM by default. Cons: ??? * create heimdal-kcm package. Pros: very flexible. Cons: users may not realise it exists. I haven'

Re: heimdal & KCM

2006-08-21 Thread Brian May
(finding documentation on KCM is non-trivial - a Google search gives me everything from a male singer through to copper mines, but nothing relating to Kerberos). If it uses its own Kerberos functions for reading the tickets, then that would seem very weird. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-26 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:01 +1000, Brian May wrote: >> Curiously though, the problems continue even after the archive >> appears to be converted successfully - if I do a

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-27 Thread Brian May
the revert operation again with 0.9-2. Memory >> usage was still high (205meg at one point), but bounded - much >> better. The operation successfully completed this time. Adeodato> Sounds acceptable to close ##380412, then? Yes, sounds good to me. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-27 Thread Brian May
X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++---======== ii bzrtools 0.9.0-1 Collection of tools for bzr -- Br

Re: centralized bzr (Re: Successful and unsuccessful Debian development tools)

2006-08-27 Thread Brian May
y cause for Adeodato> those .pyc files to be there, since bzrtools did not. No - I don't recall running bzr as root, nor have I had any reason to do so. This doesn't mean I didn't do it accidently, but I don't think so. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BTS wars

2006-09-04 Thread Brian May
removed it yet again, but need to wait for the BTS to process my message to confirm. However, I am starting to get sick of doing this to the same bug report :-(. What gives? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: BTS wars

2006-09-09 Thread Brian May
Please tell me if I am mistaken... Maybe adding the Nepali translation to localization-config really did fix this bug ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTS wars

2006-09-10 Thread Brian May
eks later. My thoughts too. Anyway, thanks for re-opening the bug report. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

stale lock files

2006-09-13 Thread Brian May
-( ). Is there any guidelines for checking for stale lock files in a sane manner that doesn't involve the user? Yes, I realize having a home directory on NFS or AFS or SMB might be complications, but most users of these applications don't use these protocols either. Thanks. -- Brian M

Re: Bug#389053: apache2-common: API module structure `perl_module' in file /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so is garbled

2006-09-26 Thread Thom May
* Luca Capello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Hello! > > Cc:ing to d-d to get a wider audience. > > Well, I thought the same but then I did a little test (which I'm sorry > I forgot to mention before): [...] > /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load: API module structure > `php5_module' in file /usr

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Brian May
you a list of these packages. It is most useful when finding libraries, but it can be used on packages in all sections. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

2006-10-04 Thread Brian May
ame file, and then trying to work out why the file is corrupt, that I run out of time to file meaningful bug reports. apt-get on the other hand will tell the user immediately of any problems. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request for virtual package ircd

2006-10-13 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Why do you think these servers conflict with each other? ... because, generally speaking, the servers will be automatically installed at installation, and if the port is in use, then insta

Linux 2.6.18 & etch

2006-10-26 Thread Brian May
Hello, Is there any chance 2.6.18 will make it into etch to solve bugs like #391448 and #389803? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: release critical bug in apache2.2?

2006-11-02 Thread Brian May
no, that doesn't grant an RC bug for these reasons. A potentially confusing bug. As to if this bug gets fixed in Etch or not, I really don't care. I have already solve the problem on my systems... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-11-07 Thread Brian May
ly, no. I would be more surprised if it did work. NFS has a reputation of being insecure. I am not aware of any organisations, big/small, that use NFS any more except on restricted sets of computers. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downgrading the priority of nfs-utils

2006-11-07 Thread Brian May
ba isn't? Isn't this inconstant? Anyway, just some thoughts - personally, for the rare case I need NFS, I am happy to install it myself. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Purging configurations of non-installed transitional packages

2006-11-09 Thread Brian May
is it because you have replaced the package with another one?). This is, IMHO, a limitation of not having configuration files managed by dpkg. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BTS Question

2006-11-12 Thread Brian May
t was marked as "fixed" in version "1:2.3.3-2" instead of "amavisd-new/1:2.3.3-2". Alternatively, it might be because it is marked as found and fixed for the same version (it was not a bug). What BTS commands should I use to rectify this situation? -- Brian May &

Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Brian May
ebian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg00295.html Sure about these URLs? Or do we have to wait several years before the messages will get posted? ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt hangs for ever

2006-11-26 Thread Brian May
= ii apt 0.6.46.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg The chroot in question doesn't yet have the latest Etch key, but I don't think that is significant. Doing a search for bugs, I see #358817, but this doesn't involve NFS

Re: apt hangs for ever

2006-11-28 Thread Brian May
x27;t help. The only solution I found when I checked last was to run apt-get via strace... I also have plenty of diskspace. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing sodipodi

2006-12-06 Thread Brian May
h other in its description. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

update-inetd

2006-12-07 Thread Brian May
grades and then re-enables it again after the upgrade is finished (hmmm seems broken just thinking about it). Anyway, in this case, the service is not re-enabled again because the default for this service is not to enable it. Comments? Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UN

Re: BTS: Why no "invalid" or "notabug" tag?

2006-12-11 Thread Brian May
ned? Or what if the blocking bug is fixed in, say the experimental version, but not the unstable version? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-inetd

2006-12-11 Thread Brian May
ce are Andreas> necessary. I would rather recommend to only add it during Andreas> first installation, and remove it during purge. Why Andreas> bother at other places? Like I said, I copied it from another package, a number of years ago. I would guess the theory is that dur

Re: update-inetd

2006-12-11 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OBAndreas> I don't think one needs to touch inetd.conf at all (or Andreas> any other service descr

Re: ssh-krb5 Conflicts/Replaces behaving oddly with conffiles

2006-12-12 Thread Brian May
ck latest ssh-krb5 (old conffiles not deleted) 2. unpack openssh-server (conflicts is now satisfied) - detect conflicting conffile - replaces ineffective because ssh-krb5 has already been upgraded and no longer satisfies version criteria. - display error. Disclaimer: not an expert. -- B

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Brian May
nts. Use recommends instead of depends? Split plugins into separate packages? Just some random thoughts. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not depending on shlibs because of plugins?

2007-01-05 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Then remove the libc6 parts and use Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, >> ${mysql:Depends} | ${postgres:Depends} | ${sqlite:Depends} Mike> Which may end up as libc6 (>

update-inetd

2007-01-10 Thread Brian May
? * is solving this worthy of etch? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-17 Thread Brian May
ffectively admitting you can't communicate with each other - and having developers that can't/won't communicate doesn't seem good, and we could end up with multiple developers working on the same problem at the same time. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#358480: RM: krb4 -- obsolete

2006-03-22 Thread Brian May
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Mikael asked me to remove krb4 from Debian because he no longer has time: Mikael> I'm not maintaining it and I think that all kerberos4 Mikael> support should be removed from debian because it's Mikael> unsecure and the kerberos4kth packages sh

Re: Bug#359340: ITP: opencity -- a 3D city simulator game

2006-03-28 Thread Brian May
nload a free SimCity 4 like, forget OpenCity. err... Could the extended description possibly say more along the lines of what the packages does do as opposed to what it doesn't do? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Closing a bug vs. tagging wontfix

2006-04-24 Thread Brian May
design (wontfix) as opposed to being a false bug report (notabug). Notes: [1] For example I have had a bug report telling me a program should change the environment of the calling process. #345443. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: id gives conflicting results

2006-05-19 Thread Brian May
expect to see duplicate groups from the "id username" version too. Juha> Can this be related to the not-able-to-access-cdrom problem Juha> and is this a bug? No idea here. "id" seems to indicate you are in the cdrom group... Try bypassing the AFS login stuff (if possible) and see if it changes anything. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-02 Thread Brian May
ministrator intervention, but a naming convention for the files that supports virtual hosts would be even better IMHO, e.g.: /etc/.../$hostname/... Where hostname is the name of the host identified by the certificate. That way adding/removing other certificates is easy. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PR

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Brian May
ot;out-of-the-box" with 2.6.11 and LVM unless you compile your own kernel (one that doesn't require an initrd image), or fix this initrd image. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-23 Thread Brian May
can still install it on a 2.4 kernel, but IIRC you get a message saying it will only work if you boot a kernel at or later then 2.6.8. This is the correct approach IMHO. Maybe some packages may need a way to back out of the installation of the administrators decides they still need the application

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-23 Thread Brian May
better to test rebooting first at low-demand times. Or if you plan on being off-site for an extended period of time. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & ITP diskless-image

1999-09-23 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:46:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > [description removed] > > I have made most of the changed required for my redesign of diskless. > Amazingly, it looks like no changed are required for dpk

Re: Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Brian May
rformance IMPROVES... Just guessing: disk cache??? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Running daemons without asking for permission on install

1999-09-26 Thread Brian May
t you should get the general idea. Perhaps you may only want to include lines with *:* so that active connections are not counted. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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

1999-09-27 Thread Brian May
, eg /usr/bin/z was overwritten by packge Y, which does something completely different? Also, --force-conflicts can hide other serious problems. eg if your package diverts a file, but with the wrong package name, when dpkg unpacks it, it will overwrite the original file. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & apt error

1999-09-27 Thread Brian May
> > I have made most of the changed required for my redesign of diskless. > > Amazingly, it looks like no changed are required for dpkg. I haven't > > yet tested anything though, and implementing secure mode might be a bit > > awkward. Currently I am considering the fo

neighbour table overflow

1999-10-01 Thread Brian May
tatic. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & apt error

1999-10-01 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 05:16:28PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > apt, for starters is broken: Whats worse: 1. Complaining about a problem and not having it fixed. 2. Complaining about a problem, and subsequently finding it already has been fixed. Well, in my case, the problems I encounte

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & ITP diskless-image

1999-10-01 Thread Brian May
etc read-write > > might make adding extra hosts easier, as all host > > specific data can be copied and processed on startup) > > Do you support multiple clients? I would have a normal /etc that links > most files to /share/etc and some to /rw/etc (the host specific stuff >

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Brian May
ystem) for java... This file could potentially be used for more applications then just the kernel - any program that wants to map the file to a MIME type. (Apache already does this - is this any better? I suspect Apache's is hardcoded, but not sure). I think that this could be done with similar structure as originally proposed. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-04 Thread Brian May
pe text/html /path/to/file.html That would automatically parse /etc/mailcap and do the `right' thing, for the file /path/to/file.html, given it is text/html. Entries in /etc/binfmt_misc would contain statements like the above instead of the end program. This could be implemented with you original proposal with no changes (except the extra program), but having it integrated with the mime setup would be nice ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Brian May
; >This is not user independant is it? The system can not be set so that one user >has support for running Java/JPEGs from the command line, and another does >not? These are questions I can't answer. I seriously doubt the kernel will be able to reliably distinguish all file types though - especially ones like HTML. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Brian May
xtension, but could just look at the value given by the filesystem. Changing the mime-type for one file would automatically effect all programs. [ runs for cover... ] -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
hese on a diskless system). I think if you are going to use /usr/etc, programs should first check /etc, in case the system administrator wishes to override the sharable config file for the given host. IMHO, only a few files in /etc are not sharable, eg /etc/hostname /etc/mailname, /etc/news/whoami

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
- magicfilter (do I need to say more?) - can't remember what xv does. - lots more - I am not wide awake at the moment ;-) Currently, the file extension is used for a lot of things, but I think the filename should be for user identification of the file, and not for system identification. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
mt_misc proposal, where executing a file would automatically open the file with the correct program. However, this is already done with WWW, and I don't see any problems there (except misconfigured MIME types on some servers - something that would benifit from my proposal, at least for HTTP). I don't know how reliable file is either, but I strongly suspect that there will be files which will confuse it. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
text/html is a valid mime type, eg by inspecting /etc/mime.types As for Microsoft, do programs like Outlook even look at the mimetype? I remember sending some people a "plain/text" mime type attachment, and outlook got confused because it didn't recognise the file extension, and forced the user to save the file to disk... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
or programs that live in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin, but > would require program support to check for configs in multiple locations. > However, I suggest that programs living in /bin and /sbin MUST have > their configs in /etc in case /usr is not available. What files would you consider fall

Re: Does dpkg-divert work on conf files?

2000-03-09 Thread Brian May
ages don't do this. (or if you meant configuration files in general, that is a different thing altogether, dpkg-divert wont work though unless it is a normal file or a conffile). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-09 Thread Brian May
t;From:" address. If anybody really wants to know where this message is getting sent from, it should be easy to check. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (who currently wants all Debian mail to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to aid sorting)

important bug - war (openldapd #57469)

2000-03-14 Thread Brian May
;break" with "last". Not tested. sidenote: [510] [lyell:bmay] ~ >perl -e 'use strict; while (1) { print "hi\n"; break; }' Bareword "break" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1. Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. Personally, I use "use strict;" in all programs I write. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: important bug - war (openldapd #57469)

2000-03-14 Thread Brian May
another copy. Or, perhaps I should have put openldapd somewhere on the subject line? I guess my subject line could have been better. Ben> Sorry that you had to resort to this, it will be fixed soon Ben> enough. Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: I don't get copies of bug reports to my packages

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] process (and reply) to my bug reports two times, the first time works, the next time complains saying the task was already done. This is when I mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and possibly the bug submitter (no one else). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
the same deb file with dpkg... (sorry, my news feed is still catching up after being down for some time, so this may have already been addressed). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
ieve the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339 and 60399 for a similar problem with man-db. This was posted as another thread on debian-devel. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
ystem problem. Looks like gzip is getting Ben> killed (the Broken Pipe). What kernel is this person running? 2.2.14 -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
oo soon, it might have been 2.2.13. The 2.2.14 system worked. I don't have access to the broken system again until next Monday. I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. I think it is worth noting though that dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile worked, although I didn't check if the output was valid. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
Ben> track it down. It is easy for me to reproduce - simply downgrade to man-db .13, and use apt-get upgrade to upgrade to version .14 again -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-19 Thread Brian May
ny false conclusions. False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message, in case it gives anybody else some ideas. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Brian May
, I was confused. In this case the error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was generated by dpkg. I will take Jason's word for it that a deb file with bytes missing can still be valid... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> On 20 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: >> I have to agree with Jason here, I was confused. In this case >> the error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was &g

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
packages easier, if diff files can live in a standard spot within the source structure. However, I may have lost the plot somewhere here ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
realizing it. IMHO, the sooner this dead escape standard is dropped in favour of the better standard (IIRC: set the high bit on control characters), the better. However, I cannot see a lot of progress from here... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
the standard build process? Adam> And the diffs do live in a standard spot, in Adam> ../*.diffs.tar.gz. I meant in uncompressed form. I have not gone into depth into any of the above issues, but will leave it at that until I understand the proposal a bit better. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Radovan> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May Radovan> wrote: >> For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my >> editor to go to the top of

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-28 Thread Brian May
.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "gnus")) Done Can't find gnus? But I use gnus all the time! I am using it right now! I do not understand the logic that sets the load-path, it is possible that might be wrong. I manually compiled the bbdb-gnus file, but

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-29 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:03:33AM +1000, Brian May Richard> wrote: >> I set the severity to important, as I feel that bbdb support is >> important for

Re: important vs release critical bugs

2000-03-29 Thread Brian May
kes for the maintainer to respond, the harder and more inconvenient it is for me to reproduce (I may have deleted my test data ages ago). Also, look at bug #22961, I think this should be easy to fix (it involves a shell script), and while it is purely "aesthetic", I haven't had any re

Re: X with wdm capable of selecting host at login

2000-08-14 Thread Brian May
configuration file." fi else echo "unable to check." fi else echo "file not found." fi if [ "$problem" ]; then echo "Not starting X display manager." echo "Pausing for five minutes." sleep 300 exit 1 else echo "done." fi fi echo "Starting X server: X" $DAEMON $PARAMS exit 0 -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: X with wdm capable of selecting host at login

2000-08-14 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: esoR> # /etc/init.d/wdm stop # X -indirect localhost esoR> and I get an X background with a mouse cursor but no wdm esoR> panel. I, once again, assume that this is the correct esoR>

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Brian May
password, which must be kept as secure as possible. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Brian May
ot sure how well temp files are managed. I was told though, for the purpose of Heimdal-kdc, to put it in the postinst directory. This means it doesn't have to get stored in the database. ie the postinst script does a "db_get" followed by a "db_set". -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Brian May
never Joey> designed to do. I think something needs to be done to address this issue. Yes, you can force dpkg to always use the old file, but then this will break applications which require the new file to be installed. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#69271: general: why not a praise tracking system?

2000-08-16 Thread Brian May
ng number of applications (WNPP,praise tracking,etc) (eg fields specific to each application, instead of using the title for this purpose)? Or an alternative I haven't specified. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

BTS not showing my bugs

2000-08-30 Thread Brian May
Ok, Can somebody explain the following? >From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>, click on "Index of maintainers of packages with bug reports.", and then "Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" takes you to: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/lBrian_May,bam,debian.org,.html>

Re: trouble with portmap on diskless machines

2000-08-31 Thread Brian May
ubmitted a patch about this years ago, but for some reason it was later removed. It is easy to fix in the source code (IIRC: modify the if condition to test if F_GETLK returns the PID of the current process), but am not sure if this is the current fix or not. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-05 Thread Brian May
e the best choice of protocol depends on the file: Packages - rsync. *.deb- http, as a http caching server can be used. which is oversimplified to some degree because it doesn't allow caching the Packages file (eg if updating many computers on the one network). At least you only need to do

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-05 Thread Brian May
oss of the private key will typically affect the security of more then just the local computer, too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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