Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.28 1996/10/27 23:29:58 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1.Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/de
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Robert Stone wrote:
> is there a shadow passwd system available for Debian 1.1?
It's not official, but you can find a debianized version of shadow
passwords at
ftp://serek.arch.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/shadow
This is the home of shadow passwords for linux. I haven
Tim Sailer wrote:
>
> In your email to me, Bill Vinson, you wrote:
> >
> > I just decided to reinstall so I would have the chance to install modules
> > to work with the SN2000CT ethernet card. It says it is 100% NE2000
> > Ethernet compatible and when I opted to install the NE2000 module I got t
Joe Emenaker wrote:
>
> I've noticed that all of the upgrades to packages usually go into
> "unstable".
>
> What, exactly, does "unstable" mean? Does it mean that the packages haven't
> been 'frozen' into a new release of Debian? Does it mean that the package
> itself is flaky? or does it mean th
is there a shadow passwd system available for Debian 1.1?
a "strings /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 | grep shadow" gives me ...
/etc/gshadow
/etc/shadow
@(#)gshadow.c 1.1 12:22:5113 Feb 1994 (GNU Shadow Library
Suite)
@(#)shadow.c1.1 12:23:0613 Feb 1994 (GNU Sha
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:
> Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for
> hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10
> days.
does it work with mgetty?
Craig
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J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
> If you don't like 'dselect', you can always use 'dpkg' (the lower-level
> utility); 'dpkg' allows you to override dependencies.
> (In fact, I've used dpkg since before dselect, and only learned to use
> dselect lately (a SLiRP connection now allows me to keep stuff up to date
joost witteveen writes:
> Sure, that's the best. But a lot of Debian maintainers don't really like
> "non-free" to begin with, and don't like to give non-free the same
> prefferential treatment the main system gets.
Then get rid of it. Do it right, or not at all.
John Hasler
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> Guy Maor writes:
> > That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies,...
I wrote:
> Why?
Guy Maor writes:
> See the Programmer's Manual, section 8.2.
I don't have anything identifying itself as the Programmer's Manual. Where
is it found?
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasl
On 27 Oct 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> I would recommend NOT using anything but adduser to add a user to your
> Debian machine. The other script could very well add the user in some
> incompatible way. Instead just read the man page of adduser and
> figure out how to translate the call. I doubt it'
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Nicholson writes:
>Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?
Have you also considered to use mgetty+sendfax?
David
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mike horansky
writes:
>Stephen Pitts wrote:
>
>> I created a setuid script that attempted to mount my cdrom. Running
>> it as a user, the only error I got was that it couldn't modify
>> mtab. So, I guess you were right and a script only runs
>> semi-setuid.
>
>You m
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:52:32 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > This is a long story and it generated a lot of discussions here.
> > The consensus is that it's better for user-level programs to be compiled
> > with the same set of kernel file than libc
Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 26 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>
> > What linux's have useradd?
> >
> > It seems that hylafax's faxsetup script assumes you have useradd.
> >
> > I know I have adduser
> I haven't seen useradd for at least a year. I think that useradd w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) writes:
> Guy Maor writes:
> > That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies,...
>
> Why?
See the Programmer's Manual, section 8.2.
Guy
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
>
> This is a long story and it generated a lot of discussions here.
> The consensus is that it's better for user-level programs to be compiled with
> the same set of kernel file than libc was compiled with.
> Obviously, if you want to compile your
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
> I seem to be unable to get ypxfr to receive
>hosts.{byaddr,byname} from the main NIS host. My secondary server
>(slave for purists) complains about a DBM error:
>
>ypxfr: Local dbm operation failed
Hmm
> There's nothing inherently unstable about non-free software, so I
> think "non-free" and "unstable" should be orthogonal concepts. How
> about a "non-free/stable" in which nothing depends on anything outside
> of "stable", and a "non-free/unstable", in which anything goes?
>
Sure, that's the b
>
> > When I try 'gs -anitialias *.ps' it gives me a core dump. I
> > have gs-aladdin_4.03-2_i386.deb
>
> Are you sure gs dumps core or do you merely get regular gs error
> messages (which usually almost look like a core dump) ?
>
> Also, since gs does not know the option "-antialias" (or "-ani
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> I just repartitioned one of my drives to give Linux more space and Winbloze
> less. Now I have four partitions: swap, /, /usr, and /usr/local instead of
> three (/, /usr, swap) The system appeared to work OK when I tested it, but
> (conveniantly :-) afte
On 26 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?
Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for
hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10 days.
Dermot
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On 26 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
> What linux's have useradd?
>
> It seems that hylafax's faxsetup script assumes you have useradd.
>
> I know I have adduser
I haven't seen useradd for at least a year. I think that useradd was
"phased out". The release that I last remember seeing it on
> Please does anyone have (or know of where I can find) as script/Macro I
>can run which would check for the fonts installed on my system and write
out a
Hmm, a ls /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/ should give you a first hint
( is the mode supply to mf; most probably cx; but this should be
taylor
> When I try 'gs -anitialias *.ps' it gives me a core dump. I
> have gs-aladdin_4.03-2_i386.deb
Are you sure gs dumps core or do you merely get regular gs error
messages (which usually almost look like a core dump) ?
Also, since gs does not know the option "-antialias" (or "-anitalias")
it shoul
Hi Daniel,
Try using the ip-up/ip-down scripts. See the man page for more info
Simon
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From: Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: DialD: Finally
Date: 25 October 1996 23:08
Ok!! Don't need help on this anymore!! It works.. finally...
BUT..
Guy Maor writes:
> That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies,...
Why?
John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes it does. You can hit "Q" to force dselect to accept things as you
> have chosen.
Pressing "Q" causes dselect to momentarily forget about dependency
conflicts.
When installing the packages the user will certainly get lots of error
messages
related to u
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 17:38:12 +1100 Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
> I mentioned previously that it's very difficult to compile modules
> and things on Debian because /usr/include/linux is from libc5-dev,
> and hence contains old version.h, and doesn't contain modversions.h.
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
>
> BUT... does anyone know how to make it run a custom script that I have to
> produce a html file that gets uploaded to my ISP? (The script works
> already... just want diald to automatically do it when I get connected)
Enable the ip-up script in d
>Actually, it's really nice for me. It automatically notes new packages that
>have been updated and lets me download and install them with less than 10
>or so keypresses whether there are 2 upgraded packages or 200.
Sorry, I've been away for a while.
Dselect is nice, but I really think the
David Puryear wrote:
> I noticed that some ps files gives error when using
> gv -antialias
> Does anyone know why? I looked at man and docs and couldn't not find
> why.
Okay, I play around with it some more. It's not gv problem but
ghostscript. When I try 'gs -anitialias *.ps' it gives me a core
> Zlatko Rek wrote:
>
> >I have problems with xterm. When it is opened the TERM and TERMCAP
> >environment variables are set to:
> >
> > TERM=xterm
> > TERMCAP=co#80:li#24:
> >
> >I use Jed editor and if I want to edit file the "Terminal not powerful
> >enough for SLang." message appears.
I mentioned previously that it's very difficult to compile modules
and things on Debian because /usr/include/linux is from libc5-dev,
and hence contains old version.h, and doesn't contain modversions.h.
This problem is even worse in that you cannot compile kernel 2.1.5
on Debian; it looks for sever
Neal R. Dalton wrote:
>
> Has any installed a Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B on a 2.x kernel? I
> installed Debian 1.1 and tried to get eepro100.c working.
>
> How about other 100Mb cards?
>
> Thanks,
>
I had it working under 2.0.22 and couple of versions below
(that was under RH 3.0.3 distributi
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Vladislav Papayan wrote:
> Neal R. Dalton wrote:
> >
> > Has any installed a Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B on a 2.x kernel? I
> I had it working under 2.0.22 and couple of versions below
> (that was under RH 3.0.3 distribution) -- are you having
> problems or you are just s
I've made some packages (wine, joystick, mutt), and would like to know
where to upload them to. Also, I might try my hand at Acrobat. Does Debian
have the most packages of any distribution? It sure seems like it!
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Matthew D Moss wrote:
> I have a 1gig IDE hard drive in my Intel/Debian Linux machine. The machine
> is up all the time, and up until now, I've had no problems with it.
>
> Recently, the hard drive has starting making a weird "ping" noise that
> I know I've never heard befor
I've noticed that all of the upgrades to packages usually go into
"unstable".
What, exactly, does "unstable" mean? Does it mean that the packages haven't
been 'frozen' into a new release of Debian? Does it mean that the package
itself is flaky? or does it mean that the version number of the packag
What linux's have useradd?
It seems that hylafax's faxsetup script assumes you have useradd.
I know I have adduser
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Hi all,
I noticed that some ps files gives error when using
gv -antialias
Does anyone know why? I looked at man and docs and couldn't not find
why.
Thanks for any information,
David
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Tim Sailer wrote:
> I think 0x320 it the 'standard' spot the ne2k cards live. At the prompt
> for additional command line options (or what ever it is), add
> "io=0x320" and see if that works
anything from 200-360 usually is "normal" for a ne2000 board.
320 is the RECOMMENDED
I agree wholeheartedly! I am a beta-tester for XFree86 and update
by distribution about twice a week with new alpha releases.
Every time I run "make Everythingl make install", I overwrite debian
libraries and binaries. I am going to have to d/load XFree86 3.2 in
debian form, even though I have 70+
> From: Johannes Plass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion,
> too tight.
> Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point:
[ snip ]
> The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override
> any dependencies specified by packa
On 26 Oct 1996, Bill Vinson wrote:
> I just decided to reinstall so I would have the chance to install modules
> to work with the SN2000CT ethernet card. It says it is 100% NE2000
> Ethernet compatible and when I opted to install the NE2000 module I got the
> following error:
>
> nc.c: mo
> From: Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?
Yes and no.
Yes, because efax comes with a utility to turn text files into group-3 fax
images. It's called "efix" and an example usage is given near the bottom of
the efax man page.
No, because I
"Joe Emenaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> dpkg *does* seem to sometimes
> enforce some package dependencies, but that has only happened to me once.
That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies, but
dpkg only treats them as suggestions. See Programmer's Manul 8.2.
Guy
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I'm trying to send faxes via either efax or mgetty's sendfax with no
success.
I started by using efax's "efix" to generate some group-3 files. Once upon
a time efax would try to send them... now it isn't even able to dial.
So, I went with sendfax. Sendfax dials, connects, and then starts sending
I just repartitioned one of my drives to give Linux more space and Winbloze
less. Now I have four partitions: swap, /, /usr, and /usr/local instead of
three (/, /usr, swap) The system appeared to work OK when I tested it, but
(conveniantly :-) after I turned the usr partition into the usr/local
pa
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