Re: talk to debian and sun

e. AFAIK, Sun's talk uses an obsolete protocol. Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

Re: sparc port

rt (developers packages like libc-dev, make, gcc, ...). Especially there is no X support at all. It's far from a release. Notice that you can install it: there is netboot support to bootstrap your system. If you have time to spent on the port you can reach our mailing list: debian-sparc@list

Re: Colors and Packages overview

Just add *customization: -color in your .Xresources (maybe .Xdefaults) or better add it to system wide /etc/X11/Xresources. Then all app-defaults files ending with -color will be used instead of the standard ones. Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l

Re: New Hard Disk

have to move the whole tree by hand? > Syd Try cd /usr ; find lib -print | cpio -pd /mnt or cp -a /usr/lib /mnt/lib or ( cd /usr ; tar czf - lib ) | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvzf - ) Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaire

installation disks wanted for stable release

ks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)

Re: Can't nfs mount Debian box

t is much slower. If this doesn't work, > carefully check your /etc/exports file while reading the "exports" man > page to be sure it's correct. You can also try: /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs reload much more Debian's way ;-) Bye. -- Eric Delaunay

looking for a sparc distribution

test Linux on a Sparc-ELC preferably using a Debian distribution. Does anyone know how do I proceed ? Where can I find a non official release ? Which mailing lists to subscribe ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [E

mailing-list X-Loop field disappeared :-(

Field X-Loop is no longer available for a lot of mails sent by, at least, debian-user and debian-devel mailing-lists. It's very annoying to me since I filter my mailbox against this field using procmail. Which other field could I use by now ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Del

where is compress ?

thout success because mkfontdir doesn't handle gzip format :-( Therefore I need compress! Is there any Debian package I can install that includes it ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supp

Re: how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib

> On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a > > new distribution. > > The concept you're looking for is 'Hold'. Just move the highlight to the &

how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib

ct/dpkg to skip some installed packages during an upgrade without removing them from distribution ? (if provided on a cdrom, it hard to erase them ;) ) (dpkg is called from dselect passing -iGROEB options that recursively parse distribution directories and upgrade *all* packages previously installe

problem using DC fonts in latex

I also heard that mf program should be designed to run with DC-1.2 fonts :-\ BTW, I didn't find a newer package than mfbasfnt_1.0-3 and textfm_1.0-3 that I already have installed. Does a new font package will be planned ? Thank in advance for all replies I could receive. -- Eric Delaunay