Bug#1886: cern-httpd 3.0-4: a couple of bugs

1995-11-24 Thread Raul Miller
Chris Fearnley writes ("Bug#1886: cern-httpd 3.0-4: a couple of bugs"): > In http-conf, section "Users' Public HTML Directories", says that the > default location for users' pages is in public_html, but the script > sets the default to public-html. Ian Jackson: I'd be inclined to chan

new kernels coming

1995-11-24 Thread Bruce Perens
I am rebuilding both the 1.2.13 and 1.3.43 kernels. New features: New BusLogic driver doesn't conflict with Adaptec, thus the default kernel will work for BusLogic cards. PPP updates. ELF configured into the kernel, not a module. - Bruce -- Visit the "To

innd won't start on my ELF converted machine

1995-11-24 Thread Kenny Wickstrom
Hi, I am sending this to the devel list, assuming that not many others have converted to ELF yet. Anyway, the subject says alot. I have had innd running on my system for sometime. After loading all of the new ELF and A.OUT libs, innd doesn't start. I get a message in the log that says: in

bounds checking

1995-11-24 Thread Bruce Perens
I saw this come over comp.os.linux.announce. This would be a nice feature to add to the ELF compiler. Thanks Bruce from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Jones) Subject: GCC bounds checking 2.7.1/1.0 released *** GCC 2.7.1 with Bounds Checking: Version 1.0 released *** The latest ver

Re: "/usr/local" refs in docs

1995-11-24 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bill Mitchell writes: Bill> Yesterday, I said I'd counted 1300+ and info and man files which Bill> referred to /usr/local. It later struck me that this number is Bill> totally unreasonable. I think I reversed the sense of the test. Bill> Bill> I've redone the test on what I current

X package dependencies

1995-11-24 Thread Stephen Early
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Andrew Howell wrote: > Bdale Garbee writes: > > : xtet42 depends on X11R6 and recommends xserver. This is what Ian Murdoch > > : said all X packages should do. > > > > [...] > > > > Second, the whole point of X, to me, is that you can run clients on one > > machine and a ser

Unanswered problem reports

1995-11-24 Thread iwj10
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 9 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 379 mount Repeatable mount(1) problem wi Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 41

Re: Bug#1896: fsck won't go because of elf?

1995-11-24 Thread Jeff Noxon
I think we need to make ELF part of the kernel for Debian-1.0. It doesn't make sense to have it as a module anymore. Jeff > > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.01? > > During boot up the harddisk is checked before the modules (binfmt_elf) > are loaded. The fsck/e2fsck utility is elf dependend bu

Re: Bug#1896: fsck won't go because of elf?

1995-11-24 Thread Andrew D. Fernandes
> During boot up the harddisk is checked before the modules (binfmt_elf) > are loaded. The fsck/e2fsck utility is elf dependend but can't run > without the module being loaded. Ah! Good point. Ok, guys... how to handle this? I have recompiled elf support directly into the kernel (seeing as how

Bug#1896: fsck won't go because of elf?

1995-11-24 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.01? During boot up the harddisk is checked before the modules (binfmt_elf) are loaded. The fsck/e2fsck utility is elf dependend but can't run without the module being loaded. -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) Univ

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-24 Thread Andrew Howell
Bdale Garbee writes: > : xtet42 depends on X11R6 and recommends xserver. This is what Ian Murdoch > : said all X packages should do. > > I don't understand why this makes sense, for two reasons. Ian M, was there > some other good reason for this suggestion that I've missed? > > First, in general

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Kenny Wickstrom writes: : > My X server is : > on my Win 95 machine. So to get xtet42 to install I needed to add the : > --force-depends to the dpkg command line. : xtet42 depends on X11R6 and recommends xserver. This is what Ian Murdoch : said all X

Re: Bug#1887: cfengine 1.2.14-2: documentation errors

1995-11-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : > We should document what we ship as we ship it. : No argument, but that implies lots of work for maintainers : when initially building packages and when upgrading to new : upstream releases. I'm not sure that it's practical. I think it's necessary.