Re: AUC-TeX in xemacs

1998-04-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 05:28:45PM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: > Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sorry but from upgrading to xemacs20 make AUC-TeX not seems to work well > > in xemacs, especially the key bindings and no menu.=20 > > > > Here's an extract from my .emacs file, I on

Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Hello, > > We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI > disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are > supported by the current rescue disks. > > So, in a not quite right state of mind, I decided I w

Re: Problem installing rvplayer.deb

1998-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Shaleh wrote: > The newest rvplayer in hamm will not install because it provides > 'netscape' and some other package does too. What is happening here? I > did not install the netscape deb package. Please sned me the exact error message you are getting. rvplayer does not Provides: netscape. --

Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-09 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI > disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are > supported by the current rescue disks. The lastest boot disks from Debian 1.3 work just fine; I've used the

Upgrading from bo to hamm

1998-04-09 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Hi All, I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves the following broken links reported by ldconfig: Setting up libreadline2 (2.1-8) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libpthread.so (No such file or directory), s

AUC-TeX in xemacs

1998-04-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Sorry but from upgrading to xemacs20 make AUC-TeX not seems to work well in xemacs, especially the key bindings and no menu. Here's an extract from my .emacs file, I only put the relevant part. ;; ;; AUC-TeX settings ;; ;; (setq TeX-auto-save t) (setq TeX-

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 03:56:08PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > I think the right thing to do is to leave the default prompts > alone, and teach people how to set up prompts. There is no way you > can cater to all tastes and all shells, people invariably change > them, and anyway, w

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 05:27:14PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > Brian, here in Germany, every Megabyte you have to download is costing real > > money. A lot of money. Please put as much on the CD as possible. Declare it > > extra, put it in an unstable dir, put warnings all over the place, but > >

boot-floppies package

1998-04-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hello, We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are supported by the current rescue disks. So, in a not quite right state of mind, I decided I would make some boot floppies so that my coworkers, and any

Re: mailto:debian-devel@lists.debian.org

1998-04-09 Thread Juan Cespedes
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 07:45:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from > linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h > library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there > some way i can tell gcc to compi

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> Brian, here in Germany, every Megabyte you have to download is costing real > money. A lot of money. Please put as much on the CD as possible. Declare it > extra, put it in an unstable dir, put warnings all over the place, but > please include it. > > We already exclude non-free comlpetely for g

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Riku" == Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Riku> Ofcourse the right thing to do is a /etc/profile.d Riku> directory. I think the right thing to do is to leave the default prompts alone, and teach people how to set up prompts. There is no way you can cater to all tastes and

Re: How to install editor lisp files?

1998-04-09 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 01:22:55PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > There's some Emacs Lisp that I neglected to package with `scsh'. I > would like to know how to go about having dpkg install it. What is > the procedure? Where do I stow it, and how do I register it with > both emacsen? I th

How to install editor lisp files?

1998-04-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
There's some Emacs Lisp that I neglected to package with `scsh'. I would like to know how to go about having dpkg install it. What is the procedure? Where do I stow it, and how do I register it with both emacsen? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 01:09:39PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The subject in question is whether to include these packages in "stable". > > "unstable" will include them for sure. > > I think they are appropriate for "stable" provided they are classifed >

Re: please retain floppy installs!

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Will Debian 2.0 (and on) retain the ability to install from a small core system off of floppies? I sincerely hope so. Believe it or not, there are a lot of computers out there where floppies are still the easiest way to install things. Old laptops, for example. Debian 1.3's install m

please retain floppy installs!

1998-04-09 Thread Nelson Minar
Will Debian 2.0 (and on) retain the ability to install from a small core system off of floppies? I sincerely hope so. Believe it or not, there are a lot of computers out there where floppies are still the easiest way to install things. Old laptops, for example. Debian 1.3's install method is really

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, but remeber that changes in /etc/skel affect only users that > > > are added in the system _after_ the change. Exeisting users will > > > still have old files. I still wonder, what it helps to put global > > > configuration in user-specific files.

Re: HTTP site list

1998-04-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > I thought it might be worth having a non-us site merge the files, so that > mirrors outside the US could easily include the non-us software just by > mirroring from me. Yes, this was supposed to have been done long ago. I don't know who is responsible t

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:42:30AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but remeber that changes in /etc/skel affect only users that > > are added in the system _after_ the change. Exeisting users will > > still have old files. I still wonder, what it helps to

Re: [info@troll.no] The KDE Free Qt Foundation

1998-04-09 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> if this results in a new Qt license which meets the DFSG Craig> (specifically the items regarding modifying source and Craig> non-discrimination) then both KDE and Qt can go into debian Craig> main. i hope that this i

Problem installing rvplayer.deb

1998-04-09 Thread Shaleh
The newest rvplayer in hamm will not install because it provides 'netscape' and some other package does too. What is happening here? I did not install the netscape deb package. -- --- How can you see, when your mind is not open? How can you think, whe

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-09 Thread Yann Dirson
James R. Van Zandt writes: > >I guess you don't count the "router/firewall" as being part of "all > >the above". I'd suggest it would be put below "standard" (in a > >"specific setups" section ?), as it is confusing as such. > > Actually I did think that the "router/firewall" packages would

Re: Package overlaps from bo to hamm

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 06:04:31PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > I have made a list of overlaps between packages in hamm and packages > in bo, and tried to filter out the ones that are not problematic. > (For example, because they use diversions). Please, when you do this kind of surveys, in

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The subject in question is whether to include these packages in "stable". > "unstable" will include them for sure. I think they are appropriate for "stable" provided they are classifed as "Extra". That is what the "Extra" priority is for, after all. -- R

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > > In this case, if somebody has the knowledge to build their own 2.1 kernel > > > (since one didn't come on the CD), then they have the knowledge necessary > > > to get packages from "unstable". > > > > It's very unpleasant to have to download things whn you have just bought a > > CD. And man

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > > How many of these people had problems from properly built packages? > > > > All of them. It was that the packages didn't work in certain situations. > > Were these "Extra" packages? One was X. I don't recall off hand what the other problems were. > > > What about people who need such su

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How many of these people had problems from properly built packages? > > All of them. It was that the packages didn't work in certain situations. Were these "Extra" packages? > > What about people who need such support now (before the cd is released). >

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > I understand this and it is a good point. My concern is with people > > who are trying to install Debian and the difficulties they encounter. > > There have been several posts lately from experienced people who tried > > to install Debian and had it blow up in their faces. Such happenings > > c

Package overlaps from bo to hamm

1998-04-09 Thread Richard Braakman
I have made a list of overlaps between packages in hamm and packages in bo, and tried to filter out the ones that are not problematic. (For example, because they use diversions). My scripts for this are not always accurate, they're a bit old and creaky. Unfortunately, there are too many overlap

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand this and it is a good point. My concern is with people > who are trying to install Debian and the difficulties they encounter. > There have been several posts lately from experienced people who tried > to install Debian and had it blow up in the

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but remeber that changes in /etc/skel affect only users that > are added in the system _after_ the change. Exeisting users will > still have old files. I still wonder, what it helps to put global > configuration in user-specific files. Then you're sayi

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > > What if THEY GOT IT OFF A CD, NOT THE NET? Yes, there are people that are > > > going to buy CD distributions that include kernel sources, and these > > > distributions will include 2.1.x and 2.2 when it's released. WHAT DO WE > > > LOSE by putting support for them in hamm? > > > > I think

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: > > What if THEY GOT IT OFF A CD, NOT THE NET? Yes, there are people that are > > going to buy CD distributions that include kernel sources, and these > > distributions will include 2.1.x and 2.2 when it's released. WHAT DO WE > > LOSE by putting support fo

Re: future development of doc-base

1998-04-09 Thread Marco Budde
Adam P. Harris wrote: > Well, guys, I'm digging into doc-base. Right now I'm focused on > fixing bugs for the freeze. There seems to be a few areas for > interaction between dhelp and doc-base which are tricky to replicate; > and hence, tricky to fix. Thankfully, the code is very small and If

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > > They work if you're using a 2.1.x kernel. Since plenty of people can be > > > expected to get Debian on multi-CD sets which include kernel sources, I > > > still believe we should ship them. > > > > > > Also, what happens when Linus finally puts out the 2.2.0 kernel? I don't > > > think we'

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: > > They work if you're using a 2.1.x kernel. Since plenty of people can be > > expected to get Debian on multi-CD sets which include kernel sources, I > > still believe we should ship them. > > > > Also, what happens when Linus finally puts out the 2.2.0 k

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> They work if you're using a 2.1.x kernel. Since plenty of people can be > expected to get Debian on multi-CD sets which include kernel sources, I > still believe we should ship them. > > Also, what happens when Linus finally puts out the 2.2.0 kernel? I don't > think we're going to be making a

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: > > > In this case, if somebody has the knowledge to build their own 2.1 kernel > > > (since one didn't come on the CD), then they have the knowledge necessary > > > to get packages from "unstable". > > > > It's very unpleasant to have to download things wh

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote: : Anyone have a digitized copy of this? :) : : Thanks, http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980408.atc.14.ram -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] f

Re: intent to package: coda (+ copyright question)

1998-04-09 Thread Anders Hammarquist
> I think it's clear the intent is to say that CMU is legally distributing AFS. > the terms under which CMU is distributing it are as stated above and are DFSG > compliant. I think that's all we're concerned with: the terms under which our > users can use, modify, and distribute the software. > >

I'm away for six days

1998-04-09 Thread Joop
I'm away for six days. See you later... Joop [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CERT bind alert.

1998-04-09 Thread Robert Woodcock
Henry Hollenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone assesed the impact of the bind exploit announced by CERT > today. > I'm using bind_4.9.6-1.deb, so would be curious as to where I stood, > what the fixes were. > Thanks >Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ya know what sucks?

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:36:33AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The policy is to keep /etc/skel minimal, to avoid unecessary bloat of > > /home structure... keep in mind that many ISP's have thousands of users. > (3) Administrators, even administrators w

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > In this case, if somebody has the knowledge to build their own 2.1 kernel > > (since one didn't come on the CD), then they have the knowledge necessary > > to get packages from "unstable". > > It's very unpleasant to have to download things whn you have just bought a > CD. And many users are

Need help to fix some debmake bugs.

1998-04-09 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- #12443: debmake: uupdate should support pristine sources I have never used uupdate, so if anyone volunteers, I will accept patches. Since most tarballs uncompress now into a single directory, it would ok if uupdate is changed so that it support *only* pristine

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 07:30:23PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wrote: > > make it to FAQ, but i can't possibly understand what damage is done if the > > default prompt is changed to PS1="\w\$ " . > Like that it won't work for anyone who uses a Bourne shell other th

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The policy is to keep /etc/skel minimal, to avoid unecessary bloat of > /home structure... keep in mind that many ISP's have thousands of users. (1) If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. (2) /etc/skel/ already has a .bashrc and a .bash_profile. (3)

I'm away for a week

1998-04-09 Thread Roman Hodek
I'm on vacation from tomorrow till 04/20, so if something serious should be with my packages, feel free to make non-maintainer uploads. Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HTTP site list

1998-04-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 07:29:00PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > This is a partial list of http enabled mirrors, I did the US and UK. > > There are 13 sites listed here. If someone would like to go through the > > rest of the mirror list then please do

Re: dinstall and PGP

1998-04-09 Thread Roman Hodek
> Can someone hack dinstall to install packages which are not PGP > signed but has been copied to incoming? If the UID of the files is > the one of a developer we can know who did upload the package. No, because the upload queues also use known UIDs, but may allow everyone to upload. (BTW, the qu

Re: Why isn't "/var/run" drwxrwxrwt ?

1998-04-09 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 8 Apr 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Why isn't "/var/run" set like "/tmp"? Shouldn't user-run programs be > able to write a pid file there? I don't think so. According to the FSSTND: 5.10 /var/run : Run-time variable files This directory contains syst

Re: Is the `scsh' licence DFSG compliant? Please advise.

1998-04-09 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 9 Apr 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Attached is the COPYING file from `scsh-0.5.1'. Use of this program for commercial purposes is also permitted, but only if, in addition to the acknowledgement required for non-commercial users, written notification o

Re: Is the `scsh' licence DFSG compliant? Please advise.

1998-04-09 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > Attached is the COPYING file from `scsh-0.5.1'. May this program go > into "main"? As already stated by myself and others: no. > That would be wonderful. I would like to package `guile-scsh' as > well. It bears the similar licence. It bears the

Re: Why isn't "/var/run" drwxrwxrwt ?

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Why isn't "/var/run" set like "/tmp"? Shouldn't user-run programs be > able to write a pid file there? No, you don't want users to stop certain daemons from running by putting pid files in there (sure this isn't likely but it is possible). If you wan

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > make it to FAQ, but i can't possibly understand what damage is done if the > default prompt is changed to PS1="\w\$ " . Like that it won't work for anyone who uses a Bourne shell other than bash? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/

Re: HTTP site list

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > This is a partial list of http enabled mirrors, I did the US and UK. > There are 13 sites listed here. If someone would like to go through the > rest of the mirror list then please do :> deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian stable main contrib non-fre

Re: HTTP site list

1998-04-09 Thread Philip Hands
Hi, I've set up a merged us/non-us site, on debian.hands.com, which should be accessible thus: # <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> deb http://debian.hands.com/debian/ stable main contrib non-free non-us deb http://debian.hands.com/debian/ frozen main contrib non-free non-us deb http://debian.hands.com/debian/

Re: dinstall and PGP

1998-04-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Marco" == Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marco> On Apr 08, Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway, I fail to see WHY we should allow non PGP signed packages. Marco> Because it's not easy to sign .dsc and .changes files via a ssh Marco> pipe when compiling packages

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 11:06:44AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The point is new users. > Then we should be talking about /etc/skel/, rather than /etc/profile The policy is to keep /etc/skel minimal, to avoid unecessary bloat of /home structure... keep

Is the `scsh' licence DFSG compliant? Please advise.

1998-04-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Attached is the COPYING file from `scsh-0.5.1'. May this program go into "main"? That would be wonderful. I would like to package `guile-scsh' as well. It bears the similar licence. COPYING Description: Binary data

Re: dinstall and PGP

1998-04-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 08, Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Definatly not an option, since people uploading anonymously to chiark >would be able to upload whatever in the distribution since the files >arrive in Incoming/ with IanJ's UID (also hold for other upload queues). We could maintain a list

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-09 Thread Rob Browning
Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > go to http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/current.html and > listen to it. OK, is there any easy way to download a copy of it? I could only get the proxy files, but I'm probably overlooking something obvious. Thanks. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > Well, this is what I use it for myself. I use PS1='\h:\w\$ ' for an > ordinary user and PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' for root. Rationale: I'm root > only > in my machine (as most Debian users, I think) and therefore when I'm > "sanvila" I am not

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-09 Thread Alex Romosan
go to http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/current.html and listen to it. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion

Why isn't "/var/run" drwxrwxrwt ?

1998-04-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Why isn't "/var/run" set like "/tmp"? Shouldn't user-run programs be able to write a pid file there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HTTP site list

1998-04-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[I have tons on old mail to read, but it seems something's going on here ;-)] On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > This is a partial list of http enabled mirrors, I did the US and UK. > There are 13 sites listed here. If someone would like to go through the > rest of the mirror list then

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-09 Thread Lalo Martins
On Apr 08, Jeff Noxon decided to present us with: > Anyone have a digitized copy of this? :) I read at slashdot that the company that recorded the program (sorry for forgetting the name, I'm not in US) will put it online tomorrow, likely as RA. []s,

Re: [info@troll.no] The KDE Free Qt Foundation

1998-04-09 Thread Shaleh
No, it still mens that QT is under a restrictive license. It does mean however that one of the biggest worries with QT has gone away. Troll can NEVER charge for QT free now. EVER. And if anything happens to Troll, QT becomes BSD licensed -- AT THAT POINT IN TIME. But not yet. Not now. QT mak

Re: dinstall and PGP

1998-04-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 08:50:56PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 08:23:48PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Can someone hack dinstall to install packages which are not PGP signed > > but has been copied to incoming? If the UID of the files is the one of a > > developer we c

Re: [info@troll.no] The KDE Free Qt Foundation

1998-04-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On 8 Apr 1998, Stephen Zander wrote: > Anyone care to comment? the announcement doesn't mention any change to the Qt license, just the formation of a Qt foundation. if this results in a new Qt license which meets the DFSG (specifically the items regarding modifying source and non-discrimination)

Re: sleep contains crypto stuff?

1998-04-09 Thread Guy Maor
I have seen this problem before with some overeager Configure scripts. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aiding the constitutional procedure [was Re: Automation of the constitutional procedure]

1998-04-09 Thread James A . Treacy
> While I agree with the merrits of your previous arguments, I don't see > what this has to do with the constitution. The secretary has "powers" > which allow the secretary to execute that office. > As long as section 4.2.5 is not violated then you are quite right. I was simply over-reacting to t

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Here are three package selections to start things off. They are based on the package priorities: The first includes only "base", the second adds "important", and the third adds "standard". The only real oddity is that gcc and cpp are among "base". Is this only because dpkg needs it, to get the

Re: intent to package: coda (+ copyright question)

1998-04-09 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Anders Hammarquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This file contains some code identical to or derived from the 1986 > version of the Andrew File System ("AFS"), which is owned by the IBM > Corporation.This code is provded "AS IS" and IBM does not warrant > that it is free of infringemen

Re: BEWARE

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Raul Miller wrote: > > I think this is so bad that every binary copy of grep 2.1-7 should be > > deleted from every archive as soon as possible. Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean 2.1-6? Oops. yes. I'd hand-patched my system and hadn't noticed that

Re: BEWARE

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I think this is so bad that every binary copy of grep 2.1-7 should be > deleted from every archive as soon as possible. You mean 2.1-6? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home P

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> In this case, if somebody has the knowledge to build their own 2.1 kernel > (since one didn't come on the CD), then they have the knowledge necessary > to get packages from "unstable". It's very unpleasant to have to download things whn you have just bought a CD. And many users are forced to us

Re: lftp segfaults sometimes on filename completion

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> However, I don't think this one is 'important'. I'd say the > distribution is better off with lftp than without, even if it has > this bug. It works perfectly. Try lftp! The best FTP client program...! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Yann - >James R. Van Zandt writes: > > ( ) minimal 40 MB > > ( ) router/firewall 70 MB > > ( ) server (ftp, nfs, smb, and http servers) 90 MB > > ( ) workstation (a

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> However, I'm willing to set default root's prompt in base-files to > '\h:\w\$ ' if enough people prefer it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '. > > What do others think about this? PS1='\h:\w\$ ' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

CERT bind alert.

1998-04-09 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Has anyone assesed the impact of the bind exploit announced by CERT today. I'm using bind_4.9.6-1.deb, so would be curious as to where I stood, what the fixes were. Thanks Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

[info@troll.no] The KDE Free Qt Foundation

1998-04-09 Thread Stephen Zander
Anyone care to comment? -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me --- Start of forwarded message --- Resent-Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 19:42:32 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mozilla-announce@mozilla.org Cc: mozilla-gener

Re: intent to package: coda (+ copyright question)

1998-04-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote: > I'm looking into packaging CMU's coda distributed filesystem. It is based on > AFS, with enhancements to allow disconnected use. There are kernel drivers > for > it in the 2.1.x series and they are available as patches for the 2.0.x series. > > S

Re: BEWARE

1998-04-09 Thread Raul Miller
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the broken grep (I think it is filed as a Bug already) will do a lot of > damage to your system. It will kill your Windowmanger -list if you install a > Windowmanager, and it will make the /etc/X11/config not work > (user-xsession). There are a bunch of

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
G John Lapeyre wrote: > Just played in AZ, US. > I had to listen to 50 minutes of crap about presidents and big > companies ! They should have put Linux first. > Stallman may be a bit of a crank, but I'd be upset too about GNU > being downplayed out of existence. They put Linux

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote: >> >> Then we should be talking about /etc/skel/, rather than /etc/profile > Well, if we talk about /etc/skel, then we could ask: > Is there any other shell which reads .bash_profile? No, only bash does. -- Debi