Carlos C Soto wrote:
> Does ubuntu has a /etc/ubuntu_version ?
yes, it reads 'testing/unstable' for all past releases.
Greetings,
Reinhard
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The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 234 (new: 21)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 2)
Total number of packages request
Stephen Birch wrote:
Hi
I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
woody
sarge
etch
sid
hoary
breezy
dapper
How about to check/grep/process /etc/debian_version installed by base-files?
$ cat /etc/debian_version
tes
I've read a lot about the binary incompatibility concern between
Debian and Ubuntu. I have an idea, but I don't have the skill to
implement it myself. I figured it would be useful to throw it out
there for you all to scrutinize, determine the implementation
feasibility, and perhaps run with.
Fir
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Help me out then. You seemed to suggest that not putting ndiswrapper
> in main would be to "ignore rules that are very clearly laid out in
> the SC and DFSG."
I suggested that the CTTE overriding the developer's judgement in t
[Frank Küster]
> Because:
>
> , Policy 4.8
> | The build target must not do anything that might require root privilege.
> `
Right, but the 'binary' target is run as root.
, Policy 4.8
| The `fakeroot' package often allows one to build a package correctly
| even without being root.
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-30
Severity: wishlist
cvs is a commonly-used (still) source control system. It has a large
number of users and quite a large number of bugs to match. I've not
had enough time to adequately work on cvs lately, and if anything
that's only going to get wor
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2006-02-23
Severity: normal
I've not used nas in quite a while, and due to other commitments I'm
not going to have too much time for it in the near future.
More background:
* the nas source package builds several binary packages
* currently 5 open bugs
* u
Hi,
As promised, I worked on packaging XaraLX for debian. I have put a
simple package for debian unstable on
http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/xaralx/xaralx_0.svn20060223-1_i386.deb
Please not that the source package is not yet available, as the source
is not yet released.
Please report non-pack
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:55:01PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > As far as the second statement being the reason that most of us want
>> > ndiswrapper in main, that may be true, but it is no excuse
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: libgetopt-euclid-perl
Version : 0.0.5
Upstream Author : Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL :
http://mirrors.kernel.org/CPAN/modules/by-module/Getopt/Getopt-Euclid-v0.0.5.tar.gz
*
Hi,
I manage a website called televisionsmart.com and I think
your site would be of interest to the visitors that regularly
browse my site.
I have gone ahead and given you a link plus a description of
your site from my page at
http://televisionsmart.com/internettv
and I'm just contacting you to c
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:55:12AM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > $ dpkg -c
> > l/linux-kernel-headers/linux-kernel-headers_2.6.13+0rc3-2_mips.deb |grep
> > cpu-feature
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root 4858 2005-07-12 21:46:46
> > ./usr/include/asm/cpu-features.h
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root 41
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Niko Tyni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: libsmart-comments-perl
Version : 1.0.2
Upstream Author : Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL :
http://mirrors.kernel.org/CPAN/modules/by-authors/id/DCONWAY/Smart-Comments-v1.0.2.t
* Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-23 19:13]:
> > So far so good, but why is it allowed for a kernel header to
> > include a file that does not exist?
> mips is not managed in the tree of linus. So it is likely that it
> regulary breaks.
Actually, there has been lots of syncing going on
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:00:19PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > So far so good, but why is it allowed for a kernel header to include a file
> > that does not exist?
>
> mips is not managed in the tree of linus. So it is likely that it
>
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:00:19PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> So far so good, but why is it allowed for a kernel header to include a file
> that does not exist?
mips is not managed in the tree of linus. So it is likely that it
regulary breaks.
Bastian
--
I'm a soldier, not a di
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:55:12AM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > It is probably (also?) a sysklogd bug, userland code isn't supposed to
> > use the kernel's atomic operations.
>
> It is only a sysklogd bug. Userland code is not allowed to use kernel
>
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Schepler wrote:
>> Here's a thought: how hard would it be to make TeX fall back to caching in a
>> directory under the user's home directory (maybe $HOME/.fonts/texmf or so)
>> if
>> it can't write to /var/cache/fonts? pbuilder does have $HOM
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
> >> >
> >> > rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo
> >>
Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a thought: how hard would it be to make TeX fall back to caching in a
> directory under the user's home directory (maybe $HOME/.fonts/texmf or so) if
> it can't write to /var/cache/fonts?
It would be extremely hard (at least 5 different shell
Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Here's a thought: how hard would it be to make TeX fall back to caching in a
> directory under the user's home directory (maybe $HOME/.fonts/texmf or so) if
> it can't write to /var/cache/fonts? pbuilder does have $HOME set up to work
> all right with BUILDUSER{ID,NAME}
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
>> >
>> > rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo
>>
>> That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be
also sprach Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1721
+0100]:
> > also sprach Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1555
> > +0100]:
>
> What happened to Zaratustra?
He's sitting up on the pole still.
> > But it's an established software name. Maybe
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Correct, so one would put in foo.postrm:
> >
> > rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /usr/local/lib/foo
>
> That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be mounted ro, and
> therefore the command may fail e
Hi Martin,
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 16:37 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1555
> +0100]:
What happened to Zaratustra?
> > I intent to package this software for Debian.
>
> I think the package name is a little too broad.
I
Le Jeudi 23 Février 2006 17:20, Frank Küster a écrit :
> > For example, I just tried running pbuilder on
> > make_3.80+3.81.b4-1.dsc again, which does create some fonts during the
> > build, and the build completes fine, except that I get error messages
> > like kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode l
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> In short: May a package assume that package builds are performed with
>> root-like rights, and thus use non-world-writable directories for
>> caching purposes?
>
> Absolutely not.
...because?
Because:
, Policy 4.8
Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Jeudi 23 Février 2006 16:37, Frank Küster a écrit :
>> So the current state is: If pbuilder runs all commands inside the
>> chroot, everything is fine, and AFAIK the same is true for the buildds.
>> But if you su to some user in the chroot, near to
Hi,
Frank Küster wrote:
In short: May a package assume that package builds are performed with
root-like rights, and thus use non-world-writable directories for
caching purposes?
Absolutely not. The only assumption you may make is that the binary*
targets are called in a way that allows chown
Le Jeudi 23 Février 2006 16:37, Frank Küster a écrit :
> So the current state is: If pbuilder runs all commands inside the
> chroot, everything is fine, and AFAIK the same is true for the buildds.
> But if you su to some user in the chroot, near to every package that
> Build-depends on tetex-bin w
reassing 354113 tex-common
thanks
I think this problem is of general interest, or at least I don't feel we
(the TeX Task Force) cannot decide this on our own.
In short: May a package assume that package builds are performed with
root-like rights, and thus use non-world-writable directories for
ca
also sprach Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1555
+0100]:
> I intent to package this software for Debian.
I think the package name is a little too broad. We already have
three roots on Unix: / and the UID/GID 0.
But it's an established software name. Maybe consider cer
Followup-For: Bug #325306
Package: wnpp
Owner: Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I intent to package this software for Debian.
The license of ROOT has recently been changed from a DFSG non-free
license, to the GNU LGPL.
An apt-get repository exists at
deb http://mirror.phy.bn
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:11:40PM -0800, Sebastien Delafond wrote:
>
> Should the similarities between PADS and lanmap prevent the latter
> from being packaged for Debian ? I understand they both rely on
Of course not!
> passive network monitoring to produce info, but I still don't see that
> a
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:55:12AM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> It is probably (also?) a sysklogd bug, userland code isn't supposed to
> use the kernel's atomic operations.
It is only a sysklogd bug. Userland code is not allowed to use kernel
headers directly.
Bastian
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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
>> distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
>>
>> woody
>> sarge
>> etch
>> sid
>> hoary
>> breezy
>> dapper
>
> Even worse is when people mix up those releases and even
> distributions.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:47:31PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:22:27AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> > > for the entire lifetime of the current stable release. Will -17.1 be
> > > making its way into stable
Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
> distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
>
> woody
> sarge
> etch
> sid
> hoary
> breezy
> dapper
Even worse is when people mix up those releases and even
distribu
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 10:16 schrieb Stephen Birch:
> Miles Bader([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2006-02-23 17:41:
> > Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
> > > distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
> >
> >
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:34:00AM -0800, Stephen Birch wrote:
> I don't pretend to understand the reason for this change but I do know
> that my identification mechanism is now broken on etch.
>
> Can anyone suggest a more reliable mechanism?
I think that the most reliable will be checking libc
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Frank Küster]
>> That's not sufficient, because /usr/local may be mounted ro, and
>> therefore the command may fail even if the directory is empty.
>
> U.
>
> There are lots of things dpkg can do which fail if filesystems are
> mounted read-only.
Miles Bader([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2006-02-23 17:41:
> Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
> > distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
>
> To what end? Many people do not run "pure" releases, so the concept of
Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
> distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
To what end? Many people do not run "pure" releases, so the concept of
a distro version is rather shaky at best (especially in de
Hi
I need to find a way of identifying the name of an installed
distrobution. This mechanism should be able to differentiate
woody
sarge
etch
sid
hoary
breezy
dapper
Prior to etch I was using lsb-release but it seems /etc/lsb-release is
no longer installed by 'apt-get install lsb-release'. The R
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