On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote:
> You don't have sym-links to the root directory? Why not?
There's absolutely no need or necessarily a desire to do so; besides
which, the point is moot: if you're in the automation arena, you'll
notice that kernel-package no longer produces them.
Trying
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 09:22:12 Glenn McGrath wrote:
> hmm, im not sure its practical to create extra binary packages, wouldnt
> it be more effective to exclude files from regular packages as its
> installed.
I was suggesting that the script would create them on-the-fly -- they
wouldn't reside anywh
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:14:24 Ben Armstrong wrote:
> For the most part, I think there is enough flexibility within Debian to
> pick and choose the smallest tools that will do the job from among the
> binary packages. Where Debian currently falls short, we can create -tiny
> versions of packages as
On 30 Sep 1999, David Coe wrote:
> Is that still an accurate description of the legal status (from
> FSF's perspective) of XEmacs, and if so, shouldn't we move it to
> non-free?
Yes, probably; but no. RMS is referring to the fact that many authors
of many pieces of xemacs haven't assigned copyr
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Staffan Hamala wrote:
> Why doesn't the installer use -v1 so that larger swaps that 128MB can
> be used?
I presume this is a boot-floppies issue, and will indeed be rectified
nearer release time -- for the time being, it would seem prudent not
to sacrifice any compatibility f
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> b) if you know what you are doing, compile the packages by hand, fix their
> install scripts, and remove the conflicts. You are trying to circumvent the
> norm.
But I think, to be fair, that what he's proposing *isn't* necessarily
`not the norm'
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Brian May wrote:
> However, if both packages contain a different implementation of the
> same file (or even worse - a completely different program with the same
> name), then things will break, depending on what order the
> programs are installed in.
This is true, and would n
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> Perhaps there are people who want a "service enabled by default" policy,
> and perhaps we should accomodate them. However, I'm not one of them
> and I don't want any services turned on on some of my machines without
> my explicit ok.
Yes, and I think thi
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Clint Adams wrote:
> They both provide httpd; should I file bugs against them demanding that
> they conflict with it too?
I think this is a good point; it doesn't seem to be a clear area
of policy. It sounds like perhaps some new system needs to be
implemented. Perhaps a Su
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> This is all very well, except for those of us who email from work, and
> have their PGP key at home...
Well, depending on how paranoid you may be, there are a few solutions:
* Keep a copy of at least your `secring.pgp' on a floppy disk, and
use
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> Definately by package. I can think of several circumstances where this
> is useful: when a bug is closed in unstable but someone using stable
> wants an explanation for a problem; when a bug is inadvertantly
> reintroduced; when a maintainer closes a bug
On 17 Sep 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> OK, a bug in cron has recently produced a root exploit. What a crappy
> software, it should be moved to contrib.
Yes, but there aren't *hundreds* of bugs in cron, all giving security
problems; it has been subject (presumably) to security review;
bugs do
The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right?
I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2,
but I thought I received a message from the security team about
r3 last week somtime. Just wanted to check before I filed a
boring bug report, or something.
--
Chr
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> Uhm, don't forget that in .nl there is only one campus university like the
> ones widespread in the USA. And moreover (I currently live on that campus)
> there ain't that many free dorm rooms during summer (people tend to stay on
> campus during sum
Re: all the bug-finding in ProFTPd (I just read the SuSE notice about
it being dropped for lameness reasons, including it *still* being
vulnerable to remote exploit) -- if it is, indeed, *that* bad
(and the common consensus among admins I know is that it is), perhaps
the netkit ftpd shouldn't come
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
> The 2.0.37 and 2.2.x kernels keep hanging on my AMD K6-2.
This sounds *bad*, BTW; have you checked around to see if anyone
else has had these kinds of freezing problems? Is your machine
unstable in any other way?
You may find all you need to do is twea
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
> With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for apt that
> would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user defined place. This
> way, if your /var is close to being full, you could, for example, drop it
> into a
> temporar
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> How much trouble would it be to add another category--"unreproduced" or
> somesuch?
Yes, or `observational', `possible', that sort of thing. I agree.
--
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> Having a big convention would be really awfull, but it's difficult to
> get sponsors and much more difficult to gather developers from all
> over the world. What about a series of smaller conferences? We can have
> Debian Europe, Debian America (N
On 16 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> I would _hope_, however, that being face to face might have the
> opposite effect.
Yes, I agree, and in all likelihood I think that's what'll happen. :)
--
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
> Just a quick idea, instead of having to download an entire package where 95%
> of the files don't change, what about downloading a type of binary diff? I can
> think of two ways to do it:
I've wanted something like this for a while -- I was also wond
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
>The link to suse doesn't work at the moment, but I'll give it a try.
> The blurb at cygnus does not look encouraging. I think it is claiming
> that I have to "to change asm constructs" at various unspecified places
> in the source.
Nah, they're jus
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
>Is it possible to build 2.0.x kernels under a reasonable
> potato build environment ? I tried "make CC=gcc272", but
> I still get failures from the assembler, I think.
Erm, yeah, I had no problems as I remember. Just apply the
patches mentioned at
On 16 Sep 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
> All of their Linux books use a rodeo/cowboy theme rather than the
> traditional animal theme. I have no idea why. I kinda prefer the
> animals, but maybe they were running out?
Last time I asked I got some mutter about `brand pollution' or
something. Perso
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Wouldn't it be great if all the debian developers could be flown in to a
> convention site, get to meet each other, really tighten up the gpg web of
> trust, attend talks by developers, discuss important issues in person, and
> so on? It would really make us
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> drives. But given they are in such a vast minority, the current scheme of
> providing sensible defaults and popping the installer into a tool for
> creating your own arbitrary partition scheme is really the best.
> (at least, Im ASSUMING we do that t
For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost* all the
time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections made through
`telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMed `login', I once again
have the hostnames correctly appearing in FROM again. Does anyone
know why this wasn't working for
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> If all I'm doing is trying fix something, usually just invoking 'make'
> will do it (or some subtle variation that a glance at the rules file
> will make clear). Once it builds, I do 'debian/rules clean' and then
> restart the package build, to ensure
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