Bug#79950: updating to potato from Linux2.0.34( i believe it was hamm)

2000-12-23 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:21:39AM -0500, basic wrote: > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Is your RAM ok? How much RAM do you have? Do you have a swap partition? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#21464: marked as done (bo -> hamm upgrade problems)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:48:44 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Closing old bug reports related to bo->hamm transition has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If th

Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:48:04AM -, Robert Woodcock écrivait: > So, the gist of that is that dpkg has been left for dead (well, NMU hell > anyway) for a full year and there hasn't been *that* many complaints. > Just no new features. I don't agree. I don't want to blame anybody since i'am not

Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-21 Thread Robert Woodcock
Martin A. Soto wrote: > >Many, *many* people has proposed this idea before. So many, that you >would be tempted to consider it a simple, natural, and straightforward >idea. Nonetheless, it seems that this far, it has been impossible to >make it part of dpkg, or even to start working on the necess

Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Alonso Soto
Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We need to add a new field - call it anything you want - I called it > "Was-Part-Of:" in an earlier post, but I'm sure there's a better name than > that - "Previously:" maybe. > > Anyway, say slink contains a package 'foobar', version 1.2-3. The > main

Re: pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Woodcock
Adam Heath wrote: >I see a problem with all this talk about pseudo packages for upgrades from >hamm. > >These 'pkgs' will have to remain in the system forever. If someone skips >slink, and goes to potato when that is released, the same problem will occur. > >If

pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Heath
I see a problem with all this talk about pseudo packages for upgrades from hamm. These 'pkgs' will have to remain in the system forever. If someone skips slink, and goes to potato when that is released, the same problem will occur. If we ever fix dpkg/dselect/apt to handle a pkg rena

Re: netstd split -- pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:44:14AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Now if we could only convince the netstd maintainer to make a > pseudo-package for all his splits.. but he has told me he refuses to > support upgrades for anything but dselect. :/ That's disappointing. Why will dselect handle it ei

Re: netstd split -- pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila
; Santiago> functionality in the upgrade process. > > Brandon> Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a > Brandon> pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or > Brandon> earlier systems * what was the new xbase is now > Brandon> xfre

netstd split -- pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
andon> Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a Brandon> pseudo-package used to smooth upgrades from hamm or Brandon> earlier systems * what was the new xbase is now Brandon> xfree86-common Branden has done a great job with the xbase upgrade pseudo-package. Now if we

Re: XFree86 hamm -> slink upgrade 'dummy' package

1999-01-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On 15 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Santiago" == Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> Simply use the 'xbase' package name as the dummy package, > Ben> renaming what is currently 'xbase' in slink to xfree86-base. > Ben> > Ben> Then, the xbase package will

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-19 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommend

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Gertzfield) wrote on 16.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base > Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple > Brent> oper

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr being a high priority and/or > essential (can't remember if it is

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:34:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base > Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple > Brent> operating systems.

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent> operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to Brent> dual-boot with windows, or wha

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> Currently, that partition is marked as bootable just Enrique> after installing LILO and "mbr" (first a dialog is Enrique> displayed asking the user if he wants it so, something Enrique> like "If you want the De

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Brent Fulgham wrote: > I'd like to chime in -- > > It's a real annoyance that the base disks don't set up lilo to let you > boot into multiple operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to > dual-boot with windows, or whatever, and generate an appropriate lilo.conf > file? This would be nice

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Brent Fulgham
average Joe New-User this is a large hurdle. -Brent -Original Message- From: Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Duncan Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 10:31 AM Subject

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:11:05AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > > > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as > > > a message or in the boot disks)

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as > > a message or in the boot disks). > > > > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain system

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as > a message or in the boot disks). > > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the > prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not b

1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Duncan Thomson
i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a message or in the boot disks). when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot off partition 1. the disk controller is AHA-2940. any solutions t

e2fsprogs 1.12 into hamm ? (Was: Bug#27401: fsck.ext2 segfaults)

1998-10-15 Thread Yann Dirson
I originally meant this mail to deb-dev to get feedback about this issue, but it seems I did not. Winfried Truemper writes: > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.10-17 > > > The version of fsck.ext2 segfaults in criticial cases (complete garbage on > the harddisk, left from a previous crash).

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 26 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Bdale> If you're working in a multi-machine networked environment, > Bdale> and are accessing another system using NFS (particularly with > Bdale> an automounted host map), an absolute

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are >correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is "evil". but in some situations they are necessary : when useing nfsroot with special setup. for improved speed i want a codafs as the basic layer, so /usr -> /coda/

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bdale> If you're working in a multi-machine networked environment, Bdale> and are accessing another system using NFS (particularly with Bdale> an automounted host map), an absolute link can easily violate Bdale> "the principle of least

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: :> 21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs : The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are : correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is "evil". I'm not sure I completely understand what the lin

Re: Bug #23877: Include autoup.sh and apt in hamm/hamm

1998-06-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On 25 Jun 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >> Subject: please include apt and autoup in > >> hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Package: > >> ftp.debian.org,apt,autoup Version: N/A > > Well, let's just do it! I see no problem with ma

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Yeah, there's been enough discussion in this context. The decision to ditch the "emacs" name as a package name was in fact made for good reasons, a while back; just-before-the-release is the wrong time to revisit it. As emacs and emacs19 maintainer, I'm closing it, with this message. Feel free to

Re: Bug #23877: Include autoup.sh and apt in hamm/hamm

1998-06-25 Thread Ben Gertzfield
>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> filed this against Jens> ftp.debian.org: >> Subject: please include apt and autoup in >> hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are > correct and that making /usr a symlink to something else is "evil". I'm running out of space and wanted to move subdirs of /usr to another partition. But because of

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-25 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Darren" == Darren/Torin/Who Ever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> Hmm. You're right. Any ideas on when this changed or was Darren> I just on too much sleep-dep when I last looked at this. Darren> (a while back) Been that way for quite a while AFAIK. Till very recently, tho

Bug #23877: Include autoup.sh and apt in hamm/hamm

1998-06-25 Thread Jens Ritter
Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> filed this against ftp.debian.org: >Subject: please include apt and autoup in hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-- Package: ftp.debian.org,apt,autoup >Version: N/A > >i think this is the right location. if people want to get

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why is this a release critical bug? emacs19 depends on a whole > slew of packages, and it quite differently set up than the old emacs > package. Also, there are now a number of packages that vie for the > name Emacs, is not unreasonable to ha

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
'' to have the old name retained, but is this an important enough objection to hold up Hamm or throw emacs19 out? I think no. Olease downgrade this bug (I would say to a wishlist), and get it out of the release critical list. manoj -- "Imagination is more import

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread David Engel
On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Welcome to the nem Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List. > > > > 21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs > > > I'm not sure what to

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread David Engel
1.0 done, so I doubt he has any plans to work on this. My suggestion is to either copy the beta4 kde packages from slink (which includes the fix for this bug) into hamm or drop kde from hamm altogether. I prefer the former. FWIW, I think the only reason, the beta4 packages weren't put

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 25, 1998

1998-06-25 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Welcome to the nem Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List. > > 21884 libc6-dev: relative links between top-level dirs > I'm not sure what to do abou this one. The upstream maintainer (Ulrich D.) insists that the relative links are correc

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-25 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Stephen Zander, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Not true Darren: dbmopen does the moral equivalent of the tie under >the covers. It's one of my pet peeves that perl links in libraries to >the main executable that are only required by extensions.

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-24 Thread Stephen Zander
Sorry for a late response, been on holidays... >>>>> "Darren" == Darren/Torin/Who Ever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> This is the case if you use the tie interface in Perl. Darren> This is not the case if you use dbmopen, at least it Darren

Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm" :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
[ For the record, I agree with Paul's main points, most of which have long been know. This one point bears correction. ] Enrique> You won't have wait for hours while a list of "Skipping Enrique> foo. Skipping bar." is displayed at the screen. 1. That hasn't been necessary since dpkg-mounta

Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm" :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 08:09:51PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > Actually the true killer was the upgrade of the teTeX packages. It is > pretty hard to stand seeing three time in a row "Running initex [...] > This will take some time" on a 486DX-2/66 at the configuration stage. > This alone consumed

Re: Hamm Beta: Delay #1

1998-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to be sure I understand... emacs20 has to be configured before > cvs-pcl is _installed_ or before cvs-pcl is _configured_? Actually, now it seems like the problem in this case is that cvs-pcl currently has a dependency on emacsen-common rather than

Re: Hamm Beta: Delay #1

1998-06-23 Thread Brian White
ried about having > time to fix it before the hamm release. Just to be sure I understand... emacs20 has to be configured before cvs-pcl is _installed_ or before cvs-pcl is _configured_? > I do know what needs to be done (emacsen-common needs to depend on > pkg-order and needs to use it to

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for June 22, 1998

1998-06-23 Thread Santiago Vila
org normal bugs in the list, or better, scan the bug list for ftp.debian.org for bugs about hamm and raise them to "important". I'm Cc:ing debian-devel and Guy Maor. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNY961yqK7IlOjMLFAQG28AP+MQWiDTNbesUCcCBMJlBh2qG

Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm" :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:07:37AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: [...] > The initial update to libc6 via the autoup.sh went very smooth and > flawlessly. I fetched the .deb packages via FTP over a decent > bandwith and this went pretty fast. The bad thing afterwards was the > painfully slo o o o o w

Re: Hamm Beta: Delay #1

1998-06-23 Thread Rob Browning
mmon script) before cvs-pcl. This is a bug, but I'm worried about having time to fix it before the hamm release. I do know what needs to be done (emacsen-common needs to depend on pkg-order and needs to use it to determine the install/remove script order). Brian, what's your take on this?

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My clock is supposedly set to UTC. When I originally installed, it >wasn't, and there was no documentation for changing it, but I figured >that I needed to add a -u to the appropriate init script. Here then >is /etc/init.d/h

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : It didn't work here. I use xntp3 to sync my clock, and it would > : always get set to Eastern time until I changed to CST6CDT. After > : making that change, it now gives results like yours. > > Ok, fair enough. I'm assuming you have the same prog

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is very strange, as US/Central and CST6CDT are both links to > Americal/Chicago in the 2.0.7 version that I am building for release > today. > > The 2.0.7pre3 (which I have currently installed) seems to have these > as separate files. > > Which ver

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Where did you get a pre4? I don't think I released one... Oops, I meant pre1-4. Sorry about that. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > This is very strange, as US/Central and CST6CDT are both links to > > Americal/Chicago in the 2.0.7 version that I am building for release > > today. > > > > The 2.0.7pre3 (which I have currently installed)

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > This is very strange, as US/Central and CST6CDT are both links to > Americal/Chicago in the 2.0.7 version that I am building for release > today. > > The 2.0.7pre3 (which I have currently installed) seems to have these > as separate files. Likewise 2.0.

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:57:22PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: > > I found the entire kernel/hw clock issue quite confusing. (eg , > when to use the uct flag ) The man pages help a little. A clock howto > would be quite helpful. Add useful info to /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Clock.gz and sent it

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On 19 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > > : Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > : > What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with > : > DST? If you mean "US/Central" I will have to disagree with you. :) It > : >

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 19 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: : Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with : > DST? If you mean "US/Central" I will have to disagree with you. :) It : > works fine here. : : It didn't work here. I use xntp3 to

Re: selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-20 Thread Philip Hands
> On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 02:42:03AM +, Michael Shields wrote: > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > : G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris > : > who wants to install on a

Re: selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-20 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 02:42:03AM +, Michael Shields wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris : > who wants to install on a laptop. I'd hate t

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
OK then, just to recap -- US/Central was off by an hour (giving me Eastern instead of Central time when syncing with xntp3). Here is my etc/init.d/hwclock.sh: GMT=-u # # Set and adjust the CMOS clock. # if [ ! -f /etc/adjtime ] then echo "0.0 0 0.0" > /etc/adjtime fi if [ -x /sbin/h

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What exactly makes you say that the central timezone doesn't deal with > DST? If you mean "US/Central" I will have to disagree with you. :) It > works fine here. It didn't work here. I use xntp3 to sync my clock, and it would always get set to Easte

Re: selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-20 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris > who wants to install on a laptop. I'd hate to see him go RH. I think he > has a network card. Maybe apt and a r

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-19 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- James Troup, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Of course, I agree, but my point was that gdbm *Shouldn't* be required >and although it will need to be made so in hamm as a kludge, I tried >to get this fixed properly back in March.

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-19

1998-06-19 Thread peloy
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome to a nem Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List. > > Since Richar Braakman is currently on vacation, I will be maintaining > this for the next two weeks. This is my first post, so please excuse > any errors/oversights and report the

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-19

1998-06-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > I hope kbd has not been removed from hamm, it would be pretty bad for all > the users _not_ having a US keyboard... I stand corrected. kbd should have been in the list of packages for which a fixed version was uploaded/installed. W

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-19

1998-06-19 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Major changes: [snip] > - Application moved out of main: sniffit, rat, crafty, kbd ^^^ I hope kbd has not been removed from hamm, it would be pretty bad for all the users _not_ havin

[solved] Re: ^Z doesn't work with latest hamm!

1998-06-18 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
Sorry to bother all of you with my strange problems, I just rebooted the machine and it works again. I think it was something with bash, with other shells (tcsh and csh) it worked ok but within bash not at all. Anyway, a reboot solved it. Regards, -- Roberto Lumbreras [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL P

Re: ^Z doesn't work with latest hamm!

1998-06-18 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
El jueves 18 de junio de 1998, a las 20:40:35, Herbert Xu escribió: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : > I have a "fresh hamm" and ^Z stopped working in nvi, vim, : > less, cat (!!!)... : : What does stty say when you're running those applications? $ stty -

Re: Hamm install disks -- where are they?

1998-06-18 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:47:40AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > subject says it all... Version 2.0.6 is in our FTP mirrors ( hamm/hamm/disks-i386/current ). There's a prerelease for 2.0.7 at ftp://molec2.dfis.ull.es/pub/debian-spanish/boot-floppies/release-2.0.7 The final 2.0.7 will be

Hamm install disks -- where are they?

1998-06-18 Thread Will Lowe
subject says it all... Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-18 Thread Brian White
> > I was told that dselect has problems with hamm being distributed on > > more than one cd rom. Ian Jackson suggested that we should take a > > look at dpkg-mountable. This means that a) dpkg-mountable might need > > to be included in the boot floppies and b) we'

Re: Hamm CD layouts

1998-06-18 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:58:58PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: : : Has any consensus been reached about the best layout to be used for Hamm : disks? I've written several 3-CD sets for people so far using a simple : layout (below), but it would be nice to be able to produce to produce

Re: Hamm CD layouts

1998-06-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > > Disk 1: Main binary (i386, bootable) > > Disk 2: Contrib, non-free and non-US (binary-i386 and source) > > Disk 3: Main source (except X11, movesd to disk #2 for space reasons) > > I think we need two layouts, one for the mass-production folks, and

^Z doesn't work with latest hamm!

1998-06-18 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
Hi all. I have a "fresh hamm" and ^Z stopped working in nvi, vim, less, cat (!!!)... I don't know what package is broking it, maybe ncurses, bash, libc6...; with csh ^Z works as expected with all programs. I'm puzled. And not, it is not a hardware/ram problem, it is happen

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-17 Thread Andy Mortimer
Dear all, I'm a little late with this, unfortunately, but here goes anyway ... Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was told that dselect has problems with hamm being distributed on > more than one cd rom. Ian Jackson suggested that we should take a > look at d

Re: Hamm CD layouts

1998-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
> Has any consensus been reached about the best layout to be used for Hamm > disks? I've written several 3-CD sets for people so far using a simple > layout (below), but it would be nice to be able to produce to produce ones > similar to the official ones... > > Disk

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Raul Miller
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some people don't use dpkg, don't use debian, and still will burn a cdrom for > a friend. a tar.gz is much better ... Or a brief note that says use "ar x blah...deb" to extract the tar.gz file. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Hamm CD layouts

1998-06-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Has any consensus been reached about the best layout to be used for Hamm disks? I've written several 3-CD sets for people so far using a simple layout (below), but it would be nice to be able to produce to produce ones similar to the official ones... Disk 1: Main binary (i386, bootable) D

selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris who wants to install on a laptop. I'd hate to see him go RH. I think he has a network card. Maybe apt and a remote archive works pretty well now for installing ? John John Lapeyre <[EM

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 06:55:13PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > What's wrong with having both? We already have dpkg*nondebbin.tgz. > > both is ok. do you want to create the package ? I would like to, but currently I'm busy building and testing boot-floppies_2.0.7. I may be able to try yo

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> Please, note that I'm not saying that these scripts should be distributed > *just* as a .deb package. I'm saying that they should probably be > distributed as a .deb package *in addition* to any other form of > distributing them. I don't want to discuss "what is better". so, feel free to pickup

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> What's wrong with having both? We already have dpkg*nondebbin.tgz. both is ok. do you want to create the package ? andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fonts messed up in emacs after last hamm update

1998-06-17 Thread Jens Ritter
Thomas Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > after the last upgrade from a hamm mirror the X font metrics in > emacs are completely messed up such that any text becomes > unreadable and the characters seem to be placed in the > window randomly. > > Since

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:31:15PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo > > to download that package (it's a "binary-all" package, isn't it?) and use > > it. Moreover, people can use

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo > > to download that package (it's a "binary-all" package, isn't it?) and use > > it. Moreover,

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
Regarding the idea of doing the cd construction scripts as a .deb Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no, a package is not a good idea. Would the .orig.tar.gz for such a package not be exactly what you intend to produce anyway ? In which case, you can satisfy both camps by just addi

fonts messed up in emacs after last hamm update

1998-06-17 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, after the last upgrade from a hamm mirror the X font metrics in emacs are completely messed up such that any text becomes unreadable and the characters seem to be placed in the window randomly. Since this problem occurs also when displaying a remote emacs on the local X server, it might be a

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>> i don't think that a package is the right place for such stuff : >> many people want to burn debian cd's before or without installing debian >> hamm. > >Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo >to download that package (

Re: Bug#23599: ftp.debian.org: debian-cd is obsolete in hamm

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> Well, but putting them in a hamm package does not prevent people using bo > to download that package (it's a "binary-all" package, isn't it?) and use > it. Moreover, people can use the bug tracking system to report bugs. > I don't think a package is such

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread G John Lapeyre
I found the entire kernel/hw clock issue quite confusing. (eg , when to use the uct flag ) The man pages help a little. A clock howto would be quite helpful. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
> "DS" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> We are working on a report of failure in US/central WRT Daylight DS> Savings Time, right? DS> There is one variable we haven't nailed down yet. The hardware DS> clock can be set either to local time or GMT (UTC). As I DS> rememb

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 16 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > I'd say something like: "If your time changes for daylight savings > > > time, use these options. Otherwise, use these." > > > > > > Somet

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 02:00:41PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... > > Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. > > If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of > Indiana-Eastern, and Arizona... as well. These should be linked to th

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I'd say something like: "If your time changes for daylight savings > > time, use these options. Otherwise, use these." > > > > Something needs to be done on the bootdisks, too. > > OK

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : > : > : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... : > : : > : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. : > : > That may be :) : > : > : If you look a

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... > : > : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. > > That may be :) > > : If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of > : Indiana-Ea

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... : : Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. That may be :) : If you look at the list provided under US there is an entry of : Indiana-Eastern, and Arizona... as well. These should be linked to their :

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Dale! Sorry to jump in (I have almost no expertise in tzconfig), but I have US/Central in timezone and date, xntp work fine for me. May be it's not broken? How should one check? Sasha. > Sorry to have stayed out of this but I have been busy... > > Bottom line...tzconfig is broken. > > T

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-16 Thread James Troup
need > > only recommend or (better) suggest gdbm. Is this not the case? > > This is the case if you use the tie interface in Perl. This is not > the case if you use dbmopen, at least it didn't use to be. Hamm > should just get out the door and we'll deal with it

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