Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-16 Thread Jim Van Zandt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote: > Oh yes, pathanmes with .. components would _also_ break the > algorithm. Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Of course, those break everything. I'd insist of having no tarballs even >in the Debian source archive that contain those. >

Re: Bug#9582: suidmanager 0.6 uploaded to master.debian.org

1997-05-16 Thread Christoph Lameter
To my knowledge set -e is only valid for the currently executing scripts and not a subshell. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [... in a release announcement ...] >Christoph> May fix situations leadin

Re: Behaviour of "Conflicts:"

1997-05-16 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 13, Todd Harper wrote > > I'm curious about how dpkg handles the "Conflicts:" line of packages > that are already installed on the machine. If package X conflicts > with package Y, and Y is already installed, I cannot install X. This > is normal. BUT... if X is installed, what happens i

Re: Search engine for bug-track

1997-05-16 Thread sacampbe
> Why isn't there a glimpse or dig search on the bugtracker list??? I have had httdig set up to index (parts) of the web site for quite a while. I have chosen to not index the bug tracking yet as there seems to be a problem with Roxen that is causing reindexing to start from scratch every time. G

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread John Goerzen
Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that programs > can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support has been Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this variable. In fact, I believe that ncurses do

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 15, John Goerzen wrote > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that > > programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support > > has been > > Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this va

Re: Bug#9582: suidmanager 0.6 uploaded to master.debian.org

1997-05-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> To my knowledge set -e Christoph> is only valid for the currently executing scripts and Christoph> not a subshell. Try it and see. It is why `suidregister` is not working when called from postinst script

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread Bart Schuller
On May 16, J.H.M.Dassen wrote > On May 15, John Goerzen wrote > > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that > > > programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support > > > has been > > > > Unfortunately, I

Re: Bug#9582: suidmanager 0.6 uploaded to master.debian.org

1997-05-16 Thread Christoph Lameter
I have tried it and set -e is not propagated into a subprocess. This is the script I ran successfully: #/!bin/sh set -e suidregister /etc/exports clameter clameter 4755 Please investigate what is wrong with your system. On Fri, 16 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >> "Christoph" == Chris

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread Mark Baker
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, I'd hope that if xterm now does color as standard, that fact is > reflected in its terminfo entry. No, because if you do that, programs like slrn will try to use colour, which means they are almost impossib

anyone want to package "jade"?

1997-05-16 Thread Mark Eichin
Given that we already have "sp" and a bunch of other sgml tools, it would be nice if someone packaged jade as well -- since it has decent conversion tools, as metioned below... [from http://www.jclark.com/jade/] What is Jade? Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language. The current vers

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Jim" == Jim Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> I think the ".. pathname component" problem deserves some Jim> attention. What does anybody think about these steps? Jim> 1) Incoming Debian source packages should be automatically Jim> scanned, and offending files flagged. Jim> 2) GN

RFC: a "Debian System Method" for dpkg

1997-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Request for comments: a "Debian System Method" for dpkg Because of its owner having forgotten the debian-CD in a train, I recently had to install a debian system on a PC. We still had the installation floppies we had used for another machine on the same ethernet, and had access to that ma

RFC: a "debian-daemon" project

1997-05-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Request for comments: a "debian-daemon" project Using FTP for a while to keep my system up-to-date, I see several things that, I think, cannot be done easily: * Data transfer minimization (with rsync-like algorithm) where that could be applied. That does not include, eg, compiled binaries

Re: RFC: a "Debian System Method" for dpkg

1997-05-16 Thread Klee Dienes
The beginning of support for such a scheme is in the works for the next major release of dpkg-ftp. The user interface part is taking me a bit longer than I had hoped --- expect a release in maybe 5--10 days. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTE

uploading makedev (glibc2/libc6 release) to unstable (i386)

1997-05-16 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:12:58 +0200 Source: makedev Binary: makedev Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.6-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: makedev- Creates special device

Bugs in shadow-970502-2

1997-05-16 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
The latest release (shadow-970502-2) has a bug in libmisc/mail.c that causes login to segfault when checking for new mail. Yes, I have tested this version before releasing it (really!), but unfortunately I had MAIL_CHECK_ENAB disabled (by mistake) on my machine and the bug didn't show up. Workaro