Re: intent to package eql

1998-05-08 Thread Lindsay Allen
That's good news. I use eql here and at present have three 56K modems connecting a school to the ISP. The one big problem is that the ISP has three boxes and eql needs to have all modems connected to the same box. This is purely a matter of chance when you dial in to a rotary, so most days I hav

Re: New APT version

1998-05-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > > > This makes me wonder if we should think about dropping autoup as > > the preferred way to upgrade to hamm, and switch to apt. On the one > > hand, autoup has been tested pretty thouroghly and we shouldn't risk

Re: hamm

1998-05-08 Thread James R. Van Zandt
>> I maintain a hamm mirror at work. According to my records, the >> traffic to keep hamm up to date amounts to about 20 MB/day. >I'm a bit of a newbie with respect to Debian, and I've recently susbcribed >to some mailing lists. I'm still reading a lot of FAQ material, but since >I saw this thre

Intent to package: xfnt-URW gimp-extra-plugins

1998-05-08 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The URW fonts are a set that the gimp home page points to as "good fonts to use in the gimp." Additionally, in the plugin registry, there are a number of good plugins that are not included in the gimp distribution. I would like to begin working on packaging th

Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a graphical .mp3 player for X. x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, but no source is available, so it's going into non-free/sound. Its home page is: http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/ One question: x11amp uses the real-time

Re: hamm

1998-05-08 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 May 1998, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > >> I maintain a hamm mirror at work. According to my records, the > >> traffic to keep hamm up to date amounts to about 20 MB/day. > > >I'm a bit of a newbie with respect to Debian, and I've recently susbcribe

corel porting apps to linux

1998-05-08 Thread G John Lapeyre
Does anyone know if something official is released? I have only seen the irc transcript on slashdot. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BG> One question: x11amp uses the real-time functions of Linux (and BG> sounds much better) if it's installed suid-root, but there are BG> unknown holes that this opens up. Should I use suidmanager and BG> make it suid? I would say

Re: Intent to package: xfnt-URW gimp-extra-plugins

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "vanco" == vanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vanco> URW fonts are a set that the gimp home page points to as vanco> "good fonts to use in the gimp." vanco> Additionally, in the plugin registry, there are a number of vanco> good plugins that are not included in the gimp

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Larry" == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> I would say to register it with suidmanager, leave it Larry> non-suid by default, and place a notice somewhere that if Larry> performance is an issue, it may be made setuid through Larry> suidregister. On my

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Larry" == Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> I would say to register it with suidmanager, leave it Larry> non-suid by default, and place a notice somewhere that if Larry> performance is an issue, it may be

Re: Lilo..

1998-05-08 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > "matthew.r.pavlovich.1" wrote: > >I am getting a quirky bug with lilo. I have a 4gig Wide SCSI drive that > >is set to scsi id 0. I can partition the disk, write to the disk, read, > >mount it as /, but I cannot boot from it (The boot flag is set on t

Re: installation report of hamm 26.4.

1998-05-08 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > linux did not booted, and when repairing from the boot cdrom, i got : > > no room in lost+found directory. > expand ? y > segmentation fault. Damn, that's still in there? I ran into this problem about 18 months ago, while trying to repair a disk

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
>One question: x11amp uses the real-time functions of Linux (and sounds >much better) if it's installed suid-root, but there are unknown holes >that this opens up. Should I use suidmanager and make it suid? don't make it suid if it works without (mpg123, amp both work well as normal programs), reg

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> don't make it suid if it works without (mpg123, amp both Andreas> work well as normal programs), register it with Andreas> suidmanager without suid bit, and document in Andreas> README.debian how to make it

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Gertzfield wrote: > No source available. :/ In the FAQ, though, it says there will be source available sometime. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lilo..

1998-05-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 09:06:32AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > I still saw problems last weekend with mbr.b not being written to > /dev/sda when installing frozen with the 04-11 boot-floppies. I > did that by hand "dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/sda bs=444" and after that I > could boot from the disk.

Bug#22206: Some package uses psmisc without a dependency

1998-05-08 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 7 May 1998, James Troup wrote: > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyway, since psmisc is not essential (and this is what really > > matters), it would be interesting to know which package uses killall > > (if any) and where, to add the approp

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:37:57PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a > graphical .mp3 player for X. > > x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, but no > source is available, so it's going into non-free/sound. > > Its ho

magicfilter and /etc

1998-05-08 Thread Susan Kleinmann
Is there some good reason why all of the printer filters need to be installed in /etc? The magicfilter filters, in particular, make /etc/ much bigger than it might be otherwise. (I understand I can remove that which I don't need; this is a question about the optimum default configuration.) Susan

Re: magicfilter and /etc

1998-05-08 Thread Holger Eitzenberger
> Is there some good reason why all of the printer filters need > to be installed in /etc? The magicfilter filters, in particular, > make /etc/ much bigger than it might be otherwise. (I understand > I can remove that which I don't need; this is a question about > the optimum default configuratio

Re: RSync

1998-05-08 Thread Andrew Tridgell
> One thing though, is there any chance you might consider a pair of new > options: --regex-include and --regex-exclude. It shouldn't be too > difficult using one of the new regex libraries (pcre comes to mind). possibly. I know the current exclude mechanisms really aren't flexible enough right n

compile probs, glibc, satlink.c (Planetc Feed)

1998-05-08 Thread Alexander Koch
Hiya. I've a Planetc satfeed and there's a module satlink.c (.o respectively) which doesn't want to compile w/ glibc. No prob with that, I added a "-I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/" to the gcc call and it compiled. I've installed the "libc5-altdev" beforehand and the libc5 and hopefully this is enough. N

Re: compile probs, glibc, satlink.c (Planetc Feed)

1998-05-08 Thread jdassen
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:03:46PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote: > I've a Planetc satfeed and there's a module satlink.c (.o > respectively) which doesn't want to compile w/ glibc. > No prob with that, I added a "-I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/" to > the gcc call and it compiled. The recommended way of com

libg++ in hamm?

1998-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I am wondering that there is no libg++ in hamm compatible with egcs. I know, that a lot of things moved to libstdc++, but for me things like the Integer class are still useful. Has somebody a libg++ debian package? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Intent to package doc-debian-es

1998-05-08 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Hi everyone, I have translated today the New Maintainer HOWTO to Spanish and am willing to translate some other important debian documentation to Spanish making it, thus, more accesible to spanish developers. I intend to package it as doc-debian-es. Just a thought: it might be not

Re: Intent to package doc-debian-es

1998-05-08 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The doc-debian-es package is already in alpha stage, and contains the Debian FAQ. Please see: http://master.debian.org/~sanvila If you are interested in translation issues, please subscribe to the debian-l10n-spanish mailing list. BTW: I need people to read th

Re: libg++ in hamm?

1998-05-08 Thread jdassen
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 04:28:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I am wondering that there is no libg++ in hamm compatible with egcs. I > know, that a lot of things moved to libstdc++, but for me things like the > Integer class are still useful. > > Has somebody a libg++ debian package? I'm worki

RE: Lilo..

1998-05-08 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I had similar problems with Windows NT and large drives on 2940UW controllers. The problem appeared to be the wide bus mode setting ( I forget the exact wording in the adaptec setup). If I changed the setting, the machine would not boot from the drive until I either low level formatted the drive

Re: "official" brand for cdroms

1998-05-08 Thread shaul
> maybe the term "offical" for cdroms be used, if someone sells a set of > cdroms, constisting of the official cdroms and an extra cd with things > like debian-non-US, debian-non-free (those parts that are allowed to be burned > and sold), and other stuff like 2.0 + 2.1 kernel source, netscape, moz

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 12:10:56PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 07:37:57PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > This is my formal announcement of intention to package x11amp, a > > graphical .mp3 player for X. > > > > x11amp is a clone of WinAMP. It's free to redistribute, bu

Re: magicfilter and /etc

1998-05-08 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> Is there some good reason why all of the printer filters need >> to be installed in /etc? The magicfilter filters, in particular, >> make /etc/ much bigger than it might be otherwise. (I understand >> I can remove that which I don't need; this is a que

Re: ../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty

1998-05-08 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice that the Packages file for slink/main/binary-i386 on master > is empty ... To follow up on my own post - this was reported as bug #21025. In the bug report the date on the file was Apr 2. Now it is Apr 24 but it is still zero length. -- To

Processed: f

1998-05-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 20587 Bug#20587: There's no current libg++ package Bug#21253: gperf can't be installed with libstdc++ Bug reopened, originator not changed. > severity 20587 normal Bug#20587: There's no current libg++ package Bug#21253: gperf can't be installed

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-05-08 Thread Raja R Harinath
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 06:55:43PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > > You think nobody is going to try and snatch it then? > > > > Er.. how do you snatch an expired patent? > > Reregistration? Prior art Since there is documentary evidence that the

Re: corel porting apps to linux

1998-05-08 Thread Behan Webster
G John Lapeyre wrote: > > Does anyone know if something official is released? I have only > seen the irc transcript on slashdot. I was at the meeting last night when they announced the netwinder. They said all the tools to develop on the Netwinder were GPL'ed and will be released soon.

Predepends query

1998-05-08 Thread Andy Mortimer
I've just been testing the new version of dpkg-mountable -- nothing exciting, I'm afraid -- using a large set of packages to install, and I've hit a small problem. perl-base was predepended on by something, which caused it (using the usually-disabled predepends support) to remove perl. This broke d

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> There are one or two others who have already signed up for Martin> this package: Sami Haahtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Jens Martin> Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Sami is still in the Martin> new-maintainer procedu

Re: ../dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages is empty

1998-05-08 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Douglas" == Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Douglas> To follow up on my own post - this was reported as bug Douglas> #21025. In the bug report the date on the file was Apr 2. Douglas> Now it is Apr 24 but it is still zero length. In case I haven't mentioned it enough, the Packages fi

Re: Uploaded uae 0.7.3b-1 (source i386) to chiark

1998-05-08 Thread Stephan Alexander Suerken
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Fredrik Hallenberg wrote: > -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- > Format: 1.5 > Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 19:46:44 +0200 > Source: uae > Binary: uae > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.7.3b-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <[EMAIL P

Re: magicfilter and /etc

1998-05-08 Thread David Frey
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:00:12PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: ... > > There are also some other things which really not belong into /etc. For > >example the Filsystem Hirarchy Standards says that no executable files > >should go there, but 'filter

bug #21998 should be promoted to severe

1998-05-08 Thread Raul Miller
It seems to me that bug #21998 against xbase (xbase provides a manpage for Xnest) should be promoted to severe: while this bug exists it's impossible to install xnest. Am I way off base here? -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac