Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
> This turned out to be almost trivial...simply a few mods, instead of servicing > requests after connect, it fork()s and lets the child service that connection > while the parent loops and waits fo rthe next connect. [I think I changed > 10 lines of code total] Yeah, but this means each seperat

lprng non-maintainer release for bo

1998-06-06 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! I've built a private lprng-3.4.2 package for bo here at our company, as the stock version in the kernel has a terible memory problem. This may be useful for others, so perhaps it would be a good idea to do a non-maintainer release to bo-unstable? I've writen the maintainer, but haven'

tetex-bin install bug ?

1998-06-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
I sent a message to the maintainer , but haven't heard back. Is this something broken on my system ? I tried forcing removal of all my tetex packages and reinstalling. I get this when trying to install tetex-bin . Setting up tetex-bin (0.9-5) ... /usr/bin/texconfig: No

Intent to pakage COAS

1998-06-06 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I have finally managed to compile this so I am going to package it for debian unless someone speaks up. Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

help: uid_t structure !

1998-06-06 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I am trying to compile one file called xpriv.c which belongs to the Radio Track install ! Unfortunally i get that: xpriv.c: In function `give_up_root`: xpriv.c:30: `uid_t` undeclared (first use this function) xpriv.c:30: (Each undeclared iden

Re: Hamm install on laptop

1998-06-06 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 5 Jun, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Steve Tonnesen wrote: > >> I'm getting unresolved symbol errors when cardmgr tries to insmod the >> 3c589_cs module for my 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card. Is this a problem with >> the boot disks, and/or is there a solution for this? The laptop

Re: tetex-bin install bug ?

1998-06-06 Thread G John Lapeyre
It appears that an old /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf was not being removed and the installation of tetex-bin would not overwrite it. I'm not sure if this was my fault or if I tried to do a normal upgrade and it went wrong. ( i did use apt once without sufficient disk space, and this broke a

Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
I ran through my first x86 install today, and had a wierd problem. After pounding my bios into properly detect both c and d drives, I started the install using loadlin planning to avoid floppies altogether. However, when the time came to select a partition to find the resc1440.bin for drivers, it

Re: Intent to pakage COAS

1998-06-06 Thread wnpp
"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> Hi, I have finally managed to compile this so I am going to Luis> package it for debian unless someone speaks up. Brian Basset said he was working on this, back on Feburary 23, but I have not been able to reach him to confirm th

Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-06 Thread Steve Dunham
Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? The pictures of these machines look really sexy, and I've heard that rumors that they have decent performance and near $1k prices (with video input and two ethernet ports).

Re: help: uid_t structure !

1998-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nuno Carvalho wrote: > I am trying to compile one file called xpriv.c which belongs to the >Radio Track install ! Unfortunally i get that: > > >xpriv.c: In function `give_up_root`: >xpriv.c:30: `uid_t` undeclared (first use this function)

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 10:53:43PM -0400, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: > I ran through my first x86 install today, and had a wierd problem. > After pounding my bios into properly detect both c and d drives, I > started the install using loadlin planning to avoid floppies > altogether. However, when the

Re: Twin Package

1998-06-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I did not announce this in public but I have an almost working twin package which I built for my own use. I just need to get a few details about shared libraries straight. I'm going to Washington this weekend so I won't be able to finish it till sometime next week. If someone else wants to be

Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-06 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sat, Jun 6, 1998 12:17 am +0100 "Edward Betts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Debian 2 ships with Gimp 1 take that redhat :-) > Huh? Who managed a new major version during a depp freeze? /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAI

Re: Documentation/License freeness (what RMS says about it) [rms@santafe.edu: Re: GPL itself non-free]

1998-06-06 Thread Jules Bean
--On Fri, Jun 5, 1998 3:26 pm +0200 "Marcus Brinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > This is thereply I got from RMS about the copyright freeness issue. > > I think it is clear that we should lay the license freeness issue ad acta. > Debian should include all licenses in whole, and

Re: Intent to pakage COAS

1998-06-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 02:50:56AM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > I have finally managed to compile this so I am going to package it for debian > unless someone speaks up. Thank you for doing this, Luis! Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinge

Re: Documentation/License freeness (what RMS says about it) [rms@santafe.edu: Re: GPL itself non-free]

1998-06-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 11:54:26AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > --On Fri, Jun 5, 1998 3:26 pm +0200 "Marcus Brinkmann" > > > [Marcus asked:] > > It seems to imply, that I'm not allowed to derive a new license, using > > portions of the GPL (even when changing the name). Is that correct? >

Re: Documentation/License freeness

1998-06-06 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I think: > > * We should treat documentation under the same terms as software, as we need > it to use the software successfully and we'll have the same benefits of free > documentation as we have of free software.

Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN (sic)

1998-06-06 Thread James Troup
"Jules Bean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian 2 ships with Gimp 1 take that redhat :-) > > Huh? > > Who managed a new major version during a depp freeze? It's not a major new version, it's the final release of the 0.99.xx series; it would be very silly to release hamm with 0.99.xx and not

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 09:55:57AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > Not yet. A few questions: Which filesystem type has hdc1? Which version of the > boot-floppies were you using? I assume hdc2 and hdc3 were properly detected > in previous steps (initialize swap & initialize linux partition), righ

kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Raul Miller
I would like to recommend that linux 2.0.34 be made available as a part of hamm. This is because 2.0.34 is a bugfix-only upgrade to 2.0.33. However, I don't think we have enough experience with 2.0.34 to eliminate 2.0.33 from the distribution. So both should be available. -- Raul -- To UNSU

Re: Hamm install on laptop

1998-06-06 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 06:54:26PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Steve Tonnesen wrote: > > > I'm getting unresolved symbol errors when cardmgr tries to insmod the > > 3c589_cs module for my 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card. Is this a problem with > > the boot disks, and/or is ther

PalmOS programs

1998-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
Gene, I downloaded the binutils-m68k-palmos-coff package. However, it appears that it requires some gcc packages that you orphaned awhile back. I'd like to adopt those packages but can't seem to find the original sources anywhere. I'd rather start from what you've done so far instead of startin

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Mitchell
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to recommend that linux 2.0.34 be made available as a > part of hamm. This is because 2.0.34 is a bugfix-only upgrade to > 2.0.33. > > However, I don't think we have enough experience with 2.0.34 to > eliminate 2.0.33 from the distribution.

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Dan Jacobowitz wrote: > > I ran through my first x86 install today, and had a wierd problem. > After pounding my bios into properly detect both c and d drives, I > started the install using loadlin planning to avoid floppies > altogether. However, when the time came to select a partition to find

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Martin Mitchell wrote: > I second this, 2.0.34 has undergone much testing in prereleases and is a > further refinement of the stable branch of the kernel tree. Let's be clear about what this means. We need to compile the kernel and all packages that depend on it, pcmcia-modules, boot-floppies, etc.

sendmail 8.9.0

1998-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I've recently reported two critical bugs with sendmail 8.9.0: 1) it completely breaks incoming UUCP mail 2) it completely breaks outgoing Majordomo messages #1 I solved easily, and fortunately, UUCP saves off failed messages. #2 has caused numerous lost messages. I have yet to receive any

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Raul Miller
Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's be clear about what this means. We need to compile the kernel > and all packages that depend on it, pcmcia-modules, boot-floppies, > etc. (We could, I guess live with the boot-floppies being 2.0.33 but > given that there is a mismatch betwe

Re: PalmOS programs

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Mitchell
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded the binutils-m68k-palmos-coff package. However, it > appears that it requires some gcc packages that you orphaned awhile > back. I'd like to adopt those packages but can't seem to find the > original sources anywhere. I'd rather start from

Re: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1998-06-06 Thread Yann Dirson
Michael Meskes writes: > mpsql (2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low > . >* Initial Release. >* Based on version 2.0b1. Hm, assuming the "b1" means it's beta stuff, I think it would be better to keep it in the Debian version. Changing the version number is confusing. Yes, I now it's a pain

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 12:28:24PM -0400, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote: > Where or what is your /dev/hdb drive? Is your hdb drive your > cdrom? If so, it should be detected. I don't know if the > cdrom has been compiled as a module, if so they must be loaded from the > drivers > disk. hdb is my cdr

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, Looks to me like kernel 2.0.34 is more than just a bugfix release. The aic7xxx/pci driver changed *completely* with the result that my adaptec 2940AU no longer seems to work. I'd agree with the suggestion that 2.0.33 be kept around a bit longer. J. Goldman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: mirror-2.9 released, and hopefully DFSG compliant

1998-06-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Bob> The changelog for mirror 2.8-15 included: Bob> Bob> * Applied patch by Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to allow restarts Bob> on partially downloaded files (fixes #19239) Bob> Bob> I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1 Bob> by default. Looks l

RE: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Darren Benham
How about ship Hamm with 2.0.33 as setup but include what's necessary for 2.0.34 the way Bo has 2.0.29 but includes the stuff for 2.0.30 -- http://benham.net/index.html -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++> P+++$ L++> E?

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Jesse Goldman wrote: > Hi, > > Looks to me like kernel 2.0.34 is more than just a bugfix release. The > aic7xxx/pci driver changed *completely* with the result that my adaptec > 2940AU no longer seems to work. I'd agree with the suggestion that 2.0.33 > be kept around a bit lo

What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Currently the version of glibc in frozen is older than the version in Slink. Does this mean we plan to release Hamm with that prerelease of glibc? Or are we planning on including 2.0.8 when it's released? If we plan to include 2.0.8 we really ought to push the latest prerelease into frozen to tes

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread aqy6633
> Currently the version of glibc in frozen is older than the version in Slink. > Does this mean we plan to release Hamm with that prerelease of glibc? > Or are we planning on including 2.0.8 when it's released? > > If we plan to include 2.0.8 we really ought to push the latest prerelease into > fr

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread James Troup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(Alex Yukhimets) writes: > > Currently the version of glibc in frozen is older than the version > > in Slink. Does this mean we plan to release Hamm with that > > prerelease of glibc? Or are we planning on including 2.0.8 when > > it's released? > > > > If we plan to include

Re: Proposal: Automatic query servicing for dpkg installation scripts

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: > The way I see this working is that there is only one per-host local > database, but you preload it with the information you want before you > start the installation. That way databases from other hosts and > things like that are just special kinds of preloading. Yes, that's t

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread aqy6633
> > There is a good reason to include recent glibc into frozen - latest > > JDK-1.1.6 does not work with glibc from hamm. > > Umm, that's not a good reason. Certainly nothing like a good enough > reason to justify us shipping with an *out of date* pre-release. Sorry? What I tried to say is that

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread James Troup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Alex Yukhimets) writes: > > > There is a good reason to include recent glibc into frozen - latest > > > JDK-1.1.6 does not work with glibc from hamm. > > > > Umm, that's not a good reason. Certainly nothing like a good enough > > reason to justify us shipping with an *out of

Re: PalmOS programs

1998-06-06 Thread Rob Tillotson
Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe the binutils-m68k-palmos-coff package was derived from my > binutils-m68k-linux package, and the same goes for gcc-m68k-linux. > If you need to rebuild the palmos gcc source packages from them, it should > be fairly easy, just substitute palmo

Re: Tools the Parse config files (was Re: Linuxconf)

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 02:52:50PM +0300, Shaya Potter wrote: > For the fact that we would need to write a parser for all our conf files. I > think that might be overkill, as many of our conf files are probably just > some files with a variable or two. i.e. the structure of the config file is > c

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Yes, AIC7XXX is a problem with 2.0.34. This probably means that 2.0.35 will > be > forthcoming. I've had no problems whatsoever with my AIC7880 onboard UW SCSI controller. It handles my SCSI-3 hard drive, SCSI-2 CD-ROM Drive and my SCSI-1 DAT/DDS-2 tape drive just fine. Nevertheless,

Re: first package

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 02:03:39AM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote: > hi, > > today i tried to build my first debian package but run immidiatly in > an error. i did (nearly ;-) everything as told by the script 'making a > debian package' but after the command build i got the messages: > no utm

Re: Getting Hamm out

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 08:42:15AM -0500, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > While perusing around reading e-mail and jumping in on ocasional discussions > I noticed some mention of the possibility of cutting down on some of the less > importnat discussions an dhelping get hamm out... > > I remember th

Re: intent to package vmailer

1998-06-06 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 05:18:27PM -0600, LaMont Jones wrote: > I intend to package VMailer (Wietse Venema's mail transport agent, see > http://www.porcupine.org/vmailer). In keeping with Wietse's desires, > the package will not be available until he releases it... ... and I was just hoping to se

package wanted: crashme

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Crashme is a program that runs random code in an attempt to crash your os. I lack net access at the moment, so I don't know where it is or what license it uses, but I think it would be nice to put this in debian, just so interested parties can pound on their systems. I don't intend to package it my

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: xbase > Version: 3.3.2.1-1 > Severity: critical > > XFree86 3.3.2.2 has been released. According to > http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/RELNOTES3.html#3 : > :3.3.2 patch 2 (aka 3.3.2.2) fixes some security bugs, a denial of service > :problem with xdm, a few gcc 2.8.

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There is a good reason to include recent glibc into frozen - latest > > > JDK-1.1.6 does not work with glibc from hamm. > > > > Umm, that's not a good reason. Certainly nothing like a good enough > > reason to justify us shipping with an *out of

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 06:18:19PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > Yes, AIC7XXX is a problem with 2.0.34. This probably means that 2.0.35 > > will be > > forthcoming. > I've had no problems whatsoever with my AIC7880 onboard UW SCSI > controller. It handles my SCSI-3 hard drive, SCSI-2 CD-ROM

Re: package wanted: crashme

1998-06-06 Thread Jay Kominek
> Crashme is a program that runs random code in an attempt to crash your os. I > lack net access at the moment, so I don't know where it is or what license > it uses, but I think it would be nice to put this in debian, just so > interested parties can pound on their systems. I don't intend to pack

Re: Username length inconsistencies.

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Well, this way is probably OK for dh_testroot, but "id -u" is absolutely > non-portable thing across different UNIX platforms... :( Good enough for dh_testroot, I think this is in debhelper 0.90. -- see shy jo I'm on a long trip, pardon any delays in my reply. -- To

Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Brederlow> The size file should be generated by the server. Here are > Brederlow> the reasons: > > I am (perhaps unnecessarily) worried about time requirements Considering that we plan to eventually have lintian run automatically on packages before they get move

Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]

1998-06-06 Thread Raul Miller
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is it possible to check for block sizes with lintian? And what do you > expect a maintainer to do if they use a different block size and lintian > dislikes that? Reformat? To deal with block sizes we'll need to abandon (or upgrade) du. To find out what b

Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]

1998-06-06 Thread Raul Miller
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To deal with block sizes we'll need to abandon (or upgrade) du. Argh.. please ignore this sentence, it makes no sense. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]

1998-06-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > A brutally simplistic mechanism for representing the data would > provide a different sizes file for each different block size > we support. Optimizations are possible but may not be worth the > effort. This is getting out of hand, do we really need to c

Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]

1998-06-06 Thread Raul Miller
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is getting out of hand, do we really need to consider slack space > when calculating if the user has enough room to install!? No, what we mostly need is an estimate. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub