faure.debian.org and albert.debian.org

1999-01-21 Thread Adam Heath
These two alpha machines, hosted at novare, will disappear from the net for about 15-20 minutes at or around 6pm local time(master and novare have the same local time). This will not affect master and murphy. Adam

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-21 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:36:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> 1. web files owned by www-data:www-data (ie no group change), and the >> web process executed by www:www (for instance). There is no need for >> users to be members of root. This would require a

Mailing List for LinuxTag organization

1999-01-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello, Lars Bensmann set up a mailing list for organization of the LinuxTag. If you are interested, please subscribe by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please subscribe even if you can't come to the event. A lot of preperation will be needed. If you have already organized such an event, pleas

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-21 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a > kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel, > would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of > kernel 2.2 ea

Re: I'm a concerned about slink. specifically jdk1.1, idraw, and xaw-wrappers

1999-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Dale E. Martin wrote: > went to bugs.debian.org and it has a bug (only 7 days old this time) > explaining the problem (I _was_ using nextaw) and how to work around > it. For the life of me, xaw-wrappers won't work. Even for stuff I didn't > set up. For instance, if I run "xkeycaps" (which uses xa

RE: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-21 Thread Brent Fulgham
I say let's make the 2.2 image a high-profile aspect of slink's release.  The kernel is very stable, and I've been running my Debian system on it since 2.1.120.  Plus, it would be a great "technical" feature of our distribution that might give us some bragging rights over the other distros. -B

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-21 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:17:26PM -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote: > I say let's make the 2.2 image a high-profile aspect of slink's release. > The kernel is very stable, and I've been running my Debian system on it The kernel is stable, but is the kernel + debian stable? No one knows. I think we

RE: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-21 Thread Brent Fulgham
> I think we should include it, as a service to people who don't want to > download the whole thing, but attach a note saying "As 2.2 was > released just before we released slink, we are including it, but there > may be problems, it might eat your computer... we are not responsible > for anyth

Unsatisfied depends in slink main

1999-01-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives. The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and Sugges

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