[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes:
Hmm, with a strong enough improbability field, you will see dragons in
the sky.
Dragons and octopi in the sky are Somebody Else's Problem.
*- On 28 Jan, Chris Waters wrote about "Call for mascot! :-)"
> 2. Octopus (my own suggestion)
I like this. It would be great for CD covers were each tentacle could
have text overlayed for each architecture: i386, arm, hurd, sparc,
alpha, m68k, powerpc. Well that is seven but there may be mor
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:02:18PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> After getting a few volunteers and asking a few other people I present
> to you the Debian logo-team, who will select the best logos for your
> voting pleasure:
>
> * Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * Teemu Hukkanen <[
Helmut Geyer is listed as the maintainer for xxgdb and bzip - xxgdb
hasn't had a maintainer upload since when bo was frozen, and bzip's
last maintainer upload was longer ago than that. Mail sent to his
listed address goes unanswered, but maybe that's because I only waited
a week. Is he still wit
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:40:28PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > * Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > * James Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, these guys are obvious... Nils has done a *great* job at getting
lots of Debian press releases out there, and James is our webmaster.
--
David Welt
Joel Klecker just reminded me of a strace tarball from Ulrich Drepper
with a lot of his changes, and since I aim to make Debian's strace the
one-and-only-strace that includes all possible features I had to
incorporate it in my sources.. so I just went through a nice 6500-line
diff and modified qui
Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> Not to sound put off by this, just wondering on what criteria you
> selected the team. Considering I offered to help, and the fact that I
> have a strong background in desktop publishing and web design (strong,
> as in 8 years working experience) I would have thought
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote:
>
> On 28-Jan-99 Chris Waters wrote:
> > While I'm on the topic of the logo, it occurred to me that it might be
> > nice to choose a mascot for the Debian project. Some sort of beast that
> > we can use in the logo and in other Debian-related images. Mu
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:33:11AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I indeed asked around on irc a bit if people were interested in this and
> you said you we were to help out, but you never answered my question why
> you would make a good choice. So I didn't know about your background in
> publish
Hi,
(B
(BThis is the latest release of the vdk. I hope to be informed as soon as
(Bpossible as being a debian developer and upload it to Incoming.
(B
(BPlease test it and tell me if something's wrong as this is my first
(Battempt to package a library (and seccond to package anything).
(B
(
Who says package management can't be Sexy?
Be the first one on your block to try Gnome-apt, the new
GUI front end for the Debian package tool.
It slices... it dices... it makes fresh pasta...
and it has a groovy search function!
debs for gnome-apt are now available at
http://www.debian.org/~m
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> You can fetch both gnome-apt and the required cvs version of
> apt by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./
It is customary to use an entry like
deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin
> "Edward John M. Brocklesby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I don't think so - Octopi can't fly!
>
> Someone who obviously hasn't read RFC 1925...
RFC1925 asserts that under appropriate circumstances, -pigs- can fly.
It makes no comment on the aerodynamic properties of cephalopods.
> --
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
>
> > You can fetch both gnome-apt and the required cvs version of
> > apt by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
> >
> > deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./
>
> It is customary to use an entry
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> > That gives nicer displays with APT - to do so you must generate the
> > package file in ~mblevin and put it in gnome-apt.
>
> I don't want to put a Packages in my base public_html, but
> you can also access this thru
>
> deb http://www.debian.org/~m
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
>
> An earlier version of gnome-apt caused the CD-ROM to eject so forcefully
> that the CD flew across the room and I came _this_ close to spending
> the rest of my life with a Greatful Dead CD embedded 2 inches into my
> skull. Please use Caution. ;)
>
gbdk is a acronym of Gameboy Developer's Kit.
This is a description for it.
---
Package: gbdk
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/devel
Installed-Size: 649
Maintainer: Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 2.0.17-3
Depends: libc6
Suggests: gbdk-
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
>
> > > That gives nicer displays with APT - to do so you must generate the
> > > package file in ~mblevin and put it in gnome-apt.
> >
> > I don't want to put a Packages in my base public_html, but
> > you can also access this
Hi,
(B
(BIs the gnuclient/gnuserv broken in XEmacs ? Using the latest versions
(Bfrom potato I am no more able to start a gnuclient :-( Is anybody else
(Bexperiencing this ?
(B
(BIonutz
Hi,
I'm getting ready to package three new packages for potato:
tkmasqdialer: This is a Tk client to the masqdialer PPP control daemon
I maintain. The code works, but needs beating upon. (potato will
certainly do that...)
wxwin2-doc: Documentation on the wxWindows class library (currently in
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:01:09PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
> I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less
> 'elementary' X package, so I'm offering to package it. Is it
> generated from the X sources (in which case, maybe I'll just limit
> myself to pestering Branden:-), or proc
Hi,
(B
(BI am unable to debug anything. I'm trying to add a breakpoint and gdb
(Bresponds that it can't. Here is what I get:
(B
(B(gdb) file /home/borco/c++/boltzmann/src/boltzmann
(B(gdb) break main.cc:92
(BBreakpoint 1 at 0xbbf8: file main.cc, line 92.
(B(gdb) run
(BBreakpoint 1 at 0
Hi,
(B
(BThis seemed to be a wrong example of what I get. Actually the breakpoint
(Bwas on a declaration *blush*
(B
(BHowever, all my breakpoints are ignored and the program run normally as
(Bfrom the console: no way to interupt it :(
(B
(BAny ideas ?
(B
(BIonutz
(BIonutz Borcoman wrote:
What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one and I'm curious
as to why...
FYI:
ii apt 0.1.10 Front-End for dpkg
--
I am in London and would like to meet any Linux users here.
I plan to work in London for 6 months and then I might move to some other
place whe
Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I remember well, some time ago someone posted his results on a port
> of dpkg to HP-UX.
Believe it or not, I've ported dpkg to HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and
Cygwin. (That's dpkg, dpkg-split, and dpkg-deb only. I wasn't
interested in dselect at the t
On Jan 27, 1999, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:22:09PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 3) I don't want to regret having introduced a flag that caused as much
>> or more trouble than -rpath; and
> I don't understand this comment. Which "trouble" with "
On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1) it would be hard to make it behave correctly in a portable way (and
>> libtool would be useless if it were not for being portable);
> Special case-it for linux, if you will. Libtool has plenty of special
> cases as it is.
Not in the i
On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Therefore, we chose to solve that particular problem (the libc5-6
> transition) by moving libraries around, knowing that our linker was up to
> the job.
It is now clear that it is not. :-(
> rpath is broken. You said as much yourself. rp
On Jan 27, 1999, Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> rpath is broken. You said as much yourself. rpath is broken because it
>> *overrides* all other sorts of library searching.
> I think people here do not know about $ORIGIN. This allows to def
On Jan 27, 1999, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually you want to know why I remember this? I used libtool a while back
> and I installed a copy of my program in /usr/bin and /usr/lib and wanted
> to us a new local copy of my libtool program. Of course libtool had used
> -rpath to
On Jan 28, 1999, Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You say the contract is "I want to find THERE the lib that does THIS.x
> and THAT.x"; I think (and that's at least true for Linux) the contract
> the compiler and linker has signed was twofold; it says:
> 1) "I will give you the
>
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:44:20 -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Objet: Re: []
> la date: 28 Jan 99 22:03:11 GMT
> De: John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> >On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
> >> 1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC)
> >> 2. Octopus (my own su
On Thu 28 Jan 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
>
> BTW, There are two kinds of sparc64 support: usermode and kernel mode.
> Usermode stuff is a _long_ way off, currently Debian runs 32-bit sparc
> stuff on a 64-bit kernel. So Alpha patches don't help much there.
> The biggest issue on the 32-bit sparc i
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> ld.so is trying to outsmart everybody, but it is not smart enough to
> do it. When you moved libc5-compatible libraries from /usr/lib to
> /usr/lib/libc5, you established a rule that, if any program was linked
> with libc5, it should look for libraries in /usr/lib/libc5 f
Hi,
I plan to package the Portable Object Compiler, an Objective-C compiler,
for potato.
Upstream source:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/objc/
Upstream Author:
David Stes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Homepage:
http://cage.rug.ac.be/~stes/compiler.html
http://www.can.nl/~stes/compile
David Stern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About a month ago a developer posted that he had a special boot disk
> image in his debian.org home directory to alleviate a hang at install
> time, but I can't locate the post now.
I only know about www.master.debian.org/~doko/
Regards,
Joey
--
The only
Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>
> > thanks for the NMU without asking the maintainer FIRST, AGAIN :-///
>
> No problem, I will mail you next time.
>
> > Note: the last upload of this package was last month and there is no reason
> > for a quick uplaod
On Jan 29, 1999, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> ld.so is trying to outsmart everybody, but it is not smart enough to
>> do it. When you moved libc5-compatible libraries from /usr/lib to
>> /usr/lib/libc5, you established a rule that, if any program was lin
On 27 Jan 1999, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> The version in slink of the debiandoc-sgml package has an undeclared
> dependency on the libwww-perl package. Is it still allowed to upload
> a corrected version? This doesn't involve any code changes, just an
> extra dependency declaration in the de
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to pardon
> my ignorance on the subject. What if we make the pseudo xbase package
> conflict with xfnt* packages < version x (a versioned conflict)? How will
> dselect handle this, wil
I wish to take over the orphaned package xzx. I have notified the WNPP
maintainer. I am just checking that this is OK with everyone...
To dmarion: please send me any relevent files/info if it is ok.
More than just email--Get you
I have just started to package spectremu, it comes in two versions for X11 and
SVGAlib, should I just to X11 or both and in one or seperated packages?
Also, how do I make a menu entry start a program in xterm? because spectremu
for X11 must be started from xterm.
_
I would like to draw your attention towards www.debian-cd.com,
it's a vendor that distributes Debian Cd's, also providing some nice
logos for use as label. I have no problem with these save...
1.- The domain name includes 'Debian' is this OK for the project?
I recall a pro
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 07:11:54AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Therefore, we chose to solve that particular problem (the libc5-6
> > transition) by moving libraries around, knowing that our linker was up to
> > the job.
>
> It is no
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 07:27:28AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Does it? You mean, that hack in ld.so that adds /usr/lib/libc5 to the
> library search path in certain circumstances? The hack is incomplete,
> you just have to fix it.
Have you checked our ld.so source? The only mentioned of "
Previously Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Good analogy. What's happening here is that Debian is placing the red
> lable on the cold water tap. I.e., they're replacing a library with
> an incompatible version of it, and getting in trouble because some
> programs are now getting cold water where they exp
Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The reason for non-free is this in copyright:
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is
^
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:21:38PM +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
>
> I would like to draw your attention towards www.debian-cd.com,
> it's a vendor that distributes Debian Cd's, also providing some nice
> logos for use as label. I have no problem with these save...
>
> 1
> -Original Message-
> From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 1:14 PM
> To: Richard Braakman
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> debian-devel@lists.debian.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: -rpath
Branden Robinson:
> I don't know yet exactly how the new font and static library packages
> will be handled. I want to build developer consensus on a solution.
I have one possible solution here:
deb http://master.debian.org/~sanvila frozen main
[ The above is an apt-like line ].
Yes, these are
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> > About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to pardon
> > my ignorance on the subject. What if we make the pseudo xbase package
> > conflict with xfnt* packages < version x (a vers
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
> What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one and I'm curious
> as to why...
IIRC, close(-1) closes all open file handles. I'm not certain exactly
wher this is documented though.
In the thread on -rpath that is currently taking place on the
debian-devel mailing list (quick summary: Debian developers say that
-rpath should -not- be the default on Linux systems; libtool developers
say that -rpath should be the default on all systems), Alexandre Oliva
has repeatedly refer
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:01:28PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > I intend to package all the dummy packages we have been talking about.
> > They match the packages that changed its name in the great X
> > reorganization.
>
> You'll do no such thin
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to pardon
> > > my ignorance on the subject. What if we make the pseudo xbase package
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > >
> > > > About the xfonts problem. I haven't been following close enough to
> > > > pardon
> > > > my
dists/slink/main/binary-all/kernel-source-2.1.125
why?? and 2.0.33, 2.0.34, 2.0.35
2.0.36 I can understand :-)
Cheers
Adrian
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Internal: 7-245528 External: 01962-815528
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
>
>> What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one and I'm
>> curious
>> as to why...
>
>IIRC, close(-1) closes all open file handles. I'm not certain exactly
>wher this is documented though.
I
At 29 Jan 1999 08:48:54 -0500,
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
>purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is
> ^^^
> That doesn't
> The reason for non-free is this in copyright:
> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
> purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is
^^^
Have you contacted the author about this?
Joel Klecker wrote:
> pciutils - Utils for listing/tweaking PCI devices in 2.1/2.2 kernels
>
> Bug-free, lintian-clean
> There are some upstream alpha releases that would be nice to
> have packaged somewhere, but not essential
If noone objects, I'll
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 01:01:47PM +, John Travers wrote:
> I have just started to package spectremu, it comes in two versions for X11 and
> SVGAlib, should I just to X11 or both and in one or seperated packages?
>
They should be in seperate packages.
> Also, how do I make a menu entry start
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> dists/slink/main/binary-all/kernel-source-2.1.125
>
> why?? and 2.0.33, 2.0.34, 2.0.35
>
> 2.0.36 I can understand :-)
2.1.125 - because we needed it for sparc, so we uploaded the source.
Jules
/+---+---
Hi folks,
I hope this is an appropriate message to send to this list.
I'm searching for an consultant to help us configure a mixed
environment of Debian, Solaris and NT. The work will involve setting
up file sharing, password synchronization, third party package
installation, printer configurati
> The patches that I sent you should be completely safe. But the
> resulting packages have only been tested by me. (As I said, I took
> out the -pedantic flag on the altdev stuff - the other changes don't
> touch x86 at all.)
Right, at least my sparc patches really only deal with the Xsun server
On Fri, January 29 1999, Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro
te:
|Hi,
|
|Is the gnuclient/gnuserv broken in XEmacs ? Using the latest versions
|from potato I am no more able to start a gnuclient :-( Is anybody else
|experiencing this ?
I've reported this bug with slink months ago with no respo
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:28:54PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > dists/slink/main/binary-all/kernel-source-2.1.125
> >
> > why?? and 2.0.33, 2.0.34, 2.0.35
> >
> > 2.0.36 I can understand :-)
>
> 2.1.125 - because we needed it for sparc, so we uplo
Ben Pfaff writes:
> That doesn't make it non-free. It's in the standard BSD license.
The word 'fee' does not occur in the standard BSD license. It does not
mention money at all.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
On 29-Jan-99 Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> In order to protect our trademark, we'd either have to give this site
> permission to use the trademark and logo, or tell them to stop using the
> trademark and logo.
>
> I think a polite reminder of the logo guidelines and permission to use the
> trademark
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:51:51AM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
>
> On 29-Jan-99 Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> > In order to protect our trademark, we'd either have to give this site
> > permission to use the trademark and logo, or tell them to stop using the
> > trademark and logo.
> >
> > I think a
On 29-Jan-99 Ben Collins wrote:
> Yeah, after looking at the site, this guy is doing great things. We really
> don't want to do something as stupid as just saying "don't use the logo
> like that".
>
> Ben (who wants one of those retail box set's when they are done ;)
>
--
Please cc all mailing
We can ask the new project leader to issue the permission and ask for the link
when the election is through ;)
On 29-Jan-99 Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:51:51AM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
>>
>> On 29-Jan-99 Brian Ristuccia wrote:
>> > In order to protect our trademark, we'd
Hello all,
This is a internationalization proposal for the Debian Menu System.
The current 'update-menus' method seek /usr/lib/menu/default, /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu for the package's menu entries.
A first approach may be:
1. Check the LANG or LC_ALL var
2. If it's different
Hello all,
This is a internationalization proposal for the Debian Menu System.
The current 'update-menus' method seek /usr/lib/menu/default, /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu for the package's menu entries.
A first approach may be:
1. Check the LANG or LC_ALL var
2. If it's different
Hello all,
This is a internationalization proposal for the Debian Menu System.
The current 'update-menus' method seek /usr/lib/menu/default, /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu for the package's menu entries.
A first approach may be:
1. Check the LANG or LC_ALL var
2. If it's different
Hello all,
This is a internationalization proposal for the Debian Menu System.
The current 'update-menus' method seek /usr/lib/menu/default, /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu for the package's menu entries.
A first approach may be:
1. Check the LANG or LC_ALL var
2. If it's different
Hello all,
This is a internationalization proposal for the Debian Menu System.
The current 'update-menus' method seek /usr/lib/menu/default, /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu for the package's menu entries.
A first approach may be:
1. Check the LANG or LC_ALL var
2. If it's different
Hello all,
This is a internationalization proposal for the Debian Menu System.
The current 'update-menus' method seek /usr/lib/menu/default, /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu for the package's menu entries.
A first approach may be:
1. Check the LANG or LC_ALL var
2. If it's different
Hello all,
This is a internationalization proposal for the Debian Menu System.
The current 'update-menus' method seek /usr/lib/menu/default, /usr/lib/menu
and /etc/menu for the package's menu entries.
A first approach may be:
1. Check the LANG or LC_ALL var
2. If it's different
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
> What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one and I'm curious
> as to why...
Absolutely nothing :> -1 is defined to be an invalid FD and close(-1) is
to return an error code and basically do nothing when given -1
Jason
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 09:51:51AM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
> > To make it official, I'd request atleast one link somewhere
> > appropriate for his set up to the (even if it is broken) license.
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, after looking at the site, this guy is doing great thi
Good idea, needs a better solution. Sorry, but I do not speak Spanish, so have
no idea what the menu file should be for you. You will also bloat each and
every menu package which 20 menus. Better to use the menu systems builtin
translation ability and supply i18n support to it.
BTW, Tinguaro I
There have been several packages allowed into main with
a license like this. Some people don't like it however. Perl's
license is even slightly more restricive. Except that now it
can be licensed under the GPL as well.
From: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 Jan 1999 12:44:5
On 29 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > Didn't we decide that all of the available alternatives that you have
> > suggested are not a feasable solution (does this mail help make it clear
> > why)?
>
> You may have missed the ugly one I was referring to, that I suggested
> in the very beginni
> "Scott" == Scott K Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Scott> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
>> What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one
>> and I'm curious as to why...
Scott> IIRC, close(-1) closes all open file handles. I'm not
Scott> ce
Anders Hammarquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The patches that I sent you should be completely safe. But the
> > resulting packages have only been tested by me. (As I said, I took
> > out the -pedantic flag on the altdev stuff - the other changes don't
> > touch x86 at all.)
> Right, at lea
On 29 Jan 1999, Stephen Zander wrote:
> > "Scott" == Scott K Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Scott> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
> >> What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one
> >> and I'm curious as to why...
>
> Scott> IIRC, close(-1)
I just learned that the LyX copyright file was corrected to explicitely
state that linking against a non-free library is okay. This however wasn't
really needed as 'The law is quite clear that the release of the software by
the original authors and copyright holders changed the licenses.'
AFAIK th
On 29-Jan-99 Michael Meskes wrote:
> I just learned that the LyX copyright file was corrected to explicitely
> state that linking against a non-free library is okay. This however wasn't
> really needed as 'The law is quite clear that the release of the software by
> the original authors and copyri
*-Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
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| Be the first one on your block to try Gnome-apt, the new
| GUI front end for the Debian package tool.
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| It slices... it dices... it makes fresh pasta...
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Ah, it
*-Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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| Who says package management can't be Sexy?
| Be the first one on your block to try Gnome-apt, the new
| GUI front end for the Debian package tool.
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| It slices... it dices... it makes fresh pasta...
| and it has a groovy search function!
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Ah, bu
Hi!
[Creaaak... Gordon pops out of the grave reserved for former
libtool maintainers to make some comments.]
> Alexandre Oliva writes:
>> I don't understand this comment. Which "trouble" with "--rpath" do
>> you mean?
AO> The exact problem the Debian developers have been complaining
On 29 Jan 1999, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
>
> Ah, it's lovely. No more dselect for this boy.
>
> Feature request: Shouldn't it be possible to put a package
> on hold even if the newest version is installed?
>
This is causing much confusion - Keep is not Hold. Right now there's no
Hold feature at al
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:16:23PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 27-Jan-99, 16:54 (CST), Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On a slink machine I have a crontab entry that should perform an rsync
> > of a site that I mirror around 22:40 my time (-0600). I have started to
> > get the
Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, January 29 1999, Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro
> te:
> |Hi,
> |
> |Is the gnuclient/gnuserv broken in XEmacs ? Using the latest versions
> |from potato I am no more able to start a gnuclient :-( Is anybody else
> |experiencing this ?
>
Craig Sanders wrote:
> i've noticed this behaviour in the past, when xntp gets upgraded in the
> same dselect run as cron or sysklogd.
I doubt this is it because I've experienced the problem on 2 machines;
neither runs xntpd or any other time synchronization program.
--
see shy jo
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 07:27:28AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > Does it? You mean, that hack in ld.so that adds /usr/lib/libc5 to the
> > library search path in certain circumstances? The hack is incomplete,
> > you just have to fix it.
> Have
Wonderful. Next question--will there be an attempt to make a standard
location for distributing packages for any of this ports? It may not
belong as part of Debian, but I can see advantages to Debian being
associated with dependable distributions of free software for many
operating systems.
Guy
Branden Robinson wrote:
> xfree86 (3.3.2.3a-9) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
> .
Wow! I wondered if this is the biggest debian changelog ever. It is, here
are the other contenders:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian3/lintian/laboratory/binary>find -name changelog | \
xargs perl ~/changelog-le
Joey Hess wrote:
> (changelog-length-parser is atached)
Well it is now anyway.
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see shy jo
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Feed this program a list of debian changelogs. It will parse each, looking
# at the entries, and emit a running count of how long each individual
# changelog entry is. This was written
1 - 100 of 110 matches
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