> "JH" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JH> * The long awaited redesign of the installation profiles has
JH> begun. Now there are "metapackages"; packages that depend on a
JH> group of packages that relate to a common activity, like playing
JH> games or developing C programs
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:30:18PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:08:22PM -0500, David Welton wrote:
> > I think that as many packages as reasonably possible should
> > migrate towards them. They work pretty well, but I don't believe
> > in forcing them on peopl
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>> > "Chris" == Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Chris> For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost*
>> Chris> all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections
>> Chris> made through
Actually about these "metapackages", what about having a new field
in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/available file, the "Keywords:" field?
The keywords would be predefined, and it would be _much_ easier to
find a package... now, if I don't know the name of a package, I have
to grep through the "available
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:13:19PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > To help give another example of settings, here's what I have in my
> > ~/.gnupg/options:
>
> > # Screw PGP, let's be RFC compatible =>
> > openpgp
> [.. snip snip ..]
> >
> > ## Other fun options
>
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:14:42AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 8) Participants of 'signing parties' are encouraged to use OpenPGP keys
> (remember that a PGP 2.x key cannot be signed by an OpenPGP key
> [AFIAK])
I've got PGP keys with GPG sigs on them... Granted PGP can't even se
> > That higher level of confidence would be misplaced if I'd simply
> > mailed my key to all my old PGP signers, and they'd signed it.
>
> Sorry, I don't get this. Why is it a problem if one of my old signers signs
> my new key if I send it to them in a mail signed by my old key?
Lots of others
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:38:34PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> I signed my DSS key with the old RSA key and then asked people who
> signed the old key to sign the new one with their DSS key.
> This is easy and secure.
Not if you didn't ask in person...
--
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> > What happens if you pass the -pt option to man?
>
> $ man -pt -l ./powstatd.8
>
> Then it works.
>From man(1):
The filters are deciphered by a number of means. Firstly,
the command line option -p or
http://www.ora.com/catalog/debian/
I just noticed this page has a book cover for forthcoming "Learning Debian
GNU/Linux" book from O'Reilly.
What do people think about the art? Looks like that guy has climed onto a
bucking bull -- or is it a GNU? -- and is about to ditch his hat. All good
things.
With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be
sufficient:
/ 32M
/var 96M
swap 32M or more.
/usr all the rest
/home is a symlink to /usr/home
/tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp
For more than 150 megs of disk space, I have found this the best way of
partitioning. F
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:36:19PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> What do people think about the art?
Pretty nice. The more important question is, who's preordering? :)
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ICQ: 5107343 | main connecti
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:27:25AM +0900, Germano Leichsenring wrote:
> Actually about these "metapackages", what about having a new field
> in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/available file, the "Keywords:" field?
> The keywords would be predefined, and it would be _much_ easier to
> find a package... now,
Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by
processing new packages from incoming. The procedure is basically
this:
You get a daily email report of new packages in Incoming.
You run lintian on them and check for egregious errors, read the
copyright file to see if its
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:04:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously David Welton wrote:
> > Sounds like an interesting idea - are you going to come up with some
> > code to demonstrate how things work?
> If people really want this I guess I could trivially add it to bugscan.
> It already
At 10:55 -0400 1999-09-15, Chris Fearnley wrote:
How does one generate an RSA key using the gpg-rsaref package?
Why on earth would you want to do that?
--
Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http:/
Didn't somebody ITP aterm? What's the status on that?
--
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux developer
GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3
PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE
Good god, Jon is even reading Tom Christianson wrong. Tom said to
integrate responses after the quoted text, whether in whole or in part,
so that it reads like a conversation.
And since Jon is such a big fan of announcing his additions to his kill
file (like anybody else really gives a shit) *plon
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:45:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm sure this has been asked before but after a quick run through the
> subjects I wasn't able to find anything in the list archives regarding
> this issue. Sorry if this is a FAQ.
It is, yes.. =>
> Can someone please let me
There are no packages that have shared X11 libraries built with debugging
symbols, are there? I wouldn't want to ask such a thing of the maintainer,
there are enough complexities in the X packages as it is, but nobody would
happen to have such an libX11.so for libc5 would they?
--
greg
I've been thinking about this for a while, but it always seemed like a crazy
idea. But it seems other people were thinking about it too, and others like
the idea, so I had better post about it.
Wouldn't it be great if all the debian developers could be flown in to a
convention site, get to meet ea
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> http://www.ora.com/catalog/debian/
> I just noticed this page has a book cover for forthcoming "Learning Debian
> GNU/Linux" book from O'Reilly.
> What do people think about the art? Looks like that guy has climed onto a
> bucking bull -- or is it a GNU? -
Steve Dunham wrote:
> All of their Linux books use a rodeo/cowboy theme rather than the
> traditional animal theme. I have no idea why. I kinda prefer the
> animals, but maybe they were running out?
Well I always though it was supposed to be some linux == wild west analogy.
--
see shy jo
Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be
> sufficient:
>
> / 32M
> /var 96M
> swap 32M or more.
> /usr all the rest
> /home is a symlink to /usr/home
> /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp
So what happens to the s
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Didn't somebody ITP aterm? What's the status on that?
Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did package aterm (after sending an ITP). He
asked me to upload his package since he is not a maintainer yet.
However, there were a couple of problems so I did no
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:05:52PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Is this idea worth pursuing?
If you're crazy enough to pursue it, I'd be crazy enough to go to it. I'm
almost positive my instructors would all believe it's a very good thing
and be happy to give me assignments ahead of time or whatnot
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 01:19:24AM -0400, Hugo Haas wrote:
> > Didn't somebody ITP aterm? What's the status on that?
>
> Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did package aterm (after sending an ITP).
> He
> asked me to upload his package since he is not a maintainer yet.
>
> However, there were a
Hallo,
im an c-developer an use Debian two years. I want build
the freeedraft2D package.
Michael Westermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16-Sep-99, 00:05 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Preferably somewhere with a high density of debian developers.
> The California Bay Area (20 some developers with many more
> nearby) and the Netherlands come to mind. We'd need a map of
>
Steve Greenland wrote:
> > I'm figuring around $700 per developer, for plane fare and
> > lodging.
>
> That seems low, but if you've actually looked up some prices, I won't
> argue.
I haven't, what's your guestimate?
> Something you might consider is that colleges and un
So, while DSA is an unpatented algorithm, the implementation in BIND
is not free software any more than the implementation of RSA in BIND
is free software.
You are right. Free software must not have a license that requires
people to obey any country's export controls.
It seems to
Hi John.
I just read your LWN backpage letter, http://lwn.net/1999/0916/backpage.phtml.
I'm the Debian BIND package maintainer. I am aware of no intention on the
part of Debian to undermine the goal of a public key infrastructure centered
on DNS. We simply cannot ship the RSA code in our dist
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wouldn't it be great if all the debian developers could be flown in to a
> convention site, get to meet each other, really tighten up the gpg web of
Great idea. And I will attend if my bank let me do it.
Orelse I should just begin to attend some of the eur
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 04:30:30PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Sven LUTHER said:
>
> > > > > How do you know I don't do just that, via symlinks? I bet you'd
> > > > > never have
> > > > > guessed I have /usr/src/linux symlinked to /sys
> > > >
> > > > OK, now argue it as a standard fo
James Troup wrote:
> Eh, calm down, Joey. I not only can, but should and have decided that
> GnuPG keys must be verified before they enter the keyring, i.e. I'm
> not going to add a random key from a random developer without proof it
> comes from that developer. I'll hope you'll be so kind as to
On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent Martelli
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will you be able
> to uninstall all the packages of a metapackage in one step ?
Certainly not:
- a package can be a member of several meta-p
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> drives. But given they are in such a vast minority, the current scheme of
> providing sensible defaults and popping the installer into a tool for
> creating your own arbitrary partition scheme is really the best.
> (at least, Im ASSUMING we do that t
Is it possible to build 2.0.x kernels under a reasonable
potato build environment ? I tried "make CC=gcc272", but
I still get failures from the assembler, I think.
The 2.2.x kernels are unstable in some situations. With
my AMD K6-2, I get a lockup when tarring a big tree. The
2.0.x kerne
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Wouldn't it be great if all the debian developers could be flown in to a
> convention site, get to meet each other, really tighten up the gpg web of
> trust, attend talks by developers, discuss important issues in person, and
> so on? It would really make us
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Should Debian move to GRUB as our [15]default boot loader?
Joey> After all, since GRUB is used by the Hurd, this would
Joey> standardize the boot system used for Debian Linux and Debian
Joey> Hurd.
Just a passing observat
On 16 Sep 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
> All of their Linux books use a rodeo/cowboy theme rather than the
> traditional animal theme. I have no idea why. I kinda prefer the
> animals, but maybe they were running out?
Last time I asked I got some mutter about `brand pollution' or
something. Perso
> Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joe> How is this different from metapackages? After all, all you have
Joe> to do is look at the metapackage's dependencies itself to see
Joe> what it gives you.
At the beginning they're not much different; if you consider the
metapackages implementation
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
>Is it possible to build 2.0.x kernels under a reasonable
> potato build environment ? I tried "make CC=gcc272", but
> I still get failures from the assembler, I think.
Erm, yeah, I had no problems as I remember. Just apply the
patches mentioned at
On Thu, 1999-09-16 00:38:35 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On the one hand, it's usually cheaper for someone in the US to fly to
> Europe than the reverse. On the other hand, internal Europe flights
> tend to be much more expensive than internal US flights. On the
> gripping hand, trains in Europ
On Wed 15 Sep 1999, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> Is anyone else seeing all this header drivel in everything that Anders
> mails, or have I got something in my gnus setup totally screwed ?
>
> The scattering of 's in the Subject seem somewhat suspicious to me.
Actually, I can't find any Subject in the
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote:
chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
chris>
chris>>Is it possible to build 2.0.x kernels under a reasonable
chris>> potato build environment ? I tried "make CC=gcc272", but
chris>> I still get failures from the assembler, I think.
chris>
chr
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
>The link to suse doesn't work at the moment, but I'll give it a try.
> The blurb at cygnus does not look encouraging. I think it is claiming
> that I have to "to change asm constructs" at various unspecified places
> in the source.
Nah, they're jus
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > All it means is that GPG should be used in a mode where it will not
> > > interoperate with PGP 2.x. This is what Joey's HOWTO recommended more or
> > > less.
> >
> > So correct it.
>
> You seem to want to give it away rather strongly, so I'd be happy to pick
> it up
Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Problem is there ain't an `average developer' in terms of location,
> as far as I can see -- they're all over the place. ;-) I'd
> certainly rather somewhere Scandinavian, probably -- it's nice,
> clean, historic, etc. -- and closer to home.
I'd like to
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote:
chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
chris>
chris>>The link to suse doesn't work at the moment, but I'll give it a try.
chris>> The blurb at cygnus does not look encouraging. I think it is claiming
chris>> that I have to "to change asm cons
* "Laurent" == Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Laurent> Being able to select several packages by selecting a
Laurent> metapackage is very nice, but how will uninstallation be
Laurent> handled ? Will you be able to uninstall all the packages of a
Laurent> metapackage in one step ?
* "
Le Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 01:13:55PM -0500, Justin N. Penney écrivait:
[woa, that's old ... ]
> Just let me know how you want me to send them to you.
Please use the form here :
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/
* Steve Lamb said:
> Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 12:29:30 PM, Anders wrote:
> > Then can you tell me how your three steps are easyer and faster them our
> > one step?
>
> How are you going to get the data on to the drive without a minimum
> installation on it in the first place?
Geez (that'
>>>Paul Slootman wrote:
> especially strange there (besides the fact that he uses X-Face, which I
> thought had died out :-)
I must have misse the first mail, and I have never seen amy problem
exect that my filters for repying on some QP mails sometimes gets wrong
and add nice looking Swedish ch
* Sven LUTHER said:
> > > taken over by most linux distribs these days. on my sun, i have a /opt
> > > but no
> > > /usr/local for example.
> > Correct. Linux distros are generally a mixture of SystemV and BSD standards
> > - see the bootup init methods, for one. /opt is a good thing from the SV
* Steve Lamb said:
> > or /usr/opt, you are implicitly violating the license, since computer Baz
> > has the same /usr tree as Bar. But, when opt is at /opt, it is not shared
> > and such hassles can be avoided (of course, it can be even more easily
> > avoided by staying away from non-free softwar
Hi.
I am now using and prefer the asclassic, and since knghtbrd (the maintainer)
and joel (he is another applicant for asclassic) agreed to my succession,
I take it over. Thanks.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Carter) writes:
> [1 ]
> I have a few packages which are
> "SB" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> On Thursday 16 September 1999, at 2 h 3, the keyboard of Laurent
SB> Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> very nice, but how will uninstallation be handled ? Will you be
>> able to uninstall all the packages of a metapack
> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> * "Laurent" == Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin> wrote:
Martin> * "Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin> wrote:
Laurent> It would also be nice to be able to select the packages on
PHP4 has already beta release. Could someone to package it?
I have doubts about license - "The PHP License, version 2.01",
but I think it is "free license".
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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From slink:
Version: 2.0.7.19981211-6
Installed-Size: 1458
and from potato:
Version: 2.1.2-1
Installed-Size: 4469
It is increased about 3MB!
I think it is not good for minimal distribution (console on
small HDD, libraries without locale, timezone info, nss, etc.)
--
Piotr "Dexter" Roszatyck
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> Previously Frederic CELLA wrote:
> > can i send to them ? (this one the fisrt page of www.debian.org)
>
> The webpage has a postscript version of the logo iirc. This should make
> it trivial for them to produce a 300dpi logo (or whatever other
> resolution they desire)
> BTW, one great thing about Linux is, fsck is incredibly fast compared to BSD
> :-)
You haven't seen soft-updates on FreeBSD, have you?
Hi everybody,
does anybody know if Steve Haslam is still with us (is he in holidays ?) ?
Because he's the maintainer of gnome-core and gnome-libs but source those
packages are not very well maintained. There are some RCB and many,
many bugs. I've mailed him last week but got no answer.
(check http
Hello
Is it possible to import the old RSA key to gpg, and then create
a D/g subkey for signing.
This would leave my signatures in the private keyfile but allowes me
to sign with a non RSA key.
read you,
-christian-
--
Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333
I've built a shell script that runs from a list, extracts source from the
archives, builds the source, and installs the binary packages into a
target CD archives.
I have been able to build several packages with this script, but when I
got to perl-5.004 the build dies in the configure stage with th
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 01:04:01PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> PHP4 has already beta release. Could someone to package it?
>
> I have doubts about license - "The PHP License, version 2.01",
> but I think it is "free license".
>
>
Just as long as php3 doesn't get nuked out of the distro.
Am Mit, 15. Sep, 1999 schrieb Joey Hess:
> Steve Dunham wrote:
> > All of their Linux books use a rodeo/cowboy theme rather than the
> > traditional animal theme. I have no idea why. I kinda prefer the
> > animals, but maybe they were running out?
>
> Well I always though it was supposed to be s
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hmm. Well my two potato systems are slightly different. One just
> compiled 2.0.36 with the patch. But the other one failed with the
> message
> fixed or forbidden register 2 (cx) was spilled for class CREG,
This means that you're not using gcc27
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 01:04:01PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > PHP4 has already beta release. Could someone to package it?
> >
> > I have doubts about license - "The PHP License, version 2.01",
> > but I think it is "free license".
> >
> >
>
Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From slink:
> Version: 2.0.7.19981211-6
> Installed-Size: 1458
> and from potato:
> Version: 2.1.2-1
> Installed-Size: 4469
> It is increased about 3MB!
> I think it is not good for minimal distribution (console on
> small HDD, libraries without loc
>> Wouldn't it be great if all the debian developers could be flown in to a
>> convention site, get to meet each other, really tighten up the gpg web of
>> trust, attend talks by developers, discuss important issues in person, and
>> so on? It would really make us more of a community.
>
>You've bee
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Version: 2.1.2-1
> > Installed-Size: 4469
>
> > It is increased about 3MB!
> It's because the maintainer decided to go against the policy and not strip
> the libraries. This has already been reported as a bug against libc6
> (#40467).
Yes, but libc6
I wrote:
> In the preparation of a package, I've come up against a man page
> made for Red Hat that doesn't process correctly for Debian (at
> least on slink).
>
> The man page defines a table [...]
This is solved. Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me to add
this line at the very top of t
Hi,
I've just upgraded the gmc to the latest potato version, but it still has
the broken /usr/bin/mc script which calls itself recursively. Also, wouln't
it be cleaner if the postinst for this package added an appropriate alias to
the /etc/profile and/or /etc/csh.cshrc (and possibly other global
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If nobody is willing to do it, I'll do it myself.
I'm willing to _help_. I worry that as one works on resolving these
things, one will discover that there's cascading upgrades required...
Mike.
Previously Joseph Carter wrote:
> Install gpg-rsaref.
Please only do that if you live in the US or Canada. The rest of us need
gpg-rsa.
Wichert.
--
==
This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert
Previously Joe Drew wrote:
> Also, I think I read something about dpkg-buildpackage automatically
> choosing gpg when you haven't got a .pgp/secring.pgp - I haven't got
> one, but it still chooses PGP anyways. What's up? (My pgp keyrings
> are in the ~/.gnupg directory)
Weird. Is $HOME correct for
Previously Philip Hands wrote:
> Given that this key only seems to have been signed by Ray Dassen and
> itself
Did you update your keyring recently? I have a bit more signatures:
pub 1024D/2FA3BC2D 1998-07-05 Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sig2FA3BC2D 1998-07-05 Wichert Akkerman <
Hi,
The pam_limits module refuses to disable limits as described in the docs.
It refuses to parse lines like:
grendel -
(where dash is separated with one or more spaces/tabs) - it reports 'invalid
line' for such entries.
It accepts only, e.g.:
grendel - cpu [digit]
Which is o
Does anyone know what's going on here:
lftp :~> debian
Password:
cd ok, cwd=/debian2/private/project/Incoming
lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian2/private/project/Incoming> ls -l rsh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 herbert Debian 26838 Sep 5 09:47
rsh-client_0.10-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 herbert Debian
mdate is funky mayan date program .
ummm, I'll have a test package up tonight sometime on
http://www.debian.org/~darke/mdate-1.0.0beta3-1_i386.deb
its under the GPL and i'll be putting it in the games section
(would this mean i install it under /usr/games ?
Peter Crystal/darkewolf
pgpt7Y7kQ
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Perhaps we should change that so gpg will be used by default if
> $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg exists?
Anounce it first and wait some time. I have a $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg
but my key isn't in the debian keyring (yet).
--
I congratulate you. Happy gol
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:05:52PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Is this idea worth pursuing?
Cool idea. But would it help Debian except of being a big social developer
event ?
Apart from the organizational problems it would only make sense if there's
a track of technical talks about mostly internal
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 03:53:06PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The pam_limits module refuses to disable limits as described in the docs.
> It refuses to parse lines like:
>
> grendel -
>
> (where dash is separated with one or more spaces/tabs) - it reports 'invalid
> line' for such
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 00:02:10 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> Given that this key only seems to have been signed by Ray Dassen and
> itself,
Even with the updates Wichert mentions, the web of trust for Debian GPG keys
is still a lot sparser than the PGP one. I've pointed out one possible
approach
At 14:39 +0200 1999-09-16, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
I also noticed that the gpg-support is in dpkg-buildpackage is currently
broken.
Pardon me? In what manner is it broken?
--
Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAI
At 23:06 +1000 1999-09-16, Herbert Xu wrote:
It's because the maintainer decided to go against the policy and not strip
the libraries. This has already been reported as a bug against
libc6 (#40467).
Learn the fucking difference between strip --strip-debug and strip
--strip-unneeded, you clueless
* "Marek" == Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marek> Also, wouln't it be cleaner if the postinst for this package
Marek> added an appropriate alias to the /etc/profile and/or
Marek> /etc/csh.cshrc (and possibly other global shell startup
Marek> scripts) an alias definition, or a functio
Hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Steve Dunham, Stardate 160999.0113:
> > /var 96M
>
> BTW, your /var might not be big enough to handle an upgrade from slink
> to potato. (Depending on whether the source of the packages is net or
> CD, I think.)
>
That's right, but I think it might be more a 'bug' in apt-ge
* Ben Collins said:
> > It accepts only, e.g.:
> >
> > grendel - cpu [digit]
> >
> > Which is of no use, because setting the limit to 0 doesn't mean disabling
> > it... Any advice? :)
>
> Hmmm...looking at the source, it wont accept a line with less than 4
> arguments,
> yet you
* Martin Bialasinski said:
> Marek> /etc/csh.cshrc (and possibly other global shell startup
> Marek> scripts) an alias definition, or a function to call mc in a way
> Marek> which would preserve the exit path of mc?
>
> No, directly changing files part of other packages is not allowed by
> policy
Hello,
I was wondering if grep/fgrep/egrep are meant to be seperate programs
or, hard links to one binary? If I take a long listing of the *ep files
in /bin, they are all 47616 bytes, but they all only have one file
link. Do you know if they are supposed to be one binary, and the
functionality o
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 04:49:59PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Ben Collins said:
>
> > > It accepts only, e.g.:
> > >
> > > grendel - cpu [digit]
> > >
> > > Which is of no use, because setting the limit to 0 doesn't mean disabling
> > > it... Any advice? :)
> >
> > Hmmm...
* Ben Collins said:
> > > Hmmm...looking at the source, it wont accept a line with less than 4
> > > arguments,
> > > yet you are correct that the documentation say otherwise. Let me work on
> > > this.
> > > I'll have it fixed in the next upload.
> > I have attached a quick (and untested - I di
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:09:05PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Ben Collins said:
>
> > > > Hmmm...looking at the source, it wont accept a line with less than 4
> > > > arguments,
> > > > yet you are correct that the documentation say otherwise. Let me work
> > > > on this.
> > > > I'll hav
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
>chris>Yeah, 2.7.2.* is the canonical compiler for 2.0 kernels. Can you
>chris>post what's actually going wrong?
> I could. The system hangs when I tar and gzip a large directory. I
>get no OOPS or any message in any log. It is hard to see what is
>hap
Thursday, September 16, 1999, 3:23:25 AM, Marek wrote:
>> How are you going to get the data on to the drive without a minimum
>> installation on it in the first place?
> Geez (that's your favorite expression, ain't it?) - you really don't know
> what backups are for.
I know what they are f
This does not sound like fun, but it sounds necessary. How much time
commitment is required? Must "somebody" already be a maintainer?
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Guy Maor wrote:
> Hi, we're looking for somebody to help us with ftp maintainance by
> If this sounds like fun, reply to this email.
>
>
With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for apt that
would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user defined place. This
way, if your /var is close to being full, you could, for example, drop it into a
temporary directory on /home for the upgrade. This isn't the
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