Le Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait:
> This is a bit long, so I'll summarize:
>
> Debconf is a tool that packages can use to ask questions when they are
> installed. It allows various frontends, from dialog, to gtk to web pages
> to be used, and it also allows for no
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I did not yet check/test your work but I'm sure that it's great !
> I wonder if you think that debconf is good/mature enough to be used
> for potato.
Well I've been using it for about a month for just a couple of packages. I
will porbably convert my packages to use it once
Joey Hess wrote:
> 10%? Just a guess. I did a fresh debian install and picked one of the larger
> profiles, and only about 21 packages out of that profile did any prompting.
> (Results in /usr/share/debconf/packages-that-prompt.)
Er, there should be a 'doc' in that path.
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In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl
installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen
from the following list:
Style DateDatetime
---
ISO1999-07-17
Another question -- I realize the proposed API has been out for a while, but
is it possible that the TEXT command could be modified to take a priority?
There are probably notifications that the maintainer scripts could display
which some people would be interested in but many would not, and being
*- On 17 Sep, Joey Hess wrote about "Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber"
> Brian Servis wrote:
>> "This is a small program that I wrote for Linux (which could
>> theoretically compile on pretty much any other UNIX) that
>> automates the extraction of binary attachments from UseNet
>> newsgroups."
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And an updated version is at
> http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO
I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for
inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted to
the Developer's Reference so it c
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Another question -- I realize the proposed API has been out for a while, but
> is it possible that the TEXT command could be modified to take a priority?
Actually, debconf uses a variation on the prposed API, that makes text just
be a variety of ui element, like a boolean
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Brian Mays wrote:
> Perhaps we should keep the last two versions of each branch? In this
> case, 2.0.35, 2.0.36, 2.2.10, and 2.2.12 (which is in Incoming). I
> don't know. Let's see whether anyone objects to just keeping two
> versions around.
That seems reasonable. O
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:22:59PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Anyway, which ftpd in unstable do you see as the package to promote as
> the ftpd of choice in Debian?
Depending on what your needs are, perhaps roxen.
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On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:45:55AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> In order to help remove unnecessary prompts from the Debian PostgreSQLl
> installation script, I want it to guess the local date style, to be chosen
> from the following list:
> [...]
> I propose to include the attached script. If th
A few packages in potato seem to have dependency problems at the moment.
This is by no means an exhausive list. This is just a general heads-up. I
will file bugs with the packages if similar ones have not yet been filed.
emacs20: Depends: liblockfile0 but it is not installable
Depends
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:20:13PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> It's my personal preference that ISO standard be used unless otherwise
> told - but that's me.
I tend to agree. It would just be so simple to have the default be ISO.
As ISO is very unambiguous, I don't think it would cause problems, ei
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:53:43PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hamish> I don't think policy says that contrib is a dumping ground for
> Hamish> crap packages. Can you point out which part to me please?
>
> If you call proftpd crap
> I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast).
I use:
perl -n00e '/xml/i && print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
(to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
Wow.. this seemed the kind of message that I usually skip...
"Why don't we go for a picnic?"
"Let's go to .*World"
... as leaving so far automatically makes me like an outcast.. =)
But you mean getting the money to actually get all Debian together... wow..
that would be interesting...!
S
With Joost's approval, I NMU'd menu the other day. I seem to have broke it
in the process. If you do a large upgrade, you will have 20 or more
update-menus processes all waking up at the same time and competing to run.
I am looking into fixing this as soon as I can, but you might want to put
menu o
>Style DateDatetime
>---
>ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01
>SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST
>POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST
>GERMAN 17.07.
> 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 her
Carey Evans wrote:
>"Oliver Elphick" writes:
>
>> If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if
>> it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone
>> and offset (date '+%Z
Joey Hess wrote:
> With Joost's approval, I NMU'd menu the other day. I seem to have broke it
> in the process. If you do a large upgrade, you will have 20 or more
> update-menus processes all waking up at the same time and competing to run.
> I am looking into fixing this as soon as I can, but you
> Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
> so far.
I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
information
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:22:59PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Anyway, which ftpd in unstable do you see as the package to promote as
> the ftpd of choice in Debian?
>
> Just to see what our alternatives are.
An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
100%, h
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:57:44AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
> 100%, however, it has almost the same status as sendmail - it is a very
> well tested and greatly improved software, for years now.
You're right, it has the
don't go away, i have a "standardising" question for the gurus:
vrweb used a function called name2() that i eventually found in the
libg++2.8.2-dev package in /usr/include/g++-2/generic.h
#define name2(a,b) gEnErIc2(a,b)
#define gEnErIc2(a,b) a ## b
now dselect tells me:
libg++2.8.2-dev - The G
gnome-apt is no longer installable, because it depends on libapt-pkg2.5,
which does not exist.
What's going on?
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am on debian-boot for a long time. The truth is that a lot of people are
> doing small things but nobody leads. No management. No decisions.
I would agree with this. Enrique would probably appreciate someone
taking over management and coordina
Package: general
Version: N/A
example: after purging emacs19, the following occurs:
3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 13:11 # cat /etc/suid.conf | grep emacs
emacs /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail root mail 2755
4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 13:11 # dpkg --purge emacs19
dpkg - warning: ignoring requ
Oliver Elphick wrote:
> gnome-apt is no longer installable, because it depends on libapt-pkg2.5,
> which does not exist.
libapt-pkg2.5 was provided by apt 0.3.11
However, the latest version of apt (0.3.12) provides libapt-pkg2.6
So, if you want to keep gnome-apt, you should put a hold on apt (don
Hello !
I am right now upgrading my debian potato from the mirror ftp.it.debian.org and
at
the same time i am reading about all that troian viruses to be "used" with
win95.
Now, i am trusting the security of my system (nothing so important, right now,
but ...) in the hand of the system admin
Paul Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> header files, but what is the "correct" way to code this functionality? if
> its not in the stdc++ headers, how are people supposed to solve similar
> problems that name2() solved? (even tho its pretty damn simple code).
Speaking without having looked at a
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> reassign 45417 emacs19
Bug#45417: general: Lines referring to package remain in /etc/suid.conf after
purging
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `emacs19'.
> thanks
Stopping processing here.
Please contact me if you need assistance.
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Jon Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to
> discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian.
The primary MTA? does that mean that more than one MTA can be installed on
Debian at once? I thought they all conflicted with eac
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > And an updated version is at
> > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO
>
> I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for
> inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted t
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 10:05:31PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> With Joost's approval, I NMU'd menu the other day. I seem to have broke it
> in the process. If you do a large upgrade, you will have 20 or more
> update-menus processes all waking up at the same time and competing to run.
> I am looking
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:11:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Have you looked at debconf at all? Because..
>
> Scott Barker wrote:
Of course not; people are, sadly, always trying to redesign things they
don't even understand.
I, for one, am delighted to see this tool come to light after years of
Hi,
It seems that Friday's potato upgrade broke libc5. I cannot seem to run any
binaries compiled against libc5 anymore. Unfortunately programs like l3dec
and such cannot be recompiled. Weird thing is libc5 didn't change. Has
anyone else seen this problem on their systems and any ideas where i
> "SW" == Shane Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SW> It seems that Friday's potato upgrade broke libc5. I cannot seem to run any
SW> binaries compiled against libc5 anymore. Unfortunately programs like l3dec
SW> and such cannot be recompiled. Weird thing is libc5 didn't change. Has
SW> a
> "JNH" == Junio Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JNH> The changes between the upgrade I did Friday did not, as far as
JNH> I can tell, involve libc5 nor xlib6. From the diff between
JNH> /var/lib/dpkg/status* file, I did not see anything suspicious,
JNH> maybe other than ldso which was upg
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:11:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Have you looked at debconf at all? Because..
>
> Scott Barker wrote:
> > 1) Separate interactive and non-interactive installation scripts. I suggest
> >that the current debian install scripts should contain *only*
> >non-interati
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 02:13:26PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:11:20PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Have you looked at debconf at all? Because..
> >
> > Scott Barker wrote:
>
> Of course not; people are, sadly, always trying to redesign things they
> don't even unde
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:40:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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.
Unfortunately gpg-rsa is broken. It installs a sh wrapper (yes, sh) that
breaks gpg
Scott Barker wrote:
> My reading of it was that you use the debconf functions from within the
> post-install script. I'm talking about a completely new functionality for the
> packaging system, where a config script is defined, and is not the
> post-install script. I will check again, in case I mis
Scott Barker wrote:
> For your information, I understand just fine. As near as I can tell, debconf
> needs to be run in the post-install scripts, because there is not yet any
> functionality within the packaging system to define a separate config script.
> That extra functionality is what I'm looki
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On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 01:45:55AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in
> /usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if
> it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your timezone
> and offset (date '+%Z
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:25:15PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> > Can't we keep the number down to something more manageable, say 4 at
> > most?
>
> We now have:
>
> kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0.35
> kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.0.36
> kernel-{doc,headers,image,source}-2.2.1
> ker
> I'm not objectionable to a 2.3.x, but I really don't think it's a good
> idea.
Hey...my Debian Ultra SPARC system *loves* the 2.3.x kernel a heck of a lot
better than the 2.2.x strain.
I think that for unstable a version (or 2 depending of needs) of each
kernel tree would be nice...but for s
Robert Vollmert wrote:
>With /bin/sh -> /bin/ash, I get the following error:
>
>guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
>
>It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on
>
>case "$x" in ( SystemV | posix | right )
> ^
>is
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
> With /bin/sh -> /bin/ash, I get the following error:
>
> guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
>
> It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on
>
> case "$x" in ( SystemV | posix |
I have xemacs 21 packages aptable at
"deb http://va.debian.org/~dres xemacs21/". I would appreciate
some people trying them out and seeing what problems you find (please
report directly to me rather than bug tracking system).
Here's known problems:
1) not all elisp packages that compile for xemac
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:50:57PM -0600, Scott Barker wrote:
> Not even a dozen messages into this thread, and already the usual user-bashing
> begins.
I wasn't bashing a user, I was bashing people who levelled criticisms of
debconf before it's even been out 24 hours, and more to the point, befor
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:52:24AM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
> Or a new section for packages removed from main due to bugs, but possibly
> still desired by some people? It's safer to have a clear message that
> "Debian considers these packages to contain too many bugs for inclusion in
> the main
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> * eliminate all dselect acquisition methods aside from apt and
> possibly mountable (for NFS, which apt doesn't handle -- socks
> also not handled by apt but I don't know if we care)
Apt can handle nfs just fine. If you want to mount/unmount the nfs server
when ap
I thought some of you might be interested in a few changes that have been
made to the BTS software...
In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more
general) and it appears to be working.
Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean.
A column was added to http://www.d
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:46:52AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
> Most people I know prefer using the OpenBSD-derived server, because
> it seems to be more stable and less buggy than the rest -- why is
> it being deprecated by Debian (or Herbert, I don't know) in this
> way?
>
The OpenBSD f
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 03:58:02AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
> > so far.
> I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
> must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for t
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 04:09:17PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
> In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more
> general) and it appears to be working.
Oh yeah, indeed :)
> Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean.
Ueber-Cool.
> Bugs are no longer deleted!!! W
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The proliferation of ident daemons (midentd, oidentd, pidentd) in
>> Debian necessitates the introduction of a virtual package that these
>> packages can provide and conflict with (since you can only
>> [reasonably] run one ident daemon at once). While "id
Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Robert Vollmert wrote:
> >With /bin/sh -> /bin/ash, I get the following error:
> >
> >guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
> >
> >It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on
> >
> >case "$x" in ( SystemV | posi
> > > Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
> > > so far.
> > I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
> > must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
> > information
>
> Hmm... the question is why we d
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