Re: build dependency alternatives sequencing

2001-09-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:44:37PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > It is possible in the Build-Depends specification of a package to give > > alternatives using syntax like: > > libltdl0-dev | libltdl3-dev > I am starting to believe tha

Re: extra feature for debchange

2001-09-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:20:27 -0400 "Brandon L. Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > * Jason Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > take a look at apt-listchanges > > aha I knew it, yet another apt-* or dpkg-* utility I haven't heard of. I need > to keep more up to date on these things, or thes

uploading to testing ?

2001-09-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Sorry for the obviuos question, I must have missed it somehow. How do I upload to testing? Setting Urgency = High did not help Thanks, Joop

Re: uploading to testing ?

2001-09-10 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 08:24, Joop Stakenborg wrote: > Sorry for the obviuos question, I must have missed it somehow. How do I > upload to testing? Setting Urgency = High did not help > Nevermind. Just got reply from ftp-master. He told me because testing is automated by scripts uploads will b

Re: jabber.deb

2001-09-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:30:54PM +0200, clemens wrote: > where is the icq transport in the debian packages? tere are no transports in the debian server package. I will package msn transport after i have updated the jabber server, not sure if i will package all transports, they seem to mean a lot

Re: jabber.deb

2001-09-10 Thread Scott Dier
* Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010910 02:28]: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:30:54PM +0200, clemens wrote: > > where is the icq transport in the debian packages? > tere are no transports in the debian server package. I will package msn > transport after i have updated the jabber server, not s

Re: Clueless bug reports from autobuilders.

2001-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Hi, > > I am getting more of these bug reports from autobuilders, and I would like > to suggest this. Umh. When the auto-builders came up thiese kind of bug reports were not appreciated and the porters didn't report them, they (espcially Roman, many thanks) reported pr

Re: jabber.deb

2001-09-10 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:05:30AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > * Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010910 02:28]: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:30:54PM +0200, clemens wrote: > > > where is the icq transport in the debian packages? > > tere are no transports in the debian server package. I will p

Re: kswapd eating CPU power ... any ideas why?

2001-09-10 Thread Nick Phillips
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:19:01PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a little project putting Debian on a CD. (Works great so We've done this; not particularly neatly packaged etc., but works fine. If anybody's interested, I'll try to get someone to write it up and/or s

Re: debconf in a chroot

2001-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> > How can I get debconf to run right in a chroot? The problem I have to > > deal with is: > > > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Text > > debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.) > > How are you doing it? I really haven't met this problem. My guess, it might be devfs relat

xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Hey, I have this weird 'problem' I can't figure out what causes this, and I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. I wrote Branden (xfonts-*dpi maintainer) about this, but he hasn't received any other messages about this yet. This is what happens: Each and every time I receive

Re: Clueless bug reports from autobuilders.

2001-09-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit I was feeling really unwell when I have sent the original mail, but I will justify what I have written. > > I am getting more of these bug reports from autobuilders, and I would like > > to suggest this. > > Umh. When the auto-builders came

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:01:30PM +0200, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote: > |dpkg: error processing > |/var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-100dpi_4.1.0-5_all.deb (--install): > | unable to make backup link of > |`./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/lutBS19-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz' before > |installing

Re: extra feature for debchange

2001-09-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > There are currently over 500 Debian-native packages in unstable, and > probably somewhere around 25-50% of these are Debian-specific utilities. It > might be a useful project to investigate these and create an index of them. Or make a Debian

Re: debconf in a chroot

2001-09-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > How are you doing it? I really haven't met this problem. > My guess, it might be devfs related? So, does mounting the devfs inside the chroot work? (Just like mounting the proc inside the chroot). regards, junichi -- [EMAI

Re: debconf in a chroot

2001-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> So, does mounting the devfs inside the chroot work? > > (Just like mounting the proc inside the chroot). Ah, yes, thanks. Doh. Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698 pgpOj9UVeziq

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:22:00AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I wrote a documentation > "How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable". > Have I re-invented the wheel? Well you can probably mention debarchiver too. It is only in testing but it is a nice package (that I have written) so n

Re: Clueless bug reports from autobuilders.

2001-09-10 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:03:41PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa uttered: > > > > call ``madison package'' on auric. > > It needs a shell access. I don't always have shell access to auric. > Use packages.debian.org search page, that'll tell you what is installed. (Yes, it's somewhat like madison.) --

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Hi, Quoting Guus Sliepen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:01:30PM +0200, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) > wrote: > > |Sep 10 11:54:05 replicator kernel: reiserfs_add_entry: Congratulations! > > |we have got hash function screwed up > Really, this is a clear indication that r

Re: Clueless bug reports from autobuilders.

2001-09-10 Thread Christian Surchi
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:00:07PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:03:41PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa uttered: > > > > > > call ``madison package'' on auric. > > > > It needs a shell access. I don't always have shell access to auric. > > > Use packages.debian.org search page,

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Adam Warner
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 22:01, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote: > |Sep 10 11:54:05 replicator kernel: reiserfs_add_entry: Congratulations! > |we have got hash function screwed up So what kernel are you running Sander? There are data corruption bugs in earlier 2.4 kernels. In fstab are you

Re: kswapd eating CPU power ... any ideas why?

2001-09-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:04:30 +0100 Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:19:01PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm working on a little project putting Debian on a CD. (Works great so > > We've done this; not particularly neatly packaged et

[광고] debian-devel님 안녕하십니까?

2001-09-10 Thread 한채옥
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Re: IA64 buildd status ?

2001-09-10 Thread Christoph Martin
Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I see this status at the excuses page: > * sendmail 8.11.6+8.12.0.Beta19-0 (currently 8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-8) >(extra) (high) > + Maintainer: Richard A Nelson (Rick) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > + sendmail uploaded 13 days

Re: build daemon architectures

2001-09-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Randolph" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The Automatic Package Building System page[1] lists the build >> daemons with web pages. It does not list those without, >> however. Since my latest libcdaudio packages are considered >> out of date on i386, I was

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:31:01AM -0700, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > I have seen this problem, on his machine. > Could you show me where he's sending this to Branden ? He mailed me privately; I told him to ask debian-devel. -- G. Branden Robinson| I suspect Linus wrote th

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Wessel Dankers
On 2001-09-11 00:48:12+1200, Adam Warner wrote: > On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 22:01, Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote: > > |Sep 10 11:54:05 replicator kernel: reiserfs_add_entry: Congratulations! > > |we have got hash function screwed up > So what kernel are you running Sander? There are data co

Re: build daemon architectures

2001-09-10 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:59:27AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Randolph" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The Automatic Package Building System page[1] lists the build > >> daemons with web pages. It does not list those without, > >> however. Since my lates

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Quoting Wessel Dankers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > |Sep 10 11:54:05 replicator kernel: reiserfs_add_entry: Congratulations! > > > |we have got hash function screwed up > > So what kernel are you running Sander? There are data corruption bugs in > > earlier 2.4 kernels. > My guess would be that the b

Updated lclint (2.5r)

2001-09-10 Thread Gordon Sadler
I use this at times at work, school, and home. As such I've created some more up to date packages. 2.4b is the only available version in the archives, stable-unstable. 2.4b was released in Apr 98 and the last upload to the archives appears to be Feb 2000. I've emailed the maintainer ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#111889: bsdmainutils: hexdump: manpage says hd is synonym, but it doesn't exist

2001-09-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
severity 111889 whishlist thanks On Sep 10, Ken Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"man hexdump" shows "hd" should also exist, but it doesn't appear to >be there. Simple enough to fix, I suppose. We first have to decide if this is a bug. Do we need another two letters command in the default in

HW Probe

2001-09-10 Thread BERNARDES,JOAN \(Non-HP-Brazil,ex1\)
Hi, I have a question about the Red Hat 7.1 installation CD. It uses XFree86 4.1? How it's possible to run in any video card? Anaconda probe the hw and configure the XServer? I'm doing a similar application in a bootable CD, but I don't know how to probe the

Re: Bug#111889: bsdmainutils: hexdump: manpage says hd is synonym, but it doesn't exist

2001-09-10 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:42:02PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >"man hexdump" shows "hd" should also exist, but it doesn't appear to > >be there. Simple enough to fix, I suppose. > We first have to decide if this is a bug. > Do we need another two letters command in the default installation?

>>>11,000,000 EMAIL ADDRESSES..............

2001-09-10 Thread intspecialistsremovals
Dear debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Would you like to send an Email Advertisement to 11,000,000 PEOPLE DAILY for FREE? === 1) Let's say you... Sell a $24.95 PRODUCT or SERVICE. 2) Let's say you... Broadcast Email to 500,000 PEOPLE DAILY. 3) Let'

debian-announce milestone: 20K!

2001-09-10 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Here's some interesting trivia: the debian-announce mailing list now has more than twenty thousand subscribers. See http://lists.debian.org/stats/ for that and more statistics about our mailing lists[1]. I propose a virtual toast: here's to the twenty thousand, and let's hope that the mailing

Re: [Debian-devel]Compiling Kernel on SPARC 2.2(potato)) -> 2.4.9

2001-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 09 Sep 2001, marc herren wrote: > > I've got the following problem when compiling a new Kernel on my SPARC20 > workstation. > > make vmlinux -> > > ... > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > -Wn

Re: Request for testers for new gphoto package

2001-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 09 Sep 2001, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > I would appreciate it if people (with digital cameras) tested this new > version and sent me some feedback regarding its failure/success. Please > take heed that gphoto is a popular package and Anthony asked for no major > changes in pa

xplanet can use ssystem image file!

2001-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, I know there are lot of xplanet-lover here, and I just discover you can use ssystem file with xplanet! xplanet --window --body mars --image /usr/lib/ssystem/mars.jpg --orthographic (no there aren't any Debian developpers on Mars (yet ?).) BTW this should be in /usr/share/ssystem/mars.j

Re: Request for testers for new gphoto package

2001-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 10 Sep 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > > However, I can't install your package: Removing the partly installed package also doesn't work well: # dpkg --purge gphoto (Reading database ... 44388 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gphoto ... Purging configuration files for gpho

Re: HW Probe

2001-09-10 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi BERNARDES,JOAN! You wrote: > I have a question about the Red Hat 7.1 installation CD. I'm sorry, but Debian is not Redhat. It is, in fact, a completely different Linux distribution. I suggest you seek help in a Redhat newsgroup or mailinglist. Good luck! -- Kind regards, +---

Re: Bug#111889: bsdmainutils: hexdump: manpage says hd is synonym, but it doesn't exist

2001-09-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 10, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >"man hexdump" shows "hd" should also exist, but it doesn't appear to >> >be there. Simple enough to fix, I suppose. >> We first have to decide if this is a bug. >> Do we need another two letters command in the default installation? >

Re: HW Probe

2001-09-10 Thread Mike Markley
What does this have to do with Debian development? On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:53:09PM -0400, BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake forth: > Hi, > I have a question about the Red Hat 7.1 installation CD. > It uses XFree86 4.1? > How it's possible to r

Bug#111910: ITP: libnss-mysql -- NSS library using MySQL

2001-09-10 Thread Guillaume Morin
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libnss-mysql Version : 0.30 (not yet released) Upstream Author : Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nss-mysql * License : GPL, next relea

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > > It's supposed to have support for uploading local messages now, but I > > have never seen it work yet. > > It actually works here! When I first tried isync (version 0.4) I was > dissatisfied because this wasn't working. I wrote Michael Elkins about > it, but never go

Re: debconf in a chroot

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Thomas
I use chroot jails with devfs and it works for me! On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:58:51AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > How can I get debconf to run right in a chroot? The problem I have to > > > deal with is: > > > > > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Text > > > debconf: (This fro

Re: debconf in a chroot

2001-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:24:23AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: > I use chroot jails with devfs and it works for me! Yup, I just forgot to mount /dev. Thanks. Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D

Re: >>>11,000,000 EMAIL ADDRESSES..............

2001-09-10 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:15:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear debian-devel@lists.debian.org, > > > Would you like to send an Email Advertisement to > 11,000,000 PEOPLE DAILY for FREE? > === [snip] > > NOTE: (If you do not already ha