Andreas Gredler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:17:08PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
>> On Sunday 12 June 2005 09:14, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Some older BIOSes don't allow booting from CD-ROM, let alone netbooting or
>>
>> It's easy to solve the problem o
Steve Greenland([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-06-09 10:06:
> I suspect that the problem is that you're confusing "obsolete" with
> "not current". "Obsolete" caries the connotation of "useless except for
> entertainment/hobbiest purposes". For example, steam engine cars are
> obsolete. The 1999 Toyota Cam
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > The basics of the new format are:
> > * Multiple upstream tarballs are supported:
> > * The "Debian Diff" may be replaced by the "Debian Tar":
> > * Bzip2 compression is supported as an alternative to gzip.
>
> As a practical matter,
Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Re: Norbert Preining in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> * Package name: texlive
>> Description : The TeXlive system packaged for debian
>>
>> TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with TeX. It includes all
>> major freely-available TeX-related
ma, 2005-06-13 kello 10:10 +0200, Peter Palfrader kirjoitti:
> Historically we always wanted to be able to use all the source in the
> archive with the tools available in stable. If that policy is still
> true you would be able to use the new features by the time edge releases
> with the new dpkg.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:12:52AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Moin Goswin!
> > Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Donnerstag, den 19. Mai 2005:
> >
> >> IMHO debian-installer in unacceptable as it causes GPL violations.
> >> Interlocking the de
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> astronut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I agree. The type of user who is likely to be using the ifconfig
>> command on a regular basis is the type of user who probably already
>> has sbin in their path. (Power user, sysadmin's nonprivleged
>> account, etc.
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The above is a bit sparce on details of what exactly is the issue here.
> debian-installer builds use udeb's, and work is underway to not only
> keep those udeb's used last, but the udeb's for all d-i builds on the
> mirror network. If a udeb or
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I request assistance with maintaining the mwavem package.
I own a ThinkPad 600 with an Mwave modem inside and I use this
to test the mwavem packages that I prepare. However, I do not use
the machine on a daily basis. If possible I would like help from
someone who
On 13 Jun 2005 10:11:52 +0100, Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > astronut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes. The great majority of users don't want to know about stuff
> > like ifconfig, and those that _do_ can either put /sbin in their
>
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Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - [RFA] bcm4400-source - module source for Broadcom's bcm4400
> > ethernet driver
> > : http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bcm4400-source.html
>
> What problems do you see with the in-kernel b44 driver that y
On 2005-06-12, Goswin von Brederlow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The best way to make multi floppy boot work would be to use initramfs
> with a static C binary linked against klibc that does the prompting
> and loading of the 2nd/3rd/... floppy. That way you can save as much
> space as possible for
On Saturday 11 June 2005 08:34 am, David Weinehall wrote:
> 2.6.25?! The current release pace for the 2.6-kernel is somewhere along
> 2-3 months / kernel. The kernel version now is 2.6.11, but 2.6.12 is
> out any day now, hopefully. Unless there are some radical changes,
> there won't be more th
On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You need to convince either git or GNU Interactive Tools
> to change its name upstream then. Since git is the newcomer
> and its name is already taken (by a GNU project no less!)
> perhaps you could start there.
The existen
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The above is a bit sparce on details of what exactly is the issue here.
> > debian-installer builds use udeb's, and work is underway to not only
> > keep those udeb's use
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >From my reading of your package description for cogito,
> > the name GIT (the version control system) doesn't seem to
> > mean anything in particular. So renaming it would not be
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:46:27AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >From my reading of your package description for cogito,
> > > the name GIT (the version control system)
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:40:10PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Many shell apps/scripts output data in tables, for example ls -l, ps
> aux, top, netstat, etc.
> At the moment, most of these apps use fixed-width columns with a
> variable-width last-column.
> This results in (unnecessary
On 6/13/05, GOMBAS Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are there already any plans to solve these issues?
>
> Yes. The commands you mention were designed for _human_ consumption. Do
> not use them in scripts without good reasons. There are a lot of
The maintainer of netstat didn't want to change
* Gabor ::
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:40:10PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> > Many shell apps/scripts output data in tables, for example ls
> > -l, ps aux, top, netstat, etc. At the moment, most of these
> > apps use fixed-width columns with a variable-width last-column.
> > This
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when i try to print some pdfs, websites, docs and other stuff with 2
"pages per sheet" activated the printer does do its job; just stay
"inactive". at http://localhost:631 in section "completed jobs" the
status of those jobs appears "aborted". if i use 1 "pages p
On Monday 13 June 2005 09.41, frank wrote:
[texlive vs. teTeX]
> Let me add some comments from my point of view (Debian teTeX
> maintainer).
Sounds like packaging texlive and trying to get it really stable would be
the thing to do, with the goal of phasing out teTeX for etch+1
Not becuase I don'
Hi,
On Friday 10 June 2005 04:02, Adam Majer wrote:
> > > woody's kernels are vulnerable to CAN-2004-1235, a uselib() race
> > condition.
> > Will this be fixed for Woody?
> > I thought the plan was to provide security support for Woody for
> > another year?
> AFAIK, there is no security support f
On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What Olaf *really* seems to want is a resource like the new (vapor?)
> Monad shell from MS. Which can be a good thing, if done right, but
> is generally a waste of CPU and memory, if you ask me. As you said,
> there is not a lot of d
I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written...
> On Jun 12, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a very nice Pentium I (my internet gateway) that has a broken
>> CD-drive and no USB (and certainly wouldn't boot from USB even if it had)
>> but that installs perfectly from flopp
I demand that Andreas Gredler may or may not have written...
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:58:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
[snip]
>> Since d-i currently puts the initrd that reads the second floppy (or
>> other USB media) on the boot floppy with the kernel, we either have to
>> shoehorn that initrd
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Probably because there's no solid reason against a symlink.
Yes, and since ip puts one, too, I can do the same.
Greetings
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* Olaf ::
> On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > printf "%-50.50s %d\n", $_, -s $_ for <*.ab>
> >
> > in Perl. The domain is necessary anyway, ie, you have to know
> > Monad to understand the first, you have to know perl to grok the
> > second.
>
> Except that in
Hi,
I've discovered that I can no longer log into wiki.debian.net. When
visiting pages, it informs me that I'm AnonymousUser; when I try to edit a
page, it tells me that the web page doesn't not allow anonymous editing.
However, it doesn't provide a link to log in (or maybe I'm just missing
the
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:05:56 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
[...]
>
> * The "Debian Diff" may be replaced by the "Debian Tar":
> Instead of placing your changes and Debian directory as a patch against
> the upstream tarball in a diff.gz, you may instead ship the Debian
> d
Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2005 09.41, frank wrote:
> [texlive vs. teTeX]
>> Let me add some comments from my point of view (Debian teTeX
>> maintainer).
>
> Sounds like packaging texlive and trying to get it really stable would be
> the thing to do, with the
On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not necessarily. Just as you have "tableout" as an external command
> (built-in or not) in Monad, you can have a Perl module to print
> things in a tabular manner, expanding the column sizes as needed
> (based on HTML::Format::Table
On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, and I withdraw :-) what I said about XML. But *any*
> serialization / deserialization necessary for this scheme to work
> would add (unnecessary) overhead. This and the fact that you would
Well, if you can do it with Perl witho
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:25:22AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:13:16AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
> wrote:
> > to find their own (sometimes flawed) solution to a very common problem.
>
> Years using Linux: 10.
>
> Times I've absolutely needed an X-less b
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* Olaf ::
> On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Yes, and I withdraw :-) what I said about XML. But *any*
> > serialization / deserialization necessary for this scheme to
> > work would add (unnecessary) overhead. This and the fact that
> > you would
>
> Well, if y
> On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Not necessarily. Just as you have "tableout" as an external
> > command (built-in or not) in Monad, you can have a Perl module
> > to print things in a tabular manner, expanding the column sizes
> > as needed (based on HTML::Fo
On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, if you can do it with Perl without overhead, you can of
> > course also do it without Perl without overhead. In that case the
> > 'structured' support would be included
>
> Not exactly. Don't get me wrong, object component
On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are a lot of scripts today in production use that use the
> output of ls, ps, in a text-way. If you want to put another command,
> or another switch to "ls", ok, but the fact that you *can* do it
> does not mean that you *shoul
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:18:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>
> How would these runlevels be "wasted"? We're only talking about the
> default configuration, not about something a system administrator
> couldn't change.
Exactly my point, what impedes an admin to set some defaults wether the
Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've discovered that I can no longer log into wiki.debian.net. When
> visiting pages, it informs me that I'm AnonymousUser; when I try to edit a
> page, it tells me that the web page doesn't not allow anonymous editing.
> However, it doesn't provide a
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:24:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> And anyway ifconfig is deprecated, everybody should always use iproute
> which *is* in /bin.
Why is so?
J
PS: You keep on impressing me how gratiously you use the language:
"Linux kernel 2.4 is obsolete"
"ifconfig is deprecated"
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:39:16PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Hello.
>
> -
- Early start of X, while some other stuff is still loading on the bg.
- get rid of hotplug in its actual incarnation. Is hell of slow and
painful.
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On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:25 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
>why is there a link to logs in /etc?
>
>/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
>
>/etc is supposed to be for configuration files that are static, the
> link to log violates both (
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:25 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >why is there a link to logs in /etc?
> >
> >/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
> > /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
> >
> >/etc is supposed to be for configuration fi
On 6/13/05, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a stupid argument.
It's not that stupid.
If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that.
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On 6/13/05, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's a stupid argument.
>
> It's not that stupid.
But it is.
> If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that.
Use just a *little* bit of common sense.
Oh, wait, c
ma, 2005-06-13 kello 23:56 +0200, Olaf van der Spek kirjoitti:
> On 6/13/05, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's a stupid argument.
>
> It's not that stupid.
> If other files shouldn't be there, the specs should explicitly state that.
The Debian Policy does not, and cannot, have a ru
Jesus Climent writes:
> Exactly my point, what impedes an admin to set some defaults wether the
> system comes as it comes now or with some predefined options and
> settings?
Nothing, except for the fact that most "admins" haven't the foggiest idea
how to do that. Thus the suggestion that the def
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0200, frank wrote:
>
> If we had texlive in Debian, there wouldn't be such pressure. teTeX
> would be updated to the current version shortly after a release, and
> then would stick to that upstream version no matter what happened until
> the next release. And
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:33:42AM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
>
> As AMD64 is unofficial, the URL for downloading the images is slightly
> different to that used for the officially-released sarge
> architectures:
How exactly AMD64 is unofficial (apart for the use of uppercase) ?
Did n
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> A little later than the rest of the architectures, we are now ready to
> announce the availability of CDs (businesscard, netinst and full) and
> DVDs for AMD64.
>
> As AMD64 is unofficial, the URL for downloading the images is slightly
Bill Allombert wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:33:42AM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
>>
>> As AMD64 is unofficial, the URL for downloading the images is slightly
>> different to that used for the officially-released sarge
>> architectures:
>
>How exactly AMD64 is unofficial (apart for
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:10:47AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
> Security.d.o may have been promised, but sarge/amd64 will not be
> hosted within the official archive - Debian did not release amd64 with
> sarge.
>
Good work, Steve. Just building the DVD's now, having downloaded the
jigdo files
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> That said, the Debian Policy document does mandage use of the Filesystem
> Hierarchy Standard (FHS), which in turn describes /etc like this: "/etc
> contains configuration files and directories that are specific to the
> current system". This cannot reaso
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:55:09AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > That said, the Debian Policy document does mandage use of the Filesystem
> > Hierarchy Standard (FHS), which in turn describes /etc like this: "/etc
> > contains configuration files and
Oliver Elphick wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:25 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
why is there a link to logs in /etc?
/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log is a link to
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-7.4-main.log
/etc is supposed to be for configuration files that are static, the
link to log viola
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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:32, Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> ISTM that a non-standard disk format (21 sectors per track and/or more
> tracks) would help - or would this just cause too many problems?
AFAIK it's not possible for the BIOS to boot from a 21 sector track.
I have heard of p
Hi,
Now that sarge has been released it's time to revisit this problem.
Most of the problems revolve around this document:
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html
From my reading of this, I'm not permitted to do such necessary things
such as security patches, and retain the name
[Darren Salt]
> ISTM that a non-standard disk format (21 sectors per track and/or
> more tracks) would help - or would this just cause too many problems?
I think it's safe to assume anyone can boot and read a 1600 kB floppy.
1743 kB is common but possibly problematic.
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