Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.08.0909 +0100]: > > Generally the dpkg-* namespace is reserved for features that are > > intended for integration into dpkg at some point. > > well, by all means then. If dpkg-repack and dpkg-

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.09.2053 +0100]: > > Probably yes on dpkg-repack. Definately not for dpkg-www. Which > > is a sucky name, btw. > > Agreed. However, if dpkg-repack goes into dpkg, why not

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Say, perhaps a "Date:" field could be added to Packages files. > > I mean even dog food has the date stamped on it these days. > > Even my crumby message has a Date: field. > > Sure, as your eyes scan the MD

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > Adam Heath wrote: > > Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I > > mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output. > > > > Ie, multiple input methods: .deb, .rpm, fil

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:51 +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > > Adam Heath wrote: > > > Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I > > > mean, is being able to use it in a filter,

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Ballard wrote: > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > into his shell and refuses to discuss this problem. > > Since his package (and theoretically any package which generates > packages) may be uninstallable because there is no way to

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Ballard wrote: > > > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > > into his shell and refuses to discuss this problem. > > > > Since his package (and theoretical

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:02:40PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > > > into his shell and refuses to

Re: Always run dpkg --dry-run -i before running dpkg -i!

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Sebastian Ley wrote: > * William Ballard wrote: > > [...crap...] > > Do you need the -utils apckage to build the -source package? No. So no Depends > and no Recommends for you. Period. Depends and Recommends have a certain > well-defined meaning and I am greatful that we are no

Re: Bug#293669: ITP: xen -- virtual machine monitor

2005-02-04 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Thomas Wana wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > > * Package name: xen > Version : 2.0.4 > Upstream Author : University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/S

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: xen 2.0.x and debian

2005-02-05 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote: > > > Tom Hibbert wrote: > > > I think we are waiting on 2.6.10 to get accepted into testing. If > > > you're tired of waiting you can build the debs yourself (l

Re: Packaging status of Xen 2.0(.4)

2005-02-07 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Adam, > > how are you? I'm writing again for a Xen 2 update. > > How does the packaging of Xen 2.0(.4) proceed ? I've started myself > the packaging in the hope I can help you with my work. Er, you aren't paying attention. xen 2.0.4 was uploaded sat

Re: Packaging status of Xen 2.0(.4)

2005-02-07 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Adam, > > > It's still sitting in NEW however. > Nice. I've downloaded the 2.0.4-3 packages from people.d.o and created > kernel-image-2.6.10 packages with Xen applied. Everybody who is interesed > in Xen 2.0 can use this APT repository: > > deb http:

Re: what is /.udev for ?

2005-02-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, David Mandelberg wrote: > GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > > ... which would mean that it would become unaccessible (and thus > > meaningless) as the real /var gets mounted later in the boot process. > > You cannot reliably put it under a directory that is not guaranteed to > > be on the

Re: Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

2005-02-14 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Please be so kind and keep the bug number address in the Cc > > Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:24:59PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Is any tetex package installed on the system, and can you give the > >> vers

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:38:08AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > >> Francesco P. Lovergine writes: > >> > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for > >> > either --help

immediate downtime for {master,murphy}.debian.org

2005-02-17 Thread Adam Heath
Due to unforseen hardware issues with other machines we host, we need to take master and murphy offline, install them onto rails. We had planned on scheduling this, but other problematic hardware has forced to do this on short notice. The original rails sent with the machines didn't work in our r

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-22 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > files.downloaded percent > i386 1285422 70.5079 > all 504789 27.6886 > powerpc17754 0.9738 > ia64 10111 0.5546 > sparc 3336 0.1830 > arm 850 0.0466

Re: self-depending packages

2005-03-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho > > | On 20050228T204520+, Andrew Suffield wrote: > | > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:49:41PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > | > > On 20050228T164806+, Andrew Suffield wrote: > | > > > Unfortunately apt breaks the c

Re: self-depending packages

2005-03-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Adam Heath > > | On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > | > apt invokes dpkg on the command line and due to maximum command > | > line length it sometimes is split in an unfortunate place. > | > > |

Re: xend is stopped before xendomains in debs

2005-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > >On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > >>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Henning Glawe wrote: > >>> > >>> Moin, > >>> just discovered a small problem in t

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Paul Hampson wrote: > * timestamp skew means that the autobuilt makefiles will try > to rebuild configure from configure.in even if configure is patched by > dpkg-source at the same time as configure.in > * A solution for this is in the above-mentioned README.Debian New

Re: discussing Debians qualities

2005-03-15 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > > The time it takes to do a release nowadays might very well be related > > to the use of testing. I tend to think we did better before we > > introduced testing. > > Probably. On the other hand, I think that the coverage

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Marc Haber wrote: > >In the archive, 525 out of 283283 .deb's are dpkg-sig'd (0.19%). There > >are 8 distinct keys used for those 525 .deb's, seven of which correspond > >to DD's[1]. > > So, most of the DD's do not care about security at all. Why does > Debian have a reputatio

Re: possible freetype transition; improved library handling needed for all C/C++ packages

2005-11-27 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:37:19PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Due to upstream ABI changes, it looks very likely that libfreetype is > > going to have to undergo a library transition in the near future[0]. > > The details are still being settled, a

Re: Checksumming tool

2005-11-28 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > File: foo%20bar/hellurei.txt > Size: 12345 > MD5: 012345667 > SHA-256: 0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a > Mode: 0644 Checksum: md5: 0123456789[B sha-256: 0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a0a Having the names of the checksums be t

Re: key please

2005-12-04 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, c sojanc wrote: > sir, > i want user name and serial number to install Wildform > Wild fx 3 id10t 42 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > It would require some buildd hacking to get it to use gzip only for > those few debs so more human power. debs are created by debian/rules. So, only dependencies of dpkg would have to be modified. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, you are the expert, i said this, because the > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule script i use in mkvmlinuz and recomended by > debconf-devel says : > > # Redirect standard output to standard error. This prevents common > # mistakes by mak

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-25 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > debs are created by debian/rules. So, only dependencies of dpkg would have > > to > > be modified. > > I was talking about the hypothetical situation of dpkg defaulting to > !gzip compression and adding a Pre-Depends to the dpkg version > requ

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > No, the packages themselves would include such logic in their debian/rules. > > There's no way we'd want to keep buildds in sync with what the set of core > > packages is. > > That would realy defeat the purpose of not having to modify every deb

[OT: HUMOR] Re: stable aliases for CD drives

2005-12-28 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:00:40AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > As you can see, %e will go away soon so /etc/udev/cd-aliases.rules will > > not be supported anymore. > > Some component of debian will have to install a rules file with static > > aliase

Re: Bug#345091: ITP: checkgmail -- Alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds

2005-12-28 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: checkgmail > Version : 1.4 > Upstream Author : Owen Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://checkgmail.sourceforge.net/ > * Li

Re: not getting CCs from the bugs I reported

2005-12-28 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all >I might be acting paranoid here but just want to clarify couple of > things. I was under the impression that, if I report a bug to > bugs.debian.org, any future correspondence on that bug will be CCed to > me automatically. Is this corr

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > To prepare for the eventual removal of makedev, I propose that packages > currently depending on it will add an alternative dependency to udev. > Also, policy should be amended accordingly. Er, why is makedev being removed? Please clue me in. -- To U

Re: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2005-12-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Hi Milan, Jon, > > As discussed, 'the Debian project' as such has huge difficulties accepting > hardware donations - offers are often turned down. (tangent - in my opinion > donations should be accepted more liberally and if the Debian > administrato

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 29, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > To prepare for the eventual removal of makedev, I propose that packages > > Er, why is makedev being removed? Please clue me in. > "Eventual" is the

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 29, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Because /eventually/ it will not be needed anymore (at least by most > > > users, which then will be able to remove it from their systems). > > Is there som

[RESOLVED] Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Dec 29, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Because /eventually/ it will not be needed anymore (at least by most > > > > users, wh

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: > > How does persistance of the permission model work? Can I do chown/chmod on > > the dynamic files in /dev, and have them remain the next time? Even if a > > device node changes it's name? Or do I have to edit some alternative > > database? > > You edit

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's the wrong answer. > > > > What ever happened to standard unix tools? chmod/mkdir/chown/mv? > > > > You're suggesting doing things like some oth

brainfood outage today(master/murphy(lists.debian.org))

2006-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
Today our main router's power supply bit the big one. However, it's back now. Sorry for the inconvience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 1/3/06, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it > > should be together with the rest of base, i believe. > > [...] > > We will have a kernel which is outdated by two

Re: apt-torrent (WAS: Re: apt PARALLELISM)

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Arnaud Kyheng wrote: > > Hello all and Happy New Year, > > > Thanks to George, apt-torrent has been mentioned in the Debian Devel > list :o) > > I've just noticed it, and the fun part of this discovery, is that I also > found why my ISP has closed sianka.free.fr: Too much hits

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? > > No, there's actually three classes: "Simple editors for newbies", > "not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors", and "religions". ae is the religion variety.

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-14 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:00:40PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Since this sort of thing is apparently okay nowadays, and I know that > > a lot of you like looking at lesbians, I'd like to share this with > > you: > > > > http://www.flick

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Joey Hess wrote: > Please consider ALL code written/maintained by me that is present in > Ubuntu and is not bit-identical to code/binaries in Debian to be not > suitable for release with my name on it. Then how would d-i+debconf have gotten some of the enhancments that you yo

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: > > What I find very dissapointing is that mdz asked on debian-devel twice > > for a decision from debian how ubuntu should handle the maintainer Field > > without any luck: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/01/msg00678.html > > http://lists.de

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Debian developers set the Maintainer field to themselves(or a team), when > > they > > upload to Debian. The upstream author is only mentioned in the copyright > > file. > > > > Ubuntu should do something similiar. Set the Maintainer field to someo

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Debian developers set the Maintainer field to themselves(or a team), when > > they > > upload to Debian. The upstream author is only mentioned in the copyright > > file. > > > > Ubuntu should do something similiar. Set the Maintainer field to someo

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Otavio Salvador wrote: > In my point of view, maintainer field just need to be change when > Ubuntu does a non-trivial change on it. Otherwise, at least to me, is > OK to leave the maintainer field unchanged. Directly imported source > (that will be just recompiled by Ubuntu)

Re: make-kpkg fails, Bug?

2006-01-18 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > Hi, > > I just did an upgrade on Sid and an upgrade on Linus tree. Since > then, I can't create a kernel-image. > gcc version 4.0.3 20060115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-7) > Package: kernel-package > Version: 10.032 > > I just would love to

Re: make-kpkg fails, Bug?

2006-01-18 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > >What does /bin/sh point to? > > > > > > > Could you please explain what is exactly what you need to check? ls -l /bin/sh In other words, what does /bin/sh point to? What shell is /bin/sh? bash? zsh(gods no)? posh? dash? -- To UNSUBS

Re: The klik project and Debian

2006-01-19 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There seems to be a fairly good amount of Debian Sarge packages > > available via http://klik.atekon.de/. However, most of them are having > > unmaintained recipes and therefore some of them do not work > > properly. I think

[OT] Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-27 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The point, however, is that it's rather silly to add yet another > scripting language to the set of Essential packages. Sure, it'd be nice; > but then tomorrow someone else will come along who will claim that > Python is sucky and that Ruby is Teh Thin

H.323 status

1997-12-04 Thread Adam Heath
sier way. I plan on having a basic kernel implementation by the end of the year. Wish me luck+ACE- :) Adam Heath of Borg-Linux adam.heath+AEA-usa.net Join the H323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux+ACE- h323-request+AEA-cichlid.com with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/33752

Re: Config file management utility

1997-12-04 Thread Adam Heath
cript, that is run from /etc/crontab. Whenever this script is run, it checks to see if another program is supposed to be run. If so, it does it, then checks to see when the next script is supposed to run. It then remodifies /etc/crontab, updating it's entry, so that it can run the next item.

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-12

1997-12-15 Thread Adam Heath
>Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > mdutils-0.35-5(extra) I have successfully recompiled mdutils for libc6, but will have wait until another day to u/l it. I have to apply to become a maintainer, and I have stayed(sp?) up too late as it is. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian-devel subscriber count

1997-12-16 Thread Adam Heath
, and keep up-to-date on new programs coming out. I also plan on eventually releasing a H.323 proxy in deb format. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me

BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM

1997-12-23 Thread Adam Heath
mouse is locked in the upper left-hand corner. Running "/etc/init.d/gpm restart" fixes it, but svgatextmode should be run earlier in the sequence. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BUG: ncftp segfaults on big screens

1997-12-23 Thread Adam Heath
When I recently upgraded to the lastest svgatextmode in hamm, I started playing around with the config files. I got my display to run at 180x80. Then when I went to run ncftp, it segfaulted. However, at 132x50, it loads and runs fine. Dselect and ae work at that high res, though. Adam

Re: BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM

1997-12-24 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Igor Grobman +ADw-igor+AEA-digicron.com+AD4- To: Adam Heath +ADw-adam.heath+AEA-usa.net+AD4- Cc: Debian Development +ADw-debian-devel+AEA-lists.debian.org+AD4- Date: Tuesday, December 23, 1997 12:37 AM Subject: Re: BUG: SVGATextMode or GPM +AD4APg- I am running

new developer

1997-12-26 Thread Adam Heath
Looking for someone in the Lansing, Michigan, USA area willing to sign my PGP key. Get a maintainable operating system: http://www.debian.org Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
in Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > mdutils-0.35-5(extra) (Adam Heath has a new version ready) Done. Waiting for account on master. > dbview-1.0.3-3 Done. Waiting for account on master. > "Boris D. Beletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > xinetd-2.1.7-3(extra

Re: Should I support xinetd in my Packages?

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
it should convert inetd.conf to xinetd.conf, but not remove inetd.conf. The removal scripts should not touch xinetd.conf. This might mean expanding the options passed to update-inetd, to handle the enhanced xinetd processing. Any additional thoughts, suggestions, flames? I wish I had a life outs

Re[2]: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
.4-27 > Done. Waiting for account on master. >> wu-ftpd-academ-2.4.2.13-0 > Done. Waiting for account on master. >> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> mdutils-0.35-5(extra) (Adam Heath has a new version ready) > Done. Waiting for account on master. >&

Re[2]: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-28

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
k currently), and my computer wasn't doing anything productive. Is this source available? BTW, that line is just part of my quote file. Get a maintainable operating system: http://www.debian.org Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.o

My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I need a master account!

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
/versions since last night. I am currently working on compiling(for adoption) the following packages. majordomo adbbs omirr transproxy Please someone give me an account on master so that I can spread my work to the debian public. Linux vs. Windows is a no-win situation. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL

My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1997-12-31 Thread Adam Heath
, or needed to be compiled for libc6. Some of these packages also close bugs. Get a maintainable operating system: http://www.debian.org Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http

My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
desk_1.0b4-2.1_i386.deb Libc6! 11816 transproxy_0.3-5_i386.deb 110220 wu-ftpd-academ_2.4.2.13-0.1_i386.debLibc6! 90124 wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1_i386.deb Libc6! 88624 xinetd_2.2.1-1_i386.deb Libc6! New upstream version 2B OR NOT 2B=FF Adam Heath of Borg-Li

Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
on't be able to go quite as fast. Please note, I haven't tested all these packages. Mdutils works, and the bugs fixes are correct, and pacman does play and not segfault. Get a maintainable operating system: http://www.debian.org Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323

Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
386.deb Adam>> Libc6! New upstream version > I think I already told you. Xinetd is not orphaned, I am going to > release the libc6 package in a few. Sorry. Didn't remove it from the file. Did you get the new upstream version that I told you about? Get a maintainable operat

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
makes a difference. It is hard to look at a penguin and get angry. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. -- TO UNSUB

Re[2]: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
o it will take a couple of hours more. I have already successfully compiled(last night) libc5 on hamm. I don't, however, have the patch in question. Maybe I could do it. It took about an hour, if I remember correctly. Computers are like air conditioner. Both stop working, if you open win

Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
ficult' programs. I got pacman to work, and omirr also compiles now. I might go back through all the packages that I am doing, in attempt to make the libc6 patches uniform, and to make some type of informal howto(most likely to be used by myself). Get a maintainable operating system: http:

Re[4]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
| On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 8:55:02 PM | Martin wrote about "My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!" > On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 02:46:11PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: >> YEs, that is the whole point. I need to be have an account on m

Re[6]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
ols Conflicts: mdutils Replaces: mdutils Provides: mdutils This way, as I see it, raidtools will have to be installed before mdutils, and when raidtools is installed, it will deselect mdutils. Any problems with this? 2B OR NOT 2B=FF Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323

libc6 is missing "swab"

1998-01-03 Thread Adam Heath
! Strsep, right above it, had text and code associated with it. Needless to say, I did get nfsroot to compile. I copied the function from libc5 into nrprobenet.cc, and it compiles and runs fine. But why doesn't libc6 contain this standard function? I wish I had a life outside Quake. Adam Hea

Re: libc6 is missing "swab"

1998-01-03 Thread Adam Heath
nrprobenet.cc, and it compiles and runs fine. But why doesn't > libc6 > contain this standard function? Sorry. These should all say "swab" Why do keyboards get replaced? Because people run Windows, and they can't hit Bill! Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jo

Re[2]: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-06 Thread Adam Heath
time /etc/init.d/debian.cron runs, it modifies /etc/cron.tab, changing the time that it will next be run at. This might be better handled with some type of alarm program, that will exec another program at a specific time, instead of every so often. Why do keyboards get replaced? Because people ru

icq setup

1998-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
to 4000, not the default automatic selection of ports. Finally, reconnect to the ICQ network to apply the new settings. I'd rather be programming. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://

Linux Kernel list???

1998-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
thought I saw someone write in some email that they would post something on that list, maybe they could help. I wish I had a life outside Quake. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mir

Re: imap4

1998-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
ere I can find this function? I have considered taking it over, as I like the server. If you want, you could send me the diff and dsc files and will try to fix the pw_encrypt problem. Get a maintainable operating system: http://www.debian.org Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the

Re[2]: Linux Kernel list???

1998-01-11 Thread Adam Heath
| On Saturday, 10 January 98, at 5:33:08 AM | Martin wrote about "Linux Kernel list???" > On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 03:41:31PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: >> I was subscribed to linux kernel. I haven't received anything since Dec. >> 29. I >> have tried resubsc

Re: Why isn't /bin/sh managed with alternatives?

1998-04-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Robert Woodcock wrote: > Another idea I got on IRC was providing a --background flag to > start-stop-daemon so that daemons could be started in parallel - this > might have quite an effect on SMP systems, and DNS misconfigs would be > more treatable if sendmail started in the b

Packages depending on essential/required packages

1998-04-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > . >* need mktemp so depend on debianutils >= 1.8 > I notice several packages in my available file that depend on debianutils. As it is essential/required, this doesn't need to be done. This partitcular package isn't in my available yet(still in Incom

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: > > I intend to package the new communicator that allow free redistribution. It > > will go into non-free(no source), but at least the users won't have to > > download the tarball themselves. > > That would be great! I posted a couple weeks ago asking for

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-12 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: > I just uploaded new versions of the netscape3 and netscape4 installers. > They fix all the known bugs. Note that these installers work quite > differently from each other, though that is mostly in the {pre,post}{inst,rm} > scripts. They do have some iden

HELP! Can't compile c++ programs for bo on hamm!

1998-04-13 Thread Adam Heath
I have installed altgcc, and libc5-altdev. I can't find a lib[cg]++-altdev. altgcc contains g++, but there is no c++ library for it to use. Help! I am trying to compile apt for use on bo. apt compiles fine on hamm for me. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Who has the dpkg source tree ?

1998-04-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > It will not have escaped the attention of the Project that dpkg hasn't > been very well maintained of late. > > Klee seems to have dropped out of sight; I presume he's too busy doing > paid work or something. I'm currently very busy with the leadership >

Moving to texas, need isp suggestions

1998-05-09 Thread Adam Heath
I am moving to Texas this weekend. I need some suggestions for isp's in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Someone once sent me an email with a list of isp's, but I lost it. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moving to Texas, watch over my pkgs

1998-05-09 Thread Adam Heath
If any security concerns arise for pkgs, then please u/l nmu of them. Txs. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

2005-01-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Mike Furr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > retitle 292541 ITP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation > thanks. > > Package name: pbzip2 > Version: 0.9 > Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ > Lic

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > > > I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys > > apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of > > circular depending packages (N

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-04-01 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2005-03-27 kello 09:01 +0200, George Danchev kirjoitti: > > I second suggestion given at #250202 and like to see "unpacked" and > > "patched" > > targets to hit Policy 4.8. > > I hear that Adam Heath

Re: Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 10-Apr-05, 10:55 (CDT), Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2005 12:05 AM, Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Expect people to whine. I personally don't see why "@daily" is > > > significantly easier than "0 0

Re: intend-to-implement: script to obtain Debian Source

2005-05-06 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > The new toolset(tentatively called dbs-ng while I'm developing it) supports > > what I call pre-patched source. > > Was this a April-fools joke, or do you have some code that we can look at? While there is no code to look at, xen 2.0(in experi

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:46:33PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote: > >> I agree that the previous mail was not very easy to read, nor written in a > >> great

Re: why so much spam on the devel list?

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > I am subscribed to debian-user, debian-mentors and debian-devel > lists. I am finding that typically debian-devel and debian-mentors is > way more spammed than debian-user. Why is it so? Am I just day dreaming > or is there any reason? Is

Re: Bug#311219: ITP: ipkungfu -- iptables-based Linux firewall

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:53:24PM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: ipkungfu > > Version : 0.5.2 > > Upstream Author : Rocco Sta

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