Re: dpkg verify mode for security?

1997-05-19 Thread Christoph
And dont forget debmake's debsums command to check the integrity of a package build with debmake. On Tue, 13 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I was asking over Linux-ISP about doing cleanup after breakins and got > > many "use tripwire" answers, and one which says that RPM has a veri

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-20 Thread Christoph
> > *** *** > *** Release of Bo is HOLDING for CRITICAL BUGS!*** > *** *** > *** There is one remaining critical bug that must be resolved before

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-21 Thread Christoph
1 May 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote: > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Have a look at the bug report. I dont know why no one has marked it as > > done yet. There is a file lists in the but report ending in .dpkg-tmp > > evidently from a crash. Dont

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 a bad choice for 1.3

1997-05-22 Thread Christoph
2.0.29 is the proper kernel unless Herbert can assure us that he has fixed all known bugs especially in relationship to networking. On 21 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > Since we know of a number of things that have been broken in 2.0.30 > (such as IP masquerading being totally hosed), why are we

The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-15 Thread Christoph Berg
e trick: Build-Depends: architecture-is-64-bit , That way, people could still build extension packages manually if they really wanted (dpkg-buildpackage -Ppkg.postgresql.32-bit). * Remove postgresql-16 from unstable Comments? Christoph [*] On a side note, 32-bit powerpc did actua

Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-21 Thread Christoph Berg
| ^ 64-bit builds are fine. So we'll definitely proceed with removing 32-bit extensions. Christoph

Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-21 Thread Christoph Berg
ird places that upstream doesn't see because they aren't on 32-bit, and wasting maintainer time here doesn't pay off because there are no users on 32-bit. It's likely just a 1-line fix, but finding that one line would take at least 30min. Christoph

Re: Bug#280900: ITP: tea -- a powerful text editor for GNU/Linux and *BSD

2004-11-12 Thread Christoph Berg
/Linux package description is quite redundant. That leaves us with "text editor" ;-) I'd pick some of the features you mentioned for the description, e.g. "text editor with syntax hilighting, XY and ZW". Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/

Re: Bug#283717: hasciicam: enhance Description

2004-12-01 Thread Christoph Berg
YNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, AUTHOR May I suggest to move the package to non-free then? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/

Re: perl-tk

2004-12-01 Thread Christoph Berg
tp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=wnpp: | #279823: ITA: perl-tk -- Perl module providing the Tk graphics library. | Package: wnpp; Reported by: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Owned by: Michael Schultheiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 26 days old. Christoph --

Re: Evolution 2.x

2004-12-05 Thread Christoph Berg
ere's strace, gdb, ltrace, screenshots, ... Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:40:29PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > I can imagine many of you are thinking, "What difference does it > make if Debian has the support of proprietary software vendors?" > Ok. If attracting ISV and IHV support to Debian isn't a worthwhile > goal in itself, how about helping

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:10:52PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > We would never have a common kernel with these vendors anyway - they No does Debian with itself :P

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:51:15PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > The common core will include a common kernel. See the FAQ at > http://componentizedlinux.org/lsb/: "Importantly, the LCC platform > will include a common kernel, eliminating one of the largest sources > of incompatibilities between Linu

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:34:17AM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 00:44 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Besides that the LCC sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea, passing > > around binaries only makes sense if you can't easily reproduce them from >

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-01 Thread Christoph Berg
m, vino, xscreensaver Maybe you better ask on debian-user? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:37:59PM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote: > The kernel version 2.4.28 is out for almost seven weeks now. > Does anybody know about the status of the corresponding Debian > packages? And is there an estimation for when the kernel-patch-* > packages will support the new kern

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:16:44PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: > 2.6 is still too new as far as most ISVs are concerned, and so Debian > shouldn't lower the priority of work on 2.4 kernels too much just yet, > in my opinion. Debian isn't lowering priority on Linux 2.4 work but individual people are.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> By the way, is there a guide somewhere telling how to switch an > "unstable" system from 2.4 to 2.6? An install of the appropinquate kernel-image package should do it. At least it did for me on various ppc and an x86_64 installed as i386 system.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote: > Yes, converting from devfs to udev is one thing that doesn't seem > to be easy. Another one is the ISDN support. Hasn't that changed > significantly, too? And what's going to happen with /etc/modutils/*, > how much manual tweak

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Paul van der Vlis in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You will understand that my most important point is security-support. ...which Debian provides for its stable distribution at any time, even if the last stable release was ages ago. How does a fixed release date help there? Christoph -

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:11:44AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > OK, exactly what are YOU NOT DOING, now? Come on, I know you CAN'T be > that busy. You only maintain a few trivial packages... come on you could > NMU the kernel-source-2.[4|6] fixing all th issues. No need to MMU. The debian-kern

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:23:18PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:02:25PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Converting to udev is an additional step, and caused me a lot more > > work than the basic 2.6 upgrade (mostly getting my head around it, and > > converting from usbmg

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:33:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > AOL. magicdev works just fine to do essentially the same thing as > gnome-volume-manager. I don't use magicdev either. I really prefer to mount my storage device myself. Call me a control-freak.

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

2005-01-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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 discuss this problem. Btw, could anyone explain why ndiswrapper is in main? It's only use is to run propritary windows drivers

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Thing> has a release cycle that's not compatible with a 6 month release > period"? Say GNOME or KDE? Well, gets in the next > release. So simple. We are known for missing upstream releases by a > hair (sarge is almost c

upgrading mysql (Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure)

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Berg
. It > > does not clear Christoph's problematic architecture. > > This is the only warning shown on my system when installing woody > mysqlclient on sarge glibc, and is the only major ABI regression of this > kind I'm aware of between woody and sarge glibc. Unless Christoph

Re: mkchroot scripts

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Berg
at's the difference to makejail and debootstrap? > PS: please cc comments to me. I don't subscribed for list. Tell your MUA to create M-F-T headers. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-04 Thread Christoph Berg
ve to turn on tcp listening if you don't want to use ssh X11 forwarding or similar.) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:50:27PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying > changes if necessary. Wireless interfaces should be called wlan%d, not > eth%d, and upstream doesn't want to change because "There are fewer > compatability issue

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:24:25PM -0800, Oliver Kurth wrote: > Wrong. > - the orinoco drivers use eth > - the hostap drivers use wlan > - madwifi uses ath > - at76c503 uses wlan none of the drivers you mention as not using eth%d are in mainline. And they'll get fixed before merge. > It seems tha

Re: php 4.1 => 4.3

2005-02-10 Thread Christoph Berg
g sarge/main Packages 600 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sid/main Packages 4:4.1.2-7.0.1 0 700 http://ftp2.de.debian.org woody/main Packages Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ITO: xkeycaps

2005-02-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I intend to orphan xkeycaps. > > If you are interested in taking over this package, do let me know. I'm using this package and I'd take it. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

2005-02-21 Thread Christoph Berg
27;d say this is way to small to justify a package for it. Did you try to contact the tar maintainer to get it included there? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

2005-02-21 Thread Christoph Berg
mmand-line-tools" package. rsync has progress bars, even when used locally. (for copying files, no idea about moving - there's a reason there are file managers out there like endeavour2 etc.) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#296742: ITP: aspell-de-alt -- German dictionary for aspell (old spelling)

2005-02-24 Thread Christoph Berg
icense : GPL v2 Description : German dictionary for aspell (old spelling) This is the German - Old Spelling dictionary for Aspell. It requires Aspell version 0.60 or better. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: list of packages on private website

2005-02-25 Thread Christoph Berg
some of > you have already similar lists on your websites. I tried this myself, but gave up eventually ;-) Just put a link there to your QA page. Otherwise, try something like $ grep-available -FMaintainer fenio -sPackage (Don't forget "dselect update" before.) Christo

Re: dh_movefiles, tar vs. mv

2005-02-25 Thread Christoph Berg
rom the back or shift > the whole file back a block at a time and then truncate it). I doubt that any subdirs of a package build directory will ever be on a different mount point than the directory itself ;-) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-02-28 Thread Christoph Berg
lsinki.fi/u/penberg/duhdraw/ > * License : GNU Copyleft > Description : A ANSI Editor for Linux similar to TheDraw. What's the difference between the two? Do we really need both? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Michael Koch in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > is "rm /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm" not easy enough for you ? Please don't recommend rm'ing the S* links. Rename them to K* instead or else they will be recreated on the next upgrade. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Berg
al no-X booting, e.g. for debugging. But then there's still single user mode for that, so "wasting" a whole runlevel for it doesn't seem so useful. The "nox" boot parameter seems much less intrusive. Who's going to file the wishlist bugs? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#297637: ITP: html2latex -- HTML to LaTeX conversor

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: y in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi "y", please use your real name to report bugs, *especially* wnpp bugs. It feels very strange to imagine "y" maintaining Debian packages... Christoph --

Re: Squid logrotate fails and Postfix could not send message after dist-upgrade

2005-03-03 Thread Christoph Berg
e to provide useful input for debugging by replying to the bug report. (NB: The proper list to ask on is debian-users.) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dehs will stop

2005-03-06 Thread Christoph Berg
right thing before you submit the reports? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?

2005-03-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:41:27PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > When you install an alsa-modules package for the 2.4 kernel, you get > alsa-base per the dependencies. However, when you install sarge with a > 2.6 kernel, alsa-base doesn't end up being installed. It's not a depency in any way.

ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Christoph Berg
ew this as a negative thing. I'd propose to use a less "discriminating" name for the scc archive. What about ports.debian.org (which coincidentally already exists and http-wise points to http://www.debian.org/ports/)? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Christoph Berg
the Debian dictionary. "ports" just means what scc was meant for: Debian has been ported these architectures, but it's not the mainline releases. (The BSD "ports" use the same name for non-mainline packages, so that fits.) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Querying the BTS

2005-11-16 Thread Christoph Haas
ntage > that it can stay, even if the ldap-server moves once again :), port is > 10101. A quick test revealed that this interface works. Regards Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%--1,48 All -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-11-23 Thread Christoph Berg
etype-without-builddeps.txt Here's that list again, regenerated today with the command from [6], and piped through dd-list. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ Anibal Avelar (Fixxxer) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> idesk Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: awstats configuration and installation

2005-12-05 Thread Christoph Haas
ot the maintainer of awstats but I would like to ask to you send your work to the maintainer directly or file a wishlist bug through the "reportbug" tool. Regards Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 2 lines --100%--2,41 All -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:53:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > numactl > only supports i386 amd64 ia64 > appears to assume intel-style stuff, would need major redesign > for other architectures There's nothing intel-specific in here, rather it assumes NUMA support in the kernel

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:03:37PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > 1. POSIX (or at least SuS v3) does not gaurentee the existence of /dev/shm, > or that if it does exist, that it can be be read as a block device, or that > if it can, it has a file system on it. > 2. Neither does FHS. > 3. The Linux 2.6

Re: packages for sale

2006-01-10 Thread Christoph Haas
quest on the WNPP (bugs.debian.org/wnpp) then you should retitle it to "ITA" [1]. If there is none... well, package it and send an "RFS" (request for sponsorship) to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Christoph [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html -- Never trust

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Thomas Viehmann in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Really, how about just automatically[1] removing orphaned packages > without maintained rdepends from testing? Seconded. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: For those who care about lesbians

2006-01-15 Thread Christoph Haas
27;t state that the "image" was offensive. Rather the "deliberate off-topicness" was. It could have dealt with any other not-even-remotely-connected-to-Debian topic and would have been equally inappropriate there. Christoph -- Never trust a system administrator who wears a

Re: BTS LDAP interface (or something) broken?

2006-02-02 Thread Christoph Berg
ago that he's moving some of his servers around, this could be > related. The bts2ldap fullindex on merkel only lists some 4000 bugs, so that's indeed the cause for the pts/ddpo/etc to list so few bugs. This is being investigated, though there no ETA for the fix yet. Christop

Re: katie complains about .changes not signed by PGP/GnuPG

2006-02-09 Thread Christoph Berg
the .changes to see if it's valid and signed. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#352064: ITP: wormux -- A clone of the Worms game

2006-02-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Luca Capello in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So, simple question: why not re-open the ancient ITP, instead of a new > one? ;-) You cannot reopen archived bugs. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recommending an image viewer

2006-02-14 Thread Christoph Berg
packages to the ftp-masters is unchanged. (Who are free to skip packages for later processing.) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: X installation trouble report

2006-03-06 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Daniel Haude in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > again I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but let me ask anyway. Please don't hijack random threads. Start a new one. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian developer

2006-03-10 Thread Christoph Haas
few people because they can easily decide that your skills are welcome to Debian. The advocate can only be someone who knows you (virtually). So you better ask them then. I still mean that your contribution is mostly welcome. Just that the contribution and the fun of contributing itself should pe

Re: the ncurses "brushfire" -- anybody want to take over the project?

1997-06-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
: And you have, I believe, stated that you are unwilling to see ncurses : released with a license that guarantees redistribution or modified : versions at this time. : How do we resolve this issue? A. Find an curses library that works. Ncurses not only has a licence problem but as far as I can s

Re: security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: >Questions: >1) What is /var/lib/netplan used for? It seems to me that the only > directory that is needed for netplan is /usr/lib/plan/netplan.dir. I cannot remember why this was needed. There are multiple binaries running though. One for the client a

Re: How do we encourage bug reports?

1997-06-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Thomas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > How do we encourage users to submit more bug reports when something : > goes wrong? : Perhaps the `bug' package should be priority standard? It does make : bug reporting much easier. Some reference in prom

Re: mgetty Needs Maintainer!

1997-06-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
: > Anyway I thought that Chrisoph Lameter is the maintainer of mgetty : > as the most recent uploads come from him. Is there an imposter around? My last upload must have been half a year ago or so. Maybe someone just forgot to change the maintainer name again. -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- ++

Re: Bug#10516: gs-aladdin: Depends on svgalib1 (>= 1.210-1) which does not allow svgalib-dummy to fulfill the dependency

1997-06-12 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: >> Sorry but this is stable bug. And its significant for people running Bo as >> a webserver etc which usually does not have a display or even a video >> board. I have a series of those machine that I maintain. > >You mean, they have gs installed, but no

Re: mgetty-voice

1997-06-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
mgetty-voice was removed from the distribution because of the explicit demand of the author. Please ask him before putting mgetty-voice back into the distribution. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Greetings! I've been reading here recently about the mgetty package : looking for a new

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
Sourcecode is available for chos and it has been GPLed by the author after several people talked with him (among them me on behalf of Debian). On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote: > > >On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote: >> > Also we might think about replacing lilo with chos as the standard boo

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote: >speaking of which. if I packaged up fetchpop, could it get included in >debian? I much prefer it to fetchmail. if only fetchmail had a -o or a >localfolder option! Also, fetchpop guides you thru creation of the >appropriate config file the first time you r

Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim should be the standard mailer for hamm: - Exim is based on the same concepts as smail. - It is developed with newer concepts in mind - Exim is scalable from running from inetd to delivering hundredths of thousands of messages a

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-16 Thread Christoph Lameter
Exim can provide UUCP capabilities. It cannot do bang path routing. I doubt that anyone is using that though. -- > From: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos stand

Re: Looking for New Maintainers

1997-06-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
Ok. You got woffle. Boa is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] but he might want some help. On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > >Some time ago this message showed up on my mailbox... If nobody >has yes taken it, I will be glad to take over wwwoffle and boa >as my first debian packages

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
I dont know if I already said this but exim does not support bangpaths but domainized uucp is no problem. On 14 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: >Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim sh

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
: > Mailboxes are locked using the username.lock lockfile convention, rather : > than fcntl, flock or lockf. : This is buggy since it's not working over NFS. (I'm running into problems : every few days since I use sendmail/procmail/pine over a NFS mounted : /var/spool/mail !) I am using exim/exi

Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard

1997-06-21 Thread Christoph Lameter
Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the prompt and also the ability to boot something with a single keystroke. If someone could update the lilo package and provide a decent configuration then lilo could also offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies are no longer irritated. Maybe

Re: Looking for New Maintainers

1997-06-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
Does not need any work. Please take the package, put your name in as a maintainer and upload it. I wont consider this a done deal until the package has your name in it. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, David Welton wrote: >On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > >| I am listed as the main

Re: Anyone using transparent proxying?

1997-06-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
2.0.31-2 does redirect traffic but does not change the port number. I am really getting sick of the way the 2.0.X series is handled. There are buggy releases but no fixed releases coming. I am considering moving to 2.1.X but then 2.1.X does not have all the features 2.0.X has. What a crazy situat

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
Also check with Philip Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] who has done a significant amount of research on that issue for exim. The locking code in exim is probably the newest, most up to date code I know. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : After all the talk about NFS lockfiles etc, and checking ou

Re: Uploaded ppp 2.2.0f-26 (source i386) to master

1997-06-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
>> It is customary to expect TCP/IP connectivity from Unix boxes but >> Novell Networking is something optional not regular. > >Absolutely --- The default /etc/ppp/options file disables IPX. > >Are you saying that this is not enough, and the user should have to recompile >pppd to get the IPX funct

Re: Use of suidmanager

1997-06-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Could anyone please tell me the advantages of suidmanager as it is right : now? I can see the usefullness of a tool like that, but I wonder if there : should be a daily test run to make sure no other file are suid. Or is this : dones elsewhere? Not all p

RE: Use of suidmanager

1997-06-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote: >But that means we have to add all permission since all are configurable. >Isn't it a better idea to save the standard setting only for those >programs that are setuid by default? I am not sure that I understand this. /etc/suid.conf contains permission

RE: Use of suidmanager

1997-06-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
en >Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 >Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10 > >>-Original Message- >>From: Christoph Lameter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 1997 4:51 PM >>To: Michael

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-27 Thread Christoph Lameter
This was discussed half a year ago and the webservers were fitted with on the fly decompression for .gz files. What dwww does is already not necessary. Changing the content of .html files might lead to problems with web browsers. Not all platforms have a gzip by default available. Please do not do

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-27 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >Christoph Lameter: >> This was discussed half a year ago and the webservers were fitted >> with on the fly decompression for .gz files. > >For the umpteenth time, that DOES NOT HELP WHEN THE USER IS READING >THE FILES DIRECT

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
: Christoph Lameter: : > Web browsers are small. Dont think instantly of Apache. : I assume you meant web servers. They may be small, but they : make things slow. Unacceptably slow, unless you have a fast : machine. 200Mhz Pentiums are the standard fare today. And I am running the boa webser

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
: (Anyeay, even fast machines may be unable to run a web server, : if they need to be secure. Running extra daemons is insecure.) Running a web-broser on the machine may also be insecure. If you run a 8Meg binary on the machine anyways what an issue could 150K for a webserver be? : > The big issu

Re: How about e2compr? Was: fixhrefgz debate

1997-06-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Christoph> You want me to run around Campus installing gzip on 300 machines : Christoph> because those users are not able to? : Don't worry: gzip is part of the base system. Your word needs to be in Microsoft's and Apple&

Re: How about e2compr? Was: fixhrefgz debate

1997-06-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
: I don't get it -- why would we care if gzip is anywhere *other* than : the debian base system? It's not like there's any way (yet) to : install/extract these packages on a mac, though you can sort of hack : them open on a win32 box. We're concerned with users who *have : actually installed debi

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > >Hi! > >Christoph, please tell us why using "fixhrefgz" on "html.gz" files does >not work with our web servers. Please read the other posts. >As far as I have understood, these web servers are so int

Lars leaving again

1997-06-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
: Christoph Lameter: : > There are just the elect few who can handle X. : This comes from the man that says it's OK to require people : to have Pentium 200's... I'm sorry, but I can't really stand : idiots, especially ones who grasp any straw they can in order : t

fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayRe:

1997-06-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
f the Debian realm. > >Why? The files are called ".html.gz" in the file system. Thus, these links >are valid. We only have to implement on-the-fly decompression on some web >servers. (This functionality could be useful for others, too, so we could >forward our patches to the ups

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: >So here's my stand: > >- let's munch up the links to point to ".html.gz" files. Ugly, I know, > and a bit of work, but then we don't need to force people to install a > web server. I think it's pretty important that we don't force people > to run stuff th

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 29 Jun 1997, Marco Budde wrote: >CL> Why would you change the links? I dont understand. If you are fixing the >CL> web-browsers then do it in such a way that you do not need to change any >CL> links. > >You can't fix the browsers, because we don't have the source for important >browsers like

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
7;s extra work for the developers, and error prone too > - I think Lars was advocating this, and I was too This wont work as we already have said again and again. You are modifying the HTTP protocol with this and creating a new .html.gz extension in essence. And sometimes the web browser w

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Christoph> This wont work as we already have said again and >Christoph> again. You are modifying the HTTP protocol with this >

Re: fiat mode on regarding WWW and documentation

1997-06-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: >On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> This is a non-standard extension of the http protocol! > >This is a pretty silly argument. The web server has complete control over >how a compressed document is presented. It can se

Vision of new installation method using webserver

1997-06-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
Since we were talking about including a web-server in the base system here some thoughts. I often maintain headless servers. I always have to attach a screen for the initial install or if something is seriously wrong with the machine. Lets say I have a new machine fine tuned by the dealer (who pu

Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bruce or Pete: please make an executive decision that our mailing > lists are not to be gatewayed to generally-distributed newsgroups. > > Alternatively, Christoph could just stop, but I doubt he will. > > Ian. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: libc6 based gpc

1998-01-06 Thread Christoph Lameter
No. Someone else will probably do so. I am not using pascal at all right now. On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Paolo M. Pumilia wrote: > Hi Christoph Lameter, > I am switching my linux system to hamm. > Since gcc upgraded to 2.7.2.3, it seems i cannot use > my old gpc compiler any more. Do

Re: 19980407 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-04-08 Thread Christoph Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Packages someone could package for Debian 2.1 > * A pdftex package, for a version of TeX/LaTeX which directly >generates PDF. > pdftex is a part of tetex-0.9 which just made its way to master. Christoph -- To UNS

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