Where's the SCSI support in Debian?

pport all SCSI-adapters that are supported by Linux. I got my machine to run Linux using the Slackware distribution and it works like a charm so there are Linux drivers for my Buslogic. Howcome Debian doesn't have these compiled into the kernel? Cooper -- "FUCK the Spice Girls!"

Re: Where's the SCSI support in Debian?

Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > On Mon 08 Dec 1997, Cooper wrote: > > I've tried installing Debian on my machine via a 24-speed Pioneer CD-ROM > > attached to my Buslogic SCSI Flashpoint LT adapter. > > Imagine my surprise when the machine told me that there was no CD-ROM

approx (was Re: apt-proxy)

rs) in the cache, just the downloaded files themselves. Apt-cacher has more flexibility in name mapping, and can integrate (or not) with an existing webserver. Is that a fair comparison? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

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Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

in-source maintainer(s) will also join the party. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

advice needed on handling network port conflicts

e for them to coexist (just difficult in their default configurations). Any suggestions or policy pointers here would be appreciated. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

Supersedes:", "Takes-Over:", "Drop-In Replaces:", > "Follows:" ? Since there should be a unique replacement that old and new package maintainer(s) agree on, I think the old package (the one being replaced) should have the header. (Perhaps "Replaced-By:"

Re: tpkg-debarch should support "arm-linux-gnu" target (was Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain)

This thread suggests that it's time for toolchain-source to be retired: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2006/07/msg00068.html If not, perhaps some documentation pointing to this alternative method of building cross tools should be added to the toolchain-source package. -- Eric C

cleaning up lib*-dev packages?

ool I should be using? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#378938: ITP: ocaml-sha1 -- SHA1 binding for OCaml

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-sha1 Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Vincent Hanquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tab.snarc.org/download/ocaml/ocaml_sha1-0.4.tar.bz2 * License

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

ler? Perhaps a confusion of "evaporate" with "condense"? (Maybe the thermodynamic equivalent of an "off by 1" error? :-) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#315945: seyon does not work when gnome-terminal is installed

-terminal (see /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper). So it's reasonable to file a bug against it for better option-munging to handle this case. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-proxy

od alternative? I wrote approx for exactly this purpose. It's now in testing. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bug closing etiquette

Suppose someone has reported a bug that the maintainer can't reproduce, but the reporter can. Is it reasonable for the maintainer to email the reporter and ask whether a new version fixes the problem, or is that considered obnoxious? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -

Bug#462602: ITP: eeepc-acpi-source -- source for Eee PC ACPI module

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: eeepc-acpi-source Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ecc/eeepc-acpi_1.0.tar.gz * License : GPL

Re: Bug#462602: ITP: eeepc-acpi-source -- source for Eee PC ACPI module

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > What is the Linux upstream status of this module? At Riku Voipio's suggestion, I emailed the linux-acpi email list this morning about it. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Bug#463584: ITP: rubyripper -- an open-source secure ripper for Linux

, but I think what is intended is "extremely careful about obtaining an accurate copy of the audio data". -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

and installs. So as long as there are no keys from rogue repositories in apt's keyring, it should be fine. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

on browser. Another approach might be to add some more advanced filtering or narrowing to dhelp, etc. but that requires duplicated effort in all the clients of doc-base; and rolling our own tool, like perldoc, is the least attractive. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

and have some kind of tag-based document registration and browsing, rather than trying to define the One True Hierarchy. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian archive integrity check tool?

ifying sizes and checksums agaiings Packages/Sources files, and also removes .debs that are unreachable from those files. It would require only a little modification to run on a real archive, rather than approx's cache. I can help with that if you'd like. -- Eric Cooper e c

how should a daemon drop privileges in a PAM-compatible way?

can't use an su wrapper, because the daemon needs to do some privileged things initially. Is there a high level function to "change userid, groupid and do the related PAM things" that I can use, or example code I can use? Thanks for any pointers. -- Eric Cooper

Re: Draft new policy document format

T tool; the various policies would be encoded as individual XML entities with a more semantically appropriate schema (TBD, I guess). -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#597228: ITP: minidlna -- server for DLNA/UPnP-AV clients

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper * Package name: minidlna Version : 1.0.18-1 Upstream Author : Justin Maggard * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna * License : GPL and BSD Programming Lang: C Description : server for DLNA

"Folio" file types / AS Physics

Hi, Does anyone know how to read a "folio" file under linux/debian? The file extension is a nfo. I needed it as the new AS Physics Course now comes with the text book on a CD. It uses, yes you guessed it, a windows based program, called "Folio Views", and well I don't want to spend any more time u

/var/lib/dpkg/status file woes

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Sponsor for phpSysInfo

scsi, etc... via php, with support for different themes and languages. -- Thanks, -- -0) Hereward Cooper Somerset, UK /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1E1D0C80 zadok.ddts.net

Sponsor for gkrellm-newsticker

ebian planet on your gkrellm system bar. It has support for the common RDF news format. -- Thanks, -- -0) Hereward Cooper Somerset, UK /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1E1

Re: ITP: vls -- the VideoLAN MPEG broadcasting server

/videolan/vls/0.3.1/deb/vls_0.3.1-1_i386.deb http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vls/0.3.1/deb/vls-dvd_0.3.1-1_i386.deb Though they could do with being put in the archive and ported. -- Thanks, ------ -0) Hereward Cooper"Bei

Re: Debian Animation ;)

riding it? How long did it take to render? I really should start doing PovRay animations rather than just pictures :) -- Thanks, ---- -0) Hereward Cooper "Being Alone Draws Attention" Somerset, UK/\\ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

ry sensible to jettison all the code for opening sockets, binding ports, handling IPv6, handling tcp-wrappers, daemonizing processes, etc. and punt it to inetd. Since apt clients keep their connections open for many multiple, the performance hit is negligible. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m

Proposal to avoid executable naming conflicts (was: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters)

I just union-mounted them in alphabetical order, but in the case of conflicts it would be easy to use a site-specific prioritization, analagous to mailcap.order, to control the shadowing. My apologies if this has already been proposed and rejected before. Cheers, Eric -- Eric Cooper

Re: Proposal to avoid executable naming conflicts (was: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters)

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:57:02AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:31:12AM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > > Since Debian package names must already be unique, we ought to be able > > to leverage that to avoid having to fight over which package gets to > &g

Re: debconf and perl : how to use it ?

t (I don't know where the redirection goes...) I tried a print in an open file, and it works. Hope this will be archived and help some peoples. Regards L. Le 5 avr. 2012 à 10:17, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 17:01:25 laurent COOPER wrote: >> what did I mis

debconf and perl : how to use it ?

nch usually, so if you can make a CC for me) -- laurent COOPER CARMI Internet de l'académie de Grenoble Equipe SLIS, B2I, C2I1 laur...@ac-grenoble.fr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Golang >= 1.12 in Buster?

ang-112-removed-from-testing/ Go has a very strong commitment to backward compatibility. Please remove the older versions, not the new one. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Debian distribution

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:44 AM Kyle Edwards wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 10:22 +, Javeed Ahmed wrote: > > sir/madam > > can i make my own os using debian as a base and distribute it? > > Absolutely! Debian is free software, and you are free to use, modify, > and distribute it for any pur

Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages

ce in the Debian archives, without "exporting" them via .deb files, Packages entries, etc. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

modify the set of installed packages, either way. Indeed, from apt-get(8), under "upgrade": "under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed." -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Running tests with xvfb

org.conf with the "dummy" driver instead of xvfb? I use a "with-dummy-xserver" wrapper script for situations like that. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u