Re: Bug#353381: ITP: freebsd-manpages -- Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system

2006-02-21 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Weinehall: > > >> Upstream includes non-free manpages these days, so in reality, we have > >> already forked. Further Debian-specific changes are needed to address > >> bugs such as #29521

Bug#353941: ITP: xserver-xair -- X Server Featuring Accelerated Indirect Rendering

2006-02-21 Thread David Nusinow
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xserver-xair Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : X.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org * License : MIT/X Description : X Serv

Re: Bug#353941: ITP: xserver-xair -- X Server Featuring Accelerated Indirect Rendering

2006-02-21 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:53:30PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: xserver-xair > Version : 1.0.1 > Upstream Author : X.org <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Marking BTS spam

2006-02-22 Thread David Weinehall
r > email and send in 'bug reports' on their @debian.org mailing lists. > Cheers, > Kev echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > .forward+debian-devel +debian-devel). Whoops goes the entire list... =) Regards: David Weinehal

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)

2006-02-28 Thread David Weinehall
e might even work with 4k too), but some do, thus you need to patch the kernel to provide 16k stacks (this is really bad for other reasons). Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~ // Diamond-

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-02-28 Thread David Goodenough
, and I will > orphan the gnome-1 libraries that I have been maintaining. > > Thomas Did you include the SQL bits of gnucach? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnucash 1.9.1

2006-03-01 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:19, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Did you include the SQL bits of gnucach? > > The package I have uploaded does not support SQL. My intention is to > turn that on (I am uncertain yet whether

Re: New Webmaster Needed

2006-03-09 Thread David Skinner
Hello, I saw the job posting for www.debian.org And I am interested. Please let me know if the position is still open! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: supporting navigation mouse buttons in Debian

2006-03-12 Thread David Nusinow
issue. Please note that the usual way to do this is by filing a wishlist bug against the package, and I'd appreciate it if you use this mechanism so I can keep track of it easily. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread José David
t rough some times but that doesnt mean that i am not a great guy!!! Sorry for interrupting your work and conversatiosn with this, Friendly José David Sven Luther escreveu: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:40:15AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > >> The DAM has accepted the req

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-27 Thread David Welton
n which case, that should be the release burned onto CD's, as it is stable, *and* has the wrinkles smoothed out. Is this the plan? Once again, pardon my ignorance - I think it's obvious I'm fairly new to all this, but I'm anxious to learn, and to see Debian succeed. Thanks,

Re: ncurses & libc6

1997-05-27 Thread David Engel
On May 27, Yann Doussot wrote > So it seems possible to compile libc6 and ncurses as a whole. > As libncurses is outdated and needs to be recompiled for libc6 why not use > this possibility ? > > David what do you think about this ? Ncurses can be compiled as a glibc a

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-27 Thread David Welton
, and maybe what I am saying doesn't make sense - if so, kindly tell me and I'll be quiet:-) David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efn.org/~davidw Se quest'email e` in Italiano, mi dispiace per gli errori:-) FORZA PANTANI! --Debian G

Re: Questions (Debian Install)

1997-05-27 Thread David Frey
On Fri, May 23 1997 8:57 PDT David Cary writes: > I started all over Yet Again, and I think I discovered a bug in my "latex" > distribution that crashed the default setup (but I have documented a way to > work around it). Once (a long time ago with Debian 1.1) I had the prob

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-05-27 Thread David Frey
t, just like "C-S and C-Q". Is there any useful > meaning for "Print" and "Pause" in Linux? Yes: they may the registers, task list etc. and may switch from/to the last used console. > Does someone have any other special keys on his keyboard that we should > def

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-28 Thread David Welton
they are more likely to understand it well, keep it up to date, and release timely bug fixes. Ciao, David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efn.org/~davidw Se quest'email e` in Italiano, mi dispiace per gli errori:-) FORZA PANTANI! --D

Re: Infocom Games (Was: long list of give away or orphaned packages)

1997-06-01 Thread David Frey
te -- as already mentioned -- are the real Infocom games (Trinity, Zork 1-3 etc.) David PS1: Frotz can AFAIK handle Z8 games PS2: Was anyone able to run `adventure' under Linux? Compiling went ok, but running gave an error about not finding the verb 'abcde' or similar.

dtextdb uploaded into experimental

1997-06-02 Thread David Frey
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Re: S-Lang for use with libc6 uploaded (source, i386)

1997-06-04 Thread David Engel
at and /usr/lib/libc5-compat. These can be used to put old libc5-based libraries which conflict with new libc6-based ones. Second, the dynamic linkers need to be able to determine which libraries are for libc5 and which are for libc6. To facilitate this, each library must contain a run-t

Re: S-Lang for use with libc6 uploaded (source, i386)

1997-06-04 Thread David Engel
clever). Again, since you used a non-conflicting soname, you don't strictly have to do this. Doing it anyway would still be a good idea though. We need to get people in the habit of doing it. The way to get the dependency included in the shared library is to link it with "-lc"

Re: top and window resizing

1997-06-04 Thread David Welton
1.11 | dpkg -l on procps says 1.11.6 ii procps 1.11.6 The /proc file system utilities. Is it possible that it is a bug in rxvt or xterm? Seems dubious, but I surely don't know. David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efn.org/~davidw Se quest&#x

Re: Some ideas about the text db

1997-06-08 Thread David Frey
ant to use the configuration database for all and everything (-> each user wants his/her own copy) or just for system-related entries (one global /etc/config is enough). David -- David Frey |Linux --- the choice of a GNU generation! 51F35923114FC8647D05FF173C61EFDE|GE C++

libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-08 Thread David Frey
Hello collegues, What is the policy for uploads into unstable regarding libc6? Must all new programs goint into unstable be linked with libc6? David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Version skew between architectures

1997-06-10 Thread David Frey
handled? (I'm not accusing anyone; and it was partly my fault, I should have stated that the dump package -14 depens on ext2fsprogs >= 1.10!) David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

New version of dtxtdb (0.15)

1997-06-11 Thread David Frey
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New version of dtxtdb (0.15)

1997-06-11 Thread David Frey
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Re: Tri-Linux's discription

1997-06-12 Thread David Welton
know, so we can at least have 1.3 on their site. Ciao, David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efn.org/~davidw Se quest'email e` in Italiano, mi dispiace per gli errori:-) FORZA PANTANI! --Debian GNU/Linux-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: RFC: libc6 policy supplement 2nd try

1997-06-15 Thread David Engel
east safe to call a given library function if > you make sure only one thread is in the library at a time. That > should be easier to accomplish. Yes. It should be possible for a threaded application to use any library on the system, even if it must restrict access to that library from

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-15 Thread David Frey
UUCP paths are nowadays only one hop or two,or this deficiency should be documented in the package (Conflicts: uucp or something like that) [ I agree with the rest of the post about setup-friendliness, complexity and security] David -- David Frey |Linux

Debian-Policy Manual

1997-06-15 Thread David Frey
- how "large" may doc files be until they are moved into a > seperate package? 500k? David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian-Policy Manual

1997-06-17 Thread David Frey
> > David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>TOPIC 4: editor/pager policy > > > What is the benefit of /usr/bin/sensible-{editor,pager}? > > > Why don't we just default to EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi and PAGER=/usr/bin/more > > > if both

Re: "bazaar" model for Debian software development

1997-06-21 Thread David Welton
A very nice bit of writing indeed, thankyou for pointing this out. I find it relevant to Linux, Debian, and also on a much smaller scale, the Linux Incompatibility List that I maintain. Once again, recommended reading for sure:-) Ciao, David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: Looking for New Maintainers

1997-06-22 Thread David Welton
and to be able to start packaging some stuff up:-) Ciao, David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.efn.org/~davidw Se quest'email e` in Italiano, mi dispiace per gli errori:-) FORZA PANTANI! --Debian GNU/Linux-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-23 Thread David Frey
y gid too) for netplan (solution 2). [I still don't understand the motivation behind the hard-wiring of the UIDs; it is IMNSHO a bit of paranoid (I mean, nobody would want to run netplan suid root, would one?)] David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-23 Thread David Frey
s document on WWW-servers or data media in the contents with illegal pornographic material or Nazi-ideology is not desired and will be juristically prosecuted on discovery. (Not a problem for us, David) > Wenn Sie dieses Dokument an einer neuen Stelle im WWW plazieren oder an > anderer Stelle

Re: Looking for New Maintainers - floppybackup

1997-06-23 Thread David Welton
on it, after having edited the control file to reflect that I am the new maintainer. I then move it to Incoming from my account on master, correct? I ask, not because I haven't read the relevant documentation, but to be sure that I have read and interpreted it correctly. Thanks, David W

Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-24 Thread David Frey
nice, nm, patch, ps, renice, split, strings, tabs, talk, time, tput, unalias, unexpand, uudecode, uuencode, vi, who, write, (Software Development Utilities) ar, make, strip. [1] bash builtin David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-24 Thread David Frey
On Mon, Jun 23 1997 22:08 BST James Troup writes: > David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > * Das Aendern des Dokuments ist nicht erlaubt. Das gilt sowohl > > >fuer den Inhalt als auch fuer das Dateiformat bzw. die > > >Gestaltung.

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-24 Thread David Frey
On Mon, Jun 23 1997 23:08 +0200 Martin Schulze writes: > David Frey writes: > > > > On Mon, Jun 23 1997 7:25 BST Marco Budde writes: > > > Any comments? > > (Please add next time a translated version too, not everyone > > reads natively germa

Re: why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

1997-06-27 Thread David Frey
y not from the commandline, but within other binaries. This might be, but the linker doesn't care. (In Debian 1.1 we had the shared libraries 644, IIRC). David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

1997-06-28 Thread David Frey
pected a better error message like `no binary' or something like that). David -- David Frey |Linux --- the choice of a GNU generation! 51F35923114FC8647D05FF173C61EFDE|GE C++ UL+++ P- W-- !w--- PGP++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] R D--- e++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Re: dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-28 Thread David Frey
On Wed, Jun 25 1997 8:35 PDT Bill Mitchell writes: > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, David Frey wrote: > > Correlated note: It is not explicitely stated in the policy manual, but > > IMO we should flag all utilities mentioned in the POSIX.2 standard as > > 'Important&#x

Re: How about e2compr? Was: fixhrefgz debate

1997-06-28 Thread David Frey
ng > important happens, I assume I will hear about it sooner or later. Please don't leave. Just since somebody writes incoherent stuff and lowers the SNR it's no reason to loose the intelligent people. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubs

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread David Frey
converted to > SGML if possible; if not, it should be included untouched. Probably yes, although I don't exactly love SGML. > Just to summarize: I believe that HTML is a VERY BAD choice for > unification of documentation for the reasons outlined above. Agreed. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread David Frey
ckage just after install. This is better, since it minimizes the time window of unconfigured packages. This would require dpkg/diety to know what questions which package asks (new config file) David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [E

Re: Next approach: Documentation Policy

1997-06-29 Thread David Frey
t; /usr/doc//html-texi/ David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread David Gaudine
found this out the hard way; compiled a new kernel, tried to reboot, couldn't because fsck was missing. No real problem; e2fslibsg was present, so I just had to get /sbin/fsck on diskette from another system. (Should have gotten fsck.ext2 too, in retrospect, but its absence was less seriou

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > BTW, is there a particular reason that e2fsprogs got renamed to > e2fsprogsg? This seems to be the biggest chance to completely screw over > someone's system in all of Debian now. It wasn't just renamed, it was split into e2fsprogsg and e2fslibsg. (

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-11-30 Thread David Gaudine
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, David Gaudine wrote: > It wasn't just renamed, it was split into e2fsprogsg and e2fslibsg. I meant to add "I think". The above is what I see from the descriptions that dselect shows me. dselect also lists the old package as "required base", wh

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-01 Thread David Gaudine
On 30 Nov 1997, Greg Stark wrote: > I know i should install a new e2fsprogs, obviously. I was just suggesting we > should find some way to avoid the default action being to deinstall packages > that aren't really being completely replaced. I'm not sure what better to do > though. In this partic

Re: "purity" package

1997-12-01 Thread David Damerell
th games fun, it's absurd. -- David/Kirsty 'Gotterdammerung' Damerell. [EMAIL PROTECTED] CUWoCS President. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/ Hail Eris! |___| So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye? So you think |___| | | | you can love me and leave me

Re: Packages available for expert maintainers or newbies

1997-12-02 Thread David Welton
> pftp FTP client Got it! -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: > Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs, on which dump and quota > depend. Thus, e2fsprogs was assumed to be a package with libc5 libs, > and I could not keep the name, without breaking dump and quota on a > hamm upgrade. > > I thought that, e2fsprogs

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-02 Thread David Gaudine
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, David Gaudine wrote: > for at least a year. After installing e2fsprogsg, I'm left with the > following "Available Required packages"; the very existence of this > section makes me nervous. I should add that I'm assuming that this is a transi

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread David Welton
s interested in doing this that it shouldn't be a problem. Speaking only for myself, my packages are all libc6, and I have already done several non maintainer releases of packages I feel comfortable with, to upgrade them to libc6. Ciao, -- David Welton

Re: libc5

1997-12-05 Thread David Engel
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 07:01:01PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I think David Engel is working on an interim libc6 release. But it seems > there are quite a lot of packages to be worked on. > > Michael > > > -- > > Von:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EM

Re: Can we learn something from RH 5.0?

1997-12-07 Thread David Engel
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:59:27AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > David Engel wrote: > > > > I only know of one real bug so far. They didn't apply the fix needed > > to use the NIS module from autofs with glibc. I found that problem > > Does there rpc.nfsd (or squ

Re: libc5 backports problem

1997-12-07 Thread David Welton
pack hamm packages. -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-06

1997-12-07 Thread David Frey
On Sat, Dec 6 1997 21:50 +0100 Richard Braakman writes: ... > David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > pax-2.1-3(Not DFSG-compliant?) Hmm. I uploaded pax a few weeks ago into non-free (this was Mark H. Colburn's version) But anyway, if I manage it to compile the Open-BSD

Maintainer of procps?

1997-12-08 Thread David Welton
I have written a 'tmem' program, similiar to tload, and would like to see if there is interest in including it in procps. So.. since Helmut Geyer seems to have dissappeared (anyone know if he is ok?:-(, I'm curious who I ought to be sending this to... Thanks, -

Re: libc5

1997-12-08 Thread David Engel
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 03:51:26PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Good point David. That is all your point are good. But stopping libc5 > work means we have to convert all packages before the next release. IMO > this should even hold for non-free or contrib packages. I doubt we are >

OpenBSD-pax (was: Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-06)

1997-12-08 Thread David Frey
On Mon, Dec 8 1997 0:49 +0100 Richard Braakman writes: > David Frey wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 6 1997 21:50 +0100 Richard Braakman writes: > > > David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > pax-2.1-3(Not DFSG-compliant?) > > > > Hmm. I uploaded pax

Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-08 Thread David Frey
On Mon, Dec 8 1997 10:58 GMT Philip Hands writes: > <--- == DEL is standard in Linux-land at the moment (very strong argument > for keeping it that way IMHO) This comes from the fact, that the Linux VC is emulating a VT102. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread David Welton
be familiar with Mindspring, it is a national level provider in the US with local access in 200+ cities. According to their press release, their total earnings for the 3rd quarter were $13,967,000, with aproximately 224000 subscribers. I'm impressed:-)) -- David Welton

Re: libc6 2.0.6 coredumps portmap (was Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa)

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
is a known problem. I'm waiting for Peter Tobias to figure it out. He's been out of town a lot lately so it's taking hime a while. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400

Re: libc6 2.0.6 coredumps portmap (was Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa)

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 05:52:32PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > David Engel wrote: > > This is a known problem. I'm waiting for Peter Tobias to figure it > > out. He's been out of town a lot lately so it's taking hime a while. > > On a related note, the -lp

Re: libc6 2.0.6 coredumps portmap (was Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa)

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
ebian to > the local network). Interesting. Rebuilding netbase and netstd with libc6-2.0.6-0.2 appears to fix it for me. I've put non-maintainer releases of both at ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 100

glibc pre-release 2.0.6-0.3

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
I've put another experimental pre-release of glibc-2.0.6pre3 at ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please test it and let me know how it works. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234

Re: glibc pre-release 2.0.6-0.3

1997-12-10 Thread David Engel
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 10:52:04AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > David Engel wrote: > > I've put another experimental pre-release of glibc-2.0.6pre3 at > > ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please test it and let me know how it > > works. > > Does this include any

Re: [PGP]: can someone in NYC sign me?

1997-12-10 Thread David Frey
This is a small trick to insure that the person got the `right key' :) > You could upload it to a keyserver yourself, in fact. Hmm, I wouldn't. It's possible that said person collects more keys and wants to upload them simultaneously. > (I -think- I've understood th

glibc pre-release 2.0.6-0.4

1997-12-12 Thread David Engel
ly depends on kernel-headers-X.Y.Z and has no provision for switching to kernel-source-X.Y.Z if the user changes between the two. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 7

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-12 Thread David Engel
lopment conflicts with libc5-dev -- need altdev) Doesn't need to. Both provide and conflict with the virtual libc-dev package for just this situation. > BTW, who is maintaining libc5, libc6? Helmut Geyer is listed but I > remember seeing that he has vanished?? Nobody is maintaining l

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread David Welton
the whole point of compiling hamm packages for bo? Ie, the bo-updates, bo-current or whatever directory that we have been discussing for some time? Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:11:37AM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, David Welton wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:44:51PM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > > Isn't this the whole point of compiling hamm packages for bo? Ie, the > > bo-updat

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread David Engel
had to have the same version, AFAIK. > > The problem is that libc5-dev doesn't exist in hamm. Hamm has > libc5-altdev instead. This forces people who want to compile libc5 stuff So find someone to modify the libc5 in hamm to build both -dev and -altdev packages. It isn&

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread David Engel
trust myself not to break such an important package. You should trust yourself more. It should be very easy. Just clone the section of debian/rules that builds the -altdev package, change a few paths and you're done. If you're not sure that your new packages are correct, ask other

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread David Engel
dev Definitely not! libc5-dev implies that libc5 is the default compilation environment installed in /usr/include. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UN

Re: news gateways

1997-12-14 Thread David Frey
e on debian-devel, move it debian-private) David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

writev broken in linux?

1997-12-17 Thread David Welton
, (is there *anywhere* on the internet where you can find untarred linux source code suitable for perusing via ftp?) i just had to determine that there was something wrong with writev() on linux and switched to using sprintf() to generate the output. Thanks, -- David W

sun_len - what is it and why doesnt it exist?

1997-12-17 Thread David Welton
developed on a SunOS box, I believe). Could anyone send me a sockaddr_un definition from a BSD box, or shed other light on this problem? Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

writev questions - epic maintainer speaks

1997-12-17 Thread David Welton
SD, and that my dependance on this "feature" was not conforming to linux's behavior. 2) writev() on linux isnt behaving as it "should be" with respect to writing all of the iov's in a single atomic write. -- Ciao, -- David Welton

Re: writev questions - epic maintainer speaks

1997-12-18 Thread David Welton
n appropriate place, or, better, tell me to forget it because it is being worked on:-) Grumble.. it's frustrating to run into this stuff:-( -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: Paranoia, "pristine sources", turnkeys, compiling, configuration

1997-12-18 Thread David Welton
as well. I would like to look at their binary package tool as well, but it dumps core on my 2.2-RELEASE Fbsd... Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-20 Thread David Frey
locking mechanism. > (It is ok if MUAs and MTAs don't link against liblockfile but use a > *compatible* mechanism. Please compare the mechanisms very carefully !) > > If emacs' current mechanism *is* compatible, then I could save some > hassle. It isn't. Th

Redhat not in favor of Qt & KDE - documented?

1997-12-20 Thread David Welton
I remember reading here that even Redhat is not really in favor of kde because of it's non free componente - Qt. Is this really documented anywhere? Other than by the fact that it hasn't been included:-)? Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.o

Yet another glibc pre-release

1997-12-23 Thread David Engel
I've put another pre-release of glibc 2.0.6 (pre5) at ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux. Please note that I will be out of town for the rest of the week. Any problems will have to wait until I return on Saturday. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROT

Re: Packaging irc clients

1997-12-27 Thread David Welton
Speaking of which, will we be seeing the new ircII 4.4 anytime soon? Happy Vacationing, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Yet another glibc pre-release

1997-12-29 Thread David Engel
./t > $ exit Use -profile instead of -pg/-lc_p when profiling, e.g. $ gcc -profile -o t t.c David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-30 Thread David Engel
n with glibc-2.0.6-1 fixed it for me. The new versions were just uploaded. Would someone with more RPC knowledge than me, hopefully Peter Tobias, please look into this. David -- David EngelODS Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400

Re: Missing libpthread0_7-1.deb?

1998-01-03 Thread David Engel
lict with libc6. To install libc6, you must uninstall the current libpthread0. FYI, libc6 conflicts with libpthread0 because they both provide libraries with an soname of libpthread.so.0. The libpthread0 package (for libc5) must be reworked to move its library to /usr/lib/libc5-compat. David

Non-interactive installs [Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade]

1998-01-05 Thread David Frey
inted out on debian-policy, a clever solution would be to make the postinst non-interactive _in general_. If then a program wouldn't have a postconfigure file it could be configured right away. David -- David Frey (51F35923114FC864 7D05FF173C61EFDE) Those who do not understand Unix are condemned

Re: autmake & debian? (was: Re: cron jobs more often than daily)

1998-01-05 Thread David Frey
t together an Debianized set of autoconf macros... David -- David Frey (51F35923114FC864 7D05FF173C61EFDE) Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Screen-refresh in vi

1998-01-05 Thread David Frey
manipulation - Minimum terminal emulations This package contains what should be a reasonable subset of terminal definitions, including: ansi, dumb, linux, sun, vt100, vt102, vt220, vt52, xterm and xterm-color. David -- David Frey (51F35923114FC864 7D05FF173C61EFDE) Those who do not underst

Re: driver for Epson Stylus 300

1998-01-06 Thread David Frey
On Tue, Jan 6 1998 12:18 +0100 "Meskes, Michael" writes: > I'm not sure about uniprint but the stcolor driver usage in magicfilter > is outdated, i.e. it uses options no longer avalaible in gs-aladin. Sigh. gs-alladin is in non-free, so magicfilter can't use

perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-07 Thread David Morton
t4.2 as I can't waste any more time on this. I have deadlines, after all. MySQL compiled out of the box on RedHat; As it should. - David Morton System Administrator Computer Advantage -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread David Morton
to such a silly problem, which IMHO should not have existed in the first place. I just wonder how something this big slipped past so many people for this long. David Morton E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 07-Jan-98 T

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread David Morton
ice the bad much more than the good. I see now what they mean. I love linux, will continue to use it. Thanks for opening my eyes to the MIS point of view. ---- David Morton See my webpage for my public pgp key

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread David Morton
e out there that can write much more scorching flames than I can. heck, I thought my message was more along the line of a gripe or whine, not a flame! David Morton See my webpage for my public pgp key E-Mail: [EMAI

dpkg's version comparison algorithm?

1998-01-09 Thread David Frey
ions. There is NO warranty. See dpkg --licence for details. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$ Why is 1.15 > 1.2 ? Is it necessary to fill in trailing zeroes? David -- David Frey (51F35923114FC864 7D05FF173C61EFDE) Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to r

bo-updates coordination

1998-01-10 Thread David Welton
ploaded though) epic lftp mutt patch Please look over the relevant section in the policy manual. Pkg-order, for those interested, is a perl script, so it's (tahnkfully), easy to install on bo. Suggestions are very welcome David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ef

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