On 26 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I would really like to get into using CVS for my package
> > development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of
> > releasing packages.
>
> I wondered about this, and I had a question. I lo
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > Is it correct, that we are currently working on ports to the following
> > platforms (the abbrevs should be the ones that dpkg is using in the file
> > names):
> > i386
> > alpha
> >
On Sat, 31 May 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
>
> Is it me, or are the Debian lists really quiet? My secondary list server
> hasn't transferred a single thing from the primary server in several
> hours, perhaps even a day.
This message is the only think I've got all day from any of the debian
lis
On Sat, 31 May 1997, Leland Olds wrote:
> -Changes and patches to the Qt library itself can't be distributed
> without Troll Tech first integrating them into their product and
> "blessing" them. Qt wants to keep ownership and control of that.
> (This is true for the X Windows platform as
On 1 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
> actually, a lot of us find the sound driver stuff objectionable too
> (because it leaves us with practically useless sound code, almost
> enough to drive one to NetBSD :-) I still don't have any way to use
> *both* ESS1688's in my laptop (when docked), which s
:-) I still don't have any way to use
> > > *both* ESS1688's in my laptop (when docked), which should be *trivial*
> > > if the module took arguments like every other module in the
> ...
> > > laptop... and didn't realize until now just how bad it was...
>
On 1 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
> > I believe libc5.so is LGPL...
>
> I don't. /usr/doc/libc5//copyright doesn't *mention* the LGPL *at
> all*, though the libc6 one mentions both.
Yep, the copyright file does not mention the LGPL at all. This seems to me
to be very limiting of commercial so
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
> Raul Miller wrote:
> >
> > On May 31, Galen Hazelwood wrote
> > > Perhaps. Anybody have any serious arguments? I think the reason we
> > > configure gcc as i486 is so it automatically optimizes for the 486; it's
> > > a good middle ground.
> >
> >
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > On 1 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
> >
> > > > I believe libc5.so is LGPL...
> > >
> > > I don't. /usr/doc/libc5//copyright doesn't *mention* the LGPL *at
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Someone who wanted to put the effort into supporting the drivers and could
> convince Linus to go along could probably change the situation - I hope such
> a person comes along.
There is something called the UltraSound Project. They have made OSS
interfa
On 2 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 01.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On 1 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
> >
> > > > I believe libc5.so is LGPL...
> > >
> > > I don't. /usr/do
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Jun 1, Jason Gunthorpe wrote
> >
> > There is something called the UltraSound Project. They have made OSS
> > interface compatible drivers for the various GUS based cards. But they are
> > not included in the official
On 2 Jun 1997, Mark Eichin wrote:
> For some more perspective on the "interface" argument, go back and see
> some of the flaming a year or two ago about the GNU "libmp" (multiple
> precision integer math library.) See also the discussion of just a
> week or three ago about a company shipping a co
Hi,
Has anyone written down more complete documentation that what is provided
in /usr/doc/slang/doc/cslang.tex.gz? I've noticed it only covers about 10%
of what the library can do..
Thanks,
Jason
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On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
> How can I have more shared memory than total memory + swap?
I think it refers to the total number of pages that are shared in all
address spaces. Ie if I load Bash twice then it's code pages will be
counted twice.
I guess this is counter intuitive, ie
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
> The title almost says it all. I just upgraded to pre-patch-2.0.31-2, but it
> seems transparent proxying still doesn't work. My first rule says:
>
> acc/r tcp anywhere anywhere any -> www => tproxy
>
> but still tproxy does
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Richard Kaszeta wrote:
> >Exactly. So there is no problem when using web-servers.
>
> Umm, yes, there is. I don't want a server running on my machine for
> *security* reasons (and one of the places I put debian machines has a
> site policy against running http servers). I
Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out
their first release!
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0
It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right
now and is obscolecent.
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On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> > libg++ is not supported right now and is obscolecent.
>
> it's a bit misleading. It's not integrated into
> tarball, but it's quite good piece of C++ codeand
> can be compiled by EGCS. HJ has it packed separately
> somewhere
Ah, well any code that
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Brian White wrote:
> > Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out
> > their first release!
> >
> > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0
> >
> > It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right
> > now and is o
On 4 Dec 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Regardle of my transpozo, did anyone follow the bouncing URL and
> find out anything of more than passing interest?
I looked at it some time ago. If anything it is a compainion to Deity. We
might see future integration when the topic of remote admin
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Mark Baker wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes:
>
> > Recipes generators and the linux system 'random', which is the longer
>
> Do you mean the library call random? No, that isn't brilliant, though if you
> try other un
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm
> sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different areas in
> which I set proxy servers and I'm fed up with it.
>
> We should have a standard place for thes
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Bill Bauer wrote:
> just rename the XF86_S3V server to XF86_S3 or create a symbolic
> link from XF86_S3 to XF86_S3V (ln -s XF86_S3V XF86_S3)."
>
> do you have a better way?
Edit /etc/X11/Xserver. Change the first line.
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On 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's in /debian/debian/project/experimental/pkgtool.tar.gz . You can download
> it and try it. Extract the tar file, change directory into pkgtool/, and run
> ./pkgtool . Check boxes, and it will tell you what dpkg commands it would
The program appears to
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > > We should have a standard place for these things - say:
> > >
> > > /etc/proxies
> > >
> > > http="http://www.proxy.company.com:80";
> > > ftp="ftp://ftpproxy.firewall.com";
> > >
> > > How about making this policy. I realise that mo
On 10 Dec 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Well, http is pretty simple, it's either authenticated or unauthenticated
> >HTTP proxy protocol. There should be a way to
On 10 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> The issue in this case is -fno-exceptions. I've heard that people
> have complained on the net about egcs, that even with it's haifa
> scheduler, and all the new optimizations like -mpentium, etc., it was
> building slower C binaries than g++.
Exceptions al
Just a warning to everyone running mirror scripts. Something happened to
va's FTP mirror last night and it has been erased. Please stop mirroring
va untill it can be restored!
The web site hosted at va still seems to be okay but mirroring of it's
components may have stopped.
I belive James is wo
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> However, the `non-maintainer' part of this discussion is totally
> unimportant. What matters is the question `in which cases has the version
> number to be incremented and in which cases can it be left'?
>
> I think we all agree now that the version
Hi,
If a few of you could send me your status files from a clean bo system
that is not running any hamm stuff that also has X windows I would be most
appreciative.
The file I am interested in is /var/lib/dpkg/status, it contains your
package selections. I am going to be using them to test out som
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote:
> Yes, I know deity will be out soon, but we're paying $0.19/megabyte
> here, and caching helps.
I would be very interested in hearing your experiances with using HTTP for
downloading .debs and the Packages file. I was hoping to use it as the
prefered
Hi,
In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
Package: mh
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), mh (>= 6.8.4-11), ncurses3.0
>From a bo system it seems libpaper, xpm4.7 and mh (at least) have this
problem. I don't know how dpkg
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
> > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
>
> > I just want to be sure that
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages
> > > that had/have
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The meaning of self-referencing dependencies is as follows:
>
> A (version x) --Depends-> A (no version specified)
> A (version x) --Depends-> A (satisfied by x)
> A (version x) --Provides-> A (version x)
>Useless, but should be allowed and ignored
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Amos Shapira wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> |On 6 Jan 1998, Rob Browning wrote:
> |
> |> Or if you use X, just put:
> |>=20
> |> exec ssh-agent ~/.x-common-startup
> |>=20
> |> in your .xinitrc. Then you can run ssh-add once after logging in, and
> |>
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Roberto Lumbreras wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I get this when I try to look at bug tracking database:
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl on
> this server.
>
> Maybe /cgi-bin/bugs-fetch2.pl hasn't x bit set again?
Yeah, again :>
Thanks, f
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, David Frey wrote:
> Hello collegues,
>
> I don't understand dpkg's version compare algorithm:
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg
> --compare-versions 1.15 lt 1.2-1; echo $?
> 1
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /var/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math$dpkg
>
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Would it be possible to add this to the debian policy to have Maildir
> > support in packages like mailx, pine and imapd?
>
> AFAIK there is no DFSG-free MTA that supports Maildir. Therefore I don't
> think that Maildir support should be obligatory
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Exception handling is a powerful feature, and makes other global error
> strategies mostly unnecessary. Therefore the size of compiled and well
> written C++ programs will not be larger than an equivalent C program. *And*
> the source code will be muc
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Adam Heath wrote:
> There are also other packages that have dependencies on essential packages.
> It was my understanding that this doesn't have to be done.
There is meaning for depending on specific versions of essential packages
because the package may require some new func
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
> I thought it might be worth having a non-us site merge the files, so that
> mirrors outside the US could easily include the non-us software just by
> mirroring from me.
Yes, this was supposed to have been done long ago. I don't know who is
responsible t
On 10 Apr 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> try running the following simple program:
>
> #include
>
> void main(void)
> {
> FILE *fp;
>
> fp = fopen("file.txt", "r");
> fclose(fp);
> fclose(fp);
> }
This is not valid. fclose's behavoir on a null fp is app
On 10 Apr 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> So as I see it there are at least three cases here:
>
> The install is accidentally broken.
> Because we've all been living without apt for so long, various
> inconsistencies can arise. It would indeed be a great feature if apt offered
> to fix the
I have an updated http mirror list,
http://www.debian.org/~jgg/mastersoucelist
Let me know if there are any omissions or errors.
Thanks,
Jason
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I think we need someone to coordinate getting releases out, making
> minor fixes (like the debian-changelog-mode.el thing), etc.
Juan has been making several indications that he is going to do some NMR's
on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
Also, when Michae
FYI,
We are aware that www.debian.org (va.debian.org) has gone missing - it is
being worked on.
An up to date mirror is at http://ftp1.us.debian.org
Jason
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On 19 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> If you're accessing bo through dists/stable or dists/bo, you will have
> to use the top level stable, non-free, and contrib symlinks. Note
> that those symlinks will disappear when hamm is released.
If anyone is using apt to access the archive then you will hav
Scott has prepared 0.0.7 - I only have a few more things to fix up before
this will be unleashed into slink.
Everyone who was using an older version should upgrade - be sure to report
bugs :> There are still no known serious flaws..
Be sure to read the Users's Guide (/usr/doc/apt/guide.text) I d
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > unix.hensa.ac.uksunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
> > wget http: 1.97KB/s1.90KB/s
> > wget ftp: 5.19KB/s5.42KB/s
>
> wget uses HTTP/1.0, so must establish a new
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Any comments on this ?
Well, I have not observed that dpkg is capable of placing guarentees on
the dependency state during the *rm scripts. Alot of packages make use of
their dependents during their removal which leads the the problem that you
can no lon
I have tried 3 times now to get the hamm boot disks to work and today was
the first time. Just installed it onto a removable scsi disk in my 486,
seems to have gone well.
A few comments,
- Why isn't the 'archive path' remembered? I had to enter it once for
the modules and again for the base se
I was just setting up a new install and ran into the problem of wmaker
configuring itself before /etc/X11/window-managers existed, it's postinst
bombed.
I presume some X package creates this file since dpkg can't find it, this
also means that every window manager has a dependency on that package
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
> BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
> which distribution you are running.
Actually, as I understood it, the problem was poor linux floppy
drivers.
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe writes:
> > Well, I have not observed that dpkg is capable of placing guarentees on
> > the dependency state during the *rm scripts. Alot of packages make use of
> > their dependents during their removal which
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Igor Grobman wrote:
> What if the person does not want to use dselect? Many people (not me) prefer
> to download packages themselves, and dpkg -i them. Now that ftp is removed,
> they would either have to download netstd using something other than linux,
> or
> use dsel
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> (predepend, isn't it?) Given the binaries provided by xbase -- BTW, some of
No, predepends would be used if the ore-inst needs the package, since the
post inst is what uses it there is no need.
Jason
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Bruce Perens wrote:
> 9. A Random List of Other Goals.
> RPM as the package system - possibly with an APT port later on
> (is that what it's called now?). It's necessary to get the other
> distributions in on the project. We'd have to add a few missing
>
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2. Make sure that the color monitors are supported automatically from the
> installation screen itself.
Thats a good point, who actually has a truely MONO screen anymore? I've
got lots of 'mono' VGA screens (grey scale actually) and I have one true
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Bear Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That said, I can't see anyone using a MCA card as his primary
> > interface.
>
> I can see this, or serial console, being used for a server.
Actually, you'd be insane to put a MCA card in a server (you'd have t
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > dpkg: regarding .../base/dpkg_1.4.0.22.deb containing dpkg, pre-dependency
> > problem:
> > dpkg pre-depends on libstdc++2.8
> > libstdc++2.8 is not installed.
You know, we should really include libstdc++2.8 on the base disks if this
is now true.
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Rev. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > one word: fetchmail.
>
> fetchmail doesn't do local mail delivery, but relies on an smtp server.
> ssmtp is not an smtp server.
You can configure fetchmail to run through procmail.
Jason
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You can configure fetchmail to run through procmail.
>
> Er, the fetchmail FAQ implies that if you use -mda procmail you can lose
> mail to resource exhaustion.
Then fetchmail is at
I recall there being a discussion on this some time ago, I just noticed on
master,
4053 branden 11 0 1500 1500 724 R 0 98.6 2.3 1194m tcsh
(I've killed it now)
Jason
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On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
>
> I don't think so Jason...
>
> Fetchmail is also pretty robust about mail handling but it expect whatever
> it 'hands a message too' to do something with the message.
>
> I won't even pretend to know the nat
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just installed apt_0.0.8. My impression is that it is significantly faster
> than dpkg-ftp. Could be pyschological, though ;)
No, it probably is. It advoids alot of the time consuming steps, read the
status file faster, and with HTTP downloads f
Are there any alternatives to rsync that don't use as much memory?
andrew 21911 0.6 19.5 24596 12252 ? S12:05 1:49 rsync
That's prettty high (and I've seen higher).. I think I will email the
author.
Jason
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> > We at Debian have been using rsync to mirror our ftp and web archives and
> > unfortunately in our case rsync uses a massive amount of
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> I love the staus display too. It is a bit "jumpy" though, maybe you want
> to printf the numbers etc. in a fixed-size field. Oh, and an expected TOA
> per package would be a nice finishing touch (I'm getting carried away I
> guess ;-).
I was thinking of r
On Tue, 5 May 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> Apt downloads all the packages and then installs them. Every RH
> and Debian network method I've seen does this. Is there a way to download
> a package, install it and throw the deb away, to save disk space ?
> If I wait too long between
On 5 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I also experimented with a veruy wide xterm, and doscovered
> that apt truncates the status line ;-( (I personally would not mind
> a wrapped line, or a long line, so I know what is going on rather
> than 'Waiting to coneect to blah.blah.blah.bla
I have compiled a version of APT for rex/bo. It was built on my 486 that
runs some strange rex/bo mix and should work on every system from 1.2
onwards.
For completeness I built up a matching version for hamm.
http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.0.pre9-0.1_i386.deb
http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt_0.0
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > This version of apt is probably the most effective way to upgrade from
> > bo/rex. It has been tested in several bo upgrades and has undergone
> > simulated upgrades for 18 different configurations, including
sorry about this,
A test email. #1.
Jason
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> thanks to everyone who has asked if we have problems with the
> listserver. Indeed we had a problem with it. Delivery was
> sized down to 2%. I have to admit that I don't know why. I've
> resized it back to 100% and from the log I see delivery runs
On 7 May 1998, Andy Mortimer wrote:
> I've just been testing the new version of dpkg-mountable -- nothing exciting,
> I'm afraid -- using a large set of packages to install, and I've hit a small
> problem. perl-base was predepended on by something, which caused it (using the
> usually-disabled pr
On Sat, 24 May 1997, Tom Lees wrote:
> > as you can see, it's a small text database. so it has nothing, absolutly
> > nothing to do with deity - that's a GUI.
>
> OK, I should refrase what I wrote.
>
> It would be really cool if we upgraded the packaging system to handle
> configuration integra
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
> Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Yes, this is definately the best way to enter the data right now.
Encrypted LDAP is comming in many months though.
> A
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I may add a comment to the coords file describing how the image is created
> so people can create their own. Hopefully someone has a printer that can
> print a large version.
Can you send them to me? I will include them in the man page for ud-xearth
Hi all,
I would like a couple people to look over this patch I have made to SSH.
It creates a new option that allows ssh to lookup RSA authentication keys
in a global file modeled after the shadow password file. The intent is to
allow users to place their RSA ssh key into the ldap directory and t
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I would like a couple people to look over this patch I have made to SSH.
> > It creates a new option that allows ssh to lookup RSA authentication keys
> > in a global file modeled after the
On 26 Sep 1999, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> In addition to apologies to Mr. Norman, perhaps there's some value in
> either (1) making tcplogd etc. require enough configuration to force
> people to read the documentation, or (2) enhance those packages to
> interpret things a little more, so they scare
I have put up a new way to enter your location information, it is a PGP
signed mail gateway at [EMAIL PROTECTED] It can actually change quite
a few things, but for the moment I am only announcing the ability to set
location and contact information :>
The server is line oriented much like [EMAIL P
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> apparently I can't access db.debian.org: I use my password
> on master and the server gives me "authentication failed". (Note that
> I can login in master with that same password.) Is something broken?
> (my brain for example?)
You probabl
On 30 Sep 1999, James Troup wrote:
> OpenBSD have started working on the last free SSH (1.2.12 was under a
> DFSG free license AFAICT[1]), they also, (again AFAICT [I'm going by
> the CVS commits]), are ripping out the patented algrothims (IDEA,
> etc.). Unfortunately, I'm chronically busy with
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Darren Benham wrote:
> No, seriously, that's how it's created but as long as we don't start ignoring
> bugs, we'll never see or 9 bugs in a single directory.
Yeah, but the entire reason behind splitting things up like that was to
reduce the number of files per-direc
On 1 Oct 1999, James Troup wrote:
> [ RSA is no longer included. ]
Wait wait, doesn't this mean that ssh RSA authentication is gone as well??
Did they replace it with DSS/DH or what? IMHO ssh would cease to be very
usefull as a security tool without a public key mechism, not to mention
that exis
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
> I don't understand how this should reduce/limit the number of files in a
> single directory.
Well, it's an application of probability theory.. The last couple digits
are more evenly distributed over the range of active (and inactive) bugs
so you get a
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> Many time, apt-get break on conflicting files. It happens me often
> on unstable but also when upgrading from slink to potato. Here some
> recommendations to help users resolved the conflicts and also to
> help maintainers do the Right Things (TM) the f
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken
> > > shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing
Hi,
I have done some improvements to the Debian buisness card tex files that
are floating around. My changes are at http://www.debian.org/~jgg.
The rundown is that I sized and made available the bottle version of the
logo, adjusted the PGP key font/spacing, reordered some text and put much
bette
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote:
> > As for the discussion, APT actually has such a feature cleverly
> > undocumented and unmentioned - if you flag a package as Impotant: then
> > its downtime is minizimized by the ordering code.
> packages that conflict with them. An example is moving fr
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
> Is it possible to use a key created by pgp5 for package signing ? The
> key works for me when I use it with gpg, both the opposite is not true
> (e.g. pgp5 is unable to verify a signature created with a gpg key). I am
> no maintainer yet and so I want t
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Andrea Mennucc1 wrote:
> rsync contains a wonderful algorithm to speedup downloads when mirroring
> files which have only minor differences;
> only problem is, this algorithm is ALMOST NEVER used
> when mirroring a debian repository
Small detail here, .debs, like .gz files a
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Starner wrote:
> I'm not arguing the rest of your points, but I'm curious about
> this one. IIRC, the last thing a full bootstrap of GCC does,
> after building stage one binaries with the native compiler,
Hum, It *used* to do this, can't seem to get it to do it today t
On 9 Mar 2000, Douglas Bates wrote:
> The system has been up for 14 days and /etc/motd was last modified on
> Jan 27. Is it possible that the repairs are complete and someone
> forgot to remove this line from /etc/motd?
No
Jason
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> wouldn't it make more sense to use something like mirror or wget untill
> debdiff matures? are mirror admins required to use rsync?
Sadly rsync is far, far better that mirror or wget, both of which are
verging on useless for an archive of our size.
We
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > Trouble ahead?
> > Please run "apt-get install apt" before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt
> > don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the
> > Release Notes.
>
> Why don't we make the new perls conflict
On 11 Mar 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I've been running 2.3 kernels for a while now, and so have
> several people. Though it may not work as a default ekrnel,
But can we integrate the necessary new changes to properly support 2.4?
devfsd, the new firewall code, new PCMCIA, etc?
Jas
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