PostgreSQL (formerly Postgres95)

1997-06-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have volunteered to become maintainer of this package, which is currently orphaned. I don't regard myself as particularly well qualified, so if there is anyone else interested in maintaining it, please let me know. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is

ISDN in UK

1997-06-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
m the way it is in the USA and I believe it is also different from that in Europe. Does anyone use ISDN in the UK with Linux? Are there any particular problems? Which of the equipment advertised in the UK is supported by isdnutils and the 2.0.30 kernel? -- Oliver El

Shared library major version number

1997-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
.so.1 libpq.so (ELF) => /usr/lib/postgresql/lib/libpq.so linda:/usr/src/postgresql-6.2.1$ but I cannot find any way to make it link to libpq.so.1 instead. All the other libraries seem to get linked in that way without any special instructions. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Shared library major version number

1997-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 2 Dic, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> How do I get gcc to link in the shared library major version number? >>... >You do the right thing. It's libpq.so.1 that is faulty. When you build >it you should give the -Wl,-soname,libpq.so.1 flag

isdnutils/diald/ppp - hangs on authentication request

1997-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
going wrong? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for

Will dump work with disks over 2Gb?

1997-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
96619 4725044380 52% /var /dev/sda12028098 1285225 638051 67% /usr /dev/sdb14292072 612693 3457282 15% /usr1 dump worked fine on the other three partitions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: .deb

1997-12-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
location of configuration files. You might want to scan the diffs to see if there is anything not Debian-specific that you would like to adopt. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key fr

Re: Compiling question

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
e command line, which is too late. You want an option called EXTRA_INCLUDES, if there is one, and it should contain `-I/usr/include/db' to tell gcc to look there for include files as well as in /usr/include. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

postgresql update

1997-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
version (6.2.1-4) from: <http://www.lfix.co.uk/postgresql> -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not w

I will take on orphaned bible-kjv and worklog

1997-12-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Christoph, I see from the periodic listing that you are orphaning bible-kjv, verse and worklog. I will take them on, unless someone has got there first? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
similar lists might also be archived. (Since I don't subscribe to the latter, this doesn't count as any kind of vote in favour!) I don't see any advantage in gatewaying the developers' lists and agree with Ian's comments. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
`tar' hack since it's much easier to read.) > >But consider the recent discussion of porting dpkg to other systems. >If you were using dpkg on Solaris or HP-UX or ... you may not be able >to count on cp understanding the -a flag. So use this, which should work on any

Re: FUN USE AND INSTALL DIRECTLY ON X WINDOW

1997-12-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
mpris tout ce que vous avez ecrit. Ecrivez moi seul encore une fois en francais. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements a

Re: ever heard of ftwalk?

1997-12-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
not be construed as a distribution of this Package. 9. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 10. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WA

Re: Debian and the millenium bug

1998-01-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
nsead of long int (32 bits)? Surely we ought to change this now along with all the other libc6 changes? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicit

port 80 connections persist after closing Netscape

1998-01-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
get revived again, even though there is no process running that should know about them or want to revive them. Can anyone tell me what is going on and how to stop it? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: port 80 connections persist after closing Netscape

1998-01-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Raul Miller wrote: >Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Can anyone tell me what is going on and how to stop it? > >Sounds like socket shutdown. If so, the "right" way would be to tell >diald about such packets so it ignores them. > >The "quick and dirty

Re: mozilla motif-2.1 package

1998-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Warning: Actions not found: PageUp, PageDown Warning: Actions not found: PageDown, LineUp, LineDown, PageUp, PageUp, PageDown 3. It always seems to want to start the composer as its first action. Some of these may be in configuration files, but they aren't in the preferences di

PostgreSQL packages

1998-04-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
annot get it from Incoming, get it from <http://www.lfix.co.uk/postgresql>. (Unfortunately, I don't have enough space on that server to upload the source, so these are just the binary packages.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: License advice

1998-04-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
nd must not > >>be misrepresented as being the original software. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Debian frozen & postgresql

1998-04-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian, Please, please, PLEASE, get rid of postgresql-6.3-2 from frozen. I keep on getting bug reports, and they are fixed in slink. There are seven binary packages involved. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: apt: HTTP transfer method does not use available bandwidth

1998-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
f I cannot accept stuff at the rate at which the other end can push it out, will the other end reduce its attempted output rate? What packages are involved that might need investigating? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: License advice

1998-04-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
are no restrictions other than those stated later in the licence. Ergo, the licence is DSFG compliant. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from p

Re: Lilo..

1998-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
;s. Lilo >works correctly with another hard drive, that is a 2gig and on the narrow >bus. > Is this relevant? (from lilo docs): ([Lilo produces] ) No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or the partition on which

Re: tetex: symlink "loop"

1998-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
see any bug reports for it. I don't have /etc/texmf/dvips/config on my system (same versions of these packages). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/o

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
rmation which is obscured by a numeric sort. Surely it can't be hard to do? You're extracting fields from the bugs database by some process; just pipe it through sort before you format it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Coming to closure on ae...

1998-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
an xterm where TERM is set to something different, it won't work, but it seems a bit unreasonable for anyone to do such a thing. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Bug#21969: debian-policy: needs clarification about Standards-Version

1998-05-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ntainer says that policy is _not_ broken, the fault must be with the package. You are saying that you would reassign a bug to policy, while at the same time denying that policy is broken? That does not make sense. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Need a CD of hamm

1998-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Can anyone in UK make me a CD of current hamm, please. This is needed for Monday week. (I know of a source in Germany, but I would like to save on postage and currency translation.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 21:03 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > So here is a list (from update-excuses) of all 491 packages that is > being held out of sarge[1]. ... > eglade There are no open bugs. Can it be put back in? -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.u

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
-S, not even when I dpkg -L all postgresql packages I have > installed (I guess it was created by postinst sript or something like that). The name indicates that it is created by postgresql-common (/usr/bin/pg_createcluster) in relation to a database whose server is postgresql-7.4 -- Oli

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
stgresql/7.4/main/log), seems pretty evil. Any ideas why would > anybody do it? I'm not sure why Martin chose to put a log link in /etc, which is why I have not addressed that point. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
It is certainly desirable to keep things as much in accordance with the intention of policy as possible, but policy and the FHS do allow some latitude, even if only by not making their definitions rigorously complete. Since I don't know why Martin chose to do it thi

Bug#406226: ITP: smarteiffel2 -- SmartEiffel language version 2

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Elphick * Package name: smarteiffel2 Version : 2.99.beta3.1.20070108 Upstream Author : SmartEiffel Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Eiffel

New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
: s3_virge (**) SVGA: videoram: 4096k (**) SVGA: Option "slow_edodram" (**) SVGA: Option "early_ras_precharge" (**) SVGA: Option "fifo_conservative" (**) SVGA: Option "pci_burst_on" (**) SVGA: Option "hw_cursor" (**) SVGA: Option "pci_retry"

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Matthias Berse wrote: >On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:17:09PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip. >> >> I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink. I recently upgr >aded >> to 3.3.6-3 and

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Thanks to all who replied about this. The problem was solved by reducing the dot clock from 75.0 to 65.0. This gave a much better picture than I used to have before I upgraded xserver-svga. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
If I su, I then get the message "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" on almost every command I try. I found that `exec sh' let me do things. So it seems that something has changed in the set-up of bash or su -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PRO

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
IL PROTECTED] su -c ls Password: 0.0=1.29172.exmh exmh.1563.html filevV2bSYpg7 ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: linda:/tmp# ls bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable linda:/tmp# cd linda:~# but, as you see, shell built-ins still work. -- Ol

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
limited The su being used is /bin/su from login (source package: shadow; Version: 19990827-18) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers;

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian Greenfield wrote: >On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >x.co.uk> cum veritas scribat > &

WARNING: problems with postgresql-7.0-0.beta3.[12]

2000-04-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
-2_all.deb postgresql-pl_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb postgresql-test_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb postgresql_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb python-pygresql_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb Source: postgresql_7.0-0.beta3-2.diff.gz postgresql_7.0-0.beta3-2.dsc postgresql_7.0.orig.tar.gz -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Postgres removing old database

2000-08-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
dump and restore the databases itself. I can remember an older >upgrade of postgres (6.0 -> 6.5 perhaps?) doing just this, so I wonder >why this didn't. It should have done; I can't think why it didn't. If you can repeat the operation and capture the whole session with sc

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
> >mgetty is not important, it's extra. That may be, but where has it gone? Apparently libperl5.6 has disappeared as well. Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not in the directory pointed to. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
g them. This means that the onus is perforce on those who don't want duplicates to eliminate them before reading. The manpage procmailex gives a recipe for using procmail and formail to eliminate duplicate mails or to divert them into a duplicates folder.

Re: Help wanted for packaging postgresql application

2003-05-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
any other connection/database/user combination needs an md5-encrypted password. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34

Debian packages of 7.4beta2

2003-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
will be welcome. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "And he sai

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
n > public, in the moment it is only accessible to debian developers. You haven't explained why letting other DDs know this information, which is available to them already, requires the whole world to know it. If you have some proposals for letting non-DDs have the data, you need t

Re: compiling packages

2007-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
2. In debian/rules, comment out the instruction to strip the binaries (such as dh_strip). Packages are too diverse to give a method that will work for every one. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://ww

Removing python-pygresql and libpqpp packages

2003-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
l and libpq++ are available from gborg.postgresql.org Dependencies: libpqpp and libpqpp-dev: none that I know of libpgsql2 (obsolete; contains libpq++): trafstats python-pygresql: cherrypy (suggests) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wigh

Re: Removing python-pygresql and libpqpp packages

2003-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 15:53, Jim Penny wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:46:15 +0100 > Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Barring objection, and there may be some legitimate objection, as I am > well behind and feeling mighty damned guilty about it, I will pick it > up. This is somewhat

Co-maintainers wanted [was Re: Debian experimental packages of PostgreSQL 7.4beta4]

2003-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 23:50, Kenshi Muto wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Debian packages of PostgreSQL 7.4beta4 are available in the experimental > > section of the Debian archive. > > Could you consider changing templates to po-debconf style? (Bug#195248) I'm quit

Alioth services down?

2003-10-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alioth is not accepting ssh connections and mail to a mailing list is neither arriving nor bouncing. I have mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it occurs to me that if mail is not getting through to the lists, it may not have got to that address either. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: debian-postgresql list closed and postgresql problem

2003-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
-p 5432 -h localhost template1 > > fails as well. > > Any hint whether there is a general problem on Sparc? I haven't heard of a Sparc problem. Is there anything in the log? (/var/log/postgresql/postgres.log) or in syslog? -- Oliver Elphick[EM

Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
the same interface for > user-allocation IMHO is valuable on its own and outweighs getting rid > of a predependency. If any package that needs to add a user should always use adduser, should that not be a required package rather than just important? I had always thought that Pre-Dependencies were ve

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
ing, since it's BSD. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:53, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:39:52PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:00, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > PostgreSQL requires license changes, and I've not had much luck buiding > > > impetus

Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
SQL source tree is now independent. Another maintainer will take those on. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: [GENERAL] Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Oliver Elphick writes: > > > Please note that the python packages have been dropped from this build, > > since the PyGreSQL source tree is now independent. Another maintainer > > will take those on. > > Then

Re: [GENERAL] Debian packages of PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
kaging > PostgreSQL for Debian to show this but got busy with other things. Did you get anywhere with it? When the PL/R package was requested, it was easiest for me to throw it in with the postgresql source package, but I'm quite willing to separate it out if it doesn't mean I have to rewri

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:46, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:14:45PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Debian packages of 7.4 have been uploaded to Debian's experimental > > archive. Because of certain issues with interlocking dependencies, I > > will

libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
ew line at start position (up to end position) */ memcpy(curpos, line, c); /* commit the file */ if (msync(curpos, strlen(curpos), MS_INVALIDATE & MS_SYNC) == -1) { perror("Failed to write new user_clusters file"); exit(LOC_ERR_WRITE_FAIL); } munmap(buf

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
) == -1) { > > perror("Could not map user_clusters"); > > exit(LOC_ERR_READ_FAIL); > > } -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
t what you want; assuming you're looking > for the end of a NUL terminated string, the expression you are looking for > is "*curpos != '\0'". Thanks for catching that one, too! Any way, this confirms that it is not a bug in strchr(). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ra, etc). I would place no reliance on such things unless they were administered under strict supervision, so that a human checked that it was a real finger or a real retina that was being examined. That puts the whole idea out of court for authenticating remote access.

Re: problem to unsubscribe

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
your list mails are addressed by the mailing list server. It may sound obvious, but many people seem unable to understand it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C:

Re: RFC: best practice creating database

2004-10-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
kup of the database during upgrades, "Just In Case" ...using the correct utility: pg_dump for PostgreSQL. > - don't store the pw in debconf, or at least ask the admin first > > if you think that it would be too complicated/flaky, i'd add a debconf > note (of _lo

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
ion is completed; although the passwords.dat part of the debconf database has 600 perms, cleartext passwords should not be left lying around anywhere unless necessary. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://w

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:41, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I attach a diff on the templates file, including questions for a > PostgreSQL installation.. Well, I do now. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
t; application to use (php web apps, for example). that's my opinion, > anyways. That may differ per application. I would argue that it is very bad security in all circumstances. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
e not asked to run an SQL script under /usr/share/XXX (usually > doc/package/examples). Maybe even defining a common location for these > (/usr/share/db-setup/PACKAGE/.{mysql,pgsql}?). Notice that the SQL > script that needs to be run might difer between RDBMS. Almost certainly it

dpkg should prompt re missing conffiles [was Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root]

2002-08-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
e default package file should be installed. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ==

Machine usage policies

2002-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
ts of that country. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
icial, or if I > should just make them and put them on my SourceForge project pages. Does > anybody have any recommendations? Should you not describe them. You haven't given much detail here, you know... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, U

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
ge. See /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html > - Is it possible to move their contents to /usr/share/doc/ allowing a > faster search through the filesystem? No. The files in /usr/share/doc-base/ are not documentation and do not belong in /usr/share/doc/ -- Oliver Elphick

PostgreSQL 7.3 about to be released

2002-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
source package If anyone has tried these packages and has any comments, please let me know very soon. -- Oliver Elphick LFIX Limited signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#170932: ITP: libpqxx -- C++ library for connecting to a PostgreSQL database

2002-11-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libpqxx Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Jeroen T. Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gborg.postgresql.org/ * License : BSD Description : C++ library for

postgresql RC bug: Help needed in tracking this down

2003-04-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
does kill -9). For unkown reasons the proper file is not being restored during some upgrades. It looks as though postgresql-dump is being called when an upgrade is not needed, but I'm not sure if this is a result or a cause of the problem. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

PostgreSQL lexer changes needed [Re: Bug#190329: postgresql depends on flex]

2003-04-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
ind any document that details exactly what changes have been made between 2.5.4a and 2.5.31. Furthermore, I have no experience of writing lexer code and no time at present to spend on this, so all help will be very welcome. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wi

Re: Bug#95146: postgresql depends on libssl - move to non-us?

2001-04-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
James Troup wrote: [serious bug: postgresql depends on libssl0.9.6 from non-us/main] >"Oliver Elphick" writes: >> Hmm, yes. So postgresql had better move to non-us. > >While not necessarily a bad thing, it's worth noting that that is >going to drag a l

Re: postgres user

2001-04-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
t to take advantage of this. The reason for the change is to improve the default security of PostgreSQL. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC

Re: Problem with installing Postgres throught APT

2001-04-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
and conflicts with libpgsql2 It hasn't stopped its being installed on my system or on a number of others. I found the conflict was necessary to force the removal of libpgsql2, but it does indeed provide libpgsql2 to other packages that depend on that. I feel there must be some other problem

Re: Problem with installing Postgres throught APT

2001-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
will help there. I am happy to accept any suggestions that improve upon the current setup: Source: postgresql Section: misc Priority: optional Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 3.2.1 Build-Depends: libncurses5-dev (>= 5.0), tcl8.3-dev, bison, python-d

postgresql and libssl - Bug#95146

2001-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
leave it alone pending resolution of the legal question? (I do not propose to do anything to remove the ssl code from PostgreSQL.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-04-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
options for Unix socket access are password-protection or trust (that is, a completely open database). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-04-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
x27;t be an upstream option. How portable is it within Linux? I just tried looking for the documentation on it in libc.info and couldn't find anything. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-04-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
table features; I might be able to get it added under a config option. (portable means BSD Linux AIX HP-UX VAX Solaris Windows ...) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
ng on that) I have created this feature, using autoconf/configure to test if it is supported, and have sent a patch upstream. The feature will be in Debian anyway. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jargon file, Appendix A. (http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Adrian Bunk wrote: ... >Oliver Elphick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) libpgsql This package is obsolete and should not be included in any release. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

apt complaining about valid dependencies

2001-05-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
to be installed E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC

Re: PostgreSQL in testing

2001-05-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
her similar things. It gets quite complicated :) Is the automatic system capable of handling that (when the versions in unstable work together)? or will it need manual intervention? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http:

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Hilko Bengen wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > >> No, no. Pigeons are ugly horrid things that infest cities and leave >> droppings on my car. > >You mean packet loss? I think it's network overhead. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Postgres and non-us

2001-05-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jim Penny wrote: >PostgreSQL now has a dependency on openssl/ssl.h in a fundamental >header file, postgresql/libpq-fe.h. > >Does this mean that every piece of software which requires this >header file to compile will also have to be migrated to nonus? Yes. (Sorry!) --

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ause most people will need to modify it" but Ben does not agree >that people using locales is "most people". In that case, I disagree with Ben. My default locale is en_GB. Only US users will probably not want to change locale, though of course non-US

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
s seem to have been dropped. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

2001-09-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
ount and >the amount involved is (USD 126M) One hundred and >twenty six million United States Dollars million >dollars. I want to first transfer USDM twenty six So you want a "reliable and honest person" to help you with a fraud? You don't, of course, since you are a c

Openssl - progression into testing

2001-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
(from 0.9.6b-1) there are up to date bins in ia64 also -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA1

Evolution and GnuPG

2002-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
C3 988F 0096 3E4F EA4C 661F 2B46 A27C Do other mail clients give similar results? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "T

Re: Installed postgresql 7.1.3-6 (i386 all source)

2002-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:59, Roland Mas wrote: > Oliver Elphick (2002-01-05 20:53:08 +0100) : > > > Closes: 12166 121666 121699 121712 121944 122167 122871 123349 123950 > > 124317 125772 126193 126440 127004 127275 > > Changes: > > postgresql (

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