Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Raul Miller
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that we have accepted non-modified source as DFSG compliant > as long as modified binaries are not restricted. We allow exceptions to point 3, as long as point 4 is satisfied (explicit permission to distribute software built from modified so

Trying to contact wrl@gandalf.wconsult.com

1998-05-04 Thread Raul Miller
I'm having a problem sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the host name doesn't have an MX record, and appears to have a dynamic ip address. The mail relay being used (mail.rdu.bellsouth.net) also doesn't appear to know anything about this host name. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

ideas underlying policy

1998-05-05 Thread Raul Miller
>>This is a draft.<< I've written a document which touches on what I feel are important meta-policy issues. It's a little bit of history, a little bit of speculation, and a bit of an essay on how I think of debian. I'm sure other people have different ideas. I hope none of what I've written mak

Re: ideas underlying policy

1998-05-05 Thread Raul Miller
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer, > and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted > the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved. My memory doesn't extend back that far, nor

Re: ideas underlying policy

1998-05-05 Thread Raul Miller
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading your draft, I see discussion of the importance of the goals, > but not the importance of the standards -- or at least, not in as many > words. Fair enough. Do you think the small change you recommended satisfy this need? Or are you asking for some

Re: The early days of Debian (was Re: ideas underlying policy)

1998-05-05 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember Debian 0.04. Basically, it was what we'd nowadays term "base + > bootfloppies" - an minimalistic base system on which to build the > distribution. Even then, mailing lists were central to development, and > development was a group effort. T

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-05 Thread Raul Miller
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I the only one reading the following in the way that derived works are > forbidden? > > " ...provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact > and is not made part of any program either in whole or in part [...]." We need explicit permission to

bug #21998 should be promoted to severe

1998-05-08 Thread Raul Miller
It seems to me that bug #21998 against xbase (xbase provides a manpage for Xnest) should be promoted to severe: while this bug exists it's impossible to install xnest. Am I way off base here? -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Debian Re-organization proposals (was: Re: so what?)

1998-06-02 Thread Raul Miller
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am interested in something way more fundamental to the project than > the mere next release. Unless we thing beyond the next quarter, and > if we fail to make more or less radical changes, we are doomed to > repeat the pattern of past releases. Y

Re: Linuxconf

1998-06-02 Thread Raul Miller
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, the fact that you don't understand sendmail doesn't prevent others > from doing so. The problem with sendmail isn't that it's difficult to understand, it's that it rewrites headers, by default. This introduces a whole class of rather subtle bugs tha

Re: xteddy

1998-06-03 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awhile ago I read here of a package someone made called (I think) xteddy, > which was replacement login screen for X. Er.. that's not quite what xteddy is. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Debian Re-organization proposals (was: Re: so what?)

1998-06-03 Thread Raul Miller
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since people want to discuss goals, let us get this over and > done with. Email me goals, and I promise to have a 100 by the > weekend. Then maybe we can get off and try and actually *DO* > something, like design and implementation, rather than

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

1998-06-03 Thread Raul Miller
Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, that may well be true. But still the text of the GPL is clear: > you are not allowed to change it, whether you change the name of your > cahnged version or not. You're saying that all those people who have licensed their software under modified vers

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

1998-06-03 Thread Raul Miller
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Talked myself into a corner. Someone dig me out? Hmm, you raised some good points I hadn't thought about... How about this quote: To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrend

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/5/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to spam debian-devel -- and with a long message containing long > paragraphs too, horrors! -- in replying to this. Who is sorry? How sorry? Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that this sorry-ness is not something that matte

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/6/05, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/5/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:51:51PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > >

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/6/05, Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ??? Let's try again: '' The GPL tries to define "work based on the > Program" in terms of "derivative work under copyright law", and then, > after this definition and a colon, it tries to explain what is a > "derivative work under copyright law

Re: GPL and linking (was: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-()

2005-05-06 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/6/05, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/6/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > Second sentence in Section 0: The "Program", below, refers to

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/9/05, Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can't re-state something saying a different thing. GPL#0 says > that "a work based on the Program" is "a derivative work under > copyright law", and then says "that is to say, a work > containing...", which is NOT a re-statement of a "deriv

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-10 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/10/05, Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raul Miller wrote: > >That's another re-statement of what "a work based on the Program" > >means. > > > The GPL just equated the two, before the colon! It states, clearly, that > the "a w

Re: pine license

2005-05-10 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/10/05, Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past, UW has (in my opinion) played deliberate word games to > retroactively revoke the Freeness of a prior Pine license, and this license > is clearly non-free *without* any such stretching or contriving. I don't think the issue at tha

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-11 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/11/05, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The GPL did not use the word "equals". > > Neither "that is to say" nor "namely" are equal to "equals". > > Are we to understand that your argument hinges on such fine semantic > distinctions as claiming that "that is to say" does not conn

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-11 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/11/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm not going to say that your point of view isn't perfectly valid > as your own point of view; but I don't have any reason to believe that > it's a good predictor of how a court case involving the FSF suing > FooSoft for linking agains

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-11 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/11/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/11/05, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course, a court case does not have to be argued that way. > No, but if it's to have a prayer of winning, it has to be argued in > terms of the law

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-11 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/11/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fine. I have been goaded into rebutting this specimen. Most of this is focused on contract law issues. I've written a separate post suggesting the obvious alternative (Tort law) > > Since Section 0 says that the GPL grants you license

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-18 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/18/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is completely not possible. Once you offer (and someone accepts) > code under the terms of the GPL, they are for evermore entitled to use > *that* code under the GPL. There are some exceptions to this. For example, if you're not th

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-19 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/19/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GPL is anomalous in that the drafter has published a widely > believed, but patently false, set of claims about its legal basis in > the "FSF FAQ". For the record, I disagree that this faq is "patently false". It is, in places, a bi

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-19 Thread Raul Miller
> > For the record, I disagree that this faq is "patently false". > > > > It is, in places, a bit simplistic, but I wouldn't advise anyone > > delve into those fine points of law unless they've retained > > the services of a lawyer (at which point the FAQ is merely > > an interesting commentary --

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-19 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/19/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps that is indeed what you would do. I don't consider lawyers to > be the only persons capable of reading the law for themselves. They > are the only ones authorized to offer certain forms of legal advice > and legal representation,

Re: Non-DD's in debian-legal

2006-06-12 Thread Raul Miller
On 6/12/06, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The d-l list has a problem which is shared by many Debian mailing lists (including debian-vote and debian-devel, and I'm sure it's not limited to them) which is that far too many people subscribe to the "last post wins" school of debate. People

Re: FTP arrangement

1995-09-28 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Murdock: No, I'm not saying this at all. I'm saying that fairly soon our primary emphasis (from a development point of view) will be the ELF distribution. We'll still update the a.out distribution, of course, but it'll become less and less of a priority from a development point

Bug#1505: setterm is missing

1995-09-28 Thread Raul Miller
Costa D Rasmussen: I wish we had setterm. I noticed it was missing and thought I must be ignorant about how to do without it. What's the drill here? Do we need to lobby the author, write a clone? setterm was written by Ted Ts'o. He thought it was such a trivial program that it didn't

Bug#1505: setterm is missing

1995-09-29 Thread Raul Miller
For what it's worth: I've been pretty strung out lately (illness, deadlines, lack of sleep). Please take anything I mailed out yesterday with at least a grain of salt. [Not that you shouldn't in any event, but especially for Sep 28 95]. Sorry about that. -- Raul

Re: ld.so (fwd)

1995-10-02 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Jackson: : Changing package names is usually a bad idea unless there's a good : reason. Or, more generally, inventing new interfaces where existing interfaces will suffice is usually a bad idea unless there's a good reason. : IMO the real solution is to have a real FTP method for dselect that

Re: Sizes and Packages in dselect

1995-10-03 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Jackson: This is where the problem starts :-). Obviously this can be done fairly easily if you're willing to have the user download a list of all the files included in every package, plus their sizes. I don't think that's reasonable, though; even compressed, the Contents file f

Bug#1678: w3-el: no install-info; elisp files; mailcrypt

1995-10-16 Thread Raul Miller
Dirk Eddelbuettel: I don't want to take them away from anyone, not even from Emacs specialists. I simply want to have the option of installing them or not. Well, you could delete them. $ (cd /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/w3; for x in *.elc; do rm `basename $x c`; done) If I want to read

Bug#1705: dselect has a strange

1995-10-19 Thread Raul Miller
Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.5 If I start up dselect, choose "select", and hit return without making any changes, I wind up with the following screen. I am not able to fathom the purpose of this screen, nor am I particularly interested in removing these packages from my system. [Of course, it's pl

Re: an idea in search of comments

1995-10-19 Thread Raul Miller
This mechanism, while it might be convenient for some people, looks very noisy for people without mime support. I'd recommend that there be a new mailing list to support this kind of traffic. Also, there'd need to be some kind of convenient mechanism for developers without intrinsic mime support

[ewt@redhat.com: Red Hat Alpha Packages]

1995-10-19 Thread Raul Miller
Ok... so what's RPM? Anyone know? Any lessons to learn here? Or people to cooperate with? -- Raul Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 10:38:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-alpha@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Red Hat Alpha Packages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; char

umsdos (for 0.93R7)

1995-10-23 Thread Raul Miller
I think that debian should include umsdos support. Here's what's needed: (1) a kernel with umsdos support compiled in (2) the utility umssync Also, umsdos pulls a stunt for the root partition -- for this case the subdirectory that, under the msdos file system, would be named "linux" is recast as

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-23 Thread Raul Miller
On a newly created (though slightly fudged) debian system, I'm getting the message: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory when I try and use dpkg (-i or -C, for instance). /var/lib/dpkg/updates/ exists and is empty. -- Raul

Bug#1745: /bin/perl

1995-10-23 Thread Raul Miller
I'm trying to puzzle out /bin/perl On a new system today, I tried to run perl and ran into problems because /usr/lib/libdb.so.1 wasn't available. Can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong or if it's the system that's wrong? Thanks, -- Raul

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-24 Thread Raul Miller
Here's an strace of dpkg failing. [Remember, this is on an empty directory.] Notice especially the line that reads: readdir(4, 0x48000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) I don't have a clue where that 0x48000 argument is coming from, but it looks like it's corrupt

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-25 Thread Raul Miller
I had written: > On a newly created (though slightly fudged) debian system, I'm getting > the message: > dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory > when I try and use dpkg (-i or -C, for instance). You replied: Here is the relevant bit

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-25 Thread Raul Miller
Ok, so here's how things look to me at present: dpkg is failing because of an ENOENT error return from scandir(3). scandir is getting this error value from readdir(). I do not know enough about libc to easily determine whether the readdir() used by scandir is readdir(2) or readdir(3). However,

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-25 Thread Raul Miller
One more bit of information: this problem occurs with libc-4.6.27 -- Raul

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-26 Thread Raul Miller
This problem definitely occurs in the umsdos file system code. Further investigation indicates it also occurs in the msdos, nfs, and smbfs file system code. I'm reassigning this bug to the image package (or should it be the source package? modules?). I'll be submitting a patch in a few hours.

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-26 Thread Raul Miller
There's a problem with the umsdos file system that prevents scandir(3) from working right -- it gives ENOENT instead of EOF upon successful termination. This occurs because readdir returns ENOENT upon reaching the end of the directory. The msdos file system has the same problem. Here's a patch:

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-26 Thread Raul Miller
Turns out smbfs and nfs are clean -- it's only the msdos file systems which have this problem. -- Raul

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-27 Thread Raul Miller
I (Raul) wrote:: > > --- linux-1.3.29/fs/msdos/dir.c.distThu Oct 26 18:11:01 1995 > > +++ linux-1.3.29/fs/msdos/dir.c Thu Oct 26 18:12:34 1995 > > @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ > > filp->f_pos = 0; > > } > > if (filp->f_pos & (sizeof(struct msdos_dir_entry)-1)) > > -

more on time zones

1995-11-01 Thread Raul Miller
I just sent a bug report to debian-bugs stating that I was going to submit a bug report on /sbin/clock for the miscutils package. I've not received an ack on that bug report, and might not check my mail again till tomorrow. This is just a note that I'm not going to submit a miscutils bug report.

Bug#1789: time zone files not right

1995-11-01 Thread Raul Miller
Package: timezone Version: 7.8-1 It looks like something's wrong with the timezone files. I started poking around when I noticed that my time was daylight savings time. I could have sworn that it was set right yesterday (I remember setting a battery powered clock by my computer -- this clock is s

Bug#1887: cfengine 1.2.14-2: documentation errors

1995-11-23 Thread Raul Miller
Bill Mitchell: In my own packages, I've been trying to provide debianized docs which change references to /usr/local to just plain /usr where it's clear from the context that this would be incorrect on a debian system. I've come to think that even this amount of twiddling the upstre

Bug#1886: cern-httpd 3.0-4: a couple of bugs

1995-11-24 Thread Raul Miller
Chris Fearnley writes ("Bug#1886: cern-httpd 3.0-4: a couple of bugs"): > In http-conf, section "Users' Public HTML Directories", says that the > default location for users' pages is in public_html, but the script > sets the default to public-html. Ian Jackson: I'd be inclined to chan

Bug#1897: apropos not resilient to index.db corruption

1995-11-25 Thread Raul Miller
Alvar Bray: I have heard several other people say they have had corrupt database files - how do they get corrupted? I have never managed to corrupt mine (but then I, as the package maintainer, wouldnt would I) I imagine one technique might be to have the file system get full during a d

Bug#1900: tcl.h in funny location

1995-11-26 Thread Raul Miller
Package: tcl Version: 7.3 Revision: 4 tcl.h is in /usr/include/tcl -- yet there are no other files for this directory. Seems to me it would make more sense to have just plain /usr/include/tcl.h -- Raul

Bug#1899: missing tk.h

1995-11-26 Thread Raul Miller
Package: tk Version: 3.6 Revision: 5 tk.h is missing from this development package. This makes in difficult to build programs which wish to link with tk. -- Raul

Re: miscutils snag/questions for all

1995-11-26 Thread Raul Miller
Bill Mitchell: I think we need a good way to deal with this general situation which is simple enough to use not to need guru advice from the dpkg designer. I agree -- typically the best way of dealling with this situation is better documentation. Of course, where documentation fails (as

Bug#1902: manpage for wtmp wrong

1995-11-27 Thread Raul Miller
Martin Schulze: So the bugreport can be closed, right? http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~quinlan/fsstnd/1.2/fsstnd-5.6.html";> No, wtmp goes in /var/log. -- Raul

Bug#1930: metamail wants xloadimage

1995-11-30 Thread Raul Miller
Package: metamail Version: 2.7 Revision: 1 metamail's mime.types file specifies a program called xloadimage. This program is not on my machine, and the control file for metamail doesn't suggest any optional packages that might have this program. -- Raul

Bug#1930: Acknowledgement (was: metamail wants xloadimage)

1995-12-01 Thread Raul Miller
minor correction: it is /etc/mailcap that refers to xloadimage (not mime.types). -- Raul

Re: Tcl/Tk source directories

1995-12-01 Thread Raul Miller
In my Tcl/Tk packages, I have conformed to what I think is the official Debian convention and renamed the source directories from to -. Unfortunately, this causes gratuitous changes in other packages which need to access the Tcl/Tk source directories. Since I try to make my Tcl/Tk

Re: Building ncurses...a couple of questions...

1995-12-06 Thread Raul Miller
Raul Miller: > Make sure that dselect still works right during the initial > installation. Mike Dorman: I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. I mean, I understand what you're saying, I'm just not sure what scenario you envision such that this is an

Bug#1984: dpkg won't install cdtool

1995-12-06 Thread Raul Miller
OOPS... On a retry, I find that the cdtool package was only compressed once. My fingers must have slipped or something. I hate it when I make a mistake in a bug report. -- Raul

Re: dpkg-nondebbin and improper system installation

1995-12-08 Thread Raul Miller
A number of people have attempted or succeeded in using dpkg-nondebbin or a dpkg compiled on their local systems to install Debian without using the bootstrap floppies. As far as I am aware, this will yield a system that is broken in various ways (non-debian files in the system direc

Bug#1978: man: default pager should be less

1995-12-08 Thread Raul Miller
Something ought to be done though, since more(1) can't be made to go backwards through manpages. This is rather a serious deficiency. Perhaps /bin/pager, done by update-alternatives ? Hmm, not too good. Another option might be to have man point more at the catman file rather than at

Re: 1.0 on Infomagic CD

1995-12-08 Thread Raul Miller
Perhaps we should adopt a different naming convention for unreleased versions. E.g. instead of 1.0, call it 0.93+0.07, or 0.9x-unstable. -- Raul

Re: 1.0 on Infomagic CD

1995-12-08 Thread Raul Miller
Another possibility is to have an unreadable directory named 1.0, with instructions in the README file on how to navigate through it. The idea being, if you don't read the instructions you don't see the files. -- Raul

Bug#1978: man: default pager should be less

1995-12-08 Thread Raul Miller
Emilio C. Lopes: IMHO, the problem is with "more" not with "man". One must not try to adapt a good program just to make it work together with a deficient one (still IMHO, of course). This is more a matter of interface definition than anything else. more can go backwards only on seekable f

Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops

1995-12-09 Thread Raul Miller
Package: miscutils Version: 1.3 Revision: 5 run-parts should probably not do what it normally does, when a laptop doesn't have AC power. This could be implemented with something along the lines of: die "helpful message\n" unless system "grep 'AC: off line' /proc/apm 2>/dev/null"; Presum

Red Hat Package Manager

1995-12-12 Thread Raul Miller
Can someone point me at the cannonical source for RPM and its documentation? [My net connection is a bit flakey at the moment.] Thanks, -- Raul

Bug#1984: dpkg won't install cdtool

1995-12-13 Thread Raul Miller
I've sent a similar file to Ian, but I'm not sure if he received it. Since the bug isn't closed, I'm taking the liberty of resending this report, with a broader distribution. Ian Jackson: Err, boggle. Can you repeat this ? I can't (of course). I'd like to see the output of dpkg -D33

Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops

1995-12-18 Thread Raul Miller
What does AC power have to do with run-parts ?? run-parts is just a utility to run all the scripts in a directory. I think you should think where else this problem should be solved - possible the answer is to modify your /etc/crontab. Yes. On second thought I shouldn't be running cr

Re: Debian+umsdos (fwd)

1995-12-18 Thread Raul Miller
Juhana K Kouhia: umsdos with windows '95 filesystem might be a problem... With linux's msdos-fs I were not able to delete a directory; only got 'directory is not empty'-message even the directory were empty. Are you sure this is because of w95? You can also get a directory into this sta

Re: ALPHA release of apache-1.0.0-1 now available

1995-12-18 Thread Raul Miller
apache-httpd provides httpd (as does cern-httpd) so dpkg won't install one until the other is removed. This isn't completely optimal (for the people who want to use apache but also need a proxy server). Ideally, someone should write up a mini-howto on how to work around this simplicity feat

Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops

1995-12-19 Thread Raul Miller
Raul Miller: > I think there's a good answer to this question, but I doubt the > above workaround to the current package implementation of cron > will occur to very many people. Ian Jackson: How about taking cron out of rc*.d ? Plausible. Remember, this is a space-

Re: Debian+umsdos (fwd)

1995-12-19 Thread Raul Miller
Simon Shapiro: And why do we want this brain dead file system (which even M$ does not use for its own 1980 eras OS's) to boot a Unix O/S with? Please note that we shouldn't drop a user base just because Microsoft has stopped supporting them. More to the point, while "DOS" is a lousy operati

Re: Debian+umsdos (fwd)

1995-12-19 Thread Raul Miller
Richard Kettlewell: Actually I think it would be a good thing if we could support Debian entirely over UMSDOS - being able to run Linux without having to mess around repartitioning hard discs is going to make a lot of people a lot more willing to try it. Unfortunately, UMSDOS isn't rea

Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

1995-12-20 Thread Raul Miller
Since I don't really have anything invested in this debate, I'll throw in my last two cents and shut up. It seems to me that changing the very few packages which don't already conform to such a naming scheme would be much less disruptive than renaming every package. Also, a cheap w

Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops

1995-12-20 Thread Raul Miller
Is there any point in establishing an init runlevel for "undocked" operation - that is, using a laptop away from AC power? Some laptops are capable of sensing when they go on and off of AC and could change the run level on their own. I can think of situations where you would want cr

Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

1995-12-21 Thread Raul Miller
Once we decide on a package naming standard, we should tell the rest of the free software world what it is and encourage the upstream maintainers to stick to that format. Tell them without asking for comments? :-) [What was that about committees?] I lean towards Bill Mitchell's idea. [

Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

1995-12-21 Thread Raul Miller
Brian White: (the above is csh code... sorry!) I've not been following this discussion very closely, but here's a fairly literal translation of Brian's speedup to sh: for FILE in `sed -e 's/\(.*\)-\([^-]*\)-\([^.-]*\)\.\([^-]*\)$/\1/\2/\3/\4/'` do ( set `echo $FILE|tr / ' '` i

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-23 Thread Raul Miller
Also, don't forget about architecture-independent binaries... -- Raul

Re: Unanswered problem reports by maintainer

1995-12-26 Thread Raul Miller
The US debian-bugs mirror seems to be fairing worse than normal... Linkname: Not Found URL: http://www.cps.cmich.edu/~streeter/debian-bugs/ Owner(s): None size: 5 lines mode: normal -- Raul

Bug#2067: lynx -source can't find documents

1995-12-26 Thread Raul Miller
Package: lynx Version: 2.4.2 Revision: 1 lynx -source always fails. -- Raul

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-29 Thread Raul Miller
Simon Shapiro: How many people never compile their kernel and why? I generally try and use a debian kernel image until I have a specific reason not to. Then, I generally try to use the debian source until I have a specific reason not to. Then, I generally try to use one of Linus's snap shots

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-29 Thread Raul Miller
Matthew Bailey: > For those out there that are interested. I will make space available for > these ports, and allow each group to maintain uploads for the subtree. > > Please contact me if you are in need of an account for this use. Ian Murdock: Please don't do this. I'd rather t

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1996-01-02 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Murdock: I doubt there'll be a substantial number of architecture-neutral packages; we can either copy or link them into all of the trees. I suppose this depends on what you mean by substantial... Here's a list of packages that appear to be architecture-neutral, by cursory examination o

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1996-01-03 Thread Raul Miller
Juergen Menden: any package which needs to be compiled is of course not arch-independent. on my system here (sunos, not debian ;-)) at least the following are partially compiled: > ii dvips5.58f 2TeX DVI-driver for Postscript > ii fort77 1.6 1An f2

Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops

1996-01-04 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Jackson: Perhaps savelog should be moved into another package, then ? This seems like a very good idea. -- Raul

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1996-01-05 Thread Raul Miller
Raul Miller: > I think this is a bug in the debian packaging mechanisms. Ian Jackson: Well, I could change dpkg so that it would barf in this situation, rather than going ahead and removing the files from the earlier package, but I think that would have been less helpful. How ab

Re: IMP: downgrade ldso to bo: no ldso left!

1997-05-13 Thread Raul Miller
On May 13, David Engel wrote > This problem is not that simple. With the current dpkg, there is no > way to fix this even with a statically linked cp or ln. This is > because dpkg will remove ld-linux.so.1 before any postinst script gets > a chance to repair the damage. How about putting somethi

Re: list of bashisms

1997-05-19 Thread Raul Miller
Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There has just been a long list of bugs against packages using `bashisms' > > in their scripts, and I can certainly remember this issue coming up > > before. But I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly have no idea > > what features are availabl

Re: Unresolved Critical Bugs

1997-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
On May 19, Brian C. White wrote > 9259: j1 - Unresolved dependency report for j1 A fixed version of j1 is sitting in ~moth on master.debian.org and has been since last week. When I uploaded it, Incoming was not writeable, so I uploaded a copy to my home directory and sent email to

Re: Sending closed bug notices to interested parties.

1997-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
On May 21, Chris Walker wrote If I could get notification on a bug that I was particularly concerned with, I guess I'd use it about once a quarter. [That's about how often I run into bugs of that nature.] It would probably save me about 8-16 hours per quarter. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: using dselect with hamm/non-free, hamm/contrib

1997-05-21 Thread Raul Miller
On May 20, Buddha Buck wrote > Even with this, I can't get it to work. I'm running into the same > problem Mr. Hess reported. Using dir: /debian dist: unstable, I have > been able to get hamm, but no combination I've tried has allowed me to > get hamm/non-free or hamm/contrib. I can get the p

Re: Perl issues

1997-05-21 Thread Raul Miller
On May 21, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote > I'd really appreciate your input on these issues, so that I can go > forward with the Perl package. Don't let this slow down your work, but: one thing I've been itching for is a mechanism for CPAN installation to interoperate with the Debian package mana

bo boot disks

1997-05-22 Thread Raul Miller
I'm putting together a couple of debian systems tonight, and I've a couple problems (1) floppy installation forces you to re-install all floppies if there's any problems (e.g. checksum). So far, I've had one bad base disk 2, two bad base disk 3s, and a bad disk 4. That means that, for example, I

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-22 Thread Raul Miller
> '=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:' > > So I say: PS1="[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ " =D On May 21, Chris Fearnley wrote > No, PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' ! > > I guess this will become a flame war. So I'd prefer to leave prompt > alone. Or maybe the boot disks can have a dialog scr

Donald Becker's ethernet drivers

1997-05-23 Thread Raul Miller
Any chance of getting the ethernet drivers listed as "supported" in the ethernet howto, but stored at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov instead of in the main linux kernel, included in the base debian kernel distribution? -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

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