> mozilla-browser is 30 megabytes and duplicates the vast majority of
> firefox
Is 30M of disk space really that precious these days? I can't imagine
trying to run software that uses GTKMozEmbed on an embedded device
where space is truly at a premium.
And splitting hairs like this is partially
> Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every
> half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production
> systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS?
Sure I do. But I run a production environment with several hundred
machines in it. W
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it?
Yes.
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> You'll find this file on your favourite Debian mirror in
> /debian/doc/mailing-lists.txt. This file is a complete rewrite.
Hmm. I'm wondering about the last three paragraphs of this file:
1) Have we actually collected any money this way? :)
2) Shouldn't these read, now that SPI is incor
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian
> to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient).
It's not really a very scriptable thing, I think. Following the HOW-TO
at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/libc5-libc
A package I'm maintaining, rosegarden, has come out with dependencies on
xlib6 AND xlib6g. I didn't do this by hand, I left the "shlibs" stuff in
the control file. I would purge xlib6 from the system, but a lot of
packages I need on a daily basis need xlib6. How do I correct this?
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
> BTW I'd be interested to hear any justification of why <--- == DEL
Well, from a sheer visual standpoint, seeing an arrow pointing to the
left, like on the BS key (<--), makes one think that pushing that
button's going to move the cursor that way, jus
Anytime I do "insmod sound" or run any program which causes kerneld to
have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while --
between 30 and 60 seconds. Then it returns to normality and the sound
stuff works fine.
This problem doesn't occur when the sound module is unloaded either
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Anytime I do "insmod sound" or run any program which causes kerneld to
> > have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while --
> > between 30 and 60 seconds. Then it returns to normality and the sound
> > stuff works fine.
>
> What do
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Did the same configuration work for a previous kernel? Which sound
> driver are you using anyway?
Seemed to work ok, previously. I was using kernel 2.0.30 for a while and
switched to 2.0.29 after reported problems with 2.0.30. My system is
entirely hamm,
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > > Anytime I do "insmod sound" or run any program which causes kerneld to
> > > > have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while --
Thanks for your help. I managed to find another copy of an old .config
file for my kernel compiles,
On 17 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> > download them is closing the barn door after the horses have eaten the
> > chickens.
Horses are vegetarians anyway.
Will
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On 26 Dec 1997, Marco Budde wrote:
> JH> Id released doom's source code today, so I will be able to make a current
> JH> x11 elf build of doom. Due to copyright, it will go in non-free. I will
>
> Great, but then we need a new non-german section :). You're not allowed to
> give doom and quake (
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Ted Holden wrote:
> with xxgdb, but I can't even get Tk 80p2 to configure and make under
> Debian.
Why bother? There are debian packages of tcl 8.0 and tk 8.0 at
ftp.debian.org, or you can search for them at
http://www.debian.org/packages.html
It means you'll have to upgr
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Jon Björklund wrote:
> What I want is to get my user named ceed to be as powerful as root but
> at the same time it shouldn't be root. Is there a way of fixing this??
Well, you can use sudo, which lets normal users to superuser tasks.
> And I do not want to go around su:ing
On 28 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Marco> But non-free is mirrored on several FTP servers in Germany. And
> Marco> a child could download the games from a German FTP server and
> Marco> this is not allowed.
Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory, which just
wouldn't get
On 29 Dec 1997, Marco Budde wrote:
> WL> Would it be allowed for us to have a non-duetch directory, which just
> That's ok.
> WL> It's going to get nuts if we have to have a non- directory for
> WL> every country, but maybe we'll have to do this. If that's the case,
> I would prefer a flag in
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh,
> I accidently typed in an incorrect path to the shell I wanted. Being
Learn to use sudo, when you need to work as root. It helps eliminate
some "oops"es that can really fuggle
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 04:24:22PM +0100, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> > while we are setting the clock to be 64 bit rather than 32 bitr, couldnt
> > we also just set the 0
> > to be 1/1-2000 00:00:00 ?
> There is really no advantage to that. 64 bits will last
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Then if we want to change the licence we publish version 2 instead,
> leaving version 1 available but stating that it is no longer
> available. Users of the logo have to go and check each year that the
These last two sentences are a little wacky. You mean
On Tue, 5 May 1998, The Gecko wrote:
> Ok... I can't seem to find a linux PGP program -- commercial, shareware,
> freeware, open source, GPL, anything... can any one point me in the right
> direction
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-5.html#ss5.11
It looks like Woody has moved to the archives:
http://archive.debian.org/dists/woody/
... I didn't see an announcment about it to any of the usual lists,
but perhaps I missed it. FYI, there probably still are companies
(like mine :) running large numbers of Woody boxes for legacy
applications wh
Oh, and ... archive.debian.org doesn't seem to be rsync-enabled. Is
there anyplace that has woody and *does* support rsync?
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:48:13PM -0800, Will Lowe wrote:
> It looks like Woody has moved to the archives:
>
> http://archive.debian.org/dists/woody/
>
> > This is an excellent question for debian-user. Or Google.
>
> And a question which has been answered countless times and is even
Given that this comes up so often, is there a reason not to add an
option to update-rc.d that does this? The problem here is that
"remove" sounds like "disable th
> It does exactly as suggested above:
> * remove existing symlinks
> * add stop with priority 0
> * remember original priorities when enabling them later on
... but is not scriptable. I'm thinking of environments like a large
number of hosts managed with cfengine -- update-rc.d is a handy
one-lin
> - When apt runs to upgrade packages, it will call a new program (which
> I plan to write) in the same way that it calls
> dpkg-preconfigure. TNP would scan the list of upgraded packages,
I've had the same thought, but not enough time to begin such a project.
I wonder if there would be some
> Debconf integration doesn't seem all that likely, as the two are
> fairly orthagonal. (In the Debian world, configuration and
> configuration files seem to be rather distinct things.)
Yes, they're pretty distinct, but it seems a little counterintuitive to
have to "configure" a package twice: o
> I am interested in becoming a Debian developer. The information in
> Debian Developer's Reference section 2.2 mentions that I can send in a
> copy of my ID to certify my identity, but it does not specify an
> address to send this to.
You would send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], along with the rest
> > I tried, but it would not build and failed in several places.
>
> Ditto.
>
Yup. I have actually resolved most of these issues (not all), and I've
been thinking about setting up a package. I actually started working on a
package of the (still-alpha-quality) Gseq sequencer, but it needs some
> But that makes no sense ... I'm a Debian developer, but I have no
> access to any m68k machines. Yet potato, which includes some of my
> work, can't be released ... and I can do nothing about it?
According to http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, you can get an account on
kullervo.debian.org.
> >I just put it in /var/secure-bind.
>
> I tend to put play chroots under my home directory, and chroots for
> production daemons under /var/chroot.
>
> A pity that the FHS doesn't comment on that.
How about /var/lib/bind/chroot?
> This will probably clash with a non-chrooted bind on the same machine.
> I don't like it.
Hmm, why would you have both?
I'm looking at fixing a bug on one of my packages:
http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20080229
... the binary in question isn't being built because it wants to use
dbopen(3).We seem to have a manpage for dbopen(3) but no library
that provides it. Is the only option to port the code to the
> Part of maintaining a virus scanner may well include backporting
> things, and that may be a fair bit of work to do. There are
> But that doesn't mean that stability has become less important, it
At one point do we decide that the backport may have had a significant
impact on stability?
Say
> Programming is not a matter of "ripping out code". Backporting
> requires actually understanding all the changes, not some kind of
> mechanical process.
Ok, point taken.
My argument is just that even if you backport the important features
of a new release into an old codebase, it's hard to m
> if you leave at least one symlink in at least one runlevel, even if
> its a K link in runlevel 0 or 6 update-rc.d will refuse to add any new
> links. policy requires the use of update-rc.d so packages can't add
> any links so long as you leave at least one. if you find a package
> that does oth
> That's a good hack, but I still think update-rc.d should support it
> directly. I was surprised to see portmap restarted after an ugrade when
> I'd previously done "update-rc.d -f remove portmap".
That was my feeling, that most users would probably wonder why it was
started again.
> Actually there are some packages that depend on a mail-transport-agent,
> (such as lilo->logrotate->mailx), yet one may not want to have an MTA
> running on certain systems. I suppose a dummy or minimal MTA may be
I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of
some sort
> > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of
> > some sort (even if it's local-only, which is supported by eximconfig).
> This is true, but does it need to be world-accessible? There should
> be a way to either have it listen on localhost only, or not listen on
Sure
> - Package installation, upgrade, deinstallation over the net[2]
> [2] think of 'apt-get --host webserver.my.org install apache'
> or security updates to be done on numerous machines
Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda
imposing. Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh t
> Is there any deb available for it?
Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it
seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb
containing 139 lines of perl.
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In the process of installing a tape drive so I could back up /etc and my
dpkg selections, I've managed to hose /etc ... just the top-level
directory; all the subdirectories are fine.
Is there some way (once I get a passwd file back, probably by copying
over the passwd file from a rescue disk an
subject says it all...
Will
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I've just installed Jim Pick's Gnome .20 .debs and they're all complaining
that libungif.so.3 can't be found. Where would it be? There's no
libungif package, according to www.debian.org/packages.html.
thanks,
Will
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On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
> The libungif package should be there too, though. Did you check
> incoming?
I eventually found it in "graphics" rather than "libs" ... I'm a little
unclear on whether that is in line with our policy or not.
Thanks for your help. I'm assuming t
> As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been
> popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be
> good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:->
Famous Free Software personalities?
Debian Stallman, Debian Raymond (ok, so I might get in trouble for tha
FSViewer is a NeXT filesystem browser. It's available from
someplace under http://www.csn.ul.ie/~clernong/ (I'd give an exact link
but I don't seem to be able to connect to that host right now...)
Will
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Did we already have a discussion about this?
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