Re: [Release Notes] Use Woody's or Sarge's aptitude for upgrades?

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
. Beside it is unclear to the reader when you have written the text and which stable you mean. (I think you mean sarge?) Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
things, then geez, you should be > getting rid of nearly every separate directory. You missed the point. It is not about getting rid of directories it is about creating a new one. And nobody has yet shown numbers which provide good reasons to introduce the new dir (with all the hard work

Re: [Release Notes] Use Woody's or Sarge's aptitude for upgrades?

2005-05-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ould check if > he has already updated anything; he will be largely on his own > if that should produce problems. Yes, I wonder if we should force downgrade? > 4. The consensus seems to be that using "sarge" instead of "stable" is > more secure as it will prevent

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
of the stable > distro or net installable cd images. And you cant do QA nur security update, create additional mirror load on stable and kill cd distributors. I think you can do that for non-core packages like bsd packages, but the base system must be released as a whole. Greetings Bernd

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
to thousand files/symlinks. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release update: freeze progress, closing date for non-RC fixes

2005-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
uld the changelog simply contain unparseable bug numbers? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers

2005-05-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
fectively we do bug squasing to close those bugs. The fact that they are open means they are not trivially fixed or nobody cares. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-05-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
evel/2005/05/msg00919.html by Steve. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dear Adrian Bunk, Please hold off a week or two

2005-05-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
malice what can be explained by ignorance". Maybe you just don't > realise that you're pestering the release team and others and drawing > them into pointless debates which won't help release sarge. Actually I am glad somebody is working public visible on the release issu

Re: Problems with: Bug#295706: "Preferences" is empty

2005-05-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
more likely between releases). I think we had something about this in the last release notes and can put the same text in the upcoming. If thats your only upgrade problem, we are really very very good:) Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ter which he sends to the receipient. This is called "postident". That way you can do age checks and idendity proofs. However you have to trust a random person to do the job right. PGP has (undefined) assurance levels to express this. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
on the definition of fork. however ubuntu can still cooperate and upstream and dd are still able to reuse ubuntus work (patches). Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-06-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
is really no difference in saying "we will ship at x" or "we hope and plan to ship at x". You could write "we know we will not ship before x" is most likely more honest :) Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Debian Package Customization HOWTO

2005-06-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
er architectures do not actually clean after every > package build, but the concept is the same)." Which is not true for binary uploads (especially on i386). Those are unfortunatelly official packages without rebuilding and without a clean environment. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: List of interface names (eth*, dummy*, ath*, tap*)

2005-06-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
you can try to prefer "eth" over "ndis" over "usb*" over "ppp" over "tap" over "sit" over "sl" > The > goal is to try to select the most relevant interface one would display > network traffic for. perhaps it makes sense

Bug#312282: release-notes: --guess?

2005-06-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
version) in the official release" Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCC (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
n, Colombian, Israili, Indian, Moroccan and > | Ukrainian mirrors, already carry only a subset of architectures. Indeed, 30% > | of all our mirrors don't include all release architectures. which is actually a good thing, the syncing of the mirrors is more traffic than the few clients usi

Re: German newsticker announcements and architectures

2005-06-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
t it because it is nearly the only positive feature you can find in there. I dont think the fact matters to them, they are just kind. Wait for a review, it is only a PR ticker. Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ports helping in World Domination?

2005-06-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ich is really available to them, no matter > whether we like it or not. Too bad we dont support i386 anymore. And most first world users care about x86_64, which is also not released. Looks like the World has to wait before beeing dominated. Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
for reponses on the developer mailing list. Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Wrong. iproute does much more than route/ifconfig, which cannot support > all the features of >= 2.4 networking stacks. However this is neighter something which cant be fixed nor is this the question. Gruss B

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:42:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I don't understand what would be wrong with having a symlink in /bin ... Because this applies to most of the programs in /sbin. It would be easier to just merge both directories. Gruss Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL P

Re: I need some advice on Bug #153070

2005-06-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
to ignore it. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Probably because there's no solid reason against a symlink. Yes, and since ip puts one, too, I can do the same. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-06-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
. Not that I like it, but a link in etc to the log direcoty is as good as a config gile containing "logdir=". Only that the former is easier to use. And since debian does place a lot of (alternative) links in etc it is a well accepted config method. However I am not sure if it is used that

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

2005-06-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
we need a way to store URLs in filesystem) etc. Why not? If those locations are runtime configurable, which makes great sense for scaleable database applications. Ever looked in /etc/alternatives? Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

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

2005-06-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
: cat /etc/app/logdir/logfile.txt Personally I think the second is much cleaner and faster. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-06-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
nd /etc/alternatives/ semantics in that case. Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing package installation, upgrading, and removal

2005-06-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Using lvm is the fastest way to do this. Alternatives are to copy or > untar a clean chroot for every test. But that needs more time. You can also use a loopback file and make a copy of it. Or use UML. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Bug#53121: hostname

2005-06-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
production mode will use any sombolic name which is different from FQDN and therefore hand configured. See the man page for "hostname" describing the methods to get those names. Gruss Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://www

Re: Section for a new package

2005-06-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
anges anyway), right? > > Yes, you do. You can ship the generated file instead. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > That's true, and unavoidable in this scheme; but the use case (beyond > fastidiousness) for this is not clear to me. Well, how do you audit the files and purge stale entries. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Soliciting keys for the debconf5 key signing party in Helsinki

2005-07-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
name, keyid, length/algo and fingerprint one can use that list for checkmarking the read fngerprints. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Soliciting keys for the debconf5 key signing party in Helsinki

2005-07-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > If you produce a List with name, keyid, length/algo and fingerprint one can > use that list for checkmarking the read fngerprints. Sorry I didnt notice that you provide multiple lists. Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ore dupload was fixed). This is just awaste of time if it does not work with sane defaults. bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-12 Thread Bernd Schubert
autotools while there's this nice cmake? The cmake build system might even get accepted by Joerg, as it can create makefiles for MS compilers (I know, its not important to this list and also not to me, but it seems to be important for Joerg). Cheers, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Bernd Schubert
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:58:13AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: >> On 12-Aug-06, 09:09 (CDT), Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > At 1155391794 past the epoch, Bernd Schubert wrote: >> > > Btw, why always the autotools

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-15 Thread Bernd Schubert
> Would you be willing to cooperate, or is my knowledge too low to be > useful for you? > Ubuntu already has vmware kernel module packages, I have a slightly bugfixed version of the debian/ directory. The package name is a bit strange, but my 2 minute attempt to modify it failed, nee

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-18 Thread Bernd Schubert
Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:03:31 +0200, Bernd Schubert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Ubuntu already has vmware kernel module packages > > Yes, but adapting them to Debian seems to be nontrivial. I have not > yet been able to get them build on Debi

#379113: python-soappy: fpconst failure on 64 Bit

2006-10-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
provides some useful functions. * I've packaged a version of python-soappy which includes the fix for #379113 - would be good if somebody could look trough it and get it into Debian as I'm no DD. The files are here: http://debian.recluse.de/python-soappy/ Thanks a lot, best regards Ber

Re: [q] maintainance of xfsprogs and util-linux

2006-11-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
n into problems with xfs due to hardware-failures which were not possible to fix with the xfs_repair included in etch (after I managed to get a disk dump from the buggy hardware..). WOuld be really nice to hve an uptodate version of the xfs tools in etch. Cheers, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-23 Thread Bernd Schubert
Michael Prokop wrote: > * Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> inside their prerm maintainer scripts. If stopping $PACKAGE through >>> invoke-rc.d/init-script fails, removing the package fails as well. > >>> Using: > >>> invoke

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-23 Thread Bernd Schubert
ts (e.g. with sid) where no daemon is running and invoke-rc.d will only do an "exit 0" in those chroots. Using the method above, wouldn't there be any chance that a bad init script could kill daemons started outside the chroot? Thanks, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-24 Thread Bernd Schubert
xecute the commands one after the other. Sorry for the noise. Cheers, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel modules postinst script

2006-07-22 Thread Bernd Schubert
hy is not something like this used? #!/bin/sh set -e SYSTEMMAP=/boot/System.map-_KVERS_ if [ -f $SYSTEMMAP ] ; then depmod -ae -F $SYSTEMMAP _KVERS_ elif [ "`uname -r`" = "_KVERS_" ] ; then depmod -a & fi Thanks, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
it). Just dont stop anyone volunteering from fixing it. I for one are happy if the strace of a process keeps readable in finite time, so do system administrators with auditing turned on. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http:/

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
en stable and testing versions. And I miss that often (on the other hand I really think openssh could be a bit more forgiving in respect to "ListenAddress ::" w/o -6. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hwcap supporting architectures?

2005-01-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
cached in the ld.so.cache? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://www.eckes.org/ o--o 1024D/E383CD7E [EMAIL PROTECTED] v:+497211603874 f:+497211606754 (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy uni

Re: fileutils can now replace perforate...

1996-08-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
o it). The question is, which filesystem generates sparse files and has problems with it? Generally, wht is the problem with sparse files? They seem to be completely transparent to me (except for cluttering the disk, perhaps). Greetings Bernd

Bug#4006: Fileutils has /usr/libexec directory

1996-08-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
e new FHS will include /usr/libexec and a few other changes which wil require a lot of new packages to be released. Personally I like the new draft very much. Greetings Bernd

gcc and binutils

1996-08-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, ist it possile that on a fresh new install gcc is installed before binutils is installed, and therefore fail to configure? If I run configure afterwards everything is fine. Will dpkg install a package first if it sees that other ones depend on it? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL

Re: Bug#4152: psupdate writes /etc/psdatabase, not /boot/psdatabase

1996-08-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
t;state"). Another place would be /var/run, but /boot should not be touched/required after boot. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush*

Bug#4161: /dev/idsn instead of isdn in MAKEDEV

1996-08-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
idsnctrl$no c 45 `math 64 + $no` $system Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO) If privacy is outlawed only Outlaws have

Bug#4161: dev/idsn instead of isdn in MAKEDEV

1996-08-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > Please send that diff again. The one in your report isn't right. sorry, forget to chage it :) just replace idsn with isdn 2 times :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plus

Re: CC's on this mailing list

1996-08-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
course email programs could be fixed to be able to deal with mailinglists which dont set the From/Reply-To). Greetings Bernd

Re: how to test for SLIP devices

1996-08-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
linemode, there is no entry in /proc/net/dev. There is no real good way to check for slip availability other than stting up a pty and tryaing an slattach (or soemthing similiar). Greetings Bernd

Bug#4190: moderate security hole in telnetd

1996-08-19 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
or SUID/SGID programs, too? If yes, there can be situations where ppl can fake address/name mappings which would be otherwise trusted (cause they ae in /etc/hosts). Removing that feature sounds like the best solution Greetings bernd

Bug#4309: no manpage in net-acct

1996-08-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
, only commented out :) Greetings Bernd

Bug#4317: xosview should display cached mem

1996-08-28 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
, since its seatic has changd (can be more than physical memory for multiple usage). Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO

Bug#4331: linux-security] [linux-alert] SECURITY FIX/UPDATE: anonftp (fwd)

1996-08-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
problem ist... But I guess a strip down binary version of tar together with a striped down binary version of ls (both static) would be a nice idea to be included in wu-ftpd package. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~e

Bug#4360: bug in route man page

1996-09-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > the example is missing -net before 224.0.0.0. fixed in net-tools-1.33-alpha (upstream version, not yet released). Greetings Bernd

Re: Packages that still need a maintainer

1996-09-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, add me: ircii Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings Bernd

backup of file

1996-09-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
.dpkg-old" ok? This would be deleted after the first successfull run of liloconfig. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C51749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +4972573817 *plush* (OO

ITP Network::ipv4addr and fwctl

1999-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ad the files soon to the master debian FTP site. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawe

experiemntal fwctl

1999-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
starting or auto-configuring the /etc/fwctl/ files. You can say "fwctl flush" to remove all rules and make your host non-firewalled. fwctl stop will stop your host to communicate with the world! Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,

Re: corel linux demo

1999-09-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
etings Bernd

[bladi@EUSKALNET.NET: Fwd: ircii-4.4 buffer overflow]

2000-03-12 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
I uploaded ircII-4.4M to incoming on master for frozen and unstable. This should fix the mentioned bug, also I cant find a note about it in the upstreams changelog file. Greetings Bernd - Forwarded message from bladi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deliver

Re: Permission policy

2000-03-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
anyway since everybody even on networked terminal could start it. Greetings Bernd

first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, need to spell check it, but i guess it might be helpfull anyway: aptitude (c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany aptitude is a front-end to apt and dpkg, the Debian GNU/Linux Package Management tools. It tries to provide a nice user interface to every-day package management on

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:33:43AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > (c) Copyright 2000, Bernd Eckenfels, Germany > > Please don't assert copyright without including a license. Actually there is no difference if the line is present or not, as long as i dont claim otherwise it

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ket state), but IMHO aptitude is a great advance over the dselect. Especially because of the new package feature and the preview feature. The last functio i am missing is a "install this" function, which avods to upgrade others (i use "apt-get install" for that). Greetings Bernd

Re: Bug#69090: strange su / which / apt behaviour

2000-08-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:47:29AM -0400, David Grill Watson wrote: > It wasn't like that before - and should something be done about that? It > seems pretty broken to me. you can just link root's xauthority file to yours. or use XAUTHORITY= Greetings Bernd

Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
s the best. This is especially for CD Manucatureres and Security Admin important. It is also important if you want to talk about events in the past. Greetings Bernd

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
t apt lib. aptitude is even more vulnerable to this... at least the cache does work so u d/l it only once. Greetings Bernd

Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
to avoid bad informed/educated usrs to run into a trap. Greetings Bernd

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ase it sees a difference must be related two different sources provide the same package entry. then it downloads the pakcage from one source and compares it with the entry of another source. Hmm.. i will watch the problems and report them. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
s done by dh_make now automatically. Greetings Bernd

update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, if i take for example: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~ajt/update_excuses.html adns 1.0-3 (low) Maintainer: Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adns is 27 days out of date! out of date on alpha: libadns0, libadns0-dev (from 0.8-2) out of date o

Re: update excuses.. how to read them

2000-12-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
bins are missing". Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: the experimental mutt package

2000-12-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Fetch (Documentatio issue I guess) it works fine for me. The Documentation is somewhat outdated, the manual talks from value "ask" een if that is not supported (instead: ask-no, ask-yes) BTW: you will upload it to sid not woody :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
erl alternatives and replacing the files of older versions in thepostinst. IMHO a policy violation at least. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -, Moshe Zadka wrote: > I would do, but I'm not at all sure if mod_perl works with Perl 5.6. > Last I heard, they weren't playing well together. Works for me with "slash". I only need to fix the Perl alternatives. Greetings Bernd

Re: X 4 and app-defaults

2000-12-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
/XEarth /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/XEarth /etc/X11/ko_KR.eucKR/app-defaults/XEarth I would prefer /etc/X11/app-defaults// as man is doing. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/

libapache-mod-perl does not activate the module

2000-12-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
on to activate it in my postist script (or call the apacheconfig script, but i am not sure if that will help), or should i file a wishlist bug agaianst libapache-mod-perl, requiring it to automatically add it to the list of loaded modules (like some others, like php are doing). Greetings Bernd --

Re: out-of-date ftp.debian.org

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
P Servers, too. Check ftp-master.debian.org instead if you want to be sure. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O___

libgd's dependency on xlib stops netsaint from "testing"

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
is not yet moved to testing. It would be nice if you can avoid using xlibs, which in turn depends in xfree86-common. libgd1g 1.7.3 was fine in that respect Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
guess it is quite unrelated to the development of Debian. It's more a topic of linux-kernel or glibc, right? You can also look at fakeroot or the mount --bind option or simply chroot. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http:/

Re: libgd's dependency on xlib stops netsaint from "testing"

2000-12-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
d1 wont be moved to testing unless xlibs is moved there. Well.. perhaps it is possible to remove the dependency from xlibs to xfree86-common? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048

Re: tcpdump bug???

2000-12-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
faster for normal operation that way: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9707.0/0066.html Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257

Re: Questions about testing

2000-12-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
of testing a lot. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: Linux Progress Patch for Debian available!

2000-12-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
that patch into the kernel, long ago. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: Boxed Penguin Prototype showcases customization of Debian to build infrastructure server

2001-01-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Management and Bugzilla Tracker) I may have a deeper look into writing some docu about it. Unfortunatelly I dont have any idea about PAM/LDAP, Kerberos or AFS, so I have to educate myself on those topics :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
you mean -u? i use "apt-get -ufm". But I agree whith you, that essential packages like perl should be checked a bit more before they shoot you in the foot, but those days are gone! since they wont pass unstable->testing anymore. So, just dont run 'sid' but woody and you a

Re: Configure error for lm-sensors (2.5.4-2)

2001-01-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
quot;$major/$device" in Character/*|Block/*|''/*|*/*%*) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO

Re: PERL MAINTAINERS SUCK - COMPLETE MORONS

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
the old perl packages where broken in the postinst more or less. For example the additional alternatives like the man page is not a slave link to the bin. Of course that is less of a problem, since it does not break the system, like perl-5.6 does. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: resolution of the tar -I issue

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:08:23PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > sounds very good. besides that -j ("junkzip"?) is NON-DESCRIPTIVE at all. -Z or -2 would be better... but thats an Upstream Issue I guess. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EM

Re: IA-64?

2001-01-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
their TestDrive Web Site and they offer Debian Test Drives. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography i

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
er. and they ship a GNU Version in some extra dir. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is out

debconfig: package description

2003-05-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
opens a pop-up with the package description and dependencies. What do you think? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
commit, and the package can be build for those who are ready. This might generate a autobuilder and testing-transition problem :( Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD

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