To early for keysigning (Delaware)?

2000-12-12 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
Yesterday I put my name on the applicant list for the New Maintainer program, and I was wondering: Is it too early to put my name on the Debian Key Signing Coordination Page to start looking for someone to sign my key for the identification phase? And if it's not, and someone reading this is locate

Re: To early for keysigning (Delaware)?

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:09:38AM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > Yesterday I put my name on the applicant list for the New Maintainer > program, and I was wondering: Is it too early to put my name on the Debian > Key Signing Coordination Page to start looking for someone to sign my key > for th

Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created binaries which call "ssh" instead of "rsh". I am not sure at all about the current situation surrounding crypto. Does being able to execute ssh belong to non-US ? My best guess is that just being able to execute

Re: To early for keysigning (Delaware)?

2000-12-12 Thread Steve Robbins
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > Yesterday I put my name on the applicant list for the New Maintainer > program, and I was wondering: Is it too early to put my name on the Debian > Key Signing Coordination Page to start looking for someone to sign my key > for the identification pha

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created > binaries which > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". It seems this will slow things down a LOT, and considering MPI is usually used for high-performance computing, I wouldn't make this stand

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:41:55 -0500 Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit : > > Hi, > > > > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have > > created binaries which > > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". > > It seems this will slow things down a LOT, and co

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:35:27 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created > binaries which > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". Why not use environment variables for rsh/ssh program name (like $CVS_RSH for cvs, $RSYNC

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:35:05PM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote: > Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have > > created binaries which > > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". > Why not use environment variables for rsh/ssh progra

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Junichi Uekawa | It would be a non-problem if ssh provided rsh. It does, kind of: $ls -l /etc/alternatives/rsh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 nov 17 16:23 \ /etc/alternatives/rsh -> /usr/bin/ssh* how about having mpich depending on rsh | ssh, and then using the link in alternativ

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, In 12 Dec 2000 16:15:35 +0100 Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit : > | It would be a non-problem if ssh provided rsh. > > It does, kind of: > > $ls -l /etc/alternatives/rsh > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 nov 17 16:23 \ > /etc/alternatives/rsh -> /usr/b

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Junichi Uekawa | > how about having mpich depending on rsh | ssh, and then using the link | > in alternatives? | | No, the right way will be the package providing rsh having a "Provides: rsh" | in its description. | | A bug report is due, I think. perhaps so. | > | > | Now, what about a pa

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Wed, 13 Dec 2000 01:12:59 +0900 Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit : > > No, the right way will be the package providing rsh having a "Provides: rsh" > in its description. Sorry, mistake. The "virtual names" policy states it's "Provides: rsh-client". regards,

Re: subarchitectures (was Re: What to do with optimization flags ? )

2000-12-12 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! This is a good question, and I'd like to solicit the feedback of likely atlas users on this. 1) Would you prefer the package to a) install the best binary for your system b) install all binaries appropriate to you arch under the appropriate /usr/lib/??? director

RE: jove Package - what to do?

2000-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Dec-2000 Cord Beermann wrote: > Hi. > > I've built a new jove-package, that now matches the current standards, > i also added some debhelper functions, a beginners menu, activated the > recovery-function, and fixed the Bug that stops it from working on the > Hurd. > > The current maintaine

RE: unattandend maintainer(s) - what do I do?

2000-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2000 Michael Moerz wrote: > Hi! > > Just in case that I have detected an unattandend maintainer > who hasn't fixed bugs at least for half a year and never > answeres to direct mails ( have been waiting for an answere > now more than a month ), what should I do? > > I am really interest

Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread James Leigh
Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a kernel? I litteraly get it hundreds of times (seriously). I wrote a script that gives up after 256 errors, and I it still times outs. I am using debian woody with kernel 2.2.17. I do have bin86 installed and these other pro

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
James Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a >kernel? [...] >cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 Chances are you've got hardware problems, probably bad memory. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>. -- Col

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Pete Lypkie
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > > I am using debian woody with kernel 2.2.17. > I do have bin86 installed and these other programs too: > gcc2.95.2-20 > make 3.79.1-1 > bin86 0.15.3-1 > binutils 2.10.1.0.2-1 > bzip2 1.0.1

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a > kernel? Are you overclocking your CPU? This problem is probably caused by memory corruption, which sometimes happens when you overclock your CPU too much. Or i

RE: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Dec-2000 James Leigh wrote: > Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a > kernel? > > I litteraly get it hundreds of times (seriously). I wrote a script that > gives up after 256 errors, and I it still times outs. > please take this to debian-user, debian-m

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Joe Drew
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > I do not have as much trouble compiling programs, but real trouble > compiling a kernel. This is the error I always get. It seems that it > returns the error for almost every f*n *.c file in there, one after > another. Some of then t

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Josh Huber
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a > kernel? > > I litteraly get it hundreds of times (seriously). I wrote a script that > gives up after 256 errors, and I it still times outs. > > I am using deb

ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

2000-12-12 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: water Severity; wishlist Description: water is a nice graphical water effect demo written using SDL. You have lots of options to cause many different effectsm like rain, swirls, blobs etc. Copyright: Copyright (C) 1997 Scott Scriven License: GPL Upstream URL: http://www.libsdl.org/p

NMU jove - looking for a sponsor.

2000-12-12 Thread Cord Beermann
ok. i hope that i'm at the right place to ask this. I think it would be good to have a mentor as this would be my first official Debian-package] >> I've built a new jove-package, that now matches the current standards, >> i also added some debhelper functions, a beginners menu, activated the >> re

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: >... > > gcc2.95.2-20 >... > First of all, i believe you should compile 2.2.17 with gcc version 2.7.2 > > you can install it from the package called "gcc272". > > IIRC, the 2.4 series has moved to using gcc 2.95, but 2.2 still needs gcc > 2.7.2 >

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:41:55AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > You might look into making it work with kerberos4kth's krsh/krshd for strong > authentication > without the encryption overhead. Unless you really need all communication to > be encrypted > (doing classified computations on an

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread James Leigh
It turns out it was an overclocked cpu problem. Thanks for the all help, I guess I will have to get a bigger fan, before I can really overclock my AMD350. You cannot imagen the weight off my shoulders now that I can compile again. I was sceptical about it being my memory because my 128MB 16x64 D

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Hunt
I used to get this error many years ago on a Cyrix processor with redhat 4. Redhat had a patch for it. Are you running a Cyrix processor? On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:30:19PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: > > >... > > > gcc2.95.2-20 > >... > > Fir

creating man pages

2000-12-12 Thread Drew Parsons
What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page? I'll be needing to do that with some of my packages, but it just occurred to me I don't actually know how, apart from cutting and pasting in a text editor. My guess is there's a simple manpage editor out there, or a sensible emacs mode,

Re: creating man pages

2000-12-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:35:45AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page? > > I'll be needing to do that with some of my packages, but it just occurred to > me I don't actually know how, apart from cutting and pasting in a text > editor. My gues

Re: To early for keysigning (Delaware)?

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:09:38AM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > Yesterday I put my name on the applicant list for the New Maintainer > program, and I was wondering: Is it too early to put my name on the Debian > Key Signing Coordination Page to start looking for someone to sign my key > for t

Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created binaries which call "ssh" instead of "rsh". I am not sure at all about the current situation surrounding crypto. Does being able to execute ssh belong to non-US ? My best guess is that just being able to execute

Re: To early for keysigning (Delaware)?

2000-12-12 Thread Steve Robbins
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > Yesterday I put my name on the applicant list for the New Maintainer > program, and I was wondering: Is it too early to put my name on the Debian > Key Signing Coordination Page to start looking for someone to sign my key > for the identification ph

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created >binaries which > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". It seems this will slow things down a LOT, and considering MPI is usually used for high-performance computing, I wouldn't make this standa

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:41:55 -0500 Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit : > > Hi, > > > > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created >binaries which > > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". > > It seems this will slow things down a LOT, and cons

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:35:27 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created >binaries which > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". Why not use environment variables for rsh/ssh program name (like $CVS_RSH for cvs, $RSYNC

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:35:05PM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote: > Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created >binaries which > > call "ssh" instead of "rsh". > Why not use environment variables for rsh/ssh program

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Junichi Uekawa | It would be a non-problem if ssh provided rsh. It does, kind of: $ls -l /etc/alternatives/rsh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 nov 17 16:23 \ /etc/alternatives/rsh -> /usr/bin/ssh* how about having mpich depending on rsh | ssh, and then using the link in alternati

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, In 12 Dec 2000 16:15:35 +0100 Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit : > | It would be a non-problem if ssh provided rsh. > > It does, kind of: > > $ls -l /etc/alternatives/rsh > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 nov 17 16:23 \ > /etc/alternatives/rsh -> /usr/b

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Junichi Uekawa | > how about having mpich depending on rsh | ssh, and then using the link | > in alternatives? | | No, the right way will be the package providing rsh having a "Provides: rsh" | in its description. | | A bug report is due, I think. perhaps so. | > | > | Now, what about a p

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Wed, 13 Dec 2000 01:12:59 +0900 Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit : > > No, the right way will be the package providing rsh having a "Provides: rsh" > in its description. Sorry, mistake. The "virtual names" policy states it's "Provides: rsh-client". regards,

Re: subarchitectures (was Re: What to do with optimization flags ? )

2000-12-12 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! This is a good question, and I'd like to solicit the feedback of likely atlas users on this. 1) Would you prefer the package to a) install the best binary for your system b) install all binaries appropriate to you arch under the appropriate /usr/lib/??? directo

RE: jove Package - what to do?

2000-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Dec-2000 Cord Beermann wrote: > Hi. > > I've built a new jove-package, that now matches the current standards, > i also added some debhelper functions, a beginners menu, activated the > recovery-function, and fixed the Bug that stops it from working on the > Hurd. > > The current maintain

RE: unattandend maintainer(s) - what do I do?

2000-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Dec-2000 Michael Moerz wrote: > Hi! > > Just in case that I have detected an unattandend maintainer > who hasn't fixed bugs at least for half a year and never > answeres to direct mails ( have been waiting for an answere > now more than a month ), what should I do? > > I am really interes

Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread James Leigh
Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a kernel? I litteraly get it hundreds of times (seriously). I wrote a script that gives up after 256 errors, and I it still times outs. I am using debian woody with kernel 2.2.17. I do have bin86 installed and these other pr

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
James Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a >kernel? [...] >cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 Chances are you've got hardware problems, probably bad memory. See http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>. -- Co

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Pete Lypkie
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > > I am using debian woody with kernel 2.2.17. > I do have bin86 installed and these other programs too: > gcc2.95.2-20 > make 3.79.1-1 > bin86 0.15.3-1 > binutils 2.10.1.0.2-1 > bzip2 1.0.

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a > kernel? Are you overclocking your CPU? This problem is probably caused by memory corruption, which sometimes happens when you overclock your CPU too much. Or

RE: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Dec-2000 James Leigh wrote: > Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a > kernel? > > I litteraly get it hundreds of times (seriously). I wrote a script that > gives up after 256 errors, and I it still times outs. > please take this to debian-user, debian-

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Joe Drew
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > I do not have as much trouble compiling programs, but real trouble > compiling a kernel. This is the error I always get. It seems that it > returns the error for almost every f*n *.c file in there, one after > another. Some of then

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Josh Huber
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > Can anybody tell me why I get this error so _much_ when I am compiling a > kernel? > > I litteraly get it hundreds of times (seriously). I wrote a script that > gives up after 256 errors, and I it still times outs. > > I am using de

NMU jove - looking for a sponsor.

2000-12-12 Thread Cord Beermann
ok. i hope that i'm at the right place to ask this. I think it would be good to have a mentor as this would be my first official Debian-package] >> I've built a new jove-package, that now matches the current standards, >> i also added some debhelper functions, a beginners menu, activated the >> r

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: >... > > gcc2.95.2-20 >... > First of all, i believe you should compile 2.2.17 with gcc version 2.7.2 > > you can install it from the package called "gcc272". > > IIRC, the 2.4 series has moved to using gcc 2.95, but 2.2 still needs gcc > 2.7.2

ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

2000-12-12 Thread Uwe Hermann
Package: water Severity; wishlist Description: water is a nice graphical water effect demo written using SDL. You have lots of options to cause many different effectsm like rain, swirls, blobs etc. Copyright: Copyright (C) 1997 Scott Scriven License: GPL Upstream URL: http://www.libsdl.org/

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:41:55AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > You might look into making it work with kerberos4kth's krsh/krshd for strong >authentication > without the encryption overhead. Unless you really need all communication to be >encrypted > (doing classified computations on an u

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread James Leigh
It turns out it was an overclocked cpu problem. Thanks for the all help, I guess I will have to get a bigger fan, before I can really overclock my AMD350. You cannot imagen the weight off my shoulders now that I can compile again. I was sceptical about it being my memory because my 128MB 16x64

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Hunt
I used to get this error many years ago on a Cyrix processor with redhat 4. Redhat had a patch for it. Are you running a Cyrix processor? On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:30:19PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: > > >... > > > gcc2.95.2-20 > >... > > Fi

creating man pages

2000-12-12 Thread Drew Parsons
What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page? I'll be needing to do that with some of my packages, but it just occurred to me I don't actually know how, apart from cutting and pasting in a text editor. My guess is there's a simple manpage editor out there, or a sensible emacs mode

Re: creating man pages

2000-12-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:35:45AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page? > > I'll be needing to do that with some of my packages, but it just occurred to > me I don't actually know how, apart from cutting and pasting in a text > editor. My gue

Re: creating man pages

2000-12-12 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:59:30AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > If you don't want to do SGML, you could always edit the nroff source directly. > This is what has been done historically. SGML, however, makes it easier to > render the manpage in different ways in the future. > I wouldn't nece