Re: md5sum proposal

1999-05-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
Seconded On Mon, 17 May 1999, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > I think DEBIAN/md5sums file should be required for all packages. - Christoph Lameter (MS CS, M.Div.) http://lameter.com Adjunc

Re: md5sum proposal

1999-05-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 19 May 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Christoph> plus you only have the checksums of the files *after* they > Christoph> were unpacked. > > This is an advantage. This allows me to have the md5sums of > the config files after I modified them. This also allows one to add > other dir

Section 5.7 not clear on X Windows system

1999-05-23 Thread Brock Rozen
I'm looking at section 5.7 of the policy, where it starts off : "Some programs ..." (right at the start) Specifically, the second paragraph bothers me. It says that users who do not want the whole of X can install just the xlib6g package. Then I go and look at the packages listing and see that x

Re: md5sum proposal

1999-05-23 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
Ok, I checked current situation and looked in to rpm. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pwd /pub/debian/dists/potato [EMAIL PROTECTED] for i in */binary-i386/*/*.deb; do echo $i; done | wc -l \ > 2>/dev/null 3282 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for i in */binary-i386/*/*.deb; do dpkg-deb -I $i|grep md5sums \ > 2>/dev/null;

Re: Bug#37713: [PROPOSED] separate menu policy (like virtual package list)

1999-05-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Chris" == Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: >> What about standard `info' and `dhelp' categories? Chris> Hmm, at first I thought you meant that you wanted these Chris> added as categories to the existing menu hierar