On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:33:25PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
And HOW can I get UID's >=65536 to work?
I have already tried it in my /etc/passwd and
/etc/group but it gives tonns of errors.
Any hints?
Hint: you need to be more specific about the problems you're having.
Mike Stone
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If Debian ever hopes to have a policy beyond "all remaining uids and
gids are reserved for local use",
I, for one, don't want too much of a policy beyond that. Debian should
not be in the business of "staking claim" on uid's. We need a minimal
number to bootstrap the system, but beyond that we
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:15:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Sorry. I mean to say, this is effectively what has been requested on
> > behalf of the Hurd port.
>
> No, it has not been requested on behalf of the Hurd port.
Well, perhaps "th
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:21:54AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> What's worse is that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is going to need to
> become a symbolic link to /etc/X11/app-defaults, and because dpkg does not
I fail to see why we have to do this. Why not search both directories?
> Here's
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:18:56PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 30-Jan-00, 08:53 (CST), Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:18:18PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > I'd much rather have useful info in README.Debian: this is
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:18:18PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> I'd much rather have useful info in README.Debian: this is what you need
> to do to finish configuring (if necessary), here's a one-liner for each
> major binary of the package, here's what to read to find out more (info
> pages, ma
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 10:54:04AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Perhaps what we should be after, is having maintainers that know their
> packages well enough to track down user's questions in a reasonable amount
> of time. Isn't that what we are really after? Who cares if the maintainer
> knew the
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 03:23:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Manoj> a) If the maintainer does not know what every binary in the common
> Manoj> PATH is doing, he should give the package to someone who is
> Manoj> willing
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:56:48AM +0200, Tomasz Wêgrzanowski wrote:
> Hmm... I used BSD as root a week and this was long time ago so my habit
> is not from this place
> Its just much faster and typoless to write `halt' than `shutdown -h now'
> According to manpages halt|reboot calls shutdown if sy
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:13:20PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> I think the practice of using static IDs should be deprecated (and
> packages doing it should get lintian warnings..) I disagree with banning
> them outright as it doesn't really give packages a chance to get fixed
> before they have
llowing the use
> of ash as /bin/sh *as an option*. Oh wait, it already is! :-)
No it's not. Every bash upgrade blows it away without notice or comment.
> Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > that the bash package stops replacing a /bin/ash symlink in potato
&g
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:31:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> (3) Make ash the default /bin/sh. ash links to libc6 and ld-linux, whereas
> bash links to libreadline, ncurses, libdl, as well as libc6 and
> ld-linux. Risk reduction isn't as good as risk removal, but it
> ain't bad.
L
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 11:31:44AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Hmmm. This also seems like it might require pre-dependencies from every
> package against the new version of dpkg that handles following symlinks
> correctly.
Yeah. I'm not really happy about that, but I don't really see a way
around
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:49:49PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> 2) People used the `formal objection' mechanism to stop the answer just
> because the didn't like. I don't think this was right. And the people who
> did it are starting to realize that too.. =)
I don't think that all the object
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:23:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 05:32:33PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > > > Possibly I'm just misunderstanding what you're suggesting should be
> > > > > done
> > > > > thou
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:19:20AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> I made the debs available for a reason. Install them. Type the commands.
> See what happens. Stop talking about what you *think*'s right, and start
> actually *testing* it. This isn't a debating exercise: there *are* right
> and wrong
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 12:46:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Then please provide a test3 .deb that *does* work. Simply getting rid of
> all the /my_usr/doc references in test3 is *not* enough.
>
> * install test3_2.0_all.deb
> * note that /my_usr contains /my_usr/share but not /my_usr/doc
> *
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:14:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 07:41:26AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:21:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Possibly I'm just misunderstanding what you're suggesting should b
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:45:25AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:07:55PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > > Sure it's legal, but was it a good idea?
> >
> > You could ask the same question from a different perspective: was it a
> > good idea to change policy to u
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:35:52AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 07:41:26AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > That's simple enough. This all only works if there is no /usr/share/doc
> > and you can move /usr/doc in an atomic operation.
>
> Your
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:07:55PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:22:27AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > Sure it's legal, but was it a good idea?
>
> You could ask the same question from a different perspective: was it a
> good idea to ch
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:14:56PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 07:41:26AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > IMHO, packages that
> > started using /usr/share/doc were premature in that usage
>
> Your opinion is wrong.
>
> Those pac
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:21:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Possibly I'm just misunderstanding what you're suggesting should be done
> though. Can you give a sequence of commands that does whatever you're
> suggesting, and still has those three packages survive unscathed?
That's simple enough
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:05:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What other problems could there be with my proposal.
Well, the real reason is that you're trying to rearrange 110M that might
be located on a filesystem other than the destination filesystem. If
someone's doing careful space mana
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 01:18:24AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Otherwise I don't see that we have options here. There is no technical
> reason we can't just forget the transition. The tools can be modified to
> look for docs in both places and (I guess?) already have been in some
> cases. If a
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 04:03:46PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > Chris> Personally, I still think 1) is the best choice. Potato is going to
> > Chris> be violating the FHS here, I think it's clear, why not just go ahead
> > Chris> and violate it good and hard?
>
> I *still* think this is the
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:08:26PM +1000, you wrote:
> Perhaps someone would like to upload a .deb that does nothing more than
> maintain symlinks?
>
> Something as simple as having a /etc/cron.daily script that does:
>
> [ -d /usr/doc ] || exit 0
>
> cd /usr/share/doc
> for di
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 04:42:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Putting things in the packaging system so that we can be sure
> they have it in the system is really silly, seeing that we have this
> marvelous dependency mechanism.
Maybe, maybe not. How would it work as a dependency?
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 01:39:14PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I still do not see why this has anything to do with the
> packaging system. If all you want is to ensure that the files on your
> system have not been modified since the time you installed them (and,
> frankly, I think y
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:47:45AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Yes, got all the seconds it needs. It's now been changed to [AMMENDMENT]
> iirc (I'm about to hit the sack so don't count on my memory) The only
> thing that has come up is the sudden question about the .log thing, which
> I actuall
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:20:21AM +1000, Conrad Parker wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:50:22PM +0100, Robert Collier wrote:
> > ie. tail all logfiles, until shell expansion allows me to tail
> > everything except *.gz haveing a common extension is usefull.
>
> (bash)
>
> shopt -s ext
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:03:01PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote:
> Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > This seems like *such* an obvious solution to so many problems that I
> > find myself perplexed why this hasn't done before, by others.
>
> Because it requires glibc 2.1 and kernel 2.2.
Whi
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 03:04:12PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> I don't think so. Please keep them, or consider moving them under /mnt.
Blech. /mnt already has a purpose: temporary mount points. Someone on
lsb-discuss suggested something that might be worth thinking about:
/vol.
Mike STone
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 05:32:37PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> For new potato installations, the default /etc/fstab will have the
> following:
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
Is there a reason to not just make this type vfat (auto doesn't work if
fs's are com
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:00:24PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> In the past I have seen a proposal for /etc/environment. I would really
> like it if you could setup any environment variable here (that can then
> be overriden by the users startup file). That way I can also set MAIL,
> MAILDIR, and MAIL
Quoting Joel Klecker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> OK, proposal is amended to use `glibc2-dev' as the dependency.
Why not just wait until the next wholly incompatible libc upgrade (when
things will have to change) instead of making a gratuitous policy shift?
Mike Stone
Quoting J.H.M. Dassen Ray" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 13:00:58 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > AFAIK we tell developers to use cc, not gcc to compile programs. But in
> > 4.1 the policy insists on using gcc. So it's not easy to compile all
> > packages automatically with anothe
Quoting Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Francesco Potorti` writes ("/etc/environment (related with bug #28446)"):
> > I see that there is no policy described in /usr/doc/debian-policy about
> > /etc/environment, while I think there should be one.
>
> I agree.
>
> I think that it should be
Quoting Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Michael Stone writes ("Re: FHS - transition"):
> > Hmm. Try installing sendmail from slink on a hamm system. And no one
> > seems to be addressing that either. Or try dropping the latest apt into
> > hamm.
>
> Shoul
Quoting Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This is explicitly NOT WHAT WE HAVE PROMISED OUR USERS.
>
> For years, we have promised them INCREMENTAL UPGRADEABILITY. We broke
> that promise in 2.0, and I hope we never break it again.
>
> It is IMO _essential_ that a user can take a single package o
Quoting Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Brian White wrote:
> > What more information would you like to see?
>
> 3. A patch that fixes it.
:)
Mike Stone
enefits that cannot
be acheived in any other fashion I think that mandating liblockfile is
premature.
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Quoting Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> xcin_2.3.02-3_i386.changes
> (Note: the following is in Chinese big5 charset)
>
> I feel amused by this changelog entry, bug I don't understand a word
> of chinese.
>
> I don't think a changelog is intend to be visible for a few couple
> of people
case. I know some emacs groupies would fight that,
but I long since put (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?) into my .emacs--
I've wasted far more time logging in at strange consoles and accidently
getting help when I hit the backspace key then I will ever waste having
to type M-xhelp.
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