> >> Folks,
> >>
> >>
> >> These ideas are being posted here from net news per >request.
> >> Response is desired (even if it's not Debian priority)
> > [...]
> >> 3) Server and client installation distinctions. Possible >avenue for easy
> >> minimal setup of X clients.
> >>
> >> A person insta
> Glenn Bily writes:
> -> 1) Long awaited cleaning out of /usr/lib. In addition, categorizing
> -> what is left into subdirectories.
> This has a number of problems, namely:
> 1) Would require changes to binutils for linux that don't have to
>happen on other systems. Too much work for too lit
Hi Mark --
You asked:
> When using dselect, do I have to download from the ftp site, packages or are
> they on the install disks ?
The install disks only contain enough software to set up your system
so that it is *capable* of being used to fetch the major packages.
All tolled, the Debian softwar
From: Glenn Bily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 1) Long awaited cleaning out of /usr/lib. In addition, categorizing
> what is left into subdirectories.
>
> A reasonable setup would be:
>
> /usr/lib/elf -- elf shared libs
> /usr/lib/aout -- a.out shared libs
How about /usr/lib/i386-elf and /usr/lib/i386-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
> (like RCS) on /etc . "dpkg" doesn't currently know how to check control files
> in and out of RCS - is this a good idea? Currently, it will leave a
> "filename.dpkg-new" file around for you to hand-edit if you decline to
> over-write a control file.
This
Bruce,
> >> If /usr/local is really for local configuration then it >shouldn't be in
> >> /usr.
>
> >Yes. It should probably be a symlink to somewhere else out >of the box
> >on a freshly-installed Debian system. The installation >scripts can do
> >that. Please submit a bug report on the "boot-flo
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that
> Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it.
>
> It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have
> been new upstream releases. :-)
>
> As for
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that
> > Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it.
> >
> > It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. Ther
> > On a debian system I am looking at has a /usr/local/lib/emacs which I
> > consider to be stranded.
> Please check that the _current_ Emacs package still does this.
Current emacs does *create* the directory (ie. it is in the package
contents), as recommended by the debian packaging guidelines,
> Mark,
> This doesn't answer the overall question...why is it there?
>
> --Glenn
> >> > On a debian system I am looking at has a >/usr/local/lib/emacs which I
> >> > consider to be stranded.
> >> Please check that the _cur
On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Glenn Bily wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> > >> If /usr/local is really for local configuration then it >shouldn't be in
> > >> /usr.
> >
> > >Yes. It should probably be a symlink to somewhere else out >of the box
> > >on a freshly-installed Debian system. The installation >scripts can do
What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found? From the name, it sounds
like it might emulate the Windows95 four button window format. Is this
the case?
Where is fvwm-95 located and what is it's developmental status.
I prefer the windows 95 window format over most of the X manager formats
that I
Glenn Bily writes:
-> > Glenn Bily writes:
-> > -> 1) Long awaited cleaning out of /usr/lib. In addition, categorizing
-> > -> what is left into subdirectories.
->
-> > This has a number of problems, namely:
-> > 1) Would require changes to binutils for linux that don't have to
-> >happen on
Larry,
> >Glenn Bily writes:
> >-> > Glenn Bily writes:
> >-> > -> 1) Long awaited cleaning out of /usr/lib. In addition, categorizing
> >-> > -> what is left into subdirectories.
> >->
> >-> > This has a number of problems, namely:
> >-> > 1) Would require changes to binutils for linux that don'
Jim,
Fvwm-95 is a X window manager that mimics Window 95 interface.
It can be found at:
http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~barth/fvwm95.html
Excerpts from mail: 3-Sep-96 What is fvwm-95 and where c.. Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (430*)
> What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found? From the name, it sounds
> like
>> In addition, the admin's life would only be made easier.
> "Let's see where is perl stuffof course: /usr/perl"
Of course it looks easier if you only ask one question.
"Where are the operating system binaries that should go in users'
paths?"
"Where are the standard C++ libraries? Where i
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jim Worthington wrote:
> What is fvwm-95 and where can it be found? From the name, it sounds
> like it might emulate the Windows95 four button window format. Is this
> the case?
Yes, its bit modified fvwm2. All modifications have been done towards
Windows '95 appearance. f
First of all I'd like to thank you a lot for your advise.
Unfortunately I couldn't get our firewall to let me pass through to
ftp.debian.org using the parameters in dselect's ftp access.
Fortunately control lies in perl scripts. I had to modify those that
call FTP.pm, but then it worked like a ch
Guy Maor:
> > 2. A lot of packages (e.g. magicfilter) recommend pbmlus which isn't
> > available as a debian package too.
>
> pbmplus was replaced by netpbm.
Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?!
>
>
> Guy
>
=
It happened to me, that I misconfigured some packages when
installing. Is there a way to repeat the reconfiguration step without
reinstalling the whole package?
Particularly: Is there a tool to manipulate the XF86Config file (as
xf86config from slackware)?
Thanks in advance!
On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Glenn Bily wrote:
> 5) If a startup shell script for window managers should also be easy to
> add.
>
> I think that the user should have the possibility of specifying the
> window manager at the startx prompt such as:
>
> startx fvwm
> startx openwin
> startx
Hi,
I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like
\"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else
moticed this? And maby has a fix for it?
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires
> libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a.
> (How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file?
> (Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive question.)
I have
I touched on this in an earlier message about making a debian box run
headless (turns out the problem I encoutnered was my mistake). Anyway,
it's piqued my curiosity about something:
In debian, /dev/console is generally a symlink to /dev/tty0. I managed to
mess that up so /dev/console linked to /d
I just had somebody tell me that *NIX mailers (They didn't specify
which one) don't support MIME. This person claims that the MIME messages
he's been sending through my mail server aren't working because it's a *NIX
host. This I find hard to swallow. Could somebody clear this up for me,
> Guy Maor:
>
> > pbmplus was replaced by netpbm.
>
> Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?!
>
Someone did...
bash$ dpkg -s netpbm
Package: netpbm
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-free
Maintainer: Jim Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1994.03
> The browser works fine, but I can't get any java applets to work. I
> have > the setting set right and used the package setup that Brian
> put together, but something still isn't working. I don't receive any
> errors when I aim > at a page that I know has an applet on it, i
Is there a simple way to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
various Debian software packages, programs, libraries, etc. The second
drive
As Mike Wood said:
>
>
> I just had somebody tell me that *NIX mailers (They didn't specify
> which one) don't support MIME. This person claims that the MIME messages
> he's been sending through my mail server aren't working because it's a *NIX
> host. This I find hard to swallow. Coul
>
> Just a user problem I'm sure but when I go to use the make command I get:
>
> make: makeinfo: Command not found
> make: Error 127
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Nothing to do with make, or gcc, I'm afraid.
You just don't have the command "makeinfo" installed.
It's in the texinfo packa
>
> On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> > The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires
> > libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a.
> > (How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file?
> > (Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive quest
At 07:20 AM 9/3/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Is there a simple way to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
>
>On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
>root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
>various Debian software packages, p
It's unfortunate that the printer config stuff (and other stuff from
Red Hat) is written in TCL/TK. One thing we _don't_ assume is that the
user has X (or even a VGA card - it might be a serial console).
A shell/dialog solution would be much better.
Thanks
Bruce
I am having a problem, probably not unique to Debian, on my Linux
machine. The problem is the print command produces an error in the
postscript output that will not allow it to print. When I further
test by printing output to a file, and try to preview with
ghostscript, gs cannot interpret it cor
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > Guy Maor:
> >
> > > pbmplus was replaced by netpbm.
> >
> > Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?!
> >
>
> Someone did...
>
> bash$ dpkg -s netpbm
> Package: netpbm
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: no
> Jason,
> On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Glenn Bily wrote:
> >Debian is parse through /etc/X11/window-managers and execute the first
> window manager that it finds (and is >installed). In a larger
> environment where you have users that prefer one window manager over
> another, a
> >convenient method we u
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Tim Egbert wrote:
> On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
> root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
> various Debian software packages, programs, libraries, etc. The second
> drive just has the /home director
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