lists.debian.org and bugs.debian.org broken

1996-11-14 Thread bruce
The virtual domains bugs.debian.org and lists.debian.org are broken. Hopefully they will be up later today. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GnuStep Re: X is painful

1996-11-14 Thread Bill Bumgarner
Jim asked about GnuStep; Well-- a complete set of GnuStep packages have been built by Karl Sackett and are awaiting my work on gcc [an attempt to fix a crasher in the optimizer that causes the base GnuStep library to NOT be built with optimization-- UGH!] before release. Now that I have an an

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-14 Thread Bill Bumgarner
Actually-- I think /etc/X11/Xresources or /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources contains the xrdb compatible database of resources used at login. One can change the contents of that file to completely customize the look-and-feel of the login panel without having to modify any of the startup stuff... When

Re: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?

1996-11-14 Thread Paul Christenson
Another nickel's worth on dselect... When getting packages via ftp, some sort of progress indicator would be nice, especially for those with slow, not-too-reliable links. | This is OFFICIAL *WRITTEN* notification that I want to be *REMOVED* | | from *ALL* of your mailing lists. *EVERY* m

Re: DSelect Suggestions...

1996-11-14 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Ami Ganguli wrote: > > > > > My suggestion is to come up with a few standard machine roles > > > like "network server", "Novell client", "development machine", etc. > > > Why not m

cdu31a

1996-11-14 Thread rdm
Package: disks-i386 Version: 1996-07-14 A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware. He's using buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation boot disk to recognize his cdu31a. At the lilo prompt, he's type linux cdu31a=0x230,0 This lilo parameter worked f

Re: DSelect Suggestions...

1996-11-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > Maybe dselect can have an option such 'make a virtual package from my > currently installation' and let you edit, add and change the > configuration. This is called: dpkg --get-selections [ ...] get list of selections to stdout dpkg --set-selections set package sele

lists working again

1996-11-14 Thread Bruce Perens
It looks as if the lists are working again (Thanks, Mike!). Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

g77 failure

1996-11-14 Thread Martin Konold
forwared message > Hi there, > > I also do have problems with g77 from bo > The stable version worked flawlessly for me > > I have now installed: > gcc_2.7.2.1-2.deb > g77_0.5.18-2.deb > libc5-dev_5.4.7-7.deb > > g77 keeps telling me: > > g77 pvscaleeis.f > gcc: installation problem, ca