Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-18 Thread Jason Clinton
quot;M"anually marked -- that you want installed. When a package has been "A"utomatically pulled in to resolve a dependency such as on the Gnome and KDE meta-packages, it will display an "A" in its status column at the far left. You can switch any packages between these s

Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Jason Clinton
er's queue: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html -- Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Mathematica scroll problem

2006-03-10 Thread Jason Clinton
restore the window size to force a redraw. Did you turn on composite or renderaccell support? If so, they are experiemental and the cause of your problem. Turn them off. -- Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is udev really 'optional'?

2006-03-11 Thread Jason Clinton
ently and that any ongoing development on hotplug will cease. So, I would say to stick with hotplug until udev stabilizes to your liking. -- Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Saturday 30 July 2005 09:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Right. I am looking for something more cross platform. At least to > cover Windows and Linux and maybe Mac OS X. I am not familiar with > Windows networking, so I don't know what all the correct terminology is. > I just recall that at o

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Cool. Would you consider posting it so I have a starting point? No > sense reinventing the wheel :-) Unfortunately, the script is owned by my employer so I can't share it. But all I did was set up OpenLDAP, use the Official Samba HOWTO

Linux OEM Laptop Vendor

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Clinton
Anyone have any recommendations for a laptop vendor that supports Debian? I was looking at pcsforeveryone.com[1] but they don't have Debian among their support options. Though their NV 6600 based laptop at $1500 looks like a heck of a steal. And I like that the core is ASUS. [1] http://www.pcsf

Re: Evolution-exchange

2005-08-03 Thread Jason Clinton
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 13:04, Marco Vieira wrote: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > [Switching to Thread 1093323712 (LWP 13732)] > 0x402bde9a in e_canvas_hide_tooltip () from /usr/lib/libgal-2.2.so.1 Last month, after 8 hours of debugging with gdb trying to get access t

Monodevelop on testing broken by zealous aptitude

2005-08-07 Thread Jason Clinton
Hi all. I was using Monodevelop to do C# development until today when some update through aptitude took that ability away. I can no longer pin Monodevelop in from unstable in to my testing installation. Any ideas? All the CIL bindings to Gnome cannot be installed because someone uploaded a new

Re: Netware login from linux without IPX

2005-09-02 Thread Jason Clinton
Yes. One has to use pam_ldap and nssldap to accomplish this. You must also extend your Netware schema to support posixAccount classes and use some kind of LDIF creation screen to modify all the accounts in your tree to support posixAccount. Not an easy task. It will take you about a week to do

Re: keeping a module from loading - sarge install

2005-09-02 Thread Jason Clinton
On Friday 02 September 2005 1:18 pm, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > But why would you want discover when hotplug is already there ? > You can simple remove it. I could be misinformed, but I believe that both systems are there because hotplug is in the process of being deprecated in favor of discover.

X.Org Hits Testing

2005-09-07 Thread Jason Clinton
Well its finally happened, and I'm so happy that it has. As of now, most of mirrors have X.Org packages in their testing/etch repository. Before I perform the upgrade, I'm starting this thread to catch any and all problems that might arrise. Please let us know if you have any trouble with the u

Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Jason Clinton
Around 10:30 UTC, all the mirrors should have Gnome 2.10 on them. -- I use digital signatures and encryption. My key is stored at pgp.mit.edu key ID code: "0x8DB3BF09". F: F628 D9D3 E57A C281 5EFE 7DF7 B52A A393 8DB3 BF09 pgp9TSC7oqURL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-12 Thread Jason Clinton
On Monday 12 September 2005 8:15 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > I can't install it... Everything is there except sound-juicer (>= > 2.10.1) which gnome-desktop-environment depends upon. Is this a bug? > Has anyone managed a way around this? Or is it me? I have the same problem. It looks like tomorro

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-13 Thread Jason Clinton
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:21 am, Marc Wilson wrote: > Because the whole reason the "gnome-desktop-environment" *meta-package* > exists is to give you a complete Gnome. Not Gnome minus whatever *this* > cluebie doesn't like, whatever *that* cluebie doesn't like, etc. > > If you don't like wha

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-13 Thread Jason Clinton
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:21 am, Marc Wilson wrote: > Because the whole reason the "gnome-desktop-environment" *meta-package* > exists is to give you a complete Gnome. Not Gnome minus whatever *this* > cluebie doesn't like, whatever *that* cluebie doesn't like, etc. And actually it seems th

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-13 Thread Jason Clinton
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 2:16 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's why "we" don't like aptitude. It too aggressively removes > things. Would the almighty Debian Gods decide which fraking package manager 'we' are supposed to use? I have seem countless times on this list that apt-get is deprecated

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-13 Thread Jason Clinton
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 10:43 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: I'm not feeding this troll any more. -- I use digital signatures and encryption. My key is stored at pgp.mit.edu key ID code: "0x8DB3BF09". F: F628 D9D3 E57A C281 5EFE 7DF7 B52A A393 8DB3 BF09 pgpQguMjXvX5E.pgp Description: PGP signat

Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-25 Thread Jason Clinton
Hi everyone; In the past two days, etch (testing) has been updated with a kde meta package which apparently depends on packages from unstable which, in turn, has caused aptitude to suggest removing KDE when performing a system-wide upgrade. I have been able to hold it back by following the depe

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread Jason Clinton
On Monday 26 September 2005 12:15 am, Marc Wilson wrote: > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right... > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every > twenty-four hours. I am reporting the issue. Why are you always such a troll? -- I u

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-26 Thread Jason Clinton
On Monday 26 September 2005 4:54 pm, michael wrote: > So all I want to do is connect the latter to the former such that both can > access the Internet... There is probably some very easy way to do this graphically but I like this method: Install ipkungfu from aptitude. Go to /etc/ipkungfu and ed

Re: Hotplug, udev, hal, etc.

2005-10-09 Thread Jason Clinton
On Sunday 09 October 2005 08:19 am, jjluza wrote: > I never said it works everywhere but you tell him it works nowhere : that's > wrong. > Anyway, Sid is not intend to work perfectly everywhere. it is intend to > test and stabilize new things. For people who want to have a stable system, > they sho

Re: XV with Nvidia on Sid xorg

2005-10-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Sunday 30 October 2005 11:20 am, William Ballard wrote: > Does XV work on Nvidia with Sid's Xorg, using Nvidia's propitary > drivers? Yes it does. As far as I know, there's no extra configuration required. -- I use digital signatures and encryption. My key is stored at pgp.mit.edu 0x8DB3BF09