From joey@kitenet.net Mon, 1 May 2000 23:58:01 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 23:58:01 -0700 From: Joey Hess joey@kitenet.net Subject: FWD: Debian talk May 10, Sacramento, CA ----- Forwarded message from Brian Lavender ----- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 23:41:12 -0700 From: Brian Lavender To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian talk May 10, Sacramento, CA I am proud to announce that we will have Joey Hess and Sean 'Shaleh' Perry will speak at the upcoming sacLUG meeting, Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7-9pm sacLUG Sacramento, CA. The public is welcome to attend. Joey will speak about debconf, and Sean will speak about a topic which we have yet to decide upon. I am sure that this will be an exciting talk. For meeting details and directions see http://www.saclug.org If you happen to fly to sacramento to attend the meeting, the Sacramento airport is extremely easy to get into and out of. It is about twenty five minutes from the meeting location. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo From simonst@WellsFargo.COM Wed, 3 May 2000 17:10:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:10:28 -0700 From: simonst@WellsFargo.COM simonst@WellsFargo.COM Subject: which pkg contains a command? This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFB55D.273E8F91 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I can't remember how to find out which package I need to install to pick up a favorite command. I'm looking (this time) for nslookup, lpr/lpd/lpq & netdate. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFB55D.273E8F91 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" which pkg contains a command?

I can't remember how to find out which package I need to install to pick up a favorite command.
I'm looking (this time) for nslookup, lpr/lpd/lpq & netdate.


------_=_NextPart_001_01BFB55D.273E8F91-- From gibreel@pobox.com 03 May 2000 18:02:14 -0700 Date: 03 May 2000 18:02:14 -0700 From: Stephen Zander gibreel@pobox.com Subject: which pkg contains a command? >>>>> "simon" == simonst writes: simon> I can't remember how to find out which package I need to simon> install to pick up a favorite command. I'm looking (this simon> time) for nslookup, lpr/lpd/lpq & netdate. will let you search the contents of a distribution. Alternately: dnsutils: nslookup lprng: lpd/lpq/lpr netstd: netdate -- Stephen I claimed I was emperor just cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away" From ncm@cantrip.org Wed, 3 May 2000 17:55:53 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:55:53 -0700 From: Nathan Myers ncm@cantrip.org Subject: which pkg contains a command? On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:10:28PM -0700, simonst@wellsfargo.com wrote: > I can't remember how to find out which package I need to install to pick up > a favorite command. > I'm looking (this time) for nslookup, lpr/lpd/lpq & netdate. $ man dpkg ... $ dpkg -S netdate nslookup lpr ... netstd: /usr/sbin/netdate ... dnsutils: /usr/bin/nslookup ... lpr: /usr/bin/lpr You can also search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages , but it doesn't find (e.g.) netdate. Nathan Myers ncm at cantrip dot org From ncm@nospam.cantrip.org Thu, 4 May 2000 14:47:11 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:47:11 -0700 From: Nathan Myers ncm@nospam.cantrip.org Subject: Tucows download stats In this week's LWN, while discussing Tucows download statistics, Liz observes: The really startling note from the three months worth of data, still a small sampling, is the lead that the two RPM-based distributions have on the rest of the pack. It will be an interesting trend to watch. Considering that Corel and Stormix are basically Debian plus some add-ons, it's worth looking at the statistics with the three combined. February Linux-Mandrake 46% Red Hat 27% Debian+ 18% SuSE 3% Slackware 3% Caldera 3% March Debian+ 36% Linux-Mandrake 31% Red Hat 14% Caldera 6% SuSE 5% FreeBSD 4% Slackware 1% April Red Hat 31% Debian+ 29% Linux-Mandrake 29% Caldera 4% FreeBSD 3% SuSE 3% Slackware 2% Yellow Dog Linux 1% Here we have the Debian/Apt-packaged family easily keeping up with the more heavily-promoted commercial distributions. March is interesting in that Debian downloads far exceed Mandrake's much-hyped popularity. Perhaps once Potato is out, Debian will just take over the world; then all those people working on proprietary distros can go home and do something productive instead. :-) Nathan Myers ncm@nospam.cantrip.org From joeyh@debian.org Thu, 4 May 2000 15:13:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 15:13:08 -0700 From: Joey Hess joeyh@debian.org Subject: Tucows download stats Nathan Myers wrote: > Here we have the Debian/Apt-packaged family easily keeping up with the > more heavily-promoted commercial distributions. March is interesting > in that Debian downloads far exceed Mandrake's much-hyped popularity. Of course, stats can be made to say anything. :-) What I really wonder about these numbers is how they relate to the actual total number of iso image downloads. I noticed that Corel's web site has a direct link to tucows, plus 2 other locations, so anyone downloading a Corel cd is likely to get it from tucows 1/3 of the time. Similarly, Mandrake's download page prominently lists Tucows several times. On the other hand, http://cdimage.debian.org/ goes out of its way to convince people that they don't *need* to download a cd image, since using apt directly makes more sense most of the time. And if they convince it they really do need a cd image, http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html lists many mirrors to choose from. Tucows isn't even on the list. So what percentage of debian ISO image downloads go through tucows? Less, I would guess. If we want to inflate the stats, the choice would seem to be to link to Tucows. :-) -- see shy jo From simonst@WellsFargo.COM Fri, 5 May 2000 09:51:16 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 09:51:16 -0700 From: simonst@WellsFargo.COM simonst@WellsFargo.COM Subject: Why is netstd a "legacy pkg you should remove"? Thanks to all who answered my question about locating packages - I've been happily searching www.debian.org for 'missing' stuff. One question - the description for the netstd 3.07-17 package containing "netdate" says: "Legacy package that you should remove." Does any one know why? I use netdate to sync time-of-day with an MVS port-37 timeserver program, and I'd hate to have to change it to handle ntpdate. Or is there another replacement for netdate/ntpdate? -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Myers [mailto:ncm@cantrip.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 5:56 PM To: bad@kitenet.net Subject: Re: which pkg contains a command? On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:10:28PM -0700, simonst@wellsfargo.com wrote: > I can't remember how to find out which package I need to install to pick up > a favorite command. > I'm looking (this time) for nslookup, lpr/lpd/lpq & netdate. $ man dpkg ... $ dpkg -S netdate nslookup lpr ... netstd: /usr/sbin/netdate ... dnsutils: /usr/bin/nslookup ... lpr: /usr/bin/lpr You can also search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages , but it doesn't find (e.g.) netdate. Nathan Myers ncm at cantrip dot org _______________________________________________ Bay Area Debian mailing list Bad@kitenet.net http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bad From tom@iqualify.com Tue, 30 May 2000 20:55:36 +0000 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:55:36 +0000 From: Tom Lancaster tom@iqualify.com Subject: rogered apt database Hi, I'm looking for advice here, as I can't seem to find any in the docs. I've been following the frozen dist, and somewhere along the way I seem to have picked up a corrupted package (php3-doc). I don't even need this pkg, so all I want to do is uninstall it, but it's so badly rogered that it can't even do that. Is there any way to remove all references to this from the database manually? Where is the database? What form does it take? Any hints much appreciated, as this prob is preventing me largely from doing anything else through apt (dpkg or otherwise). Thanks, Tom From rick@linuxmafia.com Tue, 30 May 2000 15:18:27 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:18:27 -0700 From: Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com Subject: rogered apt database begin Tom Lancaster quotation: > > I'm looking for advice here, as I can't seem to find any in the docs. > I've been following the frozen dist, and somewhere along the way I seem > to have picked up a corrupted package (php3-doc). I don't even need this > pkg, so all I want to do is uninstall it, but it's so badly rogered that > it can't even do that. Is there any way to remove all references to this > from the database manually? > Where is the database? What form does it take? It's a text file: /var/lib/dpkg/status . Try making a safety copy, and then manually snipping out the offending package's entry with a text editor. -- Cheers, "Not using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker 40 or 50 Rick Moen years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's hard rick (at) linuxmafia.com to avoid second-hand smoke." -- Michael Tiemann From tom@iqualify.com Tue, 30 May 2000 22:41:32 +0000 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:41:32 +0000 From: Tom Lancaster tom@iqualify.com Subject: rogered apt database Thanks. That did the trick. I was all worried it would be a binary file or something. Rick Moen wrote: > > begin Tom Lancaster quotation: > > > > I'm looking for advice here, as I can't seem to find any in the docs. > > I've been following the frozen dist, and somewhere along the way I seem > > to have picked up a corrupted package (php3-doc). I don't even need this > > pkg, so all I want to do is uninstall it, but it's so badly rogered that > > it can't even do that. Is there any way to remove all references to this > > from the database manually? > > Where is the database? What form does it take? > > It's a text file: /var/lib/dpkg/status . > Try making a safety copy, and then manually snipping out the offending > package's entry with a text editor. > > -- > Cheers, "Not using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker 40 or 50 > Rick Moen years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's hard > rick (at) linuxmafia.com to avoid second-hand smoke." -- Michael Tiemann > > _______________________________________________ > Bay Area Debian mailing list > Bad@kitenet.net > http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bad