On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 05:54:22PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > actually this was the first package i ever uploaded ... hope i did things > right > (i followed the documetnation found in the developpper corner web page, or at > least some of it ..)
Looks right from what I can see. > ok i did the packages because i needed them, and also to test all of this, > dbild, how to upload packages and so on ... > > actually the package is not broken, it is only that the .orig.tar.gz contained > a directory who was not correctly named as packagename-version. i think this > is > because the upstream maintainer changed the package name without changing the > .orig.tar.gz. i guess i should fill a bug against the package. That should not make a difference. The whole point is you never change the .orig.tar.gz. > > > Also i was said there is a place where we can make reservation for > > > compiling > > > not yet available for powerpc packages ? where is it ? how do i use it ? > > > > Not really, yet, but there may be soon - courtesy of dbuild which I > > still don't know how to use. > > nice, ... > > as for dbuild, i played with it a lot this weekend before being able to use it > ... > > it goes like this : > > dbuild -v -p -r sudo(or whatever) package.dsc > > and it builds the package ... > > but first you have to put your pgp passphrase into the PGPPASS variable, not > the nicest thing around ... I believe we're talking about different dbuilds, but I could be wrong... > > how do you actually use pgp ? there are two packages, pgp-i and pgp-us. both > providing executables like their name, but no pgp binary. i had to do a > symlink > to one of them ... The postinst should create the symlink. If it doesn't, you may have a broken /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives directory, courtesy of one of Hartmut's broken base tarballs. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
