Re: Where to gtkrc-type files go?

1998-08-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marcelo> /etc/something.gtkrc (or something like that) or
Marcelo> /usr/share/something/something.gtkrc (OSLT)

They're not exactly config files -- they're not meant to be changed.

But since gtkrc files have no global repository, it's up to
you. Personally, I'd use /usr/doc/package/examples/ -- since the gtkrc
is meant to be copied to your home directory and edited.

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Re: Creating two packages from one source

1998-09-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Peter> Can a single rules files be used to make two binary
Peter> packages from one orig.tar.gz.

Sure! Take a look at the debian/rules file from the 'gimp' package --
you can fetch the .orig.tar.gz, .dsc, and .diff.gz from
debian/dists/stable/main/source/gimp_1.0.0* on any Debian mirror.

You can then extract the source and apply the .diff.gz with the
following command:

dpkg-source -x gimp_1.0.0-1.dsc

Poke around in the gimp-1.0.0/debian/ directory, and read the rules
file in there. The gimp package creates a whole bunch of packages.

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Re: Where to put non-end-user binaries?

1998-09-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Florian" == Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Florian> Hi!  Lets say a debian package foo contains a binary
Florian> "prog" which needs another binary or shell script
Florian> "helper" to run.

Florian> Should I install these files as /usr/bin/prog and
Florian> /usr/lib/foo/helper ?

It depends. For my Nethack package, I have a helper/wrapper
script in /usr/games/nethack, but the actual nethack
executable lives in /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack.

If you intend the end user to run helper, put it in /usr/bin.
If you intend them to run prog, put it in /usr/bin.

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Re: wmakerconf in slink

1998-09-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Enrico> Hi, I DL'ed gnome and wmaker (and related libs) and
Enrico> wmakerconf and iinstalled them yesterday...I have to say
Enrico> you that there is a problem in wmakerconf
Enrico> andwmakerconf-data packages: the are both dependent. Here
Enrico> is what Packages says:

Marcelo>  And how is this a problem?

Marcelo>  wmakerconf doesn't have datafiles of its own, it needs
Marcelo> wmakerconf-data. wmakerconf-data won't do anything
Marcelo> without wmakerconf installed. They are splitted because
Marcelo> wmakerconf-data changes more ofter than wmakerconf.

Marcelo>  What should I do? Make wmakerconf recommend
Marcelo> wmakerconf-data and wmakerconf-data requiere wmakerconf?

I ran into this with gimp and gimp-data. I'd do just the opposite
of what you said; wmakerconf should depend on wmakerconf-data,
but wmakerconf-data should just recommend wmakerconf.

I know it's rather silly, but people installing things without apt or
dselect can't ever seem to figure out that dpkg -i wmakerconf.deb
wmakerconf-data.deb will work.

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Re: *.m4 files in -dev packages

1998-11-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Brian" == Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Shaya> I think that is only an issue w/ CVS compilers.  If so, not
Shaya> your problem.  You should NOT be shipping a imlib.m4 in
Shaya> your package.  Ask the powers that be about this.  I could
Shaya> be wrong.  But this should only affect people who compile
Shaya> apps from CVS.  and if they are doing that, then they
Shaya> should not be using your package anyway.

Brian> Are *.m4 files usually distributed in -dev packages, or are
Brian> they only needed for those who compile CVS apps?

You must distribute the m4 autoconf macros in the -dev package if
anyone wishes to create their own autoconf-using program that needs
imlib.

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Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marcus> can someone give me a hint how I can efficient test if a
Marcus> certain directory is empty in the postrm (shell script)?

Here's what I did in the /etc/rc.boot/nethack script:

# Are there any lock-files to recover?
ls /var/lib/games/nethack/*lock.0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0

You can obviously replace the *lock.0 with * if you want to see
if it's completely empty.

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New unstable GTK+/GLib packages' names -- seeking advice

1998-11-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
GTK+ and GLib have a somewhat curious developmental situation; they release
versions that are binary (and source, sometimes) incompatible with 
previous releases with each developmental 1.1.x release.

Version 1.1.5 of both GTK+ and GLib have just been released. I have
received complaints about packages compiled against, say GTK+ 1.1.2,
breaking as soon as 1.1.3 is installed. Should I:

1) make the source and binary names for the new packages like gtk+1.1.5
   and glib1.1.5, changing the source and binary package names each time
   a new developmental upstream release comes out

or

2) say "screw it" and make the shlibs for GTK+ and GLib be (=1.1.5-1),
   updating the exact dependancy each time a new package is released.

1) lets there be packages that depend on any gtk+/glib version stay
in the archives, but takes up about 3-4 times as much space on every
mirror as before

2) makes it so that if you want something compiled against GTK+ 1.1.5
installed on your system, you'll have to remove all other packages
that don't depend on the exact version from your system. But, there
aren't 5 million GTK+/GLib packages in the archives.

Which should I do?

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Re: New unstable GTK+/GLib packages' names -- seeking advice

1998-11-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

James> dpkg doesn't do reverse dependency checking[1]; if I have
James> say foo installed which depends on libgtk1.1 (= 1.1.5-1),
James> it'll happily let me install libgtk1.1 1.1.6-1, silently
James> breaking foo.

James> (1) is the only option.  If we limit the number of packages
James> compiled with gtk1.1 (as opposed to gtk1), it won't be that
James> big a deal, IMHO.  (Space is not an issue, if it were, we
James> would presumably get rid of iraf, picons, timidity patches
James> or something similar first).

Okay. I will release gtk+1.1.5 and glib1.1.5 source/binary packages
soon.

What should I do about the old gtk+1.1 and glib source packages whose
names don't match the new setup? Should they be removed from the
archives as soon as no more packages are dependant upon them?

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Re: What to do with extra sources needed to build a package

1998-12-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Peter> I'm in the process of packaging xplot (a simple data
Peter> plotter for X. It's designed to show one- or twodimensional
Peter> datasets, either from a file or from a pipe).  It uses
Peter> XForms, which put it in contrib.

Peter> To build it, I must also install an extension to XForms
Peter> called libfli.  The program is statically linked against
Peter> libfli, such that libfli is not required to use xplot.

Peter> What should I do about libfli?

*snip*

Peter> 3- Package libfli also?  It appears to have extensions
Peter> useful to XForms developers.

This is the right thing to do, assuming we can redistribute libfli.

Make packages for libfli2 and libfli-dev (assuming the soname of
libfli is 2, for example) and you'll be set. Do you have experience
building Debian packages of libraries? There are a few gotchas that
you'll hit if you don't have experience in it already.

Ben

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Re: What to do with extra sources needed to build a package

1998-12-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ionutz> Can you please give some examples about these 'gotchas' ? 
Ionutz> I also want to pack some shared libs.

Learning how to make shlibs files properly, how to decide what the
dependancies between the -dev and library package will be (versioned?
not versioned?) and when to run ldconfig in the postinst script and
when not to run ldconfig are a few of them.

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Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jason" == Jason Henry Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jason> I checked on master and va, they only have GTK1.0
Jason> installed, not GTK1.1, which mozilla needs to build.  Are
Jason> there any hosts offered by debian that have libs from
Jason> unstable to help out in this sort of situation, or should I
Jason> let someone else carry the flame for a Debianised mozilla?

potato has the newest GTK+ 1.1.

/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/libgtk1.1.6_1.1.6-1_i386.deb

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Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ionutz> Hi, I am trying to package my first set of libs. I am
Ionutz> doing this from my account with fakeroot. The problem is
Ionutz> that this way, the process stops with the following error:

(ldconfig not found)

Have you tried putting /sbin in your PATH environment variable?

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Re: automatic dependencies question

1998-12-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ionutz> Hi, I am trying to package VDK libs. I have added this in
Ionutz> my control file:

Ionutz> libvdk depends on libgtk 1.1.7 or more. However, this is
Ionutz> what I get in my libvdk1.deb:

Ionutz> No reference to libgtk or libglib at all. What am I doing
Ionutz> wrong ?

Did you install your own libgtk without using packages? The only way
dpkg-shlibdeps (the package that figures out the shared library
dependancies) can know how to set up a shared library dependancy is if
a file /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs exists that defines a dependancy
for libgtk.

Since there are no gtk+ 1.1.7 .debs out yet (1.1.9 .debs are building
right now) I'll assume you installed your own, and thus you don't have
a shlibs file for 1.1.7 in /var/lib/dpkg/info/, as there is no package
for them to depend on. :)

Please wait until I release 1.1.9 .debs.

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Re: automatic dependencies question

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ben> Did you install your own libgtk without using packages? The
Ben> only way dpkg-shlibdeps (the package that figures out the
Ben> shared library dependancies) can know how to set up a shared
Ben> library dependancy is if a file /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs
Ben> exists that defines a dependancy for libgtk.

Ionutz> I have installed using the debs created from CVS. Another
Ionutz> program I am packing (my first attempt to pack anything,
Ionutz> by the way, links against libgtk and libvdk) reports
Ionutz> corectly the dependencies. Here is what langdrill reports:

You really oughtn't to build packages using packages outside of
Debian :)

Ionutz> Glad to hear that 1.1.9 are on the way. As I have pointed
Ionutz> out, it seems that I'm doing something else wrong. I will
Ionutz> wait anyhow for 1.1.9 and see if the problem is still
Ionutz> there. (By the way, I have used the scripts from libglib
Ionutz> 1.1.3 as a guide in creating my own rule file for
Ionutz> libvdk1).

1.1.9 GLib and GTK+ packages are in Incoming.

I'm glad I could help you with libvdk1 :)

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Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Adam> No, you just need to be careful and to read the Packaging
Adam> Manual, where it says:

Adam>  Any package installing shared libraries in a directory
Adam> that's listed in `/etc/ld.so.conf' or in one of the default
Adam> library directories of ld.so (currently, these are
Adam> `/usr/lib' and `/lib') must call ldconfig in its postinst
Adam> script if and only if the first argument is
Adam> `configure'.

Hoo boy.. didn't we end up deciding this was wrong?

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Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Adam> This whole thread is absurd since the question was about
Adam> someone running ldconfig in debian/rules, which is a big
Adam> nasty no-no as well, and I can't think of a possible reason
Adam> why it would be necessary.

Ionutz> The ldconfig was run by the "make install" of the original
Ionutz> source package. To make the links to the library.

Ionutz> ldconfig $(LIBS)

This is wrong. 

You should make the links yourself in debian/rules, since the make
install is running ldconfig.

So, copy the libblah.so.1.2.3 in debian/rules to debian/tmp/usr/lib/
then ln -s libblah.so.1.2.3 debian/tmp/usr/lib/libblah.so.1 .

Then, in the libblah-dev target of debian/rules, you should 
ln -s libblah.so.1.2.3 debian/libblah-dev/usr/lib/libblah.so .

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Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ben> Hoo boy.. didn't we end up deciding this was wrong?

James> Eh?  No, we certainly did not.

I'm pretty sure it's safe to call ldconfig unconditionally in
postinst, and that we ran into problems when we literally followed the
packaging manual.

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Re: library packaging howto?

1999-01-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Will" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Will> I've been around for a while, I have a couple of packages.
Will> I'm about to undertake packaging my first set of libraries,
Will> and I'm not sure what's different.  I understand that a
Will> stripped copy of the library goes into the {package}lib.deb,
Will> and that a debugging-enabled copy (and header files) go into
Will> {package}lib-dev.deb, but what else do I need to do?

Pretty much it's a matter of looking at an existing package -- that's
how you learn.

Take a peek at bash's debian/rules file to see how it does
libreadline, or look at libgtk1's debian/* files to see how a pure
library package is handled.

The short is:

.so.1 and .so.1.0.0 go into libblah1
.so and .a and .h files go into libblah-dev
(optional) debugging-enabled .a goes into libblah-dbg

Your numbers may vary.

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Re: library packaging howto?

1999-01-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ben> The short is:
Ben> 
Ben> .so.1 and .so.1.0.0 go into libblah1 .so and .a and .h files
Ben> go into libblah-dev (optional) debugging-enabled .a goes into
Ben> libblah-dbg
Ben> 
Ben> Your numbers may vary.

Josip> I think I saw somewhere a library that did not have
Josip> libblah.so as an actual file, but a symlink to
Josip> libblah.1.0.0 (which was a file, of course :) Is it
Josip> possible, and what to do then?

Ack! I'm sorry.

Only the .so.1.0.0 file will be an actual file.

The .so.1 and .so files *will* be symlinks.

Josip> Also, libblah1 goes to libs section, and -dev and -dbg into
Josip> devel section, right? If so, libfltk-dev is misplaced.
Josip> FWIW I'd like -devs in libs section.

There isn't policy (unfortunately) but yes, that's the accepted
standard.

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Re: What to do?

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Mitch> I believe that the technical term for what I've done is a
Mitch> 'boo-boo'.  I blame it on raging stupidity on my part.  But
Mitch> how can I fix it?

Mitch> Here's the situation:

Mitch> I uploaded gtksamba-0.1.4 -- no problem.  I uploaded
Mitch> gtksamba-0.3.0 -- no problem.  I uploaded gtksamba-3.1 --
Mitch> PROBLEM!

Mitch> As you can see, I left out the '0.' on the front of the
Mitch> revision.

This is what epochs were meant for. In your debian/changelog,
make the next revision 1:0.3.2 and all will be fine. You will
just need to make sure to use the 1: prefix from now on whenever
referring to the version, in Dependancies or whatnot.

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SGML-format docs -- compile-time, what to do?

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I'm making a new libgtk-doc package. Included with the upstream source
is a SGML-formatted GTK FAQ. Should I:

1) convert the SGML to HTML/LaTeX/??? at compile time
2) convert the SGML to HTML/LaTeX/??? in the postinst
3) forget this silliness?

:)

And if I do convert the SGML to whatever, how should I go about doing
that the best way?

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Packages getting absorbed by other packages..

1998-03-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hey, folks. I maintain the GIMP set of packages, which until version
0.99.18 consisted of a main gimp package, a required gimp-data-min
package (with separate source) and other sundry packages.

The upstream 0.99.19 version has absorbed the gimp-data-min package
into the main gimp source. To accomodate this, I added gimp-data-min
to the Conflicts:, Replaces:, and Provides: lines in debian/control:

Package: gimp
Architecture: any
Section: graphics
Conflicts: gimp-smotif, gimp-dmotif, gimp099, gimp-data-min
Replaces: gimp-smotif, gimp-dmotif, gimp099, gimp-data-min
Provides: gimp-data-min

but dpkg will not install the resultant gimp package without
--auto-deconfigure specified to let it deconfigure the old gimp
and remove the old gimp-data-min and then install the new gimp.

Am I doing something wrong, or is --auto-deconfigure going to
be required here?

Ben

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Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
  
@echo >&2 'source and diff are obsolete - use dpkg-source -b'; false

binary: binary-indep binary-arch
.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary

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Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
>>>>> "Santiago" == Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Santiago> I disagree here.

Santiago> If you put this in a different debian/rules target
Santiago> (called, for example, automake-refresh), then you and
Santiago> only you would be forced to have automake and autoconf
Santiago> installed, but nobody else.

That's why the comment said that it's unnecessary for that package.

For the GIMP packages, it is required; they ship with a libtool
that is incompatible with Debian policy. I have to run
automake/aclocal/autoconf every single time the package builds
to remove all vestiges of the old libtool and replace it with the
Debian libtool.

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Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Scott> You actually only need to run it once.  Once they've been
Scott> run once (probably right after porting your changes into a
Scott> new version), the updated files are left behind and will be
Scott> included in the diff generated when you build the package.

In my experience, making the diff file huge makes porting and new
versions unnecessarily difficult. The only way I've been able
to keep my sanity with the plethora of GIMP/GTK+ releases is
this solution.

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