On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer was heard to say:
> If you have all the Debian tools:
>
> dpkg-source -x PACKAGE-VERSION.dsc
> cd PACKAGE-VERSION
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
Actually, it's even better :) The above requires you to hunt around for the
source and
On Wednesday 2 February 2000, at 0 h 20, the keyboard of Dan Potter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone tell me the canonical way to compile a deb from the source
> stuff (orig tarball, dsc, diff)? Or point me to a description of how to do
> it?
If you have all the Debian tools:
dpkg-sour
I recall waay back on Feb 01 when Peter M Kahle wrote:
> Well, on Debian you can use a chrooted environment to simulate (for
> example) the stable distribution on a box with unstable, so is this a
> case where using that jail tool that was mentioned on the list would
> help?
Probably.. the prob
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 11:30:31PM -0600, Dan Potter wrote:
> I'm going to attempt to kill that other subject line =)
>
> I guess the next question is how to test dpkg without destroying the BSD
> system... ^_^;;
Well, on Debian you can use a chrooted environment to simulate (for
example) the sta
I'm going to attempt to kill that other subject line =)
Anyway, I just successfully did a package [U]pdate using dselect/apt and
I'm looking at a shiny new package listing with the default Debian
packages selected, on my FreeBSD box.
I guess the next question is how to test dpkg without destroyin
I recall waay back on Feb 01 when Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Cool. As you said, it's not as optimal -- but I don't know just how bad
> it is :) It's either much less or much more resiliant to a crash of apt
> itself
> (uncommitted changes will be lost, could be good or bad), and may not be that
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 10:44:05PM -0600, Dan Potter was heard to say:
> Actually it looks like it works ok (at least on read-only, I haven't
> managed to get far enough through apt to test it fully). It's really brute
> force though =). It just reads the whole file into memory and then lets
> you
I recall waay back on Feb 01 when Daniel Burrows wrote:
> It sounds like you didn't get that to work..but if you did, and you got
> decent
> performance, please forward it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Hurd has
> some problems with apt due to the fact that it (the Hurd) lacks an msync()
> system ca
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:55:02PM -0600, Dan Potter was heard to say:
> play. Apt needs to be cleaned up 'cause I really hosed that one trying to
> make it not use mmap at all for now.
It sounds like you didn't get that to work..but if you did, and you got decent
performance, please forward it
I recall waay back on Feb 01 when Dan Papasian wrote:
> I'll say. The return value and the header files.. shouldn't big that
> big of an issue. What, may I ask, does mmap() return on Linux?
> (and if anyone says a caddr_t, I'll kill you)
It returns a caddr_t of course. ;-)
This looks to sum u
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:55:02PM -0600, Dan Potter wrote:
> Linux --
>#include
>#include
>
>caddr_t mmap(void *start, size_t length, int prot , int
>flags, int fd, off_t offset);
>
> BSD --
> #include
> #include
>
> void *
> mmap(void
I recall waay back on Feb 01 when Dan Papasian wrote:
> Is there a Debian package for every last program? No, there is your
> base deb which contains several. Your complaint is that FreeBSD's base
> OS is too big. That is debated constantly.
Ermm... small correction. There _is_ a Debian packag
I recall waay back on Feb 01 when Dan Papasian wrote:
> It would have been nice knowing this before I worked up a proof-of-concept
> port the other day :)
Ack!!! Have we all done that now? =)
On the mmap man page, the Linux call is almost a subset of the BSD call.
Apparently there is a POSIX sta
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:39:56PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> So, show me the port for sendmail.
sendmail is in the base OS. MySQL, which you used for your example, is
not.
> The Debian package maintainer takes care of these `insignificant
> details'. Since there is no BSD port of sendmail,
Dan Papasian writes:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:26:16PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> > The Debian package maintainer insures that upgrading mySQL from a
> > prior version goes smoothly.
> >
> > The Debian package maintainer insures that replacing mySQL with a
> > package of equivalent fu
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:11:01PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote:
> What do you think the port maintainer does?
Actually, one thing I've been wanting to do for awhile is build a variant
install (or, more likely, a wrapper for install) which registers what
it does in the dpkg database. The package nam
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 07:38:55PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:32:30PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote:
> > Bill Jolitz fathered 386BSD.
>
> Which, as I understand it, was the starting point for NetBSD, FreeBSD
> and OpenBSD.
When Jolitz abandoned 386BSD, various patchkits ev
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:09:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > What did Jolitz write?
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:32:30PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote:
> Bill Jolitz fathered 386BSD.
Which, as I understand it, was the starting point for NetBSD, FreeBSD
and OpenBSD.
--
Raul
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:34:55PM -0600, Steve Price wrote:
> #
> # Strange, you brag about the freedom of the BSD license, but when
> # someone proposes to play with your little toy with its neon `play
> # with me tag', you immediately begin to scream that your toy is
> # about to be violated by
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