Re: dpkg-1.4.1.4 port for FreeBSD

1999-07-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:10:19AM -0500, Steve Price wrote: > Who maintains dpkg? The Debian project? A group of people? > A single person? The reason I ask is that there are few > patches in the port that seem to address features not directly > related to FreeBSD. That's a rather painful ques

Re: dpkg-1.4.1.4 port for FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Steve Price
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Gary Kline wrote: # Red flag. I've run into miseries with ncurses (and some # signal-generation code that I ported). I hope you've # solved that problem here. My wall has enough dents from my # head, :-) Not much more to it than this in the port's

Re: dpkg-1.4.1.4 port for FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Gary Kline
According to Steve Price: > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Gary Kline wrote: > > # Anyway, thanks for the port. I'll be interested to see > # what the source looks like; I'm curious... > > Extract the file I sent out, somewhere on your box. I had it > in /tmp/dpkg/port, but you could just as eas

Re: dpkg-1.4.1.4 port for FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Steve Price
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Gary Kline wrote: # Anyway, thanks for the port. I'll be interested to see # what the source looks like; I'm curious... Extract the file I sent out, somewhere on your box. I had it in /tmp/dpkg/port, but you could just as easily put it anywhere. I did it simila

Re: dpkg-1.4.1.4 port for FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Gary Kline
According to Steve Price: > As Gary alluded too (I think I'm the Steve he's been talking > about :) I've got a semi-working port of dpkg for FreeBSD. > It was for 1.4.1.1 so I spent some time yesterday updating > it to 1.4.1.4 and making an official FreeBSD port of it. > > It is still *very* rough

dpkg-1.4.1.4 port for FreeBSD

1999-07-19 Thread Steve Price
As Gary alluded too (I think I'm the Steve he's been talking about :) I've got a semi-working port of dpkg for FreeBSD. It was for 1.4.1.1 so I spent some time yesterday updating it to 1.4.1.4 and making an official FreeBSD port of it. It is still *very* rough. Prefixing everything with $(HOST) i