Building windows versions of debian packages

2005-11-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
figure. Has anybody else done something like this? -- Aaron Isotton | http://www.isotton.com/ If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. -- Oscar Wilde signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Yelp HTML generation (#177167)

2003-10-03 Thread Aaron Isotton
ture should /var/cache/yelp have? - how should the cache be updated? by root running yelp-pregenerate, or by yelp 'on first request'? If yelp must be able to write to the cache, how should it do so? Via setuid or via group permissions (like the man cache). - has any of this already been

Re: What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:13:13 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: [...] > See groff_char(7). Technically it's Latin-1, but this is planned to > change to UTF-8 for groff 2.0 (no schedule yet); groff_char(7) advises > sticking to ASCII, and I agree. You can get everything in Latin-1 >

What's the character encoding of manpages?

2003-07-24 Thread Aaron Isotton
uce the problem compiling the sitemap package from sid. [Side note: there's also another problem unrelated to this; see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=763861&group_id=21935&atid=516914 for more information] Aaron Isotton [ http://www.is

What should go into "How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format"?

2002-12-08 Thread Aaron Isotton
#x27;d prefer some program to be installed in this impure way than overwriting some other files or sprinkling the file system with mysterious configuration and cache files. Or maybe it'd be better to create directories such as /usr/bin//, /usr/lib/ and so on. I'm not too sure a