Re: How to handle dirty tarballs (Was: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source)

2012-08-24 Thread Vincent Zweije
|| || To answer your question: Yes, I find it reasonable to "normalize" when || repackaging. ... keeping in mind that it would be a nice property if the package also builds when the normalized .orig.tar.gz is replaced with the true upstream .tar.gz. -- Vincent Zweije| "I

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Vincent Zweije
f a separate shell, for a little speed. Nowadays, this is probably no longer necessary. Although, with embedded stuff, you never know. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije| "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4al

Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-15 Thread Vincent Zweije
proper ownership for files in the tar-archive. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije| "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?" [Xhost should be taken out and shot] |-- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Vincent Zweije
without a kernel? The answer could still fall either way. Personally, as one point of measurement, I prefer lilo because it's lightweight. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije | "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4

Re: For those who care about pam-ssh: RFC

2008-12-04 Thread Vincent Zweije
tory containing keys to be used (and nothing else). Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Vincent Zweije
pact of #488971, but it is still a bug in firefox or in its neighborhood, not in PATH searching. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/&g

Re: Bug#448586: "No such file or directory" misleading

2007-10-30 Thread Vincent Zweije
from command mode: :!mkdir /zzz and the directory is created, should you have the permissions for that, of course. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| "If you're flamed in a group you <http:

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Zweije
SHELL combines hostname and -i into one string. On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 08:40:41PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: || [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Zweije) wrote: || || > It's not a bug. It's a feature. :) || > || [...] || > /bin/sh -c '/bin/echo' '' || >

Re: something strange with rsh/ssh + bash/tcsh is happening. Please advise

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Zweije
/bin/sh -c '/bin/echo' '' /bin/tcsh -c '/bin/echo' '' /bin/tcsh -c '/bin/echo' '' So it runs the command /bin/echo with $1=. However, /bin/echo doesn't use $1, and only prints an empty line which you see. Af

Re: need help on #271678 (sizefo struct?)

2005-05-16 Thread Vincent Zweije
fer the paranteses :) As you wish. It's your package. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?" [Xhost should be taken out and shot] |-- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: need help on #271678 (sizefo struct?)

2005-05-16 Thread Vincent Zweije
f sx25_address. (sizeof is an operator and doesn't need parentheses. If the argument is a type, then *that* needs parentheses though. But I digress.) Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| "If

Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

2005-03-27 Thread Vincent Zweije
least for xdm. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?" [Xhost should be taken out and shot] |

Re: Two different libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.3_i386.deb?

2003-12-03 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:44:36PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: || file=main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.3_i386.deb || wget -q -O 1.deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/$file || wget -q -O 2.deb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/$file || diff 1.deb 2.deb || || Binary files 1.deb

Re: Concurrent CLEAN Package

2003-07-03 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:57:54PM +0800, ZHAO Wei wrote: || Last I mentioned my intention to package CLEAN for Debian. Someone || (Sorry I lost your email.) replied me that there is already a CLEAN || package for Debian. But I can't find the package from apt-cache. I || thought it was still w

Re: inews path question

2003-06-30 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:13:08PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: || On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: || No, the proper place would not be /usr/sbin, "helper binary" does not || match the FHS criteria for /usr/sbin/ || http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.

Re: inews path question

2003-06-30 Thread Vincent Zweije
>From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews should be seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to what sendmail is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that allow you to post messages, but not supposed to be called directly by the end user. As such, the

Re: CGI:IRC on Debian

2003-06-23 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:28:04AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: || I became a maintainer recently, when I took the prozilla package from || Gustavo Noronha Silva (kov), a few days ago. I am now trying to finish my || second Debian Package: cgiirc. || || Unfortunately, the program puts

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: || Debian can continue to drag along support for libc5-binaries (hey, || nobody out there with need for libc4?) (raises hand) Ciao. Vincent.

Re: Root can't run X programs

2003-04-29 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 07:10:06AM -0500, David Krider wrote: || Cameron Hutchison wrote: || || >The next bit of juju is to set the environment variable XAUTHORITY to || >~/.Xauthority, where is the user that started the xserver. This shouldn't be necessary, since X clients default to $HOME/.X