Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit

y good on *that* one machine is useless to me.) How do you guys deal with this in your organizations? Thanks for your input, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Custom repository and "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!"

\ || mkdir "${gpg_home}" test -d "${gpg_home}" \ && chmod 0700 "${gpg_home}" test -f "${this_dir}/passphrase.txt" test -f "${this_dir}/input.txt" \ || cat > "${input_file}" << EOF 1 2048 0 y

Re: Brain dead package management?

martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.01.1953 +0200]: tiem-cups-cfg: PreDepends: cupsys-bsd but it is not installable There's your problem. APT is made for software packages, not configuration packages. Use cfengine or puppet fo

Brain dead package management?

get 234kB of archives. After unpacking 233kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] What gives? Does anybody understand why aptitude is behaving this way? And apt-get does the exact same thing too. Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

Michael S. Peek wrote: Kevin Buhr wrote: "Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

Kevin Buhr wrote: "Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand co

Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

em-nis-client-cfg (from .../tiem-nis-client-cfg_1.4_all.deb) ... Setting up tiem-nis-client-cfg (1.4) ... Setting NIS domainname to: tiem Starting NIS services: ypbind Tell me, oh wise gurus of Debian -- is dpkg just brain-dead? Is the man page horribly wrong/out-of-date? Or what? Confuse

Re: Broken dpkg.cfg?

martin f krafft wrote: also sprach peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.11.1210 +0100]: How is this really supposed to work? (And why does it say "Success" when it exits with an error? Success at generating an error?) Btw, I'm running Sarge. log support was add

Broken dpkg.cfg?

ith an error? Success at generating an error?) Btw, I'm running Sarge. Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

ery dpkg for what package *every* file came from -- no files left out; and you don't necessarily have to rely on the package maintainer to remember to clean up after themselves during a purge, so long as they registered their dynamically-created files right after creation. Anyway, that answered

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

tches. sean The idea of a glob makes me nervous. There's been plenty of times I've accidentaly gotten extra files listed in a glob to ls or find that I didn't intend to. Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.08.2239 +0100]: The next time there's an upgrade for courier-authdaemon, won't it overwrite my version of /etc/courier/authdaemonrc with it's own? No way. Packages must *never* ov

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

Thanks for the help, Martin. martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.08.2124 +0100]: 2) I then divert this file. Diversions of conffiles are not supported. Check that /etc/courier/authdaemonrc is not a conffile. If it is, you could easil

Silly Packaging Problem

but for some reason the authdaemonrc file is not installed. Oh, and it get's better. After installation, when I do 'dpkg -L', etc/courier/authdaemonrc *is* listed as one of the files installed by my package. So... Uh... Can anyone enlighten me as to why this is happening?

Using /cdrom/.disk/udeb_(in|ex)clude to load custom udebs instead of d-i's?

yway. As the installer runs and d-i's netconfig sits there waiting for me to type in an address I can switch to another terminal and load my udebs by hand using udpkg, and my udebs work, they're just not being loaded *instead of* the default udeb. Anyone have an idea what I

Re: Apt, custom packages, and package dependencies

a file that needs to be updated on my repository -- even though > I've totally deleted and rebuilt the repository several times. > > Anybody have any idea where I would go about finding out what's wrong? > > Thanks for your help, > > Michael Peek > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apt, custom packages, and package dependencies

on my repository -- even though I've totally deleted and rebuilt the repository several times. Anybody have any idea where I would go about finding out what's wrong? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What does this mean?

mes | --assert-multi-conrep What do these mean? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Packaging Question

ofs-config) Pre-Depend on autofs and autofs-hesiod. I thought that doing so would force dpkg to configure autofs and autofs-hesiod *BEFORE* installing my tiem.autofs-config. What *should* I be doing instead? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

NFS Trouble using custom install CD w/ linux-2.4.27-1

PC gives an error message. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]