Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-26 Thread Dominik Kubla
Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > : sudo will ask you for YOUR password (not the root password) once and will > > ... AND needs full path names or the all option. > ??? I can not confirm this. I work with exact the line i quoted in my earlier mail without any problem, i just needed to remove the quo

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-26 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Dominik Kubla wrote: : : Heiko Schlittmann wrote: : > Have you ever tried : > dpkg-buildpackage -r'su root -c' : Or even better install the sudo package and do: : dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo : sudo will ask you for YOUR password (not the root password) once and will ... AND needs full

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-25 Thread Guy Maor
There's probably no point in making patches that Ian disapproves of, as he'll just change them back. Guy

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Have you ever tried > > dpkg-buildpackage -r'su root -c' > > ?? (Ok, Michael hasn't read the manual (like me) and tried it. The > manual says, the root command must not contains any white space ... > Nope, I haven't. (I su to root befo

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Dale Scheetz wrote: : : On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : > Dale Scheetz wrote: : > : On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : > : > withecho $rootcommand "debian/rules clean" : > : > If I did no mistakes it worked for me. : > : When I installed Michael's "quote pa

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > : > : On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > : > > : > withecho $rootcommand "debian/rules clean" > : > If I did no mistakes it worked for me. > : > : When I installed Michael's "quote patch" the next tim

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Dale Scheetz wrote: : : On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : > : > withecho $rootcommand "debian/rules clean" : > If I did no mistakes it worked for me. : : When I installed Michael's "quote patch" the next time I tried to run : dpkg-buildpackage I got was informed that debi

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > : 3. Do NOT use Michael Meskes's patch to quote the argument to > : $rootcommand in dpkg-buildpackage. Instead, RTFM. Please DO NOT > : release a dpkg with Michael Meskes's patch. Thank you. > > Hmm, I've changed it. The default root command i

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Ian Jackson wrote: : : 1. Yes, dpkg-source doesn't work with hardlinks. I think that : hardlinks in source packages are evil. Perhaps they can be made to : work - Heiko's patch seems reasonable (until someone wants a filename : containing the string ` link to '). However, I'd recommend just hm

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-23 Thread Erick Branderhorst
> 5. I don't understand the problem with WIFSIGNALED, but this is > definitely a bug in the Perl installation and not in dpkg-source. So the WIFSIGNALED thing has to do with perl. Here is some about the perl I have installed on my system. Erick $ dpkg --status perl Package: perl Status: install

dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-22 Thread Ian Jackson
I've just read debian-devel, and: 0. Yes, all existing packages should now be converted to the new source format, and new packages should be in this format too. 1. Yes, dpkg-source doesn't work with hardlinks. I think that hardlinks in source packages are evil. Perhaps they can be made to work