Re: fakeroot

1998-01-27 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Hi, > > I couldn't find `fakeroot' in bo, bo-unstable, or bo-updates on > ftp.us.debian.org. It was in hamm, but I don't have a hamm system. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. Fakeroot as released is only useful for compiling on libc6 systems. It

Re: fakeroot

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 04:47:30PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Hi, > > I couldn't find `fakeroot' in bo, bo-unstable, or bo-updates on > ftp.us.debian.org. It was in hamm, but I don't have a hamm system. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. If you want to maintain packages you need a hamm sy

fakeroot

1998-01-27 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Hi, I couldn't find `fakeroot' in bo, bo-unstable, or bo-updates on ftp.us.debian.org. It was in hamm, but I don't have a hamm system. Any suggestions are appreciated. -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: sendfax from mgetty-fax dumps core

1998-01-27 Thread David Goodwin
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:29:25 +0100 "Nathan L. Cutler" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Once there's a lower-volume alternative to debian-user (last time I checked >it was producing well over 100 messages a day), I'll subscribe to it. I >apologize for sending inappropriate material to this list. I too

debstd and packagename

1998-01-27 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, I have the folowing problem. I am using debstd to build two pacakges, dmalloc1 and dmalloc1-dev out of one source. Now the source pacakge is called dmalloc. When called, debstd uses dmalloc rather than dmalloc1 as the package name, thus copying the files into the wrong doc directory. So my que

Re: sendfax from mgetty-fax dumps core

1998-01-27 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 06:57:58PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > this list is meant for helping new-maintainers packaging their > stuff. > > Your posting belongs to debian-user. Once there's a lower-volume alternative to debian-user (last time I checked it was producing well over 100 messages a

Re: How to use glibc and advanced signal handlers.

1998-01-27 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 09:17:08AM +0100, Peter.VanEynde wrote: > I'm working on making a debian package of CMUCL, a lisp system. That > I've (almost) ported CMUCL to glibc2, but I'm having a bit of a problem. > > First of all: what happened to errno? It was a variable, but now it is a > kind of p