Re: My first packages -- some questions.

1998-02-02 Thread Scott Ellis
On 2 Feb 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > OK, here is my first bunch of question. > > 0. BTW, I built my packages in what I assume is the standard way. I >ran deb-make, edited the files in debian/ and ran build. Should I >be doing something differently? I am not quite comfortable with >

Re: My first packages -- some questions.

1998-02-02 Thread Igor Grobman
> I would also appreciate it if someone could give my packages a quick > look before I upload them to Incoming. I could either put them in my > home directory on master or in an obscure corner of my web page. Were > I to do that and then decide that I wanted to change something, would > I have t

Re: make-kpkg question

1998-02-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> For the most part, make-kpkg is "A Good Thing". I have a George> question on how it would handle remaking the same kernel George> version with a new .conf entry that would break the old kernel George> running the new modules.

My first packages -- some questions.

1998-02-02 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Mentors! I am putting together my first two packages: elisp-manual and emacs-lisp-intro. These are orphaned packages that I adopted and am converting over from old source format as well as updating with new upstream versions. I have several minor question, the first bunch of which I will ask

dpkg-shlibdeps

1998-02-02 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi I am having the following problem. # dpkg-shlibdeps debian/gdkimlib1/usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.0.1 dpkg: /usr/lib//libjpeg.so.6a not found. dpkg: /usr/lib//libz.so.1 not found. dpkg: /usr/lib//libpng.so.0 not found. dpkg: /usr/lib//libtiff.so.3 not found. dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find an

Re: Utillity for generating Packages?

1998-02-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, George Bonser wrote: > And so now I learn about the overrides files ... maintaining a Debian > tree is sure a lot of work. Looks like I need to start building some > release maintainance tools. If you build your local packages in the "proper" way, you don't need an override f

make-kpkg question

1998-02-02 Thread George Bonser
For the most part, make-kpkg is "A Good Thing". I have a question on how it would handle remaking the same kernel version with a new .conf entry that would break the old kernel running the new modules. Example: User has 2.0.29 and recompiles for multiprocessor support. Makes a new kernel pac

Re: Utillity for generating Packages?

1998-02-02 Thread George Bonser
On 02-Feb-98 Carey Evans wrote: > George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is there a utullity for generating a Packages file from an archive of .deb >> files? > > dpkg-scanpackages > And so now I learn about the overrides files ... maintaining a Debian tree is sure a lot of work. Looks

Re: Utillity for generating Packages?

1998-02-02 Thread Carey Evans
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a utullity for generating a Packages file from an archive of .deb > files? dpkg-scanpackages -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

Utillity for generating Packages?

1998-02-02 Thread George Bonser
Is there a utullity for generating a Packages file from an archive of .deb files? How is the Packages file generated or changed? I would like to keep a custom local archive but am finding the maintainance of the Packages file a bit of a headache. George Bonser If NT is the answer, you didn't