Re: time to ask for some help

1998-07-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
Sorry about the delay. I can't get the soname option to work as given below. I can get it to work with: -Wl,-soname -Wl,libmeschach.so.$(vers) On 18 Jun 1998, James LewisMoss wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:45:58 -0400 (EDT), "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> sai

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > There's nothing wrong with debianutils... this is more a meta > question, I was just wondering if I could use the Perl provided > method... and debianutils is part of the base system, and it's > requiered, so there's no need to depend on it, is there? You have to d

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread James Troup
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > >>"Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcelo> ... and debianutils is part of the base system, and it's > Marcelo> requiered, so there's no need to depend on it, is there? > > Yes, there is. Unless the pac

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> ... and debianutils is part of the base system, and it's Marcelo> requiered, so there's no need to depend on it, is there? Yes, there is. Unless the package is tagged essential, you have to explicitly provide

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 09:26:54AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:50:35PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > > >can I use IO::Handle::new_tmpfile in an Perl script that's run on > > > postinst? The package has to Predepend on perl, right? > > > > Why not just depend

Re: Multiple-binary split between main and contrib

1998-07-12 Thread James Troup
Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm attempting to split the splay package into two binary packages, > one containing just the splay related stuff and one containing the > xsplay qt-linked X11 version of it. I want the splay binary to go > into main and xsplay to go into contrib. Does any

Re: New maintainer - intent to package LAM 6.1

1998-07-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 10:18:10AM +, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy] wrote: > The Extreme Linux CD contains GPL'd softwsre packaged as .rpms and .srpms. > Most of the CD is standard Red Hat 5.1: three or four specialist packages > [beotools, kernel config, modified kernel sources] are _only_ availabl

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:50:35PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > >can I use IO::Handle::new_tmpfile in an Perl script that's run on > > postinst? The package has to Predepend on perl, right? > > Why not just depend on debianutils (>= 1.6) and use the tempfile > command? There's nothing wrong

ACE

1998-07-12 Thread Michael Borella
Has anyone shown an intent for packaging Doug Schmidt's ACE libraries? -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New maintainer - intent to package LAM 6.1

1998-07-12 Thread Andrew M.A.Cater \[Andy\]
Following the post about Debina for use in clusters and distributed processing the other day: This is a formal announcement that I am applying as a new developer. [I've been lurking round debian-devel for a couple of years and was a beta tester for 1.3 and am now a beta tester for hamm]. I've

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread Richard Braakman
Dan Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:34:57PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > Hi, > > > >can I use IO::Handle::new_tmpfile in an Perl script that's run on > > postinst? The package has to Predepend on perl, right? I'll use this > > tempfile to modify a conffile (it *has* t

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:34:57PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Hi, > >can I use IO::Handle::new_tmpfile in an Perl script that's run on > postinst? The package has to Predepend on perl, right? I'll use this > tempfile to modify a conffile (it *has* to be modified, it's not an > opti

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

1998-07-12 Thread Carey Evans
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >can I use IO::Handle::new_tmpfile in an Perl script that's run on > postinst? > > The package has to Predepend on perl, right? I'll use this > tempfile to modify a conffile (it *has* to be modified, it's not an > option)... what's the prop