Re: configuration file placement

1999-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally I do not think EVERY package belongs in /etc. Sytem control, > sure. > But small things, no. I am aware of the current policy, but I think a strict > "everything goes here" is bound to have problems. IMHO, I should be able to NFS-mount /usr read

Re: configuration file placement

1999-01-31 Thread John Hasler
John Travers wrote: > The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in > /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can I > make the configuration file and example go to /etc/packagename... but leave > the pixmap in the /usr/share... directory?

RE: configuration file placement

1999-01-31 Thread Shaleh
On 31-Jan-99 John Travers wrote: > The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in > /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can I > make the configuration file and example go to /etc/packagename... but leave > the pixmap in the /usr/share.

configuration file placement

1999-01-31 Thread John Travers
The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can I make the configuration file and example go to /etc/packagename... but leave the pixmap in the /usr/share... directory? (I know how I could install

Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?

1999-01-31 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Why call it vdk_0_5_1.orig.tar.gz ? > > Maybe I'm out to lunch here. Here's what I do with packages and > seems to me it works: > > $ mv vdk_0_5_1.tar.gz vdk_0.5.1-19990122.orig.tar.gz > $ tar zxvf vdk_0.5.1-19990122.orig.tar.gz > $ cd VDK-0.5.1 > $ deb-make (or wha

Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?

1999-01-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Chris" == Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: >> Peter is correct. Just a small note: it is VERY important that the >> .orig.tar.gz IS the original tar.gz (the name doesn't matter); Chris> Hmm, I note that the cvs-buildpackage package creates a n