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1999-02-15 Thread Adam Klein
Wmakerconf has a feature which can download tiles, backgrounds, and other stuff from themes.org. It can use either Lynx, Wget, of libwww-perl AND libhtml-parser-perl. How can I express this on a Depends: line? Right now, I just have Depends: lynx | wget | libwww-perl, and as libwww-perl Reccomen

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:54:15AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 01:24:51PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > > Any package which uses the GNU toolchain can be build in multiple > > directories like this: > > > > mkdir debian/build-no-x; cd debian/build-no-x; ../../configure --dis

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 01:24:51PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > Any package which uses the GNU toolchain can be build in multiple > directories like this: > > mkdir debian/build-no-x; cd debian/build-no-x; ../../configure --disable-x > make [..] epic4 doesn't build this way and it uses autoconf at

building a new package

1999-02-15 Thread John Travers
Hi, i'm using dpkg-buildpackage to compile my packages, it worked fine for one, but for another it put the FAQ and README that came with the package into /usr/lib instead of /usr/doc. It uses a configure script. I have edited the image in src/debian/tmp/usr... to put the files in the ri

Can't boot, /bin/sh:xmalloc: cannot allocate

1999-02-15 Thread Todd R DeWitt
I'm new to Linux and have just tried my first install. The machine is an IBM Valuepoint, 486SX with 4MB. The install process using lowmem goes well except that it won't recognize the swap partition I created once it enters the "normal" install process that it loads from the install partition. E

looking for check

1999-02-15 Thread Andrea Fanfani
hi all, i have finished my first package and now, before make the upload i would like have some check. For this reason i'm looking for a check of my package, i'm very scared to make an upload with a wrong package. The package is the installatione and getting started guide of the LDP, you can find i

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:12:26PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > > And conversely, of course there is at least one technical reason to prefer > > doing all the build in the 'build' target - the 'binary' target may be run > > as root (more likely fakeroot,