RE: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-02-24 Thread Shaleh
On 24-Feb-99 Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > What do I typically do when there is a new version available upstream? I > previously packaged the aspell spell checker version 0.26.2. The new > upstream version is 0.27. > > Do I - > > 1. tar zxvf upstream_src.tgz > 2. Apply the .diff that was

What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-02-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
What do I typically do when there is a new version available upstream? I previously packaged the aspell spell checker version 0.26.2. The new upstream version is 0.27. Do I - 1. tar zxvf upstream_src.tgz 2. Apply the .diff that was generated when I produced 0.26.2 (and get rid of the files li

Re: location dependencies

1999-02-24 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > This is a great help. So it turns out that I am ignorant to the workings of > 'configure' does anyone know of a good place to learn more about configure? (cc: redirected to debian-mentors) 'info autoconf' and 'info automake' are a reasonable place to s

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-24 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx to everyone for your comments regarding this. After going through all the responses, as well as taking another look at both FSSTND and FHS, I'm going to go ahead and place the binary under /usr/sbin. Thanx for your assistance!