Re: dpkg dependency checks are sometimes quite useless ?!

On Fri, 14 May 1999, Christian Hammers wrote: > Written in a bug support for my wwwoffle packet: > > >2) When installing the new unstable wwwoffle (2.4b) with dpkg, the > > installprocess first made a mess (by overwring the binary) and complained > > about unmet libc2.1 dependencies --after-- th

dpkg dependency checks are sometimes quite useless ?!

Hi ! Written in a bug support for my wwwoffle packet: >2) When installing the new unstable wwwoffle (2.4b) with dpkg, the > installprocess first made a mess (by overwring the binary) and complained > about unmet libc2.1 dependencies --after-- that. I don't know if it's dpkg's > fault or wwwoffl

Upload failure

The other day I uploaded OPIE to master, but somehow fscked up and uploaded opie_2.32-1.tar.gz instead of opie_2.32.orig.tar.gz and opie_2.32-1.diff.gz How can I correct my earlier blunder? Cheers, Matt / Matt KernTel: (01223) 366290 | |

Re: Building from a source package

Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:21:46PM +1200, Alex King wrote: > > I have a feeling this may be a silly question, but here goes... > > > > How do I build a binary package from a debian source package? > > > > I have downloaded the source package, and unpacked it with dpkg-sourc

Re: Building from a source package

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:21:46PM +1200, Alex King wrote: > I have a feeling this may be a silly question, but here goes... > > How do I build a binary package from a debian source package? > > I have downloaded the source package, and unpacked it with dpkg-source, but > how do I make the .deb f

Building from a source package

I have a feeling this may be a silly question, but here goes... How do I build a binary package from a debian source package? I have downloaded the source package, and unpacked it with dpkg-source, but how do I make the .deb from it? I need to recompile the package (samba) with a compile time se