Dummy package question using apt-get source

1999-09-02 Thread Jim Westveer
Dummy package question. So I build a package with debuild and all seems well. I dupload it to unstable, and the package seems well. I can install it from unstable, to my local machineok. It works fine...but when I try to apt-get source ean13 --compile I get the source unpacked fine, but th

Strange error while learning to create debs.

1999-09-02 Thread Miguel A. Figueroa
Hello, I have a strange error here. Going over docs and stuff to learn about creating packages, I have the following files created from a current enlightenment source download. I removed the debian subdirectory that came from the CVS version so I can learn following examples. Anyway, these are the

Re: postinst?

1999-09-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Hi, > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > All that debhelper will do is to place appropriate lines in the > > postinst to handle "standard" things such as info file installation, > > window manager installation, suidregister and so forth. As soon as > > you want to do something packa

[ Apologize for this stupid question ]

1999-09-02 Thread Imad Soltani
i want to make a install CD of debian distrib , with the max appli i can . someone can help me with a method ? Imad " *breuheu* *groumph* *raaah* *bouh* Micro$oft " Imad Soltani (1999)

Re: postinst?

1999-09-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > All that debhelper will do is to place appropriate lines in the > postinst to handle "standard" things such as info file installation, > window manager installation, suidregister and so forth. As soon as > you want to do something package-specific, y

Re: postinst?

1999-09-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Hi, > I am building a package, using debhelper scripts. Now I have to call a > program (to create a score file with defined ownership) from the postinst. > In the docs I found something about autoscript, but it seems I can not call > it from debian rules. So how do I add a programm call in postin

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-09-02 Thread goswin . brederlow
Jozef Hitzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ("Being too generic is a bug." -Linus) "There are no bugs, those are features." - M$ Mfg, Goswin

Re: debian & ups

1999-09-02 Thread goswin . brederlow
I understood the previous mails in a way that only one UPS where possible and i thought that more would be needed frequently. Since that seems possible with a little tweeking of the scripts, thats fine. Another thing that interests me is, whether you can export the UPS via a network block device

Re: Problems with debianizing [Again]

1999-09-02 Thread Ben Collins
Basically you need to update to the latest tar and fakeroot from potato. There was a version (can't remember which) that was broken in this way, but the current is fixed. Ben

Problems with debianizing [Again]

1999-09-02 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I don't know if you received my thread, so I'm back again. At the end of the debianizing process, the following happens : (some messages are in french but it does'nt matter here) ... dh_md5sums -pgiram-mesa -Pdebian/tmp dh_builddeb -pgiram-mesa -Pdebian/tmp dpkg-deb: construction du paquet

postinst?

1999-09-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am building a package, using debhelper scripts. Now I have to call a program (to create a score file with defined ownership) from the postinst. In the docs I found something about autoscript, but it seems I can not call it from debian rules. So how do I add a programm call in postinst using d

Re: debian & ups

1999-09-02 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
Here's answer from smartupstools author, Russell Kroll .. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:04:50 -0600 From: Russell Kroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutdowns > As you see from the mail a Cc-ed to you (it was on debian-mentors), he was

Re: debian & UPS support

1999-09-02 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
On 31 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have two servers that act as redundant to each other. Now if one > goes down, the second takes over. It would then be nice to > automatically reboot the other by telling the UPS to power down for a > while. > > If the UPS had two serial ports, both com