Re: How to handle multiple versions of binaries

1999-12-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:34:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Disclaimer: IATTIMS ?? > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Your package should make no assumptions about the existence of > > /usr/local; it's entirely at the discretion of the sysadmin what to > > put there. *If* t

Re: How to handle multiple versions of binaries

1999-12-13 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:47:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > I'm going to have anything automatic turned off `as-shipped', and merely > inform the admin to edit the configuration file. Later I'll add support > for debconf. Ok then, this

Re: How to handle multiple versions of binaries

1999-12-13 Thread ferret
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:34:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Disclaimer: IATTIMS Or IATTWA > [this is a new one to me! :] > > [... cutting and compressing ...] [More cutting] > > So what it looks like at this point: > > > > Main configura

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:13:39PM +, Chris Rutter wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory > > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it, > > rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Chris Rutter wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory > > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it, > > rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar.gz just to fix the directory name; > >

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Chris Rutter
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it, > rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar.gz just to fix the directory name; > it's better to use "pristine sourc

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 03:23:28AM +, Chris Rutter wrote: > I'm slightly mystified, in my newsbieship, as to what this means. > > The source archive is `mLib-1.6.1.tar.gz', and it unpacks into a directory > called `mLib-1.6.1'. I suppose `dpkg-source' is supposed to rename that > to `mlib-1.6

Re: How to handle multiple versions of binaries

1999-12-13 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:34:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Disclaimer: IATTIMS [this is a new one to me! :] [... cutting and compressing ...] > I'm intending to make the server a seperate package from the dataset(s), > and to have a -common package on the current assumption I'll have >

Re: How to handle multiple versions of binaries

1999-12-13 Thread ferret
Disclaimer: IATTIMS On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:13:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Also, if the minimal game dataset does need to be customized before use, > > > /usr/share/doc//examples sounds right to me -- throwing them in > > > /usr/lib/

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
[ -devel dropped from distribution list ] On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 03:23:28AM +, Chris Rutter wrote: > Now; I was under the impression that all package names had to be lowercase; > i.e. I would be uploading `libmlib1' and `libmlib-dev'. However, in > section 4.2.1 of v3.1.0.0 of the Debian Pac

Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Chris Rutter
I'm packaging mLib[1], a library much like `glib'. Now; I was under the impression that all package names had to be lowercase; i.e. I would be uploading `libmlib1' and `libmlib-dev'. However, in section 4.2.1 of v3.1.0.0 of the Debian Packaging Manual: 4 Control files and their fields [

Re: How to handle multiple versions of binaries

1999-12-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 05:13:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Also, if the minimal game dataset does need to be customized before use, > > /usr/share/doc//examples sounds right to me -- throwing them in > > /usr/lib/ and requiring customization Just Seems Wrong -- they > > really *are* exa

Re: How to handle multiple versions of binaries

1999-12-13 Thread ferret
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > IANADD(Y) Me neither. > I do think /usr/lib/ is the right place for the binaries; mozilla > does it that way, rpm stores scripts and programs there, and now I am > getting tired of looking for more -- so you can't be too far off. :) > > Also, if the