Re: Logging procedure/mechanism questions

Jonathan Hall wrote: > And then my last question... What's the proper way to handle log rotation? > According to the Debian Policy manual (section 4.8), I should use logrotate. > This package does not exist on my system, tho... I can only address this question. logrotate is fairly new, in po

Re: problem with sections

Likely, wget's rules file uses: dpkg-gencontrol -isp and you don't use that option to dpkg-gencontrol. Peter Domenico Andreoli wrote: > ok. the problem is that after a dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > wget package comes with right section whereas curl comes with no section > at

Re: problem with sections

On Thursday 30 December 1999, at 15 h 58, the keyboard of "Domenico Andreoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i can't figure how to put my package in the right section. Remember also that sections in the control file are just hints, the real information is in the override file on master. See

Re: problem with sections

* "Domenico" == Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Domenico> here is my control file for curl source tree: [...] Is this the complete file? Is curl-ssl in a seperate source tree? Domenico> it looks fine, doesn't it? Yes. If I feed equivs-build (package equivs, builds dummy packages)

problem with sections

ok, may be it's time for me to ask help here. i'm the curl package maintainer, a sponsorized and not a real one i mean. i've this problem: i can't figure how to put my package in the right section. debianized curl is divided in two binaries: curl and curl-ssl. they conflicts each other and that i

Logging procedure/mechanism questions

Okay... I'm making some good progress with my portslave package. The (hopefully) last major hurdle I have to pass now has to do with how and where to keep and rotate log files. Let me first say that my understanding of syslog's funcionalilty is somewhat limited. Portslave, by default, logs to "s

RE: Hi, is this license cool? main? non-free?

On 29-Dec-1999 Jim Lynch wrote: > > Hi, pam-krb5 is a module that lets pam accept kerberos authentication. > > Neomaru Itoi is the author, and he has sent me the following message > containing umich's boilerplate, which he says can be used. So.. is this > a free license? > this is essentiall

Re: Problem to build my 1st deb-package (solved)

On 29 Dec 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Maybe you wanted to use a blank line in the text? This has to be done > by using a single dot in the second column of the line. Otherwise, I > don't know why dpg-source would say "paragraph 4". That was it! I'm not realy sure that the exact couse was, b