Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-19 Thread Yves Arrouye
>> My only thoughts are an evil hack where I edit debian/rules to have >> $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr > etcdir=`pwd`/debian/tmp/etc >> and then use ${etcdir} for the config file install directory with it >> defaulting to /etc in the Makefile.in. >> >> Modifying the Makefile.in and

Re: binfmt_elf module

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Richard Hecker wrote: > Hi; > > I have been hacking on a system I upgraded from hamm to woody > during a bunch of other modifications. I am about at wits-end > so I will play the poor newbie_in_NM_queue role. > > I just tried downgrading to potato and no

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 04:54:17PM -0600, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > I've being packaging a program which has a config file. The program uses > autoconf and all the ${bindir}, ${libdir}, etc. type variables. dh_make > produced a debian/rules that worked almost right out of the box b/c it > overloa

binfmt_elf module

2000-10-19 Thread Richard Hecker
Hi; I have been hacking on a system I upgraded from hamm to woody during a bunch of other modifications. I am about at wits-end so I will play the poor newbie_in_NM_queue role. I just tried downgrading to potato and now I find the following situation: dpkg --install --force-downgrade --force-co

Re: binfmt_elf module

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Richard Hecker wrote: > Hi; > > I have been hacking on a system I upgraded from hamm to woody > during a bunch of other modifications. I am about at wits-end > so I will play the poor newbie_in_NM_queue role. > > I just tried downgrading to potato and n

Installing files in /etc

2000-10-19 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
I've being packaging a program which has a config file. The program uses autoconf and all the ${bindir}, ${libdir}, etc. type variables. dh_make produced a debian/rules that worked almost right out of the box b/c it overloaded the prefix value to specify destinations for the install target. Howeve

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 04:54:17PM -0600, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > I've being packaging a program which has a config file. The program uses > autoconf and all the ${bindir}, ${libdir}, etc. type variables. dh_make > produced a debian/rules that worked almost right out of the box b/c it > overlo

binfmt_elf module

2000-10-19 Thread Richard Hecker
Hi; I have been hacking on a system I upgraded from hamm to woody during a bunch of other modifications. I am about at wits-end so I will play the poor newbie_in_NM_queue role. I just tried downgrading to potato and now I find the following situation: dpkg --install --force-downgrade --force-c

Installing files in /etc

2000-10-19 Thread Wesley W. Terpstra
I've being packaging a program which has a config file. The program uses autoconf and all the ${bindir}, ${libdir}, etc. type variables. dh_make produced a debian/rules that worked almost right out of the box b/c it overloaded the prefix value to specify destinations for the install target. Howev

Re: help with my first packages

2000-10-19 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Joergen Haegg wrote: > > You haven't corrected the clean rules yet, so the diff.gz still contains > > loads of unnecessary stuff. > Ok, done, couldn't see any errors. libio-stty-perl is corrected, libexpect-perl not. You should do that as well (look at the .diff.gz files wit

Re: help with my first packages

2000-10-19 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Joergen Haegg wrote: > > You haven't corrected the clean rules yet, so the diff.gz still contains > > loads of unnecessary stuff. > Ok, done, couldn't see any errors. libio-stty-perl is corrected, libexpect-perl not. You should do that as well (look at the .diff.gz files wi

uploading to proposed-updates

2000-10-19 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, i have a bugreport for a package which is solved in a new version. and the bug report told me that it is fixed in the new package. it's a woody package but compiled for potato but shouldn't be a problem because it only depends on libc6. so, know this would be a reason to be included into propo

uploading to proposed-updates

2000-10-19 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, i have a bugreport for a package which is solved in a new version. and the bug report told me that it is fixed in the new package. it's a woody package but compiled for potato but shouldn't be a problem because it only depends on libc6. so, know this would be a reason to be included into prop