help creating bare debian install on msdos partition

2001-01-20 Thread Tim
Please help. I'm new to debian and linux too. I found a distribution of linux based off of slackware called dragon linux (www.dragonlinux.net). This is a distribution that installs on a msdos partition with everything under a directory like c:\linux. They use a loop back filesystem to make linux

help creating bare debian install on msdos partition

2001-01-20 Thread Tim
Please help. I'm new to debian and linux too. I found a distribution of linux based off of slackware called dragon linux (www.dragonlinux.net). This is a distribution that installs on a msdos partition with everything under a directory like c:\linux. They use a loop back filesystem to make linu

Re: dh_shlibdeps quirky behaviour

2001-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Francis Irving wrote: > Basically, when dh_shlibdeps runs from within dpkg-buildpackage > -rfakeroot it doesn't generate the file debian/substvars. If > I run it at the command line from the same directory, it > correctly generates the file. You probably have some DH_COMPAT setting in your rules

Re: dh_shlibdeps quirky behaviour

2001-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Francis Irving wrote: > Basically, when dh_shlibdeps runs from within dpkg-buildpackage > -rfakeroot it doesn't generate the file debian/substvars. If > I run it at the command line from the same directory, it > correctly generates the file. You probably have some DH_COMPAT setting in your rules

dh_shlibdeps quirky behaviour

2001-01-20 Thread Francis Irving
I'm having a strange problem with dh_shlibdeps which stops my package building. This is the first package I've ever tried making, so I'm roughly following the Debian New Maintaners' Guide. Basically, when dh_shlibdeps runs from within dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it doesn't generate the file debi

dh_shlibdeps quirky behaviour

2001-01-20 Thread Francis Irving
I'm having a strange problem with dh_shlibdeps which stops my package building. This is the first package I've ever tried making, so I'm roughly following the Debian New Maintaners' Guide. Basically, when dh_shlibdeps runs from within dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it doesn't generate the file deb

Re: ITA: gtimer

2001-01-20 Thread Chewie
Hello, Debianites! Just wanted to know if someone would like to sponsor me while I adopt the gtimer package from Stu (Robert Edmonds). I've spoken with him already, and he agreed to it (see below). I am also going through the new maintainer process, and hope to be through it soon. ;-) If you're