Re: DESTDIR

2001-08-03 Thread Baruch Even
* Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010803 13:38]: > what changes do i need to make to the Makefile of a package with respect to DESTDIR?? > > why does one need to make this changes?? (I'm not a Debian Developer, but an aspiring one) You are not forced to change the Makefiles for DESTDIR, it is

Looking for a sponsor (security related tools)

2001-08-03 Thread Lars Bahner
Hello world, I am in the process of attaining maintainer status. I have not yet had my key signed, but will do so within the next two weeks. If some debian lurker in Norway happens to know me please contact me for immediate help with this. I have already packaged ``cryptcat'' - a twofish-capab

Re: Python upgrade: need help regarding package renaming

2001-08-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:14:35PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Now how do I set Depends/Replaces/Conflicts/Provides so that in case of > an "apt-get install python-base", > > (a) if somebody has installed idle and python-base: the idle package > will be removed, and the new python-base, py

Re: AdoptMe Please ... qt front end to APT

2001-08-03 Thread Erik Winn
Hi Pablo! < BTW, donde em brasil? gusto muito de cantar bossa nova (com violao) ...> eh, I better use english ... Thanks very much for your response, its very nice to see an interest in qaptivate. Friday 03 August 2001 02:26, thought came forth thus: > Great work. I can adopt it.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > hey it didn't work, should i add anything other than that line > > $default_host = "master"; Yes, first line should be package config; and the last line should be 1; -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nul

Re: AdoptMe Please ... qt front end to APT

2001-08-03 Thread Erik Winn
Hi Pablo! < BTW, donde em brasil? gusto muito de cantar bossa nova (com violao) ...> eh, I better use english ... Thanks very much for your response, its very nice to see an interest in qaptivate. Friday 03 August 2001 02:26, thought came forth thus: > Great work. I can adopt it. s

Re: AdoptMe Please ... qt front end to APT

2001-08-03 Thread Pablo Lorenzzoni
Hello! Great work. I can adopt it. Please send me the orig.tar.gz, the .changes, the .dsc and the .diff.gz files (or point it at your webpage). []s, waiting your reply to file an ITP. Pablo Em Qui 02 Ago 2001 21:46, Erik Winn escreveu: | Hi peoples, | | I hav

Re: AdoptMe Please ... qt front end to APT

2001-08-03 Thread Pablo Lorenzzoni
Hello! Great work. I can adopt it. Please send me the orig.tar.gz, the .changes, the .dsc and the .diff.gz files (or point it at your webpage). []s, waiting your reply to file an ITP. Pablo Em Qui 02 Ago 2001 21:46, Erik Winn escreveu: | Hi peoples, | | I have

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > > "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS> when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error > > PS> dupload fatal error: Need host to upload to. (See --to optio

Re: dh_installinit

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Markley
Do a ./configure --help, examine the Makefile, etc. to find out what variable it's using to determine the install path of the init script. On another note, I've seen about half a dozen mails from you today on pretty simple subjects. I suggest a more thorough reading of the new maintainer's guide a

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:27:55PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote > > Since you're not a Debian developer, you can't use debrelease/dupload to > > upload to master.debian.org (it should be ftp-master.debian.org now > > anyway). What are you trying to use deb

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > > On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > > > "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PS> when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error > > > PS> dupload

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:27:55PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote > > Since you're not a Debian developer, you can't use debrelease/dupload to > > upload to master.debian.org (it should be ftp-master.debian.org now > > anyway). What are you trying to use de

dh_installinit

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
while packaging cups by defualt my the etc/init.d directory is getting installed in /usr, what changes should i make to my rules file to avoid this... my rules file: #!/usr/bin/make -f # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. # GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.-- # Uncomment this to tu

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > > "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS> when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error > > PS> dupload fatal error: Need host to upload to. (See --to option

Re: i can't find my /etc/*.conf files

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:15:30PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:06:13 -0500 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > > # Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp. > > > $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr > take care... if you us

Re: i can't find my /etc/*.conf files

2001-08-03 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Pratik Sinha wrote: > i tried packaging cups To my knowledge, cups is already packaged, isn't it? Why not check out the existing packaging then?

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS> when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error > PS> dupload fatal error: Need host to upload to. (See --to option or the > default_host configuration variable) > PS> at /usr/bin/

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > > On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > > > "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PS> when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error > > > PS> dupload

Re: i can't find my /etc/*.conf files

2001-08-03 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:06:13 -0500 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > # Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp. > > $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr take care... if you use DH_COMPAT >= 2 you'll need to install to `pwd`/debian/packagename instead of

Re: TWO QUESTIONS

2001-08-03 Thread Sven
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:31:19PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > First Question > > Which one should be preferred???- dh_make or deb-make i think dh_make (dh stands for debhelper) is to be prefered, maybe even deb-make is obsolet, but am not sure. anyway, use dh_make and debhelper. > Second Que

TWO QUESTIONS

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
First Question Which one should be preferred???- dh_make or deb-make Second Question What are these diff.gz files produced during deb packaging...are they patch files so that when one upgrade the presently existing deb package then one will have to distribute only these patch files rather than

Re: i can't find my /etc/*.conf files

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:56:59PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > This is my first packaging experience...i read the New Maintainers Guide > and the debmake documentation...earlier i tried my hand out at making a > few rpms... Use debhelper rather than debmake. Oh wait, you are already. > ./c

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Christian Marillat
"PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PS> when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error PS> dupload fatal error: Need host to upload to. (See --to option or the default_host configuration variable) PS> at /usr/bin/dupload line 143 PS> i'm using progeny debian 1.0 x86.

Re: Looking for a sponsor (security related tools)

2001-08-03 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:05:02PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote: > So, if someone would like to sponsor my work and perhaps advocate me I sure would >appreciate it. I am happy to sponsor you if you like. > You might want to pick me up from >http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ if

DESTDIR

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
what changes do i need to make to the Makefile of a package with respect to DESTDIR?? why does one need to make this changes?? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DESTDIR

2001-08-03 Thread Baruch Even
* Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010803 13:38]: > what changes do i need to make to the Makefile of a package with respect to > DESTDIR?? > > why does one need to make this changes?? (I'm not a Debian Developer, but an aspiring one) You are not forced to change the Makefiles for DESTDIR, it

Re: authenticity of a package

2001-08-03 Thread Baruch Even
* Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010803 13:38]: > is there anyway to know that the deb package i have made is > authentic...meaning is there anyway to know that the CONTENTS field in the > deb package has all the files--which are installed when we follow the normal > procedure ./configure, ma

Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error dupload fatal error: Need host to upload to. (See --to option or the default_host configuration variable) at /usr/bin/dupload line 143 i'm using progeny debian 1.0 x86. is this a bug??? if not what do i do to avoid this??? cheers pratik

DESTDIR

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
what changes do i need to make to the Makefile of a package with respect to DESTDIR?? why does one need to make this changes?? --

authenticity of a package

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
is there anyway to know that the deb package i have made is authentic...meaning is there anyway to know that the CONTENTS field in the deb package has all the files--which are installed when we follow the normal procedure ./configure, make and make install --

i can't find my /etc/*.conf files

2001-08-03 Thread Pratik Sinha
This is my first packaging experience...i read the New Maintainers Guide and the debmake documentation...earlier i tried my hand out at making a few rpms... i tried packaging cupshowever i didn't get a satisfactory result...all the conf files that should be there in /etc/ are missingi eve

Re: Shared libraries and sections

2001-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:24:17PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > > Two quick questions for anyone who has the time: > > 1. I have a package that by default installs a library libname.so (as opposed > to a versioned name like libname.so.1). I assume this is bad because it means > two major versio

Python upgrade: need help regarding package renaming

2001-08-03 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, [I didn't get a reply on debian-python, so I try here ;-] I'm struggling with a simple case of 'What-APT-Does-Is-Not-What-I-mean' while preparing the dependencies for the Python upgrade: In potato, we had packages python-base and idle (and a variety of other python-* packages). Now these p