Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:34:49AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > If your binary contains a hard path to /lib/libc.so.6, > > What do you mean by a hard path? dlopen()? Sure, it won't work. > Usually, /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is hard coded, libc is not. I mean "hard path" as in an absolute loc

Getting Packages Into Debian

Hi list, I have packaged a number of packages that aren't currently in the debian distribution. I am in the middle of sending emails off to the authors of these packages to ask them weather it is ok to distribute the Debian Packaged versions of there software. My question to this list is,

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:34:49AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > If your binary contains a hard path to /lib/libc.so.6, > > What do you mean by a hard path? dlopen()? Sure, it won't work. > Usually, /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is hard coded, libc is not. I mean "hard path" as in an absolute lo

Re: Moving a package from main to non-US/main

Hi .. On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:43:32PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > How should I do it? >> > File a Bugreport to FTPMaster? >> Change the Section: header in debian/control to "non-US/main" and >> reupload to non-us.debian.org. then file a bug on ftp.debian.org to have >> the original remov

Re: Moving a package from main to non-US/main

Hi .. On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:43:32PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > How should I do it? >> > File a Bugreport to FTPMaster? >> Change the Section: header in debian/control to "non-US/main" and >> reupload to non-us.debian.org. then file a bug on ftp.debian.org to have >> the original remo

Re: Writing an apt-method?

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:26:20PM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > How does one go about writing an apt-method? Is there some documentation > somewhere? Thanks, Look at the methods/ directory in the apt source for several examples. If you are using C++, you can use the pkgAcqMethod class from liba