Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be >> built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. >> Policy prevents me from adding this to the bina

Re: Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-09 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-10 07:48]: | Hi Jörgen, | | > Question: how and where do I build for Sid? | > Has '+chroots' anything to do with it? | | Just try "dchroot sid" on one of these machines :-) | Hint: copy your package to /home/chroots/sid/home/ first. nope that isn'

Re: Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-10 Jörgen Hägg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile and pack on different architectures, but > after my first attempt I realized > that all Debian hosts are running Woody, not Sid. > Question: how and where do I build for Sid? > Has '+chroots' anything to do with it? > (L

Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-09 Thread Jörgen Hägg
I'm trying to compile and pack on different architectures, but after my first attempt I realized that all Debian hosts are running Woody, not Sid. Question: how and where do I build for Sid? Has '+chroots' anything to do with it? (Like bruckner: "woody Debian GNU/Linux (+chroots)")

Re: Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-09 Thread Jochen Friedrich
Hi Jörgen, > Question: how and where do I build for Sid? > Has '+chroots' anything to do with it? Just try "dchroot sid" on one of these machines :-) Hint: copy your package to /home/chroots/sid/home/ first. --jochen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-09 Thread GCS
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:04:42AM +0100, Jörgen Hägg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile and pack on different architectures, Why? Is the package so different during packing on different archs? > but > after my first attempt I realized > that all Debian hosts are running Woody, no

Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-09 Thread Jörgen Hägg
I'm trying to compile and pack on different architectures, but after my first attempt I realized that all Debian hosts are running Woody, not Sid. Question: how and where do I build for Sid? Has '+chroots' anything to do with it? (Like bruckner: "woody Debian GNU/Linux (+chroots)") -- To UNSUB

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Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:55:21PM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources > with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would > need to set up a new MySQL database (I vaguely know I could use > wwwconfig, but n

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be > built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. > Policy prevents me from adding this to the binary debs, but my > understanding of policy is tha

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Brian! On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:26:57AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please tell me if there is anything else you want me to check / fix. > > Well, some of your debhelper stuff could use updating. See > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-an

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Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:55:21PM -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: > In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources > with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would > need to set up a new MySQL database (I vaguely know I could use > wwwconfig, but n

Re: RFS: netPanzer

2004-03-09 Thread Link Dupont
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 12:25, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:58:19AM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > Well, noone interested? That's bad, cause I thought that Debian's > > > builders will be helpful with porting it to another architectures :/ > > > Ok, nevermind. Than

Re: can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be > built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. > Policy prevents me from adding this to the binary debs, but my > understanding of policy is tha

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Brian! On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:26:57AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please tell me if there is anything else you want me to check / fix. > > Well, some of your debhelper stuff could use updating. See > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-an

Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I have plans for packaging a little www-based package. It uses PHP and > MySQL, over Apache. > > In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources > with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I w

Re: RFS: netPanzer

2004-03-09 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:58:19AM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Well, noone interested? That's bad, cause I thought that Debian's > > builders will be helpful with porting it to another architectures :/ > > Ok, nevermind. Thanks for reading it ;) > You should give us a little bit more time. May

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PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread David Moreno Garza
Hi all, I have plans for packaging a little www-based package. It uses PHP and MySQL, over Apache. In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would need to set up a new MySQL database (I vaguely know I c

Re: RFS: netPanzer

2004-03-09 Thread Link Dupont
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 12:25, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:58:19AM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > Well, noone interested? That's bad, cause I thought that Debian's > > > builders will be helpful with porting it to another architectures :/ > > > Ok, nevermind. Than

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> * The patch that changes 0's to NULL's is pointless. In C++, NULL is >> just "#define NULL 0". > > Definitely true. I preferred QA's patch over upstream's patch since > for me 'NULL' jus

Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I have plans for packaging a little www-based package. It uses PHP and > MySQL, over Apache. > > In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources > with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I w

Re: RFS: netPanzer

2004-03-09 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:58:19AM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Well, noone interested? That's bad, cause I thought that Debian's > > builders will be helpful with porting it to another architectures :/ > > Ok, nevermind. Thanks for reading it ;) > You should give us a little bit more time. May

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PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread David Moreno Garza
Hi all, I have plans for packaging a little www-based package. It uses PHP and MySQL, over Apache. In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I would need to set up a new MySQL database (I vaguely know I c

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> * The patch that changes 0's to NULL's is pointless. In C++, NULL is >> just "#define NULL 0". > > Definitely true. I preferred QA's patch over upstream's patch since > for me 'NULL' jus

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Luca Pasquali
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:21:05PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Maybe you could try reimplementing (some) of that as a shell script > using dd. That way, you'd cut down on the packaging overhead. Also, > if > there's more stuff like that, it might eventually be worth > considering > having a pac

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-09 Luca Pasquali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > and now a strange, dumb-sounding request: > if you mentors have better/more useful "packaging exercises" to > suggest me, I'll welcome the advices, it may be a strange request but > I'm not a programmer, I mainly use console to do netwo

can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. Policy prevents me from adding this to the binary debs, but my understanding of policy is that I can keep it in the orig.tar.gz for the sake of using an unchange

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Luca Pasquali wrote: [... about truncate...] Maybe you could try reimplementing (some) of that as a shell script using dd. That way, you'd cut down on the packaging overhead. Also, if there's more stuff like that, it might eventually be worth considering having a package for the whole bunch. > I'

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Luca Pasquali
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:46:21PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't > do > anything that dd doesn't. I've packaged it with newbies in mind, and on the fly resizing, situation in which redudnancy of dd features could be excused. > I

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Luca Pasquali
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:21:05PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Maybe you could try reimplementing (some) of that as a shell script > using dd. That way, you'd cut down on the packaging overhead. Also, > if > there's more stuff like that, it might eventually be worth > considering > having a pac

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-09 Luca Pasquali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > and now a strange, dumb-sounding request: > if you mentors have better/more useful "packaging exercises" to > suggest me, I'll welcome the advices, it may be a strange request but > I'm not a programmer, I mainly use console to do netwo

can a non-buildable part remain in source

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. I have a package that has an optional part that cannot presently be built in main but ships a (java bytecode) binary in the tarball. Policy prevents me from adding this to the binary debs, but my understanding of policy is that I can keep it in the orig.tar.gz for the sake of using an unchange

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Luca Pasquali wrote: [... about truncate...] Maybe you could try reimplementing (some) of that as a shell script using dd. That way, you'd cut down on the packaging overhead. Also, if there's more stuff like that, it might eventually be worth considering having a package for the whole bunch. > I'

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Luca Pasquali
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:46:21PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't > do > anything that dd doesn't. I've packaged it with newbies in mind, and on the fly resizing, situation in which redudnancy of dd features could be excused. > I

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Brian! On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > I can sponsor you I guess, but I don't have a PPP link on which to test > it. I'd have to take your word on it that it works. That's great, thanks a lot. Well, the package relies on pon / poff to work properly, so wher

Re: looking for a sponsorship in schooling

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:27:39PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > What strikes me as odd is why people think they will get any kind of > scholarship (which seems to be the objective) with such a mail. It's like spam. They send an e-mail to anything that vaguely resembles an e-mail address within

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Mayer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:09:05 +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Not if you read the man page: > dd if=/dev/null of=totruncate bs=1 seek=positiontotruncate Oh! You are right, this works. But unfortunatly this behavior is not explained clearly in my manpage :-( Only a flag "notrunc" is mentioned:

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Brian! On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > I can sponsor you I guess, but I don't have a PPP link on which to test > it. I'd have to take your word on it that it works. That's great, thanks a lot. Well, the package relies on pon / poff to work properly, so wher

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Michael Mayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 22:46:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't do >> anything that dd doesn't. > >Oh, yes, it is worth it! In fact, some month ago I wrote a tool like this >for my perso

Re: RFS: netPanzer

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Mo, den 08.03.2004 schrieb Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo um 19:14: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > I will be very thankful if someone of you kindly upload this package. > > It's related with #215783. > Well, noone interested? That's bad, cause I thought

Re: looking for a sponsorship in schooling

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:27:39PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > What strikes me as odd is why people think they will get any kind of > scholarship (which seems to be the objective) with such a mail. It's like spam. They send an e-mail to anything that vaguely resembles an e-mail address within

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Mayer
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 22:46:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't do > anything that dd doesn't. Oh, yes, it is worth it! In fact, some month ago I wrote a tool like this for my personal use to cut movie files which are slightly to

Re: scripts in /usr/share/$package?

2004-03-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: > > although I've read the policy again, I am not sure whether it is allowed > > to store scripts in /usr/share/$package? In particular, scripts that are > > only meant

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Mayer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:09:05 +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Not if you read the man page: > dd if=/dev/null of=totruncate bs=1 seek=positiontotruncate Oh! You are right, this works. But unfortunatly this behavior is not explained clearly in my manpage :-( Only a flag "notrunc" is mentioned:

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Michael Mayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 22:46:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't do >> anything that dd doesn't. > >Oh, yes, it is worth it! In fact, some month ago I wrote a tool like this >for my perso

Re: RFS: netPanzer

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Mo, den 08.03.2004 schrieb Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo um 19:14: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:26:37PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > I will be very thankful if someone of you kindly upload this package. > > It's related with #215783. > Well, noone interested? That's bad, cause I thought

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:15:54AM +0100, Luca Pasquali wrote: > author put it under GPL, new debs are here: > > http://ketavet.dyndns.org/truncate Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't do anything that dd doesn't. If I've misunderstood and this does more, could yo