Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm > calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was > obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. I forgot to say that I have uploaded a new version of th

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. > > Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or > texhash again. Ooops. Thank you *very much* for your feedback Frank. I a

Re: Packaging kernel patches

2004-10-27 Thread Chirag Kantharia
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:28:48PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: | 26.10.2004 ?? 12:07 +0530 Chirag Kantharia ??(-): | > So, they don't have a .orig.tar.gz which I can use. Though debuild | So make it. Put patches into tarball. There are many packages for that | there is no up

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: > And one other thing I just noticed: As far as I can see, there is no > tarball on the project website, and you created one containing the Java > application. But if you create your tarball, please also put the other > upstream files into it. Together with the m

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm > calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was > obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. I forgot to say that I have uploaded a new version of th

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. > > Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or > texhash again. Ooops. Thank you *very much* for your feedback Frank. I a

Re: Packaging kernel patches

2004-10-27 Thread Chirag Kantharia
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:28:48PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: | 26.10.2004 ?? 12:07 +0530 Chirag Kantharia ??(-): | > So, they don't have a .orig.tar.gz which I can use. Though debuild | So make it. Put patches into tarball. There are many packages for that | there is no up

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1954 +0200]: >> Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by that. What hotplug >> abilities could/should a tool which is specifically intended for >> manual mounting have? > > a simple udev

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Matt Brubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Dickopp wrote: > >> Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- letting >> users access removable media. The difference is that pmount allows >> users to mount and unmount these devices manually, while my script >> mounts and unmoun

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Karlsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? IMHO, when it is purged. At least if it may own the configuration files that removing the package may leave behind. For the package I have that create

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1954 +0200]: >> Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by that. What hotplug >> abilities could/should a tool which is specifically intended for >> manual mounting have? > > a simple udev

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Matt Brubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Dickopp wrote: > >> Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- letting >> users access removable media. The difference is that pmount allows >> users to mount and unmount these devices manually, while my script >> mounts and unmoun

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1954 +0200]: > Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by that. What hotplug > abilities could/should a tool which is specifically intended for > manual mounting have? a simple udev or hotplug hook. udev or hotplug (the first preferred

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1939 +0200]: > If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this > user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? best during postrm because the user may own files. if you are certain that the user does not o

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Matt Brubeck
Martin Dickopp wrote: > Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- letting > users access removable media. The difference is that pmount allows > users to mount and unmount these devices manually, while my script > mounts and unmounts them automatically. Another difference is that

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1842 +0200]: >> Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- >> letting users access removable media. The difference is that >> pmount allows users to mount and unmount these dev

Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread ms419
If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? I couldn't find this topic in either the Policy Manual or Developers Reference. I did find some interesting information about packages creating & removing users, but it

Re: Re: RFS: Cnet: a Network Protocol Simulator Program

2004-10-27 Thread J. M. D. Mendinueta
Hello, sorry, i forget to put the source packages. And here are the correct address: apt -> deb http://gsic.tel.uva.es/debian-packages unstable main web -> http://gsic.tel.uva.es/debian-packages/pool/main/c/cnet I have to update my apt repository nash script to put the source packages. Curre

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1842 +0200]: > Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- > letting users access removable media. The difference is that > pmount allows users to mount and unmount these devices manually, > while my script mounts and unmoun

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Karlsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? IMHO, when it is purged. At least if it may own the configuration files that removing the package may leave behind. For the package I have that creates a

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Martin Dickopp [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:22:22 +0200]: >> martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Anyway, couldn't you possibly create a little tool which would start >> > a command after remounting the device async, and mount it sync >> > again

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1954 +0200]: > Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by that. What hotplug > abilities could/should a tool which is specifically intended for > manual mounting have? a simple udev or hotplug hook. udev or hotplug (the first preferred

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1939 +0200]: > If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this > user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? best during postrm because the user may own files. if you are certain that the user does not o

Don't think she's as happy as she can be if you haven't tried this.

2004-10-27 Thread Isaac I. Letterman
Why go on with a small p e n ì s? We can help within days! http://www.boliopple.com/9/4/index.php?ai=7790&com=35&; wyQmx70TU9RjnRx0YlABut at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me.If he hasn't telephoned then, I'll call him. I will.Ok friend.717686236

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Matt Brubeck
Martin Dickopp wrote: > Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- letting > users access removable media. The difference is that pmount allows > users to mount and unmount these devices manually, while my script > mounts and unmounts them automatically. Another difference is that

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.0022 +0200]: >> http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.dsc >> http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.tar.gz > > Why did you make it a native package? It

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Martin Braure de Calignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Dickopp a écrit : > > |Martin Braure de Calignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > |>Be carreful, I heard that sync has not been implemented with FAT > |>filesystem. Of course it does

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1842 +0200]: >> Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- >> letting users access removable media. The difference is that >> pmount allows users to mount and unmount these dev

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1720 +0200]: > Why not? He wrote the script on Debian and is packaging it for > debian (and as far as I understood him, he is not publishing any > other package of it). I don't mean to say he shouldn't split it > into orig.tar.gz and diff.gz

Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread ms419
If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? I couldn't find this topic in either the Policy Manual or Developers Reference. I did find some interesting information about packages creating & removing users, but it d

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Sven Mueller
martin f krafft [u] wrote on 27/10/2004 08:29: also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.0022 +0200]: http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.dsc http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.tar.gz Why did you make it a native package? Why no

Re: RFS: Cnet: a Network Protocol Simulator Program

2004-10-27 Thread Ricardo Mones
Hi Jose Manuel, On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:47:47 +0200 "J. M. D. Mendinueta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have packaged two versions of cnet versus unstable distribution, so > i have the ability of upgrade the package (and of course create it > ;)). Yeah, but for being distributed by Debian e

Re: Re: RFS: Cnet: a Network Protocol Simulator Program

2004-10-27 Thread J. M. D. Mendinueta
Hello, sorry, i forget to put the source packages. And here are the correct address: apt -> deb http://gsic.tel.uva.es/debian-packages unstable main web -> http://gsic.tel.uva.es/debian-packages/pool/main/c/cnet I have to update my apt repository nash script to put the source packages. Current, on

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1842 +0200]: > Both pmount and my package try to solve the same problem -- > letting users access removable media. The difference is that > pmount allows users to mount and unmount these devices manually, > while my script mounts and unmoun

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did >> everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the >> packaging. > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Adeodato Simà <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Martin Dickopp [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:22:22 +0200]: >> martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Anyway, couldn't you possibly create a little tool which would start >> > a command after remounting the device async, and mount it sync >> > again

Don't think she's as happy as she can be if you haven't tried this.

2004-10-27 Thread Isaac I. Letterman
Why go on with a small p e n ì s? We can help within days! http://www.boliopple.com/9/4/index.php?ai=7790&com=35&; wyQmx70TU9RjnRx0YlABut at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me.If he hasn't telephoned then, I'll call him. I will.Ok friend.717686236 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.0022 +0200]: >> http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.dsc >> http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.tar.gz > > Why did you make it a native package? It

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
Martin Braure de Calignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Dickopp a Ãcrit : > > |Martin Braure de Calignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > |>Be carreful, I heard that sync has not been implemented with FAT > |>filesystem. Of course it does

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.1720 +0200]: > Why not? He wrote the script on Debian and is packaging it for > debian (and as far as I understood him, he is not publishing any > other package of it). I don't mean to say he shouldn't split it > into orig.tar.gz and diff.gz

RFS: Cnet: a Network Protocol Simulator Program

2004-10-27 Thread J. M. D. Mendinueta
Hello, my name is Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Telecomunnications student at the University of Valladolid, Spain. I'm working in colaboration with Telematic Engineering Department, and we use the cnet network simulator program in our lessons, for students to practise the theoretical concept

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Sven Mueller
martin f krafft [u] wrote on 27/10/2004 08:29: also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.0022 +0200]: http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.dsc http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.tar.gz Why did you make it a native package? Why not? He wro

Re: RFS: Cnet: a Network Protocol Simulator Program

2004-10-27 Thread Ricardo Mones
Hi Jose Manuel, On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:47:47 +0200 "J. M. D. Mendinueta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have packaged two versions of cnet versus unstable distribution, so > i have the ability of upgrade the package (and of course create it > ;)). Yeah, but for being distributed by Debian e

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did >> everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the >> packaging. > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did > everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the > packaging. I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. A major drawback, however, is

Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Developers, Since I learned that Debian had Free Java Virtual Machines in testing, I was keen to just drop the non-free JVM from blackdown. The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Since PPower4 has both par

RFS: Cnet: a Network Protocol Simulator Program

2004-10-27 Thread J. M. D. Mendinueta
Hello, my name is Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Telecomunnications student at the University of Valladolid, Spain. I'm working in colaboration with Telematic Engineering Department, and we use the cnet network simulator program in our lessons, for students to practise the theoretical concepts.

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Dickopp [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:22:22 +0200]: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyway, couldn't you possibly create a little tool which would start > > a command after remounting the device async, and mount it sync > > again once the command stopped? Then I could say somethi

Re: Packaging kernel patches

2004-10-27 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
26.10.2004 о 12:07 +0530 Chirag Kantharia написав(-ла): > So, they don't have a .orig.tar.gz which I can use. Though debuild So make it. Put patches into tarball. There are many packages for that there is no upstream tarballs (mozilla* locales for example, other kernel patches probably too). -- E

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did > everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the > packaging. I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. A major drawback, however, is

Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Developers, Since I learned that Debian had Free Java Virtual Machines in testing, I was keen to just drop the non-free JVM from blackdown. The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Since PPower4 has both par

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Dickopp [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:22:22 +0200]: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anyway, couldn't you possibly create a little tool which would start > > a command after remounting the device async, and mount it sync > > again once the command stopped? Then I could say somethi

Re: Packaging kernel patches

2004-10-27 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
26.10.2004 Ð 12:07 +0530 Chirag Kantharia ÑÐÐ(-ÐÐ): > So, they don't have a .orig.tar.gz which I can use. Though debuild So make it. Put patches into tarball. There are many packages for that there is no upstream tarballs (mozilla* locales for example, other kernel patches probably too). -- E

Re: ivmkmf and RULES

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Matt Flax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi, > > I am packaging a software which uses "ivmkmf" to generate the makefile. > > I am trying to use the rules file to auto gen this makefile, but the > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot command fails, 'cause it tries to clean the > software even before the

Re: ivmkmf and RULES

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Matt Flax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi, > > I am packaging a software which uses "ivmkmf" to generate the makefile. > > I am trying to use the rules file to auto gen this makefile, but the > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot command fails, 'cause it tries to clean the > software even before the

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.27.0022 +0200]: > http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.dsc > http://www.zero-based.org/debian/packages/usbmount_0.0.2.tar.gz Why did you make it a native package? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read