Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from
> Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the
> network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap.
What architecture?
> I've managed to
> activate and m
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from
> Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the
> network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap.
What architecture?
> I've managed to
> activate and
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How is this issue going to affect the users?
It's hard for us to say exactly. Hence, I tend to be rather
conservative.
> E.g.: Can one boot up a slink system then access a /home directory on a
> potato built fs.
If the 2.2 ext2fs features are enabled, n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> I see this as an argument for leaving the question in; that is, don't
> make it a `verbose'-mode only question. I would like it to default
> to the 2.2 kernel case, but offer the compat mode.
I disagree. I would assent to change the default and t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> I don't agree with this change. I would rather it get asked always,
> and that the default is for the button that enables the new features
> and rejects Linux 2.0 compatability be highlighted by default, so
> that pressing [Enter] will take that
Christopher C Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Currently, Alpha has a mailing list that's like a quinn-diff "on
> steroids" that gives the Alpha porters a list of what's different between
> i386 and alpha. We usually work from that rather than rely on
> debian-devel-changes. It might help
Bjoern Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working on a program that collects information to be used by the sys
> admin. I don't want the collected information to be world writable (even
> though this wouldn't be a security hole), but I want the program to run
> from user accounts (with write a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zygo Blaxell) writes:
> Are the FTP archive maintenance scripts debian-packaged?
No. The main one is called 'dinstall' -- it is in CVS I think but
no-one has packaged it, unfortunately. Several times people have
said, "Real soon now" but it's still not there for some reason.
Hey, glad to see someone's reading the Developer's Reference closely.
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> upstream source is tar.gz
> I am not sure if repacking is a good idea.. after all, this means modifying
> the upstream source, and diff.gz is there for this purpose...
A diff to change end of line endings on all files is a perversion of
that purpose.
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > I am packaging a program, which uses CRLF as end of line (don't ask me how
> > it got there :-))
> > The problem is, I have to turn it to LF, because the program is a script
> > and won't run with CRLF. But if I do this
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, is it possible to logon to pandora and build these packages without
> having root access. Is that the purpose of the fakeroot package?
Should be if the -dev packages you need are installed.
> Also, if I could build packages on kubrick and fau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:57:39PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote:
> > I've recently submitted my application as a prospective new maintainer
> > and would like to adopt (if/when my application is approved) some
> > orphaned packages.
> > Among those I've examined as likely p
Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm going to apply to become a debian developer and I wanna know can I use
> combination of DSS key(from pgp5)+gnupg to send request?
Yes -- you can do it all with gnupg.
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe this is FAQ. I don't have a potato machine handy where I
> work. In general, if developers want to try installing packages they
> made for "unstable" to check if it installs okay, is there a machine
> to do that?
Yes -- your home machine. Sorr
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> this is driving me nuts and I want to fix it once and for
> all. wmaker (src) builds several binary packages, among them,
> libwraster1 and libwraster1-dev. The wmaker packages (wmaker,
> wmaker-gnome and wmaker-kde) all should depend
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just noticed that ispell.texinfo has a few chunks of
> documentation (one of which is its copyright) that are
> bracketed by [EMAIL PROTECTED]'' ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifinfo'' pairs.
>
> This causes those paragraphs to appear in the info
> document (gener
Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [one last try, because nobody answered me]
> > Can anybody give me a hint where in the policy/packaging-manual is a
> > rule that decides whether -doc packages should go to /doc or,
> > toghether with the binary package in /net or /x11 etc.
> >
> > T
Alexander Shinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I must have modified something for the first package. So
> I edited the .changes file to include the .orig.tar.gz file, and re-ran
> dupload, then logged in and deleted the files in rejected.
Unless you are very wizardly, hand-editing .changes files
Nicolas LAURENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> where can i find kernel-image-$(kver)-scsimod_*.deb?
> (I work on boot-floppies package)
I don't know -- can you subscribe to the rather low volume debian-boot
list and ask there?
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> after a "remove", i no longer run the checker, so no new messages will
> be quarantined - should i also stop running the cron script or is it
> a good idea to continue removing old messages?
Probably you should check if the pkg is in remove state and exit early
"Jeremy W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My new system, which I'll describe later in detail to see if
> there are any compatibility inconsistencies, is being shipped to me,
> and my intent it to put the Debian distribution on it, as I've heard
> it's probably the best (though not most user-
John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 1) how do I make these non executable.?
> > chmod a-x
> I know how to do it manually! How do I do it in the debian/r
John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just started to package nightfall (an astronomy application)
> and when I run lintian everything is fine except I get a load of:
>
> W: nightfall: executable-not-elf-or-script
> usr/share/nightfall/doc/C/Introduction.html
Shouldn't this be in /u
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:44:25AM +0200, Nicolas LAURENT wrote:
> > where could i find sources of 'dbootstrap' ?
> The boot-floppies package is what you're looking for.
Yes -- if you wanna help develop that -- and help is much needed, go
run
LEBLANC ERIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've applied to become a developer, but I read that the backlog is
> > rather long, so I have a couple of questions.
I'm not really sure that this is true. My reports are pretty
consistent -- it takes anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months. The latter
is
Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I finally found time to upload an upgraded prcs package. I did mass
> bug-hunting, closing seven of them. I hope that I did not introduce even
> more than that with my fixes!
Well, I hope your mailing patches for fixes upstream...
> I am actuall
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:12:12PM +0200, Andrea Fanfani wrote:
> > Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
> >
> > How i can upgrade the level of policy on my distribution.
>
> Check that your package meets the newer policy requirements and then
> manuall
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:27:53AM -0400, Rod wrote:
> > i have installed redhat 5.1 on another machine and understand that Linux
> > names drives differently than Windows/Dos, my question here is how will
> > Debian GNU/Linux "see" my single HD with multi
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The question is:
>
> Do I leave this as it is,
> or do I create the jazip group in the package installation?
>
> Policy says that I should create a Dynamically allocated system
> group (range 100-999) using adduser --system after checking with
>
E O Fredrik Liljegren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm. I have a related question.. I have dtd's in xml.. I guess they
> according to this system should be put under /usr/lib/xml/dtd/ with a
> soft link from /usr/lib/xml/eduml/dtd/ (eduml is what the dtd is for)?
>
> Could I put them udner /usr/s
Matt Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Matt Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > The other day I uploaded OPIE to master, but somehow fscked up and
> > > uploaded
> > > opie_2.32-1.tar.gz
>
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > The package consists of a script that processes an SGML-file and produces
> > > a
> > > HTML file. The resulting file makes use of an external s
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16-May-99 Leon Breedt wrote:
> > Is it possible to do this?
> >
> > I.e. have one source package build for both us & non-us?
> >
>
> As long as I can tell it before package build to NOT build the non-us, yes.
> Otherwise it could be illegal, immoral or
Matt Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The other day I uploaded OPIE to master, but somehow fscked up and
> uploaded
> opie_2.32-1.tar.gz
> instead of
> opie_2.32.orig.tar.gz and
> opie_2.32-1.diff.gz
>
> How can I correct my earlier blunder?
Remove the files from Incoming or
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to create a small package for myself (for `local'
> part of the archive :)
>
> The package consists of a script that processes an SGML-file and produces a
> HTML file. The resulting file makes use of an external stylesheet I want to
> put
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's OK, except that this package currently has 258 symlinks, and
> both the number and details are likely to change on a fairly regular
> basis. The thought of keeping that up to date is quite terrifying.
> There must surely be a better way?
No, not
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The phone calls do often cause delays.
Isn't there some information I can add to the developer's reference
about (a) what time of day they should expect your call (GMT) and,
maybe (b) giving new-maintianer the right phone number or a couple of
numbers in
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:14:08 +0800, Anthony Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi Debian developers, I'm still very new in creating Debian
> packages, so here are two of my silly questions :)
> Q1: What should be the version of a package if the upstream source
> does not have a version number? Shoul
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:16:04 -0600, "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> #!/bin/sh -e [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ] && update-menus
> I've got a bug report that says it is. Ash bails out with exit
> status 1 if update-menus doesn't exist.
This is irrelevant to you original question,
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:38:21 +0100 (CET), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Please, consider to sumbit a wishlist bug against
> developers-reference if this is not clearly stated there.
It is, but only in newer (unofficially released) versions. I'm going
to actually have a whole chapter
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:05:17 +0100 (CET), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Ok, I have just read the web page. It says:
> * Creating a Package using Debmake (hopefully this and the
> following will be merged) Note: use of debmake is deprecated. Use
> debhelper instead. Once someone w
"James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell
>> them to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only.
> It's not bad advice. I see
"Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Collins wrote:
>> Sounds to me like you just need to run ldconfig as root one time
>> to update your ld.so.cache file. It should resolve your problem the
>> Right Way.
>>
> I have a posinst that says:
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> ldconfi
"Oscar" == Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 02:38:16AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell
>> them to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only.
> I read that he ne
"Oscar" == Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:35:07AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> Yes; I think the other advice was rather bad.
> Really. That sounds like a jab. Is there an ego needing a snack?
No, I don't think so. M
"Matthias" == Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it allowed to use /usr/doc/, if no binary
> packages with the exists? I don't see anything in
> the policy, which explicitely forbids this.
It can use that dir, but there must be at least a symlink for
/usr/doc// .
--
.Adam Di [EM
"Dave" == Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the help...But just out of curiousity, is all this
> described all in one place somewhere? I don't like to think I was
> being completely blind...I was going to mail the bloke who is
> writing the new version of the deb new maintainers
"Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I want to package the VDK libs. But I have to take a decission:
> how to make the dbg package.
First off, this is all described in the Packaging Manual.
> The VDK, if compiled with "-g -DVDKDEBUG" can provide additional
> information,
"Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oscar Levi wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 06:22:47AM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: >
>> James Troup wrote: > > > > Ionutz Borcoman
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > If I run this
>> as root, how can I sign the package, as my pgp k
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi ! I have a problem with my wwwoffle package: it has a config
> file /etc/wwwoffle.conf. When installing I try to convert existing
> config files with a shipped config file converter and only if that
> fails because
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> I would personally save the minor bug for unstable and if you really
> feel you need to change the maintainer field...just change that and
> re-upload with the text in the changelog reflecting that you are the
> n
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Zephaniah> This seems to come up a bit too often, hmm, perhaps
Zephaniah> something in the policy could help?
> Develoeprs reference, maybe. This is not a policy issue.
*perk up* Huh? What? What are we talking a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, When I ran deb-make on my package source, it appended a "1" to
> the package name in debian/control, for example. Why does deb-make
> do this?
BTW, while debmake is supported and does work, you probably want to be
us
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've used /var/state, and I don't add anything to smb.conf
> automatically or ask anything during install.
Sounds good.
> However, if there was
> already a linpopup entry in smb.conf, but commented out, I re-enable
> it.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I mailed my intention to overtake linux-conio to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> I got the following reply:
[...]
> (You are assumed to be in the process of becoming a Debian Developer
> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 19981201.)
[...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When is the correct time to apply a patch to the upstream
> source? I have a small patch to the source code of the dictd source
> code. Of course, I am submitting it to the upstream author, and I
> hope he will incorp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> seriously tough, in the new maintainer doc it says that encrypting
>> is not per mitted in francebut signature yes ? does anyone know
>> something about it ?
> I do (I studied the law, I even asked for a formal auth
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are developers _required_ to run unstable? I know it makes a whole
> lot of sense for debugging purposes, otherwise it never get stable.
> But until I upgrade my PC at home that will be difficult to do.
Good question
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As a new package maintainer I would very much appreciate it if some
> kind soul could take it upon them to occasionally put themselves
> through the traumatic and boring ordeal of answering dumb questions
> on the subject of
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK I've deprecated the xemacs19 packages leaving only the xemacs20
> packages (the xemacs20-nomule package is equivalent to the xemacs19
> package and has newer el files, is more stable, and is faster to
> boot).
> OK so
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@>, Nathan Sandver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I'm having a problem with dupload. I'm hoping someone on this
> list can help me. Does anyone have an explanation for this:
> darkland:~$ ps aux | grep dupload ares 21678 30.8 82.0 105720 51920
> 5 R 12:43 0:42 \ pe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Dorsch) writes:
> What is the right procedure to do a non-maintainer upstream release?
> I do not want to upload my non-maintainer debian packages to the
> Debian server, but potentially distribute them.
Yes, you still should follow NMU gu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 02:14:36PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> I've just encountered libtool and the dreaded -rpath. How do I fix
>> it so that it doesn't do it?
>>
>> There is a top level ./libtool script, and one of
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just started maintaining the 'chos' package which had a grave bug
> report filed against it
> (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/29/29223.html) in the slink
> distribution. The bug can cause severe super block curruption and
>
Package: debmake
Version: 3.5.15
Severity: normal
debmake is guilty of allowing, indeed, seeming to encourage packages
to modify the conffiles of other packages.
>From Policy v. 2.5.0.0:
Only packages that are tagged conflicting with each other may specify
the same file as conffile. A packa
"Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> James Troup wrote:
>> Yep. `-sa' to dpkg-buildpackage is your friend. See the fine
>> manual for more details.
> =20 Very good, thanks. This will help me to avoid this problem in
> the future. For now, do I just manually upload the *.orig.t
"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wrote:
>> I'd be pleased if someone could take a look at my xwatch package in
>> ~psg/ on master. I'll upload it only after I get blessing, since
>> it's my first package.
> One glitch I'm aware of is that I'm still using hamm, so may
"Allan" == Allan M Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the correct location for (java) jar files? /usr/lib/java
> /usr/share/lib/java
> Or something else?
> It would (also?) be useful to have a $DIR with symlinks from other
> locations, say: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/lib -> $DIR for buildin
"Raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Le Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:34:06AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer
> écrivait:
>> Is there a policy about developer's Web pages? I saw that I can put
>> pages on master and they are available as
>> http://master.debian.org/~bortz. But I would li
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes:
>[Me]
>> Hmm. Interesting. So how do you use it? You *extend* the library?
>> Or you just read about it? ;)
> You use the library as any library by linking it to your code.
> However, imagine if some library had no indepen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes:
> I am trying to repackage a new upstream Stanford GraphBase (sgb). I
> would like to include the source code in the .deb package, as the
> value of the included programs is really as a demonstration of what
> the library c
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel Rosdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Please CC: replies to me.] Hi,
> I've got the impression that it's customary to close bug reports as
> soon as a fixed version of the package in question is available on
> the ftp site. However, this hides the problem in
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hubert Weikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IMHO the prefered way to install netscape communicator is:
...
My preferred way is to use Adam Heath's non-installer packages!
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For an X-based graphical system administration utility (i.e. -
> gtksamba),
> where goes the binary? /usr/sbin? /usr/X11R6/bin?
There's a lot of dispute on this one. I would say, /usr/sbin .
> where goes the man page?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>> > "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> writes:
>>
MS> Uff. What name would you propose? I will consist of four
MS> dpkg-divert statements.
>>
MS> All files are found at
MS> ftp:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, Eeek. I do not actually test the scripts for remote CVS
> operation (and I haven't done so for months now), since I have a
> local repository. Could you please do a bash -x /usr/bin/cvs-*
> and see if you can exactl
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 29 Oct 1998, James Troup wrote:
james> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
james>
james> > Any help/patch/comments?
james>
james> Help: Simply upload the orig.tar.gz manually.
james>
james> No, that's plain wro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I would like to know on which given package other packages depend.
>> (yes, this has been posted somewhere last month, but I cannot find
>> this)
> pkg-revdep from pkg-order.
O
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Leishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 11:14:48PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 06:48:51PM +1100, Chris Leishman wrote: >
>> The postinst modifies the /etc/exports file to add a 2 lines as
>> follows
>>
>> I do
[Two in one here]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Buddha M.D. Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't think it's really a wasted effort. There is a lot of
> information there, most of it is FAQ-material. Probably half of the
> questions asked in debian-mentors could be answered by it. Spr
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