Re: What to do?

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mitch> I believe that the technical term for what I've done is a Mitch> 'boo-boo'. I blame it on raging stupidity on my part. But Mitch> how can I fix it? Mitch> Here's the situation: Mitch> I uploaded gtksamba-0.1.

Re: library packaging howto?

1999-01-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> The short is: Ben> Ben> .so.1 and .so.1.0.0 go into libblah1 .so and .a and .h files Ben> go into libblah-dev (optional) debugging-enabled .a goes into Ben> libblah-dbg Ben> Ben> Your numbers may vary.

Re: library packaging howto?

1999-01-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Will" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Will> I've been around for a while, I have a couple of packages. Will> I'm about to undertake packaging my first set of libraries, Will> and I'm not sure what's different. I understand that a Will> stripped copy of the library

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Hoo boy.. didn't we end up deciding this was wrong? James> Eh? No, we certainly did not. I'm pretty sure it's safe to call ldconfig unconditionally in postinst, and that we ran into problems when we literally followed the pac

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> This whole thread is absurd since the question was about Adam> someone running ldconfig in debian/rules, which is a big Adam> nasty no-no as well, and I can't think of a possible reason Adam> why it would be necess

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> No, you just need to be careful and to read the Packaging Adam> Manual, where it says: Adam> Any package installing shared libraries in a directory Adam> that's listed in `/etc/ld.so.conf' or in one of the defau

Re: automatic dependencies question

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Did you install your own libgtk without using packages? The Ben> only way dpkg-shlibdeps (the package that figures out the Ben> shared library dependancies) can know how to set up a shared Ben> library dependancy is

Re: automatic dependencies question

1998-12-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ionutz> Hi, I am trying to package VDK libs. I have added this in Ionutz> my control file: Ionutz> libvdk depends on libgtk 1.1.7 or more. However, this is Ionutz> what I get in my libvdk1.deb: Ionutz> No reference

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ionutz> Hi, I am trying to package my first set of libs. I am Ionutz> doing this from my account with fakeroot. The problem is Ionutz> that this way, the process stops with the following error: (ldconfig not found) Have yo

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jason" == Jason Henry Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> I checked on master and va, they only have GTK1.0 Jason> installed, not GTK1.1, which mozilla needs to build. Are Jason> there any hosts offered by debian that have libs from Jason> unstable to help out in this

Re: What to do with extra sources needed to build a package

1998-12-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ionutz> Can you please give some examples about these 'gotchas' ? Ionutz> I also want to pack some shared libs. Learning how to make shlibs files properly, how to decide what the dependancies between the -dev and library packa

Re: What to do with extra sources needed to build a package

1998-12-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> I'm in the process of packaging xplot (a simple data Peter> plotter for X. It's designed to show one- or twodimensional Peter> datasets, either from a file or from a pipe). It uses Peter> XForms, which put it in

Re: New unstable GTK+/GLib packages' names -- seeking advice

1998-11-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> dpkg doesn't do reverse dependency checking[1]; if I have James> say foo installed which depends on libgtk1.1 (= 1.1.5-1), James> it'll happily let me install libgtk1.1 1.1.6-1, silently James> breaking foo. James

New unstable GTK+/GLib packages' names -- seeking advice

1998-11-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
GTK+ and GLib have a somewhat curious developmental situation; they release versions that are binary (and source, sometimes) incompatible with previous releases with each developmental 1.1.x release. Version 1.1.5 of both GTK+ and GLib have just been released. I have received complaints about pac

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> can someone give me a hint how I can efficient test if a Marcus> certain directory is empty in the postrm (shell script)? Here's what I did in the /etc/rc.boot/nethack script: # Are there any lock-files to recover? ls

Re: *.m4 files in -dev packages

1998-11-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Brian" == Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaya> I think that is only an issue w/ CVS compilers. If so, not Shaya> your problem. You should NOT be shipping a imlib.m4 in Shaya> your package. Ask the powers that be about this. I could Shaya> be wrong. But this

Re: wmakerconf in slink

1998-09-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrico> Hi, I DL'ed gnome and wmaker (and related libs) and Enrico> wmakerconf and iinstalled them yesterday...I have to say Enrico> you that there is a problem in wmakerconf Enrico> andwmakerconf-data packages: the

Re: Where to put non-end-user binaries?

1998-09-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Florian" == Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Florian> Hi! Lets say a debian package foo contains a binary Florian> "prog" which needs another binary or shell script Florian> "helper" to run. Florian> Should I install these files as /usr/bin/prog and Florian

Re: Creating two packages from one source

1998-09-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Can a single rules files be used to make two binary Peter> packages from one orig.tar.gz. Sure! Take a look at the debian/rules file from the 'gimp' package -- you can fetch the .orig.tar.gz, .dsc, and .diff.gz from deb

Re: Where to gtkrc-type files go?

1998-08-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> /etc/something.gtkrc (or something like that) or Marcelo> /usr/share/something/something.gtkrc (OSLT) They're not exactly config files -- they're not meant to be changed. But since gtkrc files have no global repos

Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
n. -- Brought to you by the letters B and V and the number 6. "Do you wish to see our *surprising toys*? No! Do not!" -- Orz, SCII Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. --

Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
aclocal/autoconf every single time the package builds to remove all vestiges of the old libtool and replace it with the Debian libtool. -- Brought to you by the letters C and Y and the number 17. "I put my feet on the Ottoman.. Empire." -- Moxy Fruvous Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu

Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
ce and diff are obsolete - use dpkg-source -b'; false binary: binary-indep binary-arch .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary -- Brought to you by the letters M and S and the number 11. "Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla (Stop That)" -- Alliances Ben

Packages getting absorbed by other packages..

1998-03-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
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SGML-format docs -- compile-time, what to do?

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
, how should I go about doing that the best way? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters E and A and the number 19. "Johnny! Don't go! It's too dangerous!" "I don't care!" -- MST3K Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key.