Re: Binary-only data packages

ble assumption. This doesn't help with build dependencies, though. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "Quiet, you'll miss the humorous conclusion."

Re: Binary-only data packages

ble assumption. This doesn't help with build dependencies, though. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "Quiet, you'll miss the humorous conclusion." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maintainer and stable/testing/unstable

. It's worth noting that if you build against unstable, your packages won't get into testing until all their dependencies also get into testing. At the moment, this seems to include libc6 and the X libraries. Hopefully this won't be as much of an issue as testing starts to catch up

Re: Maintainer and stable/testing/unstable

. It's worth noting that if you build against unstable, your packages won't get into testing until all their dependencies also get into testing. At the moment, this seems to include libc6 and the X libraries. Hopefully this won't be as much of an issue as testing starts to catch up

Re: help me help you

y developers in NZ. Even if you live in Dunedin or Christchurch, does it make things any easier? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

Re: help me help you

y developers in NZ. Even if you live in Dunedin or Christchurch, does it make things any easier? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting rid of x3270

contact me at your convenience. > Regards, > Kevin > Kevin L. Wozniak > Assistant Director > Office of Technology Licensing -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

Getting rid of x3270

contact me at your convenience. > Regards, > Kevin > Kevin L. Wozniak > Assistant Director > Office of Technology Licensing -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

ickly. Quite a few X11 programs had rpath specified when xlib6 shifted from /usr/X11R6/lib to make way for xlib6g, which was at least slightly annoying. That's why. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "As I under

Re: Plugins: proper way to change ld.so search path for a single binary

ickly. Quite a few X11 programs had rpath specified when xlib6 shifted from /usr/X11R6/lib to make way for xlib6g, which was at least slightly annoying. That's why. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "As I under

Re: Unstable

h Hamm, which is fine since they where released. I think you'll find that quite a few people are using unstable. It's been a while since 2.1 was released. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "This is where your sanity gives in..."

Re: how to package python module as shared lib??

t" source package builds the whiptail binary package containing just the program, and also the libnewt0 and libnewt-dev packages, for other packages such as python-newt to use. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "This is where your sanity gives in..."

Re: Shared library questions

.2-dev Provides, Replaces and Conflicts with it so that it appears as an upgrade, not so that development packages should depend on the older package. libgnome-dev depends on libgtk1.2-dev, so it should be safe to go with that. If we ever get a libgtk1.3-dev, it's unlikely the current -dev p

Re: Menu-entry and Variable holding X-clipboard

e, you could run: $ myprogram -clipboard "`xprtsel`" -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "I'm not a god. I've just been misquoted."

Re: lintian question

7; to the compilation, e.g. gcc -O2 -c -fPIC foo.c -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "my cats are essentially my kids. 'cept I haven't known children to put on dark clothing and lay on a dark rug between the door and the light switch." - Ryan Tucker

Re: configuration file placement

ld be able to NFS-mount /usr read-only from one server for a whole lab of computers, *and* I should be able to exclude /usr from a backup as long as I keep the output of `dpkg --get-selections'. A very simple solution would to create a symlink from /usr/share/packagename/conffile to /etc/packagen

Re: off topic/learning C

"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Jan 1999, Carey Evans wrote: [snip] I didn't really mean that to sound like it did. Maybe I've been scarred for life by trying to tutor second-year computer science students in C, especially with linked lists, and

Re: off topic/learning C

ed, install all of the packages starting with "python-" in Debian, and Emacs or XEmacs with the Python mode. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "The risk of U.S. national security resting in the hands of adults who play with

Re: Package replacement

etc/alternatives directory and > update-alternatives. Doesn't this only really work when all the programs cooperate? The best way to do this (IMO) would be to use diversions. See `/usr/sbin/dpkg-divert --help', or look for a postinst that currently uses dpkg-divert, like ssltelnet

Re: Why only one non-free section?

s* restrictive licenses than the GPL? > will the free software movement be the death of computing like we > know it today ? If computing today is MS (and IBM, etc.) I certainly hope so. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "So, do you steal weapons from the Army often?" "Well, we don't get cable, so we have to make our own fun."

Re: Lost behind a firewall

them to master? Do: $ echo ./Mailbox > ~/.qmail-upload then send the email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You should probably delete the .qmail-upload file afterwards. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "dang it's hard to hit ent

Re: tempfile <-> IO::Handle::new_tmpfile?

ie "pkg.postinst: rename /etc/conffile.new /etc/conffile: $!\n"; Make sure the postrm removes the changes when someone downgrades, if necessary. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "As a concept, virtual reality seems to appeal to

Re: uploading packages

. I think there might be some in /usr/doc/debian-policy/. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "[UNIX] appears to have the inside track on being the replacement for CP/M on the largest microcomputers (e.g. those based on 68000...)" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Building "sublanguages" from gcc

quot; node in the make info page (type `info make recursion') for more information on why. You could also make it "$(MAKE) -C ..". -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ "[UNIX] appears to have the inside track on being the replacement for CP/M

Re: orig source

I can do this in the > postinst, but can I just say > ln -s /usr/lib/fpc/0.99.5/ppc386 /usr/bin/ppc386 You should either do something like this near the end of debian/rules, or move the binary back into the bin directory. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans

Re: BSD questions

ar.gz > > This package fixes numerous other problems present in the BSD > printing suite, including numerous buffer overflows present in both > the client programs and the server. This package has been > provided by OpenBSD. ~~~ -- C

Re: Utillity for generating Packages?

George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a utullity for generating a Packages file from an archive of .deb > files? dpkg-scanpackages -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."