Re: dependency question

2004-01-08 Thread David Z Maze
Al Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got packages I'm maintaining -- oprofile and prospect -- that > both need a particular kernel module to work. > > Right now, these packages only "Recommend:" the kernel module (in > this case, oprofile-module0.6.1). > > I did not want to make it a "Depen

Re: dependency question

2004-01-08 Thread David Z Maze
Al Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got packages I'm maintaining -- oprofile and prospect -- that > both need a particular kernel module to work. > > Right now, these packages only "Recommend:" the kernel module (in > this case, oprofile-module0.6.1). > > I did not want to make it a "Depen

Re: Packaging a Kernel module (i386 only)

2003-12-09 Thread David Z Maze
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the recommended way to distribute a kernel module? > > I see the options as : > > 1. Making a kernel-patch which could be build with > kernel-package. Is it a patch, or a module? I'd expect that most things come as one or the othe

Re: Packaging a Kernel module (i386 only)

2003-12-09 Thread David Z Maze
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the recommended way to distribute a kernel module? > > I see the options as : > > 1. Making a kernel-patch which could be build with > kernel-package. Is it a patch, or a module? I'd expect that most things come as one or the othe

Re: library soname changed, now what?

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i maintain trickle which links against libevent. now libevent has > changed its soname so my old binary packages depend on libevent0 which > is no longer available as it is replaced with libevent1. i checked and i > have to change absolutely zero, but ju

Re: library soname changed, now what?

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i maintain trickle which links against libevent. now libevent has > changed its soname so my old binary packages depend on libevent0 which > is no longer available as it is replaced with libevent1. i checked and i > have to change absolutely zero, but ju

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread David Z Maze
Laurent Fousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not yet. It's all about you and your restaurant. Here's the > description: > > Description: A game in which you can run your own pizza businness > Pizza Business is a game written in C++ in which you start a pizza ^^

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread David Z Maze
Laurent Fousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not yet. It's all about you and your restaurant. Here's the > description: > > Description: A game in which you can run your own pizza businness > Pizza Business is a game written in C++ in which you start a pizza ^^

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered me about debian. Well > actually in this case, two points. > > * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me > * errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? > * This

Re: Recompiling a package

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
"Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was searching for a package and I've found it. But it´s compiled for > Debian stable. I use Debian unstable and I would like to compile it > for my version of Debian. > How can I recompile it? I have those files: > program.diff.gz > program.d

Re: Recompiling a package

2003-08-13 Thread David Z Maze
"Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was searching for a package and I've found it. But it´s compiled for > Debian stable. I use Debian unstable and I would like to compile it > for my version of Debian. > How can I recompile it? I have those files: > program.diff.gz > program.d

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-12 Thread David Z Maze
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ahh, this brings up a point that has bothered me about debian. Well > actually in this case, two points. > > * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me > * errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? > * This

Re: ncurses

2003-06-03 Thread David Z Maze
Barry Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am doin some ncurses stuff for ed the line editor to make it print > screens of text as well as lines I am getting undefind references to > main.c:1676: undefined reference to `tparam' > I have included termcap.h and ncurses.h and the ncurses libray ha

Re: ncurses

2003-06-02 Thread David Z Maze
Barry Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am doin some ncurses stuff for ed the line editor to make it print > screens of text as well as lines I am getting undefind references to > main.c:1676: undefined reference to `tparam' > I have included termcap.h and ncurses.h and the ncurses libray ha

Re: new package - don't know how to compile

2003-05-13 Thread David Z Maze
"Matthias Hofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But i've problems to compile failsafe-mgr, the graphical GUI (written in > Java) for configuring the cluster. > There is no configure-script out of the box, the doc says to give > > aclocal > autoheader > automake --add-missing > auto

Re: First steps in packaging

2003-04-16 Thread David Z Maze
Tony Maro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Odd considering that so far most every reply that I've received > (except yours of course) included two copies. And the fact that you > can't just hit "reply" and have it go back to the list - it wants to > only reply to the sender. Your mailer doesn't hav

Re: debian/rules assumptions for kernel modules?

2003-03-28 Thread David Z Maze
Al Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a document somewhere that describes the assumptions I can > make in a debian/rules file? In general, you get to assume a clean system with the build-essential packages, plus any you build-depend on, installed. > For instance, as part of my work to

Re: debian/rules assumptions for kernel modules?

2003-03-28 Thread David Z Maze
Al Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a document somewhere that describes the assumptions I can > make in a debian/rules file? In general, you get to assume a clean system with the build-essential packages, plus any you build-depend on, installed. > For instance, as part of my work to

Re: help with kernel module source

2002-12-21 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have some source code of kernel module. It's a driver for my ISDN modem. I > want to build this module with kernel in /usr/src/modules directory using > make-kpkg. Well, that's kind of complicated... > So I modified the source code to used autoconf/automake and run

Re: help with kernel module source

2002-12-21 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have some source code of kernel module. It's a driver for my ISDN modem. I > want to build this module with kernel in /usr/src/modules directory using > make-kpkg. Well, that's kind of complicated... > So I modified the source code to used autoconf/automake and run

Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.

2002-09-13 Thread David Z Maze
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am packaging unicorn : > > unicorn- Kernel modules for the Bewan ADSL PCI st modem > > The upstream source come with a make file enabling to build it from only > the kernel-headers, without there really being a need for the > kernel-sources (in partic

Re: pbuilder - root privileges? (was: Re: Orig tarball naming)

2002-08-19 Thread David Z Maze
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:03:51PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: >> I think you need root privileges to actually enter the chroot jail. >> Other than that, it does seem like it should be possible to build the >> chroot image e

Re: pbuilder - root privileges? (was: Re: Orig tarball naming)

2002-08-19 Thread David Z Maze
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:03:51PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: >> I think you need root privileges to actually enter the chroot jail. >> Other than that, it does seem like it should be possible to build the >> chroot image e

Re: pbuilder - root privileges? (was: Re: Orig tarball naming)

2002-08-19 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Cupis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:11, Marc Haber wrote: >> ... I don't like building >> packages as "real" root which pbuilder seems to need at the moment. ... > Of course, I haven't actually tried this, but I see no reason why pbuilder > couldn't be set up to no

Re: pbuilder - root privileges? (was: Re: Orig tarball naming)

2002-08-19 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Cupis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 18 August 2002 09:11, Marc Haber wrote: >> ... I don't like building >> packages as "real" root which pbuilder seems to need at the moment. ... > Of course, I haven't actually tried this, but I see no reason why pbuilder > couldn't be set up to n

Re: What is libg2c.a? And why do I have to link to it?

2002-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a autoconf test that fails if i don't give -lg2c as extra link > flags. Without g2c there are undefined references to e_wsfe, z_abs, > c_sqrt, etc. Is not g2c an internal gcc thing? That sounds like things generated by a FORTRAN compiler like g77

Re: What is libg2c.a? And why do I have to link to it?

2002-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a autoconf test that fails if i don't give -lg2c as extra link > flags. Without g2c there are undefined references to e_wsfe, z_abs, > c_sqrt, etc. Is not g2c an internal gcc thing? That sounds like things generated by a FORTRAN compiler like g7

Re: Installing documentation from an upstream Makefile

2002-08-08 Thread David Z Maze
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is this sufficient - or should I setup a link from /usr/doc as well? > > If you use the debhelper tools (dh_installdocs in this case I think), > they'll set up the /usr/doc for you automatically. ...except in unstable, where they won't, but my understand

Re: Eiffel Forum Freeware License, version 1

2002-04-13 Thread David Z Maze
Julien LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I consider this licence is DFSG conpliant, so I will put this 2 > libraries in main. It sounds reasonable to me. The only thing that sounds a little questionable is this: > Permission is hereby also granted, without written agreement and > without lic

Re: Eiffel Forum Freeware License, version 1

2002-04-13 Thread David Z Maze
Julien LEMOINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I consider this licence is DFSG conpliant, so I will put this 2 > libraries in main. It sounds reasonable to me. The only thing that sounds a little questionable is this: > Permission is hereby also granted, without written agreement and > without li

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mmm, i have two file in ocaml-base package with rpath : > > /usr/lib/ocaml/dllgraphics.so with RPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib > > and > > /usr/lib/ocaml/labltk/dlllabltk41.so with RPATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib > > I guess this is just the common usage of those, and not some

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-12 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Mmm, i have two file in ocaml-base package with rpath : > > /usr/lib/ocaml/dllgraphics.so with RPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib > > and > > /usr/lib/ocaml/labltk/dlllabltk41.so with RPATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib > > I guess this is just the common usage of those, and not some

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-11 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How can i check what is contained in the rpath of a shared library > to make sure it is ok to override this lintian error ? objdump --private-headers will list, among, other things, the RPATH setting. (It will also show the libraries the file directly depends on, where

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-02-11 Thread David Z Maze
Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gaetano Paolone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Lintian tells me this: >> >> W: php-gtk: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath >> ./usr/lib/php4/20010901/php_gtk.so /usr/X11R6/lib > > This is a bug in lintian. It should not complain about rpath being > s

Re: RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Moerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> First question: -rpath specifies where a library (eventually) MM> will be installed, but what is so bad about that? Let's say, hypothetically, that you were used to building all of your X programs with '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib'. It works, no harm in

Re: RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Moerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> First question: -rpath specifies where a library (eventually) MM> will be installed, but what is so bad about that? Let's say, hypothetically, that you were used to building all of your X programs with '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib'. It works, no harm i

Re: Questions about library names

2001-04-30 Thread David Z. Maze
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCGS> I'm trying to package a library, but I have some questions regarding JCGS> the name the package should have. JCGS> JCGS> First of all, the policy says that the library package must something JCGS> like libpackagesoname, so if the library

Re: Questions about library names

2001-04-30 Thread David Z. Maze
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCGS> I'm trying to package a library, but I have some questions regarding JCGS> the name the package should have. JCGS> JCGS> First of all, the policy says that the library package must something JCGS> like libpackagesoname, so if the library

Re: Creating a debian package that doesn't need compiling...

2000-12-08 Thread David Z Maze
Jeremy Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> I have read the maintainer's guide that is at the Debian Documentation JH> Project, but it seems to only cover packages that require compiling - JH> which RCF doesn't. JH> JH> After running dh_make and cd'ing to the debian directory, is there a JH> file

Re: Creating a debian package that doesn't need compiling...

2000-12-08 Thread David Z Maze
Jeremy Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> I have read the maintainer's guide that is at the Debian Documentation JH> Project, but it seems to only cover packages that require compiling - JH> which RCF doesn't. JH> JH> After running dh_make and cd'ing to the debian directory, is there a JH> fil