porting a package

1999-09-08 Thread Fernando Sanchez
Hello, I have found that a package for which I am not the maintainer (ocaml) is not being built for i386 architecture in its latest versions (it is ok for powerpc and alpha). I have tried to compile it for i386 and there have been no problems, so I'm thinking about uploading it as binary-on

newbie problems and some questions

1999-02-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
Hello, I'm having some problems uploading a package, but I also think I must have done something wrong in the process, so please tell me if there is some big mistake in my procedures: - I got an automatically-generated mail confirming my account/password on master, etc, which also mentio

Re: PGP signing packages

1999-02-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > .dsc and .changes file. Well it tried anyway. My problem is that I am > > using pgp5 and but dpkg-buildpackage seems to want to use pgp2 or gpg for > > Simple answer: don't. Debian currently works with PGP 2.6.x and is > moving over to GNU PG. Pleas

Re: OCAML Debian package

1998-12-16 Thread Fernando Sanchez
n to another. > any other packages, and i am writhing my phd thesis on camlous stuff, so i > will > need quite recent packages of it ... I use it at my faculty too so it will be nice to have newer versions as soon as possible, it's definitevely a good idea for you to maintain it. Regards, Fernando Sanchez

Re: OCAML Debian package

1998-12-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
with Bernard Lang among its chief > advocates.) I do agree. I will ask Xavier Leroy about it, maybe they're chaging their mind (?) Regards, Fernando Sanchez

.diff question

1998-12-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
Hello, I'm packaging ocaml, a ml-type language interpreter and compiler, and everything works ok but I have two questions, I hope quite easy to answer: First, to compile ocaml I need to call "make install" (in 'rules' file) in the following way for it to install binaries where it has to:

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-22 Thread Fernando Sanchez
tests installing and uninstalling it and it seems everything works fine. I would like to contribute it to debian distribution, but I don't know neither how should it be done, nor if there is some kind of 'standard test' the package should pass, etc. Could you tell me what should I do