>> cd /var/local/debian && apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip - >
>> Packages.gz
Cameron> After looking at your repository, I have determined that this
Cameron> is where the problem occurs. You need to also generate a
Cameron> Packages file (uncompressed). You still need the Packages.gz
Cameron> f
Cameron> Are you completely against using tools to make your life
Cameron> easier? You're saying you want it to be less complicated, but
Cameron> you're already over-complicating it by not using tools others
Cameron> have built for exactly this situation.
My beef is that the docs are in terms o
Cameron> Actually, you would just do the scp to a root account, though
Cameron> maybe that's not what you want either. My archive is owned by
Cameron> me, and I can't think of a reason why it should be root owned,
Cameron> do you have a good one (it's beside the point, I'm just
Cameron> curious)?
Ian> I don't think reprepro is the right tool for my job, either.
Ian> Again, this is _not_ a mirror. It is just a bunch of debs (about
Ian> 30 right now) that I build myself on a desktop machine, then upload
Ian> to share with other client machines.
Ian>
Ian> Is _anyone_ else doing this? Seems
> Unable to find expected entry Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release
> file?)
Ian> And this is my main question: have you figured out what causes this
Ian> error?
Neil> I've no idea if the documentation that you mention is right or
Neil> wrong. I was using mini-dinstall - you are not
Neil> reprepro doesn't force these on you but it does not stop you
Neil> adding them later either.
Ian> OK, I'll take a look at reprepro.
I did. reprepro still wants me to have a pool and dists subdirectories,
at the very least. This just makes it more complicated to maintain,
in particular to
Ian> And this is my main question: have you figured out what causes this error?
Neil> Yes - the error is caused by not using reprepro.
Neil> :-)
I am afraid from my POV this is not particularly funny. The
documentation (i.e. the apt manual and the secure apt wiki) doesn't
mention reprepro (or m
Neil> Time for a bug report, I think. But in order to actually get the
Neil> thing working, I need more help.
Have you ever filed the report? I can't find it searching on b.d.o.
Neil> I get:
Neil> Failed to fetch
Neil> http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages/unstable/amd64/Release
Neil> Unab
files much easier and to make builds much safer.
And here's the copyright:
This package was debianized by Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
Wed, 19 May 2004 22:30:21 -0700.
It was downloaded from http://makepp.sf.net
Upstream Author: Gary Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copyright
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Frank> unites all of the tools so you have not to worry about their
Frank> interaction. I
The ITP bug for this package says:
* Package name: makepp
Version : 1.18
Upstream Author : Gary Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://makepp.sourceforge.net/
* License : Dual GPL/Artistic
Description : yet another make replacement
makepp is the rare ca
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* Package name: makepp
Version : 1.18
Upstream Author : Gary Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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of documenting
Dale> a library using said format. Any suggestions?
I am doing just that now. My document is not really a manpage though,
rather a DocBook . Let me know if/how I can help.
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Dale> a library using said format. Any suggestions?
I am doing just that now. My document is not really a manpage though,
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David> http://www.rebel.net.au/~lloy0076/linux_c_programming/
Also:
ftp://ftp.rug.nl/contrib/frank/documents/cplusplus.annotations/
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Also:
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paths properly. Is there a nice Debian way to
Wookey> do this (I know very little about either of these programs)?
I would just put them in a suitable subdirectory/-ies of
/usr/share/texmf (probably a new one) and run /usr/bin/texhash
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Wookey> do this (I know very little about either of these programs)?
I would just put them in a suitable subdirectory/-ies of
/usr/share/texmf (probably a new one) and run /usr/bin/texhash
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Carlo> Source archive you specified was not found!
I have also just packaged a Perl program --- makepp, see
http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks
--- and I had no such problem with dh_make (I used it but it would
have been just as simple to create the few ./debian/ files
; error message:
Carlo> Source archive you specified was not found!
I have also just packaged a Perl program --- makepp, see
http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks
--- and I had no such problem with dh_make (I used it but it would
have been just as simple to create the few ./debian/ files
http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks/
in the files makepp-1.18*.
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Hi, I am not sure this is appropriate for -mentors, but I couldn't
find a -history list :)
What is the story behind these 2 packages? Which one was first, what
was the rationale for creating the other, and why do we still have
both?
Just curious,
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What is the story behind these 2 packages? Which one was first, what
was the rationale for creating the other, and why do we still have
both?
Just curious,
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shipping lists whenever possible; postinst tricks read to unclean
messy hackery and will backfire sooner or later.
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I think packages should include all its files and directories in their
shipping lists whenever possible; postinst tricks read to unclean
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Steve> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:55:37AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Steve> Oh, I understand how it would happen that a file in /usr is
Steve> actively in use in this scenario; I'm just questioning why it
Steve> shouldn't be considered a bug in whatever program is st
Steve> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:55:37AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Steve> Oh, I understand how it would happen that a file in /usr is
Steve> actively in use in this scenario; I'm just questioning why it
Steve> shouldn't be considered a bug in whatever program is st
-- even longer wrt PAM -- and it's not clear to me
Steve> that this is an appropriate solution.
Do you have anything running and using RPC? A user-space NFS daemon,
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-- even longer wrt PAM -- and it's not clear to me
Steve> that this is an appropriate solution.
Do you have anything running and using RPC? A user-space NFS daemon,
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oint when Ola discussed the java policy.
gcj can compile java bytecode into native code. So Architecture: all
java libraries can be used for development purposes without an
interpreter.
In theory, at least.
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gcj can compile java bytecode into native code. So Architecture: all
java libraries can be used for development purposes without an
interpreter.
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infringe on policy?
In the recurring fl^H^Hdiscussions on -policy, I seldom side with ajt,
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infringe on policy?
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system administrators may choose to
Matt> modify it. This implies that the default version will be part of
Matt> the package distribution, and MUST NOT BE MODIFIED BY THE
Matt> MAINTAINER SCRIPTS during installation (or at any other time).
Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advi
system administrators may choose to
Matt> modify it. This implies that the default version will be part of
Matt> the package distribution, and MUST NOT BE MODIFIED BY THE
Matt> MAINTAINER SCRIPTS during installation (or at any other time).
Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advi
; source
2/ a target in the top-level Makefile builds the debian source package
(ie. dsc file and .tar.gz file, the latter is the same as the general
non-debian distribution tarball)
3/ to build .deb files, I use dpkg-buildpackage -b
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2/ a target in the top-level Makefile builds the debian source package
(ie. dsc file and .tar.gz file, the latter is the same as the general
non-debian distribution tarball)
3/ to build .deb files, I use dpkg-buildpackage -b
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urn' part of Jérôme's post which started
the thread. Does this mean the maintainer is stuck with a postinst
hack forever? How is a transition to a symlink shipped as part of the
package possible in a future version?
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urn' part of Jérôme's post which started
the thread. Does this mean the maintainer is stuck with a postinst
hack forever? How is a transition to a symlink shipped as part of the
package possible in a future version?
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be _shipped_ by the module package in a
more generic place to start with, and the generic place should be on
the module search path. Then you don't need to play postinst moving
games, and you actually get the benefits of packaging (like, dpkg -L
module_foo actually prints where the files a
be _shipped_ by the module package in a
more generic place to start with, and the generic place should be on
the module search path. Then you don't need to play postinst moving
games, and you actually get the benefits of packaging (like, dpkg -L
module_foo actually prints where the files a
whenever a new kernel image is installed -- and todo
Manoj> this magic, so that the kernel knows to load the module. Or
Manoj> thet can add to the search path for kernel when it looks for
Manoj> the modules.
Okay, I didn't know about the first part, thanks for pointing it out.
But i
whenever a new kernel image is installed -- and todo
Manoj> this magic, so that the kernel knows to load the module. Or
Manoj> thet can add to the search path for kernel when it looks for
Manoj> the modules.
Okay, I didn't know about the first part, thanks for pointing it out.
But i
y from upstream
source, to be installed somewhere like /lib/modules/local/2.4.
Just my 2c.
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This is actually quite interesting. Not allowed by whom? Is this in
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what I want. But still this is much less convenient than -t, assuming
it can be made to cooperate.
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he main directory shows the GPL,
Stefan> so I assume it is free software. I will take a deeper look
Stefan> tomorrow.
The mailing list announcement for the new version of PG says it is
(newly) GPLed.
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ry package name on the command line with /stable, it does
what I want. But still this is much less convenient than -t, assuming
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he main directory shows the GPL,
Stefan> so I assume it is free software. I will take a deeper look
Stefan> tomorrow.
The mailing list announcement for the new version of PG says it is
(newly) GPLed.
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nderstand (I haven't asked about this one), it is also
non-free (note restriction to non-commercial use).
Yes, it stinks - these are great tools.
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non-free (note restriction to non-commercial use).
Yes, it stinks - these are great tools.
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on the developers, but also on the INRIA bureaucrats, I am
afraid.
Jens> adopting package haskell-doc
Thanks for that, too.
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$conffile =~ s{^/(.*)}{$1};
$conffiles{$conffile} = 1;
}
$conffiles->close();
}
local $md5sums = FileHandle->new;
$md5sums->open(">$debdir/DEBIAN/md5sums")
or die "$debdir/DEBIAN/md5sums: $! \n";
File::Find::
I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed
packages. I think it should be possible, but the apt.conf manpage is
terrible :( Can anyone give me an example of a setup where some
nontrivial shell code runs that way?
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Colin> Architecture: all.
Colin> Personally I might be inclined to make the package
Colin> Architecture: any in this case, though.
I assume by this you mean you'd select and copy the correct file at
binary-package creation time, rather than installation time?
-
talking about is
Colin> Architecture: all.
Colin> Personally I might be inclined to make the package
Colin> Architecture: any in this case, though.
I assume by this you mean you'd select and copy the correct file at
binary-package creation time, rather than installation time?
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library, and libtool has this annoying habit. It has been discussed
many times; a search in the archive for "libtool" should lead other
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library, and libtool has this annoying habit. It has been discussed
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policy. The file /etc/pam.d/login is a
Steve> conffile belonging to the login package, which means NO package
Steve> is allowed to modify this file (not even login itself).
Having just hand-edited /etc/pam.d/cron (to stop endless PAM_unix
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loader works, so even if you rename the libs by other means you can
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Ari> Ran this by Matt Danish and he said "That's why I use Common
Ari> Lisp: no shared library hell" :-)
Applies equally to ML and Haskell :-)
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r suggestion can't be implemented without modifying the binary.
Goswin> PS: any chance of using the same format as chess for books? Once 30MB
Goswin> should be enough for both.
Unfortunately not - each of the 3 engines I know of in debian
(gnuchess, crafty, phalanx) uses a different for
r suggestion can't be implemented without modifying the binary.
Goswin> PS: any chance of using the same format as chess for books? Once 30MB
Goswin> should be enough for both.
Unfortunately not - each of the 3 engines I know of in debian
(gnuchess, crafty, phalanx) uses a different for
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