Re: RFS: Plash: a shell and restricted environment for running programs with minimum authority

2005-07-10 Thread John Skaller
On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 19:54 +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor for my project, Plash. Wow, I have to say this sounds very interesting, I hope someone sponsors it. -- John Skaller Download Felix: http://felix.sf.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: RFS: felix-1.1.0

2005-07-10 Thread John Skaller
Second call: can someone sponsor my package please? Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for Felix (I am both the packager and upstream author): * Package Name : felix Version: 1.1.0 Upstream Author: john skaller<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://felix.sourceforge.ne

Re: Building source packages

2005-07-08 Thread John Skaller
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:50 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 05/07/08 15:50 +1000, John Skaller said ... > > > > What I am asking for is: > > > > apt-get install fred > > > > and it installs fred. If 'fred' is not available for

Re: Building source packages

2005-07-07 Thread John Skaller
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:58 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 08-Jul-2005, John Skaller wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:27 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > You may as well use the http://mentors.debian.net service to > > > upload your work. It will take care

Re: separate binary and sources

2005-07-07 Thread John Skaller
s (b) apt tools can't build from source The latter is exceptionally annoying (which I consider a very polite form of what I'd like to actually say ;) Is there a tool which does that? I use Synaptic GUI tool, it would be nice if a tool like that could build from source transparently

Re: uploading packages built on an amd64 box inside ia32 chroot

2005-07-07 Thread John Skaller
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 19:56 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > So, you are worried. > Worried about not being i386 enough. > > I say: Screw i386 ! Fine to say that, but Ubuntu is screaming ahead of Debian here -- they actually support amd64, Debian doesn't. -- John Skaller Dow

RFS: felix-1.1.0

2005-07-05 Thread John Skaller
Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for Felix (I am both the packager and upstream author): * Package Name : felix Version: 1.1.0 Upstream Author: john skaller<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://felix.sourceforge.net * License: BSD * Description: high

Re: Packages which need themselves to compile?

2005-06-24 Thread John Skaller
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 23:31 +0100, David Given wrote: > On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:04, John Skaller wrote: > [...] > > That cannot be allowed, the build must proceed without > > ever installing anything: if you really need something > > installed you will need to pr

Re: Packages which need themselves to compile?

2005-06-23 Thread John Skaller
really need something installed you will need to provide a separate package, and then the build interaction cannot be cyclic. Otherwise, if you have a cyclic process in the build, then there is no alternative than to provide an initial value for it, hopefully one such that the recursion fixes fairly quick

Felix package

2005-06-14 Thread John Skaller
I am seeking some input on the state of the following package: Package Name: felix Version: 1.1.0 Upstream author: John Skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Licence: BSD Description: high performance programming language translator and tools Source and amd64 binaries can be found at: http://felix.

Re: How to cope with bad package

2005-06-13 Thread John Skaller
ack (not in registers). As a rule of thumb, if your tail functions have fewer than 9 arguments, you're safe. The bug is fixed in the CVS repository, 3.08 bug-fix branch. - Xavier Leroy ------- -- John Skaller, skaller at users

Re: How to cope with bad package

2005-06-12 Thread John Skaller
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 10:30 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Dim 12 Juin 2005 08:51, John Skaller a écrit : > > How should a package build script cope with a fault > > in a package used in a build? > > > > The situation: there is a fatal bug in the 'ocaml&#

How to cope with bad package

2005-06-12 Thread John Skaller
x86 works. The debian/rules can detect amd64, and there is a way to force the upstream source to not use the native code compiler. However, the problem will probably be fixed, but I cannot predict in which release of Ocaml. I propose to 'hack' debian/rules to cope. Would that be the p

Build-Recommends

2005-06-12 Thread John Skaller
native-compilers' is also installed it will do so faster, however that package is not available on all architectures. This isn't an essential feature, but here is a case, possibly isolated, where it could be useful. [There is a related problem, see next email please] -- John Skaller,

Re: RFS: Sponsor needed for em-panel-applet

2005-06-10 Thread John Skaller
.list is pointing it at an Ubuntu archive, and not a Debian one? -- John Skaller, skaller at users.sf.net PO Box 401 Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia Ph:61-2-96600850 Download Felix here: http://felix.sf.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

shlibdeps again (and a couple more questions)

2005-06-06 Thread John Skaller
e linkage and libflx_dynamic.so for compile time linkage. Hope that is right. 2) I seem to have: dpkg-buildpackage: full upload; Debian-native package (full source is included) I hope that is right too .. -- John Skaller, skaller at users.sf.net PO Box 401 Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia Ph:

shlibdeps problem

2005-06-05 Thread John Skaller
-64, flags 0x0150: HAS_SYMS, DYNAMIC, D_PAGED start address 0x00023350 -- John Skaller, skaller at users.sf.net PO Box 401 Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia Ph:61-2-96600850 Download Felix here: http://felix.sf.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Where do i put stuff?

2005-06-03 Thread John Skaller
nd the static link library in /usr/lib/felix/rtl? In the latter case where do the C include files go? This is only a sample problem. Another is: where do examples go? Felix 'example' codes should be executable, and currently, like Python, Felix writes into the directories containing sources,

Re: Request for a sponsor for Felix

2005-05-26 Thread John Skaller
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 21:33 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:44:49AM +1000, John Skaller wrote: > > > > Felix is a 'free for any use' open source advanced > Copyright (C) 2004 John Skaller. > > Felix is Free For Any Use. > &

Request for a sponsor for Felix

2005-05-26 Thread John Skaller
ease include me personally in the reply (I don't normally read this list). [CC'd to debian-ocaml-maint whose members should note that Felix is an Ocaml *application* not a library useful to ocaml programmers] -- John Skaller, skaller at users.sf.net PO Box 401 Glebe, NSW 2037, A