Re: [C++] popen and ofstream(int) with g++ 3.0

>> Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have some trouble with tela. When compiling with g++ 3.0, there is > no ofstream(int) function (as in STL). This gives a problem when > using popen(), as it returns a FILE*, and tela then uses an ofstream > to read from the process. I've used

Re: [C++] popen and ofstream(int) with g++ 3.0

>> Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have some trouble with tela. When compiling with g++ 3.0, there is > no ofstream(int) function (as in STL). This gives a problem when > using popen(), as it returns a FILE*, and tela then uses an ofstream > to read from the process. I've used

Re: lame (again!)

>> Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like clarify the reason for lame not being included in the debian > archives, not even non-US. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package IIRC your questions are addressed there. -- Marcelo | Mustrum Ridcully did a lot for

Re: lame (again!)

>> Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like clarify the reason for lame not being included in the debian > archives, not even non-US. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package IIRC your questions are addressed there. -- Marcelo | Mustrum Ridcully did a lot for

Re: package must upgrade another

>> Peter Novodvorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > abiword-expat \ This packages contain binaries of abiword on without > abiword-xml / libxml support and one with it. > abiword-common Common part of packages above. > > Many user's don't know about abiword-expat and abiword-xml because

Re: package must upgrade another

>> Peter Novodvorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > abiword-expat \ This packages contain binaries of abiword on without > abiword-xml / libxml support and one with it. > abiword-common Common part of packages above. > > Many user's don't know about abiword-expat and abiword-xml becaus

Re: Maintaining login.app

>> Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:09:32AM -0500, Warren A. Layton écrivait: > > Recently, I spotted login.app on the WNPP page, which needs a new > > maintainer. > > Since I use this program a lot, I think this would be ideal. > > Unfortunately, the

Need help with shlibs.local

Hi, this is driving me nuts and I want to fix it once and for all. wmaker (src) builds several binary packages, among them, libwraster1 and libwraster1-dev. The wmaker packages (wmaker, wmaker-gnome and wmaker-kde) all should depends on libwraster1, with proper versioning if necessary

Re: Bug#37573: wmaker cannot save state

>> "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > rename("/var/tmp/.7J82HT", "/home/pot/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState") = -1 > EXDEV > | > (Invalid cross-device link) Ok, I fixed a problem in libproplist using tempnam(3) but

Re: Library packages, libtool and automake.

On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 01:20:08AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr > > -mkdir shared static > > # > > # First build the shared library > > cd shared ; \ > > $(MAKE) -f ../Makefile VPATH=".." srcdir=".." \ > >

lists-archives: ownership of files

Hi, in the last two weeks I've been working with netgod's lists-archives package. Some people told me wmf would be a more adequate choice for list archiving software, I looked at it, but I still like mhonarc's approach better. [ oh, btw, this is on debian-mentors because I'm packaging lists-

Re: Updating packages before being developer

On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:07:14PM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > I'm not yet a developer [...] > > I'm wondering what will happen when I try upload the new packages to master? > Some are not -1 version anymore, and some already have newer upstream > versions, > meaning that the changelog are n

how to tell a dangling symlink?

Hi, is: file -b dangling_symlink | grep -q '^broken symbolic link to' a good way to test for a dangling_symlink? I'm worried about locales... Thanks, Marcelo

Re: Bug#35781: samba has no pristine source.

On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 06:16:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > 1. dpkg-source supports pristine source. Is Eloy aware of this? (I'm not > completely sure when he says that "samba_2.0.3.orig.tar.gz must untar in > samba-2.0.3.orig"). Because some really really really old version of the packaging

Re: Becoming a new Developer

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Chris McKillop wrote: > Well, I am finally getting around to applying to become a > developer so I can help out Jim on the ARM port. How long does it > usually take for the developer application to be processed? I have > heard depressing comments o

A package depends on a library built from the same source... how?

Hi, I've been bitten by this multiple times, and everytime I think I've got it right, I find myself fixing it again. Package foo and package libbar2 both come from source package foo. foo depends on libbar2... how do I get it right the first time? Is there any example _known_ to wor

Re: how to make a library?

On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 04:36:52PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > libtool is not an option. need another solution. Read the docs anyway. The docs say _how_ to build a library, not just how to build a library using libtool. Marcelo

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

Hi Stephane, On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:05:43PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > "Using CVS together with Debian GNU/Linux packages" > suggests another solution, based > on CVS. It seems very nice (I use CVS for other projects) but I did not > use it for

Re: Conventions for library naming

On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 06:14:40PM +0100, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: > It is easy to patch the script, but it would be better to know where the > error is: should the gmp2-dev package provide a symlink named libgmp.so, > or should the maintainers of the script change it to also look for > libgmp2.so? I

Re: Conventions for library naming

On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:12:45AM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Great, thanks! > http://www.mozart-oz.org/download/srctar.shtml in mozart/aclocal.m4, look for OZ_CHECK_LIB_PATH(gmp, mpz_init, and change that to OZ_CHECK_LIB_PATH(gmp2, mpz_init, I had to download and unpack m

Re: Conventions for library naming

>> Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It that's a normal configure script, look in configure.in for something > > like: > > > >AC_CHECK_LIB (gmp2, ...) > > > > and change it; then run autoconf. > > Alas, this tactic has been tried... and has failed in its purpose. > If k

Re: Conventions for library naming

On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:08:59PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Are you sure you don't mean that the script is checking for libgmp.so? > This is the problem I ran into when I looked at packaging it. > Of course you can set up local symlinks, but that is not the answer. > I grepped my heart out bu

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:54:15AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 01:24:51PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > > Any package which uses the GNU toolchain can be build in multiple > > directories like this: > > > > mkdir debian/build-no-x; cd debian/build-no-x; ../../configure --dis

wmaker has a critical problem while updating alternatives

Hi, Like I stated in a previous message of mine, I'm having trouble with diversions. This seems to be the situation: > lagrange:~# md5sum /usr/X11R6/bin/asclock* /usr/X11R6/man/man1/asclock* > b706384a5d65706fab204e10b2da0558 /usr/X11R6/bin/asclock > b706384a5d65706fab204e10b2da0558 /u

Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?

On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:58:51AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Hmm, I note that the cvs-buildpackage package creates a new .orig.tar.gz > file. If it were *that* important, surely this standard debian tool > would have a way to deal with the issue? cvs-buildpackage is anything but standard. Yes

Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?

On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:56:52PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > I have a packages where the source is distributed i zipfiles with only > one-case 8.3 filenames (yuck). Everything in the sources uses > filenames which differs in case. what shall I do? Ugh... What exactly is this package? zip doe

Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?

On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 10:55:36AM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > Beside these changed names, the vdk-0.5.1.orig.tar.gz is identical with > the original archive and I get just one warning from lintian (for the > way I format the Description text). Peter is correct. Just a small note: it is VERY

Re: Version specific packages

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:32:13PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > If I have _only_ gri-VERSION_VERSION packages, then they will > never be upgraded automatically. I don't really want this. > > I may simply take the dependence line out of the control file, > considering that it's not desirable

Re: Version specific packages

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:54:57AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Description: a language for scientific graphics programming. [...] /me fetches gri... nope, it's not in the distribution. Are the .deb's available somewhere? > gri_2.2.0 contains the a lot more stuff (HTML and postscript manual

Re: Version specific packages

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:42:11AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Sure. Gri is a programming language in the same sense as > gnuplot. [ Out of curiosity, what exactly does gri do? ] > But if the `replaces: gri-VERSION' line will confuse some Debian packaging > scripts, then I will remove it

diversions!? arrrgghhh!!!!

Hi, I'm dealing with a bug in wmaker and it's becoming quite frustrating. First some background info: * Back in the old days of wmaker 0.6.3, it included /usr/X11R6/bin/asclock; the afterstep package also included it. The previous mantainer of wmaker added a diversion for that file,

Re: mh-book compressed html files

On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:47:40PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I wrote the script only to then realize that netscape and lynx > _cannot_ substitute compressed "file:/" URLs, but only "http://"; > URLs (it's most probably the apache server doing it for them > transparently anyway). The serve

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 09:23:12PM +0100, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > I am about to build some packages of astronomical databases to be used > with Elwood Downey's XEphem, packaged by Frank Jordan for slink. Since > some of these databases are quite large I would like to hear what people > think a

Re: is this a bashism?

Hi John, On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:48:59PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A script consisting only of those two lines will return 1, and so it > should. It will do so for bash or ash. It would do so for the Bourne > shell. Ok. This is the shortest script that exhibits this: #! /bin/sh

is this a bashism?

#!/bin/sh -e [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ] && update-menus I've got a bug report that says it is. Ash bails out with exit status 1 if update-menus doesn't exist. Marcelo

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 08:41:54AM -0800, Oscar Levi wrote: > I'd let this drop, but I think I'm gonna learn somthing. > > How is it that you created files owned by root without ever changing > your uid to root? > > fakeroot chown root.root FILENAME > > doesn't do it, right? No, it doesn't

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:19:46AM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to package my first set of libs. I am doing this from my > account with fakeroot. The problem is that this way, the process stops > with the following error: Just in case... 1) In this case the Makefile should

Re: Source uploads.

On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 08:44:14PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > If you build with 'build', then the orig.tar.gz is not included > in the upload if the debian version number is > 1 . > 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -sa' , which forces the source to be > included in the upload. $ build

Re: Maybe I broke xfstt?

On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:38:35AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > if grep -q '^no-start-xfstt$' /etc/X11/config > > > > This way you're sure the ^ and $ aren't interpreted (when I started > > using Unix, ^ could be used instead of the pipe symbol...). > > Well I didn't write that part...a

Re: wmakerconf in slink

Hi Enrico, On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 10:04:32AM +0200, Enrico Cherubini wrote: > Hi, > I DL'ed gnome and wmaker (and related libs) and wmakerconf and iinstalled > them yesterday...I have to say you that there is a problem in wmakerconf > andwmakerconf-data packages: the are both dependent. Here is

Re: Why is "1" appended to package name?

On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 05:27:03PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > When I ran deb-make on my package source, it appended a "1" to the package > name in debian/control, for example. Why does deb-make do this? > > e.g: package is "ace1" instead of "ace" because you told deb-make that

Re: Mirroring sid and slink/hamm sources

On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:27:18PM -0700, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Can I have two keys? (I already got one of my own). > > Is there any 'rsync' account? Are you running the cronjob as root? generate a new key, put it under some sensible name (rsync.master.debian.org, something like that), and

Re: LAM packaging [update]

On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:40:52AM +, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy] wrote: > Solution: prepatch the source with the untarred patches. Is this OK? Yes, but it will make the .diff.gz bigger, I guess. > Problem: this package has an overlapping man page with mpich [another > implementation of message

Where to gtkrc-type files go?

/etc/something.gtkrc (or something like that) or /usr/share/something/something.gtkrc (OSLT) Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: afterstep modules

On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 10:39:22AM +, Joseph Carter wrote: > Both versions of afterstep provide asclock, wharf, etc. They are even ^^^ There's a debian package for Asclock 1.0R10. I *do* think afterstep modules shou

Re: WIndow manager policy question

On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 11:58:21PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Enclosed is my script. All functionality but the --ask (or noask) is > there. Please send comments/questions/complaints my way. Sorry Marcelo > I did it in Perl (-: Hey, nice! I enclose a modified version (with --ask). Don't be sorry,

Re: Window manager policy question

On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 01:32:31PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Dumb question -- how do you get sh or what not to take long options (the > --add type options you mentioned). Or even perl. I have never written > an app that used them. Always used -foo or foo. In bash there's getopts (I don't know if

Re: WIndow manager policy question

On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 12:42:13PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > I just recieved a bug report on Enlightenment asking for me to put it in > /etc/X11/window-managers. Fairly confident that touching another > packages files would be wrong, what is the correct way to get E into > this file? Or should my p

Re: New maintainer - intent to package LAM 6.1

On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 10:18:10AM +, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy] wrote: > The Extreme Linux CD contains GPL'd softwsre packaged as .rpms and .srpms. > Most of the CD is standard Red Hat 5.1: three or four specialist packages > [beotools, kernel config, modified kernel sources] are _only_ availabl

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

On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:50:35PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > >can I use IO::Handle::new_tmpfile in an Perl script that's run on > > postinst? The package has to Predepend on perl, right? > > Why not just depend on debianutils (>= 1.6) and use the tempfile > command? There's nothing wrong

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

Hi, can I use IO::Handle::new_tmpfile in an Perl script that's run on postinst? The package has to Predepend on perl, right? I'll use this tempfile to modify a conffile (it *has* to be modified, it's not an option)... what's the proper way of moving the file back into place? I think: sy

Re: Definition: "Gold CD"

On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 12:57:19PM +0200, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > What does "Gold CD" mean? > It isn't the color of the CD I think .. ;) It's in fact the color... no kidding! Have you seen the media used by CD writers? It's gold. Well, not really gold, but a compound. In fact, right now, I'm h

Re: New release of iptraf

On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 06:27:57PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > So I have cfconv that can be launched to upgrade config files. It's a job > for postinst, no problem, my question is : Since cfconv is useless after > postinst, can I move it to /usr/doc/iptraf/ with a word in README.Debian > sayin

Re: closing bug#21739 + #22912 in xfstt

On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 03:33:22AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -ok...is this right? sounds right to me. > The question arose over the last bug when someone said that the bug was > against a version in stable (and hamm) but since the version with the fix > is going into slink (unstable) the

Re: updates to upstream packages

On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:58:07AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Eh? The use of .orig.tar.gz pre-dates the use of pristine source > significantly. Often there is no way to make certain alterations to > the upstream source other than to alter the .orig.tar.gz (i.e. if you > want to mass-remove or a

Re: updates to upstream packages

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 06:51:11PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > tmancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Put another way: "Am I going to mess up any of the automated scripts > > processing the archive if I make changes to the .orig.tar.gz without > > giving it a new name?" > > No. James is ri

Re: updates to upstream packages

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:00:25AM -0400, tmancill wrote: > This explains why dpkg did not complain when I added manpages. The file > I'm trying to include is a binary file (of sorts - it's an extra version > of the Sangoma firmware). you can uuencode it, and make debian/rules uudecode it on bui

How to move a directory?

Hi, I have this problem: wmaker 0.14.1-6 had some files in /etc/X11/WindowMaker/Styles, but wmaker 0.15.1-0 has the same files in /usr/share/WindowMaker/Styles. What do I do with the leftovers? The old files where tagged as conffiles, but after some thinking, and reorganization of the

Re: /usr/share?

On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 05:02:10PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Marcelo> Ian (I think) said one of the goals for slink would be not > Marcelo> to repeat what happened with hamm, that is, packages from > Marcelo> hamm can't be installed on bo without heavy upgrading, if at > Marcelo> all. >

Re: /usr/share?

On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 01:15:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > It uses GNU autconf's pkgdata dir idea. That's means it puts things > >> > in /usr/share/WindowMaker (in fact, I've seen quite a few packages > >> > doing this, which is, IMO, against policy) > > Why is that? Wh

Re: /usr/share?

On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 11:52:18PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > It uses GNU autconf's pkgdata dir idea. That's means it puts things > > in /usr/share/WindowMaker (in fact, I've seen quite a few packages > > doing this, which is, IMO, against policy) > > I thought policy only said you could

/usr/share?

WindowMaker 0.15.0 has been released, and it contains a number of non FSSTND complaint locations. It uses GNU autconf's pkgdata dir idea. That's means it puts things in /usr/share/WindowMaker (in fact, I've seen quite a few packages doing this, which is, IMO, against policy) Up until 0.14.1

Re: Bug#21315: wmaker: Fails to configure before xbase

On 17 Apr 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Setting up wmaker (0.14.1-2) ... > Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) > Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) > grep: /etc/X11/window-managers: No such file or directory > Do you want to make WindowMaker the default window mana

Re: Packaging imlib

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > On a different aspect, both libraries use the same conffiles. The > question is that given that I want to enable people to have any > combination of shared libraries, the conffiles have to belong to both > the gdk and the x version. How do I g

Re: Utillity for generating Packages?

On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, George Bonser wrote: > And so now I learn about the overrides files ... maintaining a Debian > tree is sure a lot of work. Looks like I need to start building some > release maintainance tools. If you build your local packages in the "proper" way, you don't need an override f

Re: Where to put xpm icons?

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Paul J Thompson wrote: > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the answer to this question > /usr/X11R6/include/pixmaps? It's /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps... check Contents-i386 before adding files there, to avoid collisions between packages.