Re: debconf question.

such thing. don't use debconf for this. Use a normal File in /etc/ and point root to this file, make a man-page, etc. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux >| X-Mailer: Mo

Re: debconf question.

such thing. don't use debconf for this. Use a normal File in /etc/ and point root to this file, make a man-page, etc. Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux >| X-Mailer: Mo

Lintian report: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog?

write a mail to the lintian maintainer to change the override-file or what is the right way for this? Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developerhttp://www.debian.org PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Now let me explain why this

The right way for suid-bit-programs?!

Hello I have package a new deb-file :-) But in this package is a binary, that need a 'chmod u+s' to root because it play with ioctl system calls. (blink LEDs on the keyboard) Have we a policy for that? Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developerhttp://www.

Re: gmc-problems :-(

quot;-dev" packages too? > > It looks like it might be a bad header file? > > That would be my guess, too. > > Make sure you have up-to-date versions of lib{gnome,gtk1.1,glib}-dev > I have upload new libs and make at this time my fourth builpackage-run... I hope this

gmc-problems :-(

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Re: Strategies for packaging a Window Manager

On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 09:48:56AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I forgot to mention in my post. Even if someone else is working on it, I'd > like to try packaging it just to understand the packaging system bettwe. see http://www.debian.org/developers_corner > > > Menu support is nice

Re: 2 packages using same conffile

On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:05:43PM +, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 02:53:30PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > > If there's reason, we could try to get it into a required package, > > probably base-files. base-file is nice, but not for only one config-file. > It's really just

Re: config file handling

On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:47:33PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I do not know where to tell the app to look. However I do not feel that > > the gtkrc qualifies as a conf file. The app runs fine w/o it. All a > > gtkrc file does is change the color and pix

Re: deb-make

On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 12:04:13AM -0500, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > Is it possible to use deb-make to build a package out of a program that is > already compiled. I am going to maintain two apps, and the author uses > Imakefiles instead of make files. I can compile the apps, but have been >

Re: files not owned by root after build

On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 12:39:10AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi ! > > I have a Problem. When I make a debian package i usually do > deb-make > > build > > But when doing this logged in as ch, the files in the resulting > .deb package are owned by ch.users instead of root.root. > > I be