Documentation

is there anyother documentation available on deb packaging other than packaging manual and the maint-guide??? friendly, pratik --

Documentation

is there anyother documentation available on deb packaging other than packaging manual and the maint-guide??? friendly, pratik -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > > On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > > > >>>> "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PS> when i use the

dh_installinit

while packaging cups by defualt my the etc/init.d directory is getting installed in /usr, what changes should i make to my rules file to avoid this... my rules file: #!/usr/bin/make -f # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. # GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.-- # Uncomment this to tu

Re: Unidentified subject!

On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > >>>> "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS> when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error > PS> dupload fatal error: Need host to upload to. (See --to option or the > defaul

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:10PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > > On 3 Aug 2001, Christian Marillat wrote > > > >>>> "PS" == Pratik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PS> when

TWO QUESTIONS

First Question Which one should be preferred???- dh_make or deb-make Second Question What are these diff.gz files produced during deb packaging...are they patch files so that when one upgrade the presently existing deb package then one will have to distribute only these patch files rather than

DESTDIR

what changes do i need to make to the Makefile of a package with respect to DESTDIR?? why does one need to make this changes?? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

when i use the command debrelease it gives me an error dupload fatal error: Need host to upload to. (See --to option or the default_host configuration variable) at /usr/bin/dupload line 143 i'm using progeny debian 1.0 x86. is this a bug??? if not what do i do to avoid this??? cheers pratik

DESTDIR

what changes do i need to make to the Makefile of a package with respect to DESTDIR?? why does one need to make this changes?? --

authenticity of a package

is there anyway to know that the deb package i have made is authentic...meaning is there anyway to know that the CONTENTS field in the deb package has all the files--which are installed when we follow the normal procedure ./configure, make and make install --

i can't find my /etc/*.conf files

This is my first packaging experience...i read the New Maintainers Guide and the debmake documentation...earlier i tried my hand out at making a few rpms... i tried packaging cupshowever i didn't get a satisfactory result...all the conf files that should be there in /etc/ are missingi eve