Re: File names in the Debian archive: *.deb vs *_i386.deb

1999-09-16 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:06:06 -0700, Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 22:42 + 1999-09-15, Zygo Blaxell wrote: >>Is that CVS repository available to non-developers? > >% cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: File names in the Debian archive: *.deb vs *_i386.deb

1999-09-15 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On 13 Sep 1999 18:50:25 -0400, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zygo Blaxell) writes: >> Are the FTP archive maintenance scripts debian-packaged? > >No. The main one is called 'dinstall' -- it is in CVS I think but >no-one has packaged

Re: dpkg "dry-run" mode?

1999-09-15 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On 12 Sep 1999 17:06:57 -0400, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe this is FAQ. I don't have a potato machine handy where I >> work. In general, if developers want to try installing packages they >> made for "unstable" to check if it instal

Re: File names in the Debian archive: *.deb vs *_i386.deb

1999-09-10 Thread Zygo Blaxell
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:39:37 +0200, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:33:42PM +0000, Zygo Blaxell wrote: >> I've noticed that when I build a Debian package, I get a filename for >> the arch-specific parts of the package named something li

File names in the Debian archive: *.deb vs *_i386.deb

1999-09-10 Thread Zygo Blaxell
I've noticed that when I build a Debian package, I get a filename for the arch-specific parts of the package named something like "hello_1.3-14.3_i386.deb". However, in the Debian FTP archive, the same package is named "hello_1.3-14.3.deb" (with no "_i386"). Why is this? Are package files normal