Re: Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols

2016-12-02 Thread Eriberto
Hi lumin, 2016-12-02 14:36 GMT-02:00 lumin : > Hi mentors, > > I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when > the mangled C++ symbols are unstable. > > I'm maintaining a package named "Caffe". I migrated the same > source from experimental

Re: Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols

2016-12-02 Thread Ross Gammon
On 02/12/16 18:11, Jérémy Lal wrote: 2016-12-02 18:08 GMT+01:00 Ghislain Vaillant : On 02/12/16 16:36, lumin wrote: Hi mentors, I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when the mangled C++ symbols are unstable. I'm maintaining a package named "Caffe". I mi

Re: Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols

2016-12-02 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when >the mangled C++ symbols are unstable. maintaining symbols on C++ projects is a nightmare. and do subsequent uploads is done also by qt* folks (see e.g. qtbase uploads). You can consider however some things, e.g. m

Re: Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols

2016-12-02 Thread Jérémy Lal
2016-12-02 18:08 GMT+01:00 Ghislain Vaillant : > On 02/12/16 16:36, lumin wrote: >> >> Hi mentors, >> >> I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when >> the mangled C++ symbols are unstable. >> >> I'm maintaining a package

Re: Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols

2016-12-02 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 02/12/16 16:36, lumin wrote: Hi mentors, I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when the mangled C++ symbols are unstable. I'm maintaining a package named "Caffe". I migrated the same source from experimental to unstable, and it FTBFS'ed as you se

Maintaining C++ library symbols control file with unstable mangled symbols

2016-12-02 Thread lumin
Hi mentors, I need advise on the way maintaining symbols control file when the mangled C++ symbols are unstable. I'm maintaining a package named "Caffe". I migrated the same source from experimental to unstable, and it FTBFS'ed as you see at [0], due to the mangled C++ symb

Re: odd Vcs-Git pointer in control file, package fortune-zh

2015-02-05 Thread lumin
Thank you for advise, Russ Allbery and Paul Wise. I'll try it later :) -- Regards, C.D.Luminate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1423134462.2546.1

Re: odd Vcs-Git pointer in control file, package fortune-zh

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:37 PM, lumin wrote: > This is the 1.10's changelog part: > 1 fortune-zh (1.10) unstable; urgency=low > 2 > 3 * QA upload. ... > 12 -- Emanuele Rocca Mon, 20 Jan 2014 > 23:14:42 +0100 As it was a QA upload and Emanuele R

Re: odd Vcs-Git pointer in control file, package fortune-zh

2015-02-03 Thread Russ Allbery
lumin writes: > I'm a very newbie trying to adopt a package, according to the Debian new > maintainer's guide. My target package is now "fortune-zh", as it seems > to be very simple to work with (to fix chinese character typo that I > noticed). > In the 1.10 version (jessie, unstable) of fortun

odd Vcs-Git pointer in control file, package fortune-zh

2015-02-03 Thread lumin
Hi, I'm a very newbie trying to adopt a package, according to the Debian new maintainer's guide. My target package is now "fortune-zh", as it seems to be very simple to work with (to fix chinese character typo that I noticed). In the 1.10 version (jessie, unstable) of fortune-zh, I found this lin

Re: pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs triggered by a private shared library

2014-01-11 Thread 陳昌倬
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 10:22:29PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > > "pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs is sometimes > triggered for packages with a private shared library due to a bug in > Debhelper" > > That seems to have bitten me.

pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs triggered by a private shared library

2014-01-04 Thread T o n g
Hi, > "pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs is sometimes triggered for packages with a private shared library due to a bug in Debhelper" That seems to have bitten me. E: zh-autoconvert: pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs W: zh-autoconvert:

[GSoC] Different control files when building for different architectures (Was: blends-dev gsoc 2013, debian/control file)

2013-06-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'd like to rephrase this question a bit (and also fixed the spacing of my quote in my example query below a bit which was somehow spoiled a bit). We found a way to create a set of debian/control. files. What would you consider the best way to make sure to bring the correct control file

blends-dev gsoc 2013, debian/control file

2013-06-25 Thread Emmanouil Kiagias
metapackages for Blends and thus now we have to deal me the syntax of the debian/control file. Here is the part of the discussion[2]: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > > --architecture: This is more complex. Finally we want to build *one* > >

Parsing single debian/control file using python-debian

2012-04-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm unsure whether this might be the proper mailing list to ask questions like this - but I have no better idea. I intend to parse some machine readable files in some team maintained packages. When trying something like ctrl = open('debian/control','r') for ctrlstanza in deb822.Packag

Re: Control file Vcs fields

2011-10-21 Thread Gergely Nagy
Tony Houghton writes: > I'm a bit confused about the Vcs fields in Control files. Many projects > have the upstream code and debian packaging maintained separately and > I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do with the Vcs fields in > that case. Should they point to upstream or the packa

Re: Control file Vcs fields

2011-10-21 Thread Josue Abarca
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:10:06PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > I'm a bit confused about the Vcs fields in Control files. Many projects > have the upstream code and debian packaging maintained separately and > I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do with the Vcs fields in > that case. Sho

Control file Vcs fields

2011-10-21 Thread Tony Houghton
I'm a bit confused about the Vcs fields in Control files. Many projects have the upstream code and debian packaging maintained separately and I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do with the Vcs fields in that case. Should they point to upstream or the packaging? How can tools, such as deb

Re: Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2011-06-11 Thread Amit Raj Gupta
Hi, I have a compiled kernel module for the specific kernel version and I want to create a deb package for it. I want to run "depmod -aeF /boot/System.map-$kvers $kvers" in postinst script. How can I define kvers in control file and access it in postinst script? I am using cons to c

Re: Renaming multiple packages in a single control file

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 01:21:20AM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Hello > With a couple of other folks following ITP #424905, I am trying to > get a newer version of MAME, the arcade emulator in debian. We have > now a working package and I am trying to understand how to properly > create virtual

Renaming multiple packages in a single control file

2010-12-11 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Hello With a couple of other folks following ITP #424905, I am trying to get a newer version of MAME, the arcade emulator in debian. We have now a working package and I am trying to understand how to properly create virtual package since we have to deal with a rename in upstream ( The Unix Por

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thomas Goirand writes: > > > > Srpm does have Build-Depends, right? > > MfG > Goswin > > Sure! It's called BuildRequires: in the spec files. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Goirand writes: > - Original message - >> We were talking about dpkg-parsechangelog. >> >> MfG >>                Goswin > > Are you saying that dpkg-parsechangelog must also be available in RedHat like > distros? Sorry, I didn't get it, but now I think you are quite right.

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-04 Thread Ignacio Valdes
nd say: can you make this easier to do cross-platform work with both > these package systems like linux filesystem standard? > > DEBIAN is roughly equivalent to SPECS: change to a common third like PACK. > SOURCES is practically the same as the root of DEBIAN, change to a > common sch

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
- Original message - > We were talking about dpkg-parsechangelog. > > MfG >                Goswin Are you saying that dpkg-parsechangelog must also be available in RedHat like distros? Sorry, I didn't get it, but now I think you are quite right. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Goirand writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Then change that. :) >> >> We have rpm in Debian. Let them have dpkg. >> >> MfG >> Goswin > > As much as I know, dpkg and debootstrap are both available as RPM > packages for CentOS. But that doesn't mean you can use dpkg to instal

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Then change that. :) > > We have rpm in Debian. Let them have dpkg. > > MfG > Goswin As much as I know, dpkg and debootstrap are both available as RPM packages for CentOS. But that doesn't mean you can use dpkg to install stuffs on your system. RPM and dpkg

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Goirand writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > Thomas Goirand writes: > > > > then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like: > > > > > MY_VERS=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | > cut -d'-' -f1` > MY_DEB_REL=`head

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
Russ Allbery wrote: Thomas Goirand writes: then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like: MY_VERS=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | cut -d'-' -f1` MY_DEB_REL=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')'

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like: > MY_VERS=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | > cut -d'-' -f1` > MY_DEB_REL=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | > cut -d'-' -f2` > MY_PKGNAME=`head -n 1 d

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-01 Thread Ignacio Valdes
. Unify control file and spec header names they are practically the same thing. -- IV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
ause it can access the spec file header information this is > pretty easy to do. For deb this looks like I am going to have to parse > the control file to get this information out. Is there any bash > control file parsers out there? > No, parsing the control file might be dangerous, there&#x

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-04-30 Thread Ignacio Valdes
within the instance directory tree in a known location in order to facilitate recovery and maintenance (this last part is already worked out). rpm because it can access the spec file header information this is pretty easy to do. For deb this looks like I am going to have to parse the control file

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 11:12:57 Ignacio Valdes wrote: > So I am gathering that whereas it is repugnant to the dpkg design > scheme to do it, but for the sake of rpm reconciliation the thread > subject question: accessing control file values in postinst is not > simple to do other tha

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ignacio Valdes wrote: > rpm doesn't. I am going through the joy of trying to reconcile the two > systems so as to not have two divergent code bases as much as > possible. > > -- IV > And I can't believe that any policy for any RPM based distro is advising to print such useless information. IMHO,

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ignacio Valdes [100430 18:04]: > rpm doesn't. I am going through the joy of trying to reconcile the two > systems so as to not have two divergent code bases as much as > possible. Sorry to say it that harsh: I doubt anyone here will be able to help you. We are focused on doing high-quality Debi

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-04-30 Thread Ignacio Valdes
So I am gathering that whereas it is repugnant to the dpkg design scheme to do it, but for the sake of rpm reconciliation the thread subject question: accessing control file values in postinst is not simple to do other than with major changes like sed pre-processing and such? Is that the

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Ignacio Valdes
rpm doesn't. I am going through the joy of trying to reconcile the two systems so as to not have two divergent code bases as much as possible. -- IV On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> echo "The package: %{Package}-%{Version} is now installed." >> >> How would one

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Kris Deugau
Ignacio Valdes wrote: Required to produce versions for both rpm and deb. No introspection means not easy to convert this from rpm to deb which is where this started. This would make it much easier to produce both deb and rpm versions if it has the ability to introspect those variables. If all

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
d want to factor things a bit. Maybe you could >> suggest some modifications to the maintainer of the RPM package so you >> can share changes with him later on. > > That is pretty much what I have been doing. But how about something as > simple as accomplishing this in postinst

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 April 2010 07:48:59 Ignacio Valdes wrote: > That is pretty much what I have been doing. But how about something as > simple as accomplishing this in postinst using the control file > variables? > > echo "The package: %{Package}-%{Version} is now installed.

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Ignacio Valdes
> suggest some modifications to the maintainer of the RPM package so you > can share changes with him later on. That is pretty much what I have been doing. But how about something as simple as accomplishing this in postinst using the control file variables? echo "The package: %{Package}-%{

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ignacio Valdes wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Ignacio Valdes wrote: It is a very complex, large package. Does anyone know the mechanics of doing introspection in postinst for the control file defined variables

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ignacio Valdes writes: > So there is no cross-compatibility between debian control file and rpm > spec file for introspecting their respective package variables? There is no cross-compatibility between Debian package building and RPMs at all. They are not even remotely similar systems

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Ignacio Valdes
So there is no cross-compatibility between debian control file and rpm spec file for introspecting their respective package variables? -- IV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Ignacio Valdes
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Ignacio Valdes wrote: >> It is a very complex, large package. >> Does anyone know the mechanics of doing introspection in postinst for >> the control file defined variables? >> > Exactly why the postinst g

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ignacio Valdes wrote: > It is a very complex, large package. > Does anyone know the mechanics of doing introspection in postinst for > the control file defined variables? > Exactly why the postinst generation method that has been given as a (pretty good) solution would not w

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Ignacio Valdes
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ignacio Valdes writes: >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Ignacio Valdes writes: > >>>> So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as >>>> Pac

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ignacio Valdes writes: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Ignacio Valdes writes: >>> So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as >>> Package: in postinst? >> Generally, you don't, since generally there'

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Ignacio Valdes
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ignacio Valdes writes: > >> So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as >> Package: in postinst? > > Generally, you don't, since generally there's no reason to do so.  I can't

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ignacio Valdes writes: > So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as > Package: in postinst? Generally, you don't, since generally there's no reason to do so. I can't say I've ever had any reason to want to do that in any of the Debian packa

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-29 Thread Ignacio Valdes
So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as Package: in postinst? What is the usual method of accessing user-defined control file values such as XC-branding in postinst? I would have presume that using variables such as %{Package} or %{branding} in postinst would have

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ignacio Valdes writes: > Hi, I want to define a variable such as package_initials in control > file and be able to access %{package_initials} in postinst file. Do I > define it in control file as: > > XC-package_initials: the_initials > > or some other way? > > -- IV

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-24 Thread Ignacio Valdes
Have to package two .deb flavors as well as two .rpm versions. Can do this with rpm using .rpmmacros but looking for the equivalent in .deb. Is this not possible? The manuals seem to indicate that it is but not exactly how. -- IV On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Why do you wa

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
Why do you want to do this? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/r2ke13a36b31004242037j5fcea87r1cb00d808f

Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?

2010-04-24 Thread Ignacio Valdes
Hi, I want to define a variable such as package_initials in control file and be able to access %{package_initials} in postinst file. Do I define it in control file as: XC-package_initials: the_initials or some other way? -- IV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > >> X: slv2: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/bin/lv2_jack_host succesfully >> successfully >> X: slv2: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/bin/lv2_simple_jack_host succesfully >> successfully > > These two you need to tell upstr

Re: no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-10 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Paul Wise > You should only run that manually to create the initial symbols file, > dh_makeshlibs should take care of running the right dpkg-gensymbols > call during the build process. > In addition you generally need to strip the Debian version from each > symbol as explained by the linti

Re: no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > I put this line to my debian/rules: > > dpkg-gensymbols -plibslv2-9 -Olibslv2-9.symbols You should only run that manually to create the initial symbols file, dh_makeshlibs should take care of running the right dpkg-gensymbols call during the

Re: no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-10 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Paul Wise > > I: libslv2-9: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libslv2.so.9.1.1 > > > > Can someone advice me please how satisfied lintian? > > First, make sure you have read and understood libpkg-guide: > > http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-gu

Re: no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
eir spelling error. Patching the source code for this is optional since it is such a minor issue, if you wanted to be pro-active you could make a patch and send it upstream. > I: libslv2-9: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libslv2.so.9.1.1 > > Can someone advice me please how satisfied linti

no-symbols-control-file

2009-04-09 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Hello mentors, I have this output for lintian -IE X: slv2: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/bin/lv2_jack_host succesfully successfully X: slv2: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/bin/lv2_simple_jack_host succesfully successfully I: libslv2-9: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libslv2.so.9.1.1 Can

Re: use version-number in control file?

2005-07-06 Thread Markus Schulz
Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 11:57 schrieb Adeodato Simó: > * Markus Schulz [Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:48:01 +0200]: > > Depends: other-packages-from-source-pckg (>=replace current version > > variable) > >(>= ${Source-Version}) thanks, works fine. Markus Schulz

Re: use version-number in control file?

2005-07-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Markus Schulz [Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:48:01 +0200]: > Depends: other-packages-from-source-pckg (>=replace current version variable) (>= ${Source-Version}) -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 The easy way is the wrong way, an

use version-number in control file?

2005-07-06 Thread Markus Schulz
Hello, i want to use the current version number in package build process replaced in my control file. Is this possible? I have 10 packages build from my source package and one of them is an meta package which installs most of the other packages cause of Depends on them. Now i want to integrate

Re: Control File

2002-10-04 Thread Roland Mas
Zeno Davatz (2002-10-04 11:13:59 +0200) : > On 2.10.2002 19:28 Uhr, "Simon Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The "i" in front of the comma. >> >> Simon > Thanks. Do you have an idea why my Debian still wants to install > apache-common when I make apt-get install php4? Maybe because php

Re: Control File

2002-10-04 Thread Roland Mas
Zeno Davatz (2002-10-04 11:13:59 +0200) : > On 2.10.2002 19:28 Uhr, "Simon Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The "i" in front of the comma. >> >> Simon > Thanks. Do you have an idea why my Debian still wants to install > apache-common when I make apt-get install php4? Maybe because ph

Re: Control File

2002-10-04 Thread Zeno Davatz
On 2.10.2002 19:28 Uhr, "Simon Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "i" in front of the comma. > > Simon Thanks. Do you have an idea why my Debian still wants to install apache-common when I make apt-get install php4? My control file is now (sorry the

Re: Control File

2002-10-04 Thread Zeno Davatz
On 2.10.2002 19:28 Uhr, "Simon Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "i" in front of the comma. > > Simon Thanks. Do you have an idea why my Debian still wants to install apache-common when I make apt-get install php4? My control file is now (sorry the

Re: Control File

2002-10-04 Thread Zeno Davatz
On 2.10.2002 19:28 Uhr, "Simon Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "i" in front of the comma. > > Simon Thanks. Do you have an idea why my Debian still wants to install apache-common when I make apt-get install php4? My control file is now: Sou

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Zeno Davatz
On 2.10.2002 19:28 Uhr, "Simon Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "i" in front of the comma. > > Simon Thanks. Do you have an idea why my Debian still wants to install apache-common when I make apt-get install php4? My control file is now: Sou

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Simon Richter
Zeno, On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Zeno Davatz wrote: > > Watch out for syntax errors happening by using vi. :-) > Sorry I am a newbie. Where are they? The "i" in front of the comma. Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 pgpsGxM16bNno.pg

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Simon Richter
Zeno, On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:56:33PM +0200, Zeno Davatz wrote: > Source: apache-ssl-ywesee > Section: web > Priority: optional > Maintainer: ywesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)i, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-7 ), > libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2.woody.1 ), openssl (>= 0

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven LUTHER: > Mmm, is Provides a superset of Replaces, or do you have to specify both They simply have different semantics. It's better not to conflate them. -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:05, Zeno Davatz wrote: > > If I do apt-get install php4 > > My Debian still asks me to install apache-common - Why? > > Thanks for your help. > > Zeno Because php4 depends on a version of apache-common and Provides does not help with version depends. As I commented

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
rovides says "for all intents and purposes treat me as this other package when doing depends checks". So if package foo has file /etc/bar which used to be in package bar you say Replaces: bar. If package foo or package bar can be installed to satisfy the same depends you put a Provide

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Zeno Davatz
;. The "Replaces" is not needed. Did not work: my control file is now: Source: apache-ssl-ywesee Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: ywesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)i, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-7 ), libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2.wo

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:29:46PM +0100, David Given wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:56, Zeno Davatz wrote: > [...] > > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl > > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces > &g

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:56, Zeno Davatz wrote: > > My Debian tells me that I need to install apache-common. > > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces > apache, apache-

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread David Given
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:56, Zeno Davatz wrote: [...] > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces > apache, apache-common, apache-ssl All Replaces: does is ensure that if you install a

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Simon Richter
Zeno, On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Zeno Davatz wrote: > > Watch out for syntax errors happening by using vi. :-) > Sorry I am a newbie. Where are they? The "i" in front of the comma. Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 msg07391/pgp00

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Simon Richter
Zeno, On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:56:33PM +0200, Zeno Davatz wrote: > Source: apache-ssl-ywesee > Section: web > Priority: optional > Maintainer: ywesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)i, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-7 ), > libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2.woody.1 ), openssl (>=

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven LUTHER: > Mmm, is Provides a superset of Replaces, or do you have to specify both They simply have different semantics. It's better not to conflate them. -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:05, Zeno Davatz wrote: > > If I do apt-get install php4 > > My Debian still asks me to install apache-common - Why? > > Thanks for your help. > > Zeno Because php4 depends on a version of apache-common and Provides does not help with version depends. As I commente

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
rovides says "for all intents and purposes treat me as this other package when doing depends checks". So if package foo has file /etc/bar which used to be in package bar you say Replaces: bar. If package foo or package bar can be installed to satisfy the same depends you put a Provide

Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Zeno Davatz
Hi List My control file for our Apache-SSL-ywesee looks like this: Source: apache-ssl-ywesee Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: ywesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)i, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-7 ), libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2.woody.1 ), op

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Zeno Davatz
;. The "Replaces" is not needed. Did not work: my control file is now: Source: apache-ssl-ywesee Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: ywesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)i, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-7 ), libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2.wo

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:29:46PM +0100, David Given wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:56, Zeno Davatz wrote: > [...] > > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl > > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces > &g

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:56, Zeno Davatz wrote: > > My Debian tells me that I need to install apache-common. > > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces > apache, apache-

Re: Control File

2002-10-03 Thread David Given
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:56, Zeno Davatz wrote: [...] > Why do the dependency-manager not know that I already got apache-ssl > installed. I wrote in my control file that apache-ssl-ywesee replaces > apache, apache-common, apache-ssl All Replaces: does is ensure that if you install a

Control File

2002-10-03 Thread Zeno Davatz
Hi List My control file for our Apache-SSL-ywesee looks like this: Source: apache-ssl-ywesee Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: ywesee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)i, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-7 ), libssl0.9.6 (>= 0.9.6c-2.woody.1 ), op

Re: blank lines in control file

2002-04-16 Thread Alexandre
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:46:44PM +0200, Daniel Lutz wrote: > Well, this is actually a bug in dpkg-gencontrol. This bug was reported > as #56056 and then closed, but it seems that this bug appeared again > in a newer version of dpkg-dev. Thanks. I'll file in a new bug report on dpkg-dev. Alexa

Re: blank lines in control file

2002-04-16 Thread Alexandre
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:46:44PM +0200, Daniel Lutz wrote: > Well, this is actually a bug in dpkg-gencontrol. This bug was reported > as #56056 and then closed, but it seems that this bug appeared again > in a newer version of dpkg-dev. Thanks. I'll file in a new bug report on dpkg-dev. Alex

Re: blank lines in control file

2002-04-13 Thread Daniel Lutz
s file contains version-independent details about the source package and about the binary packages it creates. It is a series of sets of control fields, each syntactically similar to a binary package control file. The sets are separated by one or more blank lines. The first set is inform

blank lines in control file

2002-04-13 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Well, this is not a question. I've just spent several hours wondering what the matter was with a package which refused to build. rules was failing with the following message: dpkg-gencontrol: error: per-package paragraph 1 in control info file is missing Package line I searched the archive, and f

Re: blank lines in control file

2002-04-13 Thread Daniel Lutz
s file contains version-independent details about the source package and about the binary packages it creates. It is a series of sets of control fields, each syntactically similar to a binary package control file. The sets are separated by one or more blank lines. The first set is inform

blank lines in control file

2002-04-13 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Well, this is not a question. I've just spent several hours wondering what the matter was with a package which refused to build. rules was failing with the following message: dpkg-gencontrol: error: per-package paragraph 1 in control info file is missing Package line I searched the archive, and

Re: control file question

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > Hi Julian! > > > > The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture > > > but > > > different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: > > > > Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: >

Re: control file question

2001-06-20 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > Hi Julian! > > > > The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but > > > different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: > > > > Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: > > >

Re: control file question

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > Hi Julian! > > > > The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture > > > but > > > different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: > > > > Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: >

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