Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:50:16PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote: > > > Why is it going to contrib? Last time I checked packages without > > source went in non-free, not contrib. > > Because source is in fact provided (it's in the iraf-common > package, actually, full binaries are in iraf-ibin and

Re: signing packages built on va

1998-03-11 Thread john
I wrote: > I have a package that I'm going to have to build on va. That's fine, but > how am I to sign it? Jens writes: > a) download both the files which need to be signed, sign them on you > homesystem, put them back. When I run build, it asks me for my passphrase and then does the signing. I

my kde packages

1998-03-11 Thread Stephan Kulow
Hi! I packaged the latest KDE snapshots as debian packages. I have some questions about it: - should the libraries go into /usr/X11R6/lib or /usr/lib? Currently it's in /usr/lib, because this is default, since /usr is my prefix. But since the binaries are in /usr/X11R6, I thought, it may b

Re: my kde packages

1998-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 03:06:06PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote: > Hi! > > I packaged the latest KDE snapshots as debian packages. > > I have some questions about it: > - should the libraries go into /usr/X11R6/lib or /usr/lib? > Currently it's in /usr/lib, because this is default, since > /us

Re: signing packages built on va

1998-03-11 Thread Amos Shapira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Jens writes: |> a) download both the files which need to be signed, sign them on you |> homesystem, put them back. | |When I run build, it asks me for my passphrase and then does the signing. |I guess you are telling me not to use build? You can pass "-uc" and "-us" flags

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 08:56:14AM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Sorry, I'm not sure you have the right impression of contrib here. Contrib > > packages have to qualify the same standards as the main distributio

Re: signing packages built on va

1998-03-11 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:12 -0600 1998-03-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a package that I'm going to have to build on va. That's fine, but >how am I to sign it? Copy the .dsc and .changes file to a local machine, sign the .dsc file first, then md5sum it, and use that md5 sum to fix the sum for the .dsc file i

Re: signing packages built on va

1998-03-11 Thread john
Joel Klecker writes: > BTW, don't forget to pass the -uc and -us arguments to dpkg-buildpackage, > otherwise it will try to sign the files as part of the build process. Ok. 'build -rfakeroot -uc -us' works, but I'm getting 'Warning: Unusual executable location /' from debstd. The package builds

Re: my kde packages

1998-03-11 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Kulow) writes: > - Can I create debian packages as a user? I've heared about something > called fakeroot, but couldn't find it so far, so I create them while > beeing root. I would even prefer to create them using a user's prefix > instead of the later used. How w