Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Brett Cundal
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:06:26AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > This is the message I got from A. Bunk who handed me the package : > > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > >to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > >solu

dh_installinit and dh_installkpatches questions.

2001-05-23 Thread Viral
Hi, I am packaging mosix, which is a cluster computing tool which does fault tolerance, load balancing and process migration. It comes as 2 kernel patches. One is a standard kernel patch which I handle with dh_installkpatches. The other is a tar file, which has to be untarred in /usr/src/linux.

Re: has xabacus been adopted ?

2001-05-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > > to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > > solutions in Debian when two packages share the same file. > > OK, thanks. > > I've been look

Re: dh_installinit and dh_installkpatches questions.

2001-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also, with dh_installinit, the init.d script gets a default priority of >20. How do I change it ? > >I tried dh_installinit -- defaults s90 k10 > >It makes the debs fine, but during installation, update-rc.d grumbles of >bad parameters. Am I using the wrong syntax

Re: dh_installinit and dh_installkpatches questions.

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:18:18PM +0530, Viral wrote: > Hi, > > I am packaging mosix, which is a cluster computing tool which does fault > tolerance, load balancing and process migration. > > It comes as 2 kernel patches. One is a standard kernel patch which I handle > with dh_installkpatches. T

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:17:02PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello, > > I have a multi-binary package which produce arch-dependant .deb (binaries) > and arch-independant (documentation). [...] Check out /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi* Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I have forwarded a bug to an upstream maintainer doing the following: mail to the upstream maintainter cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc to the bug reporter I have also received a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that told me that the bug has been signed as forwarded. But on my personal bugs page (bug

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I have forwarded a bug to an upstream maintainer doing the following: > > mail to the upstream maintainter > cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc to the bug reporter > > I have also received a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that told me that > the bug

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I should probably shut up about this, but something has always bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong). Take for example /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi, The targets are like so: binary-indep: build install binary-arch: build install Both `binary-indep` and `binary-ar

using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hello all, I need help with stuff regarding a configure.in and a Makefile.am, I'm stucked trying to find a way to make the 'make install' command conditionally install some files. I want it to test if GNOME is available (it is being done in configure), if it is, make install will install aditiona

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I need help with stuff regarding a configure.in and a Makefile.am, I'm > stucked trying to find a way to make the 'make install' command > conditionally install some files. > > I want it to test if GNOME is available (it is being done in configure), > if it is, mak

Distributing a custom kernel for replicator

2001-05-23 Thread Sebastien Chaumat
Hello there, I plan to distribute a custom kernel for the installation bootdisk of replicator. This is mainly a monolitic kernel with all network cards drivers plus some networking option. My question is : can I compile this by hand and then only release the binary (along with the right .c

Re: Distributing a custom kernel for replicator

2001-05-23 Thread sharkey
> I plan to distribute a custom kernel for the installation bootdisk of > replicator. This is mainly a monolitic kernel with all network cards > drivers plus some networking option. > > My question is : can I compile this by hand and then only release the > binary (along with the right .con

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I should probably shut up about this, but something has always > bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong). > > Take for example /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi, > The targets are like so: > > binary-i

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 23 May 2001 10:52:20 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Why don't you just build-depend on the GNOME stuff so that every > architecture will have a similar package? I won't just compile the gnome stuff in it cause I don't think my little program should depend on the *

patching the kernel.

2001-05-23 Thread Viral
Hi, How does one create a kernel patch. I tried diff -r --new-files -u But the resulting patch didn't apply correctly. I also noticed that my paths were hardcoded in the patch, but I believe I can solve that by using relative paths. Either ways, whats the correct way to create a patchfile ?

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:06:01PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I have one more question... I set up new commands for distclean: and > clean: rules in my Makefile.am like this: > > distclean: > rm -f `find . -name \*~` > rm -f po/*.gmo > clean: > rm -f `find . -nam

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I need help with stuff regarding a configure.in and a Makefile.am, I'm > stucked trying to find a way to make the 'make install' command > conditionally install some files. Well, here's what one of my projects do: configure.in: ... AC_CHECK_LI

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:49:38PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > It would help if you told us the bug number you are talking about. the bug is #96254, package xstr. and this is the mail that i received after forwarding the bug: Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:18:34 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Distributing a custom kernel for replicator

2001-05-23 Thread Sebastien Chaumat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to distribute a custom kernel for the installation bootdisk of replicator. This is mainly a monolitic kernel with all network cards drivers plus some networking option. My question is : can I compile this by hand and then only release the binary (along with

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:51:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:49:38PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > It would help if you told us the bug number you are talking about. > > the bug is #96254, package xstr. oops, i made a mistake on the bug number, really sorry

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > I should probably shut up about this, but something has always > > bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong). > > > > Take for example /usr/share/doc/d

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Unfortunately some packages still use it; there are 68 packages in the > archive that build-depend on it. It's not clear that use of debmake can > be considered a bug unless it's actually broken. And really quite a few more seem to use it according to the graph somewhere on m

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:22:15AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does the policy requires this ? (I read it but it was unclear (to me:)) > > Yes, in section 5.2 (`debian/rules' - the main building script): > > `binary-arch' builds the binary packages

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:06:26AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I'm just looking for the 'better solutions' he mentions but still clueless. > Any hint ? for lib{pam,nss}-ldap i used debconf to share the common data, and just made the packages use renamed config files. it makes things easy

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:22:15AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > `binary-arch' builds the binary packages which are specific to a > > particular architecture, and `binary-indep' builds those which are > > not. > > Thanks for pointing me to /usr/share/doc/debhelpe

Re: [new package]Should all the rm scripts be ok before uploading?

2001-05-23 Thread R?mi Perrot
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:18:00PM +0200, Sebastien Chaumat wrote: > > Ok I'll find 2 tests machine. > You also may use User mode Linux to play with virtual Debian machine Rémi Perrot pgpdbhJrfP6zm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > >to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > >solutions in Debian when two packages share the same file. > > > >cu > >Adrian > > I'm just looking for the 'better s

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:42:58AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:22:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just adopted xabacus. > > > > It conflicts with xmabacus because both try to install > > the same config file /etc/X11/app-defaults/Abacus. > > > maybe usi

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:11:48PM -0700, Brett Cundal wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:06:26AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > This is the message I got from A. Bunk who handed me the package : > > > > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > > >to rem

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:30:13PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:06:26AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > I'm just looking for the 'better solutions' he mentions but still clueless. > > Any hint ? > > for lib{pam,nss}-ldap i used debconf to share the common data, a

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:49:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > > >to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > > >solutions in Debian when two packages share the sam

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > It seems the best solution indeed. Is there a way to know if a package has > been purged ? dpkg --test-purge ? You'll have to play with dpkg -s | grep Status: I guess -- see shy jo

Re: has xabacus been adopted ?

2001-05-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > > to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > > solutions in Debian when two packages share the same file. > > OK, thanks. > > I've been loo

Re: dh_installinit and dh_installkpatches questions.

2001-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also, with dh_installinit, the init.d script gets a default priority of >20. How do I change it ? > >I tried dh_installinit -- defaults s90 k10 > >It makes the debs fine, but during installation, update-rc.d grumbles of >bad parameters. Am I using the wrong syntax

Re: dh_installinit and dh_installkpatches questions.

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:18:18PM +0530, Viral wrote: > Hi, > > I am packaging mosix, which is a cluster computing tool which does fault > tolerance, load balancing and process migration. > > It comes as 2 kernel patches. One is a standard kernel patch which I handle > with dh_installkpatches.

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:17:02PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello, > > I have a multi-binary package which produce arch-dependant .deb (binaries) > and arch-independant (documentation). [...] Check out /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi* Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I have forwarded a bug to an upstream maintainer doing the following: mail to the upstream maintainter cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc to the bug reporter I have also received a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that told me that the bug has been signed as forwarded. But on my personal bugs page ([E

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I have forwarded a bug to an upstream maintainer doing the following: > > mail to the upstream maintainter > cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc to the bug reporter > > I have also received a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that told me that > the bug

using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Hello all, I need help with stuff regarding a configure.in and a Makefile.am, I'm stucked trying to find a way to make the 'make install' command conditionally install some files. I want it to test if GNOME is available (it is being done in configure), if it is, make install will install adition

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I need help with stuff regarding a configure.in and a Makefile.am, I'm > stucked trying to find a way to make the 'make install' command > conditionally install some files. > > I want it to test if GNOME is available (it is being done in configure), > if it is, ma

Distributing a custom kernel for replicator

2001-05-23 Thread Sebastien Chaumat
Hello there, I plan to distribute a custom kernel for the installation bootdisk of replicator. This is mainly a monolitic kernel with all network cards drivers plus some networking option. My question is : can I compile this by hand and then only release the binary (along with the right .

Re: Distributing a custom kernel for replicator

2001-05-23 Thread sharkey
> I plan to distribute a custom kernel for the installation bootdisk of > replicator. This is mainly a monolitic kernel with all network cards > drivers plus some networking option. > > My question is : can I compile this by hand and then only release the > binary (along with the right .co

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I should probably shut up about this, but something has always > bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong). > > Take for example /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi, > The targets are like so: > > binary-

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 23 May 2001 10:52:20 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Why don't you just build-depend on the GNOME stuff so that every > architecture will have a similar package? I won't just compile the gnome stuff in it cause I don't think my little program should depend on the

patching the kernel.

2001-05-23 Thread Viral
Hi, How does one create a kernel patch. I tried diff -r --new-files -u But the resulting patch didn't apply correctly. I also noticed that my paths were hardcoded in the patch, but I believe I can solve that by using relative paths. Either ways, whats the correct way to create a patchfile ?

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:06:01PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I have one more question... I set up new commands for distclean: and > clean: rules in my Makefile.am like this: > > distclean: > rm -f `find . -name \*~` > rm -f po/*.gmo > clean: > rm -f `find . -na

Re: using conditionals in autoconf/automake

2001-05-23 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I need help with stuff regarding a configure.in and a Makefile.am, I'm > stucked trying to find a way to make the 'make install' command > conditionally install some files. Well, here's what one of my projects do: configure.in: ... AC_CHECK_L

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:49:38PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > It would help if you told us the bug number you are talking about. the bug is #96254, package xstr. and this is the mail that i received after forwarding the bug: Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 05:18:34 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Distributing a custom kernel for replicator

2001-05-23 Thread Sebastien Chaumat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I plan to distribute a custom kernel for the installation bootdisk of >>replicator. This is mainly a monolitic kernel with all network cards >>drivers plus some networking option. >> >> My question is : can I compile this by hand and then only release the >>binary

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:51:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:49:38PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > It would help if you told us the bug number you are talking about. > > the bug is #96254, package xstr. oops, i made a mistake on the bug number, really sorr

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > I should probably shut up about this, but something has always > > bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong). > > > > Take for example /usr/share/doc/

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > Unfortunately some packages still use it; there are 68 packages in the > archive that build-depend on it. It's not clear that use of debmake can > be considered a bug unless it's actually broken. And really quite a few more seem to use it according to the graph somewhere on

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:22:15AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does the policy requires this ? (I read it but it was unclear (to me:)) > > Yes, in section 5.2 (`debian/rules' - the main building script): > > `binary-arch' builds the binary packages

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:06:26AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I'm just looking for the 'better solutions' he mentions but still clueless. > Any hint ? for lib{pam,nss}-ldap i used debconf to share the common data, and just made the packages use renamed config files. it makes things easy

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:22:15AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > `binary-arch' builds the binary packages which are specific to a > > particular architecture, and `binary-indep' builds those which are > > not. > > Thanks for pointing me to /usr/share/doc/debhelp

Re: [new package]Should all the rm scripts be ok before uploading?

2001-05-23 Thread R?mi Perrot
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:18:00PM +0200, Sebastien Chaumat wrote: > > Ok I'll find 2 tests machine. > You also may use User mode Linux to play with virtual Debian machine Rémi Perrot PGP signature

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > >to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > >solutions in Debian when two packages share the same file. > > > >cu > >Adrian > > I'm just looking for the 'better

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:42:58AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:22:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just adopted xabacus. > > > > It conflicts with xmabacus because both try to install > > the same config file /etc/X11/app-defaults/Abacus. > > > maybe us

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:11:48PM -0700, Brett Cundal wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:06:26AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > This is the message I got from A. Bunk who handed me the package : > > > > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > > >to re

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:30:13PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:06:26AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > I'm just looking for the 'better solutions' he mentions but still clueless. > > Any hint ? > > for lib{pam,nss}-ldap i used debconf to share the common data,

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:49:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > >It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is > > >to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better > > >solutions in Debian when two packages share the sa

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > It seems the best solution indeed. Is there a way to know if a package has been >purged ? dpkg --test-purge ? You'll have to play with dpkg -s | grep Status: I guess -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-23 Thread Viral
Hi, If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to my homepage, how do I make the required Packages and Sources files so that the packages can be used with apt-get ? viral -- I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from > Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the > network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap. What architecture? > I've managed to > activate and