Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 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.

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-24 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 m

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Chris Danis
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote: Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to my homepage, how do I Viral> make the required Packages and Sources files so that the packages Viral> can be used with apt-get ? Assuming you have apt >> 0.5.0, man apt-ftparchive. ftparc

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:41:38AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote: > > Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to my homepage, how do I > Viral> make the required Packages and Sources files so that the packages > Viral> can be used w

question on a licence

2001-05-24 Thread Noel Koethe
Hello, i want to package drac ( http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/index.html ) a pop-before-smtp tool. But I don't know if the licence is free for the Debian Free Software Guidelines ( http://www.de.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines ). Here is it: $ less COPYRIGHT /* * Copyright Univer

Re: question on a licence

2001-05-24 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Noel! You wrote: > But I don't know if the licence is free for the Debian Free Software > Guidelines ( http://www.de.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines ). > * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on > * any computer system, and to alter it and redistr

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:46:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Bill Allombert wrote: > > The way I set up the Makefile > > (like in example/rules.multi) when I do a debian/rules > > binary-indep(or arch), the build target is made and the whole > > packa

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Viral
I'd like to thank everyone for responding to my question. I used dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources :) Thanks, viral On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:41:38AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote: > > Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to

Re: question on a licence

2001-05-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Noel Koethe | $ less COPYRIGHT | /* | * Copyright University of Manitoba 1998. | * Written by J. Gary mills | * | * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on | * any computer system, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, | subject | * to the following

Re: patching the kernel.

2001-05-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. The usu

Fwd: [postmaster@wap.hu: User Quota Exceeded]

2001-05-24 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi! Any ideas what this means? How can I exceed my quota when one of my packages gets to the main site? -- Regards Abraham Laura's Law: No child throws up in the bathroom. ___ Abraham vd Merwe [ZR1BBQ] - The Debian Project P.O. Box 34

Re: Fwd: [postmaster@wap.hu: User Quota Exceeded]

2001-05-24 Thread sharkey
I don't think this refers to you. I think someone subscribed to debian-devel-changes has a full inbox and the mail server is bouncing the error to all senders, i.e. you. Eric > --4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" > Content-Disposition: inline > > >

Re: Fwd: [postmaster@wap.hu: User Quota Exceeded]

2001-05-24 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:24:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't think this refers to you. I think someone subscribed to > debian-devel-changes has a full inbox and the mail server is bouncing the > error to all senders, i.e. you. And it's not just d-d-changes, it's on other lists

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-24 Thread Nate Duehr
It's PowerPC-based. FYI. On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:42:07AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > 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

Package Orphanalization

2001-05-24 Thread Brett Cundal
Hi, I'm interested in a package (gnu-smalltalk, specifically) whose maintainer appears to be inactive (on this package, at least)... I would be willing to maintain the package if possible, but I'm not currently a Debian maintainer... Can I package something and see if the current maintainer will

Re: Package Orphanalization

2001-05-24 Thread sharkey
> I'm interested in a package (gnu-smalltalk, specifically) whose maintainer > appears to be inactive (on this package, at least)... > > I would be willing to maintain the package if possible, but I'm not > currently a Debian maintainer... Can I package something and see if the > current maintaine

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Chris Danis
> On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote: Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to my homepage, how do I Viral> make the required Packages and Sources files so that the packages Viral> can be used with apt-get ? Assuming you have apt >> 0.5.0, man apt-ftparchive. ftpar

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:41:38AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote: > > Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages to my homepage, how do I > Viral> make the required Packages and Sources files so that the packages > Viral> can be used

question on a licence

2001-05-24 Thread Noel Koethe
Hello, i want to package drac ( http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/index.html ) a pop-before-smtp tool. But I don't know if the licence is free for the Debian Free Software Guidelines ( http://www.de.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines ). Here is it: $ less COPYRIGHT /* * Copyright Unive

Re: question on a licence

2001-05-24 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Noel! You wrote: > But I don't know if the licence is free for the Debian Free Software > Guidelines ( http://www.de.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines ). > * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on > * any computer system, and to alter it and redist

Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

2001-05-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:46:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Bill Allombert wrote: > > The way I set up the Makefile > > (like in example/rules.multi) when I do a debian/rules > > binary-indep(or arch), the build target is made and the whole > > pack

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Viral
I'd like to thank everyone for responding to my question. I used dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources :) Thanks, viral On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:41:38AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, "Viral" == Viral wrote: > > Viral> If I have uploaded experimental pacakages t

Re: question on a licence

2001-05-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Noel Koethe | $ less COPYRIGHT | /* | * Copyright University of Manitoba 1998. | * Written by J. Gary mills | * | * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on | * any computer system, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, | subject | * to the following

Re: patching the kernel.

2001-05-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. The us

Fwd: [postmaster@wap.hu: User Quota Exceeded]

2001-05-24 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi! Any ideas what this means? How can I exceed my quota when one of my packages gets to the main site? -- Regards Abraham Laura's Law: No child throws up in the bathroom. ___ Abraham vd Merwe [ZR1BBQ] - The Debian Project P.O. Box 3

Re: Fwd: [postmaster@wap.hu: User Quota Exceeded]

2001-05-24 Thread sharkey
I don't think this refers to you. I think someone subscribed to debian-devel-changes has a full inbox and the mail server is bouncing the error to all senders, i.e. you. Eric > --4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" > Content-Disposition: inline > > >

Re: Fwd: [postmaster@wap.hu: User Quota Exceeded]

2001-05-24 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:24:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't think this refers to you. I think someone subscribed to > debian-devel-changes has a full inbox and the mail server is bouncing the > error to all senders, i.e. you. And it's not just d-d-changes, it's on other lists

Package Orphanalization

2001-05-24 Thread Brett Cundal
Hi, I'm interested in a package (gnu-smalltalk, specifically) whose maintainer appears to be inactive (on this package, at least)... I would be willing to maintain the package if possible, but I'm not currently a Debian maintainer... Can I package something and see if the current maintainer will

Re: Package Orphanalization

2001-05-24 Thread sharkey
> I'm interested in a package (gnu-smalltalk, specifically) whose maintainer > appears to be inactive (on this package, at least)... > > I would be willing to maintain the package if possible, but I'm not > currently a Debian maintainer... Can I package something and see if the > current maintain

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-24 Thread Nate Duehr
It's PowerPC-based. FYI. On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:42:07AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > 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 > > networ