dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi mentors, I've an upstream archive which contains two dangling symlinks and I obviously want them not to be part of the final binary package, whick is the best solution? I try to remove them but the .diff.gz seems to not consider this fact, so when I extract the debianized source tree the

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:03:33PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi mentors, > I've an upstream archive which contains two dangling symlinks and I > obviously want them not to be part of the final binary package, whick is > the best solution? > > I try to remove them but the .diff.gz se

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Why do you need to remove them? As long as they are not installed > into the binary package it is not a problem. right! but these files resides in an example dir that is installed as whole and I don't wont to specify on a file by fi

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Stefano! On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Why do you need to remove them? As long as they are not installed > > into the binary package it is not a problem. > > right! but these files resides in an example dir

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:28:11AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > for i in debian/tmp/...examples/* ; do [ -r "$i" ] && rm -f "$i" ; done > That might do it... well, good hint! (inverting the test obviously or I remove all 'good' files ...) Tnx Cheers -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <

looking for sponsor

2001-08-20 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi there, I have written a libc name service switch (NSS) module that uses the PostgreSQL database as its backend and packaged it for use in debian systems. Because I work very much with Debian GNU/Linux (in fact I almost use Debian exclusively) I would like to contribute to the project and become

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:14:57PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Why do you need to remove them? As long as they are not installed > > into the binary package it is not a problem. > > right! but these files resides in an exam

packages signing

2001-08-20 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hello. I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and .dsc (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later? -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Re: packages signing

2001-08-20 Thread Chris Danis
> On 21 Aug 2001, "Alexander" == Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: Alexander> Hello. Alexander> I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and Alexander> .dsc (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later? Yup. debsign, from the devscripts package, should allow you to do exactl

Re: packages signing

2001-08-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
> I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and .dsc > (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later? Sure. Just do a debsign .changes. Cheers, -- Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8] pgp2avMdr2EGK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:30:36AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > right! but these files resides in an example dir that is installed as > > whole and I don't wont to specify on a file by file basis which file > > have to be installed ... > > OK.. so install the files and then remove them from de

Moving packages to non-US.

2001-08-20 Thread Viral
Hi, I have to move my packages gutenbook and gutenbrowser to non-US because of a dependency on unzip. I'd slipped up on that, and got a bug report to do so. How would I move the packages ? Do I file a bug report against ftp-master for removing the packages from main explaining the case, and uploa

dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi mentors, I've an upstream archive which contains two dangling symlinks and I obviously want them not to be part of the final binary package, whick is the best solution? I try to remove them but the .diff.gz seems to not consider this fact, so when I extract the debianized source tree the

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:03:33PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi mentors, > I've an upstream archive which contains two dangling symlinks and I > obviously want them not to be part of the final binary package, whick is > the best solution? > > I try to remove them but the .diff.gz s

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Why do you need to remove them? As long as they are not installed > into the binary package it is not a problem. right! but these files resides in an example dir that is installed as whole and I don't wont to specify on a file by f

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Stefano! On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Why do you need to remove them? As long as they are not installed > > into the binary package it is not a problem. > > right! but these files resides in an example dir

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:28:11AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > for i in debian/tmp/...examples/* ; do [ -r "$i" ] && rm -f "$i" ; done > That might do it... well, good hint! (inverting the test obviously or I remove all 'good' files ...) Tnx Cheers -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli

looking for sponsor

2001-08-20 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi there, I have written a libc name service switch (NSS) module that uses the PostgreSQL database as its backend and packaged it for use in debian systems. Because I work very much with Debian GNU/Linux (in fact I almost use Debian exclusively) I would like to contribute to the project and become

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:14:57PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Why do you need to remove them? As long as they are not installed > > into the binary package it is not a problem. > > right! but these files resides in an exa

packages signing

2001-08-20 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hello. I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and .dsc (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later? -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages signing

2001-08-20 Thread Chris Danis
> On 21 Aug 2001, "Alexander" == Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: Alexander> Hello. Alexander> I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and Alexander> .dsc (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later? Yup. debsign, from the devscripts package, should allow you to do exact

Re: packages signing

2001-08-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
> I wonder if I can build a package without signing .changes and .dsc > (e.g. debuild -us -uc) and sign them later? Sure. Just do a debsign .changes. Cheers, -- Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8] PGP signature

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:30:36AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > right! but these files resides in an example dir that is installed as > > whole and I don't wont to specify on a file by file basis which file > > have to be installed ... > > OK.. so install the files and then remove them from d

Moving packages to non-US.

2001-08-20 Thread Viral
Hi, I have to move my packages gutenbook and gutenbrowser to non-US because of a dependency on unzip. I'd slipped up on that, and got a bug report to do so. How would I move the packages ? Do I file a bug report against ftp-master for removing the packages from main explaining the case, and uplo