How to setup an apt archive?

2000-12-13 Thread Daniel Stone
Hullo World(tm). Just writing to say that I'm in the tasks and skills check, and I need to set up an apt-able archive. I have the packages and working apache, are there any docs anywhere on how to set up an apt archive? Thanks a lot! :) d

Re: How to setup an apt archive?

2000-12-13 Thread Daniel Stone
Could you please send it to me? Thanks. :) > Daniel Stone (2000-12-13 23:31:15 +1100) : > > > Hullo World(tm). Just writing to say that I'm in the tasks and skills check, > > and I need to set up an apt-able archive. I have the packages and working > > apache, are t

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
> On 20010114T010257-0600, Scott Dier wrote: > > What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? > > Those are special cases, and warrant access to our non-x86 machines. What about those with sid (me) who want access to potato and woody machines to test with weird breakages? (me) Why

(long reply) Re: NM saga (all of it - Joey, this means you)

2001-01-15 Thread Daniel Stone
(Joey, this is CC'ed to you because of the DAM bit, please take it to heart). > As I mentioned before, I have passed all tasks and skills to become a NM, I'm > just waiting DAM approval. You too? Whacky. Seems to be the tale of virtually every person in the NM queue I know. Passed P&P. Passed T&S

Re: (long reply) Re: NM saga (all of it - Joey, this means you)

2001-01-16 Thread Daniel Stone
> ++ 16/01/01 01:41 +1100 - Daniel Stone: > > Enter Debian, 2001. Democracy. (Yeah, my arse). NMs aren't allowed to spe= > ak > > a non-positive word against so-called "senior developers" because they're > > just little, unimportant NMs.=20 > > D

Request for sponsors

2001-03-05 Thread Daniel Stone
an one, have to move it to my real one since I'm not in Debian yet). Thanks a lot! :) d (please cc: me on -mentors posts, I'm not on -mentors) Daniel Stone Linux Kernel Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 G!>CS d s++:- a C++ ULS$>

Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
- Forwarded message from "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking I'm on holiday until 20.4.01

Re: Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:11:59AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > - Forwarded message from "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Out o

Re: Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Stone
I'm not sure why, but you are, so there's obviously a brilliant reason. My point was, auto-replies to lists suck. And, btw, anyone can gain this "sensitive information" just by posting to -firewall. -- Daniel Stone, who is on holiday until the 23rd of April, and is shocked

Re: What to do about old package left over from move to non-US?

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel Stone
er I would recommend splitting the package into althea (no crpyto, in ftp.debian.org), and althea-ssl (crypto, in non-US), or althea (with crypto, non-US), and althea-nossl (no crypto, in ftp.debian.org), with that simple Makefile change you suggested. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dh_installinit and dh_installkpatches questions.

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel Stone
s can't do this - does it have to be untarred? Why can't you just make up a diff, and apply that with dh_installkpatches? :) d BTW, for kernel-patch-ulog, there was no straight-out diff, so I had to apply it via patch-o-matic, and diff it against a clean source tree. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel Stone
o trouble or anything I have cat-pkg somewhere, which works quite well for me, though it's not the best - I'm looking at apt-ftparchive. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Problem with temporary package build directory removal

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Stone
an: dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp # Clean everything up afterwards. -$(MAKE) clean dh_clean So, fakeroot debian/rules clean, thoroughly cleans it. Hope this helps, :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Problem with temporary package build directory removal

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > fakeroot debian/rules clean works! > > Is this standard way of cleaning up the build directories? Yeah, it is. It calls everything under the clean: target in debian/rules - the best way to go about things. :) d -

Re: problem with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot / dh_movefiles: debian/tmp does not exist.

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Stone
d use debian/drac everywhere, instead of debian/tmp. Hope this helps, :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Package name change

2001-05-26 Thread Daniel Stone
which comes to my mind is treating the old package > as 'conflict' for the new one, but there must be a more elegant > solution!? Michael, Use Conflicts: foo, and Replaces: foo. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Upstream maintainer disagree with the package name

2001-05-26 Thread Daniel Stone
fact that it also has perl libraries, I'd be tempted to say it was a binary package with libraries. However, if its main purpose was to have those libraries, and the glade2perl binary is just a small offshoot that doesn't really matter, I'd say it was a library. Regards, :)

Re: Need help on Unlicensed packages (Themes)

2001-05-28 Thread Daniel Stone
need specific copyright and licensing from the upstream authors. paranoia was pulled from bsdgames because of an ambiguous license/copyright (it was more or less taken from a magazine article). So, I suggest contacting the upstream authors and asking for a license and copyright. Good luck! :) d --

Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-18 Thread Daniel Stone
g for libqtecasound to be removed from the archives, and make new versions of qtecasound and evawave, that have Conflicts: libqtecasound, to make sure it gets removed from systems as well. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
t; Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl-base, libwww-perl Definitely incorrect. What's happening is that shlibs is returning no dependencies, or you're not running it. If you've commented out dh_shlibdeps in your debian/rules file, then remove the ${shlibs:Depends}, section from debia

How to setup an apt archive?

2000-12-13 Thread Daniel Stone
Hullo World(tm). Just writing to say that I'm in the tasks and skills check, and I need to set up an apt-able archive. I have the packages and working apache, are there any docs anywhere on how to set up an apt archive? Thanks a lot! :) d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: How to setup an apt archive?

2000-12-13 Thread Daniel Stone
Could you please send it to me? Thanks. :) > Daniel Stone (2000-12-13 23:31:15 +1100) : > > > Hullo World(tm). Just writing to say that I'm in the tasks and skills check, > > and I need to set up an apt-able archive. I have the packages and working > > apache, are t

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
> On 20010114T010257-0600, Scott Dier wrote: > > What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? > > Those are special cases, and warrant access to our non-x86 machines. What about those with sid (me) who want access to potato and woody machines to test with weird breakages? (me) Wh

(long reply) Re: NM saga (all of it - Joey, this means you)

2001-01-15 Thread Daniel Stone
(Joey, this is CC'ed to you because of the DAM bit, please take it to heart). > As I mentioned before, I have passed all tasks and skills to become a NM, I'm > just waiting DAM approval. You too? Whacky. Seems to be the tale of virtually every person in the NM queue I know. Passed P&P. Passed T&

Re: (long reply) Re: NM saga (all of it - Joey, this means you)

2001-01-16 Thread Daniel Stone
> ++ 16/01/01 01:41 +1100 - Daniel Stone: > > Enter Debian, 2001. Democracy. (Yeah, my arse). NMs aren't allowed to spe= > ak > > a non-positive word against so-called "senior developers" because they're > > just little, unimportant NMs.=20 > > D

Request for sponsors

2001-03-05 Thread Daniel Stone
Debian one, have to move it to my real one since I'm not in Debian yet). Thanks a lot! :) d (please cc: me on -mentors posts, I'm not on -mentors) Daniel Stone Linux Kernel Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 G!>CS d s++:- a C++ ULS$>

Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
- Forwarded message from "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking I'm on holiday until 20.4.01

Re: Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:11:59AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > - Forwarded message from "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: "Graf, Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Out o

Re: Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Stone
hocked. I'm not sure why, but you are, so there's obviously a brilliant reason. My point was, auto-replies to lists suck. And, btw, anyone can gain this "sensitive information" just by posting to -firewall. -- Daniel Stone, who is on holiday until the 23rd of April, and is shocked

Re: What to do about old package left over from move to non-US?

2001-05-22 Thread Daniel Stone
er I would recommend splitting the package into althea (no crpyto, in ftp.debian.org), and althea-ssl (crypto, in non-US), or althea (with crypto, non-US), and althea-nossl (no crypto, in ftp.debian.org), with that simple Makefile change you suggested. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EM

Re: dh_installinit and dh_installkpatches questions.

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel Stone
s can't do this - does it have to be untarred? Why can't you just make up a diff, and apply that with dh_installkpatches? :) d BTW, for kernel-patch-ulog, there was no straight-out diff, so I had to apply it via patch-o-matic, and diff it against a clean source tree. -- Daniel Stone

Re: Creating a Packages and Sources file.

2001-05-24 Thread Daniel Stone
o trouble or anything I have cat-pkg somewhere, which works quite well for me, though it's not the best - I'm looking at apt-ftparchive. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with temporary package build directory removal

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Stone
an: dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp # Clean everything up afterwards. -$(MAKE) clean dh_clean So, fakeroot debian/rules clean, thoroughly cleans it. Hope this helps, :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Problem with temporary package build directory removal

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > fakeroot debian/rules clean works! > > Is this standard way of cleaning up the build directories? Yeah, it is. It calls everything under the clean: target in debian/rules - the best way to go about things. :) d -

Re: problem with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot / dh_movefiles: debian/tmp does not exist.

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Stone
/drac everywhere, instead of debian/tmp. Hope this helps, :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package name change

2001-05-26 Thread Daniel Stone
which comes to my mind is treating the old package > as 'conflict' for the new one, but there must be a more elegant > solution!? Michael, Use Conflicts: foo, and Replaces: foo. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNS

Re: Upstream maintainer disagree with the package name

2001-05-26 Thread Daniel Stone
t that it also has perl libraries, I'd be tempted to say it was a binary package with libraries. However, if its main purpose was to have those libraries, and the glade2perl binary is just a small offshoot that doesn't really matter, I'd say it was a library. Regards, :) d -- Danie

Re: Need help on Unlicensed packages (Themes)

2001-05-28 Thread Daniel Stone
need specific copyright and licensing from the upstream authors. paranoia was pulled from bsdgames because of an ambiguous license/copyright (it was more or less taken from a magazine article). So, I suggest contacting the upstream authors and asking for a license and copyright. Good luck! :) d --

Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-17 Thread Daniel Stone
bqtecasound to be removed from the archives, and make new versions of qtecasound and evawave, that have Conflicts: libqtecasound, to make sure it gets removed from systems as well. :) d -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: error when building package

2001-06-28 Thread Daniel Stone
s:Depends}, perl-base, libwww-perl Definitely incorrect. What's happening is that shlibs is returning no dependencies, or you're not running it. If you've commented out dh_shlibdeps in your debian/rules file, then remove the ${shlibs:Depends}, section from debian/control, otherwise com