Re: RFS: uvcvideo -- Source for the USB Video Class (uvcvideo) webcam driver

2007-12-17 Thread Eric Cooper
s are required to compile these modules. > . > The UVC driver supports several video input devices, including the > Logitech QuickCam series, many notebook cameras, the Apple iSight, > and several others. How does this compare to the linux-uvc-source package already in the archive?

Re: [pkg-ntp] - where does /etc/default/ntpdate come from?

2007-12-18 Thread Eric Cooper
about what and how it is going on. So where does the > magic happen? dh_installinit You can run $ DH_VERBOSE=1 debian/rules build to see exactly what each debhelper program is doing. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: ifeq in an if statement

2008-01-26 Thread Eric Cooper
7;t have to clutter up the rest of the rules. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how indicate that a kernel module package is obsolete?

2008-08-13 Thread Eric Cooper
kage level, and rely on "educating users" to not use this package for recent kernels. I'd appreciate any guidance. Cheers, Eric -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Eric Cooper
s of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote > products derived from this software without specific prior written > permission. > > -- > > could be in main? (so is dfsg) Yes, this

executable scripts in debian/

2008-10-24 Thread Eric Cooper
chmod +x debian/my-script debian/my-script ... Is there a preferred approach? Thanks. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: fspanel -- minimalist panel for X (ITA #352430)

2006-02-19 Thread Eric Cooper
> Homepage: http://www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/ This page says it is no longer maintained. OTOH, there is also fbpanel in Debian, which is described as a spinoff of fspanel. Is there a need for both? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Question about packaging a kernel module

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Cooper
apt-cache rdepends module-assistant to list them. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Eric Cooper
x27;s Reference, and include a README.Debian-source file and a get-orig-source target in debian/rules? 2. Should I automate the bunzip2 & gzip in the debian/watch file? (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publish a more wasteful version of the same bits on his website just to s

Re: RFS: rootsh

2007-04-19 Thread Eric Cooper
s and terminal output to a file and/or >to syslog. It still looks like this can all be done with script + logger: $ mkfifo myfifo; logger -f myfifo & script -f myfifo -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

notifying the user about an incompatible upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Eric Cooper
rning on stderr. Use a debconf note. Send an email to root or some other system user. I'd appreciate any advice. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: scheme48 (updated package)

2007-09-09 Thread Eric Cooper
on of Scheme > scheme48-scm - Sources for the Scheme48 implementation of Scheme Why is a separate scheme48-scm package needed for the source? The long description of that package should indicate why one would want to install that (instead of "apt-get source scheme48"). -- Eric Coope

how should a daemon drop privileges in a PAM-compatible way?

2007-11-18 Thread Eric Cooper
y, so the daemon tries to create files in /tmp without permission. So, what is the correct way to do this? Is there a high level function to "change userid, groupid and do the related PAM things" that I can use, or an example program to copy? Thanks for any pointers. -- Eric Cooper

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Eric Cooper
ownloadurlmangle=s{s48.org/(.*)/download.html}{s48.org/$1/scheme-$1.tgz} \ http://s48.org/index.html (.*)/download.html You could probably tighten up the "(.*)" regexps, but the idea is to use one pattern to detect the version, and then munge that URL to get to the actual tarball. --

Re: uscan ends up with "500 Can't connect :443 (certificate verify failed)"

2012-07-09 Thread Eric Cooper
an finished > > Any idea how to successfully get the upstream source using uscan? Use downloadurlmangle to change "https" to "http". -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: tool to create .deb for proprietary software?

2012-08-23 Thread Eric Cooper
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:46:08PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Is there a tool to create a .deb from a directory of files? See the "equivs" package. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Cooper
, and then calling update-inetd. Is there a better way, or an existing package that does something similar? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Cooper
ry sensible to jettison all the code for opening sockets, binding ports, handling IPv6, handling tcp-wrappers, daemonizing processes, etc. and punt it to inetd. Since apt clients keep their connections open for many multiple, the performance hit is negligible. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m

restricting git commits to the debian subdirectory?

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Cooper
at when I'm on the master branch, I should only be allowed to commit files in the debian/ subdirectory? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

how to correct missing changelog information?

2010-07-20 Thread Eric Cooper
" and change the earlier version's entry the next time I do an upload? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive