Re: creating a debian package that doesn't require compiling...

ier than that: dpkg-deb -c filename.deb | less Also useful is dpkg-deb -I filename.deb | less (package information). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: orig.tar.gz

't matter. Quite a lot of my packages have .orig.tar.gz which unpack into directories with no version number at all, and sometimes even a different name. eg geda-gschem unpacks just as 'gschem/'. regards Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: orig.tar.gz

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > >

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

ndard names now (in the past they did not). So, just rename the original to .orig.tar.gz and use it, in most cases. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Internal compiler error

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: > First of all, i believe you should compile 2.2.17 with gcc version 2.7.2 I compile my 2.2 kernels with gcc 2.95.2, no problem. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

ic as possible. Imagine if the first 26 packages were named a through z, just because they could be and they were first come first served? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:38:15PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I disagree. The policy is to avoid namespace polution, which means > > that package names should be as specific as possible. Imagine if > > the first 26 pack

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:36:31PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, so call it water-demo or waterdemo or something along those lines. > > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and > > saw

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

0d UR 2 k00l f0r me. Perhaps a more interesting question is `does this sort of program belong in Debian at all?' Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

te it in the first place, just licensed it or purchased the company (AFAIK). But then, "Access" is a funny name for a database too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Tales from the NM front: pools, queues and broken packages

do a full > source upload only *once* for a given upstream version of a package. If you > try a second full-source upload, it will fail. Which, IMHO, is a good thing. Previously, .orig.tar.gz could change without any version number changing. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL P

Re: XF86 configuration

-- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

been > able to find anything about this in the packaging manual. By the way, Linux 2.4 does not need isapnp either as it is built in I think. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

orld. There are some circumstances where it is necessary but they are not too common these days. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

. I don't know what the solution is to satisfy cvs-buildpackage. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

#x27; on the package to see if dinstall will be happy. Looks like dinstall is in the default path on auric. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

ainers. For obvious reasons it is not on the web! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dpkg-genchanges cannot open upload file

I have never seen it leave them there. The .diff.gz, .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .deb, and .changes should all end up in the build parent. Perhaps you could run dpkg-buildpackage (or at least the dh_builddeb or equivalent part) through strace? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dupload on debian machines?

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:56:42PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > and yes, I have a dupload.conf in that directory and a > ~/.dupload.conf: Weird. dupload(1) says that should work. It's a perl script, so maybe you can debug it? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

lly he will have time to finish your application after that, maybe next week. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

ke Debian. No, Debian (a software project) is about developing an OS, not about providing access to machines. The machines are only a tool for developing the distribution. They are not that exciting, either. Seen one Debian box, seen them all. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

ult, if not impossible, to work on debian without a local installation. Although there are plenty of developer-accessible .debian.org machines, most developers don't have root access to install any new packages they have developed.. and you should certainly be installing a package before uploading it.

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:06:48PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Jan 15, Hamish Moffatt scribbled: > > No, Debian (a software project) is about developing an OS, not > > about providing access to machines. The machines are only a tool > > for developing the distrib

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:37:21PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > If he has root access on his Suse box, I think a chroot Debian > environment might work out if he's careful. Good point. If his work allows it.. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

. There was certainly no sponsorship back then. I'm not suggesting you don't apply.. but given that it will take some time to be processed, you might as well spend the time productively. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

will allow anonymous FTP uploads, but the uploads will not actually be processed and installed into Debian without a PGP or GPG signature from a Debian developer. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP bug closing

; new revision is the right thing, right? > > No, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body: > close 81745 Or [EMAIL PROTECTED], with an explanation in the text. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP bug closing

lly sends the upload announcement to [EMAIL PROTECTED] IIRC. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Virtual Packages

I don't think that applies. So, go ahead and use fwbuilder-frontend etc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: how to build debugging binaries

e the Debian policy czars intend to make an announcement about this on debian-devel[-announce] when it's in a released version of policy, because I've never heard it mentioned on debian-devel before. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dpkg-statoverride sucks

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:02:16PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > dpkg-statoverride is only for the sysadmin to change things *from* > their normal settings. But that doesn't explain why it says the directory doesn't exist.. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Caught in the act

ner of both packages you even don't need to write that > policy down. Just make sure it works as expected. BUT if they are conffiles then you MAY NOT DO THIS EVER!! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fwd: xmorph_20000428-2_i386.changes REJECTED

me bug. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Build-Depends

rg/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84871&repeatmerged=yes The submitter assumed that my build-dep for libglib-dev was unnecessary because I was also depending on libgtk1.2-dev. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Porting of non-free packages

building stuff. It's got OpenBSD on it currently. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

dit them, can't it refer to them in the original location? If it is going to edit them, it needs to copy the files themselves, not the links. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Do I need 'unstable' for development?

There is no requirement that new packages work on old releases. New packages should be linked against the latest libraries. On the other hand, it would be nice if the latest libc6 was occasionally backwards compatible. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Undocumented binary

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:00:31AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > can't file a bug, since the package is not in debian[1] not true; you can file bugs against non-existent packages. IIRC. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: m68k compilation, account needed ?

m68k running unstable here. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dpkg-builpackage doesn't include executable file

> installs it there. That depends entirely on your DH_COMPAT setting, if using debhelper. Installing into debian/tmp used to be the standard method, and AFAIK still is if DH_COMPAT is undefined. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mistake in maintainer field

> be regenerated automatically when I update the packages? It will be automatically regenerated. regards Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mistake in maintainer field

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:03:09PM +0300, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > No, just go ahead and change it. An upload is considered an NMU > > if the name in the changelog entry does not match the Maintainer > > field in the control file. As long as you ch

Re: dh_testroot ?

was standard practise before we had fakeroot. I suppose when you were building as root (non-fake), you would end up with directories owned by root, so it made sense that you would need root access to clean up as well. Now it's just an annoyance. Only the binary target needs root access. Hamish -

Re: dh_testroot ?

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:50:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Now it's just an annoyance. Only the binary target needs root access. > > Not quite. The clean target still should run as root unless you're building > with fakeroot. For a variety

Re: Adding device file to /dev.

d and section: base. Is it necessary for packages to declare an explicit dependency in that case? Admittedly, it's not essential: yes. Nor is libc6. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: porting problem and how to request help

However since I have no idea what any of these tools do I didn't get very far. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How do I control ownership of installed package files?

ion. However, no changes are made on disk. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: About NM, email and spam

hey're coming from two different people. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: About NM, email and spam

oc.com. Would you think MS would release an Outlook update that would address this in some way? It's not exactly a new trick. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: About NM, email and spam

cros that the macros may be viruses. Outlook could look for attachments which have executable extensions and do the same thing. Or maybe MS could get out of the habit of hiding file extensions. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: About NM, email and spam

some sort of protective environment which means it can't do much damage. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Creation of tmp directory with buildpackage

l -d debian/tmp > $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp > > Is this right or just lucky? It doesn't look right. Your two packages (otcl1 and otcl-dev) can't share the same tmpdir. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Creation of tmp directory with buildpackage

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:18:41PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Saturday 28 July 2001 5:24 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > It doesn't look right. Your two packages (otcl1 and otcl-dev) can't > > share the same tmpdir. > > Erm, why not? Surely the job of dh_mov

Re: Python upgrade: need help regarding package renaming

packages. But I don't see how you can make this conditional on idle being installed previously. The above will force idle-python1.5 to be installed. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

as they are not installed into the binary package it is not a problem. regards, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

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 thes

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

ng of your package description for cogito, the name GIT (the version control system) doesn't seem to mean anything in particular. So renaming it would not be a big loss. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: conventions for packaging.

(is mtr?); do these really belong in the menu system? None of my command line driven stuff have menu files (guavac, atp, ...) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replie

Re: conventions for packaging.

enu system to tell the menu system to do this though because it would not be supported by the various X window managers (not without a lot of work, anyway). Right? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au

Re: conventions for packaging.

chine and does less work but bandwidth isn't always spectacular; seems okay right now though. Logins are the same on va (va.debian.org) as on master. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PG

Re: Getting started - Q about post int procedures etc.

hat _.orig.tar.gz? hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61

Re: Signature problem ...

aintainer one, you don't sign it ? As Manoj says it uses the name of the last developer's entry in debian/changelog for the username for pgp. The developer key ring won't help -- you need the developer's private key to sign something and would you believe, they're not in

Re: Building "sublanguages" from gcc

ience, or lots of mine at least (and I got it from other examples). Not to run make, but to install things from subdirectories. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of

Re: lintian warnings (help)

hat config-bar is on the path? Although that is reasonable for /usr/sbin, if the path has changed as you hypothesise then perhaps the new path is not. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP

Re: waiting time in incoming queue

red in hamm. Then they get delayed; I don't understand why, but 9 days so far for a package which exists with exactly the same components in hamm/contrib already. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.

Re: Greetings and RHIDE

for DOS it wasn't a bad way to go. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org pgp9H7Fh2J8NY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using ssh for ftp to master

ormal ftp > command from the ssh-agent shell, but I am asked to login just as if I > was not using ssh. Don't use FTP; instead, use scp (which works like rcp, but is on ssh). dupload can be configured to use it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: FHS query

system admin's use (for third party packages usually); Debian, being the OS vendor, can't touch it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Find the display

even on the console. X is a network protocol, after all. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Find the display

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > I need to restart sawfish, because sawfish crash each times a user upgrade > sawfish. unstable is unstable... And experimental is in project/experimental. Consider it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL

Re: Find the display

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 01:11:57AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > echo " WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG" I suggest you spelling WARNING correctly! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNS

Re: Section of deb packages not in Debian

t will always be out of date -- at the very least you will need to update the debian/changelog when building the package. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

start up again and I have > to drive over to the system. I have never seen sshd be stopped during an upgrade. I do all my upgrades via ssh. And if something like ssh does go down, there's always a dialup modem line. I've kept one on a remotely deployed machine of mine just for this rea

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

dable or obfuscated. The language lets you do either, and that's a good thing. (Trust me, I use VHDL daily and it's very verbose; sometimes I like nice terse Perl.) The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:08:38PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. > > Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place. If there

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 05:56:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lets see, some regular used feature in Perlk is to use the return > value of a funktion thats stored in $_ or somthing. Sure, you CAN do that in Perl, but you don't have to. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[E

Re: dh_installmanpages: used -p but got man pages in other package too?

nstallmanpages -N nut-doc -p nut" Try -Nnut-doc -pnut; no spaces. debhelper(1) does not show any spaces. You should only need -pnut, and not -Nnut-doc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Accepted ways when upstream author insists on using MANPATH env var?

rograms to make them work within the Debian environment; that's where Debian adds value versus compiling from source IMHO. Regards Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on "Bug#74171: recommends nonexistent package"

recommendations. Again there was no discussion of this mass bug-filing campaign on debian-devel, as Debian's policy and manuals require. (Unless I missed it and the discussion, which I doubt.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSU

Re: Installing files in /etc

ve never understood why an absolute path is needed for that command. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: orig.tar.gz

't matter. Quite a lot of my packages have .orig.tar.gz which unpack into directories with no version number at all, and sometimes even a different name. eg geda-gschem unpacks just as 'gschem/'. regards Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: creating a debian package that doesn't require compiling...

ier than that: dpkg-deb -c filename.deb | less Also useful is dpkg-deb -I filename.deb | less (package information). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: orig.tar.gz

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > >

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

ndard names now (in the past they did not). So, just rename the original to .orig.tar.gz and use it, in most cases. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Internal compiler error

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:07:04PM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: > First of all, i believe you should compile 2.2.17 with gcc version 2.7.2 I compile my 2.2 kernels with gcc 2.95.2, no problem. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBS

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

ic as possible. Imagine if the first 26 packages were named a through z, just because they could be and they were first come first served? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

0d UR 2 k00l f0r me. Perhaps a more interesting question is `does this sort of program belong in Debian at all?' Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

te it in the first place, just licensed it or purchased the company (AFAIK). But then, "Access" is a funny name for a database too. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tales from the NM front: pools, queues and broken packages

do a full > source upload only *once* for a given upstream version of a package. If you > try a second full-source upload, it will fail. Which, IMHO, is a good thing. Previously, .orig.tar.gz could change without any version number changing. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL P

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:38:15PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I disagree. The policy is to avoid namespace polution, which means > > that package names should be as specific as possible. Imagine if > > the first 26 pack

Re: ITP: water -- A graphical water effect demo.

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:36:31PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, so call it water-demo or waterdemo or something along those lines. > > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and > > saw

Re: XF86 configuration

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Re: seperate dependencies for architectures

been > able to find anything about this in the packaging manual. By the way, Linux 2.4 does not need isapnp either as it is built in I think. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

orld. There are some circumstances where it is necessary but they are not too common these days. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

. I don't know what the solution is to satisfy cvs-buildpackage. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

#x27; on the package to see if dinstall will be happy. Looks like dinstall is in the default path on auric. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

ainers. For obvious reasons it is not on the web! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-genchanges cannot open upload file

I have never seen it leave them there. The .diff.gz, .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .deb, and .changes should all end up in the build parent. Perhaps you could run dpkg-buildpackage (or at least the dh_builddeb or equivalent part) through strace? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dupload on debian machines?

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:56:42PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > and yes, I have a dupload.conf in that directory and a > ~/.dupload.conf: Weird. dupload(1) says that should work. It's a perl script, so maybe you can debug it? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

lly he will have time to finish your application after that, maybe next week. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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