Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

Neil> Time for a bug report, I think. But in order to actually get the Neil> thing working, I need more help. Have you ever filed the report? I can't find it searching on b.d.o. Neil> I get: Neil> Failed to fetch Neil> http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages/unstable/amd64/Release Neil> Unab

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

Ian> And this is my main question: have you figured out what causes this error? Neil> Yes - the error is caused by not using reprepro. Neil> :-) I am afraid from my POV this is not particularly funny. The documentation (i.e. the apt manual and the secure apt wiki) doesn't mention reprepro (or m

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

Neil> reprepro doesn't force these on you but it does not stop you Neil> adding them later either. Ian> OK, I'll take a look at reprepro. I did. reprepro still wants me to have a pool and dists subdirectories, at the very least. This just makes it more complicated to maintain, in particular to

Secure apt Packages file confusion [Was: repository signing and apt-get authentication]

> Unable to find expected entry Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release > file?) Ian> And this is my main question: have you figured out what causes this Ian> error? Neil> I've no idea if the documentation that you mention is right or Neil> wrong. I was using mini-dinstall - you are not

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

Ian> I don't think reprepro is the right tool for my job, either. Ian> Again, this is _not_ a mirror. It is just a bunch of debs (about Ian> 30 right now) that I build myself on a desktop machine, then upload Ian> to share with other client machines. Ian> Ian> Is _anyone_ else doing this? Seems

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

Cameron> Actually, you would just do the scp to a root account, though Cameron> maybe that's not what you want either. My archive is owned by Cameron> me, and I can't think of a reason why it should be root owned, Cameron> do you have a good one (it's beside the point, I'm just Cameron> curious)?

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

Cameron> Are you completely against using tools to make your life Cameron> easier? You're saying you want it to be less complicated, but Cameron> you're already over-complicating it by not using tools others Cameron> have built for exactly this situation. My beef is that the docs are in terms o

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

>> cd /var/local/debian && apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip - > >> Packages.gz Cameron> After looking at your repository, I have determined that this Cameron> is where the problem occurs. You need to also generate a Cameron> Packages file (uncompressed). You still need the Packages.gz Cameron> f

ITA: vcg -- A Visualization Tool for compiler graphs

I am looking for a sponsor to adopt vcg. I am currently in the NM queue: http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=itz%40buug.org TIA -- I wonder which is the best virus for unix and if I can write a better one in Microsoft BASIC ? Hans-Marc Olsen in comp.unix.programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

sponsorship request

files much easier and to make builds much safer. And here's the copyright: This package was debianized by Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 19 May 2004 22:30:21 -0700. It was downloaded from http://makepp.sf.net Upstream Author: Gary Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

y thereof and document where to get them. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

r suggestion can't be implemented without modifying the binary. Goswin> PS: any chance of using the same format as chess for books? Once 30MB Goswin> should be enough for both. Unfortunately not - each of the 3 engines I know of in debian (gnuchess, crafty, phalanx) uses a different for

Re: Debconf questions and purge

course, one has to know in advance a name change is afoot .. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: lintian warning - ?

am uses GNU libtool to build a shared library, and libtool has this annoying habit. It has been discussed many times; a search in the archive for "libtool" should lead other maintainers' ways of dealing with it. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F

Re: What is libg2c.a? And why do I have to link to it?

em. (The g in the name stands for g77, not very obvious unfortunately) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

architecture in script

s are). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: architecture in script

ct (architecture-dependent) one. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: architecture in script

talking about is Colin> Architecture: all. Colin> Personally I might be inclined to make the package Colin> Architecture: any in this case, though. I assume by this you mean you'd select and copy the correct file at binary-package creation time, rather than installation time? -

Re: architecture in script

l the files for all architectures (they are quite small, and useful as examples). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

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apt configuration

I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed packages. I think it should be possible, but the apt.conf manpage is terrible :( Can anyone give me an example of a setup where some nontrivial shell code runs that way? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Isabelle

nderstand (I haven't asked about this one), it is also non-free (note restriction to non-commercial use). Yes, it stinks - these are great tools. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy:

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Isabelle

he main directory shows the GPL, Stefan> so I assume it is free software. I will take a deeper look Stefan> tomorrow. The mailing list announcement for the new version of PG says it is (newly) GPLed. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8

apt-get -t, the real story

ry package name on the command line with /stable, it does what I want. But still this is much less convenient than -t, assuming it can be made to cooperate. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy

Re: binutils-dev dependency problem...

. This is actually quite interesting. Not allowed by whom? Is this in the policy anywhere? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.

whenever a new kernel image is installed -- and todo Manoj> this magic, so that the kernel knows to load the module. Or Manoj> thet can add to the search path for kernel when it looks for Manoj> the modules. Okay, I didn't know about the first part, thanks for pointing it out. But i

Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.

be _shipped_ by the module package in a more generic place to start with, and the generic place should be on the module search path. Then you don't need to play postinst moving games, and you actually get the benefits of packaging (like, dpkg -L module_foo actually prints where the files a

Re: dpkg's treatment of symlinks

urn' part of Jérôme's post which started the thread. Does this mean the maintainer is stuck with a postinst hack forever? How is a transition to a symlink shipped as part of the package possible in a future version? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A

Re: Debian my own software

; source 2/ a target in the top-level Makefile builds the debian source package (ie. dsc file and .tar.gz file, the latter is the same as the general non-debian distribution tarball) 3/ to build .deb files, I use dpkg-buildpackage -b hth -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA08

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

system administrators may choose to Matt> modify it. This implies that the default version will be part of Matt> the package distribution, and MUST NOT BE MODIFIED BY THE Matt> MAINTAINER SCRIPTS during installation (or at any other time). Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advi

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

han infringe on policy? In the recurring fl^H^Hdiscussions on -policy, I seldom side with ajt, but in this case I would. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. I did not vote for Emperor Bush. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

oint when Ola discussed the java policy. gcj can compile java bytecode into native code. So Architecture: all java libraries can be used for development purposes without an interpreter. In theory, at least. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. I did not vote for Emperor Bush. GPG: 43

Re: NSS library dependencies

-- even longer wrt PAM -- and it's not clear to me Steve> that this is an appropriate solution. Do you have anything running and using RPC? A user-space NFS daemon, maybe? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GP

Re: NSS library dependencies

Steve> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:55:37AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Steve> Oh, I understand how it would happen that a file in /usr is Steve> actively in use in this scenario; I'm just questioning why it Steve> shouldn't be considered a bug in whatever program is st

Re: the right way to uninstall /var/games

I think packages should include all its files and directories in their shipping lists whenever possible; postinst tricks read to unclean messy hackery and will backfire sooner or later. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } G

debmake and dh-make

Hi, I am not sure this is appropriate for -mentors, but I couldn't find a -history list :) What is the story behind these 2 packages? Which one was first, what was the rationale for creating the other, and why do we still have both? Just curious, -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California,

RFS: makepp -- yet another make replacement

http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks/ in the files makepp-1.18*. Thanks! -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Packaging Perl programs

; error message: Carlo> Source archive you specified was not found! I have also just packaged a Perl program --- makepp, see http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks --- and I had no such problem with dh_make (I used it but it would have been just as simple to create the few ./debian/ files

Re: Shared library

will be linked with, so we must assume it will be linked with threaded code. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Setting Tex and metapost paths without env variables

paths properly. Is there a nice Debian way to Wookey> do this (I know very little about either of these programs)? I would just put them in a suitable subdirectory/-ies of /usr/share/texmf (probably a new one) and run /usr/bin/texhash in postinst and postrm of the package. -- Ian Zimmerman, O

Re: General programming questions list?

fo/tuxcpprogramming/ David> http://www.rebel.net.au/~lloy0076/linux_c_programming/ Also: ftp://ftp.rug.nl/contrib/frank/documents/cplusplus.annotations/ -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B

Re: Library documentation

of documenting Dale> a library using said format. Any suggestions? I am doing just that now. My document is not really a manpage though, rather a DocBook . Let me know if/how I can help. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete

RFS: makepp -- yet another make replacement

The ITP bug for this package says: * Package name: makepp Version : 1.18 Upstream Author : Gary Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://makepp.sourceforge.net/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description : yet another make replacement makepp is the rare ca

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

y thereof and document where to get them. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

r suggestion can't be implemented without modifying the binary. Goswin> PS: any chance of using the same format as chess for books? Once 30MB Goswin> should be enough for both. Unfortunately not - each of the 3 engines I know of in debian (gnuchess, crafty, phalanx) uses a different for

Re: Debconf questions and purge

rse, one has to know in advance a name change is afoot .. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: questions about general shlibs evilness

ble with the way glibc loader works, so even if you rename the libs by other means you can use the libtool numbers. Ari> Ran this by Matt Danish and he said "That's why I use Common Ari> Lisp: no shared library hell" :-) Applies equally to ML and Haskell :-) -- Ian Zimmerma

Re: adding some lines into an existing conf file - without diff

policy. The file /etc/pam.d/login is a Steve> conffile belonging to the login package, which means NO package Steve> is allowed to modify this file (not even login itself). Having just hand-edited /etc/pam.d/cron (to stop endless PAM_unix syslogs) I have to strongly agree. -- Ian Zimmer

Re: lintian warning - ?

am uses GNU libtool to build a shared library, and libtool has this annoying habit. It has been discussed many times; a search in the archive for "libtool" should lead other maintainers' ways of dealing with it. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F

Re: What is libg2c.a? And why do I have to link to it?

em. (The g in the name stands for g77, not very obvious unfortunately) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

architecture in script

s are). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: architecture in script

ct (architecture-dependent) one. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: architecture in script

talking about is Colin> Architecture: all. Colin> Personally I might be inclined to make the package Colin> Architecture: any in this case, though. I assume by this you mean you'd select and copy the correct file at binary-package creation time, rather than installation time? -

Re: architecture in script

l the files for all architectures (they are quite small, and useful as examples). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

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apt configuration

I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed packages. I think it should be possible, but the apt.conf manpage is terrible :( Can anyone give me an example of a setup where some nontrivial shell code runs that way? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG

Re: apt configuration

$conffile =~ s{^/(.*)}{$1}; $conffiles{$conffile} = 1; } $conffiles->close(); } local $md5sums = FileHandle->new; $md5sums->open(">$debdir/DEBIAN/md5sums") or die "$debdir/DEBIAN/md5sums: $! \n"; File::Find::

Re: Looking for an advocate

on the developers, but also on the INRIA bureaucrats, I am afraid. Jens> adopting package haskell-doc Thanks for that, too. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Isabelle

nderstand (I haven't asked about this one), it is also non-free (note restriction to non-commercial use). Yes, it stinks - these are great tools. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy:

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Isabelle

he main directory shows the GPL, Stefan> so I assume it is free software. I will take a deeper look Stefan> tomorrow. The mailing list announcement for the new version of PG says it is (newly) GPLed. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8

apt-get -t, the real story

ry package name on the command line with /stable, it does what I want. But still this is much less convenient than -t, assuming it can be made to cooperate. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: c

Re: binutils-dev dependency problem...

. This is actually quite interesting. Not allowed by whom? Is this in the policy anywhere? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.

y from upstream source, to be installed somewhere like /lib/modules/local/2.4. Just my 2c. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.

whenever a new kernel image is installed -- and todo Manoj> this magic, so that the kernel knows to load the module. Or Manoj> thet can add to the search path for kernel when it looks for Manoj> the modules. Okay, I didn't know about the first part, thanks for pointing it out. But i

Re: Kernel module package depending on kernel-headers.

be _shipped_ by the module package in a more generic place to start with, and the generic place should be on the module search path. Then you don't need to play postinst moving games, and you actually get the benefits of packaging (like, dpkg -L module_foo actually prints where the files a

Re: dpkg's treatment of symlinks

urn' part of Jérôme's post which started the thread. Does this mean the maintainer is stuck with a postinst hack forever? How is a transition to a symlink shipped as part of the package possible in a future version? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A

Re: Debian my own software

; source 2/ a target in the top-level Makefile builds the debian source package (ie. dsc file and .tar.gz file, the latter is the same as the general non-debian distribution tarball) 3/ to build .deb files, I use dpkg-buildpackage -b hth -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA08

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

system administrators may choose to Matt> modify it. This implies that the default version will be part of Matt> the package distribution, and MUST NOT BE MODIFIED BY THE Matt> MAINTAINER SCRIPTS during installation (or at any other time). Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advi

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

han infringe on policy? In the recurring fl^H^Hdiscussions on -policy, I seldom side with ajt, but in this case I would. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. I did not vote for Emperor Bush. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087

Re: j2sdk build-depends cannot be satisfied?

oint when Ola discussed the java policy. gcj can compile java bytecode into native code. So Architecture: all java libraries can be used for development purposes without an interpreter. In theory, at least. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. I did not vote for Emperor Bush. GPG: 43

Re: NSS library dependencies

-- even longer wrt PAM -- and it's not clear to me Steve> that this is an appropriate solution. Do you have anything running and using RPC? A user-space NFS daemon, maybe? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GP

Re: NSS library dependencies

Steve> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:55:37AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Steve> Oh, I understand how it would happen that a file in /usr is Steve> actively in use in this scenario; I'm just questioning why it Steve> shouldn't be considered a bug in whatever program is st

Re: the right way to uninstall /var/games

I think packages should include all its files and directories in their shipping lists whenever possible; postinst tricks read to unclean messy hackery and will backfire sooner or later. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } G

debmake and dh-make

Hi, I am not sure this is appropriate for -mentors, but I couldn't find a -history list :) What is the story behind these 2 packages? Which one was first, what was the rationale for creating the other, and why do we still have both? Just curious, -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California,

RFS: makepp -- yet another make replacement

http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks/ in the files makepp-1.18*. Thanks! -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087

Re: Packaging Perl programs

; error message: Carlo> Source archive you specified was not found! I have also just packaged a Perl program --- makepp, see http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks --- and I had no such problem with dh_make (I used it but it would have been just as simple to create the few ./debian/ files

Re: Shared library

will be linked with, so we must assume it will be linked with threaded code. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087

Re: Setting Tex and metapost paths without env variables

paths properly. Is there a nice Debian way to Wookey> do this (I know very little about either of these programs)? I would just put them in a suitable subdirectory/-ies of /usr/share/texmf (probably a new one) and run /usr/bin/texhash in postinst and postrm of the package. -- Ian Zimmerman, O

Re: General programming questions list?

fo/tuxcpprogramming/ David> http://www.rebel.net.au/~lloy0076/linux_c_programming/ Also: ftp://ftp.rug.nl/contrib/frank/documents/cplusplus.annotations/ -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete this; } GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087

Re: Library documentation

of documenting Dale> a library using said format. Any suggestions? I am doing just that now. My document is not really a manpage though, rather a DocBook . Let me know if/how I can help. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. if (sizeof(signed) > sizeof(unsigned) + 4) { delete

RFS: makepp -- yet another make replacement

The ITP bug for this package says: * Package name: makepp Version : 1.18 Upstream Author : Gary Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://makepp.sourceforge.net/ * License : Dual GPL/Artistic Description : yet another make replacement makepp is the rare ca

Re: RFS: eli -- compiler cunstruction kit

Frank> eli is a set of tools for compiler construction (lexer, parser Frank> generators, handling of semantic analysis with AGs, commandline Frank> parser generator, debugging tools, ...) that integrates and Frank> unites all of the tools so you have not to worry about their Frank> interaction. I