Re: New maintainer - intent to package LAM 6.1

At 05:51 -0700 1998-07-13, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: >Well... >I would install alien and rpm then use alien to convert >the rpms to tarballs...hmm I think this works for srpms too (I know >I have unpacked at least one when I was investigating a package >I thought would be good for debian) It

Re: which shared lib is used, when system is not rebooted?

a process by which a new invocation of init replaces the current one. The sysvinit and libc6 packages both call `init u' in their postinsts, so even your example above is no longer a convincing reason to reboot. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> m

Re: Determining if package installed

' and the default value for the three databases above is `compat [NOTFOUND=return] files'. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

s: /sbin/ system programs and administration utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments Traditionally, the entire root filesystem is static (as it still is on BSD systems *today*). -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/>

Re: filenames with more than 100 chars ?

extensions for long pathnames. There are two patches in the BTS to fix this, but neither one is in dpkg yet. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/>

Re: Library packages, libtool and automake.

ed --prefix=/usr" and "$(MAKE)" in the build target and "$(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr" to start with in the binary-arch target. If you get stuck, take a look at other libtoolized packages packaged with debhelper. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)De

Re: Library packages, libtool and automake.

btool unless one or both of the --enable-shared and --enable-static args are passed. Some build only static or only shared libraries by default. Only sure way to know is to read the docs or experiment. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Becoming a new developper

archive with emacs to replace the / in each member name with a space. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: pgp or gpg ?

At 11:47 -0700 1999-07-16, Joseph Carter wrote: dinstall does or will soon support the use of DSA keys. *cough* does, but the cabal[0] doesn't want you to know. [0] There is no cabal -- Joel, who is now fleeing from the black helicopters ;-) -- Joel Klecker (aka

Re: how best to maintain a patch

(?) this patch rules, so you could look at it too. I added an argument to specify a source dir, since I unpack the sources in debian/rules, other than that it's the same system. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: File names in the Debian archive: *.deb vs *_i386.deb

) CVS password: # null password, so just hit return % cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/ftpmaint co dinstall cvs server: Updating dinstall [...] % cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/ftpmaint co masterfiles cvs server: Updating masterfiles [...] -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)De

Re: /usr/lib

At 04:53 + 1999-10-27, David Coe wrote: /usr/lib/portsentry is indeed the right place, as long as the scripts don't change other than at installation/upgrade time. Actually, since they are perl and therefore architecture independant, /usr/share/portsentry is better. -- Joel Klecker

Re: signing packages built on va

At 21:12 -0600 1998-03-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a package that I'm going to have to build on va. That's fine, but >how am I to sign it? Copy the .dsc and .changes file to a local machine, sign the .dsc file first, then md5sum it, and use that md5 sum to fix the sum for the .dsc file i

Re: build?? why not?

At 02:37 -0500 1998-03-21, Shaleh wrote: >I currently use "build" to create my packages and "deb-make" to start >them. Is there a reason why I should not. deb-make creates rules files that use debstd, which doesn't offer much control over what it does (not to mention that it sometimes violates po

Re: Packaging strategy for dict

At 21:20 -0500 1998-03-26, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Would it be preferable to make two packages, one containing only >the client and the other containing the server, or make one package >containing both client and server? If making two packages is the >preferred solution, should the server packag

Re: Packaging strategy for dict

At 18:29 -0800 1998-03-26, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: >I would say have two packages. Server (containing server+client) and >client. Most people are probably better off with the client package. Set >the dependancies such that dpkg and dselect would not install both the >server and client pa

Re: ssh-agent (continuing saga)

At 11:57 -0500 1998-04-09, Zed Pobre wrote: >Okay, I seem to have ssh-agent set up well enough that it runs. >However, it now complains: > >Agent parent directory is not sticky, mode is 40777 it should be 041777 > >To which directory is it referring? /tmp -- Joel "Espy" Klecker