Re: A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-04 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Diego" == ddainese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Diego> Hi, Diego> I've a proposal for a configuration tool; [...] Diego> My proposal is a Guile-based system similar to the emacs Diego> configuration system: emacs has a lisp builtin interpreter Diego> that parse arbitra

Shlibs files and libfoo.so

1999-09-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 11:04:29AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Method for shlibs to work with libfoo.so (#42236) > * Stalled for 2 weeks. > * Proposed by Joseph Carter; seconded by Anthony Towns and Aaron Van > Couwenberg. > * This is a proposal to make binary-only shared libs that have no

Re: Bug#44079: .dhelp file in /usr/doc stops jserv install, symlink proposal done wrong

1999-09-04 Thread Stefan Gybas
Adam Heath wrote: > Maybe these files should NOT be created in /usr/doc, but in a cache/lib > dir of some kind. This is a good idea! > Or, pkgs doing the symlink thing need to deregister themselves in the > preinst. What about simply removing the .dhelp file and then the /usr/doc/ directory (if

A configuration tool for debian

1999-09-04 Thread ddainese
Hi, I've a proposal for a configuration tool; IMHO the features that such tool should have are: 1) It must have many interfaces (GUI-base, Web-based, etc.). 2) The files where the configurations are stored must be easy to edit with a normal text editor. 3) It must be extremely flexible (more

Re: [PROPOSAL] changing policy on compiling with -g .. a better way

1999-09-04 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: > Ahh, can you make sure that dh_strip doesn't actually do anything if > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains "debug"? :) Yes, once it's in policy. -- see shy jo

Re: .dhelp file in /usr/doc stops jserv install, symlink proposal done wrong

1999-09-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 10:13:59PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > Setting up libapache-mod-jserv (1.0-2) ... > ln: /usr/doc//libapache-mod-jserv: cannot overwrite directory > dpkg: error processing libapache-mod-jserv (--configure): > # ls /usr/doc//libapache-mod-jserv -a > . .. .dhelp > > Maybe the

.dhelp file in /usr/doc stops jserv install, symlink proposal done wrong

1999-09-04 Thread Adam Heath
Setting up libapache-mod-jserv (1.0-2) ... ln: /usr/doc//libapache-mod-jserv: cannot overwrite directory dpkg: error processing libapache-mod-jserv (--configure): # ls /usr/doc//libapache-mod-jserv -a . .. .dhelp Maybe these files should NOT be created in /usr/doc, but in a cache/lib dir of some

Re: [PROPOSAL] Directories for local initialization scripts

1999-09-04 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:10:44PM -0300, Julio wrote: > Given the comments on my proposal, I'm rewriting it to the following: > > 1. to provide support for separation of local initialization scripts, > allow update-rc.d to handle subdirectories. So, a /etc/init.d/local (or > whatever) dir could b