debianizing directories?

2006-11-07 Thread Kit Peters
nitely in the source directory - a bit of Googling suggested that might be a problem. I'm at a loss here.  I need a way to automatically distribute a directory full of files to these boxen in the field.  Is dpkg/apt not the way to do it?Kit Peters

installation on AIC-7902 RAID controller

2006-10-24 Thread Kit Peters
We're trying to install Debian at work onto a SuperMicro box with one of these controllers (Ultra320 SCSI RAID) on it.  When we build the RAID in hardware, it's not recognized by the installation kernel - instead it recognizes the four physical drives that are installed. Can anyone give me any tips

Package documentation

2006-10-17 Thread Kit Peters
I've noticed on the Debian homepage how every package has a neat little webpage, all to itself.  I'd like to do something similar for my local Debian repository at work.  What software do I use to generate those package-specific pages? KP

creating images of RAID boxen?

2006-08-16 Thread Kit Peters
our RAID arrays.  I want to be able to store an image of that setup in such a way that I can take two empty disks, stick 'em in the machine with the image, work some mojo, put those disks in a brand-new box, turn on the box, and have the box come up as a clone of the original machine.  What's the best way for me to do this under Debian? Kit Peters

Packaging PHP files

2006-08-02 Thread Kit Peters
s there a better way? Kit Peters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X11R7.1 for Debian?

2006-07-27 Thread Kit Peters
I'd like to try out X11R7.1, in the hope that it will fix the dualhead issues I'm having (Bug #378081 [1]). I'd rather not go to the trouble of compiling it myself if there are .debs available. Does anyone know where I might find such? Kit Peters [1] http://groups.g

Re: proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-07-19 Thread Kit Peters
Please excuse the lateness of my reply. I don't think this is going to work for me. A wrinkle that I failed to mention earlier is that I'm compiling a custom kernel for these machines, and the driver needs to be compiled against that kernel. Ideally, I'd like to use make-kpkg to generate the cus

proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-06-29 Thread Kit Peters
d we would like to "Debianize" things as much as possible.  This means that I wish to wrap the 3M driver in a .deb.  What is the best way to go about this?  Note that I plan to compile kernels on a fast machine that runs the same version of Debian, but is otherwise dissimilar to the p

Re: hw_random module cannot be loaded

2006-06-29 Thread Kit Peters
The first thing I'd do is try upgrading to a 2.6 kernel.  It may be that the hardware RNG you have isn't supported by 2.4.27. On 6/28/06, Malcolm E. Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot load the hw-random module. Can anyone give me advice on what to do. ThanksI am running a standalone desktop

Re: creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-28 Thread Kit Peters
b, and probably do the same for twm-kiosk, but I decided instead to use as many stock debs as possible, and only roll my changes into debs.  And I ended up writing simple Makefiles for everything, and building the debs that way. On 6/28/06, Kit Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Checkinstall doesn

Re: creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-28 Thread Kit Peters
Checkinstall doesn't really seem to be what I'm looking for.  However, I did have good luck with this article that Monsieur Pilon linked: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336 On 6/27/06, Roberto Sanchez < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Kit Peters wrote:> I have a need to create my own .debs

creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-26 Thread Kit Peters
nd I didn't see anything there.  Can anyone give me some pointers? Kit Peters

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-24 Thread Kit Peters
ded a line: "root_cmd := fakeroot" to ~/.kernel-pkg.conf.KPOn 6/22/06, James Westby < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On (22/06/06 21:07), Kit Peters wrote:> On 6/22/06, James Westby < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >It is oft recommended to use fakeroot rather that a real root comm

Re: Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
On 6/22/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have configured the kernel via menuconfig.  Kernel sources are at> $HOME/src/linux-2.6.17.1/.  I execute 'CC=gcc-4.1 make-kpkg --pgpsign> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> --rootcmd sudo --revision 1.0 --append-to-version "-pt5500" buildpackage'.It is oft r

Problem with kernel-package

2006-06-22 Thread Kit Peters
I'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.17.1 from the vanilla sources at kernel.org.  As this kernel is for a specific machine, I want to append a note to the kernel version to reflect that fact.  Normally, I would do this from within $KERNEL_SOURCE_DIR/.config, but as I'm trying to keep this machine as