"Debian Package Information" tutorial

2010-12-27 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
Hi, Here you have the last tutorial of the year: "Debian Package Information" [0]. Thanks to Enrico Zini for the session and to Francesca for the reviews of the tutorial! Mònica [0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageInformation signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sign

Debian Women Training Session: Debian Package Informations

2010-12-16 Thread Francesca Ciceri
Training Session: Debian Package Informations As part of the Training Sessions initiative organized by the Debian Women project, Enrico Zini, Debian Developer since 2002, will held on Thursday a lesson about Debian package informations. The lesson will focus on some tools useful both for users

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-13 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Maria Nelson wrote: > I'm learning to build gpsim, it's up for adoption anyway. I think the latest > debian version is 0.22.0-5, but the one I'm able to download from > sourceforge is 0.22.0, so it seems that debian has a newer version than > upstream is distribut

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-13 Thread Maria Nelson
rs and try to debug it. Maybe I'm missing something. Thanks, Maria On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:54:39PM -0800, Maria Nelson wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be &g

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:54:39PM -0800, Maria Nelson wrote: > Hi All, > > Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be build-able > with just the regular ./configure, make, make install sequence. Is that > correct? > > Also, when you go to build a pa

Re: before building a debian package...

2008-12-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-12-12 kello 15:54 -0800, Maria Nelson kirjoitti: > Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be > build-able with just the regular ./configure, make, make install > sequence. Is that correct? It is not actually necessary for the upstream build system to fo

before building a debian package...

2008-12-12 Thread Maria Nelson
Hi All, Before a program can be turned into a Debian package, it should be build-able with just the regular ./configure, make, make install sequence. Is that correct? Also, when you go to build a package, and it doesn't build, what are your options? Do you contact that upstream author? Is

Re: choosing a Debian Package to learn to package

2008-12-03 Thread Maria Nelson
Hi again, I'm not sure this message will get appended to the right thread. Thanks for all your helpful suggestions. I'm definitely interested in putting in some effort to learn how to package stuff. I'm looking to pick up vbpp, which is currently orphaned. If I don't worry about how to Debian-iz

Re: choosing a Debian Package to learn to package

2008-12-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2008-12-02 kello 12:35 -0800, Maria Nelson kirjoitti: > Any suggestion on how I can go about picking a package to learn to > package? The reason it is often suggested you work on packages that you use yourself is that this gives you motivation to keep working on the package. However, it is not

Re: choosing a Debian Package to learn to package

2008-12-02 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Welcome Maria! 2008/12/2 Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For starters and for getting some initial packaging experience I'd > recommend you to join a maintenance team. In Debian there are lots of > team-maintained packages and many of these teams are really good > learning grounds. http://ww

Re: choosing a Debian Package to learn to package

2008-12-02 Thread Meike Reichle
> and am hoping that any of you might give me some guidance. > > When I go to Debian's site, http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ , I cannot > find any up-for-adoption or orphaned packages that I am familiar with. > From various postings (people who currently maintain a Debian package

choosing a Debian Package to learn to package

2008-12-02 Thread Maria Nelson
s postings (people who currently maintain a Debian package), I get the impression that I am only supposed to package programs that I use on a regular basis. Since my experience with Debian is pretty limited (I mainly use Iceweasel, VLC, GIMP and Audacity...), I am having trouble finding a program th

Re: Debian Package

2008-03-26 Thread Nur Aini Rakhmawati
nesday, March 26, 2008 6:07:21 PM Subject: Re: Debian Package Hi! * Nur Aini Rakhmawati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080326 08:06]: > I would like to package OSS that is not need to compile. > For example websvn package > Is there any tutorial for it ? In general the new maintainers guide

Re: Debian Package

2008-03-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Nur Aini Rakhmawati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080326 08:06]: > I would like to package OSS that is not need to compile. > For example websvn package > Is there any tutorial for it ? In general the new maintainers guide [1]. In your special case, you just need to adapt it a bit: Since you don

Debian Package

2008-03-26 Thread Nur Aini Rakhmawati
Dear all, I would like to package OSS that is not need to compile. For example websvn package Is there any tutorial for it ? thanks in advance Aini --- Nur Aini Rakhmawati http://nuraini.net/ _

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050109 02:25]: > I've written an article showing how to make a package > just using dpkg and dpkg-dev. [..] > The document is right now in the wiki: > http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/BuildingWithoutHelper Did you read the lates Debian Weekly

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Jutta Wrage
Am Mittwoch, 12.01.05 um 14:18 Uhr schrieb aec: $ tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz would create a directory roaddemo-1.0.1 not roaddemo_1.0.1 It would create what ever is packed into it, which I do not know in this case. cu Jutta -- http://www.witch.westfalen.de http://witch.muensterland.org -- To

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Giovanni Ridolfi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Dear Miriam, > > I think I found some typos in your nice article. > > > if she/he already did. > I'd suggest you to use "they" instead of "she/he" > see e.g.: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00075.html > > and... I'd rather

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Rob Taylor
aec wrote: It was created by extracting roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz, which happened in the line 'tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz' Not to nitpick but I think Giovanni is correct... $ tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz would create a directory roaddemo-1.0.1 not roaddemo_1.0.1 Ah, um, yes, you're qu

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread aec
> Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > >> $ cd roaddemo_1.0.1 > >I do not understand when the *directory* roaddemo_1.0.1 (underscore) > >was created. > > > > Rob Taylor wrote: > It was created by extracting roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz, which happened in > the line 'tar xvfz roaddemo-1.0.1.tar.gz' Not to nitpic

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Rob Taylor
Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: Dear Miriam, I think I found some typos in your nice article. > if she/he already did. I'd suggest you to use "they" instead of "she/he" see e.g.: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00075.html and... I'd rather prefer you use the present perfect instead of past si

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-12 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
Dear Miriam, I think I found some typos in your nice article. > if she/he already did. I'd suggest you to use "they" instead of "she/he" see e.g.: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2004/08/msg00075.html and... I'd rather prefer you use the present perfect instead of past simple if she/he alre

Re: Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Dom, 2005-01-09 às 02:25 +0100, Miriam Ruiz escreveu: > I've written an article showing how to make a package > just using dpkg and dpkg-dev. It shall not be > undestood as "here's an easy/good way to maintain your > packages", but as "here is how the insid

Article: How to make a Debian package without using a helper

2005-01-08 Thread Miriam Ruiz
I've written an article showing how to make a package just using dpkg and dpkg-dev. It shall not be undestood as "here's an easy/good way to maintain your packages", but as "here is how the insides of debian package building works". I don't know if it can be us