On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:00 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Another way is to use dpkg-divert - but in this case its a bug. >> > charset.alias must be shipped with libiconv library only. >> > >> I hung around at #elinks, and turns out the package has a copy of >> gettext in it. which geneates the file. > > I think you need to ask debian/rules to use system-wide > libicon/gettext.. > >> Also the package has an 'ubuntu' in it (as it's already in the our >> repo.. i got it via apt-get source elinks)? Is this alright? If not, >> how do I remove ubuntu? > > In debian/changelog for first line where version specified: > > s/ubuntu/nexenta/ > > apt-upstream-tool does that for you. Also, over time it will do some > other "policy" things... so I would suggest to use it and try to improve > it if you'll find bugs and time permits. > > Caution: you always need to check if a package exists in our repository > before getting it as is from Ubuntu. Could be that some amount of work > already done by someone and all we need is to fix existing package, > instead of importing new one from upstream. >
Ok. So what line do I need to add to sources.list to first check Nexenta-hardy sources. the current contents are as below, so it gets things from ubuntu's mirror. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/elinks_tmp# cat /etc/apt/sources.list ## In order to bootstrap from elatte, we include the elatte-unstable sources ## and then publish to hardy # deb http://apt.nexenta.org elatte-unstable main contrib non-free deb http://apt.nexenta.org hardy-unstable main contrib non-free ## In order to get older sources from elatte, enable one of the sources below # deb-src http://apt.nexenta.org/ elatte-stable main contrib non-free # deb-src http://apt.nexenta.org/ elatte-testing main contrib non-free # deb-src http://apt.nexenta.org/ elatte-unstable main contrib non-free ## Hardy/main is the primary target for upstream sources deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy main deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-security main # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main ## Hardy packages outside of main are a low priority, but acceptable ## when needed as a build dependency, uncomment as needed # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy universe multiverse restricted # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe multiverse restricted # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-security universe multiverse restricted # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-backports universe multiverse restricted ~Anil _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
