Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit

on *that* one machine is useless to me.) How do you guys deal with this in your organizations? Thanks for your input, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Custom repository and WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

test -f ${this_dir}/input.txt \ || cat ${input_file} EOF 1 2048 0 y Michael Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] o EOF test -f ${gpg_home}/pubring.gpg \ || gpg \ --homedir ${gpg_home} \ --command-file ${this_dir}/input.txt \ --passphrase

Brain dead package management?

will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] What gives? Does anybody understand why aptitude is behaving this way? And apt-get does the exact same thing too. Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brain dead package management?

martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.01.1953 +0200]: tiem-cups-cfg: PreDepends: cupsys-bsd but it is not installable There's your problem. APT is made for software packages, not configuration packages. Use cfengine or puppet for those

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

Kevin Buhr wrote: Michael S. Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correctly, I should be able to do

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

Michael S. Peek wrote: Kevin Buhr wrote: Michael S. Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correctly, I

Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

NIS domainname to: tiem Starting NIS services: ypbind Tell me, oh wise gurus of Debian -- is dpkg just brain-dead? Is the man page horribly wrong/out-of-date? Or what? Confused, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Broken dpkg.cfg?

at generating an error?) Btw, I'm running Sarge. Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Broken dpkg.cfg?

martin f krafft wrote: also sprach peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.11.1210 +0100]: How is this really supposed to work? (And why does it say Success when it exits with an error? Success at generating an error?) Btw, I'm running Sarge. log support was added to dpkg post-sarge

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

. sean The idea of a glob makes me nervous. There's been plenty of times I've accidentaly gotten extra files listed in a glob to ls or find that I didn't intend to. Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

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Re: Silly Packaging Problem

martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.08.2239 +0100]: The next time there's an upgrade for courier-authdaemon, won't it overwrite my version of /etc/courier/authdaemonrc with it's own? No way. Packages must *never* overwrite your files in /etc

Silly Packaging Problem

, and it get's better. After installation, when I do 'dpkg -L', etc/courier/authdaemonrc *is* listed as one of the files installed by my package. So... Uh... Can anyone enlighten me as to why this is happening? Anxiously awaiting a clue, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Silly Packaging Problem

Thanks for the help, Martin. martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Michael S. Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.08.2124 +0100]: 2) I then divert this file. Diversions of conffiles are not supported. Check that /etc/courier/authdaemonrc is not a conffile. If it is, you could easily lose

Using /cdrom/.disk/udeb_(in|ex)clude to load custom udebs instead of d-i's?

-i's netconfig sits there waiting for me to type in an address I can switch to another terminal and load my udebs by hand using udpkg, and my udebs work, they're just not being loaded *instead of* the default udeb. Anyone have an idea what I've done wrong? Thanks in advance, Michael Peek

Apt, custom packages, and package dependencies

the repository several times. Anybody have any idea where I would go about finding out what's wrong? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt, custom packages, and package dependencies

what's wrong? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What does this mean?

-conrep What do these mean? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Packaging Question

) Pre-Depend on autofs and autofs-hesiod. I thought that doing so would force dpkg to configure autofs and autofs-hesiod *BEFORE* installing my tiem.autofs-config. What *should* I be doing instead? Thanks for your help, Michael Peek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject