Deleting a MySQL database in postrm

2002-06-16 Thread Marco Kuhlmann
Hi ya, I am currently trying to package RefDB, a bibliography database manager. RefDB uses MySQL, so one thing that the package has to do is to create/delete MySQL databases and users. For that, the scripts need the admin password for the MySQL database server. What is the best way to handle

Re: Deleting a MySQL database in postrm

2002-06-16 Thread Ari Pollak
The standard way of storing the root password for MySQL is in ~root/.my.cnf.. It should look something like this: [mysqladmin] user= username password= password In any case, I don't think it wise to add/remove databases on installation/removal, that should probably be left

Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi everyone, I have made unofficial Debian packages of Cernlib, a set of libraries and programs used by a lot of high-energy physicists. The web page is here: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/cernlib/ and the license is GPL. To download my packages, you can find the required sources.list lines here:

Re: Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 01:55:23PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I have made unofficial Debian packages of Cernlib, a set of libraries and programs used by a lot of high-energy physicists. The web page is here: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/cernlib/ and the license is GPL. To download my

Re: Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Kevin! You wrote: I know Cernlib is hardly a suitable project for someone who hopes to become a new Debian developer; it includes shared libraries, data files, and all sorts of good stuff. (Even getting it to compile with shared instead of static libraries took a good deal of work.)

Re: Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Thanks for the note. It should be fixed now. (What happened was that I gunzipped the diff file to make sure everything looked right, then re-zipped it, but apparently to a different size. Fortunately I had a copy of the original diff file lying around.) -- Kevin McCarty

Deleting a MySQL database in postrm

2002-06-16 Thread Marco Kuhlmann
Hi ya, I am currently trying to package RefDB, a bibliography database manager. RefDB uses MySQL, so one thing that the package has to do is to create/delete MySQL databases and users. For that, the scripts need the admin password for the MySQL database server. What is the best way to handle

Re: Deleting a MySQL database in postrm

2002-06-16 Thread Ari Pollak
The standard way of storing the root password for MySQL is in ~root/.my.cnf.. It should look something like this: [mysqladmin] user= username password= password In any case, I don't think it wise to add/remove databases on installation/removal, that should probably be left

Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi everyone, I have made unofficial Debian packages of Cernlib, a set of libraries and programs used by a lot of high-energy physicists. The web page is here: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/cernlib/ and the license is GPL. To download my packages, you can find the required sources.list lines here:

Re: Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 01:55:23PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I have made unofficial Debian packages of Cernlib, a set of libraries and programs used by a lot of high-energy physicists. The web page is here: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/cernlib/ and the license is GPL. To download my

Re: Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Kevin! You wrote: I know Cernlib is hardly a suitable project for someone who hopes to become a new Debian developer; it includes shared libraries, data files, and all sorts of good stuff. (Even getting it to compile with shared instead of static libraries took a good deal of work.) But

Re: Sponsor request for cernlib

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Thanks for the note. It should be fixed now. (What happened was that I gunzipped the diff file to make sure everything looked right, then re-zipped it, but apparently to a different size. Fortunately I had a copy of the original diff file lying around.) -- Kevin McCarty

Unidentified subject!

2002-06-16 Thread Sa B Broderick
Kevin! Long time no see. I trust that all is well and that the case was finally settled. I was sitting in Applebee's with Ian tonight before work, munching away on chicken fingers and fries and longing for a Guinness to celebrate St. Paddy's Day. And I was idly watching SportsCenter on the TV

Your spam

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I'm sorry but I have no idea who you are. Unless of course you're a TROLL: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/210/2001/10/0/6953555/ If that was supposed to be spam, it failed because I have no idea what you're selling. Now begone from this list! (I apologize to everyone else for the

Multiple changelogs?

2002-06-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
Should changelog.Debian.gz apply to the source package and all binary packages created from the source, or should there be a separate changelog.Debian.gz for each binary package? I have used one changelog for the dictd source package, covering both the dictd and the dict binary

GPG Key question

2002-06-16 Thread Duncan Findlay
My GPG key currently is: pub 1024D/6BE69CD0 2001-06-20 Duncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] sig 3 6BE69CD0 2002-05-12 Duncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] uidDuncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] sig 3 6BE69CD0 2001-09-22 Duncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] sig