Re: Diffs-only for XFree?

Hi, Steve Early wrote: [Debian diffs for X11 source tree] > Debian-specific diffs were hard to produce under the old scheme of > things because of the strange way in which the upstream source was > packaged. The version of the X packages that I will release in the new > source packaging format ou

Problems removing packages with --root flag to dpkg

I'm doing some development (experimenting) with debian, and when I try the following: dpkg --root=/dos/linux --purge --force-remove-essential e2fsprogs I get the following errors: Removing e2fsprogs ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: No such file or directory dpkg: er

Section: Provides: Depends: .....

I have been gawking at a file I built with 'dpkg -I' on all the packages in rex/binary-i386, and have found some interesting stuff: First, if I understand the policy manual, section and priority fields are not "required". It is suggested that they would be helpful. There are a small fraction of th

Re: Problems removing packages with --root flag to dpkg

From: Scott Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm doing some development (experimenting) with debian, and when I try the > following: > > dpkg --root=/dos/linux --purge --force-remove-essential e2fsprogs > First, it may be essential to "cd" to /dos/linux before running this. I've seen chroot(2) chang

master.debian.org not responding?

Hello, I try to connect to master.debian.org for three days without success. Ping fails, and traceroute cannot reach it too. What happened? Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris

Re: Newer version of gdb and binutils?

Michael Meskes writes: > Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > > > Anyway, the deal for gdb and binutils is that I only have enough time > > > to track H.J. Lu's versions. Since he hasn't released public versions > > > of gdb-4.16 and binutils-2.7 yet, neither have I. > > > > Indeed. However, binutils