Re: dpkg-deb temporary storage directory

2010-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 18:15 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Adam C Powell IV (06/03/2010): > > How can I change the temporary directory where it builds the > > tarballs? I don't see anything in the manpage or dpkg-deb --help > > output. > > (Untested) >

dpkg-deb temporary storage directory

2010-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm working on a package for Salomé, and some of its binaries are really huge -- way too big, I'll split them up at some point. But in the meantime, I'm getting the following error and want to avoid it: dpkg-deb: building package `salome-doc' in `../salome-doc_5.1.3-5opvk1_all.deb'. d

Bug#549238: ITP: elmerdoc -- Elmer FEA documentation

2009-10-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org Package name: elmer-doc Version: 2009.09.22 Author: CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland License: CC-BY-ND 3.0 URL: http://www.csc.fi/elmer/ Description: Documentation for Elmer finite ele

Re: ITP: mpi-defaults -- Meta-packages depending on appropriate MPI -dev and -bin packages for each platform

2008-11-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 16:48 +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 20.11.2008, 09:45 -0500 schrieb Adam C Powell IV: > > Feedback anyone? > > I was just wondering why you depend on debhelper >= 3, while compat is > set to 5. Souldn't you depend on >= 5 then?

Re: ITP: mpi-defaults -- Meta-packages depending on appropriate MPI -dev and -bin packages for each platform

2008-11-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hi again, and sorry for causing accidental posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I don't know how to do X-Debbugs-CC in Evolution. On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:35 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Manuel Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 19.11.2008, 09:05 -060

ITP: mpi-defaults -- Meta-packages depending on appropriate MPI -dev and -bin packages for each platform

2008-11-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: mpi-defaults Version: 0.1 Author: Debian Science Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> License: Undetermined This new source package will produce two binary meta-packages: default-mpi-dev and default-mpi-bin which depend on libopenmpi-dev and openmpi-bin respect

ITP: Elmer -- Finite element software for multiphysics problems

2008-11-10 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: elmerfem Version: 5.4.1 Author: CSC -- IT Center for Science Ltd (Finnish Ministry of Education) License: GPL URL: http://www.csc.fi/elmer/ Elmer is an open source mutiphysics simulation package developed by CSC in collaboration with Finnish universi

ITP: deal.II -- Finite element library

2008-08-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: deal.II Version: 6.1.0 Author: Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat License: QPL URL: http://dealii.org/ deal.II is a C++ class library for parallel solution of partial differential equations using adaptive finite elements. It interfaces

ITP: MUMPS -- MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver

2008-07-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: mumps Version: 4.7.3 Author: Patrick Amestoy et al. License: public domain URL: http://mumps.enseeiht.fr/ Description: MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver MUMPS implements a direct solver for large sparse linear systems, with a parti

ITP: Triangle -- Two-dimensional quality mesh generator and Delaunay triangulator

2008-07-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: triangle Version: 1.6 Author: Jonathan Richard Shewchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> License: non-free (distribution for fee prohibited) URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html Description: Two-dimensional quality mesh generator and Delaunay triangulat

Re: Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Terrific, I will give that a try, thanks very much! -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:31 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Because hypre upstream doesn't make static libs, and I got tired of > > making a new patch with every release, libhypre-dev is arch all without > &

Arch-dependent Depends

2008-06-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I maintain a set of packages which depend openmpi which is missing on certain architectures. To get around the latter problem, I use arch-dependent Build-Depends to specify openmpi where available and lam otherwise (though the buildd report for hypre on s390 shows it doesn't seem to un

RFP: chasm -- C++-Fortran 90 interoperability tool

2008-04-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: chasm Version: 1.3.0 Author: Los Alamos National Laboratory URL: http://chasm-interop.sourceforge.net/ License: BSD Description: Chasm-interop is a set of tools that parses C++ and Fortran 90 source files and automatically generates bridging code to p

Re: ITP: ASTK -- Code_Aster build/control system and front-end

2008-02-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:04 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > It is unclear to me what this software can do. Can I generate finite > > > element models with it? Or is it just a way to start simulations o

Re: ITP: ASTK -- Code_Aster build/control system and front-end

2008-02-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:45 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:07:20PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Package name: astk > > Why is it called astk? I can't find an astk tarball on the > www.code-aster.org site. astk is one of the tarballs in

ITP: ASTK -- Code_Aster build/control system and front-end

2008-02-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: astk Version: 1.5.5 Author: EDF (Electricite de France) R&D License: GPL URL: http://www.code-aster.org/ Description: Code_Aster build/control system and front-end ASTK is a client-server front-end for the Code_Aster finite element software (a.k.a. a

ITP: opencascade -- CAE platform library and scripting engine

2008-02-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: opencascade Version: 6.2.0 Author: Open Cascade SAS (OCC), a French software services company URL: http://www.opencascade.org/ License: Open CASCADE Technology Public License, includes triangle with non-free source Description: CAE platform library a

ITP: spooles -- SParse Object Oriented Linear Equations Solver

2008-01-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: spooles Version: 2.2 Author: Cleve Ashcraft et al., Boeing Phantom Works License: Public Domain Description: SParse Object Oriented Linear Equations Solver Homepage: http://www.netlib.org/linalg/spooles/ SPOOLES is a library for solving sparse real a

Re: C++/STL linking trouble

2008-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:09 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:37 +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:07:30AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > I'm having trouble with a new C++ package called Salomé which I can't > &

Re: C++/STL linking trouble

2008-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:37 +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:07:30AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Greetings, > > Hello Adam, > > > I'm having trouble with a new C++ package called Salomé which I can't > > get to link to a

C++/STL linking trouble

2008-01-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm having trouble with a new C++ package called Salomé which I can't get to link to a C++ library in a new package OpenCASCADE. Here's the error: g++ -m64 -D_OCC64 -g -D_DEBUG_ -Wno-deprecated -Wparentheses -Wreturn-type -Wunused -o .libs/testDS testDS-testDS.o -pthread ./.libs/lib

Re: ITP: PySparse - a sparse linear algebra extension for Python

2006-11-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 13:28 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 11/20/06, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Second, I may need some advice on the license: > > > > Copyright (c) 2001-2003, ETH Zurich and Roman Geus > > All rights reserved. >

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 19:58 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:09:55PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > *Think* for a moment about the consequences. This is not a simple > > rebuild, this is a serious problem. > > I agree and I take full responsibili

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 19:12 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:12:06AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Please tell me if I have this right: > > * You don't like .la files > > Yes. > > > * So you're unilat

Re: What on earth?

2006-04-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:12 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > Please tell me if I have this right: > * You don't like .la files > * So you're unilaterally removing them from a core package > (libxcursor) with dozens of reve

What on earth?

2006-04-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Please tell me if I have this right: * You don't like .la files * So you're unilaterally removing them from a core package (libxcursor) with dozens of reverse-depends, breaking all of them * Even though they're a years-old and very well established

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:05 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:29:11PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Did you receive this email or any of this thread? It's now more than > > two weeks old, and I'd really like to upload a new PETSc 2.3.0 AS

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-12-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:11 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 17:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:57:36PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Well, I think the factor there is that we "usually" want users to > &g

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 17:50 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:57:36PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Well, I think the factor there is that we "usually" want users to upgrade > > > to > > > the latest kernel automatical

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 00:22 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:53:57AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > > For that matter, why is it important that Debian provide support for > > > > > coinstallability with older packages that are, ev

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:03 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:15:28PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:59 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > I understand that, and the whole proposal. And it will break a lot of >

Re: petsc_2.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
v 14, 2005 at 05:13:47PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > And thats what I asked for, yes. Drop the version from -dev|-dbg|-doc, > > > use the shlib system for the rest (which makes packages built against it > > > depending on the right version) and have fun. >

ITP: libMesh - a C++ Finite Element Library

2005-07-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Greetings, I am planning to package libMesh [1], a C++ library for parallel finite element calculations using MPI, PETSc and (Par)Metis (and possibly hypre via PETSc). It is actively developed at the University of Texas at Austin and Hamburg University of Technol

Re: anonymous dupload stopped working

2005-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:16 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Adam C Powell IV dijo [Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:55:53AM -0400]: > > Greetings, > > > > About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), > > anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I

anonymous dupload stopped working

2005-04-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, About two weeks ago (or perhaps earlier, I don't know), anonymous-ftp-master stopped functioning as an upload host. I think this corresponded to a dupload upgrade (2.6.3 in testing), since the $default_host line was commented reflecting a new dupload.conf. Has anyone else had this pro

ITP: hypre high performance preconditioners

2003-08-26 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I intend to package hypre, which is "scalable software for solving large, sparse linear systems of equations on massively parallel computers". It provides high-performance matrix preconditioners toward that end, and can be linked with other software such as PETSc

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, > especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.co

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for > newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or conf

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:25, Josh Lauricha wrote: On Wed 10:51, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Greetings, > > Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for > newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other > bootloa

Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other bootloaders, from grub to yaboot/quik, aboot, palo, you name it. Yes, the kernel-image postinst runs lilo, but lilo.conf is invariably out of date,

ITA: mpich: Parallel computing system

2003-04-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Greetings, I'm in the process of adopting mpich from Junichi Uekawa. This is at Junichi's request, as described on the debian-beowulf list a few days ago. Zeen, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best so

Re: dpkg bug #156463: second opinions?

2002-08-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam Heath wrote: On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Just writing to request a "second opinion" on this bug. Current dpkg behavior does not allow a package to replace a directory with a symlink during upgrade. This broke a libc6-dev upgrade when I made an unsta

dpkg bug #156463: second opinions?

2002-08-30 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Just writing to request a "second opinion" on this bug. Current dpkg behavior does not allow a package to replace a directory with a symlink during upgrade. This broke a libc6-dev upgrade when I made an unstable chroot from a potato tarball on an ARM system a couple of months ago.

ITP: ferite, a lightweight scripting language and engine

2002-01-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Version: N/A Severity: wishlist Greetings, I am ITPing this lightweight extensible scripting language and engine, used by E17 and applicable to many other projects. From the website: ferite is a scripting language and engine all in one managable chunk. It is designed to be e