etch --> lenny dpkg selections

2009-03-20 Thread Ivan Savov
Hello, I have been using dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections to replicate the client machines at work. It works super well. Yesterday I added a new machine (lenny 5.0) and I would like to set the same packages as I have system wide, however the other machines I have are still runn

dpkg git repo does not build

2009-03-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello, I am trying to build dpkg from git source but that fails. 1) origins/Makefile should be removed from configure.ac 2) ChangeLog is not generated, and dh_installchangelogs -a ChangeLog ChangeLog.old fails. 3) Maybe a build-dep on git-core is warranted, due to the use of git log. Chee