Re: Declarative Diversions - GSoC Project Update 1

2011-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
-From: /usr/share/foo Divert-To: /usr/share/bar Divert-From: /usr/share/baz Divert-To: /usr/share/coo This makes it easier to figure out what the contents of the file means when you're tired or don't care to check the documentation. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just

Re: Declarative Diversions - GSoC Project Update 1

2011-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
with it being optional if you really don't care. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Need feedback on dpkg's behaviour with multiarch packages

2011-02-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
running another architecture | will still work ? I think using the string «native» as a magic alias for what arch this is on would be useful, yes. I'm not convinced it should be used in output by default, it's trivial to use sed to change it, after all. Regards, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user

Re: RFC: 3.0 (git), now with bundles

2010-06-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
to be specified in debian/source somewhere? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
not without patches to dak). While I'm not an ftp-master, I would be surprised if they were happy to take patches for a 3.0 (simple-patchsys). Quilt isn't that complicated to use and should just replace simple-patchsys, dbs and similar patch systems. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps to generate a frontend friendly package list

2009-12-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
::System '$_system'; require AptPkg::Cache; require AptPkg::Version; }; if ($@) { die libapt-pkg-perl not available, can't use -f; } to do the check at run-time. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps to generate a frontend friendly package list

2009-12-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
of requested build-depens and -conflits. No, pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic does not use a dummy package. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps to generate a frontend friendly package list

2009-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
is not a sign of great engineering ;-) Let's not try to parse our own output. :-) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
or extending the source package format sounds like a good idea. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Goswin von Brederlow | Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: | | ]] Goswin von Brederlow | | | Remove 3.0 (qit) format completly. A full history bloats the source | | and a cut down history has no advantage over a plain source. | | I think this would be a mistake. I'm increasingly

Re: Enhancing 3.0 (git) source package format

2009-11-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
upstream git repository that might not be available. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix build when selinux pkg-config is not available

2009-10-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
the location of pkg-config by setting PKG_CONFIG. Please use the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro (or at least the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro and then call $PKG_CONFIG yourself). (Yes, I know that the old code has the same problem.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends

Re: [PATCH] Use FIBMAP to sort .list files before scanning

2009-10-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
no longer have the exact timings here.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Roadmap for the 1.15.x series

2009-08-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
generate files in their postinst script (e.g. byte-compilation of elisp, python), and being able to query for who owns it using dpkg -S would be useful. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ

Re: GNU ChangeLogs, commit logs and commits

2009-02-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
it easier to verify for correctness, avoid regressions, etc. | - Makes it easier to revert or cherry-pick if needed. As buxy pointed out: how do you think we should do this wrt larger features? In the past, you've wanted a squashed commit, is this still wanted? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-07 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil Williams (Please respect my Mail-Followup-To and my Mail-Copies-To: never) | On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 08:33 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | How would you then handle libraries that go in /lib? (Apart from the | fact that I think just using a subdirectory of /usr/lib is much neater

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
it is a mistake to want to use /usr/lib/i386/ when it is | entirely possible that multiarch users will actually need the full | triplet - think about hurd or kfreebsd as multiarch packages. I don't believe anybody has suggested using just /usr/lib/i386, but rather /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu? -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: What coding style should be used?

2008-06-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
reformat it just for the heck of it (since that's problematic wrt bisecting and such). (Oh, and I disagree with your formatting, but I'm not a dpkg developer, just a patch contributor, so I'm not going to stir that pot, not now at least.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Re: RFC: Idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-06-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
, but it probably makes sense for it to be dpkg, making sure it's root:root 0644). -- Tollef Fog Heen / Linpro ASt: 21 54 41 73 UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
: - Documentation - I believe there might be a bug where the filters code does not respect --root passed to dpkg; I need to test that and possibly fix it. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are From 3eb1d13d1cddcd0af7fe477b09468c5184eb1a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
not questioning his motives, I am just pointing out that iwj maintained it for about two out of its fourteen-year life. Calling the project Ian's and implying that he has a god-given right to take back dpkg because he first wrote it is just silly. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
them to -dpkg or publish a git branch somewhere. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Otavio Salvador | Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I've finally gotten around to fixing up my support for excluding bits | of packages as they are unpacked. It can be gotten from | git://git.err.no/dpkg in the master branch (sorry about that, it | should probably have gone

Re: Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Raphael Hertzog | Hi, | | On Sat, 05 Jan 2008, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | I've finally gotten around to fixing up my support for excluding bits | of packages as they are unpacked. It can be gotten from | git://git.err.no/dpkg in the master branch (sorry about that, it | should probably

Review of file exclusion branch requested

2008-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
, but it seems to work fine for me in my somewhat light testing. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg.org hosting

2007-11-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
of the moin date and the mail setup. I'd like to send a thanks to Brendan O'Dea who has been hosting dpkg.org for so long. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dpkg.org hosting

2007-11-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Brendan O'Dea | Anyone care to step up and host the MX? I also have a copy of the www | MoinMoin if you're interested in getting that going again. I'll be happy to host this, both the wiki and the MX. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends

Re: merging dselect bugs resulting from dpkg -iGROEB

2006-10-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Florent Rougon | I don't think anyone serious still uses a dselect access method other | than APT; so IMHO, it is OK to merge these bugs and even tag them as | wontfix. I know that Ian Jackson for one uses other access methods. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Bug#317760: dpkg-dev: fails to unpack packages with 0 as the revision

2005-07-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
PROTECTED] /tmp The patch in [EMAIL PROTECTED]/dpkg--devel--1.13--patch-1 (the arch archive is at http://arch.err.no/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) fixes this problem. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends

Re: DPKG proposal

2005-05-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
install tls extensions as well. Wenn you install PSI (a | jabber client) it will install the ssl-plugin for it... Sounds a lot like http://www.dpkg.org/FeatureDependencies to me. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky

Bug#18482: reopen, reassign

2004-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
reopen 18482 reassign 18482 debian-policy thanks Sorry for closing this bug a bit fast; I'm reassigning the bug to policy so the policy process can decide whether this should be changed or not. - tfheen

Bug#244667: dpkg doesn't wait long enough when (re)starting a service

2004-04-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
... No, the conclusion is that apache should wait a little longer. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#242870: dpkg: updated Polish (pl.po) translation

2004-04-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
-- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#241762: dpkg segfaults with at least -l and -i options

2004-04-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
file have become corrupted. Can you send those found in /var/lib/dpkg to the bug so I can have a look? -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Bug#236468: apt: --reinstall should allow to renew configuration files

2004-03-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Michlmayr | BTW, this may be a stupid question, but is there a way to tell apt to | pass some options to dpkg? I needed this the other day and couldn't | easily find it. apt-get -o DPkg::options=--force-overwrite install foo should work. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: dpkg musings

2004-03-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wichert Akkerman | * N-arch setup / architecture OS revisions [...] http://raw.no/debian/amd64-multiarch-2 has some thoughts on the issue, and hashes out a possible solution, which is somewhat based on your writing, the meeting in Malaga and discussions on IRC. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages

2004-01-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Paul Brook I have a Mail-Followup-To set. Please respect it, or at least respect the policy on Debian lists not to Cc the one you are replying to. | On Thursday 15 January 2004 11:48 am, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | Other could do with conflicting -dev packages. But the majority

Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages

2004-01-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
, on which just about every debian package | depends. We are talking about development packages, not library packages. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-

Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages

2004-01-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
a benchmark that tests 32 bit and 64 bit | support. That would be hell. We aren't gentoo. Users aren't supposed to do that, but if they do, they should use a chroot. Optimize for the common case. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly