Looking for a mentor: YARD RADIUS...

2001-01-03 Thread Francesco Lovergine
Hi folks in order to become a Debian developer, I'm looking for a mentor to debianize the YARD Radius package. I'm the upstream author of the package, which you can find at http://yardradius.sourceforge.net Yet Another Radius Daemon (YARD) is a free RADIUS RFC-compliant daemon for accounting

Perl package

2001-01-03 Thread larocha
Hi, all: Is there any guide, hints or example package in order to make a package containing perl scripts perl modules? (No compiled sources at all) Thanks in Advance -- Luis Arocha "Data" - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox

Re: Perl package

2001-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any guide, hints or example package in order to make a package containing perl scripts perl modules? (No compiled sources at all) Try the Perl policy, in perl-5.6-doc or similar: /usr/share/doc/perl-5.6-doc/perl-policy/. -- Colin Watson

Re: Perl package

2001-01-03 Thread Ingo Saitz
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:57:39AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any guide, hints or example package in order to make a package containing perl scripts perl modules? (No compiled sources at all) In addition to the packagnig manual you should also have a look at the perl-policy

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-03 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:45:33AM +0100, Jrme Marant wrote: Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about an explanatory paragraph in the packaging manual, and a wishlist bug report against dpkg to allow more complex These 2 things would be great. Do you want me to fill a bug

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:17:54PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to this standard form (whatever that then is). I couldn't find a good one, so I wrote my own. Wouldn't a reference to a good book on discrete math/logic be

RE: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Jan-2001 Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Hi, I packaging new upstream versions of my packages and noticed that dpkg-buildpackage is not generating the .changes file. Has anything about dpkg-buildpackage changed? dpkg-genchanges is to be called with the -isp arguments if i recall. --

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-03 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:14:58PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:17:54PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to this standard form (whatever that then is). I couldn't find a good one, so I wrote my own.

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry proclaimed: On 02-Jan-2001 Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Hi, I packaging new upstream versions of my packages and noticed that dpkg-buildpackage is not generating the .changes file. Has anything about dpkg-buildpackage changed? dpkg-genchanges is to be called with

uploading for multiple architectures

2001-01-03 Thread Decklin Foster
[or, "curiosity killed the cat" ;-)] Today I updated a package of mine (rc) that was failing to build on PPC. after I built a copy on my own machine, I used voltaire to check that the fix did in fact work. Since I had .debs for two architectures, I figured I would upload both of them. However,

Re: uploading for multiple architectures

2001-01-03 Thread Decklin Foster
Adam C Powell IV writes: Do the -b/-B options to dpkg-buildpackage answer your question? That's it. thanks. -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010103T112440-0800, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry proclaimed: dpkg-genchanges is to be called with the -isp arguments if i recall. dpkg-genchanges does not seem to recogonize the -p option. It's -isp, not -i -s -p. It's a contraction from -is -ip -- %%% Antti-Juhani

Re: uploading for multiple architectures

2001-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Decklin Foster wrote: However, I soon discovered that gzip apparenly creates different compressed files for the same input on i386 and ppc. It has nothing to do with architecture; gzip records the timestamp of the file it compresses: joey@gumdrop:~touch foo joey@gumdrop:~gzip foo

Looking for a mentor: YARD RADIUS...

2001-01-03 Thread Francesco Lovergine
Hi folks in order to become a Debian developer, I'm looking for a mentor to debianize the YARD Radius package. I'm the upstream author of the package, which you can find at http://yardradius.sourceforge.net Yet Another Radius Daemon (YARD) is a free RADIUS RFC-compliant daemon for accounting

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-03 Thread Jérôme Marant
Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about an explanatory paragraph in the packaging manual, and a wishlist bug report against dpkg to allow more complex These 2 things would be great. Do you want me to fill a bug report or do you want to do it yourself? I guess that dpkg is

Perl package

2001-01-03 Thread larocha
Hi, all: Is there any guide, hints or example package in order to make a package containing perl scripts perl modules? (No compiled sources at all) Thanks in Advance -- Luis Arocha Data - Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox

Re: Perl package

2001-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any guide, hints or example package in order to make a package containing perl scripts perl modules? (No compiled sources at all) Try the Perl policy, in perl-5.6-doc or similar: /usr/share/doc/perl-5.6-doc/perl-policy/. -- Colin Watson

Re: Perl package

2001-01-03 Thread Ingo Saitz
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:57:39AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any guide, hints or example package in order to make a package containing perl scripts perl modules? (No compiled sources at all) In addition to the packagnig manual you should also have a look at the perl-policy

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-03 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:45:33AM +0100, Jrme Marant wrote: Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about an explanatory paragraph in the packaging manual, and a wishlist bug report against dpkg to allow more complex These 2 things would be great. Do you want me to fill a bug

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:17:54PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to this standard form (whatever that then is). I couldn't find a good one, so I wrote my own. Wouldn't a reference to a good book on discrete math/logic be

RE: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Jan-2001 Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Hi, I packaging new upstream versions of my packages and noticed that dpkg-buildpackage is not generating the .changes file. Has anything about dpkg-buildpackage changed? dpkg-genchanges is to be called with the -isp arguments if i recall.

Re: Grouping dependencies

2001-01-03 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:14:58PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:17:54PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Maybe you can find some webpage describing such reductions to this standard form (whatever that then is). I couldn't find a good one, so I wrote my own.

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry proclaimed: On 02-Jan-2001 Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Hi, I packaging new upstream versions of my packages and noticed that dpkg-buildpackage is not generating the .changes file. Has anything about dpkg-buildpackage changed? dpkg-genchanges is to be called with

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Easy answer: just let debhelper do the work for you. Makes packaging quite a bit easier and takes care of a good deal of policy grunt work like the usr/doc - usr/share/doc symlinking. it looks like dpkg --build should do the right thing, my two packages that do not use debhelper do not call

uploading for multiple architectures

2001-01-03 Thread Decklin Foster
[or, curiosity killed the cat ;-)] Today I updated a package of mine (rc) that was failing to build on PPC. after I built a copy on my own machine, I used voltaire to check that the fix did in fact work. Since I had .debs for two architectures, I figured I would upload both of them. However, I

Re: uploading for multiple architectures

2001-01-03 Thread Decklin Foster
Adam C Powell IV writes: Do the -b/-B options to dpkg-buildpackage answer your question? That's it. thanks. -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010103T112440-0800, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry proclaimed: dpkg-genchanges is to be called with the -isp arguments if i recall. dpkg-genchanges does not seem to recogonize the -p option. It's -isp, not -i -s -p. It's a contraction from -is -ip -- %%% Antti-Juhani

Re: uploading for multiple architectures

2001-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Decklin Foster wrote: However, I soon discovered that gzip apparenly creates different compressed files for the same input on i386 and ppc. It has nothing to do with architecture; gzip records the timestamp of the file it compresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~touch foo [EMAIL

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho proclaimed: On 20010103T112440-0800, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry proclaimed: dpkg-genchanges is to be called with the -isp arguments if i recall. dpkg-genchanges does not seem to recogonize the -p option. It's -isp, not -i -s -p. It's a contraction