First Install

2001-02-03 Thread MR STEWART JAMES LEONARD
Okay, a blatantly obvious question from a complete newbie to Linux. I have a 30Gb Hard Drive for Windows which is about 75% full. I think that partitioning it is a waste of time. If I was to install a new hard drive as a slave. Install Linux on that how would I go about formatting it? (I assum

Re: First Install

2001-02-03 Thread sharkey
> Okay, a blatantly obvious question from a complete newbie to > Linux. Tip 1: post on debian-user not debian-mentors. debian-mentors is for new Debian developers not new debian users. > If I was to install a new > hard drive as a slave. Install Linux on that how would I go about > f

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Richard Braakman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:44:12PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > It just the same thing about binary-has-unneeded-section. Strangely, I > don't remember it giving this particular error a few weeks ago when I > started working on the package. It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:57:22AM -0600, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Both dh_strip and install -s will strip those two sections, because > we decided (long ago) that they're a waste of space. Stripping > them is not required, though, it's just a good thing to do if it's > not too much trouble.

Re: Unrequest?

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:24:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Although it hadn't been checked in, someone had already > made serious progress on the only package I knew I could > really get into working on. > > How do I request that, at this time, I have no need for > anyone to be furtherin

Re: getting debian mail-archiv to read at home?

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:04PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > I want to read up on debian-bsd. I would like to do that in a > convenient and well supported manner. > > Can I get the whole mbox (from where?) and read it at home? Check out master.debian.org:~debian/lists/debian-bsd* -- Digi

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:10:51AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Both dh_strip and install -s will strip those two sections, because > > we decided (long ago) that they're a waste of space. Stripping > > them is not required, though, it's just a good thing to do if it's > > not too much trouble.

Re: Getting started

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:22:04PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Does my gpg key need to be signed (I live in the sticks, so to speak, > > probably not too many Debian developers around here), how do I get the > > 3.0 standards package to do all the things the older 2.6.x.x package > > did,

Re: Getting started

2001-02-03 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:55:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Furthermore, once you get an application manager assigned, tell him where > you live and he can check our internal database for nearby developers. > Of course it wouldn't be advisable for him to tell you the street address of > the poss

pgp verification in gnus

2001-02-03 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hello. I want someone's advice how to check detached pgp signatures in gnus, like ones mutt create. Mailcrypt info tells it is not able to handle them. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia

.changes?

2001-02-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't get it. I used to be able to build packages normally. I followed the guidelines in the maint-guide, and it all worked. Now, suddenly, instead of asking my gpg-key twice, I only get that question once. And there's no .changes-file. If I try to

Re: .changes?

2001-02-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I don't get it. I do now. Apparently, something went wrong with my gpg-configuration. Fixed that, and everything works fine again. wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in belgium No human can know everything.

mentor request

2001-02-03 Thread Joshua Haberman
Hello, my name is Joshua Haberman, I'm in the NM Queue, and have not been assigned an AM yet, but thought I'd see if I could get some help on packaging so that my package would be ripe and mature by the time I'm being reviewed. My intention is to package a cross-platform digital audio editor calle

Re: mentor request

2001-02-03 Thread Brian Russo
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:42:11PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote: > I have a working package at the moment, but I'd appreciate it if an > experienced maintainer would look it over for correctness, make > suggestions, and perhaps explain some of the issues that are not quite > clear to me. I do my ho

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > What does dh_strip work on exactly? The man page doesn't seem to specify > > how it locates the library files it's stripping. > > It checks debian//usr/lib/* > or so, and debian/firstbinarypackage instead of debian/tmp in case

First Install

2001-02-03 Thread MR STEWART JAMES LEONARD
Okay, a blatantly obvious question from a complete newbie to Linux. I have a 30Gb Hard Drive for Windows which is about 75% full. I think that partitioning it is a waste of time. If I was to install a new hard drive as a slave. Install Linux on that how would I go about formatting it? (I assu

Re: First Install

2001-02-03 Thread sharkey
> Okay, a blatantly obvious question from a complete newbie to > Linux. Tip 1: post on debian-user not debian-mentors. debian-mentors is for new Debian developers not new debian users. > If I was to install a new > hard drive as a slave. Install Linux on that how would I go about >

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Richard Braakman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:44:12PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > It just the same thing about binary-has-unneeded-section. Strangely, I > don't remember it giving this particular error a few weeks ago when I > started working on the package. It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:57:22AM -0600, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Both dh_strip and install -s will strip those two sections, because > we decided (long ago) that they're a waste of space. Stripping > them is not required, though, it's just a good thing to do if it's > not too much trouble.

Re: Unrequest?

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:24:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Although it hadn't been checked in, someone had already > made serious progress on the only package I knew I could > really get into working on. > > How do I request that, at this time, I have no need for > anyone to be furtheri

Re: getting debian mail-archiv to read at home?

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:04PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > I want to read up on debian-bsd. I would like to do that in a > convenient and well supported manner. > > Can I get the whole mbox (from where?) and read it at home? Check out master.debian.org:~debian/lists/debian-bsd* -- Dig

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:10:51AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Both dh_strip and install -s will strip those two sections, because > > we decided (long ago) that they're a waste of space. Stripping > > them is not required, though, it's just a good thing to do if it's > > not too much trouble.

Re: Getting started

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:22:04PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Does my gpg key need to be signed (I live in the sticks, so to speak, > > probably not too many Debian developers around here), how do I get the > > 3.0 standards package to do all the things the older 2.6.x.x package > > did

Re: Getting started

2001-02-03 Thread William Burrow
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:55:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Furthermore, once you get an application manager assigned, tell him where > you live and he can check our internal database for nearby developers. > Of course it wouldn't be advisable for him to tell you the street address of > the pos

pgp verification in gnus

2001-02-03 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hello. I want someone's advice how to check detached pgp signatures in gnus, like ones mutt create. Mailcrypt info tells it is not able to handle them. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

.changes?

2001-02-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't get it. I used to be able to build packages normally. I followed the guidelines in the maint-guide, and it all worked. Now, suddenly, instead of asking my gpg-key twice, I only get that question once. And there's no .changes-file. If I try t

Re: .changes?

2001-02-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I don't get it. I do now. Apparently, something went wrong with my gpg-configuration. Fixed that, and everything works fine again. wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in belgium No human can know everything

mentor request

2001-02-03 Thread Joshua Haberman
Hello, my name is Joshua Haberman, I'm in the NM Queue, and have not been assigned an AM yet, but thought I'd see if I could get some help on packaging so that my package would be ripe and mature by the time I'm being reviewed. My intention is to package a cross-platform digital audio editor call

Re: mentor request

2001-02-03 Thread Brian Russo
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:42:11PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote: > I have a working package at the moment, but I'd appreciate it if an > experienced maintainer would look it over for correctness, make > suggestions, and perhaps explain some of the issues that are not quite > clear to me. I do my h

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-03 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > What does dh_strip work on exactly? The man page doesn't seem to specify > > how it locates the library files it's stripping. > > It checks debian//usr/lib/* > or so, and debian/firstbinarypackage instead of debian/tmp in case

(forw) ITP: gozer -- a text renderer

2001-02-03 Thread Eric Dorland
Hi, Just forwarding my ITP to see if anyone would be willing to sponsor me. The package is all done, and can be downloaded from http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~edorla/debian/ . Thanks. - Forwarded message from Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:07:06 -0500 From: Eric D

question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-03 Thread Aubin Paul
Hi, Actually, I lied, one of my two questions is about libraries, but I have two questions. 1) I'm currently packing snoopy, it's an execve logger, it overrides the default execve behaviour in libc, with an LD_PRELOAD, and logs all executed commands. Anyhow, the upstream version installs into /l

Re: question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-03 Thread sharkey
> 1) I'm currently packing snoopy, it's an execve logger, it overrides > the default execve behaviour in libc, with an LD_PRELOAD, and logs all > executed commands. Anyhow, the upstream version installs into /lib, > since it's for libc.. however, does it go there in a deb or into > /usr/lib? It's