Re: Making a package arch independant

2001-02-27 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:46:18PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:43:38PM +, Patrick Caulfield wrote: I've taken one of my packages (dnet-common) and turned its only binary into a shell script so that the package is now architecture independant. If I just

building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
I have a package which can be build both on potato and on woody, but the resulting binary package for woody won't install on potato. Vica-versa, I don't know - just assume that it won't install either. Now I want to create two separate binary packages, or rather, I would like to create two

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:45:08AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:15:16PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: I have a package which can be build both on potato and on woody, but the resulting binary package for woody won't install on potato. Vica-versa, I don't know -

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:58:07AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:45:08AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: But anyway, that's not the problem. I don't need the binary package to work both on potato and on

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: Yes, of course, and that is what I did. But the actual question was: how do I get dpkg-buildpackage to give the potato version a different *name*? Just renaming the files gives problems with the signature on the .changes/.dsc

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: Yes, of course, and that is what I did. But the actual question was: how do I get dpkg-buildpackage to give the potato version a different *name*? Just renaming the files gives problems with the signature on the .changes/.dsc files. If you're

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: If you're just going to put these on the webpage, why would you even need the .changes file? (And the .dsc is only for the source package, so you don't need that for the potato build either) I'd put the potato and woody build in

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: If you're just going to put these on the webpage, why would you even need the .changes file? (And the .dsc is only for the source package, so you don't need that for the potato build

Re: subarchitectures (was Re: What to do with optimization flags ? )

2001-02-27 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:14:53PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings, and thank you so much for this helpful information! 1) I notice you reference 'apic'. Do you happen to know to what that refers? The ones I recognize are

Re: subarchitectures (was Re: What to do with optimization flags ? )

2001-02-27 Thread Taral
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:21:25PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: I'm getting around to this now, and had a question: What is the flag that indicates SSE2 (I take it xmm - SSE1). I've looked through the kernel source, and cannot find it. arch/i386/kernel/setup.c get_cpuinfo() The flags are

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: In fact, make _sure_ you don't allow access to a signed .changes file on an unofficial web page because that would allow anybody to upload it to Debian. It's signed after all. Are the Debian upload queues not all password-protected? If they

Request for feedback and sponsor: xgospel

2001-02-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I have packaged xgospel, probably the best client for playing Go on the Internet Go Server IGS, and put the sources into deb-src http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main If you run the appropriate combination of system and platform, you can also use the binary packages

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: I tried `dpkg-buildpackage -b -apotato_i386 -rfakeroot' on potato after I first build the package with `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' on woody. Potato may not be a different architecture than woody, but it was the closest thing I could find. This

Re: Request for feedback and sponsor: xgospel

2001-02-27 Thread Britton
I will sponsor this, assuming it looks good (looking over it now). Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." On 27 Feb 2001, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, I have packaged xgospel, probably the best client for playing Go on the Internet Go Server IGS, and put the

Re: Making a package arch independant

2001-02-27 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:46:18PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:43:38PM +, Patrick Caulfield wrote: I've taken one of my packages (dnet-common) and turned its only binary into a shell script so that the package is now architecture independant. If I just

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:20:15AM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: So, ... Is it OK if I include /var/lib/crafty in debian/conffiles ? Do I have to include every file or just /var/lib/crafty/* ? No, it isn't at all. Any configuration files MUST reside in /etc. These are not configuration

building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
I have a package which can be build both on potato and on woody, but the resulting binary package for woody won't install on potato. Vica-versa, I don't know - just assume that it won't install either. Now I want to create two separate binary packages, or rather, I would like to create two

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:15:16PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: I have a package which can be build both on potato and on woody, but the resulting binary package for woody won't install on potato. Vica-versa, I don't know - just assume that it won't install either. Compiled, yes? Then

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:45:08AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:15:16PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: I have a package which can be build both on potato and on woody, but the resulting binary package for woody won't install on potato. Vica-versa, I don't know -

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Russo
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:45:08AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: But anyway, that's not the problem. I don't need the binary package to work both on potato and on woody - I just want an easy way to create two different versions of

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:58:07AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:45:08AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: But anyway, that's not the problem. I don't need the binary package to work both on potato and on

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: Yes, of course, and that is what I did. But the actual question was: how do I get dpkg-buildpackage to give the potato version a different *name*? Just renaming the files gives problems with the signature on the .changes/.dsc

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:36:40AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: With the changelog entry? Make one for potato and one for woody. the potato version get something with potao in the version number, the woody get a higher version number, without potato. Happens all the time, look in

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: Yes, of course, and that is what I did. But the actual question was: how do I get dpkg-buildpackage to give the potato version a different *name*? Just renaming the files gives problems with the signature on the .changes/.dsc files. If you're

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: If you're just going to put these on the webpage, why would you even need the .changes file? (And the .dsc is only for the source package, so you don't need that for the potato build either) I'd put the potato and woody build in

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: If you're just going to put these on the webpage, why would you even need the .changes file? (And the .dsc is only for the source package, so you don't need that for the potato build

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
What I do is edit the last version in the debian/changelog, e.g. gri (2.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low to: gri (2.6.0-0potato1) unstable; urgency=low Ove Kaaven wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: Yes, of course, and that is what I did. But the actual question was: how do

Re: subarchitectures (was Re: What to do with optimization flags ? )

2001-02-27 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:14:53PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings, and thank you so much for this helpful information! 1) I notice you reference 'apic'. Do you happen to know to what that refers? The ones I recognize are

Re: subarchitectures (was Re: What to do with optimization flags ? )

2001-02-27 Thread Taral
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:21:25PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: I'm getting around to this now, and had a question: What is the flag that indicates SSE2 (I take it xmm - SSE1). I've looked through the kernel source, and cannot find it. arch/i386/kernel/setup.c get_cpuinfo() The flags are sse

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: In fact, make _sure_ you don't allow access to a signed .changes file on an unofficial web page because that would allow anybody to upload it to Debian. It's signed after all. Are the Debian upload queues not all password-protected? If they are,

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: In fact, make _sure_ you don't allow access to a signed .changes file on an unofficial web page because that would allow anybody to upload it to Debian. It's signed after all. Are the Debian upload queues not all

Re: subarchitectures (was Re: What to do with optimization flags ? )

2001-02-27 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings, and thanks! I've been using the 2.2 series with xmm patches. I take it then the analogous flags are: xmm, and 26. Correct (see setup.c)? ldso will know to look in these subdirs on such a kernel? What then to do with the standard package? Will 2.4 become the Debian default soon?

Request for feedback and sponsor: xgospel

2001-02-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I have packaged xgospel, probably the best client for playing Go on the Internet Go Server IGS, and put the sources into deb-src http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main If you run the appropriate combination of system and platform, you can also use the binary packages

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: I tried `dpkg-buildpackage -b -apotato_i386 -rfakeroot' on potato after I first build the package with `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' on woody. Potato may not be a different architecture than woody, but it was the closest thing I could find. This

Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I'm having the darndest time figuring out what's going wrong with the PETSc build. It was fine when I built and uploaded PPC packages three weeks ago, and alpha, sparc and arm seemed to build fine, but it breaks now in exactly that way on unstable i386 and powerpc and testing alpha. The

Re: Request for feedback and sponsor: xgospel

2001-02-27 Thread Britton
I will sponsor this, assuming it looks good (looking over it now). Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. On 27 Feb 2001, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, I have packaged xgospel, probably the best client for playing Go on the Internet Go Server IGS, and put the sources

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:32:38PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: The problem is that it's setting MPI_LIBS to -L{MPI_HOME}/build/... like it's substituting ${MPI_HOME} with {MPI_HOME} instead of the value of the Have you copied the -L option verbatim? If so, the error is clear: there's no $

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Julian Gilbey wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:32:38PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: The problem is that it's setting MPI_LIBS to -L{MPI_HOME}/build/... like it's substituting ${MPI_HOME} with {MPI_HOME} instead of the value of the Have you copied the -L option verbatim? If so, the

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Adam, On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Have you copied the -L option verbatim? If so, the error is clear: there's no $ between the -L and the {. Otherwise, I have no idea. I'm sorry, I was very imprecise. Here are the details: # For mpich: (woody mpich uses