Re: Making package.

2001-05-21 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Tommy! You wrote: Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I do: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it compiles fine and

Re: Making package.

2001-05-21 Thread Roland Mas
Bas Zoetekouw (2001-05-21 08:48:38 +0200) : Hi Tommy! You wrote: Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I do:

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-21 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Domenico Andreoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: maybe using an abacus-common package which owns that conffile... my question now is, is a file worth of a package on its own?!? Nope. Why not just leave the packages conflicting until someone with a real need to have both installed stands up? --

Re: dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-21 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:10:59PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Change it to rm -f That way, you wont get an error. You should do it this way anyway, else your package becomes uninstallable if the user removes the file before removing the package. It's not only a good idea.

Re: dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Othmar Pasteka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010521 20:38]: hear, hear ... the law ... what's the fine for not useing -f? :) dpkg errors (and thus RC bugs ;) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Easy way to exclude an arch from a package?

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gordon Sadler wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi all, I may just be looking in the wrong places in the developers' documentation, in which case I apologize in advance. I'm adopting a multi-binary package, one of whose binary

Building on arm.

2001-05-21 Thread Viral
Hi, I have packaged a program, vcdimager. It doesn't build on arm because it uses bitfields, and gcc on arm doesn't seem to pack bitfields. I tried to use -mno-bit-align to force it, but the option is not recognised by gcc on arm. Is there a way to get around this ? The ideal way would be to

Making package.

2001-05-21 Thread Tommy Moore
Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I do: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it compiles fine and asks me for my gpg password

Re: Making package.

2001-05-21 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Tommy! You wrote: Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I do: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it compiles fine and

Re: Making package.

2001-05-21 Thread Roland Mas
Bas Zoetekouw (2001-05-21 08:48:38 +0200) : Hi Tommy! You wrote: Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I do:

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-21 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: ... Please go ahead. If someone non-Swedish finds the software in Debian packages and feels it is very useful, he/she may start a project to translate it into English or

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-21 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Domenico Andreoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: maybe using an abacus-common package which owns that conffile... my question now is, is a file worth of a package on its own?!? Nope. Why not just leave the packages conflicting until someone with a real need to have both installed stands up? --

Re: dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-21 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Change it to rm -f That way, you wont get an error. You should do it this way anyway, else your package becomes uninstallable if the user removes the file before removing the package. It's not only a good idea. It's the law (policy 6.2.). -- Robbe

Re: dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-21 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:10:59PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Change it to rm -f That way, you wont get an error. You should do it this way anyway, else your package becomes uninstallable if the user removes the file before removing the package. It's not only a good idea. It's

Re: dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-21 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Othmar Pasteka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010521 20:38]: hear, hear ... the law ... what's the fine for not useing -f? :) dpkg errors (and thus RC bugs ;) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Easy way to exclude an arch from a package?

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi all, I may just be looking in the wrong places in the developers' documentation, in which case I apologize in advance. I'm adopting a multi-binary package, one of whose binary packages won't build on the alpha architecture currently due to a compiler problem. I'd like to build the other

Re: Easy way to exclude an arch from a package?

2001-05-21 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi all, I may just be looking in the wrong places in the developers' documentation, in which case I apologize in advance. I'm adopting a multi-binary package, one of whose binary packages won't build on the alpha architecture