Re: Packaging problems Re: Packaging .deb vs .rpm

2004-02-15 Thread Halim Boukaram
Hi   About the C library for math.   I'm making the rpms. but the binary rpm isnt working. its turning out much smaller than the source and only keeps the AUTHOR, README, todo and help documents.   Ayone knows if thats normal or not.   Since i started trying to make the binary rpm i've made one maj

RFS: libpam-usb, PAM module allowing authentication via USB-Storage device

2004-02-15 Thread GHERdO
pam_usb is a PAM module that enables authentication using an USB-Storage device (such as an USB Pen) through DSA private/public keys. It can also work with other devices, such as floppy disks or cdroms. It can be setup to work with any application using PAM such as your system login (login),

problem with non PIC code

2004-02-15 Thread Alexandre Pineau
Helllo, I maintain the debian package of the library alogg, and the Bug#216839 (libalogg.so.1.3.3 is a non-PIC library) was filled against it. I don't know how to solve this bug : alogg includes non-PIC code because of the use of "allegro-config --libs" during its building. If we look

Re: problem with non PIC code

2004-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Alexandre Pineau [Sun, Feb 15 2004, 12:40:28PM]: > The allegro's maintainer suggests to me that "I need to ensure the > executable wich need alogg links with alleg_unsharable and exports > its symbols to the library alogg with -rdynamic". But I don't know how > to do this. > - The ex

Re: Bootsplash Updates

2004-02-15 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: > Some time tommorrow (aka in the morning/afternoon) I should release > updated (and IMO improved) versons of my bootsplash packages. Hi ! As far as I tried, only tty1 is 'bootsplashed' with the framebuffer image. I'd like to know how I can mod the /etc/init.d/rc scrip

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:57, Tommaso Moroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, is it normal that the program doesn't install the manual in > KHelpCenter? This is because your package install the KHelp files in /usr/share/doc/HTML (per KDE spe

maintaining new packages,upgrading to newer upstream versions

2004-02-15 Thread Lucas Albers
I just recently started using debian, 6 months ago. I have run into a number of situations in which I needed to build a package, or thought a package could be useful. The packages I have been working on are: sara security scanner, nagios-modules, nagios doesn't have all the modules package for nagi

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Eike \"zyro\" Sauer
Paul Cupis schrieb: > $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/knights \ > kde_htmldir=$(CURDIR)/debian/knights/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML Thanks, this made my rules file much more transparent. But it worked "better" to use kde_htmldir=/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML. Is there a similiar solution for

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 February 2004 20:17, "Eike \"zyro\" Sauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a similiar solution for icons? There is kde_icondir, but... > ATM I do: > > dh_install src/hi16-app-kdiff3.png > usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ dh_in

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Eike \"zyro\" Sauer
Paul Cupis schrieb: > Have I missed something? Can you try removing the referenced code from > debian/rules and seeing if the resulting package is "correct"? I'm sure I had a compelling reason to do this some day - but I can't remember it. And the package seems to be fine with all those lines rem

RFS: mozilla-locale-hu

2004-02-15 Thread GCS
Dear Mentors, I have a locale (Hungarian) package for Mozilla 1.6: * Package name: mozilla-locale-hu Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : András Tímár <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mozilla.fsf.hu/langpack.html * License : Mozilla Public License 1.1 Descriptio

Need Sponsor/Mentor for bbslashdot (Retrieve news from slashdot...)

2004-02-15 Thread obake
Hi, i want a sponsor/mentor for me (and my package :). If someone can (and want to) work together if me, i would be extremely thankful. bbslashdot is a small package written originaly for blackbox (but must work in other WMs as well) that retrieves the most recent news from www.slashdot.org an

Re: maintaining new packages,upgrading to newer upstream versions

2004-02-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:47:28PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > This must be a dumb question, but I am running into problems determining > how to upgrade an older version of a package to a newer version of the > package. > Example, i have the deb.dsc and similar files for sara, and it is based on >

Re: Need Sponsor/Mentor for bbslashdot (Retrieve news from slashdot...)

2004-02-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:05:05PM +0300, obake wrote: > I've already packaged it (made the Manpage, fixed some simple bugs, > wrote some docs...) Could you upload it somewhere (the _source_ package) so we can take a look? This increases normally your chances for comments and offers of sponsorshi

Why is debconf not preconfiguring?

2004-02-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
Hi all, I'm interested in using debconf to warn a user that's upgrading from an old version of ircd-hybrid and uses some now-unsupported directives in the configuration file about the big change that was made. However I'd like this to happen before the package is unpacked, but the config script on

Re: Packaging problems Re: Packaging .deb vs .rpm

2004-02-15 Thread Halim Boukaram
Hi   About the C library for math.   I'm making the rpms. but the binary rpm isnt working. its turning out much smaller than the source and only keeps the AUTHOR, README, todo and help documents.   Ayone knows if thats normal or not.   Since i started trying to make the binary rpm i've made one maj

RFS: libpam-usb, PAM module allowing authentication via USB-Storage device

2004-02-15 Thread GHERdO
pam_usb is a PAM module that enables authentication using an USB-Storage device (such as an USB Pen) through DSA private/public keys. It can also work with other devices, such as floppy disks or cdroms. It can be setup to work with any application using PAM such as your system login (login),

problem with non PIC code

2004-02-15 Thread Alexandre Pineau
Helllo, I maintain the debian package of the library alogg, and the Bug#216839 (libalogg.so.1.3.3 is a non-PIC library) was filled against it. I don't know how to solve this bug : alogg includes non-PIC code because of the use of "allegro-config --libs" during its building. If we look

Re: problem with non PIC code

2004-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Alexandre Pineau [Sun, Feb 15 2004, 12:40:28PM]: > The allegro's maintainer suggests to me that "I need to ensure the > executable wich need alogg links with alleg_unsharable and exports > its symbols to the library alogg with -rdynamic". But I don't know how > to do this. > - The ex

Re: Bootsplash Updates

2004-02-15 Thread Kilian CAVALOTTI
Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: > Some time tommorrow (aka in the morning/afternoon) I should release > updated (and IMO improved) versons of my bootsplash packages. Hi ! As far as I tried, only tty1 is 'bootsplashed' with the framebuffer image. I'd like to know how I can mod the /etc/init.d/rc scrip

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:57, Tommaso Moroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, is it normal that the program doesn't install the manual in > KHelpCenter? This is because your package install the KHelp files in /usr/share/doc/HTML (per KDE spe

maintaining new packages,upgrading to newer upstream versions

2004-02-15 Thread Lucas Albers
I just recently started using debian, 6 months ago. I have run into a number of situations in which I needed to build a package, or thought a package could be useful. The packages I have been working on are: sara security scanner, nagios-modules, nagios doesn't have all the modules package for nagi

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Eike \"zyro\" Sauer
Paul Cupis schrieb: > $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/knights \ > kde_htmldir=$(CURDIR)/debian/knights/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML Thanks, this made my rules file much more transparent. But it worked "better" to use kde_htmldir=/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML. Is there a similiar solution for

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 February 2004 20:17, "Eike \"zyro\" Sauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a similiar solution for icons? There is kde_icondir, but... > ATM I do: > > dh_install src/hi16-app-kdiff3.png > usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ dh_in

Re: questions about packaging a kde app

2004-02-15 Thread Eike \"zyro\" Sauer
Paul Cupis schrieb: > Have I missed something? Can you try removing the referenced code from > debian/rules and seeing if the resulting package is "correct"? I'm sure I had a compelling reason to do this some day - but I can't remember it. And the package seems to be fine with all those lines rem

RFS: mozilla-locale-hu

2004-02-15 Thread GCS
Dear Mentors, I have a locale (Hungarian) package for Mozilla 1.6: * Package name: mozilla-locale-hu Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : András Tímár <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://mozilla.fsf.hu/langpack.html * License : Mozilla Public License 1.1 Descriptio

Need Sponsor/Mentor for bbslashdot (Retrieve news from slashdot...)

2004-02-15 Thread obake
Hi, i want a sponsor/mentor for me (and my package :). If someone can (and want to) work together if me, i would be extremely thankful. bbslashdot is a small package written originaly for blackbox (but must work in other WMs as well) that retrieves the most recent news from www.slashdot.org and

Re: maintaining new packages,upgrading to newer upstream versions

2004-02-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:47:28PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > This must be a dumb question, but I am running into problems determining > how to upgrade an older version of a package to a newer version of the > package. > Example, i have the deb.dsc and similar files for sara, and it is based on >

Re: Need Sponsor/Mentor for bbslashdot (Retrieve news from slashdot...)

2004-02-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:05:05PM +0300, obake wrote: > I've already packaged it (made the Manpage, fixed some simple bugs, > wrote some docs...) Could you upload it somewhere (the _source_ package) so we can take a look? This increases normally your chances for comments and offers of sponsorshi

Why is debconf not preconfiguring?

2004-02-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
Hi all, I'm interested in using debconf to warn a user that's upgrading from an old version of ircd-hybrid and uses some now-unsupported directives in the configuration file about the big change that was made. However I'd like this to happen before the package is unpacked, but the config script on