Advice in 3 packages

2005-01-03 Thread Antonio Ognio
Hello mentors and everyone, I'm currently learning to package software for Debian so I'm making some packages just to learn this art ;) I've currently packaged three pieces of software: httplog 2.1-1logfile rollover program for webservers liblog4sh-shell 1.2.4-1 a logging library

Re: RFC: Packages Needing Sponsors page

2005-01-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:55:53PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to clean up WNPP. > > As you may recall, I'm encouraging people to use ITP+patch to mean > "This packages is ready to be uploaded, and I'm only waiting on a > sponsor". As part of my effort, I've created a we

RFC: Packages Needing Sponsors page

2005-01-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, I'm trying to clean up WNPP. As you may recall, I'm encouraging people to use ITP+patch to mean "This packages is ready to be uploaded, and I'm only waiting on a sponsor". As part of my effort, I've created a webpage [0] of such packages. So, if you have an opened ITP, and you are still

Re: RFS: spampd 2.20-7 SpamAssassin based spam detection smtp proxy daemon

2005-01-03 Thread Sven Mueller
Sven Mueller wrote on 02/01/2005 17:03: Giving it's narrow target audience, it is already pretty well used (approx. every 400th debian user if you trust popcon), so I would really like to see it uploaded as soon as possible. As my usual sponsor (Martin F. Krafft) is on holiday and can't sponsor it

Re: RFS: setserial

2005-01-03 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:31:06PM -0500, James Richardson wrote: > Greetings, > I request a sponsor for the setserial package. > > I use this package regularly and would like to see it well maintained. > > This will close out bug# 285355. Great... but the usual way to find sponsors is to includ

Re: RFS: setserial

2005-01-03 Thread Nico Golde
hi, * James Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-03 23:24]: > Greetings, > I request a sponsor for the setserial package. > > I use this package regularly and would like to see it well maintained. me too. please sponsor it! regards nico -- Nico Golde - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG: 1024D/73647CFF

RFS: setserial

2005-01-03 Thread James Richardson
Greetings, I request a sponsor for the setserial package. I use this package regularly and would like to see it well maintained. This will close out bug# 285355. -- jr

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread Carlos Parra Camargo
I've been working around debian-cd, and it's probably your program. Hardly all you must to know it's here: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstaller (at 18:50 the link is broken!, this morning it was working...) You will be especially interested in this sections: DebianCustomCD and Modi

Re: Pointers for packaging appreciated (icecream)

2005-01-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:45:42PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: >On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:20:42PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >What is in the log file? A log of compilations? There was a >discussion a couple months ago on -devel, I think. I think the >"consensus" was "Don't remove logfiles, e

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:01:35AM -0800, TIFR students wrote: > We would like to know if there is any way by which we can create an debian > distro ISO which contains packages of our choice. > On debian site there r basically 2 ways defined: > 2.Using net install. > Well we got the basic minimal

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:01:35AM -0800, TIFR students wrote: > I guess we can get the additional packages we want from the net,after > installing this minimal ISO.But the problem is,how then,do we convert > the whole thing into an ISO that we want. You got some hints from others. I would like

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * TIFR students <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050103 10:01]: > I guess we can get the additional packages we want from the net,after > installing this minimal ISO.But the problem is,how then,do we convert> > the whole thing into an ISO that we want. Take a look at debian-cd [1]. That is a tool to cr

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 03 January 2005 10:01, TIFR students wrote: > We would like to know if there is any way by which we can create an > debian distro ISO which contains packages of our choice. This misses the whole CDD (custom debian distribution) angle which is still being worked out but aims to solve th

Re: About creating .deb packages

2005-01-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050102 15:32]: > also sprach Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.31.1254 +0100]: > > When they are generated at install time, there could be bit-switchers > > arising between unpacking them and calculating their checksums. Also > > the md5sum files w

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread Chirag Kantharia
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:01:35AM -0800, TIFR students wrote: | We would like to know if there is any way by which we can create an debian distro ISO which contains packages of our choice. Look at www.knoppix.org for an example of debian based distribution, and search for customizing knoppix on

How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread TIFR students
We would like to know if there is any way by which we can create an debian distro ISO which contains packages of our choice. On debian site there r basically 2 ways defined:   1.Downloading the whole ISO (650 MB) using jigdo or bittorrent. But the problem is jigdo downloads only standard available