Re: Request for mentor

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Meredith
No offence taken ;) What I meant is that the mailing list is a great place to start for the beginner. Those who don't know - but want to learn. From my experience - a lot of DDs dont want to "mother" you through learning how to package. Ok, they'll help, but they dont want to teach from scratch :D

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Küster
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> The main advantage of >> quilt IMHO is that it doesn't duplicate the whole tree when editing and >> updating the patch, which can be time- and disk-consuming in large >> projects. Instead it keeps a list of files for the pat

Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Meredith
Whenever I seem to relibtool a package now I always seem to get problems with the timestamps being wrong, and the package tries to re-run automake. Anyway, as a solution for that - we decided that the command lsdiff --strip 1 debian/patches/10_update_libtool.diff | xargs touch -r configure.in.in

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
Hi Mez! :-) On 1/30/06, Martin Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know enough about automake (I dont) to stop it trying to > run on a package build ? I add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE somewhere at the top of configure.{ac,in} to enable maintainer mode (which I believe prevents the checking

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Meredith
I do know of this - but looking for a solution for now so I dont have to go down that road unless absolutely neccesary :d (for example - the lsdiff | touch -r) Zak B. Elep wrote: > Hi Mez! :-) > > On 1/30/06, Martin Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone know enough about autom

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Frank Küster wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that >>allows you to treat shell scripts as "patches"? My inability to find >>such a feature was the main reason I opted for dpatch over quilt in the >>Cernlib p

Re: pkg-config needs a replacement?

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Monday 30 January 2006 4:20 am, skaller wrote: > * there is no provision for other than the limited set > of resources (--cflags, --libs) that it supports You can make any variable in the .pc file available - anything you can put into the .pc using (e.g.) .pc.in can be made available to thos

Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link

2006-01-30 Thread Al Nikolov
<отправлено в группы и по почте> Christoph Haas wrote: > Found it. Checked it. Uploaded it. Thank you. > Minor thoughts on the package: > > - Please don't change past entries in the changelog even though > I understand that you wanted to correct the line wrapping. Yes, i understand such the

debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I'm packaging a C++ app that has packages like this: foo - binary using the library libfoo0 - the library itself libfoo0-dev - headers and so on libfoo0-doc - docs for the library I'd like to add a package for debug information, since the app crashes occasionally. Should I ad

Re: debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.30.1518 +0100]: > Secondly, is dh_strip -k the right way to do this? Yes. It mostly automates the process too. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud D

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Martin, Martin Meredith wrote: [on AM_MAINTAINER_MODE] > I do know of this - but looking for a solution for now so I dont have to go > down that road unless absolutely neccesary :d (for example - the lsdiff | > touch -r) Well, probably the best solution is to get upstream to put in the AM_

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Kevin B. McCarty [Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:39:17 -0500]: >> Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that >> allows you to treat shell scripts as "patches"? My inability to find >> such a feature was the main reason I opted for dpatch over quilt in the

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: > The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but > rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in > Debian, you should never install additional copies of the GPL, the LGPL, > or other common licenses; instead

Re: Custom Debian CD.

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Derek, You should post this question on where are realy competent peoples creating CCD. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ###

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:46:58AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: > > > The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but > > rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in > > Debian, you should never install

Re: timeout function in cryptsetup init script

2006-01-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 30/01/2006 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi, > > > indeed, it sounds exactly like what i'm searching for. > > > > but unfortunately it looks like cryptsetup does not have support for > > reading the password from stdin or command-line. > > ah, I see, it is using getpass(3) if no keyfile has been >

Re: files for an initscript that is run before mountall.sh

2006-01-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 29/01/2006 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > now my question is, where should i place the check scripts instead? > > is /lib/cryptsetup/{pre,post}check correct? > > Yes. thanks. ... jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: create docs in binary indep

2006-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:12:26PM -0800, Jon Saints wrote: > I am new to packaging and just received this feedback > on a package I helped to create: > > "I just noticed that gdal packaging needs one more > revision because it > create a -doc package in the binary-arch section. libgdal-doc is [co

Re: debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Paul Wise [Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:18:07 +0800]: > Hi all, > I'm packaging a C++ app that has packages like this: > foo - binary using the library > libfoo0 - the library itself > libfoo0-dev - headers and so on > libfoo0-doc - docs for the library > I'd like to add a package for debu

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Meredith [Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:04:45 +]: > lsdiff --strip 1 debian/patches/10_update_libtool.diff | xargs touch -r > configure.in.in > However I've just stumbled across a package where this doesnt work. Then, if you insist on using touch-fu (I myself prefer it), you should invest

Re: RFS: ksplash-engine-moodin -- fading splash screen engine for KDE

2006-01-30 Thread Fathi Boudra
Le Vendredi 30 Septembre 2005 12:14, Fathi Boudra a écrit : > * Package name: ksplash-engine-moodin > Version : 0.4.2 > Upstream Author : Christian Leh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://moodwrod.com/files/ > * License : GPL > Description : fading splash

Re: timeout function in cryptsetup init script

2006-01-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> > ah, I see, it is using getpass(3) if no keyfile has been > > specified. Hmm, after having a glance at the source code, > > the easiest thing seems to patch the source to accept > > a new command-line option to specify a different input fd. > > The rest of the code (lib/setup.c:get_key(), most i

Re: subscribe

2006-01-30 Thread Jeremie Corbier
I'm so sorry for that mail :/ I forgot to add -request... -- Jérémie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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