Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > > dh_testversion > > erm, ... this is told to be depredated (or whatever is the correct writting of > this word) by the build dependency stuff. It also don't seems to do anything > on

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > > dh_testversion > > erm, ... this is told to be depredated (or whatever is the correct writting of > this word) by the build dependency stuff. It also don't seems to do anything > on

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
unless the package has an open bug report stating that it has no man page. You should really just write a man page instead; this program is an easy way out. -- Ivo Timmermans

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
in a > woody or unstable system in the rules file ? This could be handy for other > kind of stuff also. cat /etc/debian_version dh_testversion or build dependencies on debhelper (>>3.0) -- Ivo Timmermans

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
unless the package has an open bug report stating that it has no man page. You should really just write a man page instead; this program is an easy way out. -- Ivo Timmermans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
in a > woody or unstable system in the rules file ? This could be handy for other > kind of stuff also. cat /etc/debian_version dh_testversion or build dependencies on debhelper (>>3.0) -- Ivo Timmermans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Editing conffiles?

2001-03-25 Thread Ivo Timmermans
I'm trying to find a fix for bug #90673: Proftp'd postinst contains at least one thing that modifies /etc/proftpd.conf: echo "Editing /etc/proftpd.conf ... " sed "s/^## //" /etc/proftpd.conf > /etc/proftpd.conf.dpkg-tmp mv /etc/proftpd.conf.dpkg-tmp /etc/proftpd.conf Would it be su

Editing conffiles?

2001-03-25 Thread Ivo Timmermans
I'm trying to find a fix for bug #90673: Proftp'd postinst contains at least one thing that modifies /etc/proftpd.conf: echo "Editing /etc/proftpd.conf ... " sed "s/^## //" /etc/proftpd.conf > /etc/proftpd.conf.dpkg-tmp mv /etc/proftpd.conf.dpkg-tmp /etc/proftpd.conf Would it be s

finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Hi, I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version of a package was from postinst? What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream version, and they replaced a good deal of configuration options with different ones. It is both impossible to automatically c

finding version of package being installed in postinst

2001-03-18 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Hi, I wonder, is it possible to find out what the last installed version of a package was from postinst? What I want to do is this: a package has released a new upstream version, and they replaced a good deal of configuration options with different ones. It is both impossible to automatically

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-20 Thread Ivo Timmermans
gt; YA> specify DESTDIR to install, as in: > > YA> $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp > > This is dangerous, because if a package use i18n the Makefile in po/ don't > understand DESTDIR, and all locale aren't installed. Which should be recorded as a bug

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-20 Thread Ivo Timmermans
gt; YA> specify DESTDIR to install, as in: > > YA> $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp > > This is dangerous, because if a package use i18n the Makefile in po/ don't > understand DESTDIR, and all locale aren't installed. Which should be recorded as a bug