Re: install script...

gt; for this concept). > > I believe Makefiles created with automake already have this capability > built in - although the original poster didn't say if automake was being > used, I strongly suspect this to be have been the case. yes it was -- John Travers "Sometimes I

install script...

ildpackage, the script installs them in my real system, not in debian/tmp/usr, how do I solve this? (The configure script must have the real data dir names as it is hardcoded in the programs, so I can't fo --with-datadir='pwd'/debian/tmp/usr/lib) -- John Travers "Som

Strange permissions problem.

maybe due to the program loading data from /usr/share... the permissions on the data are -rw-r--r-- so maybe the program tries to open the data read/write, (shouldn't fully privalidged sudo be able to do this). hmmm. any help? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that i

Fwd: creating man pages

Is there a way to make manpages or texinfo files from .dvi or .tex files? If there is a texinfo file, do I need a manpage? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us!"

sorry..

Sorry for all of those repeat emails, my net connection was playing up! -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us!"

Re: data and config file placement

Thanks, one more question, do I give full path names to the files I'm dealing with (which would make the rules file dependent on my system) or just relative to tmp/usr or something? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the univer

dh_link

permisions: lwrxrwxrwx) but the changelog one gives a lintain error saying that the changelog isn't compressed properly, should use gzip -9. I also can't read from the changelog.gz file either. How should I fix this? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that i

dh_link

(ecept permisions: lwrxrwxrwx) but the changelog one gives a lintain error saying that the 'changelog isn't compressed properly, should use gzip -9.' I also can't read from the changelog.gz file either. How should I fix this? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest s

dh_link

permisions: lwrxrwxrwx) but the changelog one gives a lintain error saying that the changelog isn't compressed properly, should use gzip -9. I also can't read from the changelog.gz file either. How should I fix this? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that i

dh_link

fine (except the permissions lrwxrwxrwx) but the changelog one gives a lintian error saying that the changelog isn't compressed properly, should use gzip -9 ... and I can't read from the changelog.gz file either. How should I fix this? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the s

Re: data and config file placement

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) how do I make these non executable.? > > chmod a-x > I know how to do it manually! How do I do it in the debian/rules script? > > 2) how can I put the config (

data and config file placement

/nightfall/doc/C/help0.txt 1) how do I make these non executable.? 2) how can I put the config (cfg) files in /etc/hightfall (the package uses a confgure script, but I can't specify the config file dir), prehaps symlinks --> how would I do this? Thanks for any help! -- John Travers "Some

Nightfall

I have put my preliminary packages of nightfall on http://www.debian.org/~jtravs/ Please test them and help me fix them, I'm still learning!! -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us!"

New package problems

them) Kind regards, John Travers More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail

building a new package

n the right places, how do I now compile this into a package? yours, John Travers More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail

configuration file placement

The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can I make the configuration file and example go to /etc/packagename... but leave the pixmap in the /usr/share... directory? (I know how I could install

pgp problem for package signing

I have sent my application to become a maintainer off with a pgp user id of 'John C. Travers' I didn't want to include an e-mail address as this woul surely change during my time at debian, however when packaging the dpkg-buildpackage script expects 'John Trave

no utmp entry?

what does 'no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("simba") at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16' mean...I get it during package building... thanks for help...travs More than just email--Get your FREE Net