SRPM to Debian Framework

2005-07-16 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
Hi, Just wondering whether it could be easy to build a framework or a package in python or perl which could convert an SRPM into a deb package. As far as extracting the tgz and spec file from a SRPM is concerned, rpm2cpio could be handy, but will it be easy automate the deb package bu

Re: SRPM to Debian Framework

2005-07-18 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
wn-section alien On 7/18/05, Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:56:26AM +0200, Ram Kumar DANGETI wrote: > > Hi, > >Just wondering whether it could be easy to build a framework or > > a package in python or perl which could c

howto disable whiptail messages?

2005-08-05 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
Hi,   Is there a way to disable whiptail from showing up when we install some package. In my case, Iam working on a application which chroots into another image directory and do apt-get install lilo. During this process, even if I use "apt-get -y", by default "Configuring lilo" dialog box is di

Re: howto disable whiptail messages?

2005-08-07 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
The following manpage has the complete explanation of debconf. Setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND to the required value could be useful for uninterrupted installation. http://linux.com.hk/PenguinWeb/manpage.jsp?section=7&name=debconfSomehow this man page is missing on my machine. On 8/7/05, Ram Kumar DAN

apt-get remove (including dependancies)

2005-08-19 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
Hi,   Is there a way to remove a package and all its dependencies ? with "apt-get remove" we can remove the base package, but I just want to know how we can remove the base package as well as all the dependencies which where installed along with this base package.    Thankyou.

Re: apt-get remove (including dependancies)

2005-08-19 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
package, Iam wondering whether there is any way to rebuild the package from the current package. Any ideas in this regard ?     Thankyou.On 8/19/05, Armin Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ram Kumar DANGETI wrote:> Hi,>   Is there a way to remove a package and all its dependencies

Re: apt-get remove (including dependancies)

2005-08-19 Thread Ram Kumar DANGETI
Much more simpler than I thought. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO.html Thanks anyway.On 8/19/05, Ram Kumar DANGETI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   Thanks for the reponse. Actually I just build a deb package whos