Packaging a library package with "adapter" libraries

2002-02-27 Thread Timshel Knoll
against. This I suppose is the "ideal" solution, but adds to an ever-increasing package bloat in the dist. Most of the adapter libraries are quite small (<= 5k uncompressed), so I believe that this is overkill. ATM, I'm leaning for option 2), but am unsure of the p

Packaging a library package with "adapter" libraries

2002-02-27 Thread Timshel Knoll
t is linked against. This I suppose is the "ideal" solution, but adds to an ever-increasing package bloat in the dist. Most of the adapter libraries are quite small (<= 5k uncompressed), so I believe that this is overkill. ATM, I'm leaning for option 2), but am unsure of the p

Re: Problem with temporary package build directory removal

2001-05-26 Thread Timshel Knoll
_clean in debhelper v3 mode, which should remove all debian/ directories ... Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatics/Computer Science double degree, RMIT Debian GNU/Linux developer, see http://peopl

Re: Problem with temporary package build directory removal

2001-05-25 Thread Timshel Knoll
_clean in debhelper v3 mode, which should remove all debian/ directories ... Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatics/Computer Science double degree, RMIT Debian GNU/Linux developer, see http://peopl

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-04-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
rom auric.d.o ... Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatics/Computer Science double degree, RMIT Debian GNU/Linux developer, see http://people.debian.org/~timshel/ For GnuPG public key

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-04-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
rom auric.d.o ... Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatics/Computer Science double degree, RMIT Debian GNU/Linux developer, see http://people.debian.org/~timshel/ For GnuPG public key: finge

Re: Naming of a package with a single binary.

2001-04-26 Thread Timshel Knoll
gram names. If I install a package and the binary name is not the same as the package name, a quick dpkg -L is all I need do to find out the name of the binary. Cheers, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatic

Re: Naming of a package with a single binary.

2001-04-26 Thread Timshel Knoll
gram names. If I install a package and the binary name is not the same as the package name, a quick dpkg -L is all I need do to find out the name of the binary. Cheers, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatic

Re: upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
; debchange (in the devscripts package). Or debian-changelog-mode in emacs (from the dpkg-dev-el package) -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatics/Computer Science double degree, RMIT Debian GNU/Linux develo

Re: upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
; debchange (in the devscripts package). Or debian-changelog-mode in emacs (from the dpkg-dev-el package) -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geomatics/Computer Science double degree, RMIT Debian GNU/Linux develo

Re: eggdrop .so plugins

2000-10-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
in GCC, and I had a number of problems building shared versions of my libparted package, as it used a Linux syscall to llseek ... (for before the glibc2.1 64 bit lseek()). Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Second year Computer

Re: eggdrop .so plugins

2000-10-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
in GCC, and I had a number of problems building shared versions of my libparted package, as it used a Linux syscall to llseek ... (for before the glibc2.1 64 bit lseek()). Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Second year Computer

[timshel@debian.org: Re: Installing files in /etc]

2000-10-21 Thread Timshel Knoll
I'll try again with debian-mentorS!!! ^ - Forwarded message from Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:48:21 +1100 From: Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[timshel@debian.org: Re: Installing files in /etc]

2000-10-21 Thread Timshel Knoll
I'll try again with debian-mentorS!!! ^ - Forwarded message from Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:48:21 +1100 From: Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: binfmt_elf module

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
lf.o module into your kernel. Do a recompile of your kernel with BINFMT_ELF enabled ... Hope this helps, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Second year Computer Science, RMIT | CS108 Tutor (Semester 2, 2000) Debian GNU/Li

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
c and then $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr sysconfdir=`pwd`/tmp/etc $(sysconfdir) is auto{conf|make}'s /etc directory. > Thanks. > > -- > Wesley W. Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Javien Canada Inc. - Linux Developer -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: binfmt_elf module

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
lf.o module into your kernel. Do a recompile of your kernel with BINFMT_ELF enabled ... Hope this helps, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Second year Computer Science, RMIT | CS108 Tutor (Semester 2, 2000) Debian

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
c and then $(MAKE) install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr sysconfdir=`pwd`/tmp/etc $(sysconfdir) is auto{conf|make}'s /etc directory. > Thanks. > > -- > Wesley W. Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Javien Canada Inc. - Linux Developer -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: dh_shlibdeps : strange message (??)

2000-09-20 Thread Timshel Knoll
.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) [EMAIL PROTECTED] pts/3 timshel]$ --- As you can see, using a LD_PRELOAD trick makes the library appear in the libraries list. Since fakeroot uses such a trick, this causes an error message in dpkg-shlibdeps, but since there is no .shlibs file for the libra

Re: dh_shlibdeps : strange message (??)

2000-09-20 Thread Timshel Knoll
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) [timshel@pippin pts/3 timshel]$ --- As you can see, using a LD_PRELOAD trick makes the library appear in the libraries list. Since fakeroot uses such a trick, this causes an error message in dpkg-shlibdeps, but since there is no .shlibs file for the library, nothi

Re: package from .src.rpm ?

2000-09-13 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:04:49PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at packaging glide3, which comes in a .src.rpm format. > The .src.rpm contains 3 files (when unpacked with: > rpm2cpio | cpio -i), 3dfx.gif, Glide3.10.tar.gz and > Glide_V3-DRI-3.10.spe

package from .src.rpm ?

2000-09-13 Thread Timshel Knoll
tem for this (as how glide 2 is done), am I best to include the whole .src.rpm and unpack it (using rpm2cpio | cpio -i) during the build process, or just include the .tar.gz file? Any suggestions/comments appreciated. Thanks, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debia

Re: package from .src.rpm ?

2000-09-13 Thread Timshel Knoll
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:04:49PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at packaging glide3, which comes in a .src.rpm format. > The .src.rpm contains 3 files (when unpacked with: > rpm2cpio | cpio -i), 3dfx.gif, Glide3.10.tar.gz and > Glide_V3-DRI-3.10.spe

package from .src.rpm ?

2000-09-13 Thread Timshel Knoll
system for this (as how glide 2 is done), am I best to include the whole .src.rpm and unpack it (using rpm2cpio | cpio -i) during the build process, or just include the .tar.gz file? Any suggestions/comments appreciated. Thanks, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debia

Re: ** EMERGANCY **

2000-08-20 Thread Timshel Knoll
&& tar -cf -) | tar -xf - > > > > > > > Wouldn't cp -o work better than tar?? > > (no need for all that temp file space) > > What temp file space? > > Also, tar is much better about preserving a lot of attributes than cp is... > -a or no -a

Re: ** EMERGANCY **

2000-08-20 Thread Timshel Knoll
&& tar -cf -) | tar -xf - > > > > > > > Wouldn't cp -o work better than tar?? > > (no need for all that temp file space) > > What temp file space? > > Also, tar is much better about preserving a lot of attributes than cp is... > -a or no -a

Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
ian- IMHO, I think it would be a good idea to call it dpkg-builddeps and then make a separate debhelper script dh_builddeps which calls dpkg-builddeps ... (much the same as the dpkg-shlibdeps/dh_shlibdeps idea ...). Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email

Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
ian- IMHO, I think it would be a good idea to call it dpkg-builddeps and then make a separate debhelper script dh_builddeps which calls dpkg-builddeps ... (much the same as the dpkg-shlibdeps/dh_shlibdeps idea ...). Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian email

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-12 Thread Timshel Knoll
directory under your install root. (correct me if I'm wrong, this is just the result of what debhelper does automatically...) > > Ron Rademaker > > PS. Could you cc to me when replying, I'm not subscribed to this list. No probs :) Hope this helps, Timshel -- Timshel Kno

Re: Packaging a shared library

2000-06-12 Thread Timshel Knoll
directory under your install root. (correct me if I'm wrong, this is just the result of what debhelper does automatically...) > > Ron Rademaker > > PS. Could you cc to me when replying, I'm not subscribed to this list. No probs :) Hope this helps, Timshel -- Timshel Kno

Re: 300 Multiple Choices

2000-06-05 Thread Timshel Knoll
of my head is that you may have the line in your 'sources.list' wrong. It should read: deb file://debian potato/ (note the trailing '/' ...) Hope this helps, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Second year Computer Science, RMIT http://yallara

Re: gpg couldn't import pgp keys

2000-06-03 Thread Timshel Knoll
importing the new keys ... put: keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg and also this is you've enabled rsa and idea: keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp in your ~/.gnupg/options Makes it a bit easier ... Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Second year

Need sponsor to parted frozen packages ...

2000-02-29 Thread Timshel Knoll
cs.rmit.edu.au/~tiknoll/downloads.html Thanks in advance, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Second year Computer Science, RMIT http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~tiknoll Key ID: Fingerprint: GnuPG 1024D/DE3E8AA7 6ABC 91A9 E274 ED67 0E32 8F0F

Re: dh_installinfo ?

2000-01-27 Thread Timshel Knoll
returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > ocaml-doc_2.04-1_all.deb > > What is the meaning of exec format error ? And how do i fix it ? > > Friendly, > > Sven LUTHER You're probably missing a #!/bin/sh at the top of your prerm ... --

Debian revision nos

1999-08-30 Thread Timshel Knoll
Hi, I'm just wondering, is there any easy way to increase debian sub-revisions? (eg. from 0.4.2-1 to 0.4.2-2?). I've looked through heaps of docs and I can't find anything ... can anyone help me? I'm using debhelper, if that helps... Thanks in advance, Timshel -- T

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1999-08-01 Thread Timshel Knoll
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