Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1 available

2010-09-17 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0.1. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadStable Over the NCP 3.0, this release includes * Fixes to nexenta-zones * Additional

NCP discussions on debian-legal

2010-09-02 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, A few hours ago Don Armstong sent a mail[1] to debian-legal to start a discussion on the challenges faced when considering Nexenta for an official debian port. This is from our discussions at debconf on the same subject. If you're interested in this discussion, you can join the list to

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Released

2010-08-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadStable This is the same iso as the RC3 release. --- The near future: NCP 3.9 The move

Nexenta.org back up

2010-07-29 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, If you meant to grab the RC3 release, and the site was down, you can download the iso image now. There was a power issue at the hosting server in Stanford, and it's now been corrected. http://nexenta.org/ Regards Anil ___ gnusol-devel mailing

Devzones updated to RC2 packages

2010-07-08 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, Devzones have been updated to the latest packages. If you'd like access to a zone to package for NCP (or other tasks), ping me offline. http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/BuildMachine ~Anil ___ gnusol-devel mailing list

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2 Released

2010-06-30 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC2. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the RC1 release include: * Dozens of ON fixes

Re: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1 Released

2010-05-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
02:08 +0530, Anil Gulecha a scris: Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta3

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1 Released

2010-05-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta3 release include: * Dozens of ON fixes

NexentaStor Community edition 3.0.2 released

2010-05-04 Thread Anil Gulecha
our growing social network at http://people.nexenta.com. -- Thanks Anil Gulecha Community Leader http://www.nexentastor.org ___ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta3 Released

2010-04-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta3, the final beta release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta2

Rsync Mirroring of NCP repositories.

2010-04-21 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi all, If you'd like to mirror Nexenta repositories, please use the rsync targets below. 1.To sync all our iso releases rsync nexenta.org::releases 2. To sync NCP1 repository rsync nexenta.org::repository 3. To sync NCP2 repository rsync nexenta.org::ncp2 4. To sync NCP3 repository rsync

Fresh NCP3 beta2 devzones available

2010-04-02 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, If you'd like a devzone for NCP3 packaging, we have a few available on our build machine. Please get in touch offline if you'd like to request one. Thanks Anil ___ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net

gnusolaris.org to be reinstalled

2010-03-28 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, gnusolaris.org machine will be reinstalled. If you have any important data that needs be backed up.. please do this in the next 24 hours. Thanks, Anil ___ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta1 Released

2010-03-06 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta1, the sixth release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Alpha5

Re: Redmine unreliable

2010-01-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
Yes, looks like it. I'm unable to ping/ssh, so it needs to be physically reset (I've sent a mail for this) It should hopefully be back up soon. Thanks Anil On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Andrew Stormont andyjstorm...@googlemail.com wrote: I take it the server it down now? 2010/1/19 Edho P

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha3 Released

2010-01-06 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha3 (and belatedly wish you a great new year!). This is the third release in NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from

Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha2 Released

2009-12-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 alpha2. This is the second release in NCP3. The main changes over the Alpha1 release include: * move from Opensolaris b124 to b124. This brings the long awaited ZFS deduplication

Fwd: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha2 Released

2009-12-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
* move from Opensolaris b124 to b124. This brings the long awaited ZFS deduplication support to the distribution. A correction..  this was meant to read move from Opensolaris b124 to b129 Thanks Anil ___ gnusol-devel mailing list

ZFS deduplication

2009-12-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Nexenta Users, The latest release of Nexenta (NCP3a2, the previous mail to the list) brings in ZFS deduplication. This is an exciting feature addition to the Nexenta Platform. Deduplication allows you to eliminate duplicate copies of your data. For certain kinds of data, this can be an

Re: hg.nexenta.org mercurial hosting not working.

2009-11-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
It was a permissions issue. Can you check if you can push now? ~Anil On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Anil Gulecha anil.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andrew, I just tested (by adding myself as a Manager to stormos and trying to push) and could reproduce. I'll let you know when this is fixed

Re: hardy-unstable opensolaris b124 update

2009-10-14 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Jerome, This has been fixed. You can dist-upgrade from an NCP2 install (or install NCP3 a1 released earlier today). ~Anil On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Jerome Warnier jwarn...@beeznest.net wrote: Anil Gulecha wrote: Thanks, Jason. Yes, both of these issues are known, and we're

Re: hardy-unstable opensolaris b124 update

2009-10-14 Thread Anil Gulecha
I'm not 100% sure why I had to do this and didn't dig into it.  I suspect something like a new .deb version was uploaded with the same revision and so apt-get update didn't cause my local cache to Yes.. the version number was the same. You'd need to run rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb before

Re: hardy-unstable opensolaris b124 update

2009-10-08 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Anil Gulecha anil.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, A quick heads-up to all users.. we will be uploading b124 of opensolaris to hardy-unstable shortly. If you plan on upgrading, you *may* face some issues. Please report them in reply to this, or post on https

hardy-unstable opensolaris b124 update

2009-09-28 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, A quick heads-up to all users.. we will be uploading b124 of opensolaris to hardy-unstable shortly. If you plan on upgrading, you *may* face some issues. Please report them in reply to this, or post on https://bugs.launchpad.net/nexenta/+filebug . We will be working on fixing them ASAP.

Re: NexentaStor.org and Open Source components

2009-09-10 Thread Anil Gulecha
state. This looks possible in 2010. ~Anil Regards. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Anil Gulecha anil.ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Victor Fernandez vfernand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, could you tell us if there is on the roadmap of NexentaStor considered

Re: [osol-discuss] StormOS Beta ISO out

2009-06-05 Thread Anil Gulecha
Congrats on the release! ~Anil On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Stormontandyjstorm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi everybody, The StormOS Hail Beta ISO has now been released and is available for download immediately, grab it here. StormOS is the first desktop distribution based on

Additions to Sun libc

2009-06-01 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, I was going through the Opensolaris release pages[1], and saw - libc Linux/BSD Compatibility Two new functions to the C library have been added for familiarity with Linux and BSD operating systems - asprintf() and vasprintf(). They behave as sprintf(), except that they allocate a

Ready-made Vbox images for NCP2

2009-05-29 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, The 'virtualboximage' project on Sourceforge has created premade NCP2 images, which can be downloaded from http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/images/nexenta/ This also includes NCP1 image. We don't know who these guys are, but they seem trustworthy and have been creating images for a host

Nexenta Core Platform 2 Released

2009-05-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
by the Autobuilder. Anil Gulecha, leader of NCP project and IRC lurker, who maintained dozens of packages, the website, and helps collaboration on the distribution. Erast Benson, maintainer of the opensolaris packages, and various server packages, who ensured NCP has a stable foundation to build on. David Bartley

Re: libtorrent and rtorrent test packages

2009-05-23 Thread Anil Gulecha
Fixed, the issue was the use of ERR instead of NCURSES_ERR. Thanks to Donald Stufft for the patch. Uploading rtorrent, should be in the repo shortly. ~Anil On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Anil Gulecha anil.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I built libtorrent and rtorrent packages for NCP2

libtorrent and rtorrent test packages

2009-05-22 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi all, I built libtorrent and rtorrent packages for NCP2, but rtorrent's UI is misbehaving. It starts off corrently, but will blank and no longer respond after a keystroke like ctrl+s or ctrl+q If someone wants to test the packages and report on how it works, you can pick them at

Nexenta Core Platform 2 RC3 released

2009-05-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC3. The changes since RC2 include: - Man-db fix - Opensolaris kernel fixes Release Highlights: -- * OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches. * Over 13000 packages in the repository, thanks to

NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC2 released

2009-05-04 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore Platform 2.0 RC2. The release has stabilized. This release will become the final release if no major bugs are reported. Release Highlights: -- * OpenSolaris build 104+ based with critical patches. * Over 13000 packages

man cut-off issue

2009-05-03 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Ostapenko V. vladimir.ostape...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anil. It's fantasy: I run man with debug option: Starting pipeline: zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Started zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz,

Re: Gnusolaris diffs

2009-03-20 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Warnier jwarn...@beeznest.net wrote: Jerome Warnier wrote: Anil Gulecha wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jerome Warnier jwarn...@beeznest.net wrote: Hi guys, I just had a look at patches in: http://www.nexenta.org/diffs-gnusolaris/ I

COMSTAR/zfs integration for faster SCSI on NCP

2009-03-03 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, Nexenta Core Platform and NexentaStor has integrated COMSTAR with ZFS, which provides 2-3x performance gain over userland SCSI target daemon. I;ve blogged in more detail at; http://www.gulecha.org/2009/03/03/nexenta-iscsi-with-comstarzfs-integration/ ~Anil

Re: ruby's extruby.rb fails to create makefile in libshadow-ruby1.8 package

2009-01-14 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM, David Bartley dtbar...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I had this issue when I was building puppet. You can just comment out the 'sgetspent' check in extconf.rb and it will work fine. Thanks, that fixed it. I was building this to fill in puppet's depends. Anil

Package version numbering from upstream

2009-01-14 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, This has come up a few times, so we should have a clear written policy on how the version numbering changes from upstream into our repository. Lets take the following examples: gtk-sharp2_2.12.0-2ubuntu3 zlib1g-1.2.3.3.dfsg-7ubuntu1 xyz-1.2.3.build2 The common practice is using

Re: nexenta.org upgraded schedule

2009-01-12 Thread Anil Gulecha
Ok, I debugged the issue to the conf file being in /etc/ and not /etc/proftpd/ .. anonymous login should work now. a...@gnusolaris:~$ ftp nexenta.org Connected to nexenta.org. 220 :::171.64.101.46 FTP server ready Name (nexenta.org:anil): anonymous 331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete

mono package perl issue

2009-01-05 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I'm trying to build mono, and the compilation goes through fully. however, dh_clideps (provided by the source package) failes as below: ... [snip] dh_clideps: Warning: Missing shlibs entry: libc.so or libc for: System.Data.OracleClient.dll! dh_clideps: Warning: Could not resolve moduleref:

Re: [nexenta-changes] Incoming Auto builder Packages

2008-12-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi all, This reply is regarding the LOADs of mail nexenta-changes guys would be seeing (over 2500).. these were tracked down to a misconfiguration in the repository handing program (debarchiver). We saw the issue only after we started importing the autobuilder packages. The good news is the

Nexenta Core Platform 2 Beta1 Released

2008-12-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 beta - Debian/OpenSolaris native environment (unstable Hardy branch). The packages are relatively stable, and we've thus moved NCP to beta, and aim for a stable release early next year. Release Highlights: -- *

Re: -lgssapi found at link time, but not at run time

2008-12-12 Thread Anil Gulecha
I can see that the libraries are present under /usr/lib: r...@lanai:~/src/openssl/curl/curl-7.18.0# ls -l /usr/lib/libgss* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 6 21:56 /usr/lib/libgss.so - libgss.so.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 76700 Dec 4 07:52 /usr/lib/libgss.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18

Re: Where is sun defined?

2008-12-12 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Anil Gulecha anil.ve...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was running into a wierd issue with the bind9 package.. which previously built without issues. /usr/bin/cc -I/root/src/openssl/bind9/bind9-9.5.0.dfsg.P1 -I./unix/include -I. -I./include -I./include -I/root/src

Re: Ok well updating from Dec 5 gets worse now

2008-12-12 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi Outback, We recently moved from openssl to sunwopenssl.. and thus are on a recompilation spree of all packages that depend on ssl (and libraries). Many were updated as listed at http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/nexenta-changes/2008-December/005589.html Php is one of the few packages, and

Re: need rebuild of libgnomecups1.0-1

2008-12-11 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jason Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The package libgnomecups1.0-1 in the apt repository depends on libgnutls12 but that appears to have been replaced with libgnutls13. I rebuilt the package on my ncp2 beta1 test machine without changes and the

-lgssapi found at link time, but not at run time

2008-12-10 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, configure on curl fails as follows (from config.log) .. configure:31776: i386-pc-solaris2.11-gcc -c -g -O2 -I/usr/include conftest.c 5 configure:31782: $? = 0 configure:31802: result: yes configure:31818: checking run-time libs availability configure:31846: i386-pc-solaris2.11-gcc -o

Re: -lgssapi found at link time, but not at run time

2008-12-10 Thread Anil Gulecha
Yup.. codestrOm helped me with that. It now fails at a point where we can proceed once heimdal is rebuilt (my other mail on dh_shlibdeps). Anil On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:11 PM, David Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you're missing /usr/lib/libgssapi.so. This should be a symlink to

Re: Problem after latest apt-clone dist-upgrade

2008-12-10 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Michael Bushey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I had to 'dpkg --purge getopt', then after I rebooted into it apache2 does not work: # Starting web server: apache2apache2: Syntax error on line 185 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of

How to pass path to dh_shlibdeps

2008-12-09 Thread Anil Gulecha
I'm trying to build heimdal from NCP hardy repository, and it fails as below ... .. dh_shlibdeps -pheimdal-kdc dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libhcrypto.so.4 needed by debian/heimdal-kdc/usr/lib/heimdal-servers/kadmind (its RPATH is ''). Note: libraries are not searched in other

Re: Nexenta wiki and homepage cleanup

2008-11-09 Thread Anil Gulecha
Finally got around to making more changes here. It is simple.. with pictures, a line of introduction and links that a visitor can follow depending on his interest. http://www.nexenta.org/os/Homepage_draft Comments/Suggestions? Anil On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Anil Gulecha [EMAIL PROTECTED

Nexenta Core Platform 2 Alpha2 released

2008-10-11 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha2 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. (unstable Hardy branch). [1] Release Highlights: -- * Over 4500 packages in the repository. * This includes latest dpkg/apt, gcc, binutils, coreutils,

Re: Nexenta Core Platform 2 Alpha2 released

2008-10-11 Thread Anil Gulecha
Correction: The alpha 2 link is http://www.nexenta.org/releases/nexenta-core-platform_2.0-b85-alpha2_x86.iso.zip Thanks to perlun for the heads-up. Regards Anil On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Anil Gulecha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0

resuming build from a point in dpkg-buildpackage

2008-10-02 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, Heres the isue I;m facing, dpkg-buildpackage builds a packages x successfully, but fails in the install process (because a file listed in debian/x.install has not been built.) Is there a way to restart dpkg-buildpackage from the install step onwards? Anil

librecode missing reference program_name

2008-09-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, The text program in the gettext-kde package wont compile with a # gcc -Wall -lintl -lrecode tmp.c /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.2.3/../../../librecode.so: undefined reference to `program_name' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ..tmp.c, /* confdefs.h. */ #define

fmemopen and open_memstream

2008-09-17 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, The functions fmemopen and open_memstream dont seem to be a part of solaris gcc stdio.h Specifically the example at http://linux.die.net/man/3/open_memstream wont compile. How should I compile it? any particular flags to gcc? Regards Anil ___

Re: aspell issues

2008-09-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Anil Gulecha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been building various aspell packages. Most package fine into debs, but almost all have the below issue when installing ( I've uploaded the debs anyway.) Ex: Setting up aspell-he (1.0-0-1nexenta1

Graphviz package

2008-09-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, i'm running into this issue with graphviz. d-devlibdeps \ --override s/libpathplan4-dev// \ --override s/libgraph4-dev//\ --override s/libcdt4-dev// \ /root/src/work3/graphviz/graphviz-2.16/debian/libgraphviz-dev.substvars \

aspell issues

2008-09-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I've been building various aspell packages. Most package fine into debs, but almost all have the below issue when installing ( I've uploaded the debs anyway.) Ex: Setting up aspell-he (1.0-0-1nexenta1) ... Unsupported conversion: Invalid argument at

python-gobject does not install

2008-09-13 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, ONe of the build dependencies for a package to be installed is python-gobject .. but [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work1/python-gtk2/pygtk-2.12.1# apt-get install python-gobject python-gobject-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following

Incompatible libgcc?

2008-09-05 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I was building the package libnspr4-dev, when make failed with an incompatible -lgcc. what does this mean and any suggested workarounds? Regards Anil [snip] dh_testdir /usr/bin/make -C mozilla/nsprpub make[1]: Entering directory `/root/work1/libnspr4-dev/nspr-4.7.1~beta2/mozilla/nsprpub' cd

Gtk build issues

2008-08-30 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I'm tryign to build the gtk2.0 package for hardy.. and configure fails with .. checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes checking for GLIB - version = 2.13.5... no *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The

Re: September edition of Nexenta Hackathon

2008-08-29 Thread Anil Gulecha
A gentle reminder that the hackathon has officially started. Join in :) Regards Anil On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Anil Gulecha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A quick update on the hackathon. We've advanced the event by a couple of days to start from the 29th of August to allow

Re: Bug: m4 and sunwcsu both provide /usr/bin/m4, causing a collision

2008-08-28 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Per Lundberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're welcome! I'll see if I can get some more packages ported in a while... glib was very simple, it was just a matter of updating the changelog and build the package. Just one question, do we just replace ubuntu with

Build errors with ld

2008-08-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I'm trying to compile the dviutils package.. and it fails with an ld error. LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/lib gcc -o dviselect -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -DNO_ASM -B direct -Wl,-M,/usr/lib/ld/map.bssalign -Wl,-M,/usr/lib/ld/map.noexstk -L/usr/lib dviselect.o ../libtex/libtex.a -lm -lsocket -lnsl -z

Re: Patching a file already being patched

2008-08-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Anil Gulecha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i'm in a situation where i need to modify configure.in to add a flag. However, dpkg-buildpackage cribs about not being able to cleanly remove a patch.. this patch being in debian/patched, and also modifying

Re: Patching a file already being patched

2008-08-18 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually there should be a way to disable usage of fakeroot. But I could confirm that the version of fakeroot (binary) available on SchiliX ftp worked fine for me.. I was unable to find it. Is it one among

Patching a file already being patched

2008-08-17 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, i'm in a situation where i need to modify configure.in to add a flag. However, dpkg-buildpackage cribs about not being able to cleanly remove a patch.. this patch being in debian/patched, and also modifying configure.in How do i go about modifying this file to include the previous patch as

how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, I'm loading 4 packages, of which 2 conflict with each other. (thus i cannot install them both at the same time). dput thus fails .. what argument do i pass dput to tell it to go ahead and upload without the inbuild check. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/elinks_tmp# dput *.changes $USER not set, will use

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dput says: please install package locally, so to verify that it installs cleanly before uploading it. Have you tried this yet? Yes. I've installed all individual packages (elinks, elinks-doc, elinks-data, elinks-lite)

Re: how to tell dput to upload uninstalled packages

2008-08-15 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:48 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dput says: please install package locally, so to verify that it installs cleanly before

Re: Avoiding a file being added to a package

2008-08-14 Thread Anil Gulecha
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:17 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:00 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Erast