Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russell King] > Can't you get the source, and whatever relevent files you need to > build a dpkg and build the source + binary packages yourself (with > maybe a few minor changes to the dpkg build information)? Right. No changes at all. modutils_2.3.23-2.diff.gz applies fine, except for one bi

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Russell King
Anuradha Ratnaweera writes: > The reason I was looking for the debian package was to test 2.4 on a > "stable" debian system. If I install modutils from source, package > management system (dpkg/apt) will not know its existence. Can't you get the source, and whatever relevent files you need to bui

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:48:04PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > Why not DEB? > > Because Keith doesn't have a Debian system? He just provides the rpms > as a service, he doesn't have to do that. Of cource he doesn't have to do that. It is just ni

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Install the "alien" package on your machine and you will be able to >convert between rpm and deb. Bad plan, considering packages rely on some infrastructure that is not in the rpm (update-modules). I tend to be pretty quick wi

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:48:04PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > Why not DEB? Because Keith doesn't have a Debian system? He just provides the rpms as a service, he doesn't have to do that. Install the "alien" package on your machine and you will be able to convert between rpm and deb. E

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-05 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:30:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > I agree. I can set up a "linux-hotplug" group using SourceForge if ... > I'm only proposing SourceForge as I can set up a list easily there > easily, and I don't know the right people to ask to get it done

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:17:49PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > > > > I agree. I can set up a "linux-hotplug" group using SourceForge if > > others also think that this is a needed thing. I don't want to see > > things like this happen again. > > > > Actually almost anyone c

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:54:33PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > Matt -- > > > It's pretty much the same patch (functionally) as I posted to the > > linux-usb-devel mailing list, which I presumed would inform the hotplugging > > people. Mea culpa, I seem to have been in error there. > > Miles

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Miles Lane
Matthew Dharm wrote: > Well, I'll be the one to fall on my sword... > > This is probably my fault. The matching code was pretty much broken for a > non-trivial subset of usb devices. I'd submitted the patch to Linus before > the holdiays, but it was rejected for various reasons. After some ba

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > modutils-2.4.0.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file > modutils-2.4.0-1.src.rpmAs above, in SRPM format > modutils-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2 > modutils-2.4.0-1.sparc.rpm Compiled for comb

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 08:54:33PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > Miles had a suggestion for a "linux-hotplug" mailing list; this > could have been a good issue to coordinate on such a smaller > (lower traffic?) list. Given that I (and many people on linux-scsi, it seems) are looking to "hotplugg

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread David Brownell
Matt -- > It's pretty much the same patch (functionally) as I posted to the > linux-usb-devel mailing list, which I presumed would inform the hotplugging > people. Mea culpa, I seem to have been in error there. Miles had a suggestion for a "linux-hotplug" mailing list; this could have been a go

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Matthew Dharm
Well, I'll be the one to fall on my sword... This is probably my fault. The matching code was pretty much broken for a non-trivial subset of usb devices. I'd submitted the patch to Linus before the holdiays, but it was rejected for various reasons. After some back and forth, Linus finally acce

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:59:12 +1100, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >modutils-2.4.0.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file I have just found out that there was an incompatible change to struct usb_device_id during 2.4.0-prerelease :(((. That means that all versions of de

Announce: modutils 2.4.0 is available

2001-01-04 Thread Keith Owens
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