Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-07 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:41:22 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://216.254.0.38/linux/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ncftp-3.1.6-0.1.92mdk.i586.rpm does it again, it's downloading something but where to? The directory where you started ncftp. It doesn't use download directories -

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-07 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:10:43 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but maybe, ncftp means it's looking for me to give it another url perhaps ? ncftp http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=Scribussubmit=Sea$

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:04:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See snapshot386.png I cut it in half to reduce the image size, but the result as you can see is what I got in my browser from your above url. Mozilla should have spotted that as a binary

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-02 Thread Robin Turner
John Richard Smith wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:04:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See snapshot386.png I cut it in half to reduce the image size, but the result as you can see is what I got in my browser from your above url. Mozilla should have

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Robin Turner wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: So what's this ncftp NC means ? Now copy ? ]# rpm -qa | grep ncftp ]# Ha, ftp://216.254.0.38/linux/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ncftp-3.1.6-0.1.92mdk.i586.rpm does it again, it's downloading something but where to? I'm going to stop it, and use d4x

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:04:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See snapshot386.png I cut it in half to reduce the image size, but the result as you can see is what I got in my browser from your above url. Mozilla should have spotted that as a binary file, and offered you the

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
anton wrote: All roads blanked, except, a google to a site I could not make much sense of. No I was not kidding ya. It's why I asked. me no understand? ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk.i586.rpm no idea... first google entry... Cheers Anton See

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:10:35 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I don't use urpmi. You gotta be kiddin' me...why put yourself through such torture when urpmi will take care of everything for you? No need for Google, searching through FTP sites, one command and yer on yer

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:10:35 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I don't use urpmi. You gotta be kiddin' me...why put yourself through such torture when urpmi will take care of everything for you? No need for Google, searching through FTP sites, one command

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:21:54 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: You gotta be kiddin' me...why put yourself through such torture when urpmi will take care of everything for you? No need for Google, searching through FTP sites, one command and yer on yer way... But

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread anton
See snapshot386.png I cut it in half to reduce the image size, but the result as you can see is what I got in my browser from your above url. It was the same with all the google leads except one, where the actual site didn't make that much sense to me.It wasn't obvious to me where the htmldoc

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-23 Thread John Richard Smith
anton wrote: I guess I don't have some package installed ? I usually get chastised when I am this lazy so... Lazy bones! urpmi htmldoc and there we have it! Cheers Anton So whuch htmldoc package does it require. I don't use urpmi. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-23 Thread anton
So whuch htmldoc package does it require. I don't use urpmi. John ...I am sure you're taking the piss but: htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk In case your not... Cheers Anton on your disks... or on an ftp server near you. -=-=- ... If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-23 Thread John Richard Smith
anton wrote: So whuch htmldoc package does it require. I don't use urpmi. John ...I am sure you're taking the piss but: htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk In case your not... Cheers Anton on your disks... or on an ftp server near you. All roads blanked, except, a google to a site I could not make much sense

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-23 Thread anton
All roads blanked, except, a google to a site I could not make much sense of. No I was not kidding ya. It's why I asked. me no understand? ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk.i586.rpm no idea... first google entry... Cheers Anton -=-=- ... The more I see of

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-22 Thread anton
I guess I don't have some package installed ? I usually get chastised when I am this lazy so... Lazy bones! urpmi htmldoc and there we have it! Cheers Anton -=-=- ... After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-21 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 05:51 am, Robin Turner wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-21 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:15:30 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: Is there a nice little pdf file of this to be had anywhere ? At the very bottom, select 'printable', then save the page as, say, 'rpmhowto.html'. Then: htmldoc --webpage -f /path/to/rpmhowto.pdf

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source tarballs.

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 20 February 2004 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread Robin Turner
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source tarballs. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 20 February 2004 05:51 am, Robin Turner wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from

[newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-19 Thread robin
Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source tarballs. Sir Robin -- Caesar non supra grammaticos. - Suetonius Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-19 Thread Job Evers
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:41:55 +0200 robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source tarballs. I use a package called checkinstall to build RPM's from source tarballs.