Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:36:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I can arrange to have the debian version passed in the ENV variable KDREV, or something. That would be clean. That sounds excellent. I will await it eagerly :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hmm. The revision can be passed through the env var DEBIAN_REVISION, and possibly pcmcia is aware of that and uses that? From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wichert From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the Wichert correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian revision Wichert I needed to parse that file anyway. So I just changed the regexp Wichert a

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs ./debian/rules target. Additionally, the following information is provided in the environment: a) KVERS Contains the

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs ./debian/rules target. Additionally, the following

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:39:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I would think that using make-kpkg to create the modules packages is not a bad idea anyway. I think it's a great idea, and works really well with pcmcia on my notebook. /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs ./debian/rules target. Additionally, the following information is provided in the environment: a) KVERS Contains the kernel version b) KSRC Contains the location of the kernel sources c)

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:56:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why are the sound modules not included with the kernel? Afaik they are in Redhat. They are. The intent is to package binaries for the standard kernels already made... pgpltzRfWWC4i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wichert Could you please document somewhere how to do this? I've Wichert just implemented this for the ALSA packaged after someone Wichert described the process in a bugreport.. and I have to say Wichert it's a royal PITA to get the

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:07:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Actually, since yo have done it, you have way more experience with the process than I (I just do the make-kpkg end). Could you please document what you did? I shall chime in and add what make-kpkg provides, and what

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: Actually, since yo have done it, you have way more experience with the process than I (I just do the make-kpkg end). Could you please document what you did? I shall chime in and add what make-kpkg provides, and what targets it calls. Darn, I had a

Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread Guenter Geiger
Hi there ! The current way to add sound support on Debian is either installing the kernel-source and compiling OSS or installing the ALSA packages. What about providing a modularized, precompiled OSS package and a sound installation tool ? This sound installation tool should use isapnp to

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:51:24PM -0700, Guenter Geiger wrote: The current way to add sound support on Debian is either installing the kernel-source and compiling OSS or installing the ALSA packages. What about providing a modularized, precompiled OSS package and a sound installation

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Guenter == Guenter Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guenter What about providing a modularized, precompiled OSS package Guenter and a sound installation tool ? Please also consider a src.deb package (look at pcmcia_cs packages for example) that puts the sources in

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread robbie
Hi Why are the sound modules not included with the kernel? Afaik they are in Redhat. Regards -- Robbie Murray

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: Please also consider a src.deb package (look at pcmcia_cs packages for example) that puts the sources in /usr/src/modules/package/ so that the sound module can be built when the kernel packages are created by the user using kernel-package. Could