Re: How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

2002-12-17 Thread Andrew Lau
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:36:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi chown: `netsaint': invalid user I have seen several packages which do this and fail, and what is the proper way to fix that ? postinst? Yours sincerely,

fetchmail on master.debian.org

2002-12-17 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi I would prefer to get my e-mail from master.debian.org using fetchmail (instead of having a forward in the db db.debian.org) how can I do it? thanks a. -- Andrea Mennucc E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Tonino Carotone) msg08113/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetchmail on master.debian.org

2002-12-17 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Andrea! You wrote: I would prefer to get my e-mail from master.debian.org using fetchmail (instead of having a forward in the db db.debian.org) how can I do it? I don't think it is possible atm. Master runs no pop and no imap servers. -- Kind regards,

Re: RFS: moleskine, libgtkscintilla, python-gtkscintilla

2002-12-17 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il mar, 2002-12-17 alle 14:13, Filippo Giunchedi ha scritto: hi!, i've packaged moleskine plus gtk bindings for scintilla edit component and python bindings for gtkscintilla. i filed an itp on this stuff in the past, before lossing interest in scintilla. i can take care of checking and

Re: How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:36:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi chown: `netsaint': invalid user I have seen several packages which do this and fail, and what is the proper way to fix that ? This sort of thing is

NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Grant Bowman
Hello Sami, After reading the content of this bug, I'm curious which rules would be broken by moving the necessary libraries to /lib from /usr/lib. I can understand why you have moved this bug to won't fix but without some kind of solution users who use NSS special lookups like LDAP will always

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:43:27AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to the system prior to mounting of /usr? It is entirely valid for /usr to be located on a network share (NFS), so you're not really guaranteed to be able to

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Grant Bowman
* Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021217 08:47]: What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to the system prior to mounting of /usr? [...] Using LDAP information as a replacement for almost all of /etc/password. -- -- Grant Bowman

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:42:00PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: * Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021217 08:47]: What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to the system prior to mounting of /usr? [...] Using LDAP information as a replacement for almost all of

How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

2002-12-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I have a question. There are packages which probably need to be changed the owner (or suid) in .deb packages. Trying to chown to a user which does not exist will obviously emit an error like this: dh_link dh_strip dh_compress dh_fixperms chown netsaint

Re: How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

2002-12-17 Thread Andrew Lau
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:36:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi chown: `netsaint': invalid user I have seen several packages which do this and fail, and what is the proper way to fix that ? postinst? Yours sincerely,

fetchmail on master.debian.org

2002-12-17 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi I would prefer to get my e-mail from master.debian.org using fetchmail (instead of having a forward in the db db.debian.org) how can I do it? thanks a. -- Andrea Mennucc E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa! (Tonino Carotone) pgpLV6XV5fLNP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetchmail on master.debian.org

2002-12-17 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Andrea! You wrote: I would prefer to get my e-mail from master.debian.org using fetchmail (instead of having a forward in the db db.debian.org) how can I do it? I don't think it is possible atm. Master runs no pop and no imap servers. -- Kind regards,

RFS: moleskine, libgtkscintilla, python-gtkscintilla

2002-12-17 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
hi!, i've packaged moleskine plus gtk bindings for scintilla edit component and python bindings for gtkscintilla. All packages are available on http://debian.esaurito.net and apt-gettable with deb http://debian.esaurito.net ./ Name: moleskine Url: http://www.micampe.it/software/moleskine/

Re: RFS: moleskine, libgtkscintilla, python-gtkscintilla

2002-12-17 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il mar, 2002-12-17 alle 14:13, Filippo Giunchedi ha scritto: hi!, i've packaged moleskine plus gtk bindings for scintilla edit component and python bindings for gtkscintilla. i filed an itp on this stuff in the past, before lossing interest in scintilla. i can take care of checking and

Re: How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:36:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi chown: `netsaint': invalid user I have seen several packages which do this and fail, and what is the proper way to fix that ? This sort of thing is

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:29:44AM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: After reading the content of this bug, I'm curious which rules would be broken by moving the necessary libraries to /lib from /usr/lib. I can understand why you have moved this bug to won't fix but without some kind of solution

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:43:27AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to the system prior to mounting of /usr? It is entirely valid for /usr to be located on a network share (NFS), so you're not really guaranteed to be able to

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Grant Bowman
* Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021217 08:47]: What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to the system prior to mounting of /usr? [...] Using LDAP information as a replacement for almost all of /etc/password. -- -- Grant Bowman

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:42:00PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: * Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021217 08:47]: What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to the system prior to mounting of /usr? [...] Using LDAP information as a replacement for almost all of