On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 06:56:38AM -0500, Nathan Handler wrote:
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote:
There is already an open RFP for ubuntu-archive-keyring[1], but nobody
bothered to package it yet. ubuntu-devel-discuss@l.u.c was CCed twice,
but there
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:24:44PM -0400, Simon wrote:
On 5/27/07, John Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found the original code in GNOME just pops up a message, see
check_ntp_support in
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-system-tools/src/time/time-tool.c?rev=1.17view=markup
This would mean
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:39:27PM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote:
Hello Bart,
is there some kind of agreement between Debian and Ubuntu concerning the
distribution part of the version?
The scheme is described here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#UbuntuPackages
which is linked, along
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:44:31PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 20:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Debian. It is currently already in Ubuntu
(http://packages.ubuntu.com/kzenexplorer). I created a brand new Debian
package (lintian clean except for lack
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:31:43AM +, David Newgas wrote:
Bug#345039 is an request for
kzenexplorer (http://kzenexplorer.sourceforge.net/) to be included in
Debian. It is currently already in Ubuntu
(http://packages.ubuntu.com/kzenexplorer). I created a brand new Debian
package (lintian
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:19AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
During a recent upgrade of my Debian Sid box, I noticed the
following changelog entry:
f-spot (0.2.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
* Update to 0.2.2 upstream
Perhaps I've already missed a discussion on this. If so,
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:03:53PM -0800, Jordan Mantha wrote:
I am looking for somebody to sponsor a new package for me. I recently
packaged it for Ubuntu and it was accepted into the universe repository.
I have now made a Debian sid source package, [...]
Is there a reason why the source
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
I disagree. Soyuz is a reimplementation of the archive software. HCT
addresses the problem of package publishing within Soyuz. In what scope
HCT will support 'collaborative maintenance' is AFAIK quite unclear.
HCT is a tool for
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
hct looks very cool and does seem to solve some of the problems that are
considered here. When I read https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/HCT , I
get the sense that it's not actually released yet. Is that the case? If
not,
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:56:30PM +0100, Bram Neijt wrote:
I'm working on a very simple package which, only has compile time
dependencies.
I'm currently on debian unstable, with g++-4.0 as my main compiler
(it's a C++ program).
I've succesfully created a package and installed it on
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:59:04AM +1000, John Skaller wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:04 +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
I guess you build it on a Ubuntu system? Maybe next time you could built
them in a Debian unstable chroot (with pbuilder). This way you also
make sure it compiles and is
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:33:31PM +0200, David Gil wrote:
I did it, Depends now looks like this:
Depends: python (= 2.3), python ( 2.4)
I have read about it before at debian python policy. But the problem now
is that my ubuntu friends can not install reddo cause ubuntu use python
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:23:28PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote:
After checking appropriate docs and asking around and getting different
answers, I thought I'd see if there was any consensus on this:
How do you deal with new upstream releases? The general answers I'm getting
seem to be along
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:45:32PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote:
* Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 18:15 -0800]:
snip lots of stuff
Did I miss anything?
Yeah, the part where you turn this into a poster to be hung on my wall.
...and the unified diff for developers-reference. :-)
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:30:52AM -0400, Ervin Hearn III wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:48AM +0200, Marco Herrn wrote:
Hi,
where can I find information about the structure of Release files? And
are there any tools to create them automatically?
Regards
Marco
Hi Marco,
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:30:52AM -0400, Ervin Hearn III wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:48AM +0200, Marco Herrn wrote:
Hi,
where can I find information about the structure of Release files? And
are there any tools to create them automatically?
Regards
Marco
Hi Marco,
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
Well, they can't go into /usr/bin, they are part of the library.
However, for some reason upstream decided to put the python equivalent
of a main() in some of the files that make up the library.
That's a reasonable thing to do.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
Well, they can't go into /usr/bin, they are part of the library.
However, for some reason upstream decided to put the python equivalent
of a main() in some of the files that make up the library.
That's a reasonable thing to do.
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
That's what it does, and since it does the problem occured. Was I unclear
in my first mail?
I must have been looking at tetex-base rather than tetex-bin, which only
replaces dvipdfm.
Indeed when updating apt first the problem
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
That's what it does, and since it does the problem occured. Was I unclear
in my first mail?
I must have been looking at tetex-base rather than tetex-bin, which only
replaces dvipdfm.
Indeed when updating apt first the problem
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody have an idea why apt decides Holding Back tetex-bin rather
than change dvipdfm?
It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and
dist-upgrade the rest, it
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
The code uses varargs.h which gcc-3.3 doesn't support. stdarg.h is
the new standard. I've done my best to convert the code, but I can't
solve a crash in the of the functions I had to change.
This is the right approach, and your
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 06:02:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:58:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole
story see below..
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
The code uses varargs.h which gcc-3.3 doesn't support. stdarg.h is
the new standard. I've done my best to convert the code, but I can't
solve a crash in the of the functions I had to change.
This is the right approach, and your
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:37PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:
I have a seemingly stupid question. Say I am not a DD yet, and has a
security bug in a package I help maintaining. Upstream fixed it, so the
package is ready, but upstream requires new library version from a
dependency
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:37PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:
I have a seemingly stupid question. Say I am not a DD yet, and has a
security bug in a package I help maintaining. Upstream fixed it, so the
package is ready, but upstream requires new library version from a
dependency
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
But why nobody has yet taken care about it? There is a patch
which (maybe) fix the bug without any answer from the maintainers.
If you are interested in seeing this (minor) bug fixed, helpful actions
include:
- Applying the
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
But why nobody has yet taken care about it? There is a patch
which (maybe) fix the bug without any answer from the maintainers.
If you are interested in seeing this (minor) bug fixed, helpful actions
include:
- Applying the
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:00:41AM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote:
I'm trying to package flyspray. all goes pretty cool atm, except ne
weird error I really don't understand :
lintian complains about a missing dependency on debconf, whereas I have
one ... and I don't understand what's the
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:00:41AM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote:
I'm trying to package flyspray. all goes pretty cool atm, except ne
weird error I really don't understand :
lintian complains about a missing dependency on debconf, whereas I have
one ... and I don't understand what's the
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:48:39PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:25:06PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version dependency. Is there
to make
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version dependency. Is there
to make dh_shlibdeps add that in?
No. Why do you believe that you need to?
--
- mdz
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version dependency. Is there
to make dh_shlibdeps add that in?
No. Why do you believe that you need to?
--
- mdz
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To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:48:39PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:25:06PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version dependency. Is there
to make
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:55:43AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am packaging source which builds two binary packages; however, each
package has different build dependancies. In fact, the packages' build
dependancies conflict.
I don't think the dpkg tools have the facility to build one
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:11:58AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
I prepared package of imgseek for Debian (it's now in unstable), but
unfortunatelly it fails to build on every non-i386 architecture.
I tested it with pbuilder on my i386 box, but seems that it's not
enough. It works
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:11:58AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
I prepared package of imgseek for Debian (it's now in unstable), but
unfortunatelly it fails to build on every non-i386 architecture.
I tested it with pbuilder on my i386 box, but seems that it's not
enough. It works
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:21:23PM -0400, James Damour wrote:
My understanding of the position of Bob and Mike can be summed up as, in
general, shell script's can't be made to use setuid/setgid securely.
Basically, the problem comes down that a user can manipulate their PATH to
redefining
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:21:23PM -0400, James Damour wrote:
My understanding of the position of Bob and Mike can be summed up as, in
general, shell script's can't be made to use setuid/setgid securely.
Basically, the problem comes down that a user can manipulate their PATH to
redefining
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:09:43AM -0500, larry wrote:
To Whom it may concern
My Name is Larry Sheetz
I'm a Co owner in a Debian based ISP.
We are currently deploying wireless systems for our isp and noticed that
there is on debian package that we can find that includes PPPoE in
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:40:52PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
I have a question. If an /etc/init.d script hangs indefinately while
waiting for user input, is this a violation of Debian policy?
See BTS #221751 for more information.
There is no explicit rule in policy about the
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:49:46AM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a
script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document
should be updated to explicitly deal with this case?
So far, it does not seem to have been a
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:19:27PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So far, it does not seem to have been a problem, but you are welcome to
propose it through the normal channels.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the proper channels to use
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:40:52PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
I have a question. If an /etc/init.d script hangs indefinately while
waiting for user input, is this a violation of Debian policy?
See BTS #221751 for more information.
There is no explicit rule in policy about the
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:49:46AM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a
script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document
should be updated to explicitly deal with this case?
So far, it does not seem to have been a
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:19:27PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So far, it does not seem to have been a problem, but you are welcome to
propose it through the normal channels.
Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the proper channels to use
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:09:43AM -0500, larry wrote:
To Whom it may concern
My Name is Larry Sheetz
I'm a Co owner in a Debian based ISP.
We are currently deploying wireless systems for our isp and noticed that
there is on debian package that we can find that includes PPPoE in
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:05:06AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
The problem is that there's a REAL 'slapd' package on the Debian
GNU/Linux APT archive(s) which seem to override _my_ virtual
package(s).
I would like to have my packages to override the 'original' one
(they have A LOT
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote:
In this case, this setgid-wrapper concept would work for *all* Java
applications. I'm still not sure if it will work for shell driven apps
in general, but it sounds reasonable. Security may be a concern, but I
believe that a
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:30:10PM -0500, Greg Deitrick wrote:
What is the recommended method for securely creating a temporary named pipe
in
C code?
Looking at the man pages for various library calls it appears that tmpfile(3)
is probably an acceptable means of creating a temporary
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:20:18PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
I'm not sure what would be best practice to avoid those errors, because
the admin might have to configure the video device first anyway (though
the default /dev/video0 is usually a nice guess).
Have an
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:30:10PM -0500, Greg Deitrick wrote:
What is the recommended method for securely creating a temporary named pipe in
C code?
Looking at the man pages for various library calls it appears that tmpfile(3)
is probably an acceptable means of creating a temporary file,
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:18:11PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
I'm inclined to believe that there are some things that could be done
about this if someone wanted to. Diffs for the package list has been
proposed, and it doesn't take many minutes of thinking to see that it's
actually quite
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:18:11PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
I'm inclined to believe that there are some things that could be done
about this if someone wanted to. Diffs for the package list has been
proposed, and it doesn't take many minutes of thinking to see that it's
actually quite
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
I am responsible for the package htdig. Htdig is a full-text indexer for
(local) sites, ie. will generate a full-text (searchable) index of that
site.
The thing is written in C++, and comes with loads of libraries. While
the
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
Hello all.
I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe
someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a
explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:57:55PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
Why? How big are the components? Would somebdy e.g install package-name
without package-icons or the other way round?
It was a example. The person might only want the backgrounds or only the
icons.
This alone is not sufficient
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:12:30PM +0100, Tom Huckstep wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
1. Add a Depends: on Python
2. Remove 'teepeedee-share' from the .deb
3. Put teepeedee-share in a separate package
4. Replace the 'teepeedee-share' with a shell
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:29:54AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
Of course, with the current version of dpkg, your point is very good and
entirely valid.
Thinking ahead, wouldn't it be a good idea to fix dpkg and the package
list to support a larger number of packages?
The problem with
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote:
What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system?
I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:57:27PM +0200, Gianluca Ciarcelluti wrote:
I developed a package under debian.
When I try to install it trough apt-get update apt-get upgrade it
continue to reinstall it instead of display the message
Sorry, hexedit is already the newest version..
I whoud
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Gianluca Ciarcelluti wrote:
If coul'd help here is my control file:
---
Source: alga
Section: unknown
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Gianluca Ciarcelluti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
Hello all.
I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe
someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a
explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:57:55PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
Why? How big are the components? Would somebdy e.g install package-name
without package-icons or the other way round?
It was a example. The person might only want the backgrounds or only the
icons.
This alone is not sufficient
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:12:30PM +0100, Tom Huckstep wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
1. Add a Depends: on Python
2. Remove 'teepeedee-share' from the .deb
3. Put teepeedee-share in a separate package
4. Replace the 'teepeedee-share' with a shell
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:29:54AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
Of course, with the current version of dpkg, your point is very good and
entirely valid.
Thinking ahead, wouldn't it be a good idea to fix dpkg and the package
list to support a larger number of packages?
The problem with
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:57:27PM +0200, Gianluca Ciarcelluti wrote:
I developed a package under debian.
When I try to install it trough apt-get update apt-get upgrade it
continue to reinstall it instead of display the message
Sorry, hexedit is already the newest version..
I whoud
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Gianluca Ciarcelluti wrote:
If coul'd help here is my control file:
---
Source: alga
Section: unknown
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Gianluca Ciarcelluti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
I am responsible for the package htdig. Htdig is a full-text indexer for
(local) sites, ie. will generate a full-text (searchable) index of that
site.
The thing is written in C++, and comes with loads of libraries. While
the
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:54:17PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
I used a statically-linked binary just a few days ago. I needed to
resize an NTFS partition on a newly-delivered system which came with
Windows XP. In the event, I was able to get a statically linked
binary, copy it onto a floppy
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:54:17PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
I used a statically-linked binary just a few days ago. I needed to
resize an NTFS partition on a newly-delivered system which came with
Windows XP. In the event, I was able to get a statically linked
binary, copy it onto a floppy
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
although I've read the policy again, I am not sure whether it is allowed
to store scripts in /usr/share/$package? In particular, scripts that are
only meant to be
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:15:54AM +0100, Luca Pasquali wrote:
author put it under GPL, new debs are here:
http://ketavet.dyndns.org/truncate
Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't do
anything that dd doesn't.
If I've misunderstood and this does more, could you
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
although I've read the policy again, I am not sure whether it is allowed
to store scripts in /usr/share/$package? In particular, scripts that are
only meant to be
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote:
There are some files in /etc which are actually data files representing
the state of the system. Like /etc/mtab, /etc/network/ifstate, or
/etc/lvmconf/* (it is not even a text file).
These files are written by programs in
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:59:33AM +, Ian Beckwith wrote:
I recently ITA'd ckermit, (a serial and network communications
package). Packaging the latest version raised lots of (hopefully
non-stupid) questions:
Do you realize that ckermit is already packaged in stable/non-free and
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:59:33AM +, Ian Beckwith wrote:
I recently ITA'd ckermit, (a serial and network communications
package). Packaging the latest version raised lots of (hopefully
non-stupid) questions:
Do you
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:59:33AM +, Ian Beckwith wrote:
I recently ITA'd ckermit, (a serial and network communications
package). Packaging the latest version raised lots of (hopefully
non-stupid) questions:
Do you
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:59:33AM +, Ian Beckwith wrote:
I recently ITA'd ckermit, (a serial and network communications
package). Packaging the latest version raised lots of (hopefully
non-stupid) questions:
Do you realize that ckermit is already packaged in stable/non-free and
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:06:35AM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
Now I'm strongly considering making the switch to Debian and am
evaluating moving my whole installation system over to dpkg. dpkg
seems superior to rpm in almost all respects (richer dependencies,
better documentation, more
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:55:55PM +0100, GCS wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:56:33PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It is also not uncommon to make an orig.tar.gz of (possibly multiple)
upstream tarballs by putting them in a directory and tarring that.
Ofcourse you
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
I want to do the following to a configuration file: Ignore all updates
of the conffile inside the .deb (in other words: just keep what's
installed on the system). At the moment this file is marked as
conffile.
If the file stops
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:02:23PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031228 22:25]:
I think you mean -f for most of those -a.
I don't mean -f, because a symlink is also ok. (But I do perhaps
mean a -f file -o -h file or -r file.)
Yes, you do, in fact, mean
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
I want to do the following to a configuration file: Ignore all updates
of the conffile inside the .deb (in other words: just keep what's
installed on the system). At the moment this file is marked as
conffile.
If the file stops
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:02:23PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
* Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031228 22:25]:
I think you mean -f for most of those -a.
I don't mean -f, because a symlink is also ok. (But I do perhaps
mean a -f file -o -h file or -r file.)
Yes, you do, in fact, mean
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:05:12PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
I'm going to adopt cacti[1]. But I have a problems with a clean upgrade
path to the new upstream version.
Cacti use a mysql database to store the configuration values (including
users/password, graphic options, layouts,
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:05:12PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
I'm going to adopt cacti[1]. But I have a problems with a clean upgrade
path to the new upstream version.
Cacti use a mysql database to store the configuration values (including
users/password, graphic options, layouts,
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:47:45PM -0800, David Braun wrote:
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
I would simply include the SQL dump under /usr/share and leave it to the
user where to import it. It's possible that they will want to create a new
database, or import
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:47:45PM -0800, David Braun wrote:
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
I would simply include the SQL dump under /usr/share and leave it to the
user where to import it. It's possible that they will want to create a new
database, or import
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:06:51PM -0800, David Braun wrote:
The data comes from the USDA as a file designed to be imported into a
relational database (such as MySQL). It's really not very useful
otherwise. My question is how do I package this correctly? I want my
package to import it into
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote:
I am planing to adopt my first package (emelfm, orphaned). So I checked what needs
to be done to equip myself for this task.
There seems to be one current problems with that package:
The ToDo says the Standards-Version is
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:06:51PM -0800, David Braun wrote:
The data comes from the USDA as a file designed to be imported into a
relational database (such as MySQL). It's really not very useful
otherwise. My question is how do I package this correctly? I want my
package to import it into
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote:
I am planing to adopt my first package (emelfm, orphaned). So I checked what
needs to be done to equip myself for this task.
There seems to be one current problems with that package:
The ToDo says the Standards-Version is
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:30:46PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
This is the kind of thing I want to do - how do I extract $old_version?
I want to do the move if upgrading from 5.4-5, but not after that, so
that I don't keep on doing funky things to users' conffiles. Pointer to
refs would
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:30:46PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
This is the kind of thing I want to do - how do I extract $old_version?
I want to do the move if upgrading from 5.4-5, but not after that, so
that I don't keep on doing funky things to users' conffiles. Pointer to
refs would
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:07:06PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
I have to move a config file, and I am not sure of the best way of
handling it, so I wanted to ask for opinions.
The problem is that I am currently shipping an /etc/default/$package,
which needs to now become /etc/$package.conf -
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:07:06PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
I have to move a config file, and I am not sure of the best way of
handling it, so I wanted to ask for opinions.
The problem is that I am currently shipping an /etc/default/$package,
which needs to now become /etc/$package.conf -
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:49:03PM -0500, Neil Roeth wrote:
On Nov 18, Zenaan Harkness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I assume that (generally speaking) as DD's (in NM training or otherwise)
are expected to have a reasonably up to date sid install, whether
native, chroot, or whatever.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:49:03PM -0500, Neil Roeth wrote:
On Nov 18, Zenaan Harkness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I assume that (generally speaking) as DD's (in NM training or otherwise)
are expected to have a reasonably up to date sid install, whether
native, chroot, or whatever.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:51:22PM -0600, David Segonds wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
What's to heavily modify? I presume the config file is a fairly reasonable
format, in which case a search 'n replace for 'config_option\s=.*$' to
'config_option
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