Re: Cleaning up obsolete conffiles

2013-05-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Wise wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: How can I as a system administrator clean that obsolete conffile up? rm -f /etc/some-obsolete-conffile apt-get --reinstall install package-that-provided-the-obsolete-conffile Ah! Thanks. That works. I have many obsolete conffiles on my system

Re: Cleaning up obsolete conffiles

2013-05-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Wise wrote: Please file bugs about obsolete conffiles when you find new ones. The packages themselves should clean up their obsolete conffiles. Is there a bug example or two you could point me to so that I can follow the standard template of reporting these problems? It appears I have

Cleaning up obsolete conffiles

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
I have many obsolete conffiles on my system. It has been upgraded through many releases. dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete Picking a simple one as an example: /etc/skel/.bash_profile d1a8c44e7dd1bed2f3e75d1343b6e4e1 obsolete If I purge the package and install it fresh then

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
. What is your desire? I am getting a little nervous about getting the current update uploaded before the freeze. I would like to be ahead of the wave and get through the autobuilders. Thanks! Bob Russ Allbery wrote: Bob Proulx writes: It was. But then Russ Allbery noted some oddities! :-) I

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Russ Allbery wrote: Bob, I've uploaded the latest version. Thank you for your work! Thanks! Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Russ Allbery wrote: * There seems to be something odd about the time info file. If I run info time, and then press space, rather than proceeding to the next child node the way that info normally does, info just reports no more nodes in this file. The same is true at a few points in the

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
: #663260) - + * Fix man page formatting oddities. Thanks Russ Allbery for the nice patch. +See Bug#677013#68 for the discussion. + * Fix texinfo standalone info program navigation oddity. Reported by +Russ Allbery. See Bug#677013#63. + -- Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Mon, 23 Feb 2012

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bart Martens wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Bart Martens wrote: The file debian/copyright should name the original authors, and David Keppel is such an author. I have looked through many copyright files and do not see one that does this. See for example this one along with many others

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Russ Allbery wrote: * The formatting of the man page isn't great. There are a few places that seem to have spurious line breaks (the --append documentation, for example), That appears to have been some spurious spaces in bad places in the man page. Fixed. and it's traditional to have

Bug#677013: RFS: time

2012-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
...@qed.econ.queensu.ca Copyright 2005, 2008 Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@debian.org Copyright 2010 Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com Copyright 2012 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com License: GPL-2+ Files: debian/time.1 Copyright: Copyright 1996 Dirk Eddelbuettel

Bug#677013: Debian time package sponsor?

2012-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
The latest 'time' package release candidate is here: http://www.proulx.com/~bob/debian/pool/sid/main/time/2012-06-21/ -rw-r--r-- 1 16649 Jun 21 13:38 time_1.7-24.debian.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 1038 Jun 21 13:48 time_1.7-24.dsc -rw-r--r-- 1 12317 Jun 21 13:39 time_1.7-24_amd64.build

Bug#677013: Debian time package sponsor?

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Bob Proulx writes: Yes. But note that those had been made before too. I only updated the autotools files (again) because the current ones were quite aged and dearly in need of being updated. Those were not patched in the sense of editing the file with changes

Bug#677013: Debian time package sponsor?

2012-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Sandro Tosi wrote: Hello Bob, here's a brief review of the package. Thank you for reviewing the package! debian/changelog - don't rewrite history, so please restore the old changelog entries, even if they have a weird Closes=xxx in the first entry line The two entries are: time (1.7-4)

Bug#677013: RFS: time/1.7-24 -- The GNU time program for measuring cpu resource usage

2012-06-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Sandro Tosi wrote: Bart Martens wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Owner: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com I'm opening this RFS on behalf of Bob Proulx who owns ITA 652670. Bob Proulx wrote: Hi Bart, How is progress on this ITA ? Can I admit that it is a little frustrating? I

Removing init.d stop scripts best practice?

2011-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
What is the best procedure to use for removing a stop script from a package? Moving from: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 dh_installinit To: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: dh_installinit --update-rcd-params=start 99 2 3 4 5 . If nothing more

Re: dpkg status Conffiles obsolete flag?

2011-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I am hoping to understand the obsolete flag on conffiles in the dpkg status file. There are many packages that include this flag at the end of the line. For example: [...] They are obsolete because they no longer exist

dpkg status Conffiles obsolete flag?

2011-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
I am hoping to understand the obsolete flag on conffiles in the dpkg status file. There are many packages that include this flag at the end of the line. For example: Package: file Conffiles: /etc/magic.mime 272913026300e7ae9b5e2d51f138e674 obsolete /etc/magic 272913026300e7ae9b5e2d51f138e674

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
PJ Weisberg wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't even think of doing this in a package uploaded to Debian. Right. I mentioned it mostly for completness, since it's the answer to the question that was actually asked. I almost added, I don't think any Debian packages actually do this, but

Re: deploying package with NFS

2010-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Ben Finney wrote: Richard Hector writes: We've run into an issue here, when we deploy a package (created in-house) on a system that uses NFS for some filesystems. Due to root-squashing, the postinst can't create or chmod/chown the files it needs to. ... * You're root-squashing

Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?

2005-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Recai Oktas wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: awk is virtually essential: it can't be Essential: yes because that would prevent removing mawk in favor of gawk, but awk is a dependency of another essential package to ensure that you can use basic awk functionality without having to depend on

Depends: awk -- Is that required?

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
I need a clarification because I am confused. If I have a script that uses awk do I need the package to Depends: awk? Or is awk like basename where we are able to assume it is on the system without any explicit dependencies? I see that many packages do Depends: awk. But awk is an alternative

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Then tell the user that, and DO NOT TOUCH /etc/inittab. ... Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an interface for ANY package to touch /etc/inittab. Screwing it up is so utterly callous, that one would have to be out of his mind to

Re: separate binary and sources

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
gregor herrmann wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: But what and how should I separate the created files? Should I put them into the same directory? orig, diff, dsc,.. in a flat way? I guess yes Yup. Maybe you'd like to take a look at

Re: separate binary and sources

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
John Skaller wrote: (a) it does not provide binary packages (b) apt tools can't build from source The latter is exceptionally annoying (which I consider a very polite form of what I'd like to actually say ;) Is there a tool which does that? I use Synaptic GUI tool, it would be nice if

Re: uploading packages built on an amd64 box inside ia32 chroot

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Are there any problem in uploading packages built inside that chroot? It should be fine. In fact that is a recommended practice. It prevents flavor from the developer's machine leaking into the build. The 'pbuilder' package is very nice for managing these types of

Re: Best way to maintain a package for multiple Debian releases?

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Jarle Aase wrote: I'm about to make some .deb packages. Some will hopefully be accepted as official packages, while others will be built for my own convenience (to ease installation and upgrades on Debian servers I maintain). The packages includes shared C++ libraries, binaries, databases

Re: LessTif conflicts with Motif, doesn't provide Motif, and is required???

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hendrickson wrote: Why in the world did DMs compile KDE to say: You must use LessTif and uninstall Motif??? What kde package requires lesstif? I was unable to locate one using 'apt-cache showpkg lesstif1' and 'apt-cache showpkg lesstif2'. Note that lesstif1 and lesstif2 implement

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Anthony Towns wrote: GNU Interactive Tools hasn't seen an upstream update at all since 2001, and looking at the diffs since .18, doesn't seem to have had any significant changes since 1999. The Debian updates seem mostly to be updating the build system, rather than user-visible changes. I

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Steven Augart wrote: First, a retraction: James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and ruid or egid and rgid are different. It fixes

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Jarno Elonen wrote: ..and the said utility script looks like this: source /etc/upgrade-system.conf echo Updating available package lists... apt-get -q=2 update Are you randomizing your start time? Look at cron-apt for an example. Otherwise there is a

Re: release as a package or add to APT's file list?

2004-05-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Jarno Elonen wrote: ..and the said utility script looks like this: source /etc/upgrade-system.conf echo Updating available package lists... apt-get -q=2 update Are you randomizing your start time? Look at cron-apt for an example. Otherwise there is a

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Steven Augart wrote: First, a retraction: James Damour wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:03, Steven Augart wrote: As you probably know, when a shell sees that it is running a setuid or setgid shell script, it detects this because the euid and ruid or egid and rgid are different. It fixes

Re: What format package for debian test phase?

2004-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Halim Boukaram wrote: I've finished making the rpm for my package. Should i convert it to a 'deb' file (using alien) before trying to get it uploaded to debian test folder or should it be rpm or tarred. The 'alien' program is really good. But it is not perfect. And we would like Debian

Re: Should I always clean in debian/rules before making binary?

2004-03-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Küster wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It's easier to use DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp if DESTDIR support is available; that way you get less confused by /etc. [..] Hm, how do I know (other by trial and error) whether a package supports this? autoconf'iscated ones do

Re: Should I always clean in debian/rules before making binary?

2004-03-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Küster wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It's easier to use DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp if DESTDIR support is available; that way you get less confused by /etc. [..] Hm, how do I know (other by trial and error) whether a package supports this? autoconf'iscated ones do

Re: pbuilder ${shlibs:Depends} yields libc6-2.2.4-4 ???

2003-12-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Rene Engelhard wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Why does building a package with pbuilder generate the seemingly wrong version for Depends: of 2.2.4-4 regarldless that 2.2.5-11.5 is the installed library? What am I doing wrong? Nothing. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot chroots/stable cat

pbuilder ${shlibs:Depends} yields libc6-2.2.4-4 ???

2003-12-21 Thread Bob Proulx
I just recently started using pbuilder. Previously I have been maintaining my own chroots as required. I can see why people recommend pbuilder. It is very nice! But things do not seem to be operating as I believe they should and I have been unable to figure this out. Let me set the stage.

pbuilder ${shlibs:Depends} yields libc6-2.2.4-4 ???

2003-12-21 Thread Bob Proulx
I just recently started using pbuilder. Previously I have been maintaining my own chroots as required. I can see why people recommend pbuilder. It is very nice! But things do not seem to be operating as I believe they should and I have been unable to figure this out. Let me set the stage.

Re: Need a mentor with a !x86 machine

2003-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
John Lightsey wrote: If anyone with a non-x86 machine would like to take a look again and give feedback on wheter or not it compiles properly, I'd really appreciate it. The build logs that I recieved were very helpfull. I grabbed that and gave it another run. There are still -O9 references

Re: Need a mentor with a !x86 machine

2003-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
John Lightsey wrote: If anyone with a non-x86 machine would like to take a look again and give feedback on wheter or not it compiles properly, I'd really appreciate it. The build logs that I recieved were very helpfull. I grabbed that and gave it another run. There are still -O9 references

Re: Need a mentor with a !x86 machine

2003-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
John Lightsey wrote: I'm trying to adopt xmms-goom which has a release critical bug related to !x86 architectures. I believe the version I've packaged fixes the problem, but I don't have access to a !x86 machine running unstable to test it on. If someone could download, build, and test

Re: Need a mentor with a !x86 machine

2003-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
John Lightsey wrote: I'm trying to adopt xmms-goom which has a release critical bug related to !x86 architectures. I believe the version I've packaged fixes the problem, but I don't have access to a !x86 machine running unstable to test it on. If someone could download, build, and test

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Bob Proulx in [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl -e 'printf(%o\n,(stat($ARGV[0]))[2]);' /tmp # print mode in octal 41777 My only question now is where did that '4' come from in the mode? But the last four digits always seem to be correct. stat(2): S_IFDIR

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Bob Proulx in [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl -e 'printf(%o\n,(stat($ARGV[0]))[2]);' /tmp # print mode in octal 41777 My only question now is where did that '4' come from in the mode? But the last four digits always seem to be correct. stat(2): S_IFDIR

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Metzler wrote: Frank Küster wrote: in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to stat. In sarge, /usr/bin/stat is in coreutils - of course I don't need a dependency on that. However, in woody stat was in a separate package. Usually packages keep really old

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Küster wrote: stat is called to get uid and exact permissions of a temporary configuration file which has just been created. Perl is standard on systems. I hesitate to put more use of it in init scripts but... Perhaps this would be of use instead of stat just to work around this

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Metzler wrote: Frank Küster wrote: in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to stat. In sarge, /usr/bin/stat is in coreutils - of course I don't need a dependency on that. However, in woody stat was in a separate package. Usually packages keep really old

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Küster wrote: stat is called to get uid and exact permissions of a temporary configuration file which has just been created. Perl is standard on systems. I hesitate to put more use of it in init scripts but... Perhaps this would be of use instead of stat just to work around this

--force-confdef? When is it different?

2003-09-30 Thread Bob Proulx
I am setting up a scripted update for a pool of machines and trying to understand the ramifications. In the dpkg man page: confnew: If a conffile has been modified always install the new version without prompting, unless the --force-confdef is

--force-confdef? When is it different?

2003-09-30 Thread Bob Proulx
I am setting up a scripted update for a pool of machines and trying to understand the ramifications. In the dpkg man page: confnew: If a conffile has been modified always install the new version without prompting, unless the --force-confdef is

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias Urlichs wrote: As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not N? That may leave the package, at worst, in a I

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias Urlichs wrote: As packages are normally upgraded through the life of a system I train people to always say 'Y' to the replace a conffile question. Sure this may leave the system in a generic and locally unworkable state. So why not N? That may leave the package, at worst, in a I

Re: fvwm-themes gets better

2003-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Mitrofanow wrote: nobody interestet to fvwm-themes? http://smilebef.homelinux.org/~smilebef/ [Reading my note before sending it I see it sounds harsh. I don't mean it that way. I mean it constructively so that you will know why I personally have not tried any of your packages. Please

Re: fvwm-themes gets better

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Mitrofanow wrote: nobody interestet to fvwm-themes? http://smilebef.homelinux.org/~smilebef/ [Reading my note before sending it I see it sounds harsh. I don't mean it that way. I mean it constructively so that you will know why I personally have not tried any of your packages. Please

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? I don't think you can depend upon a package and tweak its conffiles. It would be interesting to be able to do that and it certainly makes sense from an object oriented inherit and modify

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: Can't I even Depend on a package and then fine tune its configuration though? I don't think you can depend upon a package and tweak its conffiles. It would be interesting to be able to do that and it certainly makes sense from an object oriented inherit and modify

Re: gcc versions and c++ packages

2003-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
David Meggy wrote: Searching the mailing lists, oddly shows up nothing. I think the debian mailing list search page needs some fixing. I think this was in debian-devel. Since I had the page up in my browser when I read your message here it is.

Re: gcc versions and c++ packages

2003-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
David Meggy wrote: Searching the mailing lists, oddly shows up nothing. I think the debian mailing list search page needs some fixing. I think this was in debian-devel. Since I had the page up in my browser when I read your message here it is.

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? You are asking an obvious question and the answer is the obvious one. The sources are in non-free because they are not free. Look at the copyrights of any of the packages in non-free and you will see that they

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Winger wrote: would it be sacreligious to ask why sources are kept in non-free? You are asking an obvious question and the answer is the obvious one. The sources are in non-free because they are not free. Look at the copyrights of any of the packages in non-free and you will see that they

Re: tagging bugs woody?

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Metzler wrote: Frank Kuster wrote: users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. I have

Re: tagging bugs woody?

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Metzler wrote: Frank Kuster wrote: users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. I have

Re: How do you upload/build sponsored packages?

2003-05-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian Nelson wrote: Would it be somehow possible to change the default behavior? [of debuild to be debuild -uc -us] Uh, have you filed a wishlist bug? Good idea! Just did that. Bug#194678 Bob pgpfOUP2e7fXk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do you upload/build sponsored packages?

2003-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: I actually don't see how dpkg-buildpackage's sign-immediately-after-build defaults ever make sense (except when dpkg-buildpackage was originally written, when debsign didn't yet exist). Why would you want to waste time signing a package you haven't tested yet? Surely the

Re: First steps in packaging

2003-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthew Palmer wrote: Out of interest, are there any MUAs which have a separate reply to list function? KDE's 'kmail' for those into GUIs to read text. But you have to configure the list address on a per folder basis. Bob pgpKg8pXDLrj4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First steps in packaging

2003-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony Maro wrote: Why do I feel like I opened a can of worms? It is that squirmy feeling in the gut. Like just before the alien claws its way out. Bob pgpClP4tDDzjT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Closing bugs in unreleased packages?

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
The released version of Debian is 'stable. Why are bug reports closed against 'sid'? Shouldn't bug reports be closed only in released versions of Debian? What am I missing? Requesting education. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-handling 5.8.4 When

Closing bugs in unreleased packages?

2003-03-15 Thread Bob Proulx
The released version of Debian is 'stable. Why are bug reports closed against 'sid'? Shouldn't bug reports be closed only in released versions of Debian? What am I missing? Requesting education. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-handling 5.8.4 When

Re: Really strange : my package doesn't compile from source.

2003-03-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Neil L. Roeth wrote: Examining the buildd logs showed it tried to run automake to build [...] But, *why* did this happen? I had created Makefile.in in the source tree after aclocal.m4, so it was a *newer* file there and did not trigger a call to automake on my build machine. You asked the

Re: Really strange : my package doesn't compile from source.

2003-03-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Neil L. Roeth wrote: Examining the buildd logs showed it tried to run automake to build [...] But, *why* did this happen? I had created Makefile.in in the source tree after aclocal.m4, so it was a *newer* file there and did not trigger a call to automake on my build machine. You asked the

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bastian Kleineidam wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:19:51PM +0100, Henning Moll wrote: In addition i have some questions to the Depends section in debian/control: ${shlibs:Depends} is a nice feature, but i think for many packages/libraries it is way to strict, because it's always using

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bastian Kleineidam wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:19:51PM +0100, Henning Moll wrote: In addition i have some questions to the Depends section in debian/control: ${shlibs:Depends} is a nice feature, but i think for many packages/libraries it is way to strict, because it's always using

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Aaron Haviland wrote: Bob Proulx cursed the gypsies with this chant: Bug 179614! It appears to me that this is a similar but not quite identical problem. In that bug the packages were all real packages and none of them were virtual. I could not deduce that any of them were virtual. So

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Aaron Haviland wrote: Bob Proulx cursed the gypsies with this chant: Bug 179614! It appears to me that this is a similar but not quite identical problem. In that bug the packages were all real packages and none of them were virtual. I could not deduce that any of them were virtual. So

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Matt Zimmerman wrote: Why does it think rsh-client is a virtual package? It is a mixed virtual package. There is a real package rsh-client, but also several other packages provide rsh-client (apt-cache showpkg rsh-client). Aha! Interesting. Since I *knew* that rsh-client was a real

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Matt Zimmerman wrote: Why does it think rsh-client is a virtual package? It is a mixed virtual package. There is a real package rsh-client, but also several other packages provide rsh-client (apt-cache showpkg rsh-client). Aha! Interesting. Since I *knew* that rsh-client was a real

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: It's a false positive, yes. Please file it as a bug against lintian (also compare #179614). Bug 179614! It appears to me that this is a similar but not quite identical problem. In that bug the packages were all real packages and none of them were virtual. I could not

virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-08 Thread Bob Proulx
I am unable to determine why I am getting this message from lintian. Help? My control file seems normal to me with this header. I am attempting to build a meta package that contains nothing but depends so that I can pull in various packages easily by installing my metapackage. I have reduced

virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-08 Thread Bob Proulx
I am unable to determine why I am getting this message from lintian. Help? My control file seems normal to me with this header. I am attempting to build a meta package that contains nothing but depends so that I can pull in various packages easily by installing my metapackage. I have reduced

Re: new system uid/gid

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Chad Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:12:21AM +0100, Szilveszter Farkas wrote: i would like to create a package which needs a system user and a group to be added. which uid/gid shall i use? leave it over 1000 (default), or should i set it under 1000? There's policy already set up

Re: new system uid/gid

2003-01-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Chad Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:12:21AM +0100, Szilveszter Farkas wrote: i would like to create a package which needs a system user and a group to be added. which uid/gid shall i use? leave it over 1000 (default), or should i set it under 1000? There's policy already set up

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-08 15:49:27 +]: I can see a number of ways out of it, but have no clear idea which is best: * Split the package into its component parts, such that each daemon is in a separate package. Have an init script for each. The admin chooses

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-08 15:49:27 +]: I can see a number of ways out of it, but have no clear idea which is best: * Split the package into its component parts, such that each daemon is in a separate package. Have an init script for each. The admin chooses

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-14 00:41:49 +1000]: OK, I'll try to remember to restrip for sarge :) Perhaps the BTS could be a help in remembering this? Bob msg07487/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-14 00:41:49 +1000]: OK, I'll try to remember to restrip for sarge :) Perhaps the BTS could be a help in remembering this? Bob pgpoGeZUVTmOR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg-buildpackage problem

2002-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Jay Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-10 16:39:18 -0600]: debian/rules should have something like this: make install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp well my debian rules looks like this ./configure (lots of stuff here) --datadir=/etc/X11 This implies that the application is using data itself

Re: dpkg-buildpackage problem

2002-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Jay Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-10 16:39:18 -0600]: debian/rules should have something like this: make install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp well my debian rules looks like this ./configure (lots of stuff here) --datadir=/etc/X11 This implies that the application is using data itself

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Devin Carraway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-22 01:35:32 -0700]: I'm working on a package containing several executables, whose common functionality lives in a few shared libraries. They're linked in the usual way at compile time. Policy says they should live in /usr/lib/packagename/, but I

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Devin Carraway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-22 01:35:32 -0700]: BTW, I wanted to also say... I know of three ways to deal with this one -- add a new path to ld.so.conf (yuck), Blech! Very yucky taste in mouth. ;-) link with -rpath, or wrap the apps in a script which alters

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-22 20:54:19 +0900]: What would be the point of restricting the shared libraries to within the software ? The traditional argument is usually that shared libraries save disk space. If your have a large amount of code that is completely shared between N

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Devin Carraway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-22 01:35:32 -0700]: I'm working on a package containing several executables, whose common functionality lives in a few shared libraries. They're linked in the usual way at compile time. Policy says they should live in /usr/lib/packagename/, but I

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Devin Carraway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-22 01:35:32 -0700]: BTW, I wanted to also say... I know of three ways to deal with this one -- add a new path to ld.so.conf (yuck), Blech! Very yucky taste in mouth. ;-) link with -rpath, or wrap the apps in a script which alters

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-22 20:54:19 +0900]: What would be the point of restricting the shared libraries to within the software ? The traditional argument is usually that shared libraries save disk space. If your have a large amount of code that is completely shared between N

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Marco Presi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-08 22:45:23 +0200]: I am packaging a multiple binary from a single sources. The two binaries provides the same server functionality and differs just for compilation options, let's say: server and server-enhanced. Are they overlapping packages,

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Marco Presi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-08 22:45:23 +0200]: I am packaging a multiple binary from a single sources. The two binaries provides the same server functionality and differs just for compilation options, let's say: server and server-enhanced. Are they overlapping packages,