SGML-format docs -- compile-time, what to do?

1998-03-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
should I go about doing that the best way? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters E and A and the number 19. Johnny! Don't go! It's too dangerous! I don't care! -- MST3K Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC

Packages getting absorbed by other packages..

1998-03-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
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Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
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Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
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Re: One source, two binary packages

1998-04-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
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Re: Where to gtkrc-type files go?

1998-08-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Marcelo == Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo /etc/something.gtkrc (or something like that) or Marcelo /usr/share/something/something.gtkrc (OSLT) They're not exactly config files -- they're not meant to be changed. But since gtkrc files have no global repository,

Re: Creating two packages from one source

1998-09-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Peter == Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Can a single rules files be used to make two binary Peter packages from one orig.tar.gz. Sure! Take a look at the debian/rules file from the 'gimp' package -- you can fetch the .orig.tar.gz, .dsc, and .diff.gz from

Re: Where to put non-end-user binaries?

1998-09-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Florian == Florian Hinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian Hi! Lets say a debian package foo contains a binary Florian prog which needs another binary or shell script Florian helper to run. Florian Should I install these files as /usr/bin/prog and Florian

Re: wmakerconf in slink

1998-09-20 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Marcelo == Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Hi, I DL'ed gnome and wmaker (and related libs) and Enrico wmakerconf and iinstalled them yesterday...I have to say Enrico you that there is a problem in wmakerconf Enrico andwmakerconf-data packages: the are both

Re: *.m4 files in -dev packages

1998-11-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Brian == Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shaya I think that is only an issue w/ CVS compilers. If so, not Shaya your problem. You should NOT be shipping a imlib.m4 in Shaya your package. Ask the powers that be about this. I could Shaya be wrong. But this should only

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Marcus == Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcus can someone give me a hint how I can efficient test if a Marcus certain directory is empty in the postrm (shell script)? Here's what I did in the /etc/rc.boot/nethack script: # Are there any lock-files to recover? ls

New unstable GTK+/GLib packages' names -- seeking advice

1998-11-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
GTK+ and GLib have a somewhat curious developmental situation; they release versions that are binary (and source, sometimes) incompatible with previous releases with each developmental 1.1.x release. Version 1.1.5 of both GTK+ and GLib have just been released. I have received complaints about

Re: New unstable GTK+/GLib packages' names -- seeking advice

1998-11-23 Thread Ben Gertzfield
James == James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James dpkg doesn't do reverse dependency checking[1]; if I have James say foo installed which depends on libgtk1.1 (= 1.1.5-1), James it'll happily let me install libgtk1.1 1.1.6-1, silently James breaking foo. James (1) is the

Re: What to do with extra sources needed to build a package

1998-12-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Peter == Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter I'm in the process of packaging xplot (a simple data Peter plotter for X. It's designed to show one- or twodimensional Peter datasets, either from a file or from a pipe). It uses Peter XForms, which put it in contrib.

Re: What to do with extra sources needed to build a package

1998-12-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ionutz == Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ionutz Can you please give some examples about these 'gotchas' ? Ionutz I also want to pack some shared libs. Learning how to make shlibs files properly, how to decide what the dependancies between the -dev and library package will be

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jason == Jason Henry Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason I checked on master and va, they only have GTK1.0 Jason installed, not GTK1.1, which mozilla needs to build. Are Jason there any hosts offered by debian that have libs from Jason unstable to help out in this sort of

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ionutz == Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ionutz Hi, I am trying to package my first set of libs. I am Ionutz doing this from my account with fakeroot. The problem is Ionutz that this way, the process stops with the following error: (ldconfig not found) Have you tried

Re: automatic dependencies question

1998-12-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ionutz == Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ionutz Hi, I am trying to package VDK libs. I have added this in Ionutz my control file: Ionutz libvdk depends on libgtk 1.1.7 or more. However, this is Ionutz what I get in my libvdk1.deb: Ionutz No reference to libgtk or

Re: automatic dependencies question

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ionutz == Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Did you install your own libgtk without using packages? The Ben only way dpkg-shlibdeps (the package that figures out the Ben shared library dependancies) can know how to set up a shared Ben library dependancy is if a file

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam No, you just need to be careful and to read the Packaging Adam Manual, where it says: Adam Any package installing shared libraries in a directory Adam that's listed in `/etc/ld.so.conf' or in one of the default Adam

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Ionutz == Ionutz Borcoman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam This whole thread is absurd since the question was about Adam someone running ldconfig in debian/rules, which is a big Adam nasty no-no as well, and I can't think of a possible reason Adam why it would be necessary.

Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs

1998-12-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
James == James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Hoo boy.. didn't we end up deciding this was wrong? James Eh? No, we certainly did not. I'm pretty sure it's safe to call ldconfig unconditionally in postinst, and that we ran into problems when we literally followed the packaging

Re: library packaging howto?

1999-01-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Will == Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will I've been around for a while, I have a couple of packages. Will I'm about to undertake packaging my first set of libraries, Will and I'm not sure what's different. I understand that a Will stripped copy of the library goes into

Re: library packaging howto?

1999-01-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Josip == Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben The short is: Ben Ben .so.1 and .so.1.0.0 go into libblah1 .so and .a and .h files Ben go into libblah-dev (optional) debugging-enabled .a goes into Ben libblah-dbg Ben Ben Your numbers may vary. Josip I think

Re: What to do?

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Mitch == Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mitch I believe that the technical term for what I've done is a Mitch 'boo-boo'. I blame it on raging stupidity on my part. But Mitch how can I fix it? Mitch Here's the situation: Mitch I uploaded gtksamba-0.1.4 -- no