On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:17 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:00 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > Another way is to use dpkg-divert - but in this case its a bug.
> >> > charset.alias must be shipped with libiconv library only.
> >> >
> >> I hung around at #elinks, and turns out the package has a copy of
> >> gettext in it. which geneates the file.
> >
> > I think you need to ask debian/rules to use system-wide
> > libicon/gettext..
> >
> >> Also the package has an 'ubuntu' in it (as it's already in the our
> >> repo.. i got it via apt-get source elinks)? Is this alright? If not,
> >> how do I remove ubuntu?
> >
> > In debian/changelog for first line where version specified:
> >
> > s/ubuntu/nexenta/
> >
> > apt-upstream-tool does that for you. Also, over time it will do some
> > other "policy" things... so I would suggest to use it and try to improve
> > it if you'll find bugs and time permits.
> >
> > Caution: you always need to check if a package exists in our repository
> > before getting it as is from Ubuntu. Could be that some amount of work
> > already done by someone and all we need is to fix existing package,
> > instead of importing new one from upstream.
> >
> 
> Ok.
> 
> So what line do I need to add to sources.list to first check
> Nexenta-hardy sources. the current contents are as below, so it gets
> things from ubuntu's mirror.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/elinks_tmp# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> ## In order to bootstrap from elatte, we include the elatte-unstable sources
> ## and then publish to hardy
> # deb http://apt.nexenta.org elatte-unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://apt.nexenta.org hardy-unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> ## In order to get older sources from elatte, enable one of the sources below
> # deb-src http://apt.nexenta.org/ elatte-stable main contrib non-free
> # deb-src http://apt.nexenta.org/ elatte-testing main contrib non-free
> # deb-src http://apt.nexenta.org/ elatte-unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> ## Hardy/main is the primary target for upstream sources
> deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy main
> deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main
> deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-security main

Just comment these three above and use apt-upstream-tool to avoid
messing with apt-get directly...

> # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main
> 
> ## Hardy packages outside of main are a low priority, but acceptable
> ## when needed as a build dependency, uncomment as needed
> # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy universe
> multiverse restricted
> # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-updates
> universe multiverse restricted
> # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-security
> universe multiverse restricted
> # deb-src ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/ubuntu/ hardy-backports
> universe multiverse restricted
> 
> 
> ~Anil
> 

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