On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... > Yes.. this would then get packages from Ubuntu. My question was that Elinks is _already_ in the ncp2 repository, but with the charset.alias bug.
In such a case, do i get the file via upstream (ubuntu) ad build it, or do i get it from our own repository (ncp2 hardy) and build it from there. Regards Anil _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
