On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:53 +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote:
> 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.

Oh, got it. Yes, you need to get it from NCP2 repository, and yes you
need to use sources.list, add this line:

deb-src http://apt.nexenta.org hardy-unstable main contrib non-free

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