On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tim Spriggs <t...@tajinc.org> wrote: > Hi Joey, > > Sorry about the version bump, that is my fault. I (mindlessly) ran "dch -i" > and placed the package into the repository. After that I could not go back > and didn't want to keep going so I appended a ".N" which I now know should > have been a "-N" according to Debian policy. In fact, local policy was > stated to be -nexentaN but I think that was after alien had gone through the > many incorrect bumps. > > The patches I made were to convert the CSW/Blastwave repository of .pkg > files into an apt/dpkg repository. Iterating through the entire repository > brought up some bugs, the most common of which were fixed but some may still > exist. > > It looks like patching may have started from 8.66 (actual version) and > continued on with internal patches. Producing a diff between the old version > and the current Nexenta source may be the best thing we can offer in terms > of an immediate patch. Unfortunately, I don't have the source directory I > hacked on 1-2 years ago as a reference for the older patches. > > I think some of the changes will need to be cleaned up a bit for inclusion > into the main branch. I would like to work with you in order to produce an > updated package in Nexenta that contains local patches that can be sent > upstream. Maybe we can take this offline to discuss details. > > Thanks, > -Tim > > Joey Hess wrote: >> >> Hello. I'm writing you because I found your email address >> in the changelog for nexenta's version of alien. I'm the author/upstream >> of same. >> >> I think that Erast Benson may have sent me some patches 6 months ago to >> improve alien's handling of Solaris packages. Unfortunatly I sat on >> those mails for a while and then lost them today. Happily I also ran >> across a LWN.net article on Nexenta today that mentioned you were using >> alien and it was pretty clear you must have some patches. >>
Hi Joey, I recall sending you debhelper patches around the same time. I've attached the patch (on debhelper 6.0.4), which includes changes to Dh_Getopt.pm and the addition of dh_installproto, dh_installsmf, dh_suninstalldeb and dh_sunstrip The current sources in the repository no longer has a diff associated. If you want to include the additions into debhelper upstream, i can create the patches for the most recent upstream debhelper and send them across. (The last time you'd mentioned rather than adding options to Dh_Getopt.pm, one can now do it in the init() of a debhelper script) Thanks Anil Patch: http://www.nexenta.org/~anil/debhelper.diff _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
