Unidentified subject!

1999-03-01 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, I'm going to became a Debian Developer and now started to package my first programm bvi. Now I have a problem which I couldn't solve, because I don't find the error. I'm getting the following error, when I try to create the debian-package by calling 'dpkg-buildpackage': | make[2]: Leaving

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-03-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Christian Kurz wrote: Hi, I'm going to became a Debian Developer and now started to package my first programm bvi. Now I have a problem which I couldn't solve, because I don't find the error. I'm getting the following error, when I try to create the debian-package by

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-03-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:57:02AM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: 1. tar zxvf upstream_src.tgz 2. Apply the .diff that was generated when I produced 0.26.2 (and get rid of the files like changelog, control etc.) I usually extract the new

Re: New package problems

1999-03-01 Thread Samuel Tardieu
John == John Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I am porting it to gtk/gnome and gpl-ing it. Shoud i do this John before i first release it to make it legal, or should i just John write a note with it describing the circumstances and then gpl John it. It seems to me that it was meant to be

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-03-01 Thread Christian Kurz
Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |build: |$(CHECKDIR) |$(MAKE) linux Have you edited the make file to have it install in debian/tmp ? Now, but that shouldn't be the problem. Just saying so in the rules file, doesn't

dpkg-source: cannot represent change

1999-03-01 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Anything I can do to override this? It's on purpose, so that I don't have to include the whole pike/0.6 tree (the 'pike_0.6.110.orig.tar.gz' tarball)... - dpkg-source: building roxen using existing roxen_1.2.46.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: building roxen in roxen_1.2.46-3.diff.gz dpkg-source:

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-03-01 Thread Ben Bell
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 02:13:43AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: sbin is for STATIC binaries. Please read section 3.10 of fsstnd (/usr/doc/debian-policy/fsstnd) before you write something like this... FSSTND is a Linuxism. Debian is a Linux. Whatever the original purpose, even Solaris

Pseudo-solutions for versioned Provides?

1999-03-01 Thread Brian Almeida
Hi, I'm trying to consolidate emusic into one .deb, and have no problems, except one - the old packages have a versioned Depends: on one another. I know that dpkg can't do versioned Provides...suggestions? Since this is unstable, is it ok if I break them, and make the users manually remove the

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-03-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 27 February 1999, at 18 h 14, the keyboard of Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually extract the new one (or apply a patch if that is the method), gunzip -dc old_version.diff.gz somefile, then edit that 'somefile' and replace all instances of progdirectory-1.2.0 with

Re: New package problems

1999-03-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 28 February 1999, at 17 h 1, the keyboard of John Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. It has no copyright notice. No email contacts and about four names of those who wrote it. Apparantly it was some sort of university project. Anyway I cannot contact anyone I very often have the

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-03-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi Stephane, On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:05:43PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Using CVS together with Debian GNU/Linux packages http://www.debian.org/devel/HOWTO.cvs suggests another solution, based on CVS. It seems very nice (I use CVS for other projects) but I did not use it for Debian

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-03-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 01:51:58PM +, Ben Bell wrote: Debian is a Linux. This is not true. Debian is an operating system distribution. Linux is just an operating system kernel. Debian uses Linux, this is true. Currently all released versions of Debian use Linux, this is true too, but

RE: Pseudo-solutions for versioned Provides?

1999-03-01 Thread Shaleh
On 01-Mar-99 Brian Almeida wrote: Hi, I'm trying to consolidate emusic into one .deb, and have no problems, except one - the old packages have a versioned Depends: on one another. I know that dpkg can't do versioned Provides...suggestions? Since this is unstable, is it ok if I break them,

Seeking assistance/tips on building Debian!

1999-03-01 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In two weeks from today, I start my new job. First task is to build remote monitoring servers and design workstations. I've already decided I'm going to do this with Debian Linux. Unsurprisingly, my new employer already supports unix in general, and Linux like

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-03-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:55:57AM +, Jules Bean wrote: I usually extract the new one (or apply a patch if that is the method), gunzip -dc old_version.diff.gz somefile, then edit that 'somefile' and replace all instances of progdirectory-1.2.0 with progdirectory-1.2.1. Then apply that

Re: Seeking assistance/tips on building Debian!

1999-03-01 Thread John T. Larkin
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 01:10:34PM -0500, Phillip R. Jaenke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote In two weeks from today, I start my new job. First task is to build remote monitoring servers and design workstations. I've already decided I'm going to do this with Debian Linux. Unsurprisingly, my new

Re: Seeking assistance/tips on building Debian!

1999-03-01 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, John T. Larkin wrote: Sounds like you have a couple of requrements: 1 - you look over the code yourself (good luck -- so, do you have to check over the gcc code you'll be compiling everything with? How about the kernel code?

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-03-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, cvs-inject is merely a front end to cvs (specifically: cvs import -ko ; cvs export; cvs add debian; cvs commit ) cvs-upgrade is merely cvs import. This is the recommended way of using CVS, AFAIK, and the problems with deleted files (Attic files, etc), and problems

Re: dpkg-source: cannot represent change

1999-03-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 01:59:25PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Anything I can do to override this? It's on purpose, so that I don't have to include the whole pike/0.6 tree (the 'pike_0.6.110.orig.tar.gz' tarball)... - dpkg-source: building roxen using existing

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-03-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:55:57AM +, Jules Bean wrote: I usually extract the new one (or apply a patch if that is the method), gunzip -dc old_version.diff.gz somefile, then edit that 'somefile' and replace all instances of progdirectory-1.2.0

Re: What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-03-01 Thread Chris Waters
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Using CVS together with Debian GNU/Linux packages http://www.debian.org/devel/HOWTO.cvs suggests another solution, based on CVS. It seems very nice (I use CVS for other projects) but I did not use it for Debian yet (any experiences/war stories?). I can report a

cvs-buildpackage experiences

1999-03-01 Thread Chris Waters
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: $ cvs co -jupstream_version_3_1415 -jsource-dist foo will check out the lastest version on the main trunk and merge the changes made upstream between 3.1415 and 3.14159; here's the catch: if 3.14159 renamed some files (something I've encountered a number of

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-03-01 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |build: |$(CHECKDIR) |$(MAKE) linux Have you edited the make file to have it install in debian/tmp ? Just saying so in the rules file, doesn't help... The Makefile have to understand it to... -- Noriega SEAL Team 6 KGB $400 million in