Re: Menu-entry and Variable holding X-clipboard

1999-05-18 Thread Gus
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 10:04:34AM +0100, Matthias Kabel wrote: Is there a way for all windowmanager to get the content of the X-clipboard? you'll probably have to write a wrapper program that grabs the clipboard and passes it as an argument this shouldn't be too hard - i'll leave it up to

Re: Upload failure

1999-05-18 Thread Matt Kern
On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Matt Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other day I uploaded OPIE to master, but somehow fscked up and uploaded opie_2.32-1.tar.gz instead of opie_2.32.orig.tar.gz and opie_2.32-1.diff.gz How can I correct my earlier blunder?

Re: the place for file

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: The package consists of a script that processes an SGML-file and produces a HTML file. The resulting file makes use of an external stylesheet I want to put into the package

Re: Upload failure

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Matt Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Matt Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other day I uploaded OPIE to master, but somehow fscked up and uploaded opie_2.32-1.tar.gz instead of opie_2.32.orig.tar.gz and opie_2.32-1.diff.gz

Re: bin86

1999-05-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:39:49AM -0300, Aldenor Falcao wrote: I know it is only for x86* architectures, but we could change the script to verify the port and request the bin86 in such case. What script? Of course, one way to solve the dilemma would be to have a kernel-source package

Re: version numbers

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
John Hasler wrote: Chrony-1.1 is out and I've packaged it to replace chrony-1.02 only to find that dpkg claims that 1.1 1.02. What should I do? The authoritative answer to this question is in the packaging manual. It's also quite amusing: Note that the purpose of epochs is to allow us

Re: the place for file

1999-05-18 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:04:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Michael Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the script I am talking about has nothing to do with DSSSL. Oh, um, what is it? It is a cost script? TCL extension for doing SGML things. The script itself goes (as an executable)

Re: version numbers

1999-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:13:20AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Chrony-1.1 is out and I've packaged it to replace chrony-1.02 only to find that dpkg claims that 1.1 1.02. What should I do? The authoritative answer to this question is in the packaging manual. It's also quite amusing:

Re: the place for file

1999-05-18 Thread E O Fredrik Liljegren
Oh, um, what is it? /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/{css,xsl,dsssl}/ directories are all possibilities. If it's something else entirely, like PerlASP or what have you, generally folks either put it in /usr/lib/sgml/misc/pkgname or somewhere under /usr/share/pkgname/. Hmm. I have a related

debmake inserting stuff in postinst file

1999-05-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I use debmake to create packages and want to stop it from adding entries to the postinst file. I created the following debian/postinst file : -- #!/bin/sh # # postinst script for the jazip package set -e case $1 in configure) if [ -x /usr/sbin/suidregister ]; then

possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread Preston Landers
Hi everyone... I'm not sure if -mentors is the right place for this, but I figured that if anyone can point me in the right direction (where to post this) you guys can. I think *maybe* I've found a bug in sysvinit but I'd like a sanity check before filing an official bug report on it. First of

Re: possible bug in sysvinit?

1999-05-18 Thread shaleh
Hi everyone... I'm not sure if -mentors is the right place for this, but I figured that if anyone can point me in the right direction (where to post this) you guys can. I think *maybe* I've found a bug in sysvinit but I'd like a sanity check before filing an official bug report on it.

Re: debmake inserting stuff in postinst file

1999-05-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:23:19PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I use debmake to create packages and want to stop it from adding entries to the postinst file. Why don't you simply use debhelper? :o) You can switch over without large problems, using dh_debstd.

Re: debmake inserting stuff in postinst file

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Why don't you simply use debhelper? :o) You can switch over without large problems, using dh_debstd. This appears to have worked! Wow! I always figured it'd work but you're the first person to my knowledge to use it. :-) If evryone else has the answers I was