Re: things broke when I went to dpkg-dev 1.4.1.6

1999-08-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:06:48PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: cv-buildpackage -rfakeroot broke, and Manoj advised to use -rfakeroot --. Maybe this is the same problem with dpkg-buildpackage. Not maybe. It *is*. Another workaround is to define the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT.

Re: multiple binary packages (again)

1999-08-17 Thread goswin . brederlow
Domenico Andreoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm trying to package curl. curl is tool to download anything from the net in all sort of ways (http, ftp, gopher, https). it comes also with ssl support, i can tell it to compile ssl support by a switch after ./configure. in order to get both

Re: upstream author == debian maintainer

1999-08-17 Thread goswin . brederlow
Sami Dalouche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:10PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:32:08PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: 1) I am the author of program I am packaging. To save myself some work, I have packaged it as a native debian

apt-pkg, etc ..

1999-08-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I'd like to read Packages[.gz] files, read/modify files in /var/lib/dpkg and other package administration things. Does the libapt-pkg library allow to do such things ? Thanks. Jerome. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: apt-pkg, etc ..

1999-08-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:44:08PM +0200, Jérôme Marant écrivait: I'd like to read Packages[.gz] files, # apt-cache dumpavail read/modify files in /var/lib/dpkg and other package administration things. Those files are not modified by apt but by dpkg. Does the libapt-pkg library allow to