Re: Request for mentor

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Meredith
No offence taken ;) What I meant is that the mailing list is a great place to start for the beginner. Those who don't know - but want to learn. From my experience - a lot of DDs dont want to mother you through learning how to package. Ok, they'll help, but they dont want to teach from scratch :D

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Frank Küster
Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: The main advantage of quilt IMHO is that it doesn't duplicate the whole tree when editing and updating the patch, which can be time- and disk-consuming in large projects. Instead it keeps a list of files for the patch one is

Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Meredith
Whenever I seem to relibtool a package now I always seem to get problems with the timestamps being wrong, and the package tries to re-run automake. Anyway, as a solution for that - we decided that the command lsdiff --strip 1 debian/patches/10_update_libtool.diff | xargs touch -r configure.in.in

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Zak B. Elep
Hi Mez! :-) On 1/30/06, Martin Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know enough about automake (I dont) to stop it trying to run on a package build ? I add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE somewhere at the top of configure.{ac,in} to enable maintainer mode (which I believe prevents the checking of

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Meredith
I do know of this - but looking for a solution for now so I dont have to go down that road unless absolutely neccesary :d (for example - the lsdiff | touch -r) Zak B. Elep wrote: Hi Mez! :-) On 1/30/06, Martin Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know enough about automake (I

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Frank Küster wrote: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that allows you to treat shell scripts as patches? My inability to find such a feature was the main reason I opted for dpatch over quilt in the Cernlib package -- I

Re: pkg-config needs a replacement?

2006-01-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Monday 30 January 2006 4:20 am, skaller wrote: * there is no provision for other than the limited set of resources (--cflags, --libs) that it supports You can make any variable in the .pc file available - anything you can put into the .pc using (e.g.) .pc.in can be made available to those

Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link

2006-01-30 Thread Al Nikolov
отправлено в группы и по почте Christoph Haas wrote: Found it. Checked it. Uploaded it. Thank you. Minor thoughts on the package: - Please don't change past entries in the changelog even though I understand that you wanted to correct the line wrapping. Yes, i understand such the

debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I'm packaging a C++ app that has packages like this: foo - binary using the library libfoo0 - the library itself libfoo0-dev - headers and so on libfoo0-doc - docs for the library I'd like to add a package for debug information, since the app crashes occasionally. Should I

Re: debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.01.30.1518 +0100]: Secondly, is dh_strip -k the right way to do this? Yes. It mostly automates the process too. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Martin, Martin Meredith wrote: [on AM_MAINTAINER_MODE] I do know of this - but looking for a solution for now so I dont have to go down that road unless absolutely neccesary :d (for example - the lsdiff | touch -r) Well, probably the best solution is to get upstream to put in the

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Adeodato Simó wrote: * Kevin B. McCarty [Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:39:17 -0500]: Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that allows you to treat shell scripts as patches? My inability to find such a feature was the main reason I opted for dpatch over quilt in the Cernlib

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in Debian, you should never install additional copies of the GPL, the LGPL, or other common licenses; instead,

Re: Custom Debian CD.

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Derek, You should post this question on debian-cd where are realy competent peoples creating CCD. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:46:58AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in Debian, you should never install

Re: timeout function in cryptsetup init script

2006-01-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 30/01/2006 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: Hi, indeed, it sounds exactly like what i'm searching for. but unfortunately it looks like cryptsetup does not have support for reading the password from stdin or command-line. ah, I see, it is using getpass(3) if no keyfile has been specified.

Re: files for an initscript that is run before mountall.sh

2006-01-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 29/01/2006 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Jonas Meurer wrote: now my question is, where should i place the check scripts instead? is /lib/cryptsetup/{pre,post}check correct? Yes. thanks. ... jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: create docs in binary indep

2006-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:12:26PM -0800, Jon Saints wrote: I am new to packaging and just received this feedback on a package I helped to create: I just noticed that gdal packaging needs one more revision because it create a -doc package in the binary-arch section. libgdal-doc is

Re: debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Paul Wise [Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:18:07 +0800]: Hi all, I'm packaging a C++ app that has packages like this: foo - binary using the library libfoo0 - the library itself libfoo0-dev - headers and so on libfoo0-doc - docs for the library I'd like to add a package for debug

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Meredith [Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:04:45 +]: lsdiff --strip 1 debian/patches/10_update_libtool.diff | xargs touch -r configure.in.in However I've just stumbled across a package where this doesnt work. Then, if you insist on using touch-fu (I myself prefer it), you should

Re: RFS: ksplash-engine-moodin -- fading splash screen engine for KDE

2006-01-30 Thread Fathi Boudra
Le Vendredi 30 Septembre 2005 12:14, Fathi Boudra a écrit : * Package name: ksplash-engine-moodin Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Christian Leh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://moodwrod.com/files/ * License : GPL Description : fading splash screen

Re: timeout function in cryptsetup init script

2006-01-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
ah, I see, it is using getpass(3) if no keyfile has been specified. Hmm, after having a glance at the source code, the easiest thing seems to patch the source to accept a new command-line option to specify a different input fd. The rest of the code (lib/setup.c:get_key(), most

Re: subscribe

2006-01-30 Thread Jeremie Corbier
I'm so sorry for that mail :/ I forgot to add -request... -- Jérémie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

seeking for sponsorship

2006-01-30 Thread Sonam Chophel
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