Re: RFS: hercules (Non-maintainer upload)

2011-03-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:10:46AM +0800, liang wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the version 3.07-2.1 of my package hercules. It builds these binary packages: hercules - System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Emulator The upload would fix these bugs: 585508, 615729 The package

Re: RFS: alarm-clock-applet (updated package)

2011-03-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:44:54AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On Monday 28,March,2011 10:46 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: [...] Hi, Hi Peter, Thanks for your patches. I've looked through them, and I think I'll accept just the second one (regarding --watchfile). Comments are interleaved

Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Aaron Todd
I've got a package which inclides some arbitrary web files. I'm adding them to the install file and packaging it up and it installs fine. Now I want to add the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file to my package so that when I install, it overwrites or adds my custom configuration to the system so

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
I've got a package which inclides some arbitrary web files. I'm adding them to the install file and packaging it up and it installs fine. Now I want to add the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file to my package so that when I install, it overwrites or adds my custom configuration to the

RFS: gnustep-dl2 (updated package, fixes RC bug, 2nd try)

2011-03-29 Thread Federico Giménez Nieto
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.12.0-6 of my package gnustep-dl2. It builds these binary packages: gnustep-dl2 - Objective-C Classes needed for Database Access gnustep-dl2-postgresql-adaptor - gnustep-dl2 adaptor to connect to PostgreSQL gnustep-dl2-sqlite-adaptor

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Aaron Todd
Hey, Thanks for responding! I've tried the conf.d file as well and it give me the same errors. In any case, I've have other custom config files that I am going to need to overwrite/customize so my main question still applies. How do I get past the overwrite issue. I just found that dpkg by

Re: RFS: gnustep-dl2 (updated package, fixes RC bug, 2nd try)

2011-03-29 Thread Luca Falavigna
Il 29/03/2011 19:53, Federico Giménez Nieto ha scritto: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.12.0-6 of my package gnustep-dl2. Uploaded. -- .''`. : :' : Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org `. `' `- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Aaron Todd tod...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for responding!  I've tried the conf.d file as well and it give me the same errors.  In any case, I've have other custom config files that I am going to need to overwrite/customize so my main question still applies. 

Re: RFS: udisks-glue

2011-03-29 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hello, It's been a while, so this is my second try. Any comments would be really appreciated. Note you most likely want to use GDM in order to test this package for automounting (XDM, for example, won't create an active local ConsoleKit session without patching, which is required for mounting

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Finney
Aaron Todd tod...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for responding! (Please don't top-post above the text you're responding to. Thanks.) Also, Is there any way to find out if there are files marked as a conffile inside a .deb package file? Doubtless you are busily reading the Debian Policy manual;

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Aaron Todd
All, Thanks for your responses. I just want to make it clear, I am not trying to reinvent the wheel here. I am not trying to cause any harm to the standard Apache package, and I guess I should have made it known what my ultimate goal was. What I am trying to accomplish is to streamline my own

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Aaron Todd tod...@gmail.com writes: Thanks for your responses. I just want to make it clear, I am not trying to reinvent the wheel here. I am not trying to cause any harm to the standard Apache package, and I guess I should have made it known what my ultimate goal was. What I am trying to

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
When asking questions it is a good idea to state what you are trying to do up front rather than asking about a specific roadblock. Packages that aren't in Debian can do whatever they want, including rm -rf /usr/share/doc, deleting or modifying configuration files, installing in /opt or whatever.

Re: Packaging Arbitrary Files

2011-03-29 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: 5. Give up on using Debian packages to do this and instead use a separate configuration management system that doesn't do its work with packages (something like Puppet or Cfengine). This is the option that most people take and it scales a lot