Re: tool to create .deb for proprietary software?

2012-08-23 Thread Eric Cooper
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:46:08PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Is there a tool to create a .deb from a directory of files? See the equivs package. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: uscan ends up with 500 Can't connect host:443 (certificate verify failed)

2012-07-09 Thread Eric Cooper
to successfully get the upstream source using uscan? Use downloadurlmangle to change https to http. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

how to correct missing changelog information?

2010-07-20 Thread Eric Cooper
and change the earlier version's entry the next time I do an upload? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

restricting git commits to the debian subdirectory?

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Cooper
branch, I should only be allowed to commit files in the debian/ subdirectory? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Cooper
ports, handling IPv6, handling tcp-wrappers, daemonizing processes, etc. and punt it to inetd. Since apt clients keep their connections open for many multiple, the performance hit is negligible. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Cooper
there, and then calling update-inetd. Is there a better way, or an existing package that does something similar? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

executable scripts in debian/

2008-10-24 Thread Eric Cooper
debian/my-script debian/my-script ... Is there a preferred approach? Thanks. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A little question of a license

2008-10-16 Thread Eric Cooper
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. -- could be in main? (so is dfsg) Yes, this is just the 3-clause BSD license. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: ifeq in an if statement

2008-01-26 Thread Eric Cooper
up the rest of the rules. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pkg-ntp] - where does /etc/default/ntpdate come from?

2007-12-18 Thread Eric Cooper
on. So where does the magic happen? dh_installinit You can run $ DH_VERBOSE=1 debian/rules build to see exactly what each debhelper program is doing. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: RFS: uvcvideo -- Source for the USB Video Class (uvcvideo) webcam driver

2007-12-17 Thread Eric Cooper
driver supports several video input devices, including the Logitech QuickCam series, many notebook cameras, the Apple iSight, and several others. How does this compare to the linux-uvc-source package already in the archive? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Eric Cooper
{s48.org/(.*)/download.html}{s48.org/$1/scheme-$1.tgz} \ http://s48.org/index.html (.*)/download.html You could probably tighten up the (.*) regexps, but the idea is to use one pattern to detect the version, and then munge that URL to get to the actual tarball. -- Eric Cooper e c c

how should a daemon drop privileges in a PAM-compatible way?

2007-11-18 Thread Eric Cooper
tries to create files in /tmp without permission. So, what is the correct way to do this? Is there a high level function to change userid, groupid and do the related PAM things that I can use, or an example program to copy? Thanks for any pointers. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e

Re: RFS: scheme48 (updated package)

2007-09-09 Thread Eric Cooper
scheme48-scm - Sources for the Scheme48 implementation of Scheme Why is a separate scheme48-scm package needed for the source? The long description of that package should indicate why one would want to install that (instead of apt-get source scheme48). -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d

notifying the user about an incompatible upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Eric Cooper
on stderr. Use a debconf note. Send an email to root or some other system user. I'd appreciate any advice. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: rootsh

2007-04-19 Thread Eric Cooper
to a file and/or to syslog. It still looks like this can all be done with script + logger: $ mkfifo myfifo; logger -f myfifo script -f myfifo -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Eric Cooper
a README.Debian-source file and a get-orig-source target in debian/rules? 2. Should I automate the bunzip2 gzip in the debian/watch file? (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publish a more wasteful version of the same bits on his website just to suit Debian.) -- Eric Cooper

Re: Question about packaging a kernel module

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Cooper
them. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: fspanel -- minimalist panel for X (ITA #352430)

2006-02-19 Thread Eric Cooper
Homepage: http://www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/ This page says it is no longer maintained. OTOH, there is also fbpanel in Debian, which is described as a spinoff of fspanel. Is there a need for both? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL