Re: packaging help

2024-05-05 Thread Wookey
On 2024-05-04 03:44 +, james smith wrote: > I am trying to package ly[1] I got everything up to the rules part, I am > stuck thinking on how to edit/make the makefile, if you have any tips or > tools that can make this a easier process, I would be much grateful Any editor will do - note that

Re: packaging help

2024-05-03 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 03:44:45AM +, james smith wrote: > I am trying to package ly[1] I got everything up to the rules part, I am > stuck thinking on how to edit/make the makefile, if you have any tips or > tools that can make this a easier process, I would be much grateful You don't

packaging help

2024-05-03 Thread james smith
I am trying to package ly[1] I got everything up to the rules part, I am stuck thinking on how to edit/make the makefile, if you have any tips or tools that can make this a easier process, I would be much grateful [1]https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

Re: Was: Packaging help

2022-01-03 Thread Gavin Henry
> > Don't make that blocking you. > Make "merge requests". Standard fork pattern?

Re: Was: Packaging help

2022-01-03 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 12:24:47PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: > > > Hopefully one of the VoIP packaging group will get back to me re below in > > > the next few weeks. > > > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2021-December/035961.html > > Ah, I missed that. Brilliant!

Re: Was: Packaging help: users and directories

2022-01-03 Thread Gavin Henry
Weird, I *did not* get https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2021-December/035961.html any where. Not in trash or SPAM.

Re: Was: Packaging help: users and directories

2022-01-03 Thread Gavin Henry
> > Hopefully one of the VoIP packaging group will get back to me re below in > > the next few weeks. > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2021-December/035961.html Ah, I missed that. Brilliant! Thanks for the prod. > > > I'd like to look after the libosip2 package

Was: Packaging help: users and directories

2022-01-03 Thread Happy New Year
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 11:34:30AM +, Gavin Henry wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2021, 09:01 Gavin Henry wrote: > > > > I've emailed the VoIP packaging group to see if I can help now that I know > > some more. > > Hopefully one of the VoIP packaging group will get back to me re below

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2022-01-03 Thread Gavin Henry
Got access to salsa.debian.org today! Woot! Hopefully one of the VoIP packaging group will get back to me re below in the next few weeks. Thanks. On Thu, 30 Dec 2021, 09:01 Gavin Henry, wrote: > Thanks all for the help and pointers everyone. > > I've managed to build SentryPeer ( >

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-30 Thread Gavin Henry
Thanks all for the help and pointers everyone. I've managed to build SentryPeer ( https://github.com/SentryPeer/SentryPeer/tree/debian-packaging/debian). I'm just going through debuild now to clean up lintian issues and pbuilder runs for missing depends. Suprisingly enjoyable and "dh" in the

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
> Dear Gavin Henry, Hi Chris! > I didn't follow your whole discussion, but if you have time I would highly > appreciate if you could put all this information together at a well-findable > place (maybe: extend https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide ?) > > Reason: > I'm probably going to search

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 at 13:51, Robin Gustafsson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 2:03 PM Gavin Henry wrote: > >> > >> > Is it best practice to have: > >> > > >> > 1. debian folder in your main repo > >> > 2. debian folder branch in main repo > >> > 3. Separate repo for this > >> > >> A separate

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Robin Gustafsson
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 2:03 PM Gavin Henry wrote: >> >> > Is it best practice to have: >> > >> > 1. debian folder in your main repo >> > 2. debian folder branch in main repo >> > 3. Separate repo for this >> >> A separate repo hosted on salsa.debian.org. > > Thanks. That's for an official

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
> > > Is it best practice to have: > > > > 1. debian folder in your main repo > > 2. debian folder branch in main repo > > 3. Separate repo for this > > A separate repo hosted on salsa.debian.org. > Thanks. That's for an official package, or? >

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
> > > #DEBHELPER# > > > One of the first google hits: > > https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html Thanks. I see it now. With quotes "#DEBHELPER#" didn't show up, but: Automatic generation of Debian install scripts Some debhelper commands will automatically generate

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Robin Gustafsson
Hi Gavin, On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:35 PM Gavin Henry wrote: > [...] > Is it best practice to have: > > 1. debian folder in your main repo > 2. debian folder branch in main repo > 3. Separate repo for this A separate repo hosted on salsa.debian.org. On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:37 PM Gavin

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Hilmar Preuße
Am 29.12.2021 um 12:36 teilte Gavin Henry mit: Hi, What's this for, when it looks like this was written manually? Google shows nothing: https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/blob/debian/main/debian/bind9.postinst#L35 #DEBHELPER# One of the first google hits:

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
What's this for, when it looks like this was written manually? Google shows nothing: https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/blob/debian/main/debian/bind9.postinst#L35 #DEBHELPER# Thanks.

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
This is exactly what I wanted to see :-) https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/blob/debian/main/debian/bind9.postinst Is it best practice to have: 1. debian folder in your main repo 2. debian folder branch in main repo 3. Separate repo for this Thanks.

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-29 Thread Gavin Henry
Hello Gavin, > > Le 2021-12-28 à 19 h 14, Gavin Henry a écrit : > > I was given this advice from Arthur, a Debian developer, but I can't > > find some of the finer details I'm looking for: > > > > In addition to the developer reference and the other documentation, you > can get some inspiration

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-28 Thread Nicolas Mora
Hello Gavin, Le 2021-12-28 à 19 h 14, Gavin Henry a écrit : I was given this advice from Arthur, a Debian developer, but I can't find some of the finer details I'm looking for: In addition to the developer reference and the other documentation, you can get some inspiration from packages

Re: Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-28 Thread Gavin Henry
I was given this advice from Arthur, a Debian developer, but I can't find some of the finer details I'm looking for: --- I recommend looking at https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide to some pointers about how to make it easy to ensure your software can be easily packaged in Debian. If you're

Packaging help: users and directories

2021-12-28 Thread Gavin Henry
Hi all, Where are some good examples to read about adding a user and group, a systemd service file, a /etc/default file and creating a /var/lib/sentrypeer directory to hold an sqlite db file? Just look at official packages? I've read This is for: https://github.com/SentryPeer/SentryPeer and

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Help to build library in generic form, avx and sse3

2017-03-14 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi all, [...] >> 2. What do you think about the plan to support specific hardware >> features in separate binary packages? > > GCC from version 6 (which is in Debian Stretch) supports function > multi-versioning (and GCC from 4.8 onwards, which is even in Jessie, > supports a subset of that),

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Help with watch file for ecopcr needed

2017-01-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:16:38PM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > > Any idea how to properly download the upstream source tarball with > > uscan? > > could you please try: > > opts=filenamemangle=s/.*\.tar\.gz\?ref=ecopcr_v?(\d\S+)/ecopcr-$1\.tar\.gz/g > \ >

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Help with watch file for ecopcr needed

2017-01-11 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi Andreas, [...] > Any idea how to properly download the upstream source tarball with > uscan? could you please try: opts=filenamemangle=s/.*\.tar\.gz\?ref=ecopcr_v?(\d\S+)/ecopcr-$1\.tar\.gz/g \ https://git.metabarcoding.org/obitools/ecopcr/tags?sort=updated_desc

Re: PAM module packaging help

2016-01-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi >I have started a debian package by following the example of libacl. I >apologize for being confusing but since I know hardly anything about debian >packaging, I >don't really know what to ask to get started. So to start, for >my shared library, could you recommend a good shared library

Re: PAM module packaging help

2016-01-24 Thread Karsten Rage
I have started a debian package by following the example of libacl. I apologize for being confusing but since I know hardly anything about debian packaging, I don't really know what to ask to get started. So to start, for my shared library, could you recommend a good shared library example that I

Re: PAM module packaging help

2016-01-22 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, I don't understand what are you asking... anyway, if you add the libfoo-dev to the build dependencies you should be fine, as long as you have the shlibs:Depends substvar on your runtime dependencies. With some code/packaging we might provide better answers cheers, G. Il Giovedì 21

PAM module packaging help

2016-01-21 Thread Karsten Rage
I am looking for help packaging up my PAM module. I am prepared to add my package to Debian. The PAM module depends on a shared library that in turn, depends on two other shared libraries (libxml2 and libssl). Both the PAM module and the shared library are open source on GitHub and are written in

Re: packaging help

2012-05-03 Thread Whit Armstrong
This is going really well. Thanks to all those who have shared advice. How does one go about choosing ports for an application? Obviously there are well known ports, but is there any doc in debian that shows what ports have been 'reserved' by other applications? Thanks, Whit On Tue, Apr 24,

Re: packaging help

2012-05-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Check /etc/services. -mz On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com wrote: This is going really well.  Thanks to all those who have shared advice. How does one go about choosing ports for an application? Obviously there are well known ports, but is there any doc

Re: packaging help

2012-05-03 Thread Steven Ayre
Port numbers are reserved by IANA. http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml You can see a partial list of some of the most popular ones in /etc/services, but it's rather incomplete compared to the source. -Steve On 3 May 2012 21:22, Whit

packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
First off, is this the right list to ask basic questions about packaging? I'm trying to package a small daemon that provdies a ZMQ remote execution facility for R. The code is here: https://github.com/armstrtw/deathstar.core I've read the package tutorials several times, but I'm having trouble

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've read the package tutorials several times, but I'm having trouble finding out how to create a new user during the install (I don't want the daemon to run as root). Can someone point me in the right direction? Two suggestions: a) think about what type of user you want:

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
Thanks, Daniel. I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R script on the machine root access. Regarding, reSIProcate, it's cdbs based?

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com writes: Thanks, Daniel. I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R script on the machine root

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 04/24/2012 03:16 PM, Whit Armstrong wrote: I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not to give users executing an R script on the machine root access. You

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread George Danchev
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:39:41 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org wrote: On 04/24/2012 03:16 PM, Whit Armstrong wrote: I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid. The idea is simply not

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Daniel. I would be looking for 6-64999, assuming my package eventually made it into debian, I suppose it would need to have a 'globally allocated' uid.  The idea is simply not to give users executing

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
Matt, Ansgar, and Gergely, Thanks for the tips. Can you also help with some advice on the init.d script? The init.d script for deathstar launches a daemon which listens for jobs, and one worker per core. Can I use the same pid file for all of those processes? -Whit On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com wrote: Matt, Ansgar, and Gergely, Thanks for the tips. Can you also help with some advice on the init.d script? Perhaps. The init.d script for deathstar launches a daemon which listens for jobs, and one worker per

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com writes: Matt, Ansgar, and Gergely, Thanks for the tips. Can you also help with some advice on the init.d script? The init.d script for deathstar launches a daemon which listens for jobs, and one worker per core. Can I use the same pid file for all

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Whit Armstrong
I assume it has a main process, which when stopped, would result in the workers being killed too. If that is so, I do not think you need to store the pids of the workers anywhere. Perhaps I'm confusing terminology here. The main deamon does not spawn the workers. It and the workers are

Re: packaging help

2012-04-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Whit Armstrong armstrong.w...@gmail.com writes: I assume it has a main process, which when stopped, would result in the workers being killed too. If that is so, I do not think you need to store the pids of the workers anywhere. Perhaps I'm confusing terminology here. The main deamon does

Re: packaging help

2010-09-02 Thread Robert James Clay
On Aug 31, 2010, at 11:45 AM, alma...@comcast.net wrote: I am working with this tutorial to understand better the debian packaging process: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/337/ Rolling_your_own_Debian_packages_part_2 One thing I noticed about that page; the note there

Re: Re: packaging help

2010-09-02 Thread Gobelli, Marcelo
Maybe you can point me to a *reliable* tutorial for debian packaging. I picked that one because I wanted to play with packaging. Thanks.

Re: packaging help

2010-09-02 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:07:26AM -0700, Gobelli, Marcelo wrote: Maybe you can point me to a *reliable* tutorial for debian packaging. [...] The Debian New Maintainer's Guide is the most recommended: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ The debian-mentors FAQ also has some useful things to

re: packaging help

2010-08-31 Thread almagro
I am working with this tutorial to understand better the debian packaging process: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/337/Rolling_your_own_Debian_packages_part_2 it all goes well until I try to build the package from source. I am getting errors regarding SVN and APR (I think they

Re: packaging help

2010-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:45:28PM +, alma...@comcast.net wrote: I am working with this tutorial to understand better the debian packaging process: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/337/Rolling_your_own_Debian_packages_part_2 it all goes well until I try to build the

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-17 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 03:16:13PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: So I'm not able to have debian-multimedia in my sources when I use pbuilder? You *can* have it in, but you can't *only* have it in. You still need the normal archives available because debian-multimedia does not include all

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-17 Thread James Stuckey
/etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc contained: # this is your configuration file for pbuilder. # the file in /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc is the default template. # /etc/pbuilderrc is the one meant for overwritting defaults in # the default template # # read pbuilderrc.5 document for notes on specific

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-16 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:39 AM, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in learning more about development/packaging on Debian. I've downloaded some source to package, ran dh_make on it, and now I'm trying

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-16 Thread James Stuckey
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:39 AM, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in learning more about development/packaging on Debian.

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 03:16:13PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: So I'm not able to have debian-multimedia in my sources when I use pbuilder? You can have it. I commented out the dmm line from my sources, and then deleted it, and I'm still getting the same error from pbuilder. Have you

Packaging Help

2010-05-15 Thread James Stuckey
Hello, I'm interested in learning more about development/packaging on Debian. I've downloaded some source to package, ran dh_make on it, and now I'm trying to use pbuilder to create a package from it. When I run pbuilder create I get the following error: I: Distribution is sid. I: Building the

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:39 AM, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in learning more about development/packaging on Debian. I've downloaded some  source to package, ran dh_make on it, and now I'm trying to use pbuilder to create a package from it. ... I: Checking

Re: Packaging Help

2010-05-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:39:53PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I'm interested in learning more about development/packaging on Debian. I've downloaded some source to package, ran dh_make on it, and now I'm trying to use pbuilder to create a package from it. When I run pbuilder

some packaging help

2003-10-13 Thread Deedra Waters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to build the new kernel immages for kernel 2.4.22 with speakup. Everything builds fine from source, but when I install the deb, I get this error from the kernel image deb. I'm not sure what I've done wrong, and if anyone has some

PostgreSQL packaging - help is needed

2002-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:31, John Goerzen wrote: And, as a disclaimer, I personally have been bitten by these postgres upgrade bugs. Guess what -- I file bug reports and help Oliver find the problem rather than childishly whining about it in debian-devel. While I'm at it, I say to myself I'm

PostgreSQL packaging - help is needed

2002-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:31, John Goerzen wrote: And, as a disclaimer, I personally have been bitten by these postgres upgrade bugs. Guess what -- I file bug reports and help Oliver find the problem rather than childishly whining about it in debian-devel. While I'm at it, I say to myself I'm

Request for sponsor / perl packaging help: libcarp-assert-perl

2002-10-27 Thread Jay Bonci
Good afternoon, I would like to request the assistance of a sponsor for one of the final steps needed for my nm process. I have packaged CPAN's Carp::Assert in the form of libcarp-assert-perl, a useful perl module that doesn't already exist in the archives (and is a dependancy of a

Request for sponsor / perl packaging help: libcarp-assert-perl

2002-10-27 Thread Jay Bonci
Good afternoon, I would like to request the assistance of a sponsor for one of the final steps needed for my nm process. I have packaged CPAN's Carp::Assert in the form of libcarp-assert-perl, a useful perl module that doesn't already exist in the archives (and is a dependancy of a