Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-03 Thread rbmj
On 03-Mar-13 01:51, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: This seems a fair use case. Note that if the symlink does not exist, a hierarchy of directories is created automatically by dpkg to accommodate the files, and the installation process will not explicitly fail. It doesn't fail - that's

Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread rbmj
Hello everyone, One quick question: If package A pre-depends on package B, and package C depends on package A, does package C pre-depend on package B? In other words, is pre-depends transitive across regular dependencies? Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Package Pre-dependencies

2013-03-02 Thread rbmj
On 02-Mar-13 14:23, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: So, no. C does not pre-depend on B unless it is explictly stated in its Pre-depends field. Here is an example: bash ==(Depends)== base-files ==(Pre-Depends)== awk. Thanks - that's what I suspected but it wasn't entirely clear when I was

[OT] Ayn Rand (was: Sugestions for New Releases of Debian)

2012-06-09 Thread rbmj
that others can use and improve on it as well for its own sake - to our own pleasure. OK, I've wasted enough of the list's bandwidth /rant :-) -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread rbmj
don't buy it. -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fcffa91.5010...@verizon.net

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread rbmj
find -name '*~' | xargs rm

Re: [r...@verizon.net: Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?]

2012-05-24 Thread rbmj
On 05/21/2012 06:20 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: Hi, rbmj, Please keep messages on list. Read: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ If you are not subscribed, you will not rec replies to your queries! Weird, I know, butI thought I'd seen emails from you before hence thought you were subscribed

Re: Flock Explanation

2012-05-23 Thread rbmj
. In this case, I think that the choice of 200 is arbitrary. As long as you redirect the same file descriptor that you pass to flock, then the number shouldn't matter (though don't choose stdout :D) -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?

2012-05-20 Thread rbmj
On 05/20/2012 11:33 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:00:59PM -0400, rbmj wrote: Bump... Am I posting this on the wrong list? Did you see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/05/msg01511.html I did not see that. Thanks for the tip - I'll check that out. On 05/20

Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?

2012-05-19 Thread rbmj
On 05/14/2012 08:49 PM, rbmj wrote: Hi all, So, I want to create packages for a cross compiler targeting powerpc-wrs-vxworks on Wheezy. I don't exactly know how to approach the problem. With binutils it's easy enough to just grab the sources with apt-get source and then run 'TARGET

GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?

2012-05-14 Thread rbmj
the debian/control files from my box and edit them appropriately. Any feedback/sanity checking would be AWESOME. Thank you all, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http