Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-08-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Zenaan Harkness writes ("wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources"): > git at alioth is coming along very nicely and was a great step > forward for Debian (thank you Ian). Why are you CCing me ? I had nothing to do with alioth or salsa. (May

Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-08-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > between the debianization and the upstream code is VERY clear." which > > is immediately followed with this "Since the Debian APT repositories > > still use tarballs you still have to manage those with this setup, > > but the pristine-tar exists for that pur

Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-08-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
ian APT repositories > still use tarballs you still have to manage those with this setup, > but the pristine-tar exists for that purpose." > > There are possibly still advantages to tarballs, I don't know, since > I haven't used one in something like a decade or more. Consisten

wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
setup, but the pristine-tar exists for that purpose." There are possibly still advantages to tarballs, I don't know, since I haven't used one in something like a decade or more. Consistency of distribution of sources? Compliance with Debian packaging guidelines? Debian sources is currently a poor m

Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to see in the resulting sources.list: deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia/ stable main although http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br is under

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to see in the resulting sources.list: deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? Yes, it is, alas. I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister The deb-multimedia repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy system It took me sevaral days to get rid of

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? Yes, it is, alas. I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister The deb-multimedia repository is

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: What mess did this repo make? I have been using deb-multimedia for years and have never had any mess. look at what Chris Bannister wrote on this list on 4 Feb 2013 Just

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread John Hasler
Pierre Frenkiel writes: what is the difference between [deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia/] and Marillat's deb-multimedia? See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-May/027272.html and

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: If you want to install Marillat's packages go to his site. http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia is on Marillat's mirror list He may not get along with

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? Yes, it is, alas. I

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 11 June 2013 15:14:51 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:14:51 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 Alan Ianson agian...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as

Debian Sources List Generator

2013-03-25 Thread Luís Cláudio A . Gama
Olá Célio, Vc pode experimentar esse site: http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ Aí vc configura de acordo com sua versão e pronto...só copiar e colar. []s Luís Cláudio A. Gama Fones: TIM: 11-9 8452-4087 Res: 11-4602-3400 Skype: luisclaudiogama http://luisgama.googlepages.com

debian sources to deb binaries.Risk of corrupting the file system?

2005-06-28 Thread nuno romano
When we build a binary debian .deb package from debian sources,for example with the debuild command of the devscripts package,is there the danger of change in the file system?For example with rpm there is a BuildRoot situated in /var/tmp where rpm temporarily installs all files of the binary

Re: debian sources to deb binaries.Risk of corrupting the file system?

2005-06-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 04:19:38PM -0700, nuno romano wrote: When we build a binary debian .deb package from debian sources,for example with the debuild command of the devscripts package,is there the danger of change in the file system?For example with rpm there is a BuildRoot situated

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

2005-06-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:21:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: nuno romano wrote: When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

2005-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
nuno romano wrote: When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did : dpkg-deb --build fltk-1.1.6

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

2005-06-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
nuno romano wrote: When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did : dpkg-deb --build fltk-1.1.6/ ,after

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

2005-06-11 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Saturday 11 June 2005 07:56 pm, nuno romano wrote: When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did

netselect-apt: how to avoid dead debian sources ???

2003-07-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
NOTE: I tried to send this email to Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] earlier; but, I received these errors: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error) - Transcript of session follows - 553 5.3.5

Re: wo sind debian sources für SIM?

2003-01-03 Thread Ole Behrmann
Am Freitag, 27. Dezember 2002 16:12 schrieb Raphael Lechner: Hallo Hab für mich mal ein paket gebastelt siehe www.tec4you.net/debian/ es funktioniert bei mir leider nur in english ... mfg Raphael Servus! Auf der Homepage von SIM (ICQ-Client) finde ich leider nur die Version 0.81

Re: wo sind debian sources für SIM?

2002-12-27 Thread Raphael Lechner
Hallo Hab für mich mal ein paket gebastelt siehe www.tec4you.net/debian/ es funktioniert bei mir leider nur in english ... mfg Raphael Servus! Auf der Homepage von SIM (ICQ-Client) finde ich leider nur die Version 0.81 für Sid (oder so) mit KDE 3.1beta und noch ein paar Sachen, die ich

Need url for debian sources..

2001-12-30 Thread Petre Daniel
i need some european servers with the potato 2.2.r4 sources cds isos.. thx Petre L. Daniel,System Administrator Canad Systems Pitesti Romania, http://www.cyber.ro, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+4048220044, +4048206200

Re: Need url for debian sources..

2001-12-30 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:56:15AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | i need some european servers with the potato 2.2.r4 sources cds isos.. | thx Again, RTFM http://cdimage.debian.org. In particular the follow are the lists of mirrors : http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist

Debian sources CDS!

2001-12-30 Thread Petre Daniel
i cant find the sources,all i see are binaries cds.. Petre L. Daniel,System Administrator Canad Systems Pitesti Romania, http://www.cyber.ro, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+4048220044, +4048206200

Re: Need url for debian sources..

2001-12-30 Thread Graham/Aniartia
On Monday 31 December 2001 2:10 am, dman wrote: http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html I would use that page but I've yet to get a page from that server :( I can ping it but I never get a page *sigh*. I thought it was a Freeserve problem but it also happens on other ISP's :(... The only

Compiling debian sources always fails

2001-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. It fails with a fatal error: unable to find user alias. This has happened with other source files as well. Anyone know what is wanted here? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book

Re: Compiling debian sources always fails

2001-01-23 Thread Alex Pennace
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. It fails with a fatal error: unable to find user alias. This has happened with other source files as well. At some point base-passwd got rid of the assignments for

Re: Compiling debian sources always fails

2001-01-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jan 2001, Alex Pennace wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. It fails with a fatal error: unable to find user alias. This has happened with other source files as well. At some point

Re: debian sources

1999-12-02 Thread David Coe
James Sasitorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source? There's no automatic way to do that, but recent versions of apt-get include a source option, which

debian sources

1999-11-12 Thread James Sasitorn
How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source? james

compiling X from the debian sources doesn't work.

1999-05-13 Thread Frankie
Hi, I recently bought the cheapbytes debian 2.1 CD's. Because the computer that I am using at the moment is a P-60, there is a strong urgency to tweak every last bit of speed out of my system. I decided to recompile my x-server and libraries in order to eek a bit more speed out of X, by using

compiling debian sources question?

1999-05-08 Thread Frankie
Hi, I recently bought the cheapbytes debian 2.1 CD's. Almost everything is OK. Unfortunately the computer I am using at the moment is a mingy P-60. I decided to recompile my x-server and libraries (with the 'pentium-builder' package installed) in order to eek a bit more speed out of X. However,

Re: Question about debian sources and dh_testdir

1998-07-09 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi [snip] No actually it is not. The correct way is to use dpkg-source. The command is 'dpkg-source -x package.dsc'. This will recreate the maintainers build environ completely. That's what the documentation says. But have you tried it? I did not succed unpacking a souce this way:

Re: Question about debian sources and dh_testdir

1998-07-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PF == Philipp Frauenfelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PF I really searched for this 'dh_testdir' on debian.org and also PF asked Archie but did not find it. Could someone please reveal to PF me in which package I can find it? It is part of the debhelper package. A convenient way to find a

Question about debian sources

1998-07-05 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I have a bo source CD. From time to time I use some files from there. The problem is that it's still not completly clear to me how to apply the patches. For the moment I do like this: 1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory. 2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file. 3. Pacth the files with

Re: Question about debian sources

1998-07-05 Thread Shaleh
1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory. 2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file. 3. Pacth the files with patch -p1 xxx.dif Is this the right way to do the things ? In the .diff files were some lines that make me think some directory names should be changed, but, after the change, no