Re: [SLUG] ftp servers with packages
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:27:56 +1000 Richard Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai I was just wondering of the bat is there any were, where all the rpm/.deb src package servers are all listed for newbiesnot just rpmfind and the normal sourceforge stuff but a list of all the small private ones made public. Yeah, I found that frustrating too. I guess some sites don't want to be even seen to be advocating stuff that might be below par quality wise, or perhaps not as legal or foss-pure as the official sites. Mike MacCana gave a list a few weeks back for redhat/fedora: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/06/msg00016.html To which I added: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/06/msg00019.html And I should add: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] New Software for openoffice.
FYI. I've just created a new project GPL at source forge. www.sf.net/projects/republic It's aim is to help organisations locked-in to proprietary software (mainly those CRM/ERP types) to extract data from their computer reports and out into the open world of OASIS standard spreadsheets (ie OpenOffice). This project has been sponsored to some degree by a Progress-4GL user to help them extract data from MFG-Pro reports. Interesting bits in writing it were (for the developers amongst you): - XSL for translating my XML to Open Office was p*ss easy although I'm currently stuck on date fields, I've got currency and string fields translated. The tricky bit was re-zipping until SUN helped with an example. - There is room for a generic 'report xml' format that can be a middle ground to OpenOffice, PDF, HTML, text, CSV, PS, etc. This may be out there as I'm sure hope someone will point out, I just haven't found it yet. I'm thinking of breaking the command line stuff into two distinct phases to make it more useful to other projects: 1) Parse to report.xml. 2) Translate report.xml to OpenOffice. This enables more easy translation to other formats with application of different XSL. These are random ramblings which may be applicable to a few of you in middle-to-corporate size organisations. It's the sort of application that really appeals to accountants and middle-management ie spreadsheet lovers. Ten rabbit stamps if you can work out why it's called 'republic'... ATB Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] New Software for openoffice.
Stuart Guthrie wrote: FYI. I've just created a new project GPL at source forge. : Ten rabbit stamps if you can work out why it's called 'republic'... What a great name for a great sounding project. Gotcha. cheers rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. --Mark Twain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally
What entry should I put in my sources.list for packages that are stored locally eg: /home/david/debian/foo.deb thanks.. David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally
I think you need to point at a directory, not a particular deb. man sources.list suggests something like: deb file:/home/david/debian - Rog -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally What entry should I put in my sources.list for packages that are stored locally eg: /home/david/debian/foo.deb -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Roger Barnes wrote: I think you need to point at a directory, not a particular deb. man sources.list suggests something like: deb file:/home/david/debian #apt-get update E: malformed line in sources list I know that's what the man page says, but I think it doesn't tell the whole story. Sometimes man pages tell fibs, or at least not the whole story ;-) - Rog -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally What entry should I put in my sources.list for packages that are stored locally eg: /home/david/debian/foo.deb -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] spamcop message history
Has anyone else noticed that the SpamCop history that used to show you the offending message that got a server listed is no longer available? Does anyone know why? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Roger Barnes wrote: I think you need to point at a directory, not a particular deb. man sources.list suggests something like: deb file:/home/david/debian #apt-get update E: malformed line in sources list I know that's what the man page says, but I think it doesn't tell the whole story. Sometimes man pages tell fibs, or at least not the whole story ;-) Yep, but I think it got us closer than before. You caught me, I slipped in a fib with my fingers crossed (hoping it would work), but I think there needs to be a specfic directory structure that specifies release (eg testing, unstable), architecture and so on. apt-get, upon further inspection, seems to look for a Packages.gz file to catalog what's available at each URI. The debian-user thread below may provide some clues: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/11/msg00617.html Short of running dpkg-scanpackages, you may be stuck with using dpkg -i instead of apt-get install - Rog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] souces.list for packages stored locally
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:05:43PM +1000, David wrote: What entry should I put in my sources.list for packages that are stored locally If it's just one or two debs you need to use dpkg-scanpackages to greate a Packages.gz file. Explained at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html If you need something for a few more packages and some level of automation you can refer to http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/SettingUpADebianRepository -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
