Is there someone else who might take this packaging? I don't have time yet.
Erick
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Date: Fri, 30 May 97 22:42:29 PDT
From: Axel Boldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Info package: .dsc missing. And: TkInfo
Content-Type: tex
> 5. I don't understand the problem with WIFSIGNALED, but this is
> definitely a bug in the Perl installation and not in dpkg-source.
So the WIFSIGNALED thing has to do with perl. Here is some about the
perl I have installed on my system.
Erick
$ dpkg --status perl
Package: perl
Status: install
> I remember this was discussed on the linux-gcc list some time ago. The
> above explanation is ok for a.out, and was primarily used to build small
> programs (the page-alignment bit). That's probably why ae used it. Under
> ELF, this part doesn't work anyway; I *think* that you get a static
> I also experienced a 10% increase of the size in the manpages-it package.
> I was wandering if I could package the man pages uncompressed and compress
> them in debian/rules during installation. This would create a dependency
> to gzip package, but I think that this already exists when we packag
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0
I added the following to the end of changelog file:
Local variables:
mode: debian-changelog
End:
Loading the file into emacs gives the error message:
File local-variables error: (void-function debian-changelog-mode)
Erick
Package: dpkg, dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0
The control of dpkg-dev contains a Conflicts replaces on dpkg-name but
the dpkg-name util is provided by the dpkg package. I think that the
dpkg package should hold these conflicts and replaces fields.
Erick
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0
I can't use dpkg-source -x
$ ls ctags*
ctags_1.4-2.diff.gzctags_1.4-2.dscctags_1.4.orig.tar.gz
$ dpkg --list dpkg dpkg-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Re
>
>
> Hi!
>
> What's the exact purpose of the .tar.gz source packages and the diff? I'm
> asking because I want to create a package for the metapost system, that's
> like metafont but produces postscript output. The currently available
> distribution is a patch against the latest webc, 6.3 I thi
> > 1. Fonts are machine independent files that should be shared (in
> > /usr/share).
>
> Could you (or somebody else on this list) point me to some text that
> details this rule? My /usr/share is next to empty, while /usr/lib contains
> _lot's_ of system-independand files (pgp, samba, texmf, z
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Date: 21 Aug 96 11:30 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: id-utils
Version: 3.2-1
Binary: id-utils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
id-utils: Fast, high-capacity, iden
> Many of the latex package's files contain these lines (these
> particular copied from preload.dc in latex_2e-7.deb):
>
> %% IMPORTANT NOTICE:
> %% You are not allowed to distribute this file.
> %% For distribution of the original source see
> %% the copyright notice in the file preload.dtx .
>
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Date: 14 Aug 96 14:22 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: fileutils
Version: 3.13-4
Binary: fileutils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
fileutils: GNU file management uti
Hi,
Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure
and $(ARCH)-debian-linux?
If so can it specified in the guidelines.
If not what should we use?
Erick
Package: libpaper
Version: 0.4-1
Right now libpaper comes with a /etc/papersize file containing "letter "
at the first line. IMO it should ask at postinst time what papersize is
wanted and should create /etc/papersize with the received value.
Erick
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Date: 09 Aug 96 14:02 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: mfdcfnt
Version: 1.0-1
Binary: mfdcfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfdcfnt: TeX's dc and tc fonts.
Cha
Hi,
is wg15-locale architecture dependend package???
it is uploaded with i386 in it.
Erick
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Date: 09 Aug 96 13:41 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: mfbasfnt
Version: 1.0-5
Binary: mfbasfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfbasfnt: TeX's default fonts and a
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Date: 09 Aug 96 14:54 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: texlib
Version: 1.0-5
Binary: texlib
Architecture: all source
Description:
texlib: Auxiliary Files to run TeX
Changes:
> What is the feeling on this ?
>
> Since the new source format mandates the existence of the changelog
> and specifies that it must be in one of a small number (currently 1)
> of formats I'm inclined to say that we should mandate its inclusion -
> gzipped.
>
> We then end up with two files per
> 2. There is another problem with extracting the filter from the set of
>filters in /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/filters/filters.tar.gz as the
>extracted file is not registered with dpkg --- upon removal of the package
>a useless file will remain on the machine.
a if [ "$1" = "purg
> > > 1. Have you installed the wg-locale (or something like that) package? You
> > > need to if you want to use locales.
> >
> > Perhaps this package needs higher priority.
>
> Agreed. IMHO it should be 'standard'. If you don't live in the US, a
> locale for your country isn't really 'optional'
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Format: 1.6
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Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: mfbasfnt
Version: 1.0-4
Binary: mfbasfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfbasfnt: TeX's default fonts and a
Package: libpaper, gs
Version: 0.2-1, 3.53-4
Oef what do I hate these errors. The "<" char indicates the EOL char.
# cat /etc/papersize
A4 <
# gs -h
Warning: unknown papersize in /etc/papersize
Aladdin Ghostscript 3.53 (1996-1-10)
[deleted]
# cat /etc/papersize
A4<
# gs -h
Aladdin Ghostscript 3
> If the files there really depend on each other, then it may be nice
> to require that each .el file contains
>
> (provide 'site-start-xxx)
>
> (as the *last* line so nothing is provided in case of error), and other
> files will just use
>
> (require 'site-start-xxx)
>
> as ne
> Options for our policy include:
> 1. Specify one or two particular preferred target formats and
> distribute those. Leave the source in the source package. So far
> we have done this with documentation in Texinfo - we leave the
> .texi files in the source package and distribute on
> OK, so we've decided to have packages put their Emacs startup stuff in
> a directory, with one file per package.
>
> The directory obviously ought to go in /etc, and the files made
> conffiles, so that the sysadmin can reconfigure things.
>
> /etc/emacs/site-start.d ?
Please wait a minute.
H
I 'm busy with mflib and thought that it might be useful to have
the weekly script run daily by cron because a daily run will have
a bigger chance to be run on systems which are on and off (like mine
at home). Therefore I would need to remove the conffigurationfile
/etc/cron.weekly/mflib from the
> I'd like to be able to remove `ae', but it won't deinstall.
I can do it: dpkg --force-remove-essential --remove ae
> It should be possible to remove ANY package if I really want to.
But you have to do a little extra for it.
> I don't like it when I'm treated like a child by the packaging sys
> There should be a link or note in /usr/doc/perl about
> /usr/doc/examples/perl.
This is standard on debian, I don't see why a link is needed.
Erick
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Date: 02 Aug 96 11:49 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: babel
Version: 3.6-4
Binary: babel
Architecture: all source
Description:
babel: Support for multilingual typesetting wi
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Date: 02 Aug 96 11:32 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: fileutils
Version: 3.13-3
Binary: fileutils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
fileutils: GNU file management uti
Package: emacs
Version: 19.31-2
I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error occurs.
Loading hilit19...
Error in init file: error: "X windows are not in use or not initialized"
Erick
> that require munging large numbers of files in complex regexpish ways.
> I've found that if you use "-w", "use strict", and "use English", perl
> makes/allows you to write pretty reasonable code. Certainly code that
> is far better (and usually faster) than sh.
If "-w", "use strict" and "use E
> Not completely alone---I'd prefer prompting about /usr/local. Why?
> Because /usr/local on all our machines here (not just debian) is an
> nfs-mounted directory, and typically mounted readonly or root-squash
> so that I know nothing on the client machines is going to be able to
> diddle with it
Answer from Jim Meyering (GNU fileutils mainstream maintainer):
> | I copied this to Jim Meyering hoping that he might be able to answer
> | your question Michael.
> |
> | Michael Meskes writes:
> | > Erick Branderhorst writes:
> | > > This file is in the ori
> Speaking of X, as a member of the beta team (XFree86), I have access to
> the source code for the XF86 betas. Would it be worthwhile setting up
> packages for these in the contrib section? In particular, I'm kind of
> annoyed that if I want support for my W32p (revision A), I have to go
> to 3.1
> It's nice to have all these files in the same directory, but people
> are starting to do things like having /usr/doc/foo/REAMDE be a link to
> /usr/doc/copyright/foo or vice versa, and splitting the documentation
> for a package up across several directories doesn't seem to work very
> well.
Th
Jim Meyering responded:
> | This come to via debian mailing list and is about how to activate
> | color support for ls. I think the default should be no color at
> | all but I doubt if so much aliases as in the message below are the
> | proper way to activate color support. Can't this be done i
> So is this allowed in the regular distribution or should it
> be in non-free.
Seems ok to me, if not ok tell me because same kind of thing is with the
mathpad package.
> Secondly, the LClint package provides some .el and .elc files
> to allow access to LClint through emacs. I noticed a direc
Rob Browning writes:
> be used when building packages, no problem. In fact I'd probably just
> write a wrapper (perl) script that looks at the args, handles the mode
> and owner flags itself (as mentioned earlier), and then calls the
> normal install for the rest of the job (stripping, copyin
>
> Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#2059: dpkg and depend on versions"):
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.0.8
> >
> > I installed the man package (2.3.10-6) succesfully. After that I tried
> > to upgrade the libgdbm1 package (1.7.3-8). During i
> How about
> <= => for less/greater than or equal to
Ok
> << >> for strictly less/greater thani
Ok
> < > for less/greater than or equal to (backwards compatibility,
> generates warning from dpkg-deb)
Ok but an fatal error from dpkg-deb would be better than just a warning.
> = fo
quot; or ">" in it. For
consistency a "=" character should be allowed to indicate that the
mentioned version is requested.
Erick
Transcript example below:
# dpkg --info bar-1.0-0.deb
old debian package, version 0.939000.
size 424 bytes: control archive= 242, main arch
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.8
I installed the man package (2.3.10-6) succesfully. After that I tried
to upgrade the libgdbm1 package (1.7.3-8). During installation of
libgdbm1 dpkg reports about libgdbm1 conflicting with man (<2.3.10-6)
and that man (version 2.3.10-5) is installed.
- Why is it re
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
> > Could anyone check and see if this problem is only occuring on my system?
> I'm not sure if and how all of this goes on on my machine but I experienced
> some
> weirdness with shutdown/reboot/ctrl-alt-deb. It sometimes even d
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.8
I tried the new dpkg but version number and dpkg-split aren't correct.
Transcript below.
Erick
~/new# dpkg --status dpkg
Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.
> Trying to configure xypic on a debian-1.0 (i.e. ALPHA) system fails
~~
> due to dependencies on texbin, mfbin, and mflib packages newer than
> the ones currently available.
>
> These seem to be the currently available (development) packages:
>
?
the manpage istall-info.8 has a reference to version 1.1 where
install-info is at version 1.0.6 right now.
Erick Branderhorst
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de as
less as possible bandwidth I think we should.
Erick Branderhorst
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>
> Package: dpkgname
> Version: 0.4-0
>
> In the man page, there is no mention of what you are renaming Debian
> packages /from/. I suspect you are renaming from ms-dos filenames, but
> the documentation should specify.
>
dpkg-name might move into dpkg package, if so the doc will be specified.
>
Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.01?
During boot up the harddisk is checked before the modules (binfmt_elf)
are loaded. The fsck/e2fsck utility is elf dependend but can't run
without the module being loaded.
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Package: syslogd
Version: 1.2-17
On my (Erick) system:
# dpkg -i syslogd-1.2-17.deb
(Reading database ... 20881 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace syslogd (using
/home/ftp/pub/debian/base/syslogd-1.2-17.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement syslogd ...
Setting up syslogd .
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.6
I don't know if this is a bug because I don't know if the update
utility supports updating from a gzipd packages file.? I thought I
could do an update of the packages information with a gzipd packages
file but it didn't seem to work quite well:
--
Updating available
Package: ldso
Version: 1.7.11-1
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.3.37 #9 Sat Oct 28 14:53:32 PDT 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: ldconfig won't run
Image: 1.3.37
bash: /sbin/ldconfig: cannot execute binary file
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Department of Gener
Hi all,
I had a slightly corrupted profile for root yesterday in which the
path wasn't set for the sbin directory's (/sbin, /usr/sbin). Because
of this an `ldconfig' command from some {pre,post}{inst,rm} script
wasn't succesfull. Can we solve this?
Adding the path for the command to be executed:
The incoming.uk dir isn't mirroring well on ftp.debian.org
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Package: textutils
Version: 1.11-2
I'm not sure if this a bug but IMO it is very misleading.
Specified fields with cut aren't ordered as specified in output.
$ cat testfile
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3
$ cat testfile | cut -f1,2,3
1 2 3 ~
1 2
site
The Packages file in /debian/private/project/debian-1.0/binary/ is
wrong. The recently added field filename: ... in this file is containing
wrong information on the location of the file. It says: debian-0.93 where
this should be debian-1.0 or is it intended to show another location if
the fil
> Brian & I (erick) had some discussion on ftp installation with dpkg and
> we came up with two options. One of them is in my opinion the best and
> the other one is the option Brian suggested (and thinks is the best).
>
> Brian suggests to add a Filename: field in Packages-Master
> Erick suggests
I close this bug with the new latex2rtf-1.1-1 which is correct.
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Would it be possible to let package files have the name which is built from
the fields: package version and revision/package_revision. This is the case
with 98 % of the packages I think but not all of them. I thought it is
in the Guidelines somewhere.
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> >
> >- Transcript of session follows -
> > 550 ac.netg.se... User unknown
> >
> > Hi Andres,
> >
> > Found a little typo in the description.
> >
> > PACKAGE: bison
> > MAINTAINER: Anders Chrigstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > VERSION: A2.5
> > PACKAGE_REVISION: 0
> > Diff original des
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > [del]
> > > 5. Beyond packages
> > > [del]
> > >
> > > (eb)
> > > * Option for automatic installation for local html documentation?
> >
>
> Hyperlatex doesn't recommend ghostscript but gs from 1.3-5 (and higher)
> I'm closing this bug.
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> Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
> Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam
> NL
>
>
Oops this wasn't my intension, forgot BUG in the subject. Trying
Hyperlatex doesn't recommend ghostscript but gs from 1.3-5 (and higher)
I'm closing this bug.
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Package: tex
Version: unknown
Because of the changes in the TeX directory structure since a few
releases of TeX (related) packages, I thought adding a (general)
depends line in the xypic package would be smart. I thought it would
even be better if I add a version number with it:
Depends: tex (>3
Package: image
Version: 1.2.13-5
Perhaps I missed something but I thought that the msdos.o module should be in
the image package too.
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I had a elf-compiled version of gnuplot Sorry I forgot. I was cleaning up
my system and elf had to go for now. After that gnuplot didn't work anymore.
I had another version indeed.
Thanks for checking .>
> > Package: gnuplot
> > Version: 3.5-3
> > ...
> > # ldd /usr/bin/gnuplot
> > libX11.so.6
Package: base
Version: 0.93.6-7
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: root refused on this terminal and /etc/motd
I installed base with dpkg-1.0 and now I have my GPL in
/usr/doc/copyright back. That's why I did it.
I had a weird error on my machine. The file containing the text of the
general public license /usr/doc/copyright/GPL is gone, the file
/usr/doc/copyright/LGPL is still there. I don't know what did delete this
file but I 'm quite sure I didn't do it manually. Is some package perhaps
hardlinking/soft
Package: repair
Version: 0.1-1 (last "1" by hand)
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Repair doesn't give debian revision
Repair seems to be searching in the file /var/lib/dpkg/available to
find some info about the
I don't understand how to use the "Contents" file on ftp.debian.org
(and mirrors). First of all the explanation in the header should refer
to "Contents" or "Contents.gz" and not to "CONTENTS". This is minor
but anyway.
>From the "Contents" file:
> You can use this file to determine which package c
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0
At the bottom of the man page of deb a see also line is included.
This line refers to dpkg and dselect. The manual pages of these
are missing. Perhaps this is not a bug but anyway.
Erick
Hello developers,
* diskspace requirements (displayed/registered)
I was wondering what happens when someone is running dpkg / dselect to
install some packages and is running out of diskspace. Perhaps it is
usefull to add a system able to calculate/display the required
diskspace for the selected p
Package: jgraph
Version: 83-5
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Error 139 with jgraph
I wanted to test jgraph with the examples which came with it and did
the following:
$ cp /usr/doc/examples/jgraph/* .
$ gzip -d *
Package: several packages
Version: ?
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: accessing /usr/doc/subdirs
Following command showed this, indicating that these subdirectory's
don't have the correct permissions set.
$ ls /usr
Hello developers,
* diskspace requirements (displayed/registered)
I was wondering what happens when someone is running dpkg / dselect to
install some packages and is running out of diskspace. Perhaps it is
usefull to add a system able to calculate/display the required
diskspace for the selected p
Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.77-
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Error messages are corrupted
# dpkg-deb --version
Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg-deb' package archive backend version 0.93.77.
Copyright (C) 1994,1995 Ian Jac
Package: fvwmR5
Version: 1.24r-
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: How to deinstall fvwmR5
I tried the following commands but no luck.
Erick
# dpkg --list | grep fvwmR5
# dpkg --status fvwmR5
# dpkg --remove fvwmR5
#
79 matches
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