Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 10:13 +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Dear Ben! > > On 27/04/13 00:46, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > However, I would expect the vast majority of installations to be on > > amd64, so if you always generate a 64-bit little-endian database > > and avoid duplicating when installin

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:46:44PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:21:43PM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > > On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > [...] > > > You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The > > > default compression level for xz

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-27 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Dear Ben! On 27/04/13 00:46, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:21:43PM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >> Dear FTP Masters! >> >> On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: >> [...] >>> You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The >>> default compression level

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:21:43PM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Dear FTP Masters! > > On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: > [...] > > You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The > > default compression level for xz reduces the size of the source tarball > > from 4

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-26 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Dear FTP Masters! On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: [...] > You can use xz for the source and binary package to reduce the size. The > default compression level for xz reduces the size of the source tarball > from 415 MB to 272 MB: > > $ ls -1s --si metastudent-data_1.0.0.tar* > 823M metas

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Olivier Sallou
On 04/24/2013 04:02 PM, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Hello Didier! > > On 24/04/13 09:32, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : >>> I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data >>> and upload it to demonstrate that we should *r

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Didier! On 24/04/13 09:32, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 12.23:23, Andreas Tille a écrit : >> I would even go that far that it might make sense to package these data >> and upload it to demonstrate that we should *really* create a solution >> for such cases if they wi

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hi Olivier! On 24/04/13 08:20, Olivier Sallou wrote: > > On 04/23/2013 11:48 AM, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >> Dear Russ, Debian Med Team, Charles! >> >> (Please keep Tobias Hamp in replies.) >> >> @Russ: Please allow me to include you in a discussion about a few >> bioinformatics packages that depend

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-24 Thread Olе Streicher
Olivier Sallou writes: > Indeed, many bioinformatics programs relies on external data. But I am afraid > that if we start to add some data packages, we will open an endless open > door BioInformatics datasets are large, and becoming huge and numerous. > This size will be an issue for Debian mi

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Olivier Sallou
On 04/23/2013 11:48 AM, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > Dear Russ, Debian Med Team, Charles! > > (Please keep Tobias Hamp in replies.) > > @Russ: Please allow me to include you in a discussion about a few > bioinformatics packages that depend on big, but free data [2]. I have cited > your opinion [3] in th

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Laszlo Kajan writes: > On 23/04/13 18:48, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Discussing it on debian-devel seems right, but I would also draw it to >> ftp-master's attention, since they're the people who have to worry >> about archive size). We can easily move on to modifying Policy if >> there's a consensu

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Dear Russ! Thank you for getting back to me. On 23/04/13 18:48, Russ Allbery wrote: > Laszlo Kajan writes: > >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend >> on big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. These packages apparently >> violate policy 2.2.1 [0] for in

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Benjamin! On 23/04/13 15:13, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Laszlo Kajan: >> Hello Andreas! >> >> On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: This email is to continue the discus

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Dienstag, den 23.04.2013, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Laszlo Kajan: > Hello Andreas! > > On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: > >> > >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that > >> depend on big (e.g. >400MB)

Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Question about proper archive area for packages that require big data for operation

2013-04-23 Thread Laszlo Kajan
Hello Andreas! On 23/04/13 12:23, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote: >> >> This email is to continue the discussion about free packages that depend on >> big (e.g. >400MB) free data outside 'main'. > > In your practical case is this data say <500

Re: Packaging question

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply. It seems that the draft webapps policy have answers to all my questions. - -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael rasmussen cc http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD3C

Re: Packaging question

2009-02-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > 1) I prefer to have web based applications running in a virtual host > instead of poluting the /var/www folder with entries. Is it allowed to > create a package which installs application in a virtual host in Apache? Check out the draft

Packaging question

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have issued an ITP: 516...@bugs.debian.org and before I start the packaging process I would like to have a few things sorted out. 1) I prefer to have web based applications running in a virtual host instead of poluting the /var/www folder w

Re: Debian Packaging Question

2005-05-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Michael S. Peek" | I am attempting to develop my own .deb packages that customize a debian | installation for our network. Some of my packages attempt to divert files out | of the way in preinst before unpacking my custom files in their place. A good | example is autofs. My autofs configura

Re: Debian Packaging Question

2005-05-31 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:51 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > What *should* I be doing instead? You should forward it to -mentors mailing list. -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something. GPG: C671257D - 6EF6 C284 C95D 78F6 0B78

Debian Packaging Question

2005-05-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hello all, I hope I have the right list. If not, just kindly point me in the right direction. I am attempting to develop my own .deb packages that customize a debian installation for our network. Some of my packages attempt to divert files out of the way in preinst before unpacking my custom f

Re: Tricky library packaging question

2005-05-10 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:18:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I cannot think of any other options. I'm short of clues for the best > > way of doing this, and I'd be happy to give access to the svn repository > > of people who could help and work on it together. > I imagine these libraries a

Re: Tricky library packaging question

2005-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Enrico, On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:06:28PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > Now, the ABI, and to a lesser extent the API of the libraries is still > not stabilised, so I was planning to package libtagcoll1 and libdebtags1 > only as -dev packages. That way, packages would be statically linked to >

Tricky library packaging question

2005-05-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I'm trying to package the new version of debtags, with perl and python bindings, and I'm facing some tricky issues. Source packages: libtagcoll1 Functions used to manipulate tagged collections libdebtags1 Debian package tags library (also builds perl and python bindings) No