Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:36:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I can arrange to have the debian version passed in the ENV > variable KDREV, or something. That would be clean. That sounds excellent. I will await it eagerly :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the Wichert> correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian revision Wichert> I needed to parse that file anyway. So I just changed the regexp Wic

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm. The revision can be passed through the env var > DEBIAN_REVISION, and possibly pcmcia is aware of that and uses that? From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian revis

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hi, >> >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >> /usr/src/modules//, and runs ./debian/rules . >> >> Additionally, the foll

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> /usr/src/modules//, and runs ./debian/rules . > >> Additionally, the following information is provided in the > >> environment: > >> a) KVERS Contains

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /usr/src/modules//, and runs ./debian/rules . >> Additionally, the following information is provided in the >> environment: >> a) KVERS Contains the kernel version >> b) KSRC Contains the location of the kernel sources >>

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:39:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I would think that using make-kpkg to create the modules > packages is not a bad idea anyway. I think it's a great idea, and works really well with pcmcia on my notebook. > /usr/src/modules//, and runs ./debian/rules .

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why do you get the kernel version from files? make-kpkg >> provides the kernel version in the environment var KVERS, as well as >> the location of the kernel source, and the maintainers name and email >> address. Hamish> What if

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Actually, since yo have done it, you have way more experience > with the process than I (I just do the make-kpkg end). Could you > please document what you did? I shall chime in and add what make-kpkg > provides, and what targets it calls. Darn, I had

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:07:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Actually, since yo have done it, you have way more experience > with the process than I (I just do the make-kpkg end). Could you > please document what you did? I shall chime in and add what make-kpkg > provides, and what

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> Could you please document somewhere how to do this? I've Wichert> just implemented this for the ALSA packaged after someone Wichert> described the process in a bugreport.. and I have to say Wichert> it's a royal PITA to g

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:56:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why are the sound modules not included with the kernel? Afaik they are in > Redhat. They are. The intent is to package binaries for the standard kernels already made... pgpltzRfWWC4i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Please also consider a src.deb package (look at pcmcia_cs > packages for example) that puts the sources in /usr/src/modules// > so that the sound module can be built when the kernel packages are > created by the user using kernel-package. Could you pl

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread robbie
Hi Why are the sound modules not included with the kernel? Afaik they are in Redhat. Regards -- Robbie Murray

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Guenter" == Guenter Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guenter> What about providing a modularized, precompiled OSS package Guenter> and a sound installation tool ? Please also consider a src.deb package (look at pcmcia_cs packages for example) that puts the sources in /usr/src

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:51:24PM -0700, Guenter Geiger wrote: > The current way to add sound support on Debian is either installing the > kernel-source and compiling OSS > or installing the ALSA packages. > > What about providing a modularized, precompiled OSS package and a sound > installatio