Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Philip Hands wrote: > What were you trying to achieve ? --- it might be simpler than you think. > > I just discovered that most of my alias handling under qmail was drivel, and > could be dome much more simply. > > > If someone wants to spend some time on a simple mailer ha

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-06-01 Thread Brian White
> > E.g. boot-floppies. I regularly receive patches from the people doing > > the ports to other architectures. If they could merge them into the > > CVS repository, they needn't wait until I released a new version. > > What provision do you suggest for code-review? It's important for things > lik

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-06-01 Thread Philip Hands
> (1) user-map [if all package maintainers are local] If you just want to be delivering mail to @packages.debian.org (rather than -@packages.debian.org), you can deliver to remote addresses with: In users/assign, create one line per package: =:alias:70:65534:/var/qmail/alias:+:fwd-: so in th

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-06-01 Thread Raul Miller
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote > I must admit to not understanding what that qmail alias file is for. > I do _all_ of my aliases with .qmail-* files . > > What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without > messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I want

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Paul Bame wrote: > = > Should this CVS repository be mandatory, i.e. does every Debian > = > package have to be there? > > A brief word of warning... (I tried CVS on dpkg a while back) > > The natural CVS model is to name the directory for the package, > for example .../dpkg

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
> I have had a very quick look at the aegis README. It has a > baseline (main trunk in CVS; no mention of multiple independent > branches and back merging that I could see). It relies on RCS or CVS for its version control, so you get access to most if not all the features of those (or at

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Carey Evans
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > That seems simple enough. > > I think your best bet is this: > > 1) make sure control/locals does not contain packages.debian.org But make sure it's in control/rcpthosts, of course. > add this line to control/virtualdomains: > packages.debia

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
> What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without > messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I wanted > to have a .qmail-packages-default file to handle the packages.debian.org > domain, and that would look up the package name and map it to the maintai

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
Aegis looks interesting. I'd like to see how it works on top of a physically-distributed development using CVS. Do please package it when you have time, Phil. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fi

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: "Christian Hudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just tell me what you want qmail to do for you and point me at the > sh/whatever scripts you started working on. I think we already have Joey (Martin Schulze) working on this today. Please check with him. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL

Re: packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Bruce Perens
I must admit to not understanding what that qmail alias file is for. I do _all_ of my aliases with .qmail-* files . What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I wanted to have a .qmail-packages-default fil

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have had a very quick look at the aegis README. It has a baseline (main trunk in CVS; no mention of multiple independent branches and back merging that I could see). It implements a per change test rquirement (thought: what tests? that the package build? could be done with a comm

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Christian Hudon
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote > There actually is a packages.debian.org domain aliased on "master", I > had problems making it work because darned qmail won't parse a full > RFC822 address on the command line (it wants you to remove the > comments). If someone wants to spend some time on a simple m

packages.debian.org & qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I had problems making it work because darned qmail won't parse a full > RFC822 address on the command line What were you trying to achieve ? --- it might be simpler than you think. I just discovered that most of my alias handling under qmail was drivel, and could be dom

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
> Communication should be done via a package-specific mailing list. The > maintainer of the package decides who has commit privileges for this > package and who gets on this package's developers' mailing-list. > > This mailing list could be used as target for the bug reports against > this package

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Paul Bame
= > Communication should be done via a package-specific mailing list. The = > maintainer of the package decides who has commit privileges for this = > package and who gets on this package's developers' mailing-list. = = The way we are currently doing it here (at Pixar) is that nobody checks = in a

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Bruce Perens
There actually is a packages.debian.org domain aliased on "master", I had problems making it work because darned qmail won't parse a full RFC822 address on the command line (it wants you to remove the comments). If someone wants to spend some time on a simple mailer hack, you can make this work.

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Rudolph writes: > Communication should be done via a package-specific mailing list. The > maintainer of the package decides who has commit privileges for this > package and who gets on this package's developers' mailing-list. > > This mailing list could be used as target for the bug reports

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Sven Rudolph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > > Communication should be done via a package-specific mailing list. The > > maintainer of the package decides who has commit privileges for this > > package and who gets on this package's developers' mailing-list. (And the CVS commit messages are sent to

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Bruce Perens
> Communication should be done via a package-specific mailing list. The > maintainer of the package decides who has commit privileges for this > package and who gets on this package's developers' mailing-list. The way we are currently doing it here (at Pixar) is that nobody checks in an un-reviewe

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Sven Rudolph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > > E.g. boot-floppies. I regularly receive patches from the people doing > > the ports to other architectures. If they could merge them into the > > CVS repository, they needn't wait until I released a new version. > > What provision do you suggest for co

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Paul Bame
= > Should this CVS repository be mandatory, i.e. does every Debian = > package have to be there? A brief word of warning... (I tried CVS on dpkg a while back) The natural CVS model is to name the directory for the package, for example .../dpkg/ and relegate the version numbers to tags. At least

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Bruce Perens
> E.g. boot-floppies. I regularly receive patches from the people doing > the ports to other architectures. If they could merge them into the > CVS repository, they needn't wait until I released a new version. What provision do you suggest for code-review? It's important for things like boot-flopp

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Jim Pick
> Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > great. since i meet other debian developers at the linux congress, i my > > a big friend of a cvs server with all debian packages. does anyone have > > a server with enough hard disks and a good conection to run it ? > > Some problems arise

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Rudolph writes: > Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > great. since i meet other debian developers at the linux congress, i my > > a big friend of a cvs server with all debian packages. does anyone have > > a server with enough hard disks and a good conection to run it ? > >

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Sven Rudolph
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > great. since i meet other debian developers at the linux congress, i my > a big friend of a cvs server with all debian packages. does anyone have > a server with enough hard disks and a good conection to run it ? Some problems arise: Should this

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Rob Browning writes: > I guess I was looking for -ko, since you wouldn't want to be rewriting > the $Id$ values for the upstream source unless you actually changed > things, and even then it's kind of iffy since your tree has nothing to > do with theirs. In addition, without -ko, you'd get a b

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi. >>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> On 26 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Rob> What do you do about packages whose upstream source is already Rob> being managed by CVS and already has $Id$ markers, etc in it? Jason> Nothing. When you check it into CVS it will rewri

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nothing. When you check it into CVS it will rewrite all of the $Id: $ > markers and friends to reflect your CVS tree. It shouldn't have any > problems. You might not want that so you can turn off substitution with > -ko I think. I guess I was looking

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I just import the upstream version with ``cvs import -ko'', and ``cvs add'' my changes without any k options. This way the upstream sources do not get mangled, but the debian only files come with full RCS keywords. manoj >From the info pages: File: cvs.info, Node: Substit

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 26 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would really like to get into using CVS for my package > > development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of > > releasing packages. > > I wondered about this, and I had a question. I lo

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would really like to get into using CVS for my package > development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of > releasing packages. I wondered about this, and I had a question. I looked around in the CVS manual a little and didn't

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-27 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On May 26, Manoj Srivastava wrote > Hi, > > I would really like to get into using CVS for my package > development tree, but I have been held back by the hassle of > releasing packages. I have no problems testing packages with > ./debian/rules binary > and I always used dpkg-buildpackage

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-26 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The credit should really go to Lars Wirzenius and Ian Jackson, > since this borrows from their work. If there is enough interest, I > could package this up. (Oh, this is a sh script, and only needs > dpkg-dev, no perl ;-) Please do so. CVS is