Re: couple of nits/warnings

1999-10-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Bdale Garbee wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > tar -zxf control.tar.gz control ./control > > You can also use > > tar -zxf control.tar.gz *control > > which does not produce an error, and extracts either one. This is the fix I > supplied for l

Re: couple of nits/warnings

1999-10-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > tar -zxf control.tar.gz control ./control You can also use tar -zxf control.tar.gz *control which does not produce an error, and extracts either one. This is the fix I supplied for lintian when the tar upstream changed the way pathname whack

Re: couple of nits/warnings

1999-10-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: > The second nit has to do with the way that dpkg assigns permissions to the > package files it creates. I'm not certain why, but I sort of expected the > files to be 664, not the 644 that it produces. If group projects are to be > managable, shouldn't membe

couple of nits/warnings

1999-10-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
As you may know, I have been working on a script to build selected subsets of the distribution from source, to be used for constructing single CD releases of ED (Essential Debian). With the correction of my faulty grep|awk filter I have been able to build more complex lists of packages (and can ev