Re: Custom package fails to install as a dependency, works otherwise

This turned out to be an issue with permissions, not quite sure in what way, but I chown'd all the package data for both packages and it installs fine now.. Atle - Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Atle Veka wrote: > I have a custom package that I

Custom package fails to install as a dependency, works otherwise

I have a custom package that I use for new installs (base package) which has a couple of dependencies. One of these dependencies fails to install properly and I'm stumped. lintian report for the package listed as a dependency in the base package: # lintian binary/fci-software-3ware-tools_1.1-2_i38

Re: bash scripting q

In your example you are saying that $a is the function 'do_chrono', so when you run $a, it runs the function and prints out the result. As another poster indicated, you need to do it slightly differently: # execute and store result in $a a=$( do_chrono ) # print echo $a Atle - Flying Crocodile

Re: Creating custom deb package with conffiles overrides

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 11:37 -0700, Atle Veka a écrit : > > Hi, > > I am trying to create a custom configuration package which among > > other things installs an snmpd.conf into /etc/snmp/. Is there a way in my >

Creating custom deb package with conffiles overrides

Hi, I am trying to create a custom configuration package which among other things installs an snmpd.conf into /etc/snmp/. Is there a way in my package declaration to tell apt to override the previously installed snmpd package that "owns" /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf? Or should I be going about this