Creating your own "Release" and "Release.gpg" files

Hi All! I am making an internal .deb repository for some friends and colleagues in my university department and I would like to make it as close to a "legitimate" Debian repository as possible. I've discovered the following script to make the "Packages" file: ### #Makefile #!/usr/b

perl 5.8 for stable?

Hi All! I've checked apt-get.org (now that it's back up) ;-) and didn't see anything, but I was just wondering if anyone knows of anywhere you can add to your sources.list that has perl 5.8 backported for woody. I didn't think that it would have been that difficult to find, but it is really pr

Debconf - no prompt?

Hi All! I'm working on a project to deploy Internet workstations in a number of local sorority houses and the solution I would like to pitch is based on the Debian distro. I need this to be as automated as possible, so I have a question regarding debconf. These machines will be checking for up

Re: How to create .deb of flat files?

--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's simple; just leave out all the parts of debian/rules that involve >compiling things. > >I'd suggest picking some documentation package and using 'apt-get >source' to look at how it does things. Thanks Colin, I will do just that! Best regards, Mar

How to create .deb of flat files?

Hi All! I've got a handful of regular flat text files that I would like to make into a .deb but I'm not familiar with doing anything that doesn't require a compile. Is it simply doing an "install -m 644 *.txt debian/path/to/file" or something equivalent in the "install-stamp" section of the "r

Configuring debconf not to ask for input during upgrades?

Hi guys, I've recently discovered cron-apt and even better, secpack (from http://sdn.vlsm.org/share/Debian-Doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html ) and under section "9.1.7 Automatic updates in a Debian GNU/Linux system", they talk about configuring cron so debconf won't ask for input du

JPG image help needed please :-)

I'm using the bootsplash kernel patch to get a nice background when my computers start up, but am having a strange problem. It appears that it will only accept JPGs when the "aspect ratio" is 1x1. I don't know a whole lot about graphics, but when I save an image in the gimp, it always saves it

RE: dpkg --get-selections question

Great! Thanks to you and to ronin2 as well! I appreciate your help very much. Maria -- Support your local ASPCA http://www.aspca.org/ --- "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Is there an easier way to do this even? Thanks for any help! > >dpkg --get-selections > somefile > >then > >

dpkg --get-selections question

Hi, I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test lab. I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' and see if there were some way to parse it to just get the package names. I'm no programmer and can't script worth a darn, so does anyone have any sugge

rpm -qi eqivalent?

I've got a few different Debian systems that I build random packages on. I was just wondering if there was a way to determine the system that built a specific package (like you can get from runnng "rpm -qa" on a RH system). "dpkg -s" shows me the maintainer, but not the build host. Thank you,