Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

Zenaan Harkness writes ("wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources"): > git at alioth is coming along very nicely and was a great step > forward for Debian (thank you Ian). Why are you CCing me ? I had nothing to do with alioth or salsa. (May

Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

big upside is that the relationship > > between the debianization and the upstream code is VERY clear." which > > is immediately followed with this "Since the Debian APT repositories > > still use tarballs you still have to manage those with this setup, > > but t

Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

"Since the Debian APT repositories > still use tarballs you still have to manage those with this setup, > but the pristine-tar exists for that purpose." > > There are possibly still advantages to tarballs, I don't know, since > I haven't used one in something li

wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

ut the pristine-tar exists for that purpose." There are possibly still advantages to tarballs, I don't know, since I haven't used one in something like a decade or more. Consistency of distribution of sources? Compliance with Debian packaging guidelines? Debian sources is currently

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:14:51 -0500 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tuesday 11 June 2013 15:14:51 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 > > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > > > > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at > >

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:38:35 -0700 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at > > > deb-multimedia.org? > > > >Yes, it is, alas. > >I alr

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: If you want to install Marillat's packages go to his site. http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia is on Marillat's mirror list He may not get along with

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

Pierre Frenkiel writes: > what is the difference between [deb > http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia/] and Marillat's > deb-multimedia? See and

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: What mess did this repo make? I have been using deb-multimedia for years and have never had any mess. look at what Chris Bannister wrote on this list on 4 Feb 2013 Just

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:25:49 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? > >Yes, it is, alas. >I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister >"The deb-multimedia repos

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Alan Ianson wrote: It looks like a mirror. Is it listed as such at deb-multimedia.org? Yes, it is, alas. I already experienced that, as said by Chris Bannister "The deb-multimedia repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy system" It took me sevaral days to get rid of

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List > Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to > see in the resulting sources.list: > > deb http://www.las.ic.uni

Debian Sources List Generator

hi, After the release of Wheezy, I tried the Debian Sources List Generator (at http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/), and was surprised to see in the resulting sources.list: deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia/ stable main although http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br is "

Re: debian sources to deb binaries.Risk of corrupting the file system?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 04:19:38PM -0700, nuno romano wrote: > When we build a binary debian .deb package from debian > sources,for example with the debuild command of the > devscripts package,is there the danger of change in > the file system?For example with rpm there is a > Bui

debian sources to deb binaries.Risk of corrupting the file system?

When we build a binary debian .deb package from debian sources,for example with the debuild command of the devscripts package,is there the danger of change in the file system?For example with rpm there is a BuildRoot situated in /var/tmp where rpm temporarily installs all files of the binary

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:21:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > nuno romano wrote: > > When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian > > sources I get the following warning:(the same with > > gtkhtml3) > > > > dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ > &

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

On Saturday 11 June 2005 07:56 pm, nuno romano wrote: > When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian > sources I get the following warning:(the same with > gtkhtml3) > > dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ > /DEBIAN/control´ > near line 8 >

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

nuno romano wrote: When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did : dpkg-deb --build fltk-1.1.6/ ,after

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

nuno romano wrote: > When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian > sources I get the following warning:(the same with > gtkhtml3) > > dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ > /DEBIAN/control´ > near line 8 > missing package name >

debian sources to debian binaries.

When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did : dpkg-deb --build fltk-1.1.6/ ,after applying the

netselect-apt: how to avoid dead debian sources ???

NOTE: I tried to send this email to Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> earlier; but, I received these errors: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 553 5.3.5 system config error) - Transcript of session follows - 553 5.3.5 wo

Re: Need url for debian sources..

On Monday 31 December 2001 2:10 am, dman wrote: > http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html I would use that page but I've yet to get a page from that server :( I can ping it but I never get a page *sigh*. I thought it was a Freeserve problem but it also happens on other ISP's :(... The only

Debian sources CDS!

i cant find the sources,all i see are binaries cds.. Petre L. Daniel,System Administrator Canad Systems Pitesti Romania, http://www.cyber.ro, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+4048220044, +4048206200

Re: Need url for debian sources..

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:56:15AM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: | i need some european servers with the potato 2.2.r4 sources cds isos.. | thx Again, RTFM http://cdimage.debian.org. In particular the follow are the lists of mirrors : http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist http://cdimage.debian.org/

Need url for debian sources..

i need some european servers with the potato 2.2.r4 sources cds isos.. thx Petre L. Daniel,System Administrator Canad Systems Pitesti Romania, http://www.cyber.ro, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+4048220044, +4048206200

Re: Compiling debian sources always fails

On 23 Jan 2001, Alex Pennace wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. > > It fails with a fatal error: "unable to find user alias". > > This has happened with other source files as well. > > At some

Re: Compiling debian sources always fails

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:08AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. > It fails with a fatal error: "unable to find user alias". > This has happened with other source files as well. At some point base-passwd got rid of the assignments for

Compiling debian sources always fails

I've just tried to compile the debian source file for qmail. It fails with a fatal error: "unable to find user alias". This has happened with other source files as well. Anyone know what is wanted here? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian (Windows-free zone) Over 100 book revie

Re: debian sources

"James Sasitorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any > way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source? There's no automatic way to do that, but recent versions of apt-get include a "source" option,

debian sources

How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source? james

compiling X from the debian sources doesn't work.

Hi, I recently bought the cheapbytes debian 2.1 CD's. Because the computer that I am using at the moment is a P-60, there is a strong urgency to tweak every last bit of speed out of my system. I decided to recompile my x-server and libraries in order to eek a bit more speed out of X, by using pen

compiling debian sources question?

Hi, I recently bought the cheapbytes debian 2.1 CD's. Almost everything is OK. Unfortunately the computer I am using at the moment is a mingy P-60. I decided to recompile my x-server and libraries (with the 'pentium-builder' package installed) in order to eek a bit more speed out of X. However,

Re: Question about debian sources and dh_testdir

>> "PF" == Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PF> I really searched for this 'dh_testdir' on debian.org and also PF> asked Archie but did not find it. Could someone please reveal to PF> me in which package I can find it? It is part of the debhelper package. A convenient way to f

Re: Question about debian sources and dh_testdir

Hi [snip] > No actually it is not. The correct way is to use dpkg-source. The > command is 'dpkg-source -x .dsc'. This will recreate the > maintainers build environ completely. That's what the documentation says. But have you tried it? I did not succed unpacking a souce this way: pfrauenf:/

Re: Question about debian sources

> 1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory. > 2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file. > 3. Pacth the files with "patch -p1 < xxx.dif" > > Is this the right way to do the things ? In the .diff files were some > lines that make me think some directory names should be changed, but, > after the chang

Question about debian sources

Hi, I have a bo source CD. From time to time I use some files from there. The problem is that it's still not completly clear to me how to apply the patches. For the moment I do like this: 1. Unpack the .tar.gz in a directory. 2. Copy in that directory the xxx.diff file. 3. Pacth the files with "p