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Incremental RPM package version "numbers" for x.y.z > x.y.z-beta (or alpha, rc, etc)
The official rpm guidelines tell how to do this, and links to an examples page. Here is an example of how you would work with the very common versioning scheme that uses three levels of pre-release (...
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How to remove deprecated files from new version of package?
The answer is that when it comes to conffiles the user of the package is intended to resolve the cleanup of cruft themselves.
I am not sure about the specifics from a Debian packaging Policy ...
3
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Centos package naming for FreeIPA?
Generally the centos bit in a package name means that it's a package from which CentOS has removed some Red Hat branding, artwork or other intellectual property. Someone appears to have forgotten to ...
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Is it possible for a debian package to be installed by multiple names through apt?
It's not possible, you have to use a dummy transitional package which depends on foo-new. For a real world example see iceweasel package, which installs firefox now: https://packages.debian.org/...
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Python deployment fails with "packaging 21.2 has requirement pyparsing<3,>=2.0.2, but you have pyparsing 3.0.5."
Manually installing pyparsing 2.4.7 has been reported to work.
I released pyparsing 3.0.6 today, in which I try to accommodate the issues in the packaging code that uses pyparsing. 3.0.6 fails 1 unit ...
2
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fpm doesn't deal with dependanices
Even though it's echoing the dependency parameters with quotes, the error message makes it look like fpm is losing the quotes on your dependency names somewhere since it seems to be trying to use ./(&...
2
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Centos package naming for FreeIPA?
There seems to be other packages affected by this so I think it is a bug in CentOS build system. Looking at the timestamps, this has happened somewhere late November/early December 2015. I've talked ...
1
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wrap exe to another exe with silent installation command
I'm found the solution by using 7zip sfx
https://sevenzip.osdn.jp/chm/cmdline/switches/sfx.htm
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How to install Oracle Java on Debian Wheezy with make-jpkg and fakeroot without errors?
First of all, you can ignore the warnings emitted by dpkg-shlibdeps. The errors should hint you towards which packages you need to install in order to satisfy all library dependencies for the JDK.
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Incremental RPM package version "numbers" for x.y.z > x.y.z-beta (or alpha, rc, etc)
I bumped into a similar problem and I had to compare revisions between RedHat, Debian, Python packages and Ruby gems to unify the suite number, and this helped me to evaluate the "greater than" and "...
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