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Experimental Scoop Packages for Debian
By BigNachos , Section Project [] Posted on Wed Oct 02, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST

I have recently concocted some Scoop packages for Debian GNU/Linux that are in need of testing and feedback from anyone brave enough to try them. They are highly experimental, and as such, may spawn an unholy demon inside your computer case or make fireworks shoot out of your cat's butt. You have been warned.

There are a few caveats for these packages. First of all, although I've signed these packages and my PGP key has been signed by a Debian developer, I am not an official Debian developer myself. You have absolutely no reason to trust me with root access to your box. Therefore, you should download all of the package files (apt-get source is the easiest way) and verify them manually by doing the following:

Verify the MD5 checksums of the .orig.tar.gz match those of the current scoop-0.9-nightly.tar.gz from scoop.kuro5hin.org. If they don't match, do a 'diff -u -r ...' against both unpacked sources to verify nothing is drastically different.

Inspect the .diff.gz to ensure I'm not doing anything hellacious.

Once you've done that, you can unpack the sources if you haven't done so already, 'cd' into the directory and issue a 'fakeroot debian/rules binary' command. Or, if you're more trusting, you can download the debs and install those.
Another thing to note is that these packages are available for unstable only. Once they have stabilized a bit, I'll backport the scoop package and the required perl modules to woody, as well as upload the unstable packages to Debian.
The packages are available here: http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/. The following lines in your sources.list will work:
deb http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ ./
deb-src http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ ./
I'm interested to hear how the packages work, whether good or bad. Please post your results/death threats here.

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Experimental Scoop Packages for Debian | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

using the nightly tarball... (none / 0) (#1)
by hurstdog on Thu Oct 03, 2002 at 03:09:39 PM PST

For md5 checks will cause nothing but problems as soon as a developer checks in some changes. Unless you're rebuilding the packages every night (scoop-nightly gets updated about 4am iirc). Just fyi.

-hurstdog

Result... (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by Aquarion on Mon Oct 07, 2002 at 07:18:20 AM PST

aquarion@reef:/var/web/gkhs.gotadsl.co.uk$ su Password: reef:/var/web/gkhs.gotadsl.co.uk# apt-get install scoop Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: scoop: Depends: libstring-random-perl but it is not installable Depends: libcrypt-cbc-perl but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages reef:/var/web/gkhs.gotadsl.co.uk# apt-get install libcrypt-cbc-perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package libcrypt-cbc-perl has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package libcrypt-cbc-perl has no installation candidate reef:/var/web/gkhs.gotadsl.co.uk# apt-get install libstring-random-perl Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package libstring-random-perl has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package libstring-random-perl has no installation candidate reef:/var/web/gkhs.gotadsl.co.uk#exit Looks like I'm waiting for woody packages then :-D

Scoop on Woody by BigNachos, 10/09/2002 03:10:59 PM PST (none / 0)

...probably my own fault... (none / 0) (#3)
by ramses0 on Mon Oct 07, 2002 at 11:22:14 PM PST

Setting up scoop (0.9+cvs20021006-3) ... DBI->connect(host=localhost:port=3306) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at /var/lib/dpkg/info/scoop.postinst line 117 Cannot connect to the database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at /var/lib/dpkg/info/scoop.postinst line 117, <STDIN> line 19. dpkg: error processing scoop (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Setting up scoop-doc (0.9+cvs20021006-3) ... Errors were encountered while processing: scoop E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I've probably forgotten the root database password for my local box, since it's been so long since I've tried playing with it. ;^) That's something that you should definitely be aware of as a possibility. Plus, not all mysql installations over debian support TCP/IP connections. Plus... mysql-server is listed only as a "recommends" instead of a requires... I guess this works out all right (for remote DB situations). Good job. :^) Turns out I didn't have MySQL installed at all (must have removed it). Will report back, if you want more feedback, shoot me an email ramses0 at yahoo.com. Thanks for doing this, btw! I was just complaining in a reply to a rusty-comment that I didn't have the perl-fu to install scoop to test it out (and try to help on the SQL). --Robert

great (none / 0) (#5)
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