Questions Tagged With deb

lintian warning: hardening-no-relro, hardening-no-fortify-functions and dpkg-buildflags

shinnra — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:10:21 -0400

I'm using autotools to create package of my software then i wanted to make debian package but after runing debuild i get those warnings:

Now running lintian...
W: minorin: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/minorin
W: minorin: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/bin/minorin

google pointed me to this:

This package provides an ELF binary that lacks the "read-only relocation" link flag. This package was likely not built with the default Debian compiler flags defined by dpkg-buildflags. If built using dpkg-buildflags directly, be sure to import LDFLAGS.

so do I have to just copy the output of dpkg-buildflags to my src/Makefile.am or is there a way to automatically include it...

Does the DEB format support differential updates resp. binary diffs?

furtelwart — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:57:05 -0400

I just want to know, if the Debian package system supports differential updates. This method would decrease bandwidth and save money and time (for the users).

And if such a binary diff exists, is it used by Debian, Ubuntu etc.?

Where to find Mezzo Desktop .deb files

george — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:34:36 -0400

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo_(desktop_environment) The distro, Symphony OS, is closed, the websites down. The amazing part about mezzo desktop was that it was a localhost server based html/php/etc desktop. UNR is heading that way, but symphony os was there years ago. I would love to be able to try it out, modify it, redistribute an updated version with the authors permission. Does anyone have a copy of the .deb files for it? I can not find it anywhere. All google searches through pages link back to the down website.

different distros have different packages, is it possible to have one distro for all packages?

Shadowmeph — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:01:12 -0400

I am fairly new to Linux and have noticed things like Debian has deb packages and fedora has rpm. there are probably allot more different packages ,myself I like Debian style but I am wondering if it is possible to download something from fedora or a different distro and unpackage and install the software to any distro or is there sometype of software that I would need to be able to do this?