Questions Tagged With packaging

Packages sync between PCs

Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:50:16 -0400

I've many PC already uses Mint KDE 14. How can I sync installed packages between these PCs?

P.S. Ubuntu Software Center already has this feature but it's not working under Mint.

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.?

Seeing if a package is already installed

Linux Jedi — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:14:25 -0400

How can I check in the terminal if a package is already installed?

-dev packages

Linux Jedi — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:00:55 -0400

I'm trying to build a program which requires other packages to be installed. I noticed that for some of these packages they will have a package with the same name but with -dev appended to the name. Which package should I install? If I install the -dev package is that sufficient?

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?