extracting and creating ipk files
I figured it out. You can extract the main package with the ar x command, then extract the control.tar.gz with the tar -zxf command.
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I need my Debian rules file to simply copy files to it’s target
Although you’ve already got your own answer, I’ll point out a couple of things. You seem to be doing this in a very complicated manner. If you simply need to copy files into certain directories, write a debian/mypackagename.install with the following format: path/to/file/relative/to/source/root path/to/install/relative/to/system/root (do not prepend / before /usr, or /opt, or whatever your … Read more
Package Manager vs Dependency Manager
TLTR: Package Manager is used for SYSTEM and Dependency Manager for PROJECT Package Manager – is used to configure system, ie to setup your development environment and with these settings you can build many projects. Dependency Manager – Is specific to project. You manage all dependencies for a single project and those dependencies are going … Read more
Why I am able to re-create java.lang package and classes?
The restriction on java.lang classes is a runtime restriction, not a compile time one. The JVM actually specifically provides a mechanism for overriding classes in java.lang. You can do it using the -Xbootclasspath command line flag: -Xbootclasspath:bootclasspath Specifies a semicolon-separated list of directories, JAR files, and ZIP archives to search for boot class files. These … Read more
What’s a Chocolatey “Install” package?
Have a look at the FAQ in the Chocolatey wiki here: https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/faqs#what-is-the-difference-between-packages-no-suffix-as-compared-to.install.portable Quoting from that article: tl;dr: Nearly 100% of the time, the package with no suffix (autohotkey in this example) is going to ensure the *.install. The package without the suffix is for both discoverability and for other packages to take a dependency on. … Read more
nuget retrieving package metadata
It requires two steps (second is maybe optional, but I always like clean solution) In Explorer open folder where your project resides. Open packages.config using Notepad. Find and remove the line that mentions corrupted package name. Open folder where your solution resides. Open subfolder “packages”. Find folder with corrupted package and remove it. Note: If … Read more
Update multiple dependencies with Bower
You can update all by running bower update. Use the -h flag on any command to see how you can use it. Eg bower update -h.
How to reinstall rpm package?
Try: rpm -iv –replacepkgs <packagefile>. More details are in the book.
Brew error: Could not symlink, path is not writable
As explained here by Rick: Start with brew doctor which will show you errors with your brew setup. You might see something like this: “Warning: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig isn’t writable.” It will give you the advice that: “You should probably chown /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig”. This means: sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig Then you will need to link the files … Read more
How to publish nuget prerelease version package
You only need to specify a version string that uses SemVer format (e.g. 1.0-beta) instead of the usual format (e.g. 1.0) and NuGet will automatically treat it as a prerelease package. “As of NuGet 1.6, NuGet supports the creation of prerelease packages by specifying a prerelease string in the version number according to the Semantic … Read more