[hylafax-users] resolved Re: attachments are zero bytes - problem with ubuntu / debian packages?

[marthter <marthter@xxxxxxxx>]

executive summary: resolved
details: see notes on my fumblings and bumblings inline

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 01/10/2007 alle 12.23 -0400, marthter ha scritto:
> [...]
>   
> > Now for a real contranewbie question (having used Linux for years I'm 
> > used to non-package-manager setup, and/or .rpms that I fetch manually 
> > including dependencies, and for some programs like hylafax I usually 
> > from source .tar.gz.  I'm actually better with that than all this fancy 
> > apt-get stuff! - serves me right for trying to go the "simpler" way on 
> > this server.)...
> >
> > How do I tell apt-get to get something later than what it thinks is the 
> > latest?
> >     
> [...]
>
> download these three files:
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.4.1-2.dsc
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.4.1-2.diff.gz
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.4.1.orig.tar.gz
>
> then type:
>
> $ apt-get build-dep hylafax
>   
This command kept asking me to put the CD in, and since I'm trying to do 
the rest of this process remotely by ssh, that wasn't possible.  I kept 
pressing enter even though the CD wasn't in, and it seemed to get some 
packages by downloading, but eventually it seemed stuck at requiring the 
CD so I had to press Ctrl-C.

So I commented out the line from /etc/apt/sources.list that mentioned 
the CD, was that the right thing to do?

(I thought I'd already unchecked the CD in the GUI when I was physically 
on site, but I guess I'm either remembering wrong, or the GUI doesn't 
affect this file.)

Then I re-ran that first command and it downloaded more stuff and seemed 
to finish fine.

> $ apt-get install build-essential devscripts
>   
Seemed like build-essential was installed implicitly by the first 
command, but no harm in repeating it here I guess.

> $ dpkg-source -x *dsc
>   
gpg: can't open '/gnupg/options.skel': no such file or directory
gpg: Signature made Fri 24 Aug 207 02:00:50 AM EDT using DSA kay ID EC97089D
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: extracting hylafax in hylafax-4.4.1
dpkg-source: unpacking hylafax_4.4.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: applying ./hylafax_4.4.1-2.diff.gz

I wasn't sure if these errors were critical, but given the later 
observations, clearly they weren't.

> $ cd hylafax-4.4.1
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>   
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is hylafax
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2:4.4.1-2
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@xxxxxxxxxx>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 4.4.1-2
fakeroot debian/rules clean
/usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage: 212: fakeroot: not found

checking the man page for dpkg-buildpackage, is saw that the -r 
parameter is looking for some command that "...might typically be 
fakeroot, sudo..." so I did apt-get install fakeroot and repeated the 
above command.  It gave tons of configure and build output and seemed to 
complete successfully (looked very similar to building from source that 
I'm used to).  However there were quite a lot of warnings at the bottom 
and the exit code was 1 so I'm not sure if it worked entirely.

...
8<  much output snipped   8<
...
chown uucp:uucp \
           
debian/hylafax-server/var/spool/hylafax/{client,config,dev,info,log,recvq,status,archive,docq,doneq,pollq,sendq,tmp,.}
chmod 755 \
           
debian/hylafax-server/var/spool/hylafax/{archive,docq,doneq,pollq,sendq}
chmod 775 debian/hylafax-server/var/spool/hylafax
chmod 4777 debian/hylafax-server/var/spool/hylafax/tmp
chmod 755  debian/hylafax-server/var/spool/hylafax/dev
chown uucp debian/hylafax-server/etc/hylafax/hosts.hfaxd
chmod 600  debian/hylafax-server/etc/hylafax/hosts.hfaxd
dh_makeshlibs -a
dh_installdeb -a
dh_shlibdeps -phylafax-client \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/faxalter \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/faxcover \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/faxmail \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/faxrm \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/faxstat \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/sendfax \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/sendpage \
               debian/hylafax-client/usr/bin/textfmt
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dh_shlibdeps -phylafax-server \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/choptest \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/cqtest \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/dialtest \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxadduser \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxconfig \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxdeluser \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxgetty \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxinfo \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxmodem \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxmsg \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxq \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxqclean \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxsend \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxstate \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/faxwatch \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/hfaxd \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/ondelay \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/lockname \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/pagesend \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/tagtest \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/tiffcheck \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/tsitest \
               debian/hylafax-server/usr/sbin/typetest
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxserver.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libfaxutil.so' not recognized
dh_gencontrol -a
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field `C1 Tag' in input 
data in package's section of control info file
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field `C2 Tag' in input 
data in package's section of control info file
dh_md5sums -a
dh_builddeb -a
dpkg-deb: building package `hylafax-server' in 
`../hylafax-server_4.4.1-2_i386.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package `hylafax-client' in 
`../hylafax-client_4.4.1-2_i386.deb'.
signfile hylafax_4.4.1-2.dsc
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
gpg: skipped "Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@xxxxxxxxxx>": secret key not 
available
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available

dpkg-genchanges
dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field `Tag' in input data 
in package's section of control info file
dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field `Tag' in input data 
in package's section of control info file
dpkg-genchanges: not including original source code in upload
dpkg-buildpackage: binary and diff upload (original source NOT included)
(WARNING: Failed to sign .dsc and .changes file)

root@johann:/download/hylafax/hylafax-4.4.1# echo $?
1
root@johann:/download/hylafax/hylafax-4.4.1#


> $ cd ..
That worked : - ) and ls showed hylafax-client_4.4.1-2_i386.deb and 
-server_ so I guess the dpkg-buildpackage command worked well enough 
despite the warnings.

> $ sudo dpkg -i *deb
This command ran fine, including what looked like a (non-interactive) 
run of faxsetup.  Yay!



I re-ran the bin/faxrcvd command from yesterday and the e-mail came 
through fine, PDF attachment and all.  I also sent another test fax from 
another hylafax server and that worked equally well.

Thanks guys, your helpful responses really made my day.

Though I must say, the fact this didn't work with the packages that 
apt-get currently thinks are "the latest" rather un-made my Saturday and 
Sunday.  Shouldn't there have been an easier ubuntu-esque version of 
these steps where I just enable the "testing" repository in my synaptic 
GUI and re-request the hylafax-server package?

What can I do to help that along?  File a bug with Debian and/or Ubuntu 
to promote some later greater version of the hylafax-server package from 
"testing" to "stable"?  (xubuntu 7.04 feisty and /etc/debian_version 
says 4.0)


Cheers.

Martin


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