Some things that I have noticed since installing Debian 1.1 that I thought I would share. These are some things that caused me some problems. I have worked many of them through, some of them I have not.
Compress is really gzip. This REALLY hosed my newsfeeds. A lot of news started bouncing from my feed sites and it took an allnighter on a worknight to figure out that my feed sites were getting gzip compressed news when they should have been getting .Z style compressed batches. Suck does not think that c-news + nntpd is a viable news transport system. Every time I run dselect now it wants to remove c-news and install inn just because I have suck installed. The cnews that Debian installs can not seem to find the programs in /usr/lib/news/ctl. I wake up to messages every morning that it could not find the newgroup or rmgoup command. dselect REALLY needs a facelift. I hate two things in particular. It will not downgrade a package and it "preselects" a bunch of stuff for me that I might not want to download. I think that is shouls ALWAYS default to all packages in the "hold" mode regardless of what its state was the last time you used it and you should be able to tell it to downgrade a version of something. I had a HECK of a time when I "upgraded" libc and it broke a bunch of stuff. One of these days I will write a version of dselect in tcl/tk that will use colors to denote the state of different packages and be just plain nicer. In general my debian 1.1 has been very nice. I managed to migrate from Slackware without even killing the news spool. Thanks folks! George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
