> I was thinking of "porting" my favourite editor XEmacs... I'm a vi guy, but this is exactly what Nexenta needs, a complete (ie comparable to Ubuntu or Debian) repository. XEmacs is in the Hardy repositories so compiling on Nexenta might not be all that bad. Best of luck and thanks for your efforts regarding Nexenta.
Michael Bushey On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Per Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > You were very close. :-) dpkg-divert --package m4 --add /usr/bin/m4 was the > right order of the arguments, and that seemed to work great, thanks.(will > you see to that this gets added to the sunwcsu package as well?) > > Regarding Nexenta, how strict are you on the "core" philosophy? I was > thinking of "porting" my favourite editor XEmacs...but it is quite huge and > maybe not so optimal if you are trying to fit it all on one CD. :-) > > Would it be a bad idea to set up a "main-extra" section or similar? You can > even have it be "online only", that is, only available as an apt-get source. > That way, we can have all the goodies in there without ruining the "one CD" > concept, which I can agree to is a good thing. > > Best regards, > Per > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Tim Spriggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the report. I could have sworn this bug was fixed. In any case >> you can use dpkg-divert to get the package to install for you. Something >> along the lines of: >> >> dpkg-divert --add /usr/bin/m4 --package m4 >> >> (syntax might be slightly different) >> >> Cheers, >> -Tim >> >> Per Lundberg wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Just recently installed Nexenta CP2 alpha1 and is playing around with it, >>> trying to compile some packages... and when installing the >>> build-dependencies, the conflict mentioned in the subject line appeared, >>> with the following output written out by dpkg: >>> >>> Selecting previously deselected package m4. >>> Unpacking m4 (from .../m4_1.4.10-1nexenta3_solaris-i386.deb) ... >>> dpkg: error processing >>> /var/cache/apt/archives/m4_1.4.10-1nexenta3_solaris-i386.deb (--unpack): >>> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/m4', which is also in package sunwcsu >>> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken Pipe) >>> >>> I guess the sunwcsu package provides the OpenSolaris m4 whereas the m4 >>> package provides GNU m4... Is there an "alternatives" implementation for GNU >>> Solaris that could be used to resolve this or is there a better solution? I >>> guess I could hack the package I was trying to compile to depend on either >>> m4 or sunwcsu for now, but the real problem remains: m4 in NexentaCore 2.0 >>> Alpha 1 doesn't seem to be installable now (unless you uninstall sunwcsu of >>> course). >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Per Lundberg >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnusol-devel mailing list >>> gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net >>> http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel >>> >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Per Lundberg > > _______________________________________________ > gnusol-devel mailing list > gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net > http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel > > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
