Re: Maintaining the operating environment Questions:

1998-07-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 11:01:54AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, G. Kaplan wrote: > > > 3. a primary module i.e. .xyz.tar.gz > Generally it's safest to untar, compile and install these with > prefix=/usr/local ... debian packages won't touch anything under > /usr/local, so nothi

Re: Maintaining the operating environment Questions:

1998-07-31 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, G. Kaplan wrote: > Is there any way to determine the distribution source of an installed > module ? Not sure what you're asking here. > Suppose I wanted to maintain a system through dpkg , where is it > reasonable to store files that are not part of the current standard > d

Maintaining the operating environment Questions:

1998-07-31 Thread G. Kaplan
Is there any way to determine the distribution source of an installed module ? Suppose I wanted to maintain a system through dpkg , where is it reasonable to store files that are not part of the current standard distribution; but are: 1. a properly defined .deb package, 2. a properly defined .rp