Re: Kernel 2.2.3
Yes, there are Linux 2.2x kernels in .deb format at http://netgod.net/ Follow their 2.2.3 button in the upper left hand corner of their home page. Version 2.2.3 is the one you, now, immediately get to but the older 2.2.x versions are in the archives. At 3/10/99 08:20 PM , you wrote: When i updated slink from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 i got a kernel source package from the debian ftp site. It was a debian package. I read that there where no patches applied to the kernel source for use with debian. I am wondering since i dont see a deb package for 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 if i can grab the 2.2.3 kernel from ftp.kernel.org and not have any problems??? Also, has anyone else packaged these kernels in a deb?? Thanks for any input Faton Useni
Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!
Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into the correct separate email box. However it does nothing for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would considerably help. Both web based discussion managers news reader programs handle treading well. For a group of this volume you would need a good discussion server at least one public server that I know of just isn't up to the job. It's to busy for good service. I wonder why this listserver group hasn't long ago gone to a news/news server format for the much better accessibility of the threaded news readers. It doesn't have to be part of the public news system with it's well known loss of messages, advertisements, harvesting of email addresses for future spam. If Debian can set up run the fancy listserver as they have they could just as well instead run a private or semi-private news server that only has Debian news/discussion on it. There are a reasonable number of such already on the net. The existing searchable email archive could be just as good or better as a news archive. At 3/10/99 08:56 AM , you wrote: From: Nuno Donato [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for reading my message. I am a member of the Debian Linux Mailing List(just like you) and I know how boring is to receive every day hundreds of e-mails, and don't have time to read it all. So now I have found a much easier way. Click on the link on the bottom of my email to go directly to my page: Unofficial Debian Linux Message Board Yes that's it! A message board it's much easier to use and you don't have hundred of e-mails in you Inbox every day. So I will wait you all there. See ya! http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb392374 At 3/10/99 01:58 PM , you wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:34:38 -0500 (EST), Christopher J. Morrone wrote: Agreed. I think that he just needs an introduction into the wonderful world of maill filtering. procmail is our friend. procmail, exim filters, or do what I do, use a Windows client that has filtering built in. :)
Dependences Problem - dselect
I'm trying to install Debian slink over the web. I don't have the CDs. The base install from the floppy images goes ok when debian.org is up I can update the packages. Now after 2 weeks of repeatedly trying now using the 2/23/99 disk images selecting the very smallest package, 25MB, this evening I got it to install over the web, I think. I've read all I can find on dselect, dpkg, installation instructions , v1 2 Debian manual none of them cover my problem. The 'Q' command character in dselect doesn't do as the online documentation says only lets it start the install until it checks the dependences then it, I presume dselect, refuses to go ahead. I have a suspicion, with only scant evidence, that the following modules are set to both require the dependent modules/libraries be incompatable with them. libc6-dev 2.0.7t-1 requires libc6 2.0.7t-1 and perl 5.004.04-6 requires perl-base 5.004.04-6 Yes, the dependent modules are selected to be installed but that doesn't help. I selected Debian because of the completeness of the packages included because of the volunteer nature of the project. However, this reminds me of the GNU software that I have tried to install use a little in years past. As near as I could tell the programs worked well, with scant evidence, but I could never be sure what was going on since the documentation was mostly not there.
Re: forcing dselect to downgrade
I have been following your thread you have my sympathy. I'm too ignorant to have any ideas or suggestions. Your problems sound like mine except on a bigger scale. The Debian people keep claiming that dpkg dselect are so great but in my experience they are at best medium in practice. They admit that the interface is not the best but that the basic workingness is very good. And they do seem to be a good place to start from to write something that does work well. And the documentation! Enough said. At 3/4/99 08:42 PM , you wrote: Stephen Pitts wrote: You don't. Downgrading packages has undefined results. A better option would be to tell the list about your problems and we'll help you fix them -- Currently dselect marks 90% of the package on my system as broken. And there are a lot of them. I tried switching to exim from smail, just to try it. I have constant error messages. Several aps/ games like quake no longer run when not in X and I can not seem to find the requested libraries or get them installed. Fetchmail does not work Most things on the box seem to work fine, but the whole thing seems a little whacked In the hope that my errors will not be repeated by other I will endure the embarrassment of explaining how this happened. My system was running fine off the packages is on my Debian 2.0 cdrom. I decided to upgrade some of the packages via ftp. When I upgraded the package lists of stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect presumed that I wanted to upgrade everything on my system. That everything I had previously installed that had a newer package available was selected for install and included in the download list. This created a serious problem for me because I need the packaging system to warn me about dependencies. If I cancel the download and try to install individual packages via dpkg the required packages will already be marked as selected and no dependency warnings will be given. I tried getting part of the list of aps I wanted to upgrade, but got a ton of error messages for the reasons just cited. Not knowing what else to do I decided to get everything that had been selected. I must say I'm kind of ashamed of this since I really do know better than to hog an ftp site like that, but I really did not know what else to do. Needless to say lots of errors occur when you try to ftp hundreds of mgs of files. Now dselect say 90% of my packages are broken. Far to many to fix one at a time using dpkg. I feel as if I have lost control of my system. I would like to get control back. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You
