Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-09-01 Thread delgarde
Randy McMurchy wrote: > David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: > > > Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just > > hoping to at least put a smile onto your face. I've > > thought of doing some kind of package management myself, > > but seeing stuff like this always makes me

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Basically I found that the DESTDIR approach was the best solution for > > > creating a package before it was installed on

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/31/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically I found that the DESTDIR approach was the best solution for > > creating a package before it was installed on the final system. > > I was wondering about that when I was con

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 23:50 +0200, David Ciecierski wrote: > At the same time I know there are other people out there who have a > different idea of package management - and as you pointed out, there are > at least a couple decent approaches for them too. So thank you for all > your comments - p

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically I found that the DESTDIR approach was the best solution for > creating a package before it was installed on the final system. I was wondering about that when I was considering package management. Do all packages respect the DESTD

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread David Ciecierski
I know I'm still a beginner when it comes to the LFS world - but still I would like to tell you that pkg-user approach is *exactly* what I have been waiting for all these years when I used eg. rpm and had no clue what it is doing to my system. Basically I want to know what is happening, even if

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/31/05, David Ciecierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > as you can see in the topic I'm following "The Hint"... and can't cope > with installing gnome-panel anymore. Could someone please post how they > did this? My install continues to fail badly. I know you've already invested q

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/31/05, David Ciecierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any helpful ideas? Thanks in advance and sorry for 'flooding' the list > with help requests all the time recently... > I started with GNOME yesterday, will let you know what I figure out. I had GNOME running properly on my previous install

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: > David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: > > >>Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping to at least put >>a smile onto your face. I've thought of doing some kind of package >>management myself, but seeing stuff like this always makes me cringe

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: > Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping to at least put > a smile onto your face. I've thought of doing some kind of package > management myself, but seeing stuff like this always makes me cringe... > Anyone else have any sm

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread David Ciecierski
> chmod -R a+rwx / > Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping > to at least put a smile onto your face. You succedded Dave, thanks ;-) I'm actually thinking of wiping out the whole gnome thing and starting from scratch. Well, from LFS + some basic BLFS, not requiring anything

RE: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread David Fix
> The final error that breaks the install is at the moment "/bin/chmod: > cannot access `/usr/share/gnome/help/fish-applet-2/C/*.xml': No such > file or directory". And I'm too frustrated to look into it :-( > > Any helpful ideas? Thanks in advance and sorry for 'flooding' > the list > with he