Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On 5 Jan 1998, Steve Dunham wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the standard > > > source. Just where do these patches come from and why are the

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread David Z. Maze
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SD> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: LA> The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the LA> standard source. Just where do these patches come from and why LA

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread Steve Dunham
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > The kernel-source-2.0.32 deb has a 130K diff file against the standard > > source. Just where do these patches come from and why are they necessary? > > > > Is the fact that I _have_

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 08:59:50AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > There is absolutely no necessity to have a kernel-source or > > kernel-headers package on your system (that I'm aware of). You can > > certainly dump your own copy of the Linux source t

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > There is absolutely no necessity to have a kernel-source or > kernel-headers package on your system (that I'm aware of). You can > certainly dump your own copy of the Linux source tree into > /usr/src/linux, compile it (with or without kernel-package/ma

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 02:43:21PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dselect goes berzerk when I chose to allow it to remove packages. It isn't > apparently following my advice. I spent three to four hours trying to get > all the way through the list, but when trying to override "suggestions" I >

Deselect problems.

1998-01-04 Thread adavis
I have never given dselect a "fair" shakedown, because every time I have tried it I have immediately gotten in trouble. Yesterday and today I have decided to carry out the process to its conclusion. I've gotten in trouble again. I wonder if other people are beyond these problems; I am amazed not