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

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_ to have

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 are

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 they

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

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 have