Hello everyone.
Since dpkg is originally a part of Debian, I thought why not give this
advice here. I think this advice has been talked about quiet a lot,
but I did not find any except one, so decided to report it.
A problem comes for people who apparently think that Debian based
distributions
Hello people,
while hacking on wicd, I looked at the various DHCP clients we have in
Debian. I believe that pump could be removed from our archives, but I'm
sending this mail in case anyone really needs it -- in this case, we keep it
and I'll just remove support for it from wicd.
The first
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Paleino da...@debian.org wrote:
The first issue is: pump has no upstream. debian/copyright shows the source
was taken from Fedora Core [1] (reports 404) -- now that it changed name,
the new url seems to be [2], and there's no trace of pump there.
The last
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010, David Paleino wrote:
while hacking on wicd, I looked at the various DHCP clients we have in
Debian. I believe that pump could be removed from our archives, but I'm
sending this mail in case anyone really needs it -- in this case, we keep it
and I'll just remove support
Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Paleino da...@debian.org wrote:
The first issue is: pump has no upstream. debian/copyright shows the
source was taken from Fedora Core [1] (reports 404) -- now that it
changed name, the new url seems to be [2], and there's no trace of
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:55:34PM +0530, dE . wrote:
Hello everyone.
Since dpkg is originally a part of Debian, I thought why not give this
advice here. I think this advice has been talked about quiet a lot,
but I did not find any except one, so decided to report it.
A problem comes for
* dE . de.tec...@gmail.com [100105 09:26]:
A problem comes for people who apparently think that Debian based
distributions or Linux in general is useless when it comes to software
installation without the internet. Well...yes, software installation
can be done offline with apt, but it's not
Even with apt-offline, people have to use this third party program to
generate information about his/her/both Debian system, then goto a
system with an internet connection, download the packages and install
it in their system...as compared to a simple click and install; this
is way harder for the
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote:
* dE . de.tec...@gmail.com [100105 09:26]:
A problem comes for people who apparently think that Debian based
distributions or Linux in general is useless when it comes to software
installation without the internet.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin
jackyf.de...@gmail.com wrote:
[ moved to debian-dpkg, debian-project is for non-technical stuff ]
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
Which problem? dpkg is quite good in that regard: just give it a number
of .deb files to install and unless there are
Hi dE!
* dE . de.tec...@gmail.com [2010-01-05 12:13]:
The developers and administrators will have to understand my point.
This is the only reason why people refuse to install any Linux OS. I
really don't have an answer to these simple windows users when they
say what about offline software
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:55:34 +0530, dE . wrote:
The solution that I'm proposing is a super dep package. A single
'sdebp' file which's suppose to install a singe software (mostly a
meta package for e.g kde) but contains all dependencies which might be
required by the package relative to a fresh
Hello,
dE . wrote:
The solution that I'm proposing is a super dep package. A single
'sdebp' file which's suppose to install a singe software (mostly a
meta package for e.g kde) but contains all dependencies which might be
required by the package relative to a fresh OS install. A command to
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:50:33PM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote:
Hi dE!
* dE . de.tec...@gmail.com [2010-01-05 12:13]:
The developers and administrators will have to understand my point.
This is the only reason why people refuse to install any Linux OS. I
really don't have an answer
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:59:40PM +0530, dE . wrote:
Problem is you have to make these DVD/CD, or in general storage media.
Windows people are not willing to do that...they just want click and
install.
You want people to be able to install packages without a network, and
without using
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