Maintaining the operating environment Questions:

1998-07-31 Thread G. Kaplan
Is there any way to determine the distribution source of an installed module ? Suppose I wanted to maintain a system through dpkg , where is it reasonable to store files that are not part of the current standard distribution; but are: 1. a properly defined .deb package, 2. a properly defined

Re: Maintaining the operating environment Questions:

1998-07-31 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, G. Kaplan wrote: Is there any way to determine the distribution source of an installed module ? Not sure what you're asking here. Suppose I wanted to maintain a system through dpkg , where is it reasonable to store files that are not part of the current standard

Re: Maintaining the operating environment Questions:

1998-07-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 11:01:54AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, G. Kaplan wrote: 3. a primary module i.e. .xyz.tar.gz Generally it's safest to untar, compile and install these with prefix=/usr/local ... debian packages won't touch anything under /usr/local, so nothing