On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 03:38:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which reminds me, building source packages is really not as easy as
> one would hope it to be.
> I had to go through some contortions to build the potato ssh-1.2.27
> package on slink. Example: The perl5 dependency had to be
> . . . why? What's the purpose of making everything on machines
> running stable un-upgradable until some obscure Perl bug is worked
> out? I just don't follow.
Which reminds me, building source packages is really not as easy as
one would hope it to be.
I had to go through some contortions t
> From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
> > > From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > ..
> > > That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_
> > > out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a
> > > state-of-the-ar
Brian Servis wrote:
> If you want something that is only available in the unstable tree you
> can always build the source archive against your current setup, it is
> fairly straight forward with the Debian source archives.
but there are problems with some packages, e.g. postfix-0.0.19990627
refus
** "Brad" == Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brad> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>> But why not build the latest-and-greatest version of add-on
>> packages against BOTH the stable and the latest-and-greatest
>> unstable distribution?
>> Then later versions of software (even if the
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ..
> > That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_
> > out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a
> > state-of-the-art system with all the bugs inherent in the bleeding
*- On 31 Jul, Daniel Barclay wrote about "Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?"
>
>
>> From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ..
>> That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_
>> out-of-date software (although you're free to u
> From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
..
> That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_
> out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a
> state-of-the-art system with all the bugs inherent in the bleeding edge.
But why not build the latest-and-greatest versi
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Carl Fink wrote:
> It seems to me that there's no way to install either KDE or GNOME
> using the current stable release. Apparently once a release is
> "frozen" all new versions of .deb archives are created for unstable,
> which in this case means using glibc 2.1 . . . which
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 08:00:36PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> It seems to me that there's no way to install either KDE or GNOME
> using the current stable release. Apparently once a release is
> "frozen" all new versions of .deb archives are created for unstable,
> which in this case means using g
*- On 24 Jul, Carl Fink wrote about "No KDE/GNOME for stable?"
> Pardon me if this has been hashed and rehashed: I haven't seen it on
> the Usenet linux.debian.user, but I know not every message gets
> gatewayed. I did a search on the archive and found nothing.
>
Ad
Carl Fink wrote:
> Is there a way to try KDE/GNOME on stable that I'm missing? I did
> some fairly extensive searches via www.debian.org's package search
> engine. I should specify that I want a reasonably new release of
> either, not the alpha GNOME in stable.
>
Doing a search on the archives
Did you look at:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/gnome
Supposedly there are a bunch of Slink built gnome progs.
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Pardon me if this has been hashed and rehashed: I haven't seen it on
the Usenet linux.debian.user, but I know not every message gets
gatewayed. I did a search on the archive and found nothing.
It seems to me that there's no way to install either KDE or GNOME
using the current stable release. Ap
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