On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 06:36:43PM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote:
snipped much of earlier conversation for sake of bandwidth...
Here's another gripe about dselect. When I install, dselect asks me for
the root directory on the CD-ROM. How the hell do I know?
The nice part about it (without
something i'd really like is web integration with the package management,
its really cool to be able to click on a tardist file (IRIX package
format) and have it launch the software manager (X based) and prompt to
setup/install the package. i read i think on linux.com on how to add this
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, aphro wrote:
On 30 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote:
nick Quoting Svante Signell:
nick - rpm format to be used for binary packages in LSB.
nick
nick I beg your pardon?
RPM is one of the biggest pieces of crap ive seen..i spent 20 minutes
working on a
There's a version of linuxconf undergoing testing for Debian in potato right
now.
What's RedHat got that's better than dselect? I haven't seen any decent
tools for RPM's that provide:
1. Integration with an outside program to download all necessary files
from a package mirror.
2. Listings of
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Nate Duehr wrote:
There's a version of linuxconf undergoing testing for Debian in potato right
now.
Good news. I'm glad somebody is sharing tools, instead of the not made
here syndrome.
What's RedHat got that's better than dselect? I haven't seen any decent
tools
Hi,
Here is a summary of the proposal for a common source file format:
- Good idea!
- Waste of time, Use configure; make; make install, Most packages are for Unix,
not only Linux.
- Source management problems, no-one is interested in BOTH .rpms and .debs!
What about experimental versions?
-
Quoting Svante Signell:
- rpm format to be used for binary packages in LSB.
I beg your pardon?
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Subject: [expert] Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:46:10PM -0500, Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
What I would suggest is having the .tar.gz source file, plus another file,
with a .build-rh.rpm , .build-mdk.rpm .build.deb extension.
That way, the author only has to maintain his source code, support for
particular distributions
On 30 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote:
nick Quoting Svante Signell:
nick - rpm format to be used for binary packages in LSB.
nick
nick I beg your pardon?
RPM is one of the biggest pieces of crap ive seen..i spent 20 minutes
working on a redhat5.1 machine(from telnet) and it about drove me MAD,
Hi,
Here is a summary of the proposal for a common source file format:
- Good idea!
- Waste of time, Use configure; make; make install, Most packages are for
Unix, not only Linux.
Who cares about Unix? the sooner Linux kills it the best.
- Source management problems, no-one is
dpkg and rpm and slp(stampede) people should get together and work out a
new format for future linux distributions..take the best from everything,
and have it be a neutral name that gives credit to any 1 group/company
for comming up with it. i dont have experience using slp but from what i
read it
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