[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Again it is much cleaner to say 'install RH9, choose DEV environment, add > get-text', it works: a repeatable, exact solution for ever. > Again horses for courses: whose building 'that version' of LBE (used by 1000s > customers worldwide for POS touch terminals) and needs to continue building > THAT version.
What you're describing isn't an apt-get artefact, it's a distribution/release one. I don't see how it differs from: Install Debian version 3 release 1. Select development task apt-get install get-text If you're managing Debian machines, you either rely on the standard releases, or you do your own. That way you can precisely reproduce a particular configuration from a particular time. > Sure apt-get is cute (easy, nice, etc), but ... apt-get will work cutely, easily, nicely etcely from whatever you point it at. If you point it at the unstable distribution it'll change over time. If you point it at a known configuration it'll always install that, every time. Terry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
