> CPAN installations are not something that package managers can work with. This problem is a factor on any Unix.
Really? Hmmm. I thought Debian packages could contain installation and/or configuration scripts (ever used dpkg-reconfigure?)? Which would mean making that package an optional dependency and having a simple script that could check for missing perl packages and offer to install them? I would even help with such a thing as soon as I'm finished with creating my first Debian packages for my own software, which DO use scripts ;) Though I think with stuff like creating users (see below) already done by the packages, they probably know how to use scripts there ;) > It shouldn't be doing anything in /root, unless you're running as root and it's reading an environment variable That's what I was wondering about as well :) I found my problem though - I tried with --user slimserver as well as with sudo, BUT when I tried the later, the user ID from the tarball (999) was really sticking to the files inside the slimserver folder (don't understand why he couldn't create the config in there though, since the folder itself belonged to the right user). Silly -R missed in chown ;) Thanks again for your help! It even scanned the library now much faster: I haven't understood the log completely yet (thanks to all that debugging in between), but it seems it was not even 2 hours, compared to 24 hours with the previous installation :) Suggestion: if the tarballs all have user id 999 as the owner, maybe the Debian scripts should use 999 as the first choice as the userid when creating that user? I fixed userid is something I've seen with other software as well to spare the user such trouble, so it's not totally out of the world. > If you're doing something (such as removing mDNSResponder because you don't need it), I'd recommend not doing it I wasn't; imho mDNSResponder is under some funny Apple license so that neither Debian nor Slimserver does include it. > And if you use it with a supported hardware platform, it *will* work. > It *may* be possible to get slimserver working on the Kurobox/ppc platform, but it's not supported. "Supported" is quiet a difficult term. I found a flyer in the download folders advertising "Windows/Mac/Linux". So from a strict perspective, a noob could actually demand that it'll work on his Linux. But competition laws are probably more lax in the U.S. and it may be ok there to say such a thing without sidenotes; anyway anyone knowing Linux knows that it's not that simple, so I would never insist on that *g* BUT: when I bought them, there was a PPC version in the apt repository, I had to add one line to /etc/apt/sources.list and do a apt-get install slimserver, and voila it worked. All documented on an official SlimDevices page, so I imagine that it was supported there. And since SlimDevices doesn't post it's support plan for the next two years I'm afraid I couldn't just guess that this support would be stopped soon afterwards. Anyway, I totally understand that maintaining multiple platforms is quite a lot of work, and am not complaining that they STOPPED continuing development on a PPC version. I do only complain that they didn't just keep the 6.3 version that was there when I first installed. Better an old version that works with two small lines, than having everyone (who was supported at some point) come to the forum with these problems? > Stick your 400GB drive in a more suitable PC with Windows or a supported Linux distro and you'll have a lot less hassle. That'll mean a hundred Euros per year of additional costs for electrical power. Or do you know a PC with only 7 Watt of power consumption? And you really ask ME to spend another 500 bucks - for which I could get other players that would be compatible with more server software as well - on new hardware because they stopped to support the old one, when the solution would just be to still keep the last supported version available - at no cost for everyone? You may be a rich kid with a Porsche, but I'm not ;-p -- Blubbels ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blubbels's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6728 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18586 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
