Eduard Bloch schrieb am Saturday, den 26. February 2005: > #include <hallo.h> > * Micah Anderson [Fri, Feb 25 2005, 05:26:20PM]: > > Is not the purpose of module-assistant prepare and get to get and > > prepare the complete source? > ... > > > You can fake the source tree with "m-a fakesource", though. > > What was wrong with that answer?!
Look, if you run module-assistant, a dialog front-end comes up. It suggests I run UPDATE before I continue, I run UPDATE. Apparantly the next step is to run PREPARE, I do that, it installs some packages that are apparantly needed, then says "Done!", then I guess the most logical next step is to pick the module I want to install. So I pick loop-aes. Then I am presented with a menu of confusing options, I can list binary packages (binary packages of what?), I can SEARCH (search for what?), I can GET (get what? I try it and it gets some loop-aes things, not what I would call intuitive, but ok), I can BUILD (I assume loop-aes, since that is selected). So I try BUILD and it says "The source package may not to be installed. Would you" Thats it... My brain has a PARSE ERROR because I dont understand the first sentence "the source package may not to be installed" what does that mean? The second sentence which is only "Would you" doesn't really ask me anything that I understand because it is not complete. If I choose YES it fails, if I choose NO, it fails. I try to make my window huge, I still don't get all of the message. It fails to build a module if you follow its instructions. If you want me to do something different, then make it clear, I cannot intuit what your meaning is behind the purpose of faking the source tree. Why doesn't the curses GUI do this for you? What the message is that I am being presented with, it is unclear how I am supposed to proceed properly. If I follow /usr/share/doc/module-assistant/HOWTO I get the build error I sent here. If I follow the HOWO instructions or what I can read in the dialog box, you end up with a failure. Either the instructions need to be fixed so you do what you are supposed to do, or the GUI which leads you to believe that this is how you do things should be fixed. Perhaps I am using module-assistant incorrectly, but what does "You can fake the source tree with "m-a fakesource", though." mean? Why would I want to do that? Why isn't this obvious or documented somewhere how to use the tool? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
