Re: Debian membership (with a twist)

1999-10-03 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Yves Arrouye wrote: > be really fast, and Debian won't loose great people that want to > volunteer. You can even track who approved whom and prevent people w/ > bad judgment to approve other ones, etc... I am sure there are ways to > move the approval time from months to days. ---end quoted text-

Re: dist-upgrade and perl

1999-09-22 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005 > for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They > are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and > not perl_5.005.03, and so the package `name' is perl-5.005 and > not simp

dist-upgrade and perl

1999-09-22 Thread Stephen R. Gore
I've finally succeeded in getting a working potato box by installing slink base system (using cdrom), but it took 3 tries. I've done this before (the machine I'm using to write this was installed this way), but never had this much trouble. What I discovered was that changing sources.list to point