In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: Personally, I have stopped using all the dselect methods in
: favour of the apt method for dselect.
Absolutely!
We've put apt on every machine in sight, and it's amazing how much different
dselect seems with apt-get layered between it and dpkg.
> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> I think it's critical that we at least remove the horrid
Ben> prompts asking you your block device for your CD-ROM, or at
Ben> least make an intelligent guess and provide a default.
There was a question in the local Linux
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 11:42:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Oh, I see. Well, that is even easier to fix ;-) A simple
> search and replace should work, I think, from a perusal of the
> script.
Yes, but please may someone *do* it, and do it now! It's IMHO the only thing
keeping me fr
Hi,
>>"Johnie" == Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Johnie> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Manoj> Hi, When Hamm is released, then Hamm shall be stable. Having
Manoj> stable hard coded is not such a horrendously bad idea (not
Manoj> great, but not as disastrous
"Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Manoj> Hi, When Hamm is released, then Hamm shall be stable. Having
Manoj> stable hard coded is not such a horrendously bad idea (not
Manoj> great, but not as disastrous as may seem).
Actually its a problem not because "stable" is hardcoded
On 2 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Shell scripts should generally be mechanically transformable
> to Perl, and I have had a look at this one, though not trivial, it is
> certainly eminently doable. The question is, should we be doing it at
> this late stage in the game?
Well, if it
> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Manoj> Umm. I don't know how to say this tactfully. I shall
Manoj> try. It may be better, I think, in this and other tasks
Manoj> (like modifying dpkg), that the new author be one able to
Manoj> grok the original.
Hi,
>>"Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
joost> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup is a shell script with
joost> snippets of perl code incuded. IMHO it is not a bad idea to
joost> write the whole script in perl, considering that it assumes
joost> perl to be present anyway.
Ben
Hi,
When Hamm is released, then Hamm shall be stable. Having
stable hard coded is not such a horrendously bad idea (not great, but
not as disastrous as may seem).
Personally, I have stopped using all the dselect methods in
favour of the apt method for dselect. However, I unders
> "joost" == joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
joost> abstract: there might be a serious problem involving
joost> dselect and hamm's new distribution format that threatens
joost> to make Debian 2.0 cd's unusable.
*snip*
joost> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup is a shell scri
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