old Debian files, of possible interest to Debian archivists/historians, others

2025-06-07 Thread Michael Paoli
In clearing out my older archives, deduplicating the redundant, etc. I still found many Debian files missing from or not present in official Debian locations. Some of these may also be older than what Debian may wish to preserve. I believe they all date from slink (2.1) through woody (3.0). I

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debian chroot

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:24:56AM -0600, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:47:21PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > > I gather that all of the tools and disk images are merely there for ... > > > > Other

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debianchroot

2003-06-23 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:47:21PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > > I gather that all of the tools and disk images are merely there for ... > > > > Other people have answered most of your questi

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debian chroot

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:24:56AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:47:21PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > > I gather that all of the tools and disk images are merely there for ... > > > > Other people have answered

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debian chroot

2003-06-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:47:21PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > > I gather that all of the tools and disk images are merely there for ... > > Other people have answered most of your question, but this page explains > a very neat way to creat

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on > a NetBSD system. Source or binary? What exactly are you trying to do? Does NetBSD have binary GNU/Linux compatibility? I know

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:30:46AM -0400, John Klos wrote: > I gather that all of the tools and disk images are merely there for > installation of Debian. But what about access to just the operating system > files without gigabytes of binary packages? Is this available somewhere, > or would someone

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 21:33, John Klos wrote: > But I am not looking for installation files. I'd like to get an m68k > Debian tree into a directory on an m68k NetBSD system so I can test > NetBSD's Linux ABI emulation. > > I did find the base2_2.tgz file, but is there anything newer? Nope 2.2

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Klos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 12:56]: > I can do this with base2_2.tgz, but I'm surprised that such a file isn't > available for the latest stable release. Is there a reason for this that > anyone knows of? Yes, the latest release doesn't use a base tarball. Instead, a script called deb

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread John Klos
Hi, > > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on > > a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on > > the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r1a/main/disks-m68k/base-images-curr

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:30, John Klos wrote: [looking for tarballs of debian base files] Erm... make that the following file on your favorite debian mirror. The one I mentioned in my last mail is only a tarball containing deb packages you require during installation. This one contains the base f

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:30, John Klos wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on > a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on > the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/D

Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-22 Thread John Klos
Hello, I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-m68k/3.0.23-2002-05-21, and nothing useful in /debian/dists/woody

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Jan 2002, Andre Berger wrote: > Here's what I've done to compile Vim 6.0.152 for potato as .deb: > > - download tarball and patches from ftp.vim.org, untar and apply > the patches > - rename the directory to vim-6.0 and cd into it > - $ deb-make > (single binary) > - edit de

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Andre Berger
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Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
On Ter, 2002-01-29 at 12:41, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied. Compiling debian source seems to be > quite a bit simpler than the last time I tried it. Unfortunately the > latest vim source (vim_6.0.118) won't compile for me, and the deb > package doesn't have gui compiled

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:41:42PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who replied. Compiling debian source seems to be > quite a bit simpler than the last time I tried it. Unfortunately the > latest vim source (vim_6.0.118) won't compile for me > [[rest of mail snipped]] Make

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Jan 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:24:46AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I > > compile this as a deb package? Where are the relevant debian files for > > doing

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Martin Wuertele
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:24:46AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I > compile this as a deb package? Where are the relevant debian files for > doing this? if you did apt-get source vim you have a directory c

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:24:46AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I > compile this as a deb package? Where are the relevant debian files for > doing this? You will also need the diff.gz and dsc files. Two

Re: Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:24:46AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I > compile this as a deb package? Where are the relevant debian files for > doing this? 'apt-get source vim' C

Where are the debian files for compiling from source?

2002-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I compile this as a deb package? Where are the relevant debian files for doing this? -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical e

Re: mirroring subset of debian files with rsync

2000-04-01 Thread Brian May
> "Phil" == Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Phil> Here's the command I'm using now: Phil> rsync --block-size=8192 --verbose --stats --recursive Phil> --compress --links --perms --times --timeout 300 --delete Phil> --delete-excluded --include Phil> '/dists/potato/ma

mirroring subset of debian files with rsync

2000-04-01 Thread Phil Howard
I'm trying to mirror a subset of the debian files (specifically everything for sparc in the potato release). In order to minimize the load on the server I was trying to use rsync. But it seems rsync's include/exclude facility is either broken, or incorrectly documented. I'v

Re: W95 access to Debian files..

1998-05-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
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W95 access to Debian files..

1998-05-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I run a Debian partition as a second OS on my W95 disk. [also primary OS on several others!] The utility "fsdext2" is a real joy; it allows one to view (read-only) any Linux partitions, in case one has other important tools in their W95 environment. Many thanks to the author! Unfortunately it i

Re: Were to put non-debian files (was: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?)

1997-06-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > Another question. I know this might be a FAQ. > > > > If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian > > distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios > > here - > > > > * foo.tar.

Were to put non-debian files (was: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?)

1997-06-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > Another question. I know this might be a FAQ. > > If I want to install a package that is not part of the Debian > distribution, how do I go about it? I think there are two scenarios > here - > > * foo.tar

Debian files

1996-09-08 Thread Philip Jin
Please help me . I wish to download Debian 1.1 from ftp://ftp.debian .org . What files must I download for an IBM 486 computer. Thank You

How to place Debian files on CD-Rom?

1996-08-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
Hi! I want to make my own Debian CD-R. Does someone know where to place the files on the CD so that the installation can run completely of the CD? I'm looking for an installation that doesn't require the generation of disks. I want to have it like in old Slackware times ;-) 1. Boot MS-DOG 2. Se