Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync / dselect & dependecies

1997-04-03 Thread Paul Wade
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: > This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which > deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know? > Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages > in alphabetical-recursive orde

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync / dselect & dependecies

1997-04-03 Thread Steve Hsieh
This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know? Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages in alphabetical-recursive order (which is why I run into catch-22 problems suc

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Paul Wade
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and > > allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way > > to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage, > > so I have to type

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Rick Hawkins
> The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and > allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way > to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage, > so I have to type the same things for each install. just off the to

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Steve Hsieh
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > H, > I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to > other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware. Yes, that's what I was referring to when I talked about using rdist (which is how we keep our sunos

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Matthew Tebbens
H, I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware. On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate > the package system and it works

RE: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Steve Hsieh wrote: > >Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate >the package system and it works great on an individual machine basis. >But as soon as you have to start keeping many debian systems in sync with >each o