On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:22:52PM -0600, John Foster wrote:
> I usually use the kernel-2.2.xx.tar.gz files from "www.kernel.org" and
> make my own source package. I was suggesting eliminating the unnecessary
> tree elements from the tar ball. Is that possible? I did not think
> Debian would work p
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> The kernel source package only contains a tar archive of the kernel
> source now.
If you safely unpack it and then remove parts of the
> unpacked source, dpkg won't care if you do that. This just happens to
> be the way in which the kernel source is distributed, and ev
Previously John Foster wrote:
> I was referencing the kernel package. It seems to have a lot of stuff I do
> not require for my i386 CPU but when I have removed/deleted some of these
> from the tree in the past, it screwed up my dpkg dependencies.
The kernel source package only contains a tar arch
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> (this shouldn't really be in debian-user, I'll set the Reply-To
> accordingly)
>
> Previously MiniVend wrote:
> > 1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha,
> > etc from a menu. such that when the selection is made all installed
> > software
(this shouldn't really be in debian-user, I'll set the Reply-To
accordingly)
Previously MiniVend wrote:
> 1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha,
> etc from a menu. such that when the selection is made all installed
> software does NOT include references to process
Previously Seth R Arnold wrote:
> This I admit would be sort of slick -- perhaps there should be a
> "copyrights" directory off of /usr/share/doc/ that contains the entries
> "GNU" "Artistic" "BSD" "XFree86" "Mozilla" and packages could symlink their
> copyright to one of those entries, if it match
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:53:40PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> If I am not mistaken, if you don't install locales, you don't get the extra
> languages, but .. I could be very wrong. However, I don't think that
> translations lead to huge packages -- my /usr/share/locale directory
> contains some
I like the idea of making things smaller, but at what cost?
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:25:53AM -0600, MiniVend wrote:
> Is there some way to set up an installation so that it can be totally
> customized for a specefic user's needs. I want to have the following to
> be done when installing any syst
Is there some way to set up an installation so that it can be totally
customized for a specefic user's needs. I want to have the following to
be done when installing any system, upgrade, or application.
1. Be able to select which processor that system uses, i386, m68, alpha,
etc from a menu. such
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