Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-09-01 Thread delgarde
Randy McMurchy wrote: David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping to at least put a smile onto your face. I've thought of doing some kind of package management myself, but seeing stuff like this always makes me cringe...

user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread David Ciecierski
Hello again, as you can see in the topic I'm following The Hint... and can't cope with installing gnome-panel anymore. Could someone please post how they did this? My install continues to fail badly. I'm quite sure I'm near the end, but I'm beginning to think it's just not the right way. What

RE: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread David Fix
The final error that breaks the install is at the moment /bin/chmod: cannot access `/usr/share/gnome/help/fish-applet-2/C/*.xml': No such file or directory. And I'm too frustrated to look into it :-( Any helpful ideas? Thanks in advance and sorry for 'flooding' the list with help

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping to at least put a smile onto your face. I've thought of doing some kind of package management myself, but seeing stuff like this always makes me cringe... Anyone else have any smart

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: David Fix wrote these words on 08/31/05 14:12 CST: Just kidding. :P I actually have no idea, I'm just hoping to at least put a smile onto your face. I've thought of doing some kind of package management myself, but seeing stuff like this always makes me cringe...

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/31/05, David Ciecierski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any helpful ideas? Thanks in advance and sorry for 'flooding' the list with help requests all the time recently... I started with GNOME yesterday, will let you know what I figure out. I had GNOME running properly on my previous

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/31/05, David Ciecierski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, as you can see in the topic I'm following The Hint... and can't cope with installing gnome-panel anymore. Could someone please post how they did this? My install continues to fail badly. I know you've already invested quite a

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread David Ciecierski
I know I'm still a beginner when it comes to the LFS world - but still I would like to tell you that pkg-user approach is *exactly* what I have been waiting for all these years when I used eg. rpm and had no clue what it is doing to my system. Basically I want to know what is happening, even

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically I found that the DESTDIR approach was the best solution for creating a package before it was installed on the final system. I was wondering about that when I was considering package management. Do all packages respect the DESTDIR

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 23:50 +0200, David Ciecierski wrote: At the same time I know there are other people out there who have a different idea of package management - and as you pointed out, there are at least a couple decent approaches for them too. So thank you for all your comments -

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/31/05, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically I found that the DESTDIR approach was the best solution for creating a package before it was installed on the final system. I was wondering about that when I was considering

Re: user package hint gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/05, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/31/05, Tushar Teredesai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically I found that the DESTDIR approach was the best solution for creating a package before it was installed on the final