Ajay Shah wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:29:02AM -0400, TEETER,VINCE (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:
It would also be cool to have better general, high-level doc about Debian.
There is no shortage of details, but I still have no concept of what the
various pieces are. Please don't say to read all that highly detailed and
often repetative doc. This would be like saying you need to read the
complete jacket before playing a CD.
Not that this is a complete answer, but I wrote up bits of what I
knew when evangelising about Debian to my friends, and came up with:
http://www.igidr.ac.in/~ajayshah/COMPUTING/debian-principles.html
This is a very nice document, a great introduction to Debian package
management. I like the organization: from the most basic commands and
usage examples for those in a hurry, to the details for those who want
to read more. I like your example sources.list entries. (Just curious,
anyone know why the security.debian.org entry isn't in the default
sources.list?)
One nit-pick: I think sid is always unstable, and won't become testing
when woody is released. Also, I'd mention wildcards in the dpkg -l
section near the end, e.g. "dpkg -l apt\*", and in the file-package
mapping, dpkg -L package (list files installed by package) would be helpful.
Thanks again for a neat doc!
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