emerge life ;) Well Mat.......I blew up gentoo! Actually it was probably something minor but as it was the first install that I got to work correctly I figured I might as well just reinstall for the practice...umm, was that convincing? <G>
I threw Libranet 2.7 Classic on for the time being and around August 7.....or as soon as I can find a mirror that isn't clogged up, I will be downloading the 1.4 non-release candidate and doing it all over again. rpm sucks......apt is really good......emerge ROCKS!!!! provided you have the time. Actually I would use RedHat Advanced Server for most production business needs (of course the fact that someone else is paying for it helps!) But for my desktop I am leaning wayyy over toward Gentoo. I've had a much easier time with both apt and emerge than with rpm. Of course the fact that I am an uber-newbie at all this would dictate the my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt. I was well on the way to having a nice gentoo box too......igal, bluefish, mozilla (anyone have a better suggestion? dilla, maybe? I want something fast and only need a browser) gaim, evolution, eterm, xv, fbgrab, vlc........emerging anything and everything that caught my eye; when you know that you will be starting all over again it is easy to be like a kid in a candy store. Cleve At 06:46 PM 7/20/2003, you wrote: >emerge <PACKAGENAME> ... thats what could be easier :) > >I'll burn some knoppix cds, for testing. I will also bring a few >superrescue cds, and old copy of debian 3.0, debian 2.2 (also old), >redhat 9, mandrake 9, mandrake 8.1, slackware 8.1, qnx 6.2.1, and >anything else anyone thinks we might need (let me know). >I'll also try to be there at 3, maybe earlier (driving from lafayette) > >--mat > > >On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:52, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > > Yup I got the debmirror script from sourceforge. and its still > > downloading ;). > > Now i know why people love debian package distribution. > > > > apt-get install apt-mirror > > could life be more simpler. I had debian on my > > desktop 5 months back but couldn't configure x. switched to > > Redhat+Ximian and i absolutely love it. still i want to get x to > > work under debian. Now I am looking into how i can install debian with > > redhat as base. > > > > karthik > > > > > > > > > Yeah, I used that script too and it worked great. I was not > interested in Spark architecture and deleted all the arch2 stuff. The > only problem with it is that debmirror is in the unstable branch. It > forced unstable upgrades of Perl and lib6c! This did not mater much on > the first box I tried it on, which was a simple text only 180MHz Cyrix > thing, but it is not a good thing to do to a "nice" computer with a full > X and all. The package called perlapi is particularly difficult and is > not always available. > > > > > > Wait a minute. Have you gotten the debmirror package? The rsync > > > options in the script are just fine as they are, but it won't work > > > without debmirror, which is designed for partial mirroring: > > > > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/debmirror.html > > > > > > I pulled the unstable dependencies by hand so as not to migrate the > rest of the system to unstable. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
