apt frustration
Folks, I run a little home office network. Most of it is stable, slink at the moment, but I like to keep some stuff really leading edge (Java, DocBook/Jade, egcs c). A simple way to do this would SEEM to be to use apt/deity. It'd be great to be able to say: keep everything stable according to my CDs and the ftp site, but keep the following packages (and anything they depend on) up-to-date according to the unstable FTP site. apt/deity doesn't seem to be able to do this. A simple alternative would be to have a local directory that contains just the .deb files I'd like to be unstable, and to include this in '/etc/apt/sources.list'. That doesn't work either! I have to add a bunch of support files (the 'Packages' file, and now some other file). It seems that there isn't a simple way to fulfill my simple, common need. Can someone make a suggestion? Simon Read Formal ASICs, Ltd. Suite 215 222 Main Street Annapolis MD 21401-2005 Telephone: 1 410 280 0228 Data/Fax: 1 410 280 2099 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.formasic.com
ldconfig confusions
Folks, I'm trying to get Blackdown's JDK 1.2 port to work on my Debian box. The port is very sensitive to the version of glibc that's installed. They suggest glibc2.1 (which is not in slink). I tried to update to that library using .debs from the unstable. Now, I seem to have a confusing mess in my /lib directory. When I run ldconfig -D (to try and find out what's installed), I geta whole bunch of messages that look somehting like the following: ldconfig: warning: /lib/ld-2.1.1.so has inconsistent soname (ld-linux.so.2) ldconfig: warning: /lib/libc-2.1.1.so has inconsistent soname (libc.so.6) ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so has inconsistent soname (libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2) ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-2.9.0.so has inconsistent soname (libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2) Can someone tell me how to find out if these are a problem, how to fix them c? There seem to be some serious naming problems here (given 'normal' Unix conventions), but I understand that this might be necessary. I'd RTFM if I know which FM to RT. Thanks, Simon Read Formal ASICs, Ltd. Suite 215 222 Main Street Annapolis MD 21401-2005 Telephone: 1 410 280 0228 Data/Fax: 1 410 280 2099 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.formasic.com
JDK 1.2 and libhpi.so
Folks, I'm interested in getting JDK 1.2 to work on box. I've upgraded to slink and downloaded JDK 1.2 from Blackstone. When I try to run javac I get the following: /usr/local/jdk1.2/bin/i386/native_threads/javac: error in loading shared libraries libhpi.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, since the library is there in the tarball I downloaded. Anyone got any ideas? Simon Read Formal ASICs, Ltd. Suite 215 222 Main Street Annapolis MD 21401-2005 Telephone: 1 410 280 0228 Data/Fax: 1 410 280 2099 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.formasic.com
docbook-stylesheets
Folks, I'm trying to use the docbook-stylesheets (v. 1.07-1). I've got a simple outline and I've managed to get jade to accept it (after a little struggling). I have two big problems though: When I try to use HTML output, I don't get anything generated (or if I do I can't find it). Can anyone tell me why this might be? When I use TeX output, I get a fine looking .tex file, but there's no instructions on further processing it: tex foo.tex doesn't work :) Can anyone help me with that? I think that once I get used to this I may write almost all my text this way, it seems the most flexible way to go. Regards, Simon Read Formal ASICs, Ltd. Suite 215 222 Main Street Annapolis MD 21401-2005 Telephone: 1 410 280 0228 Data/Fax: 1 410 280 2099 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.formasic.com
Kernel configurations
Folks, I now have several networked Linux boxes; but they all have different hardware and do different things and they have different kernels. I have trouble keeping track of what options are compiled into which kernels and I'm beginning to be frustrated. Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? Ideally, I'd like to keep a file with the options in it somewhere, be able to change one option and recompile the kernel. I'd also like to be able to do it on one central system that's faster than the others. Simon Read Formal ASICs, Ltd. Suite 215 222 Main Street Annapolis MD 21401-2005 Telephone: 1 410 280 0228 Data/Fax: 1 410 280 2099 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: www.formasic.com
