Re: Bootint big kernels

1998-06-11 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd. To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do the device selection, other than going through a list of drivers, trying to insmod each one until you are successful. Wouldn't PCI

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

1997-12-01 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Andy Mortimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, if you make this too simplistic, then I fear you're going to miss most of the problems: I'm sure the majority of developers do test their packages at least a little bit before releasing them. I certainly do. But one of the things Debian has been bad

Awful problem with dpkg (once again)

1997-06-20 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi: Since I didn't receive any answer the first time I posted, I'm sending this again. Hope this time someone can help me, for I'm stuck with the problem and the only solution I see is reinstalling everything from the scratch (sometime I thought I would never had to do with Debian). Thanks a

Awful problem with dpkg

1997-06-18 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi: Trying to upgrade the machine of a colegue, I found and awful problem with dpkg I haven't managed to deal with. Apparently, the package database got corrupted somehow, preventing me from upgrading any package. For example, if I try to upgrade libc5 with dpkg -i libc5_5.4.23-6.deb I

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-17 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a suggestion for libraries: most users don't want or need to know about shared libraries when installing and upgrading their system, or when adding an app etc. I totally agree here. The Debian package format includes enough information

The enlightenment window manager

1997-05-30 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Hi all: I just downloaded the enlightenment window manager (see http://www.cse.unsw.EDU.AU/~s2154962/enlightenment/). It is somewhat slow and requieres a lot of memory and disk, but is very funny to see, anyway. I didn't resist the temptation and packaged it for Debian (together with its

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-26 Thread Martin Alonso Soto Jacome
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The credit should really go to Lars Wirzenius and Ian Jackson, since this borrows from their work. If there is enough interest, I could package this up. (Oh, this is a sh script, and only needs dpkg-dev, no perl ;-) Please do so. CVS is a