Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ADC> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do. ADC> Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make ADC> nice metapackages which play nice? Well, It could be exte

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Voila. Elegant, uses the existing packaging system (i.e., no need to > > skip the select step in dselect), > > This is the main point against your approach. We introduced the tasks and > profiles to avoid going through the list of 3000 packages in

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do. Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make nice metapackages which play nice? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "EZ" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EZ> with its changelog, control file, rules file and so on...). That EZ> may probably be fixed by implementing a debhelper tool just for EZ> building metapackages. This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do. Ciao, Martin

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-10 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > [Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies] > > > "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via > brandon> dpkg -get-selections and

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ woah, this is an old thread, but a good one to bring back. ] Heh... yeah, I keep around email that I want to reply to, even though it sometimes takes a month or so before I get a chance. > Yes, the next frontend to apt (gnome-apt?) should handle t

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 9 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > [Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies] > > > "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via > brandon> dpkg -get-selections and make for a cookie cutter inst

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies] > "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via brandon> dpkg -get-selections and make for a cookie cutter install brandon> (think large labs). Eh... I don'