PAE enabled kernels

2006-09-13 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
Hello, Is there any other way to get a PAE enabled kernel (from either stable or backports) other than recompiling a custom kernel? Everything I've read so far indicates that the only way to go about this is grab the kernel source and enabled the high mem option and recompile the kernel. --

Re: Managing Apt through Perl

2006-09-05 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:58 +0300, Eugene Krivdyuk wrote: Look on libapt-pkg-perl (AptPkg::*). Usage examples can be found in apt-show-versions. Thanks. Do you know off hand if this will also allow me to do installation of packages? If not I can always fall back to apt-get. -- o) Derek

Custom Debian CD.

2006-01-27 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
I have created my own custom Debian installer CD based on the debian net-inst cd image. I modified the local repository to include some additional packages I would like to have installed by default. I then reburned the iso and installed the system. Everything works perfectly until I try to install

Re: Custom Debian Installer

2006-01-18 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
On Mon, 2006-16-01 at 23:44 +, Colin Watson wrote: Yes; http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s07.html.en should help you out here. Note the link to the commented preseed file example, and search for 'tasksel'. snip If you mean the debian-installer source package, that's really

Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
I've been playing around with packaging up some of my projects for debian. I have gotten it to work, but I'm still having problems understanding some of the features that are available (for instance it took me forever to learn about the .config file). Is there any kind of tutorial or guide that

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: snip A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great, though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org), maintscripts (debian women? I don't fully grok these yet!), and upgrade handling with eg. split

Debian Packaging.

2005-05-12 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
I've been working on packaging some files under debian for quite some time. However recently I just got stuck with a fairly odd problem. What I want to do is be able to assign different version numbers to pacakges built from the same source distribtuion. I figured that this could be done via