Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:02:36AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote: I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was A remark like this makes me wonder if you REALLY WERE a user back then. :) 1) There was no Debian 1.0. InfoMagic saw to that. 2) The first official Debian

RE: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-26 Thread Mike Huddleson
: Branden Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:40 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-cd@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:02:36AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote

Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Andrew Weiss
I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning to customize and modify it, but haven't really yet... other than Windowmaker

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread dstarner98
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:02:36AM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote: Is it OK to carefully modify /var/lib/dpkg/status? It should be unnessecary. doesn't work. Is there any way to modify deb packages to change their dependencies since some of the packages are plain stupid... they depend on perl

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Apr-00, 23:02 (CDT), Andrew Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning to customize

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Weiss wrote: I have been using Debian since the old A.out days of Debian 1.0, and I was wondering since I am doing development of our company's own Linux distribution based on Debian... I have potato as the base and am beginning to customize and modify it, but

Re: Long time Debian user with semi-technical question

2000-04-25 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you need to modify dependencies, I mean really need to modify depenedencies, download the source and edit debian/control. In both your examples, there are better ways than hacking dependencies. Huh...download the source too ? You can edit the