Re: dpkg slackware?

1997-10-17 Thread Bruce Perens
Try unpacking the package, tarring up the result, and moving it to the slackware system that way. If it doesn't work, you might have to run autoconfig and build it from source under slackware. Be sure the /var/lib/dpkg directory gets bootstrapped with something sensible. Thanks

Re: dpkg slackware?

1997-10-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Try unpacking the package, tarring up the result, and moving it to the slackware system that way. If it doesn't work, you might have to run autoconfig and build it from source under slackware. Be sure the /var/lib/dpkg directory gets bootstrapped

Re: dpkg slackware?

1997-10-17 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't there a non-debian tarball of dpkg somewhere? [...] Debian/project/experimental ls -l dpkg*nondebbin* -r--r--r-- 1 adminroot 555827 Oct 8 17:17 dpkg_1.4.0.19_alpha.nondebbin.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 adminroot 459539 Jul 21 23:48

dpkg slackware?

1997-10-16 Thread Rick Hawkins
I've just been given the goahead to take over a project, in which there are linux boxes being used about the state as mail servers and mail monitors. Currently, it all works, but is a set of kluges running slackware. Ultimately, the machines will be switched over to debian (or possibly redhat,