Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-05 Thread Kurt Wall
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:58:03 -0400 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: I'd have to pass. Work and a book project suck up my time and I'm not terribly interested in working with

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-04 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 03 June 2002 01:57 am, Marianne Taylor enshrined : When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should work as advertised. I haven't done KDE 3.01 yet! See the FAQ's on the checkinstall site or checkinstall

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Public area for RPM's to run for different distros. ie. Since Caldera doesn't have any place for us in the community to share our work with others, I'm trying to get some ways to do so. I've been working with Keith Morse from the COL list to set up an area to put some of the RPM's I've built,

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 03 June 2002 03:04 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:15 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no

checkinstall (was re: SxS distro)

2002-06-03 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Skippy: you could do this: cd /usr/src ln -s OpenLinux packages I've gotten in the habit of doing the following on every box that I admin: cd /usr/src/ mkdir packages ln -s packages SuSE ln -s packages RedHat ln -s packages OpenLinux that

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-03 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Hey Doug- Can you make resources available for Member-spun RPM's? I have seen some serious lacking of space for RPMs built for certain distros... :( Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 03 June 2002 03:04 pm, you wrote: Edit the checkinstall script. Add OpenLinux manually: # Find out the RPM source directory path if ! [ $RPMSOURCEDIR ]; then RPMSOURCEDIR=NOT-FOUND for directory in packages redhat RedHat rpm RPM OpenLinux ; do [ -d

Re: checkinstall (was re: SxS distro)

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Antoine
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 12:15 am, you wrote: Skippy: you could do this: cd /usr/src ln -s OpenLinux packages I've gotten in the habit of doing the following on every box that I admin: cd /usr/src/ mkdir packages ln -s packages SuSE ln -s packages RedHat ln -s packages OpenLinux

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Antoine
On Saturday 01 June 2002 08:45 pm, you wrote: Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 04:20 schrieb Keith Antoine: There is a somewhat hidden rpm target in the kernel source Makefile of v. 2.4.18. When compiling the kernel, try make xconfig rpm which gives you an installable kernel rpm (with

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Marianne Taylor
On June 2, 2002 02:26 am, you wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 08:45 pm, you wrote: Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 04:20 schrieb Keith Antoine: There is a somewhat hidden rpm target in the kernel source Makefile of v. 2.4.18. When compiling the kernel, try make xconfig rpm which gives

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think that the best option is PostgreSQL as it is a full featured SQL database. I you want to learn, you'll need all the features. On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:19:34 -0500, Richard R. Sivernell wrote: On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 20:55:23 -0300 David /

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should work as advertised. I haven't done KDE 3.01 yet! I

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should work as advertised. I haven't done KDE 3.01 yet! I

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Marianne Taylor
On my linux from scratch system, I had to change the topdir in /usr/lib/rpm/macro and that got it to work. I think I did the same thing on Caldera, but I can't remember. You might want to try that. On June 2, 2002 08:15 pm, you wrote: On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: Marianne

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:15 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 03:54 schrieb Douglas J Hunley: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it off the ground, I'm

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Tim Wunder
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:54 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it off the ground, I'm

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
List I too would like to be apart of a new distro, but I fear that it would take some time to outline just what we would want and at least a year or two to do such. I also would hate it if that were started and never completed as per Lonnie's remarks, very wise Lonnie. While some of us lowly

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Collins
On Fri, 31 May 2002 19:24:32 -0500 Richard R. Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List I too would like to be apart of a new distro, but I fear that it would take some time to outline just what we would want and at least a year or two to do such. [ snip ] I am in the midst of

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Michael Hipp
In Linuxdom, we have an embarrassment of riches of distros to choose from. One to fit every taste need. Is another really needed? If we do build one, let's call it YALD - Yet Another Linux Distro Michael Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
On June 1, 2002 07:10 am, Collins wrote: but the kde and gnome biggots are welcome, too. Collins, I thought you were more intelligent then that! -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Collins
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:15:02 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On June 1, 2002 07:10 am, Collins wrote: but the kde and gnome biggots are welcome, too. Collins, I thought you were more intelligent then that! Not me. I even load up kde occasionally just to see what progress

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
On June 1, 2002 08:32 am, Collins wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:15:02 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On June 1, 2002 07:10 am, Collins wrote: but the kde and gnome biggots are welcome, too. Collins, I thought you were more intelligent then that! Not me. I even load up kde

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Collins
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:12:40 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On June 1, 2002 08:32 am, Collins wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:15:02 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On June 1, 2002 07:10 am, Collins wrote: but the kde and gnome biggots are welcome, too.

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Andrew Mathews
Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I can offer another 8 hours/week. I think we should start collecting data about skills and dedication (Hs/week). If we get enough people (and the requiered skills!), we can start planning the development. What you do think?? BTW, although

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread R. Quenett
from Andrew Mathews: points to consider and/or include such as Skippy's current efforts. I *do* think it's worthy of more discussion and analysis and would like to hear more opinions. I'm genuinely curious how what has been discussed here so far would differ significantly from

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 11:13:38 -0600 I have expertise in software development databases some scripting of Unix korn bash, though not heavy. I ve a question here, I need a very small footprint database for linux. I have a laptop that currently has peanut on it I have left approx 1.6 gig left,

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Net Llama!
Andrew Mathews wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it off the ground, I'm not

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Net Llama!
Richard R. Sivernell wrote: On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 11:13:38 -0600 I have expertise in software development databases some scripting of Unix korn bash, though not heavy. I ve a question here, I need a very small footprint database for linux. I have a laptop that currently has peanut on it

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I have negative spare time, but I'm willing to donate a few positive spikes where I can. I'm really a perl guy, but I've used Unix for about 13 years now, and I once worked up our company Unix file structure and logon sequence. --

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread David Aikema
On June 1, 2002 03:40 pm, Federico Voges wrote: What DB features do you need?? mySQL is ok if you don't need transactions (COMMIT/ROLLBACK) and foreign keys. If you need then, you Transactions and foreign keys are supported when using InnoDB tables, in some of the more recent MySQL versions

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Yes, I know, but you need innodb and from reading the docs I got the impression that it's somewhat complicated to use it (I might be wrong). Besides, I think it is hack. Innodb (again, from mySQL docs) is a DB system itself. So, you end up

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Keith Antoine
On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: I'd rather see us keep an updated distros page, the info here http://www.linux-sxs.org/distrourl.html and here http://www.linux-sxs.org/distroref.html seems dated. The lycoris thread has some good info on alternative distros, as does a couple

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 02 June 2002 06:58 am, you wrote: from Andrew Mathews: points to consider and/or include such as Skippy's current efforts. I *do* think it's worthy of more discussion and analysis and would like to hear more opinions. I'm genuinely curious how what has been discussed here so

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 02 June 2002 09:09 am, you wrote: Andrew makes an excellent suggestion here. If we do finally get enough mmomentum behind this, we should create a new list, rather than cluttering up this one with content that those not involved wouldn't be interested in. I'll even be so bold as

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread R. Quenett
from Keith Antoine: way to go for me. Do not ak why, it was over 5 mins ago. What was the question(?p R -- http://www.quen.net Fix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there is one, he

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Tim Wunder
On Saturday 01 June 2002 08:41 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: snip BTW, has anybody tried the SxS on rolling your own (Skippy?), http://www.linux-sxs.org/rolldist.html ? I guess Joe Cheek is no longer sub'd, or he woulda chimed in on the Lycoris

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Andrew Mathews
Keith Antoine wrote: snip This all came about since my last two girlfriends fell over laughing when I put my thongs on. Be grateful they were laughing, not crying. slap -- Andrew Mathews 8:05pm up 21 days, 19:45, 7 users,

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Andrew Mathews
R. Quenett wrote: snip I'm genuinely curious how what has been discussed here so far would differ significantly from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org and the alfs and blfs offshoots. I think the immediately apparent difference would be the end product being a complete distribution vs. a

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 20:55:23 -0300 David / Federico Voges Only need enogh db to write sql queries I think, doing a db concepts course. I am not sure of how much capability or if a db program is to designed. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-01 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
Lonnie I have Postgres here and wilwork on getting it installed. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust!

SxS Distro?

2002-05-31 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it off the ground, I'm not gonna

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-05-31 Thread Keith Antoine
On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:54 am, you wrote: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it off the ground, I'm not gonna

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-05-31 Thread Net Llama!
Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-05-31 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, 31 May 2002 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge some time to get it off the