* biffhero shaped the electrons to say...
First off, I had the error
060904 10:01:28 [ERROR] Error message file
'/usr/share/slimserver/MySQL/errmsg.sys' had only 463 error messages,
but it should contain at least 466 error messages.
Check that the above file is the right version for this program!
060904 10:01:28 [ERROR] Aborting
See bug: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3968
As an aside, why doesn't slimdevices offload this package creation
stuff to the Debian people? They are more than willing to create a
package which works with their OS, and which will serve the needs of
their users, but (as I understand it) the artwork is under a license
that they cannot use. Is the artwork that much of a crown jewel to
slimdevices? It looks like any of us can download it without as much
as a "howya doin'", so how important can it be?
The packages are currently broken (of course it would happen while I'm
traveling). Our release scripts aren't quite as solid as they should be, so a
bunch of issues started happening after 6.5 was branched. I'll get it fixed
soon.
Re: Why not let them do it? Well, the biggest reason is distribution and
control. As you've noted, there are copyrighted pieces which only we can
distribute. We didn't want to lobotomize the package just so Debian
officially could distribute it. There are also support issues involved
(Debian users running SlimServer, but did they buy hardware from us?). There
is a package in Debian that a user has taken on himself. But it's poorly
packaged, files aren't in the right places, and it's lumping in all of our
CPAN directory, instead of using proper package dependcies for those modules.
Now being a Debian user myself, I wanted to distribute a package "from the
source", as it were that we would officially support and would be up to date
(not relying on Debian's release schedule)
Once we officially release 6.5 (in ~2 weeks), there will be a package going
in our stable repository that won't change and should Just Work.
Hope that answers your questions.
-D
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prices.
my name is elmer fudd. I own a mansion and a yacht.
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