Dan Sully;133507 Wrote: > * 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 > [color=blue] > > Know what's amazing? I _*did not*_ restart the slimserver, but only > did the symlink dance with the errmsg file, and once slimserver/mysql > was happy with the number of error messages in the file, it went ahead > and created the mysql tables and everything just fine. > > > " > 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. > " > > Which means that they had to lobotomize it themselves (by creating a > new skin, not shipping the other skins...). I presume their knives are > less accurate than yours, since you know the code better. > > " > There are also support issues involved > (Debian users running SlimServer, but did they buy hardware from us?). > " > > Which you have no matter who makes the package, right? > > > " > 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. > " > > Yes, I saw all of that. The worst part is that it 'works', for some > definition of works. e.g., I have music coming out my speakers with > his 'broken' version, and do not with the 'correct' package. > > > " > 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. > " > > It does, thanks. > > Rob
-- biffhero ------------------------------------------------------------------------ biffhero's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7313 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27035 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
