Thanks Nathan,
That sounds like a cool system! More comprehensive then tagfiles.
Right now I need to find me a good tutorial on loading modules so I can get
sound and the Lucent modem working. I've spent this morning browsing the
documentation installed (a hell of a lot, BTW) and trying to decide which are
up to date and which are not. I'll check LDP tomorrow from work.
Dennis Kibbe
Quoting Nathan England <
plug@the-arcanum.org>:
> >
> It's really not that bad. I've been working on a package retrieval system for
>
> slack for about a year. So I have hundreds of updated packages on my server
> and using my package system, I just type
> arcanum install <package> and it grabs eveything I want and
> installs/upgrades
> it. It works great for my business. arcanum.sh has the ability to update
> everything through a cron job. I've also been adding service checks and
> failover to it. It's much nicer than the original slack, but I may be the
> only one to think so! With out open source, it never would have been a
> thought. I also rewrote the installation scripts, instead of dialog it's a
> text console, but it also adds the ability of keeping track of everything you
>
> do, then copies it all to a floppy disk, so if a week later you've trashed
> something, you pop the cd in, along with the floppy and it installs
> everything exactley the way it was. It is so far working perfect on IDE
> systems, but I've been having some problems on scsi systems because my only
> scsi test system is a VMware scsi machine! Granted that's how I do all
> mytesting. I also have i686 built packages for kde 3.1. If you're interested
>
> in those, let me know, along with any language packs you want.
>
> Of course, if I wasn't in Payson, or broadband was available, you could just
> arcanum.sh install kde3.1
>
> nathan
>
> Am Freitag 31 Januar 2003 07:55 nachmittags/abends schrieb Dennis Kibbe:
> > On Friday 31 January 2003 12:01 am, you wrote:
> > > Now that there are a few of us talking, did you have a question about
> it?
> > > I've been patiently waiting!!
> > >
> > > nathan
> > >
> > > Am Mittwoch 29 Januar 2003 08:14 nachmittags/abends schrieb Dennis
> Kibbe:
> > > > I'm curious to know if anyone on the list is running Slakeware.
> > > >
> > > > Dennis Kibbe
> >
> > Nathan, not yet. I'll planning to install it on my prime system this
> > weekend (maybe even tonight) replacing Debian Woody. I'll gain KDE 3 :-)
> > and lose APT
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > A test install on a spare drive went smoothly and left only sound & modem
> > to configure by hand - same as when I installed Woody.
> >
> > One reason for switching besides KDE 3 (I know I can hack Woody to get it)
> > is I feel I should learn to complie kernels and programs from source (and
> > do other daring things:-)). Up to now I've been dependent on binaries if
> I
> > wanted something.
> >
> > I do wonder how much more trouble it will be to keep system updated since
> > APT made that job child's play.
> >
> > Dennis Kibbe
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