> That's OK. Kernel hackers SHOULD only work on the main trunk from > Linus. I think Red Hat needs to have their brains fsck'd, they're > missing a few inode entries. Only a few? > Wow. Idiot Ben's frustrated?! No way! ;-) I take it you're trying > to run 'unstable', huh? Haven't you moved to 'testing'? The nice > thing about Debian's 'testing' distribution is that there's a criteria > of "success" for all packages being uploaded to 'unstable' before they > migrate to 'testing'. Stable is just that, stable; based on a > feature/software freeze. Testing isn't enough fun. Things just don't break often enough. > So, what's frustrating you about Debian? Have you learned how to > create your own *.deb's yet? Nope. I just use stow. ( http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ ) It fits my needs. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/package-name-version make && make install cd /usr/local/stow stow package-name-version stow is simply a perl script that creates a bunch of symlinks for you in /usr/local/. To unstow, cd /usr/local/stow, stow -D package-name-version. Works great for avifile, gatter, gq, and xmms (darn Ximinan packages were segfaulting) I even got VMWare to work with stow. In some situations building your own packages is worth it. Building some NVidia debs along with a mesa-dev deb that doesn't conflict with the NVidia stuff would be useful. (Hmmm....installs package maintainer manual...) But hey, the nice part about stow is that it isn't a tool specific to Debian. :) -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: andyzb.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 367 bytes Desc: Card for Andy Zbikowski Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010209/38ad157c/andyzb.vcf