Re: Uploaded boot-floppies 2.1.7 (source all) to erlangen
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 02:23:08 +0100 (CET), Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> said:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> This is not going to happen and never going to happen. What ships
>> in base2_1.tgz and the like is actually orthogonal to what is in
>> the 'base' subsection of the main distribution. It happens to work
>> out that most of what is in base2_1.tgz is in the base subsection,
>> and maybe vice versa.
> Er... then what is the base section for? I've never seen the point
> of it, but people have assured me that it's important to have a
> "base" section that contains exactly the packages in the base
> system. I've never seen any reasons though.
Richard, I think you're right and I'm wrong.
>> But to try to insist that the one and the other should be in
>> lockstep will effectively kill the boot-floppies effort.
This statement I agree to. However, I think we it is not release
critical to have these sync'd up for slink. OTOH, we should (in
general) try to resync base with what is shipped as the base system.
Here's a list of stuff used for base (I think) which are outside of the base
system.
./devel/popt_1.1.1-3.deb
./devel/gettext_0.10.35-7.deb
./shells/ash_0.3.4-6.deb
./utils/fdutils_5.2.0.1998-07-01-3.deb
./admin/apt_0.1.9.deb
./admin/pcmcia-modules-2.0.36_3.0.5-10k2.deb
./admin/locales_2.0.7.19981211-5.deb
./net/telnet_0.12-4.deb
./net/netstd_3.07-7slink.2.deb
./interpreters/perl_5.004.04-7.deb
I don't have a good list for stuff in the base system no longer used
in base2_1.tgz.
With the approval of people here, I shall submit normal level priority
bugs against these packages to move them to base.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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