Re: Mentor?

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Wed 11 Nov 1998, Joel Baker wrote:

> I'm new to the Alpha platform (UDB), not at all new to Linux, programming,
> or administration. I'm also quite able to RTFM, if someone will point me
> at the correct FM to R... more to the point, I'm looking for someone to
> give me a few hints (off list) so I can bootstrap into this with a little
> less of a learning curve (and start contributing packages :)

Generally the level of "newbie" questions here is quite acceptable
(both in terms of volume and intelligence :-), so feel free to simply
ask here.  We need to make some progress on the docs anyway, so maybe
we can use you as a test case :-)

> Side note: did I miss something, or is it weird to have an empty Packages
> and Packages.gz set under sid/main/binary-alpha on ftp.debian.org? Am I
> in the completely wrong place? (Further questions offlist, as noted...)

Yesterday the Packages file on master was empty. That has propagated to
ftp.debian.org today, apparently (ftp.debian.org is getting a reputation
for being a bad mirror of master, unfortunately; see the discussion on
debian-devel). There appear to be better alternatives (again, see -devel).


Paul Slootman
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