Re: Porting linuxconf to Debian? (fwd)
The maintainer of linuxconf just e-mailed me this, somebody might want to
e-mail him, and tell him about what would be required for debian to run
linuxconf. I would like to, but I really don't think I know enough about
how all the init scripts work to make sure it got done right.
Shaya
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Shaya Potter
spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:15:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca>
To: iShaya Potter <spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Porting linuxconf to Debian?
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
> I was wondering how difficult it would be to port Linuxconf to the debian
> distribution? One of the main goals of the debian distribution is to make
> linux easy to use, install, and upgrade, and your project would seem to go
> hand in hand with the debian philosiphy.
>
> We have been able to tackle the installation and upgrading part (even though
> the dselect tool is hard to learn how to use :) ), but building we want to
> make it easy to maintain also. We (debian devlopers) were wondering how much
> of the linuxconf utility is tied to redhat and slackware? would it be easy
> to port? What would the porting entail if it is on the harder side.
Linuxconf is not tied to anything. I consider this a major feature of
linuxconf, other consider it a flaw. let me explain.
I have now the hardware to install Debian (was out of partition) so I will
do this probably tonight. I expect little difficulty running linuxconf in
Debian. I will get back to you when it is done.
btw, have you seen linuxconf, or just read the documentation. I am now
starting to write documentation on some basic principle of linuxconf,
which is fairly different from anything else.
I have great interest in supporting Debian, because I feel it will have
some impact in a near future on the industry.
I will get back to you!
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Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)
Linuxconf: The ultimate administration system for Linux.
see http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf
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