Re: 1.2 boot floppy
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
> > dpkg-ftp is a really important package, in my opinion. Its installed
> > size is only 39k. Surely 39k can be scrapped together somewhere?
>
> I will make sure it works in the CD and DOS hard disk install.
>
> Dpkg-ftp is useless without networking, and that would
> not fit on the floppies either. I think the best solution is to put
> together a document on what packages (perl, netbase, netstd, dpkg-ftp)
> you need to install in order to have dpkg-ftp work.
>
> For 1.3, we might try working on a base system that doesn't need perl.
> This would mean a rewrite of dpkg-ftp (to what? C, C++, or shell?)
> and a few postinst scripts. Then we'd be able to fit the entire base
> system on 3 floppies with no half-packages.
rewriting dpkg-ftp might not be practical and if it isn't why not have a
simple program c program that ftp's the needed files for dpkg-ftp and
then you run dselect with dpkg-ftp.
or
Is there anyway the 1.1 disks could be used to get dpkg-ftp to work.
Shaya
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Shaya Potter
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