Re: Debian Buzz and Rex binary packages
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:49:21PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Hmm, I was under the impression that before 2.0, debian wasn't released
> as binaries yet, only source packages and the source code to the
> utilities needed to build the packages. I didn't really think debian
> had any real installer or anything before 2.0 anyhow. More of a work in
> progress. I could be wrong of course since I only actually started
> using debian at version 2.0 (which was hard enough to install).
No, binaries were provided for all official releases (buzz/1.1 onwards).
There was an installer (known as boot-floppies); its appearance was
fairly similar from buzz right through to woody when it was retired.
There was no apt and no source dependencies, and early on even a
different source package format, but there's still a lot of similarity.
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
Reply to: