Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???
Craig Sanders wrote:
> > libc5/libc6
>
> what's the problem with libc5 and libc6? they both work in debian.
no problem, only a question mark for a newbie at installation
> the usual cycle with dselect is:
>
> 1. Update
> 2. Select
> 3. Install
> 4. Configure
> 5. repeat steps 3 & 4 until there are no problems reported
Here i got stuck on my first attempts to install a running system (ok, but only
after selecting tons of packages and having no idea, what i'm actually doing)
> no, not with the standard "mounted" method. they should be logged. but
> they aren't.
>
> there is another install method called "mountable" which logs everything
> to /var/log/dpkg-mountable.
good, this is what i wanted
> some packages also have easy to use configure scripts. sendmail, apache,
> and bind are the most obvious examples. there has been a lot of hard
> work put into the config scripts for those packages... and it shows,
> they really are excellent.
Yes, they are very good.
> > At least the package-descriptions should contain some info about all
> > the installed files (their names and their destination-paths).
Ok, but to be more precise. The path/file descriptions should be integrated in
the dselect-screen and in the logfile. Almost like in other installers (copy
file x.y to /destination/path/x.y - successfull, and so on).
With those points changed, dselect would be the perfect tool for big
installations (in my opinion). dpkg is already best.
Mac
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