Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

[Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net>]

> So much for the topic at hand... in general: fear not.
> It's part of the Linux learning process that one learns where to pick up
> information. man, info, /usr/share/doc/, www... google is your friend,
> but google is not the be-all and end-all of everything.
> Especially if you what you're looking for can't easily be phrased as a
> search term, or scores far too many hits.
 
I've been using Linux since 0.7x kernels, so you can skip the patronizing.
Last time I checked, some of my patches were still in the driver sources
for various adapters.

The point I was making is that most of us have better things to do than
search more than 5 pages of google hits.  If the 'right places' to get
Debian applications were listed on the debian homepages, this wouldn't be
necessary. (more on this below)

> > > Wrong:
> > http://source.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/mozilla/binary-i386/
> > > has mozilla 1.5.
> > 
> > How is one to find this?  I didn't find a link to that site anywhere
> > 
> www.apt-get.org -- I wish I'd found out about that site a lot sooner
> that I actually did. Your bookmarks ain't complete without it.

I _WAS_ searching on apt-get.org and that's where I found that 1.4b4 was
the latest one showing.  The only firebird showing at the time was .5 ..

I know this isn't your fault, but this is starting to become silly.  I like
Linux, but I don't install it in production environments because I prefer
to get work done, rather than keep spinning in circles with stuff.  Many
people have tried to tell me how great the Debian package management stuff
is, but I really ain't seeing it.  Everything is still hack-it-yerself and
live your life through Google.

-- 
Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett@Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.