Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] requests for spells on ISO

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] requests for spells on ISO
  • Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:23:01 -0800

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 14:44, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > In the 0.9.2 ISO install I did, I needed to compile the kernel to get my
> > network card working correctly, so I'd say this is a 'must have'.
>
> what network card ? was it not compiled or was it compiled with wrong
> options ? Or was it the netconf bug were it wrote $module.ko to the eth#,dev
>
> file ?
> Also, I would like to receive all these (minor or major ?) bug reports,
> There
>
> is no point in me spending all this time and effort if developers and users
> don't get what they want and chances are if something didn't work for you,
> then it will similarly fail for another user so it is a bug and should be
> fixed for the next release.
> ISO bugs will no longer be left unaddressed for months on end, so please
> report them and the ISO and install process will advance thanks to your
> feedback.
>
> Oh, and perl would have been installed if you chose to compile the kernel
> during install, the question was whether everyone should have it forced into
>
> their new system or just those that wanted or needed it.

If perl is going to be on the iso_root, but optional for install to the
system,
I'd say don't install perl by default and let the packages properly depend on
it (as they seem to).

-sandalle

--
PGP Key Fingerprint: FCFF 26A1 BE21 08F4 BB91 FAED 1D7B 7D74 A8EF DD61
http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8EFDD61

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS/E/IT$ d-- s++:+>: a-- C++(+++) BL++++VIS>$ P+(++) L+++ E-(---) W++ N+@ o?
K? w++++>-- O M-@ V-- PS+(+++) PE(-) Y++(+) PGP++(+) t+() 5++ X(+) R+(++)
tv(--)b++(+++) DI+@ D++(+++) G>+++ e>+++ h---(++) r++ y+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page