Subject: Re: A discipline for packages From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:29:45 GMT
In article <C063xA.81M@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
>marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>>tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Tim MacKenzie) writes:
>>>I can do this too... with the SLS sysinstall. List packages installed:
>>>'ls /install/installed'. I can remove packages (yes Peter, I for one have
>>>used the -remove option to sysinstall). So what is the problem?
>>>No spiffy user interface perhaps???
>
>What? You don't consider "menu" spiffy?! Maybe you want a Mac? ;-)
>
>>>IMHO, the only thing lacking in the SLS sysinstall is some way of getting
>>>descriptions of the packages (like the Ultrix setld(8) command although this
>>>too is by no means perfect... but that's another story). Also, better
>>>"version control" would be nice, so if a package (or subset which is probably
>>>a better term) was changed then the name (or something) changed (e.g.
>>>man2-000 man2-001 although this is a problem with the stupid MS-DOS
>>>limitations [on packages like dviljsrc or ghostscr what do you do?]).
>
>> Wait!! We are in Unix here...not MS-DOS. Why would anyone,
>>considering that everyone who is using the extfs says that they haven't
>>had any problems, use a minix file system with the stupid MS-DOS
>>limitations?? If you want those kinds of limitations, why not get
>>FSUUCP and stick to DOS? I'm quite confused :(
>
>The extfs is still alpha, and isn't quite stable enough for general
>release (at least that's the last I heard; if it's doing better now,
>some kind of announcement would be nice).
>ALSO, I, like many, have to do my transfers through MS-LOSS. I can
>go 2400baud Zmodem through Linux or I can use ftp on a DOS box--and
>the local phone lines have a tendency to screw file transfers badly.
>(Within the next few months, look for a new Linux box on the net:
>Jefferson.law.uoknor.edu--that's me ;-) So, in other words, I can
>spend a few days doing downloads to get files with UNIX filenames
>which may or may not be corrupted, or I can grab a box of disk and
>a 286 portable and download the entire SLS distribution by FTP to
>a DOS box in just over an hour. Which would _you_ choose?
A friend of mine just switched from extfs back to the minix fs, since
he was having directories mysteriously disappear.
--Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP