> > I could make the bootstrap floppies support an FTP installation if you > > would do the work necessary to integrate this method into dselect. > > To do this you need a package naming standard - perhaps a deviation from > > your plan, but easy enough to do and it would be of great benefit to us > > in the short term. Of course we could handle it differently in the long > > term. > > Right. In order to avoid having to rename lots of packages or change > their version numbers I propose the following naming scheme for files > on the FTP site in the `binary' directory: > > <package-name>--<version>[-<revision>].deb > > Note the two hyphens.
I missed the first part of this thread. Sorry. What is the resoning for this drastic change? David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
