On 20-Sep-01, 20:30 (CDT), Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made it a *.deb package, because that allows you to use apt-get to > automatically upgrade the package on a *nfs root* partition to the > latest version.
(Brian, thanks for the explanation. That was a lot more useful than "you want boot floppies, dontcha?") But why are they are in the main archive? Apt-get supports specifing different alternative sources.list files from the command line, which would allow these packages to live in a "non-public" part of the archive. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
