Ajay Shah wrote: >On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:29:02AM -0400, TEETER,VINCE (HP-USA,ex1) wrote: > >>It would also be cool to have better general, high-level doc about Debian. >>There is no shortage of details, but I still have no concept of what the >>various pieces are. Please don't say to read all that highly detailed and >>often repetative doc. This would be like saying you need to read the >>complete jacket before playing a CD. >> > >Not that this is a complete answer, but I wrote up bits of what I >knew when evangelising about Debian to my friends, and came up with: > > http://www.igidr.ac.in/~ajayshah/COMPUTING/debian-principles.html > This is a very nice document, a great introduction to Debian package management. I like the organization: from the most basic commands and usage examples for those in a hurry, to the details for those who want to read more. I like your example sources.list entries. (Just curious, anyone know why the security.debian.org entry isn't in the default sources.list?)
One nit-pick: I think sid is always unstable, and won't become testing when woody is released. Also, I'd mention wildcards in the dpkg -l section near the end, e.g. "dpkg -l apt\*", and in the file-package mapping, dpkg -L package (list files installed by package) would be helpful. Thanks again for a neat doc! -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! <http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
