On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 06:34:39AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: > Greetings all. > > I have submitted an application for maintainership to the new-maintainers > team, but > given the current discussions on debian-devel, I do not expect it to be > approved any > time soon. In the meantime, I would like to practice to get a feel for the > procedures involved in packaging applications, running a development system, > etc. > > I have downloaded all of the i386 unstable tree, but as main is 1.2 gigs or > so, I'm > not sure how to split it up onto CDs to do the installation. I've heard it's > possible to install the base from slink, and switch to potato after > dbootstrap -- is > this accurate? > > After I get my potato system set up, I intend to work on packaging gsh > (http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/v/c/vcato/gsh/). I will be contacting > the > upstream shortly for permission. > > Any suggestions for installing potato would be appreciated.
Welcome to the ever-increasing group of maintainers-to-be (only the new-maintainer team knows how many of us there are, and they are silent, of course). I think that would work, although it might be better to do a network install instead of trying to manage multiple CDs at this point. I've seen some discussions on debian-devel in the past few days about potato libreadline conflicting with slink bash. Possibly that would cause a problem with upgrading from slink base. Nobody (?) installs all of main (do they?) I expect that most people install a small enough set of packages that they would fit on a single CD. You would have to make sure that you had all the dependencies covered and you could add additional packages as needed, by downloading them. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
