Greetings,
This letter concerns two primary questions:
1. Who do I talk to about an enhancement to dselect
2. Where do I go to join a development effort.
I successfully installed Debian 2.2 r5 on my Apple Macintosh G4 Cube
over the weekend, but ran into one potential problem during the install
that I think might be easily remedied. The problem was that when
dselect prompted me to switch media in order to grok the available
packages from the other CD's, I was unable to eject the CD.
This is because the G4 Cube does not have a manual eject button. The
normal way to eject the CD is to use the eject button on the Apple
keyboard. This button (perhaps obviously) did not do what it was
supposed to do during dselect.
I was unable to determine (through a google search) if there was an
existing eject utility for this machine so I wrote a command line utility
in C to accomplish the task. According to what I've read in the
/usr/include/linux/cdrom.h header file, the program I wrote would be
portable across platforms.
I think that for weird machines like the cube, it might be nice to add
the
"eject cd" option from within dselect.
If anyone could help direct me to the right package maintainer, I would
appreciate it. I'm new to the community and don't know where to start.
I am also interested in contributing development effort ( I am a Windows
C / C++ programmer by trade, but know my way around Linux) but don't
know where to start.
Tom Dial
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
