What is the significance of packages being in Incoming? Is it safe to d/l and use them from there, or do things in Incoming have further processing to undergo before being ready for use? Thanks, Timothy
On 15-Jun-98 Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Does anyone know when the .deb package for the 2.0.34 kernel source >> will be available? Will it be soon, or should I go ahead use a tgz? (What >> are >> the disadvantages of this as opposed to using the .deb file?) > > There's a kernel source package at llug.sep.bnl.gov in pub/debian/Incoming > (probably other incoming mirrors as well). > > I doubt this has any patches which cause it to differ from the tgz > version. I picked up the .tgz last week and compiled/installed it > using kernel-package. I suppose some folks worry about having anything on > their computer which wasn't installed from a package, but I can't see any > real advantage to using kernel-source packages, unlike 2.0.33, which had a > lot of patches applied to kernel-source (at least the latest version). > > Bob > > ---- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-Jun-98 Time: 20:01:27 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. ---------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
