On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Weren't some people from the beowolf team interested in switching > > > to .deb or at least packaging new stuff also as .deb files? > > > > > > I'm sorry, but I lost track here. > > > > Hmm - does one need a beowulf in order to debianise the source? > > I thought beowulf cluster are binary compatible to regular boxes so I > don't think you'd need a beowulf cluster in order to package things. > > > and if not then even my measly pick.sel (which approximates to the amount > > of memory it has ;) ) could produce a .deb for rich people with > > supercomputers everywhere? > > I don't understand.
Sorry - in my attempts to be ironic I failed to make myself clear. I was offering to package beowulf as .deb, for people with the money to make beowulf clusters. I then realised the irony of doing this on pick.sel ;) HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
