On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:03:47 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote: > > Under Introduction: "...recommendation was *make* for simplicity's > sake, not for philosophical reasons." Should be "made".
Good catch! That's the trouble with spell-checkers. They can tell you if you misspelled a word, but not if you used the wrong word. > > Under Step 3, you recommend "aptitude full-upgrade", but "aptitude > safe-upgrade" might be preferable for stable systems (i.e., Lenny or > soon Squeeze). safe-upgrade will "install candidate version of > installed packages without removing any other packages " while > full-upgrade will "install candidate version of installed packages > while removing other packages if needed" [1] > > Just a thought, since I suspect this document will be something of a > defacto standard referred to by many. I've always used full-upgrade, but maybe I live too dangerously. I should probably mention that as an alternative. Thanks again. > "That's like buying Maxwell House to get a cup of coffee" ... I lol'd. That's an expression one of my old bosses used to use. It seemed to fit in this situation. > > Under Customizing the Lenny Environment: "When installing a kernel > image package created by make-kpkg, one will be created if the > --initrd option was specified on the make-kpkg command line when the > kernel image package was created" I'm going to be building again > tonight, but IIRC this didn't work for me. That is, I did not specify > the --initrd option on the make-kpkg command, yet one was still > created. I mistakenly then tried to change the make-kpkg.conf to > "do_initrd = no", and it's nice to finally understand why that didn't > work either. I think you meant kernel-img.conf, not make-kpkg.conf. But in all honesty, I have not actually tested the scenario you just described. I'm pretty sure it's true for Squeeze, but perhaps not for Lenny. Let me know how it goes. > > Anywho, I'll be going through it in more detail tonight or tomorrow > when I build new kernel from upstream, but all in all it looks like a > major revision and a significant contribution to the community. Thanks > much for this information! You're welcome. I hope others will find it useful. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1855551754.534176.1283359567298.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
