[wellylug] Re: Debian/Ubuntu as cruelty?

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Fri Aug 18 18:54:41 NZST 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 23:12 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> 
> --- Jonathan Harker <jon at jon.geek.nz> wrote:
> 
> > Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > > It's highly likely that the system is not correctly configured with
> > > repositories correctly set, and the guy will find that he has a system
> > > that he can't get updates for!
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Cliff
> > 
> > Well, shouting at him about how crap you think he is isn't going to help.
> 
> I gotta chuckle sometimes. All this coz the repositories were not correctly
> configured on a box with no net access. I hadn't realised Ubuntu/Debian was so
> advanced that the package mgmt works without internet access.
> 
> I should stick to asking for help with RPM distros instead, people then just
> offer useful advice (with the odd exception of "just use Debian!" messages :-)

When will people learn????????

ALL PACKAGE MANAGERS ARE INFERIOR TO THE TARBALL!!


tar -xkjvf mypackage.tar.bz2
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install


;-)


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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