Re: tlug: Meeting talk on Jun 13th

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Joe" == joem  <joem@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Joe> Scott Stone wrote:
>     >> If anyone needs help building RPMs, you can ask me.
> 
>     Joe> This is something I'm interested in hearing about ... can we
>     Joe> pencil an RPM talk in for the meeting on Jun 13th?
> 
> This sounds like a great idea.
> 
> I've done a couple of Debian packages for personal use only, and have
> subscribed to (but don't have time to follow properly) the Debian
> development lists.  If Scott does RPMs and handles the burden of the
> tough stuff (the scripts that configure the MTA, for example, and
> detect potential conflicts with common locally installed software the
> way teTeX does on Debian, at least), I'll book up on dpkg.  We can do
> a compare & contrast.
> 

That would be handy - I've never really used dpkg except for swearing
at/about it last time I did a test-install of Debian, back when we sold
Debian CDs (that was Debian 1.2.1 or something like that).

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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