[628] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Slackware 2.0.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Fri Jul 8 11:31:13 1994
To: nocturne@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 08 Jul 94 03:25:40 -0400.
<9407080725.AA20793@pickled-herring.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 11:30:53 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
>>
>> There is a large ( ~ 30 MB ) directory full of 'contrib' tarfiles, like
>> lucid emacs, uucp, perl 5, lynx, and other things, which was not a part of
>> the Slackware 1.2.0 distribution. These files are not really disk-type
>> packages like the usual install packages (for example, one is over 7
>> megabytes in size) ...
>>
>> Do we want this in the linux locker? I think the answer is "yes", but I
>> still think that it should be considered.
>>
>> maze was short on space, so I rm -rf'd the contrib directory which was in
>> /var/slckware-2.0.0 ... I don't see how it could be very useful to serve
>> this stuff out via NFS, anyway... it seems to me that maze exports NFS so
>> that people can install from it, rather than mount it at random times for
>> hand-installation of random tarfiles; ftp to athena.dialup works just as
>> well for that.
I think it would be valuable to have the contrib files on maze
ready for installation. You should probably move things around there
so that all of the disks are eventually in /var/slckware (ie there
will be /var/slckware/a1 /var/slackware/contrib1 /var/slackware/m1, etc).
That way people can specify contrib (and m) as packages when they install
(under the custom packages item). If they don'thave th tag and disk files
it might make sense to add ones for them. If we can, we should move the
stuff out of the not-for-commercial use directory and put them into their
proper places. Probably the best way to save space on maze is to leave
off the boot disks.
It might also be nice to have a few sets of tagfiles to automate
installation (for minimal install, for minimal development system,
for installing everything you want to have, etc).
(I'd be willing to help with some of this)
--- Erik
