Re: Question about Programs on LNX-BBC 2.1

Slaughter, Dale writes:

> I've seen on the BBC-LNX main web page under the RESOURCES | Package List
> link the various categories like X11/and utils/ , and within these packages
> like blackbox and tct and gcc .  However I've been able to find them .  I've
> looked thru most of the directories and done   find / -name <filename>   and
> received no hits.  What have I missed?.  I did see a reference to something
> called 'downloadable packages' , what is this?

Hi,

Our distribution is called LNX-BBC.

There are some packages which are in the source tree but not included
on the CD.  If you look in meta/bbc-contents, you should find some
information about what is included and, to some extent, why.

There are many reasons why a package might be in the source tree but
not on the CD.  Offhand, they include

(1) the package is used to compile the distribution (gcc)
(2) the package is too large to fit on our CD (but might be useful to
someone creating a distribution for some other medium)
(3) the package is of only specialized interest (or only of interest
for to people creating a distribution for some other medium or purpose)
(4) the package is broken or can't be compiled correctly in our
current build environment
(5) the package has been superseded or obsoleted by some other package
(blackbox by hackedbox)
(6) the package is available as a dependency of some other package,
but that other package is not included for some other reason
(7) the package is a downloadable package (which is not mutually
exclusive with the other reasons above)

Currently we only have one downloadable package, which you can see if
you type "list-packages" on a booted LNX-BBC with networking
configured.  We can add more in the future by copying them into a
particular directory on our web server.

-- 
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     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | being programmed by others.
     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |     -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
                                       |        464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)