From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a073fa836a03b290 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-14 08:38:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ? Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3CD1FFC5.4050607@qwest.net> <5ee5b646.0205030057.7cb47a2d@posting.google.com> <3CDD3699.2090809@qwest.net> <4519e058.0205130633.478cc872@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1021390737 11216 129.241.83.82 (14 May 2002 15:38:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:38:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24031 Date: 2002-05-14T15:38:57+00:00 List-Id: On 14 May 2002 11:04:46 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote: > > You'll have to back that up. Here's an example from my recent > experience: I don't take on me other peoples lack of knowledge about Debian ;-) (se below) > To install GNAT 3.14p: > > Debian Linux: > [snipped description] NO NO NO NO NO completely wrong! (besides why didn't you get the: gnat-3.14p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin.tar.gz when you clearly too the binary version in windows?) Look at: http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/gnat.html Gnat 3.14p is in testing. You simply install it from there. The point is that you have only set up Debian stable and Debian stable is excatly that; stable from when it was realeased. Only security issues warrents an upgrade of a package. Debian Testing contains the packages that will go into the next Debian Stable and is being updated until there is a distribution freeze. And Debian unstable contains all bleeding edge pacakges. I suggest you read a bit about this. If you add testing to your apt source.list and then you do: apt-get update apt-get istall gnat and it will install 3.14p and make sure that your other libraries also are updated (ex. gktada) > On Windows: > [snipped description] > Now, if I had picked an app for which Debian has a package avialable, > say Emacs, the two are about the same; one click each. Still have to > remember the command 'dselect' in Debian, though. Absolutely not true. If you want to update your debian system you simply do: apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then all packages that have been updated will be installed. Besides the integrety of your entire system will be intact as apt-get will also install all packages that this package needs. This you do not have in Windows at all. apt-get install emacs will not only install emacs, but will also install all packages that emacs is *dependant* on. This will not happen in Windows. When the current Debian Testing (named Woody) becomes stable in a short (hopefully) time, then all you need to do is: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade to update your entire system without destroying your preferences etc... Now please tell me how simple it is to update from say 98 to XP :-) Preben