Installing Eddie under Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge/Woody)?

[Thomas Fischbacher]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, yerl wrote:

> Hi Thomas!
> This is because you're using a new version of OTP.
> Set the  correct valu in the system.mk file.
> Yerl

Thanks. I also noticed by now, and indeed:

===>
system/mk_dot_erlang.sh /usr/local/lib/eddie  > /usr/local/lib/eddie/bin/.eddie_path
./install-sh -c -o root -m 4755 misc/priv/fdsrv /usr/local/lib/eddie/lib/misc-1.5.1/priv/fdsrv 
./install-sh -c -m 0644 dns_server/system/examples/lb_dns.boot /usr/local/etc/lb_dns.boot.dist
./install-sh -c -m 0644 dns_server/system/examples/lb_dns.boot /usr/local/etc/lb_dns.boot.dist
# Make a .eddie_path file
system/mk_dot_erlang.sh /usr/local/lib/eddie  > /usr/local/lib/eddie/bin/.eddie_path
Eddie installation complete
<===

Hard to believe I got it that far. 

Could anyone please explain to me what this "pinning down to versions" 
thing is, and what the rationale behind that is / what it is good for?

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