On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Ben Reser wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:32:51PM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > drakconf is one I can't touch really.  I'll strip the depends and make a
> > PPC "dot" version.
> 
> Okay.  Keep in mind this is a house cleaning type of thing.
> 
> > > wizards_lib-server-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-client-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-db-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-dhcp-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-dns-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-firewall-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-ftp-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-news-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-postfix-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-proxy-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-samba-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-time-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-web-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizards_lib-global-2.0.10-3mdk
> > > wizard-xinit-1.0.6-1mdk
> > > 
> > 
> > Don't think I'm including these on the CD's, I'll double-check
> 
> Even if they aren't on the CD if they have a depency that isn't resolved
> in main they should be moved to contrib or removed period.
> 

The drakconf fix made all those go away too.

> > > Also AfterStep has a dependcie on netscape.
> > > AfterStep-1.8.10-1mdk
> > 
> > I think Afterstep was bounced to contrib too, but I'll double check
> 
> Isn't on my local mirror yet, however I may be out of date.  Getting
> into the mirrors has been problematic.  I'm working on getting
> unrestricted access to carroll and then I won't have this problem.
> 

I haven't updated anything to the top of the tree since the 8.2 freeze.

> > > MySQL-bench wants perl-GD
> > > MySQL-bench-3.23.47-5mdk
> > 
> > Yeah, this one's been around for a while, I dunno why perl-GD isn't moved
> > to main, or MySQL-bench moved to contrib.
> 
> Can we just move it to contrib for ppc or do we have to stay in sync
> with x86 on this too?
> 

Can't, there is no difference.  I use the same tools to upload as x86.

> > > mon-0.99.2-1mdk wants perl-Net-Telnet.
> > > 
> > 
> > perl-Net-Telnet hasn't built on PPC for some time - it fails some tests
> > and I haven't gotten to the bottom of the problem. Maybe mon will have to
> > go away too.
> 
> I'll try to take a look at this later this week.
> 
> > > There's a bunch of netscape locales still in there:
> > > netscape-castellano-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-catalan-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-chinese_big5-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-chinese_gb2312-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-euskara-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-francais-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-german-4.78-2mdk
> > > netscape-japanese-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-korean-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-polish-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-russian-4.78-1mdk
> > > netscape-walon-4.78-1mdk
> > 
> > Don't think any of these get onto the CD's.
> 
> Well yeah but I think you missed the point on this one.  If netscape
> isn't included and it's pretty much impossible to find a ppc version of
> netscape anymore.  Why are we still packaging the locales for it?  Even
> if you do get a ppc version from somewhere else wouldn't it already
> include the locales you needed?
> 

I get it, and once upon a time they excluded PPC, since we've never
shipped netscape.  Then someone decided PPC should be rolled back in.  I
get too weary trying to fight the system. =(

> Thanks Stew.  I'm just trying to help get things in shape for the next
> beta...
> 

No prob - I appreciate the feedback.

Stew Benedict

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