Jean-Michel POURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Friends, > > First of all, thanks for this great job working on a pure 64 Debian port. > > Just a few remarks and questions: > > 1) Using the new debian installer at first, it did not seem clear to me that > I > had to choose an "expert" installation. Normal installation is done by > default using the testing repository, thus fails.
This was recently changed in D-I since to many users got confused by sarge being called stable already or something. > After a few tests, I understood that I had to type "expert" on the first > installer prompt. Could you add this information to: > https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id204230 > > 2) After installation, I tried to install KDE and XFree86. It seems that most > packages are gone in the testing repository. A desktop environment would help > using the pure64 port. > > When do you think a pure64 testing repository will be available? it could > ease > both installation and desktop usage. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/archive/sarge$ wb-status Known packages: 8351 ( 8369) Installed packages: 7870 Needs-build packages: 228 Most packages should be there. The problem with KDE was that the sarge version is broken. I fetched the testing-proposed-updates version and build that to get things moving. > 3) Alternatively, is there a way to configure /etc/apt/apt.conf to compile > source packages from testing repository for the pure64 port? You just point it to the sarge repository instead of pure64 or you use pining. > Kind regards, > Jean-Michel MfG Goswin
