On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > How long are porter rebuilds supposed to take to be processed? I uploaded > recompiles of a number of packages (built with -B -mmy_email), and they seem > to still be sitting in Incoming (eg: nethack and libsigc++)
Usually up to one day. dinstall runs about 6pm GMT or so. If dinstall does not install them, it gives you a notification why (new components, rejection). You can check by entering the install directory and run /path/to/dinstall -n my.changes it will let you know what it thinks about it. Or it is already in REJECT/. > Also, I have a report on SDL: I took a brief look at it and it's not going > to be ported in the near future, at least not by me. It has a configure > script, > but the configure.in contains a number of gigantic "case" statements: > > case "$target" in > linux) > # Stuff they think is available on "linux", whatever that means > beos) > # etc > # etc > esac > > The stuff checked for in these blocks includes things like which libraries > to link to, which programs are available on the system (esd, for instance), > and so on. Barf. That means a lot of work, but the real question is how it talks to the graphic hw. That's much more important than some configure sillyness. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
