On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Ulf Carlsson wrote: > > This seems to be a fairly low volume list so lets hope someone's listening. > > Yep, we have a little problem. One of the core contributers to Debian/MIPS, > Job > Bogan, has disappeared. He has compiled a bunch of packages, but no one else > has > seen his work as far as I know. I have for myself compiled dpkg and some basic > packages, but my Indy is gone and so are the packages. I will probably > receive a > new machine from SGI soon. Nancy Bigham said that she would ship it last > Tuesday, maybe I have to send her an email and remind her :)
I'm sure they can find a spare indy :) > > Cross compile environment. (or self host ?) > > Self host seems to work very well. There is a cross compiler rpm which you can > use as well if you prefer cross compiling. I didn't manage to build the debian > packages with the cross compiler though. Ok. What gcc etc. versions do you have installed. I knpw there's issues with X compiling the kernel and getting the right tools (been there, gave up). Will the gcc RPMs from the HardHat distribution be O.K? [EMAIL PROTECTED] guest]$ rpm -q binutils gcc libstdc++ binutils-2.8.1-2 gcc-2.7.2-4 libstdc++-2.8.0-8 > > Build source dpkgs. > > Yes, we have a lot of packages to build. Presumably there we'll choke on the same packages that are missing from Hardhat (tcsh etc.) If I can figure out how to get things going I'll let my indy chug away on as many packages as I can store (where's that RAID :) and find somewhere to post them. Are we basing the distribution on Slink? > > Work out installation stuff? > > We will boot through nfsroot. Debian can coexist with redhat as well. Most sensible idea. Presumably we can construct a "base*.tgz" file to pull across and install similar to the i386 setup... Leon -- Leon Verrall - (+44) 1189 307734 \ Silicon Graphics, Forum 1, Secondline Software Support _____/ Station Rd., Theale, RG7 4RA, UK
