On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:39:50PM +0200, Carlos Segura wrote: > Hi Florian, > > > There is still no debian-mips(el) port ... > > Then where I'm supposed to start the work? I want collaborate in the port, > but I need some start point. > What is the project's current status?
I have no clue if you are little or big endian - I am little so i am doing "mipsEL" not "mips". I got the machine (Decstation) to boot and then took the dpkg source package and extracted it and build a dpkg (Watch the archtable - It should contain your architecture). Then just extract debhelper, dpkg-dev etc with ar and hack it into you base system. Then create some wild dirs/files at /var/lib/dpkg and you should be able to build packages with dpkg-buildpackage. Once you have the first 20-40 Packages done everything gets easier ... I am currently just building packages by hand and immediatly install them into my system. I "nearly" replaced everything needed to boot so probably ill get an "base.tgz" for debian-mipsel together next weekend ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice
