On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:55:36AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > 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 ...
This is pretty cool. You're building the Debian distribution out of the Redhat installation? I've tried to do that, but I just ended up with a lot of problems because of the differences in Debian compared to Redat. I ended up with some strange mixture that didn't work at all. I resorted to cross compiling after a couple of hopeless attempts, and that was actually easier. Good luck! Ulf
