On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:51:10PM -0700, Robert Coie wrote: > > I also have longer-term dreams of porting dpkg, Debian's package > manager, which would allow us to contribute and share our work more > effectively with the debian-mips effort. It might also be helpful for > package management and synchronization of software installation > between a host computer and the H/PsPC.
I once compiled dpkg for the mipsel platform (Decstation). It works just fine except dselect (same source package) which i was not able to build at that stage because of the missing ncurses. > Besides, I want perl :) I wasnt able to build that - It failed on some post-compile test. BTW: I took a different approach. I installed a base redhat and just unpacked the debhelper/debmake/dpkg-dev things (binary-all) and first built the dpkg ... Then i started corrently building packages with dpkg-buildpackage which worked ok for a lot of packages ... (and some more with minor tweaks). All packages had the same problems: Missing/Wrong dependencies as there were no installed shared libs (from /var/lib/dpkg). 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
