On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:44:13AM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Hello, ... > > > > i have done some unofficial xfree 3.3.3.1 debian packages for powerpc. > > GREAT!
i have a second version of them, i would gladly upload them, but i am not sure if i can, they are signed with a key that is not yet in the debian keyring, and also i am not sure if 3.3.3.1 is officially released yet. anyway, in the mean time, you can find them at : ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/local/os/linux/apus/DEB-APUS they are my first try, (3.3.3.1-0.1), don't know if i can put the second try there also, what about your web space ? how can i put them there ? Or maybee i will try to install a ftp server on this box, or find some place somewhere ... > > > all is not yet perfect, and i have to work more on them so that they become > > acceptable for debian, but in the > > meantime, if someone is interrested, i can upload them somewhere, just > > don't know where i can put them, is > > there some experimental place where they can go ? they are signed with my > > @debian.org id, but this one is not > > yet in the debian keyring. > > > > i did this, because after my partition crash most stuff got installed > > cleanly, but X refused to work, and iu > > was not able to build X 3.3.2.3a-8.1 from the source packages, so i just > > applied the diffs to my 3.3.3.1 tree, > > and corrected most patches. THere is one file i am not very sure of, it is > > programs/Xserev/.../XConfig/xf86config.c ort so. will have to check it with > > more time. > > I really have to thank you about this as my X setup is far from feeling > whole or stable, and till now I waited for an official X debian release. > Even an unofficial will do, if it works. > Not to offend anyone -again... I think I have that tendency after all- but > you created them so quickly, while there have been 2 months since 3.3.3 > has been released and no official debian packaged has even appeared in the > experimental area. I really am curious. you have to know that X is a quite big packages, source are 43MB, and that with gzip -9, and it takes hours to compile on my 603e/240MHz, (more than 6hours, ...) and about 250MB disk space. i don't know what happened to the previous maintainer, ... guess he is lost in real life, or something like that, most previous packages where NMU, ... > > > ok then tell me where i can put them, so people can try them, and i can > > fine tune some more stuff. > > How much disk space is required? I can afford about 30MBs on my space at > the university temporary , but there is the issue of transfering them of > course. See above ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
