Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:15:12PM -0400 wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment. > > This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on > > getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't > > have boot-floppies and Alpha will not be able to participate in the > > Woody release? > > Quite the contrary...work is being done on the Alpha boot floppies, but > apparently it wasn't announced. glad to head it :-)
> Ron Farrer and I will be working jointly > on them. Ron's hit quite a few stumbling blocks (the biggest of which is > his low bandwidth problem at home), but I've been mostly unable to even > start because I don't have a woody chroot or woody system to do the builds > on (I have one alpha...it's running sid and I have no room for a chroot). > I think most of us are actually build boot floppies in sid for the moment. The expectation, I believe, is to move to using a frozen base system when that happens, gradually solidifying the environemnt. > Ron put out a query for volunteers to assist and possibly take over > boot-floppies on Alpha totally. He got quite a few responces, but nobody > is a debian devel yet, so that doesn't help much on the immediate side. I don't see how being a debian developer matters. cvs commit to boot-floppies is not restricted to only Debian developers. If people start hacking, fixing bugs and sending patches to this list I'm sure Adam would be quick to grant cvs access. > > Any ideas on how we can get this done? Without a chroot, Ron has problems > pulling even a few packages over his modem and I just don't have the room > for a chroot, leaving lully as our only alternative to work on (which, of > course, I haven't gotten any responce on). Just use sid, we call them woody boot-floppies since they are going to be used for woody, not because you actually need woody to build them (but don't try building them in potato). David
