In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Is the SPARC tree in debian/stable as complete as the binary-i386 tree?
No. It is essentially an empty tree, populated only with symlinks to the packages which are non architecture dependent. : I realize that : there is an official release of Red Hat for SPARC which I should use, but : I like Debian and would rather stick with it, so: will it work : (already, soon)? There are a couple of us with Sparc machines who are building up sparc .deb files as time permits. I think it possible that a Sparc distribution might be part of the 'bo' release, but until/unless someone who is motivated enough comes along and dives in, there is unlikely to be much greater urgency. I'm doing what I can as time permits to help jump-start the effort, but I don't ever intend to be a Sparc afficiando or routine user... Thos of us beating on Sparc are currently running Redhat 4.0 and using it as a platform for cross-development. If you need a "production" Linux environment before bo, Redhat is probably the right answer. Bdale -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
