--On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 2:14 pm -0500 "Maitland Bottoms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Time to de-lurk, I guess. Good, It's even friday afternoon. Excellent. > > At the beginning of October I installed the then current > Debian/slink/sparc - and was pleased. Until I exited X. Until I > realized there was no XEmacs binary. *grin* > > But I have been able to build my own kernel using kernel-package, and > both my LANCE and HAPPY MEAL network interfaces work, and my > multi-threaded C++ application runs and only Oopses sometimes. > *grin* > The SPARCstation 10 here has been idle for the last 25 days of its 26 > day uptime, and has 8GB of disk space. I could provide some more > manpower and cpupower. > > Hmm, master.debian.org is refusing to talk to me, and although I can > ssh over to va.debian.org, it seems to have a different set of home > directories. Hopefully I can find the newest glibc and get a new > kernel and get started on things today. Well... actually, we could use your CPU power. Roman Hodek and James Troup have devised a distributed system for keeping architectures up to date with i386 (or, more generally, just up-to-date with source uploads). We could use this system to dedicate your machine, and mine, to building, and in a few days we could probably get all packages up to date. However, first of all, we do need a freeze. We need a concept of 'frozen/binary-sparc/Packages' for the software to work correctly (I'm running it on my machine now, but it's happily snarfing the very newest packages from unstable/main/source, which is no use for frozen). So, if we get Guy Maor to give us a frozen directory, and then if all people here who have machines on the internet (behind a firewall is OK, probably) and are willing to help rally around, we can coordinate a mass recompilation effort. Who's up for it? Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
