On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: >> Hmmm. Any idea where to look? I had a quick look using Altavista, and it >> just bounced me to the redhat sparc mailing list archives, which didn't >> appear to be of much use. > >There is a binary on Jakub's site (ultra.linux.cz). I could try >making one from the latest version of silo...
That would be useful, thanks. >> >I'm now set up to generate CD Images. I mirrored master today, and >> >generated a set of CD images. The file sizes are: > >> >slink1.raw 309188608 >> >slink2.raw 676298752 >> >slink5.raw 391374848 > >> >I'm going to tweak the slink1.useful list to push the bulk of the main >> >packages onto the first CD. (I'm not sure why so few packages are >> >going onto the first CD...) > >> I'm curious, too - can you send me your lists? > >Turns out that /archive/tmp/slink1.needed is empty. After looking at >the slink_cd script, I realized that the file "master" was missing... Ah! OK, that was the last file that I missed out of the .deb. From now on I'm not going to list files explicitly - the .deb will get *. >Also, I was having some weird problems because I was setting the >TMPDIR environment variable. Apparently this causes "dpkg-deb" to >break. (This could be a libc6_2.1 issue.) I changed the variable >name to TDIR in my copy of slink_cd. Hmmm, OK... That does sound weird. If it makes life easier I can easily change that upstream too... -- Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] <a href=http://www.rpg-soc.ucam.org/curs/>CURS home page</a> "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, "Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..."
