On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:16:32PM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:

> The one thing I find a little disappointing of late is that there's no
> distribution that is:
> a) RPM-based
> b) for s390
> c) kept up to date
> d) free as in beer
>
> I can get three out of four of those (Debian (bcd) , SLES8 (abc) and
> RHAS3 (abc)), but not all four.  Fedora would hit all four if it were
> built for s390.
>
> Has anyone looked at this yet?  I've gotten the appropriate cross
> compilers working, and was having some problems with building glibc.

Why is RPM a requirement?  This isn't exactly i386 after all, so it's not as
if there are bunches of third-party binary packages floating around that you
can take advantage of.

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 - mdz

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