I found my time to be more valuable learning going forward than chasing
dependencies. To each his own. Good luck in your quest. This list is
pretty active and some very knowledgeable participants, myself not
included but I'm learning.
Donald Wheeling wrote:
Thanks for the info but I like doing this myself. This way I know what
I have and where everything is. To be honest I love compiling and
troubleshooting. I just need to know where I can find a
perl-forward-compat source. Every place I found one the server was no
longer available or the package was gone. The five entries I found in
the mailing lists were dead leads.
> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:35:21 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] ppc install?
>
> I might suggest the QMTISO if you are starting from scratch. It's
> $20.00, download the iso burn it to a cd and in 30 minutes or so you
> have a fully functioning qmail mail server with all of the bells and
> whistles at your fingertips. You spend 30 minutes after the initial
> install running your updates and creating your accounts and you move on
> to your next project. IMHO this is a no brainer if you don't have to
> keep your existing OS.
>
> Donald Wheeling wrote:
> > After several days of trying to update yellow dog linux so I could
> > install qmail toaster I finally gave up on the update process and
> > started over with fedora. I was to the point where I had to
re-compile
> > the kernel in order to upgrade other required package versions before
> > installing the mail server. Anyway...moving on. I now have fedora
> > installed (albeit much slower than yellow dog) and I've been able to
> > install qmailtoaster up to a point. I'm currently stuck on
> > spamassassin compiling and, after many searches on the net and your
> > mailing lists (5 entries which lead nowhere), I cannot find any
> > specifics on the package perl-forward-compat. The only thing I can
> > figure the problem to be is maybe the package name was changed?
> >
> >
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> > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:54:01 -0700
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] ppc install?
> >
> >
> > A quick poke at http://rpmfind.net came up with dkms and fuse for the
> > ppc architecture. Perhaps it will have others you seek?
> >
> > In the past I've had luck with rpm.pbone.net <http://rpm.pbone.net>,
> > but a scan there didn't come up with any immediately obvious
> > candidates for ppc. Still, it may be worth some further digging.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Craig
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Donald Wheeling
<[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > Good to know. Unfortunately, and expectedly, I cannot find yellow
> > dog linux updates to make it current so I'm going to have to
> > update every package the hard way without yum. If anyone knows a
> > dependable ppc source RPM site to make this easier I'm all ears.
> >
> >
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> > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:18:22 -0400
> > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] ppc install?
> >
> > Donald Wheeling wrote:
> >
> > Hello all. I've been away for quite a while and haven't
> > followed qmailtoaster's progress very closely. I am now
> > getting back into it and I'd like to update a very old
> > qmailtoaster (2004) install but I'm uncertain if the hardware
> > is still supported. I have a ppc that I'd like to reuse for
> > this purpose but, after a couple of days, I can't find
> > anything that says it is still supported. In the past I
> > remember I used to pass redhat arguments to the rpms during
> > install but with the new OS advancements ppc support may be
> > just a memory. Machine specs are below:
> >
> > Machine - PPC power tower pro
> > OS - yellow dog linux 4.0 (redhat variant)
> >
> > I did find one reference to ppc in the mailing lists but it
> > was vague. It might have been a reference to a client not the
> > server. Any suggestions are of course welcomed.
> >
> >
> > Welcome back!
> > The build flags you used then will still work today. You will need
> > to use the cnt40 flag for your particular case, since that will be
> > CentOS 4 which is (almost) the same as Yellow Dog 4 (if I remember
> > correctly), or you can use rht90 which will compile for generic
> > Redhat 9.0.
> >
> > I unfortunately do not have any PPC hardware (nor even a copy of
> > YD4!) to test on, so please post back here on any updates/progress
> > you make.
> >
> >
>
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>
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