Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-09 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Sat, 8 Oct 2011 15:06:49 +0100 (BST) schrieb Stuart Winter : > ARMedslack's installpkg differs from x86's because ARMedslack's is > patched for several speed improvements on ARM. Take a look at spkg. It's so much faster than the original package tools ;) -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-08 Thread Stuart Winter
> All I remember is that when I tried it, I got errors with armeslack's > installpkg, but I found that the installer has its own version. I've > compared the two now, and found that there must be some slight difference > somewhere, the armedslack one is 19K as opposed to the installers' 21K. The

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-08 Thread lee jones
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > * replace /sbin/pkginstall in armedslack with the one from the x86 > installer > > (it's just a script, but the armedslack one lacks the -root option) > > You mean installpkg ? > It does have the -root option - this is how the miniroots ar

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-05 Thread Stuart Winter
> * replace /sbin/pkginstall in armedslack with the one from the x86 installer > (it's just a script, but the armedslack one lacks the -root option) You mean installpkg ? It does have the -root option - this is how the miniroots are made, and the installer's installpkg is copied from the pkgtools

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:40:58 +0100 schrieb Ottavio : > On 5 October 2011 00:34, Rich wrote: > > Ah... yes it does if you use the Salix repo, which is a mirror of > > the ARMedSlack repository with dependency checking. The Salix ARM > > slapt-get package available already has the repo setup in the

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-04 Thread Ottavio
On 5 October 2011 00:34, Rich wrote: > Ah... yes it does if you use the Salix repo, which is a mirror of the > ARMedSlack repository with dependency checking. The Salix ARM slapt-get > package available already has the repo setup in the slapt-getrc config file. Dependency checking! Horror! Sacril

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-04 Thread Rich
On 10/04/2011 12:08 PM, lee jones wrote: Thanks for that :) . But drat! Slapt-get dosen't resolve dependencies! Ah... yes it does if you use the Salix repo, which is a mirror of the ARMedSlack repository with dependency checking. The Salix ARM slapt-get package available already has the repo

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-04 Thread lee jones
sorry, my bad what I was meaning was the script the installer runs, not the actual files needed to get a boot system running. Mind you I decided to try - and see - what happens if I pinch the x86 slackware setup/install script (where you get to choose the packages to install, the keymap, partition,

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-04 Thread Ottavio
On 4 October 2011 17:08, lee jones wrote: > > Just trying to work out how to do this -- one idea might be to extract the > install setup from armedslack but I have no idea where it is. I tried > looking in one of armedslacks' initrd files, but could only find; A friendly "RTFM": http://ftp.slackw

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-04 Thread lee jones
Thanks for that :) . But drat! Slapt-get dosen't resolve dependencies! Here's the thought -- if I can somehow find out what armedslack installs, then I should somehow be able to install those. Don't really want to try to guess which packages to install complex stuff (e.g. gcc) as I'll more than li

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-03 Thread Richard Lapointe
On 10/03/2011 04:19 PM, lee jones wrote: Hello all :) Was just wondering which packages I'd need to install in armedslack (still working on the efika mx!) in order to do a complete install of gcc and all its various bits 'n' pieces? Would try something like slapt-get, but it dosen't seem to be

Re: [ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-03 Thread Ottavio
On 3 October 2011 21:19, lee jones wrote: > Hello all :) > > Was just wondering which packages I'd need to install in armedslack > (still working on the efika mx!) in order to do a complete install of > gcc and all its various bits 'n' pieces? > > Would try something like slapt-get, but it dosen't

[ARMedslack] Which packages to install for gcc/make/etc ?

2011-10-03 Thread lee jones
Hello all :) Was just wondering which packages I'd need to install in armedslack (still working on the efika mx!) in order to do a complete install of gcc and all its various bits 'n' pieces? Would try something like slapt-get, but it dosen't seem to be avaliable for armedslack, though it is for