On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:45:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
Hi,
Who maintains the SPARC port web pages? Or, who would like to do that?
I set them up originally (I think) but I no longer have access to a
sparc, so I'm no longer the Right Person For The Job(tm).
Jules
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
[nothing]
Just ignore me while I cringe in embarassment, having wasted all your
bandwidth :-(
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| Jules aka
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I've updated URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/. My changes
(WML) might take a few days to push out into the web mirrors.
Still to do is to finish filling in the porting notes and instructions
(once I figure those out). More significantly, the slink errata page
On 7 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Sascha == Sascha Strauß [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sascha 1) I can´t find the XF86Config file in /etc/X11 to install
Sascha my X-Window. But I´ve got a linked File named XF86Config
Sascha in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. After ls -al Debian shows me:
Sascha
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Jake Griesbach wrote:
Hi,
I seem to have found a bug in switching between virtual consoles. The
first time xdm starts, console switching works great. I can switch
between text and graphics consoles without any problems. The same holds
after I log in using xdm.
On 25 Feb 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Can someone fix this? Maybe we need to submit a bug against
ftp.debian.org or something.
I have just done exactly that.
Jules
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS. Any clues about how to get X to work? Can anyone e-mail me an
example XF86Config or tell me how to find out what video card I have?
It's a SPARCstation 2. There's another one with a different video card
that I could swap, if necessary ...
No
OK.
I have at last made some changes to the web pages (which you won't see for
a day or two, while they propogate).
I've basically stripped out a lot of broken links, and things which were
no longer true. What other information do we want:
Any libc info that should go there?
What kernel
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
Seriouslsy, what package which Provides: www-browser (chimera2 does not, does
anyone know why?) could be installed in the basic installation? It has to be
something usable, not an experimental toy. (chimera2 says 'This is an
alpha-test
On 16 Feb 1999, James Troup wrote:
Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mozilla does not appear. This is a serious problem because it is the
only graphical Web browser in main.
Que? What do you think arena, chimera2, gzilla and w3+xemacs are?
And amaya, although I don't know
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Christian Meder wrote:
- sparc webpage on www.debian.org
Jules could you update the sparc specific webpage. The problems with
bash, X and signal stuff are fixed quite a while now.
Yes.
Dammit.
Sorry, I have been busy with (for example) Differential Manifolds :-)
On 12 Feb 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
I've built some Gnome 0.99.4 packages from the stuff in potato.
Steve you're a legend!
There a few minor problems with it - the gnome-terminal doesn't work
(it can't get a pty for some reason - this will also break gnome-apt)
and the gnomecc program
rarpd is a program which *BSD has had since the year dot, but which is new
to Linux. This version is by Derrick Brashear, and is under the CMU
copyright - which I just brought up on debian-legal, and we hold the view
that it is irritatingly phrased, but DFSG-free. (For a copy, go install
snmp ;)
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Stephan Wiehr wrote:
Hi!
Anybody who got NIS working?
I tried to setup a Sparc1/Debian-Linux as NIS client (version 3.3.1-1) with
a Sparc2/SunOS4.1.3 as NIS server and it just wouldn't work, other
SunOS4.1.3 clients work fine.
Trying to recompile NIS from the
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Dave Broudy wrote:
It still happened to me with the latest kernel that I checked out from
CVS, 2.2.0-pre9 (or -final).
Commenting lines 555 to 569 in drivers/video/cgsixfb.c where fbc-mode is
assigned fixes the problem, but it's obviously isn't perfect. It has a
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:34:06PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
I would appreciate a flood of experiences with the uptodate sparc slink
distribution. Serious brokenness is especially welcome but we like
supportive cheers too ;-)
fakeroot seems
I have compiled a new perl, which incorporates both DB_File and GDBM_File
support for sparc.
To do this, I have had to make two changes to the source.
1) I have had to apply the patch in bug #
2) I have had to make the changes suggested by Christian Meder to make
perl find the 1.85
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
I have compiled a new perl, which incorporates both DB_File and GDBM_File
support for sparc.
Only now it fails on the tests.
Specifically, if anyone cares, it fails on
db-btree.t 32,42,65
db-hash.t 27
I don't care very much about 32,42,27 (they all
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 23:21 + 1999-01-26, Jules Bean wrote:
I also need the DB_File extension to work. Unfortunately, Perl won't build
the DB_File extension against Berkeley DB version 2, only Berkeley DB
version 1 - and AFAICS, we don't have a libc6 dev-package
jed requires jed-common; the Packages listing states that this is in
binary-sparc, but it's in binary-all. The same applies to tetex-base, and
several others.
Hmm..
They do indeed live in binary-all, but there should be symlinks in
binary-sparc. Sounds like your mirror was broken - AFAIK,
On 26 Jan 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
As far as I can tell, the source to the X packages are nowhere to be
found. They are cleverly disguised with the same name as Branden's X
packages, but there are absolutely no sparc patches in his source.
There are X packages with source on my site,
Hi there,
I'm trying to compile a copy of 5.004_04 for sparc/slink. The catalyst
for this is that I discovered that our current 5.004 doesn't have
GDBM_file support compiled in.
I succeeded eventually in compiling it (the hitch was an already open bug,
that 5.004 doesn't compile with
Well, my build daemon has picked up the following so far.
When I get a chance, I'll compile all the failure logs into a summary.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ls *changes
a2ps_4.10.4-4_sparc.changes pciutils_1.10-1_sparc.changes
asclassic_1.1b-3_sparc.changes wmaker_0.20.3-2_sparc.changes
Hiya,
Some of you will remember me reporting watchdog resets on quitting X on my
SS2 with a cgsix, in the late 2.1.x kernels.
Various patches were applied - I tested some, to no avail.
Then, I stopped using my sparc for a while for unrelated reasons. Now I
have found time to try a
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, ds wrote:
I am trying to place the resc1440.bin file on a floppy, but
the floppy will only format to 1.38MB. There sin't a rawrite2
for Sparc. How can I get this img onto the floppy disk?
Thanks.
dd if=filename of=/dev/fd0
sync
Should work.
Jules
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Ben Collins wrote:
How much interest is there in having some 'ports' of debian that are only
meant to be overlays to other OS's such as Solaris? I think Solaris would
be the only one I am interested in.
debian-solaris-sparc
(modelled after debian-hurd-i386)
Sounds like
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Anton Blanchard wrote:
Alas :-( It doesn't fix it. The machine stil halts (actually, it watchdog
resets) when X dies.
Can you get a dump of .registers, .locals, ctrace? I don't have a cgsix so
it is pretty hard to trace without something to go on :)
--On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 1:25 pm -0500 Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 10:08 pm +0100 Eric Delaunay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About kernel, I will release the next bootdisks with 2.0.35. Is it
enough
reliable for *all
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Anton Blanchard wrote:
Hi Jules,
Are you using a cgsix framebuffer? The current kernels have a problem with
the cgsix, which Davem narrowed down to the cg6_reset function.
Do you get booted back to the PROM? If so can you get the results of:
.locals
Did someone just upload a new zsh?
It segfaults when run on my SS2/2.1.125...
Jules
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| Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond,
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
On 26/11, Jules Bean wrote:
| Did someone just upload a new zsh?
|
| It segfaults when run on my SS2/2.1.125...
You mean bus error? I've reported this yesterday as a zsh bug, but
didn't receive any feedback yet.
I do mean bus error, yes
--On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 12:41 pm -0500 Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 06:08:20PM +0100, Christian Meder wrote:
which kernel will we use as standard kernel ?
Although I haven't tried X with it, the 2.1.129 kernel on this debian
sparc system of mine has been up
--On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 4:51 pm -0500 Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 10:08:11PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
About kernel, I will release the next bootdisks with 2.0.35. Is it
enough
reliable for *all* sparc workstations, or should I switch to 2.1 ?
The 2.0.x
--On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 11:25 am -0600 Brian H. Dunford-Shore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This seems like it is a bug that has been discussed on the
sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu mailing list:
On Tuesday, November 03, 1998 9:56 PM, Anton Blanchard
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Brian,
I
--On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 8:53 am -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Volkmar Sieh writes:
Where can I get this corresponding sparc_patch?
Jules Bean writes:
Wait for it to appear on your local debian mirror...
Unfortunately, I haven't yet found appropriate packages
(kernel-image-2.1.125
--On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 7:05 pm +0100 Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, it's actually heading for an unstable (potato) target in any
case
Please refrain from uploading potato stuff until we reached a conclusion.
All
my uploads up to now are in sync with frozen i386.
I
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Christian Meder wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 04:51:32PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
--On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 4:25 pm +0100 Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:13:40AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
Also, I compiled the xfree86 packages
--On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 4:25 pm +0100 Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 10:13:40AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
Also, I compiled the xfree86 packages under the new libc6 2.0.100. I had
to hack around some with a few things so I'm not gonna upload them to
Incoming,
--On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 6:45 pm +0100 Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I was discussing with Brian if we could get frozen for release on Sparc
for 2.1. His answer was that if we are almost ready now for release we
could
get the freeze.
What's the concensus here ?
IMHO
--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
--On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 9:13 pm + Scott Ashcroft
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christian Meder wrote:
I tested the glibc2.1 with 2.0.35 and 2.1.125 and it works great. The ^Z
problem should be fixed.
If you've got any problems with any of the packages please report it to
the list.
--On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 9:17 pm -0500 Derrick J Brashear
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
I'd just spent 10 CPU hours compiling glibc 2.0.100 on my SS2, only to
have it segfault on an explicit invocation of ld-linux.so (which I
suspect
is a typical
--On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 5:35 pm +0100 Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
glibc2.1, egcs, kernel 2.0.35, 2.1.125 and some base packages are on its
way
to master ...
I tested the glibc2.1 with 2.0.35 and 2.1.125 and it works great. The ^Z
problem should be fixed.
Hurrah!
--On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 11:38 pm -0600 Ron Mathis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have gotten Linux installed and running. I am running the 2.0.33
kernel and have not run dselect because of the bash/kernel messages of
late. I looked at upgrading the kernel and got he 2.0.35 kernel from
--On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 3:44 pm +0530 Sanjeev Gupta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In an earlier thread, Jules said:
apt-get is segfault because you have broken your libraries - alas, you'll
have to recompile apt against libstdc++ 2.9
Tried to compile apt the hard way (./configure ; make).
--On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 1:35 pm -0500 Jaldhar H. Vyas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In other Debian/sparc news, i've gotten dbuild set up. Unfortunately I
can only spare about 0.5GB which won't be enough for all of debian (and
there's that firewall problem) but I hope to be able to contribute a
--On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 4:59 pm -0500 Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I got apt and tried to recompile it (as was suggested) but it wont
build...
it dies during configure. Has anyone else tried? I will re-unpack it
and come up with a log of the error if anyone wants.
I didn't have
--On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 11:44 AM -0500 Stephen J. Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b
I also trie dby hand
./configure (never finishes...always an error)
Try it by hand again, with debian/rules binary (after making sure you have
the correct C++ dev package). If
--On Mon, Nov 9, 1998 10:42 am -0500 Matthew Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I just browsed through Debian-sparc archives, and got a few answers, but I
still have a few questions:
Oops. I apologise for my last mail, then :-)
There is a kernel 2.0.35 binary which I could have installed as
--On Sat, Nov 7, 1998 12:09 pm +0530 Sanjeev Gupta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, my question was improperly phrased. Is there an apt for sid? And
if so, where?
Is there not one in the archive (it would be section admin)?
If not, compile it yourself - that's what I did. Download the
If you simply install kernel_image 2.0.35 from sid, you'll be fine - it
has the required patches.
apt-get is segfault because you have broken your libraries - alas, you'll
have to recompile apt against libstdc++ 2.9
Jules
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Oct 20, Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you check the other libraries php is linked to ? It seems one of
them is libc5-based.
I can't check if those libraries are linked with
3) Occasionally, the system will switch to the X VC for no reason. This
often seems to happen on the first console message since xconsole was
launched. This will often be accompanied by symptoms of X 'latching on'
to
the VC which was running when it happened.
This seems odd, I would
A couple of problems which I definitely see with my X server:
1) Control key gets 'stuck' down.
If I use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch out of X into VC 1, and then use simply
Alt-F7 to switch back in, the server then behaves as if the ctrl key is
held down. This can be cleared easily enough by
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 1:12 pm +0200 Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* if there's a stabilized snapshot newbies will get (hopefully) a
softer introduction in the wonders of the Linux-Sparc/Powerpc/Arm/...
world
I see your argument. I'm worried that we might be perceived as
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 3:11 am +0200 Hartmut Koptein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Have you a working getty on sparc with glibc-2.1 ?
We only use 2.1 - so, yes, we do.
sorry for insist: is this the normal util-linux package, or have you it
patched?
Um.. I'm afraid I don't know. I'm
--On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 12:14 am +0200 Christian Meder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:05:25AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
Brian == Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian Could I get some official word on which architectures wish
Brian to be included in
--On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 1:01 am -0500 Michael Shuey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Be warned, the following are the insane ramblings of a tired, bored
programmer
and should not be taken as any sort of reasonable thought. You have been
warned.
OK.
I'm sorry I've been dormant for a couple of
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 12:28:04PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
I am doing some work on Diskless XTerminals
(http://people.delphi.com/sjc/linux)
I decided to give it a try with my SUN IPC
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
I am doing some work on Diskless XTerminals
(http://people.delphi.com/sjc/linux)
I decided to give it a try with my SUN IPC.
To do this I need a custom kernel so I built one with NFSROOT and bootp
both on.
I did a make vmlinux in the
Johnie,
I judge from the huge number of uploads the other night that you have the
sparc auto-compile going.
Would it be possible to have the output from your autocompiles on the
debian-sparc webpages? I think that would be a useful thing (maybe only
the BAD lines).
Jules
Hi all,
I have just cvs committed a preliminary release of the debian-sparc
webpages. There is currently no link to these pages from the main site,
and this is deliberate. I want some feedback before they go fully 'live'.
debian-sparc people, please check the pages for information content, and
On 12 Aug 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
Is anybody doing anything about our X? It still crashes routinely.
xdm is largely unusable. When started with startx, it can still crash
after awhile and sometimes bring the system down with it.
This has forced us to switch to RedHat on our Sparc
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Tres Hofmeister wrote:
On 1998.07.23, Jonas Oberg wrote:
:
: So, I uploaded a newer mount to master and also a new ssh to non-us.
Thanks! I've got a strange problem: when using ssh, something's
up with the terminal handling. Sending a SIGSTOP using ^Z causes
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Dave Broudy wrote:
I must just be lucky, as I never seem to have any of the problems
mentioned on the list :) But I don't have any problems with control-z on
my ss2.
I'm using slink straight from ftp.us.debian.org.
Interesting.
Would you mind telling me a bit more
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's what I propose:
Someone is given write access to the web page source (Jules I assume).
You are given your own subdirectory, /sparc which is webwml/english/sparc in
CVS, in which you create your own pages (using wml. Don't worry, this will
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Dave Broudy wrote:
promlib: Version 2 Revision 2
prom: 2.6
I'm on 2.4 on both machines here. I guess the tftp problem was fixed in
.5 or .6.
Jules
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Wolfgang Leideck wrote:
Hello.
On 7. Jul i wrote that i have installed the current snapshot of the v2.0
kernel.
I want it recompile with SMP-Option on. If i want to boot the kernel i got
following
uncompressing ...
PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5
Interrupt level 15
Normaly
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
Installs are going well either side of me, and I've downloaded (not yet
tested) the X debs from netg.se.
Great! Let me know how X works out.
X appears to work well. To recap, this is an SS2 with a cg6. It's groovy
- lovely and fast (shame
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
And what's up with gpm losing control of the mouse when
xdm/Xwindows is running? Is that the poor handling of the tty's mentioned
here earlier? Is that a kernel problem? Handled in the unstable kernel
tree?
Probably gpm and X not getting
On 21 Jul 1998, Stephen Zander wrote:
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Jules in itself, but key to compiling some other things) and this
Jules ldd bug seems annoying, possibly serious.
I saw your post about ldd but have never seen it mis-behave so I
didn't
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
On 21 Jul 1998, Stephen Zander wrote:
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Jules in itself, but key to compiling some other things) and this
Jules ldd bug seems annoying, possibly serious.
I saw your post about ldd
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Tres Hofmeister wrote:
Is there an ssh Debian package out there for ssh 1.2.26?
The most recent I could find was a 1.2.22 based package, at:
ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/frozen/binary-sparc
On 21 Jul 1998, Stephen Zander wrote:
Jules To satisfy my curiousity, would you execute the following
Jules on your machine:
Jules md5sum /usr/bin/ldd /lib/libc-2.0.93.so
3519891fb43b6a1d5ff81c9e69034359 /usr/bin/ldd
547e0385a5a3b8c604aa9a3b6d17323e /lib/libc-2.0.93.so
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 15:25 -0700 1998-07-21, Jules Bean wrote:
Well, not *all* that much. See my original message. Things that spring
to mind are - menu, lots of the graphics stuff (we have GIMP though,
yay!), libg++272 (not valuable in itself, but key to compiling
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 17:06 -0700 1998-07-21, Jules Bean wrote:
To follow up my own message, it seems that we aren't using the glibc
version of ldd. I don't know why.
sparc has libc5, glibc ldd can't deal with libc5 binaries, ldso ldd handles
libc5 and libc6 binaries
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Jonas Oberg wrote:
latest version. In particular, someone should look into rebuilding mount.
That would fix several dependency problems.
Actually, I did this just a few hours ago :-) I've got a mount-2.7l,
debian revision 5 working just fine here. If someone could
Hi all.
There seem to be quite a few problems with the sparc port, and I'm more
than happy to help - but this list seems to be almost dead. No one with
an 'air of authority' is around here...
I see the following problems with my SS2:
1) The boot disks don't work. Not an issue for me, but
You didn't Cc: your reply back to the list. In general, you should, since
my answers will be valuable to others. I am taking the liberty of Cc:ing
this all back to the list now.
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Michael Mattice wrote:
Jules Bean writes:
I see the following problems with my SS2
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Chris Trainor wrote:
I've had no problems with the boot disks on a Sparc 5. Just figured i'd
let everyone know. ;)
What I would like, and can't find, is a graphical Xclient. I tried just
tossing in Redhats CG6 client, but it didn't seem to work too well, and I
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Dave Broudy wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
1) Download the .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz and .dsc file for the package from
any mirror in dists/hamm or slink/source
2) Put all three in the same dir. Type 'dpkg-source -x .dsc'
3) Cd into the newly
Hmm...
ldd seems to be badly broken on sparc - and this impacts dpkg-shlibdeps,
which makes package building hard. I presume this is a known problem.
What is its status? I couldn't see anything in the BTS, but maybe I'm not
looking the the right place..
Jules
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tcpdump'ed the period while it is waiting, and the SPARC is doing lots
of ACK commands, clearly waiting for something. Believing that redhat's
tftp was broken, I first updated it, and secondly copied across my debian
one, but these
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
ok...
At he MIT Flea Market I puyrchased another Sun Station this month.
I got me an IPC this time. It seems faster but...
I still can't get Linux on it :(
I came in to see a guy I know with some SUN stations at work
yesterday, nd we made up
Hi there again...
Still no luck with my floppy drive. However, I yesterday installed my
transceivers, and started net-booting.
All went well initially (I'm booting off redhat, I'm afraid - it's my
friend's machine) until the stage where it downloads the tftpboot.img.
I had deduced (by using
It's me again. I seem to account for a high %age of debian-sparc traffic
at the moment - sorry :-)
Installs are going well either side of me, and I've downloaded (not yet
tested) the X debs from netg.se.
So, I'm wondering - why is there no apt for sparc? Is there a known
technical issue, or
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Dave Broudy wrote:
I just inheireted a Sparc 2, and I've noticed that there are a few less
packages Debian Sparc than for x86. What is the easiest/best way to
compile existing packages for x86, not only for my own use, but for the
main distribution site?
I can probably
Hi there!
Be gentle with me - I'm new to the debian-sparc effort..
I have just got hold of two Sparc 2s, and have (of course!) decided to try
putting debian on them. I'm using the newest boot-disks from a debian
mirror.
One of the sparcs appears to have a buggered floppy drive (it won't
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