On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:48:12PM +0100, Michael Ritzert wrote: > Hello Dan,
Hi. > a few weeks ago i posted about NetBSD-Debian, but i did not get any reply :-(( Oh well, there doesn't seem to be many people involved. So if we're it, we many as well start something. > Well, IMHO the first thing to know is about the concepts of the other port.s. Indeed. It's probably best we fall in line with the other *BSD port, especially the NetBSD ports on ia32 and alpha. > Which parts of NetBSD are needed and which parts of debian? Obviously the kernel. I and think there's something else like glibc. Hopefully someone will be able to deny or comfirm that, as I can't remember off hand. > Will, for > example, NetBSD-debian simply be a NetBSD bootdisk (i.e., an > absolutely minimal BSD system) + debian package system + netbsd > software in debian packages? Or is a larger base system > necessary/desirable? Interesting... Personally the full Debian userland would be nice. Maybe including the NetBSD version of some tools would be a good idea. > Is there any concept of this? Are the two > existing ports identical in this respect or do they differ? That's something I can't answer. Hopefully someone on the list can. > Which > versions of NetBSD and Debian sources do we base on? I have a cdrom > image of NetBSD 1.5.2 an a full Debian 3.0/intel including sources. > Would this be an appropraite basis to start with? I have NetBSD 1.6 which I downloaded last week. Debian 3.0 seems a sensable start. > Then the prerequisits: > > a) Hardware > > do You have a 2nd machine to build the port? If no, two bootable disks > would be very useful - one for the development system, and one to test > the installation. The system I have is a SS20 with one 1Gb drive and two 2G drive. A cd-rom drive but no floppy drive. > b) Software: in which host environmentwill You build the port? NetBSD, > Linux, Solaris (Intel/Sparc/whatever -- setting up gcc as a cross > compiler is a bit laborious but not difficult) So far I have installed NetBSD 1.6 onto the sparc, downloaded the dpkg source from CVS. I need to sort out perl as I don't appear to have dumper.pm installed. So I haven't even created the configuration file yet. I would like to install it from the NetBSD packages but I haven't spent time working that out properly. I've ran 'sup' but that's about it. apt is so nice ;) > BTW: my testing system would be a sparcstation 2; i would like to > build things on my Ultra1/Solaris box Is it a problem if we build software on different OSes for cross compiling? Might actually be easier to cross compile. I would probably install linux on one for the other disks. Dan
