On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 07:11:56PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) writes: > > The only prolbem is that you cannot produce these packages > > on a purely bo system as some have promised/hoped. For example, > > Tim Sailer is offering access to a bo system for backporting, > > but unless it has been upgraded to dpkg from hamm then pristine > > sources aren't supported. > > > I don't remember who it was, but somebody has announced that he > succeeded compiling the hamm version of the latest dpkg/dpkg-dev for > libc5 and made it available in "project/experimental". I have this > packages installed along with "debhelper" and have (almost) no > problems making libc5 versions of hamm sources.
dpkg-dev is platform independent (it is in binary-all), so no problem there. After I upgraded that on my bo system, I built some bo-unstable type packages successfully. However, it can't be done on the absolutely pure bo system. That's all I wanted to point out. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
