On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:34:42AM -0500, Kirstin S. Reese wrote: > > I've got this wonderful mac sitting next to me, loaded up with dimms and > scsi drives and a big monitor, yet sitting unused for months because of an > yukky operating system. > > Meanwhile I wind up doing all my work on this ugly, tired, and old intel > box. So: something isn't right. > > Anyway, I now have the room to put an alternate os on the mac, but the > nasty red-hatish nature of linux-ppc gives me the heebi-jeebies. I want > dselect and proper packages!
Wheeeee! > Since I'm going to be compiling lots of source in order to have a > comfortable working environment (and I just Love configuring ;), I thought > I might share my efforts. > > These would include xemacs, scheme48 (what's wrong with those guile > people?), scsh, hugs (the haskell user gopher system), the absolutely > evil-to-bootstrap-and-compile ghc (the glorious glasgow haskell compiler), > gc (a conservative generational garbage collector for C/C++), es (the > extensible shell), and related stuff. > > And, I am not opposed to deb-making whatever else the masses might desire. > > I've just installed a minimum version of linux-ppc, but I need some > pointers as to how to go about debianizing it. (And how to go about making > good packages and how to be a package maintainer, etc.) OK. The basic process of switching to debian/powerpc goes like this: Get a really small LinuxPPC system up. Check! Untar the base2_1.tgz from the ftp site somewhere, preferably on another partition. ______ Make a couple of missing devices and delete /sbin/unconfigured.sh; set up network in /etc/init.d/network; create fstab and resolv.conf by hand; configure anything else that really wants configuring. ______ Install apt and go! ______ If you want to become a developer, I recommend that you (A) Join the -devel and -mentors lists, (B) Read the information in Developer's Corner on the web site. I believe someone tried to pakage ghc, but I could be mistaken; ask on -devel. Dan
