"EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> that would indeed be a good thing to do, the helix guys EB> seem to be interested in doing these debs right so maybe if EB> you get them built they will make them available. i would EB> guess they don't have access to any non-intel hardware EB> which would explain the intel only binaries. that is one EB> disadvantage of non-debian developer maintained packages i EB> suppose. (is this eventually going to get an official EB> debian maintainer?)
I think they may have done a better job with the debs than with the RPMs -- my housemate installed their RPMs on a Red Hat box and discovered that none of the executables were stripped! (Stripping recovered something on the order of 20 MiB!) You can definitely do apt-get source <package> and build it; you may want to check to make sure you have all the build depends installed first, though. You probably shouldn't bother with the deb lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list -- there aren't any binary packages for PowerPC, and apt will just complain if you try to get those (nonexistent) lists. I grabbed gnome-pilot, built it, installed it, and, after freezing my system with setserial and recovering, was finally able to sync my Pilot from Linux. I have no idea how to access the data from any applications yet, but at least it's backed up. The HelixCode people do seem interested in building debs for PowerPC, though -- see <http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/958714217/>, especially <http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/958714217/958763816/958862650/index_html> (hmm, looks like Zope...). There's also been some discussion about getting the debian directories into the CVS archive, and whether the Helix packages will become an ``official'' part of woody or not (the Helix folks want to work something out with the current maintainers). CMC +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Behind the counter a boy with a shaven head stared vacantly into space, a dozen spikes of microsoft protruding from the socket behind his ear. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHC, DS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
