Hi List, Can someone here explain to me how the build daemon is supposed to work? Last week I was whining to our debian packager about the ppc guys being so slow to build new packages. He enlightened me saying that (in this case lilypond1.3) had been accepted into woody overnight, and if I maybe meant the build daemon??
Anyway, I found that quite a number of packages that are available for i386, are not available for powerpc, even though they (or at least some of them) build: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# apt-get update Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Packages ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# apt-get install lilypond1.3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package lilypond1.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# apt-get -b source lilypond1.3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# apt-get -b source lilypond1.3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 1062kB of source archives. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]# dpkg -i lilypond1.3_1.3.75-1_powerpc.deb Selecting previously deselected package lilypond1.3. (Reading database ... 36403 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking lilypond1.3 (from lilypond1.3_1.3.75-1_powerpc.deb) ... Setting up lilypond1.3 (1.3.75-1) ... Running /usr/bin/mktexlsr /usr/share/texmf... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. GNU LilyPond configuration completed. Please read /usr/share/doc/lilypond1.3/README.Debian to get started. I've had the very same thing for smpeg some time ago. It seems that we powerpc people are probably all building the latest stuff ourselves. Now, before I'm tempted to start on apache and mod_php4: Why is this and how can I help? Greetings, Jan. Here's a diff of binary packages (some of these, such as lilo, are expected to be missing, of course): 22:20:14 appel ~$ zdiff -u ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-{i386,powerpc}/Packages.gz | grep '^[-+]Package:' -Package: 3c5x9utils -Package: acpid -Package: aide -Package: aime -Package: aleph -Package: aleph-dev -Package: alsa-utils-0.4 -Package: alsaplayer -Package: alsaplayer-alsa -Package: alsaplayer-esd -Package: alsaplayer-oss -Package: altgcc +Package: amiga-fdisk +Package: amiga-fdisk-bf -Package: aolserver -Package: aolserver-postgres -Package: apache -Package: apache-common -Package: apache-dev -Package: aprsdigi -Package: aspell -Package: atlas-test -Package: atlas2 -Package: atlas2-dev -Package: autogen -Package: awe-drv -Package: awe-midi -Package: awe-netscape-libc5 -Package: awe-netscape-libc6 -Package: bbkeys -Package: bcc -Package: bin86 -Package: bock -Package: bonobo +Package: bridgex -Package: bugsquish -Package: bumprace -Package: bzflag 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-Package: xserver-s3 -Package: xserver-s3v -Package: xserver-svga -Package: xserver-vga16 -Package: xserver-w32 -Package: xview -Package: xview-altdev +Package: yaboot -Package: z8530-utils -Package: zlib1 -Package: zlib1-altdev +Package: zorroutils -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org