On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:24:09PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Fine, I'll be happy to answer any questions that might arise. If you have > > > access to the wanna-build CVS, get the stuff there. Otherwise, use the > > > latest source at http://people.debian.org/~cts/wanna-build/ and build it > > > on your PPC (just did that). Install sbuild and buildd and get sbuild > > > going (edit /etc/sbuild.conf.local and ~/.sbuildrc). > > > > The wanna-build CVS is public - it allows anonymous pserver, though I > > don't remember the account name. > > anonymous perhaps. I just don't recall the host name. Using CVS has some > benefits (as in: sbuild should know /var/state/apt moved to /var/lib/apt, > and maybe there's support for apt-source in there).
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/CVS, actually, modules wanna-build and srcdep. I think ? should be "anonymous". apt-get source stuff is probably not there yet. > > There is no base.tgz in unstable. You need to use 'debootstrap', which > > I think works on PowerPC now - although I'm not entirely sure of that. > > What's that? Anyway, I brute-forced the unstable chroot by first feeding The replacement for base tarballs :) The installer runs it to create the basic install from debs. > the stable base.tgz to buildd-setup-chroot then dist-upgrading. The only > funny is /dev/null (permission denied reading and writing) which I Eh? You shouldn't have to do that, and you really don't want to. Are you sure the permissions on it were right? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
