On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:08:19PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:00:51PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > FYI, I did a full build with "dpkg-buildpackage -B" and it built with no > > > > problems on sparc. > > > > > > AFAIK there are still pcmcia issues on i386. The pcmcia package doesn't > > > match the kernel or something and needs to be rebuilt. > > > > Ok, that's the issue I was trying to remember. Any idea who is handling > > this, and when it is expected to be done? > > Adam Di Carlo was, but he had to take a trip. > > Compiling matching kernels/pcmcia .deb's for the boot floppies is a bit > of a black art. You have to worry about the various i386 flavors, plus > just getting the resulting .deb to have the right filename can be tough. > It takes manual, undocumented hacking. Only people I know who know how > to do it are Randolph Chung, Adam Di Carlo, and Herbert Xu.
Is there a special mantra I must chant to get one of them to produce these coveted packages? :) -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
