John Hasler said: > I recently referred a SPARC user to http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/. He > came back and said that the Debian SPARC port was too old to bother with. > Looking at the page I see, under "Current Status", > > Debian SPARC in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (``potato'') uses Linux 2.2 (which > ^^^^^^ > includes SPARC patches), the release GNU libc 2.1, egcs 1.1.2, etc. In > short, recent work in the GNU toolchain is enabling us to keep all of the > Debian ports in sync. > > I had understood that Woody included all architectures.
This is true; it's the /ports/sparc/ page that is incorrect. (It is not being maintained by the debian-sparc@ people unfortunately.) The sparc install manual for woody is probably a good point for your friend to start reading: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
