Potato revision 2

2000-11-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, In the next day or so, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will be creating a list of show stoppers for potato revision two. This list will hopefully be maintained for future revisions, and be treated more or less as the release critical bug list has been during the freeze [0]. If there's

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi, On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:21:24AM +, Chris Rutter wrote: > The ARM port is very much maintained in spirit; I currently correspond > to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and I very much intend, as soon as time > permits, to push issues forward. There's a collection of buildds, and > a prototypic syste

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Chris Rutter
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > i just had to discover that somehow the arm port isn't > maintained. i got the impression that someone set up an buildd > and etc. pp. so, what is the actual status? i am a bit confused > right now. The ARM port is very much maintained in spirit; I cur

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> # dpkg --install *.deb Ahh, but that's the tricky part: no /var/lib/dpkg, only about 2.5M of free space on the device for that matter... much of what is there is a cramfs, and so readonly. (This is probably better discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it didn't get much attention last time I bro

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Othmar Pasteka
[[ sorry if people get this mail twice, becausei might have messed up the Cc: header i resend this post to the list]] hi, On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > As there is no ssh in main/anything. The problem is the non-us packages are > woefully out-of-date. :-( y

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "Mark" == Mark W Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> For that matter, is the arm port primarily a netwinder port, Mark> or more broad? I've been building stuff from debian for the Mark> iPAQ PDA (200mhz SA1100) mostly to put in the NFS-mounted Mark> /usr/local, and in f

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Mark W. Eichin
For that matter, is the arm port primarily a netwinder port, or more broad? I've been building stuff from debian for the iPAQ PDA (200mhz SA1100) mostly to put in the NFS-mounted /usr/local, and in fact doing apt-get source foo cd foo-version ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Othmar Pasteka wrote: > one of the things which also points to a more or less > unmaintained port is that there is no ssh in main/arm :(. As there is no ssh in main/anything. The problem is the non-us packages are woefully out-of-date. :-( There are a number of problems with the ARM port (e.g.

status of arm port

2000-11-19 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, i just had to discover that somehow the arm port isn't maintained. i got the impression that someone set up an buildd and etc. pp. so, what is the actual status? i am a bit confused right now. one of the things which also points to a more or less unmaintained port is that there is no ssh in ma