installing on RiscPC

2001-08-28 Thread Philip Blundell
I get the feeling this is still a bit of a black art. Looking at the boot-floppies documentation, it's no surprise: there seems to be no RiscPC specific information at all. Would anybody who's been through this process care to work on adding suitable stuff to the manual? I suspect the amoun

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-08-28 Thread Philip Blundell
>Yeah, http://bugs.debian.org/85715 . Pretty involved, and >unfortunately, most of the posts on it went directly between myself and >Joost Witteveen, the author, without ccing the bug. Mmm. The bug log doesn't seem to contain any information at all about what the problem turned out to be. :-(

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Philip Blundell wrote: D'oh! I was trying to build under 2.2.19, which is known to cause problems with fakeroot. I didn't know that. Does anybody know what's actually wrong with it? I've actually just switched the default install kernel for woody back to 2.2.19 from 2.4.5 because the latter

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-08-28 Thread Wookey
On Tue 28 Aug, Philip Blundell wrote: > >D'oh! I was trying to build under 2.2.19, which is known to cause > >problems with fakeroot. > > I didn't know that. Does anybody know what's actually wrong with it? I've > actually just switched the default install kernel for woody back to 2.2.19 > f

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-08-28 Thread Philip Blundell
>D'oh! I was trying to build under 2.2.19, which is known to cause >problems with fakeroot. I didn't know that. Does anybody know what's actually wrong with it? I've actually just switched the default install kernel for woody back to 2.2.19 from 2.4.5 because the latter didn't seem especiall

Re: What's the status on Xfree86 4.1.0?

2001-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, I've tried to build X twice now, both times with the same error. I've put the log at http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/xfree86_4.1.0-2.log but it ends with: rm -f encodings.dir fonts.dir + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../exports/lib + ../../exports/bin/mkfontdir -r -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodin

Re: dpkg hangs with large debs

2001-08-28 Thread Philip Blundell
I've added code to the installer to detect broken strongarms and print some kind of suitable warning. This will be in the next version of the boot-floppies for both potato and woody, whenever those get built. Does anybody have a short precis of the issues that we could put on an explanatory we