Re: status of arm port

2000-11-20 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi, On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:23:18PM -0800, Tor Slettnes wrote: > The problem is specifically `non-us' packages. I would if I could, > but I cannot and so I will not. > If I were to compile and upload ssh, I would be subject to the same > legal status as one who has obtain nuclear secrets and s

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-20 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Based on the name, I assumed you were in Scandinavia or something; from whois, though, it looks like you're in California. That means you're just uninformed :-) First of all, it has been several years since crypto was restricted as weaponry; it changed to be restricted as crypto. Second, in Janu

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-20 Thread Philip Blundell
>i was just today confirmed that there were just 2 packages >uploaden in last weeks/months (don't know for sure but something like >this was told me this evening). There were 178 updated ARM packages in 2.2r1. For the stable distribution, pretty much everything quinn-diff lists as not built is

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Philip Blundell wrote: > >For that matter, is the arm port primarily a netwinder port, or more > >broad? > > It's more broad. All ARM machines should be binary-compatible with the > Debian > packages, at least within reason (no big-endian, no ARM2). Sure seems to work, I

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-20 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "Othmar" == Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Othmar> i thought there were quite a few careing about the Othmar> port. anyway, i and one other debian developer think it's Othmar> time to do something. The problem is specifically `non-us' packages. I would if I could,

Re: status of arm port

2000-11-20 Thread Philip Blundell
>For that matter, is the arm port primarily a netwinder port, or more >broad? It's more broad. All ARM machines should be binary-compatible with the Debian packages, at least within reason (no big-endian, no ARM2). p.

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