Re: History of Debian bootstrapping/porting efforts

2012-11-22 Thread peter green
Since yesterday, my tools can now finally turn the whole dependency graph Does this "whole dependency graph" include the implicit build-dependency every package has on build-essential? The above case for example has no alternative solution as the cycle is of length two and has no other way of

Re: History of Debian bootstrapping/porting efforts

2012-11-20 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:22:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > For reviving m68k: Thanks for your detailed explanations! I added a summary of it to the m68k section of the wiki page [1], extending the notes entered there by Ingo Jürgensmann. Thanks to both of you! > > - how did you go ab

Re: History of Debian bootstrapping/porting efforts

2012-11-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Johannes Schauer dixit: >If you were ever involved in porting Debian to a new architecture or >know how a port was done, please do not hesitate to either write me an For reviving m68k: > - did you cross compile parts of Debian? How much? How hard was it? Only to test kernels and a few userspace

Re: History of Debian bootstrapping/porting efforts

2012-11-14 Thread Daniel Schepler
I read your recent post to debian-devel with great interest, as I've done some bootstrapping efforts in the past, and I'm currently in the middle of a "port" for the x32 ABI. In the past, what I've done (mostly privately) was to develop a script I called "pbuildd" which essentially just runs throu

Re: History of Debian bootstrapping/porting efforts

2012-11-13 Thread Игорь Пашев
I took OpenIndiana and started to rebuild Debian packages ignoring formal dependencies. Each new package was "install" via "dpkg-deb -x" :-)