slink Tarball Progress

1998-07-23 Thread John McCorquodale
Hartmut> The base from infodrom is libc-1.99!! You can get it for a starting Hartmut> point. But we are under the way to packup a slink base tarball. Hartmut> Hartmut> Who was it here? The man with the i386 scripts??? I guess that would be me. Hi, guys. IMPORTANT: Somebody tell me where to get

Re: chown()/lchown() war ...

1998-07-23 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > The ld.so doesn't exist (its part of glibc), but the ldso.deb still > > exists (But has to be build without ld.so). > > Already done IIRC. If so expect it in Incoming this morning. Think of ldd, it is also in the glibc package, put it out from ld.so. Hartmut -- Hartmut Koptein

Re: Installation procedure?

1998-07-23 Thread Sven
i think you should wait a bit more before trying some install. at least until there is a base tarball. once that is done, boot with a ramdisk, mount the partitions, and then untar the tarball. the problem is i don't think you have tar and gzip on the debian ramdisks. perhaps you have it on the

Re: Installation procedure?

1998-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 11:42:59AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: > > I could install a minimal redhat and convert, but is there a more direct > way? > Not yet, but we're on the problem - expect a tarball in a few days. Don't try to convert from redhat unless you are using separate partitions for deb

Installation procedure?

1998-07-23 Thread Josh Huber
Hey, I was looking around for the best way to try out debian linux on my powerpc box. I've been running the linuxppc build for a while (rh derivative), and I think it's time for a clean install, so rather than do the Same Old Thing, I'd rather try out debian... The thing is, I can't seem to find

Re: chown()/lchown() war ...

1998-07-23 Thread Sven
> > The ld.so doesn't exist (its part of glibc), but the ldso.deb still > > exists (But has to be build without ld.so). > Already done IIRC. If so expect it in Incoming this morning. Will this remove ldconfig.deb and put ldso.deb instead ? is what is in the new ldso.deb exactly what was in ldcon

Re: newbie items

1998-07-23 Thread Sven
> I'm still trying to decide what to do for a kernel; Since i don't have lilo working, that will change nothing for me ? perhaps cause problems with modules ? should it not be better to let the kernel out of base, sinbce most people must anyway have a kernel outside of base for first install with

Re: chown()/lchown() war ...

1998-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:15:54PM +0200, Brederlow wrote: > The ld.so doesn't exist (its part of glibc), but the ldso.deb still > exists (But has to be build without ld.so). Already done IIRC. If so expect it in Incoming this morning. > Yep, Bugs are normaly unexpected. :) > dpkg does a chroot

Re: newbie items

1998-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:19:54AM +0200, Sven wrote: > > Expect a base tarball very soon > how long is soon ? > i don't want a deadline from you just an approximate idea of your timeframe. > Unless I have unexpected problems with another base package, in the next several days. I'm still trying

Re: chown()/lchown() war ...

1998-07-23 Thread Brederlow
LUTHER Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hello > > > > > is dpkg --root=newroot --force-depends -i packages.deb correct ? > > > > Well, better leave out the force-depends. > > > How do i explain to dpkg that some packages don't exi

Re: newbie items

1998-07-23 Thread Sven
> Expect a base tarball very soon how long is soon ? i don't want a deadline from you just an approximate idea of your timeframe. Friendly, Sven LUTHER -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie items

1998-07-23 Thread Sven
> I'd be happy to look at a page of things needing done, if there is one. i don't think there is such a thing. perhapsmaking some could be a contributioin ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: newbie items

1998-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 08:47:02PM -0700, Jeffrey Chapman wrote: > I've looked in on #debian a bit, have followed the list for a couple of > days, and I'd like to contribute to the PowerPC port, if possible. I > realize it's probably very much under development, but I admire the i386 > version a

newbie items

1998-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Chapman
I've looked in on #debian a bit, have followed the list for a couple of days, and I'd like to contribute to the PowerPC port, if possible. I realize it's probably very much under development, but I admire the i386 version and would love to see Debian running on Macs and other PowerPC-based mach

ioctl() and libc 2.1

1998-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
I need some programmer opinions here... Glibc 2.1 has a compulsive tendency to redefine structs in libc headers instead of including headers from /usr/include/linux. This causes a few BIG problems. In particular, take a gander at /usr/include/sys/termios.h and /usr/include/linux/termbits.h. Not

Re: chown()/lchown() war ...

1998-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 02:08 -0700 1998-07-20, Sven LUTHER wrote: > >is dpkg --root=newroot --force-depends -i packages.deb correct ? > > cd $newroot && dpkg ... (dpkg uses chroot, but it doesn't chdir to where > the new root is first) And on top of tha