Re: Status of Debian on the PowerMacs?

1998-08-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Alex Romosan wrote: > i think you should mention that the kernel version has to be greater > than 2.1.102 (not sure about the last digit) because of the > chown/lchown problem. i spent enough time figuring this out. done. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live i

Re: Status of Debian on the PowerMacs?r

1998-08-24 Thread cfm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've just reinstalled debian from the base.tar.gz tarball. > > > > I had (have) three difficulties: 1) relating to the tarball 2) > > another because I was installing **over** a redhat/mklinux > > system, and 3) no editor worked. > > > > 1) dselect/dpkg uses awk to

powerbook do's/donts?

1998-08-24 Thread Shaleh
I may be getting a powerbook this week. Anyone care to comment on which ones work and which dont. No, it wont be a G3 )-:

Re: Apt dies in configure (slang problem).

1998-08-24 Thread Rob Browning
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't have powerpc support (of all the emacsen, only xemacs20 has any > powerpc support). I have patches from the linuxppc SRPMs in my home > directory on master for emacs 19 and 20. Well, since I'm the emacs20 maintainer, and I now have a very conv

Re: Status of Debian on the PowerMacs?

1998-08-24 Thread Alex Romosan
i think you should mention that the kernel version has to be greater than 2.1.102 (not sure about the last digit) because of the chown/lchown problem. i spent enough time figuring this out. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it

Re: Status of Debian on the PowerMacs?

1998-08-24 Thread Joel Klecker
At 23:31 -0700 1998-08-22, Rob Browning wrote: >Now that might be it. Does kernel-package work right on powerpc these >days? Not for kernel-image packages yet. Hartmut Koptein and I sent Manoj patches for this, but a kernel-package with them hasn't been released yet. Attached is my diff against k

Re: Apt dies in configure (slang problem).

1998-08-24 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:52 -0700 1998-08-23, Rob Browning wrote: >Also, is there some big known problem with emacs20, or should I try to >work on it? It doesn't have powerpc support (of all the emacsen, only xemacs20 has any powerpc support). I have patches from the linuxppc SRPMs in my home directory on master for

Re: Apt dies in configure (slang problem).

1998-08-24 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 05:16:50PM -0700, Matt McLean wrote: > On 23 Aug 1998, Rob Browning wrote: > > > > > FWIW, I tried to build apt, and it died during the configure stage > > with an SLang problem. After I hacked configure.in, it got past that > > stage, but it ends up needing libg++ which

Re: Apt dies in configure (slang problem).

1998-08-24 Thread Matt McLean
On 23 Aug 1998, Rob Browning wrote: > > FWIW, I tried to build apt, and it died during the configure stage > with an SLang problem. After I hacked configure.in, it got past that > stage, but it ends up needing libg++ which it looks like isn't > available yet. Is that a major sticking point righ