Re: progress report on debian/powerpc/apus boot-floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:45:10PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > pb3 : When i call partition the harddisk, cfdisk is called, and not > > > amiga-fdisk, like it should be. cfdisk don't know anything about

Re: xfree86-1 3.3.6-3; 3 down, 3 to go

2000-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:44:36PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Ok thanks, ... > > i managed to build it in ~600MBs, being root and all so it will use the extra > space also, and removing stuff as it goes, specially the upstream source. But > it never passed the build stage even so. > > Does the p

Re: xfree86-1 3.3.6-3; 3 down, 3 to go

2000-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:30:51PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > i will not be able to build xfree this time, as i lack disk space for it. Btw, > branden, is there any particular reason why 570MB are not enough for it, while > 300Mb are ok for building the upstream X server ? The -g option to gcc mi

Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Roman Hodek
> So the normal installation process on amiga (both m68k and apus) should be : > > * use an amigaos tool, or reuse the old partitioning. > > * if that does not work, use amiga-fdisk to repartition. amiga-fdisk should >be called by the "Partition the harddisk" menu option, or also > di

Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > harddisk option of the menu tries to call cfdisk, which don't support > > > amiga > > > partitions, at least on powerpc/apus. > > > > Which goes to prove that boot-floppies 2.2.4 is utterly broken. 2.1.9 > > wasn't broken (on m68k, please look at the m68k Amiga code in 2.2.4, it > > should

Re: xfree86-1 3.3.6-3; 3 down, 3 to go

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:37:38AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:30:51PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:21:28PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > [Sorry for the wide crossposting.] > > > > > > xfree86-1 3.3.6-3 was installed into the arch

Re: xfree86-1 3.3.6-3; 3 down, 3 to go

2000-01-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:30:51PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:21:28PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [Sorry for the wide crossposting.] > > > > xfree86-1 3.3.6-3 was installed into the archive for alpha and i386 > > yesterday. > > > > The sparc packages are in Inco

Re: xfree86-1 3.3.6-3; 3 down, 3 to go

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:21:28PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [Sorry for the wide crossposting.] > > xfree86-1 3.3.6-3 was installed into the archive for alpha and i386 > yesterday. > > The sparc packages are in Incoming. > > That leaves arm, m68k, and powerpc, which I traditionally do not

Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:10:14PM +0100, Roman Hodek wrote: > > > Isn't fdisk/amiga only used to get the partition data of the disks? > > This was done in the past, but now dbootstrap contains a libfdisk for > this purpose. > > The amiga-fdisk is for the user to repartition his disk if needed.

Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Roman Hodek
> Isn't fdisk/amiga only used to get the partition data of the disks? This was done in the past, but now dbootstrap contains a libfdisk for this purpose. The amiga-fdisk is for the user to repartition his disk if needed. Roman

Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Isn't fdisk/amiga only used to get the partition data of the disks? In > > > this case, we could just make a very small version that does just this. > > > > No, boot-floppies no longer use fdisk -l to determine the partition data > > (that hack was used in 2.0 only). amiga-fdisk is present o

Re: progress report on debian/powerpc/apus boot-floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:45:10PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > pb3 : When i call partition the harddisk, cfdisk is called, and not > > amiga-fdisk, like it should be. cfdisk don't know anything about > > amiga partitioned harddisks. > > Have you fix

Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:28:16PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > So i guess best would be to have two binary package from amiga > > > > fdisk, one called amiga-fdisk is to be used by everyone, the other, > > > > called amiga-fdisk-boot-floppies, or something such is to be used by > > > > th

Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:39:13PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Roman Hodek wrote: > > > Yes, gets() is dangerous because it doesn't check the bounds of the > > input buffer. One should use fgets() instead, e.g.: > > > > +#ifdef DONT_USE_READLINE > > +char *readline (co

Re: console-data

2000-01-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>m/^macintosh|powermac|powerbook|power|imac|powermac1/; >>$subarch = 'mvme' if $subarch eq 'motorola'; >> >>$arch = "$arch/$subarch"; >>} > >A better approach for Power Macs would probably be the field "

Re: console-data

2000-01-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000, Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >my $arch = `dpkg --print-installation-architecture`; >chomp $arch; > >if (($arch eq 'powerpc') || ($arch eq 'm68k')) { > my $subarch; > if ($arch eq 'powerpc') { >my $line = `grep ^machine /proc/cpuinfo`; >

Re: xfree86-1 3.3.6-3; 3 down, 3 to go

2000-01-26 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:21:28PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [Sorry for the wide crossposting.] > > xfree86-1 3.3.6-3 was installed into the archive for alpha and i386 > yesterday. > > The sparc packages are in Incoming. > > That leaves arm, m68k, and powerpc, which I traditionally do not

xfree86-1 3.3.6-3; 3 down, 3 to go

2000-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
[Sorry for the wide crossposting.] xfree86-1 3.3.6-3 was installed into the archive for alpha and i386 yesterday. The sparc packages are in Incoming. That leaves arm, m68k, and powerpc, which I traditionally do not build myself. This is just a message to let folks know that it's ready for build

Re: progress report on debian/powerpc/apus boot-floppies.

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pb3 : When i call partition the harddisk, cfdisk is called, and not > amiga-fdisk, like it should be. cfdisk don't know anything about > amiga partitioned harddisks. Have you fixed this in dbootstrap yet? It should be fairly trivial to fix. I don't wann

Re: console-data

2000-01-26 Thread Nelson Abramson
Hartmut Koptein wrote: > my $arch = `dpkg --print-installation-architecture`; > chomp $arch; > > if (($arch eq 'powerpc') || ($arch eq 'm68k')) { >my $subarch; >if ($arch eq 'powerpc') { > my $line = `grep ^machine /proc/cpuinfo`; > abort ($defs, "No \"machi