Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-10 Thread luther sven
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 01:52:32PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:15:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:06:55AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:03:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > but this me

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:15:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:06:55AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:03:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > but this means that there is no way someone could run X in the > > > current situation

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread luther
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:06:55AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:03:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > but this means that there is no way someone could run X in the > > current situation. Is it so difficult/long to rebuild this packages ? > > or to upload them

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:03:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > but this means that there is no way someone could run X in the > current situation. Is it so difficult/long to rebuild this packages ? > or to upload them > ? Well, if they already had the packages, they just need to not upgrade.

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread luther
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:35:29AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 03:13:38AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Nov 09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > is it no problem to use xbase_3.3.2.3a-7.deb together with > > > xlib6g_3.3.2.3-1.deb and xserver-fbdev_3.3.2.3-1.deb. >

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 03:13:38AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Nov 09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > is it no problem to use xbase_3.3.2.3a-7.deb together with > > xlib6g_3.3.2.3-1.deb and xserver-fbdev_3.3.2.3-1.deb. > > There probably is a problem, in that you need at least xbase-clients >

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it no problem to use xbase_3.3.2.3a-7.deb together with > xlib6g_3.3.2.3-1.deb and xserver-fbdev_3.3.2.3-1.deb. There probably is a problem, in that you need at least xbase-clients (and probably xterm) to have a decent X installation with a-7. My understan

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-09 Thread luther
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 01:52:30PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:23:00AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > > It's up to you guys. I was told powerpc was ready except it needed kernel > > 2.1, which I okayed. > > In that case, we'll wait for the next time around - hopefull

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-06 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:23:00AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > It's up to you guys. I was told powerpc was ready except it needed kernel > 2.1, which I okayed. In that case, we'll wait for the next time around - hopefully we should be ready by then. Dan

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-06 Thread Brian White
It's up to you guys. I was told powerpc was ready except it needed kernel 2.1, which I okayed. > > debian/powerpc at present: > > - has no X (until the new glibc is uploaded) > > debian/sparc at present: > - has X albeit still slightly buggy but definitly usable, but we have to wait > for the