Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Branden Robinson writes: > > > Sorry, I tend to ignore wankers who want everything sugar-coated. Aah, the joys of electronic communication. Anyway, I think the original problem should be taken to debian-mentors because it doesn't really relate to the PowerPC architecture. The situation i

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:02:16PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > see recent rants by joey hess and the lilo debacle for more details... > > Sorry, I tend to ignore rants. Sorry, I tend to ignore wankers who want everything sugar-coated. -- G. Branden Robinson |Software eng

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: >Configuration file handling must conform to the following behavior: > * local changes must be preserved during a package upgrade Thanks for pointing me to the relevant section. > see recent rants by joey hess and the lilo debacle for more details... Sorry, I

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread David J. Roundy
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > David J. Roundy writes: > > > when I do `startmol --loadonly', I get the following error message: > > > # startmol --loadonly > > [...] > > /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/mol.o: unresolved symbol mc_giveup_altivec > > > This so

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > If you are using the /etc/molrc file created by debconf, then you > should change the `processor' option in this file from G3 to 604. case in point, this change will be destroyed on next mol upgrade. -- Ethan Benson http://www

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:34:04PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Ethan Benson writes: > > > otherwise when the package is later upgraded the config file is > > again blown away. > > It's a feature. If you say `yes' to automatic configuration, you are > handing the whole thing to debco

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, David J. Roundy writes: > when I do `startmol --loadonly', I get the following error message: > # startmol --loadonly > [...] > /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/misc/mol.o: unresolved symbol mc_giveup_altivec > This sounds like code for the G3 (or G4, whenever they introduced > altivec), while I on

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > otherwise when the package is later upgraded the config file is > again blown away. It's a feature. If you say `yes' to automatic configuration, you are handing the whole thing to debconf once and for all. Well, at least until you dpkg-reconfigure the package and say

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-03 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:57:14PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > `startmol --loadonly' I have now recompiled using the correct kernel source, and when I do `startmol --loadonly', I get the following error message: # startmol --loadonly

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:33:06PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Presently, i.e. in the version I am working on, I use the approach of > the xserver-xfree86 package. If a configuration file exists, debconf > asks whether to overwrite it based on the answers to the following > questions. just s

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-03 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Jens Schmalzing writes: > You should be able to `insmod molsymglue0 mol' successfully if you > are running a 2.2 kernel. `startmol --loadonly', that is. Sorry for the error and for following up on my own post. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib pa

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-03 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, David J. Roundy writes: > I'm using kernel 2.2.19pre17, [...] > I get a mol-modules-2.2.17_0.9.58+Custom.1.00_powerpc.deb, Unless the line above contains a typo, your mol-modules package appears to be compiled with the wrong kernel headers or the wrong kernel source or both. The package sho

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-03 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > you need to move the nvram file to /var/lib: i keep /usr mounted > read-only, the FHS allows this, and debian policy mandates FHS > compliance. I knew I had forgotten one. Thanks for pointing this out. > you need to save the md5sum of the debconf generated config and

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:35:47PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > I've just uploaded new versions of my preliminary Mac-on-Linux > packages to incoming. As usual, they can also be found in > > deb http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main > deb-src http://samiel.the

Re: new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-02 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:35:47PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > I've just uploaded new versions of my preliminary Mac-on-Linux > packages to incoming. As usual, they can also be found in > > deb http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main > deb-src http://samiel.theorie.p

new preliminary packages for mol in incoming (0.9.58-1)

2001-05-02 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, I've just uploaded new versions of my preliminary Mac-on-Linux packages to incoming. As usual, they can also be found in deb http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main deb-src http://samiel.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/debian sid main The most important change is proba