Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] New 1.3.5 available for testing!

[Dick M. <di...@fo...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>> I think I'd be happy to give it a try on my live system but I'd need a 586 

It's a mini-itx epia C3 processor.  It chokes on 686 with "kernel requires 
features not present in cpu".

> 586?!?!?  Sheesh, spend $5 and upgrade to a used P-III !!!
> We just through out a bunch of P3's and P4's at work!

The newer C7 is OK with 686, but P-III no thanks ;-)

> OK, I fixed the gzip package and installed all the missing programs from
> the package.  We were missing a bunch of them (zgrep zless zmore znew
> gunzip gzexe zcat zcmp zdiff zegrep zfgrep zforce) and some are shell
> scripts as you stated in your previous email.

I wasn't sure whether they had to be shell scripts or whether hard links would 
do the same job.  The gzip web page was not helpful on the matter.

> The changes are in CVS.  I'll run a fresh compile tonight with the gzip
> changes and set the processor to i586.  [cough, puke :]  
> 
> Hopefully it'll finish and I'll upload it tomorrow.  I'll let you know!

No rush.  I'll not do a change before the weekend anyway.

Dick