[Devil-linux-develop] RE: CVS Access

[Wesley Y. <WC...@bu...>]

Thanks for your reply. Sorry bout the bad posting, it was a long day,
wasn't thinking very clearly. Also, I wasn't sure if I wanted to bother
the developers with a build question, from what I have seen it looked
more like a list for fixing bugs etc.. I'll use that list next time.

I have been playing around with the LFS system from their website and
started looking at your system. I just wanted to snag the build scripts
so I had something to work from; I realize this will take some work. I
just hate to have 4 or 5 G4's lying around with nothing to do. I have
some slackware and gentoo servers running around, but I like the 'OS
from CD' idea, makes for a much better firewall.

Again, thanks for your reply and tips...
Any other commentary or criticisms are more than welcome.

Wes

-----Original Message-----
From: Heiko Zuerker [mailto:he...@zu...]=20
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:00 AM
To: Wesley Young; dev...@li...
Subject: Re: CVS Access

Wes,

you sent the email to the wrong address, please use
dev...@li... instead.

It would also make sense to subscribe to
dev...@li..., so the other users are not
bothered with the technical details behind compiling DL.

>             I am looking to rebuild this distro for a few PPC boxes
> (G4's) that I have laying around. But I can't seem to access the CVS
> servers.

PPC ? Outsch.


> I entered: 'cvs
> -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/devil-linux login'
and
> hit enter at the password prompt, but it gave me:
>
> cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from
> cvs.sourceforge.net: M PserverBackend::PserverBackend() Connect
> (Connection refused)
>
> Am I missing something?

No. Sourceforge sometimes has problems, so just try again a couple hours
or a  day later. Usually it works after that....

> Pardon my noobieness with cvs, I don't use it that often..
>
> I also wanted to see if anyone else had been attempting this adventure
> into the PPC relm.

As fas as I know, nobody ever attempted this.
But you got some more work to do here:
1) you need to get the build running on a Intel machine, so you
understand
how the whole process works.
2) you need to create a new lfssystem build environment for PPC.
3) build system scripts have to be modified to support PPC, because
right
now it's only Intel x86. I had on my list to add support for selection
of
the AMD CPUs, but have no idea when I get to this.
4) do a lot of testing
5) send in all the patches so we can put it in CVS

--=20
Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org