Sorry, ...
was sick on friday, :(((
i think we lost the 2.2r2 target, ...
Now we can do stuff without hurrying.
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:12:43AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> > > I've verified that the old patches are all included. Don't know about
> > > boothack, can you check by comparing the dates?
> >
> > Yes, i looked, the one in bootstrap is in a tarball from march. It mostly
> > contains my personal bootstrap setting, maybe something better should be
> > used. Should we open up this stuff to the apus lists ?
>
> Yes, why not?
Ok, let's forward to them ...
> > i looked at the most recent bh, the one from june.
> >
> > Best would be just to replace the bootstrap from
> > boot-floppies/powerpc/specials/bootstrap-apus.tgz by it, conserving all the
> > old stuff.
>
> Agreed.
Ok, will do that.
>
> > Are you aware of any change that needs to be done to the
> > install-apus.en.sgml file ?
>
> Two things mainly. You have confused bootmesg and dmesg. And the move to
> SourceForge is complete, but the FAQ is still outdated :-/
I don't feel like writing for it. Maybe someone else will propose itself to do
the update ?
> > Should we had the debian root.bin as ramdisk image in the download part ?
>
> Rather not. I've put up a link straight into the Debian FTP archive on the
> Install page of the APUS site at SourceForge. If we have a copy in the ramdisk
> module it only tends to lag behind.
mmm, yes, that is true, ...
> Unfortunately, I've had problems building. First of all, there was an error in
> the rules file - it didn't check for the right diff file, only for
> linux-*.diff.gz . Then I realized that the APUS CVS doesn't even contain a
Could you send me the error log ?
> native branch, so I had to create a new diff. Do you know if we could easily
> add a native branch/whatever now? Finally, the build process failed due to the
mmm, how did you obtain the diff you sent to me. I thought it is a straight
diff from linus's 2.2.10 (well the one from kernel.org or debians version).
That is all we really need.
In truth, maybe i did only a too quick fix for the package, please change all
linux-* reference to linux-apus-native, or whetever the patch was called. or
else we could rename the patch to linux-* ?
> missing .dsc file. Then I gave up for tonight, I'll hopefully have time to try
> again tomorrow...
mmm, ...
There should be no need for a .dsc file, it should be generated automatically
from the tarball i sent you when you do dpkg-buildpackage ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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