Re: [aj@azure.humbug.org.au: Potato revision 2]

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

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 SourceForge is complete, but the FAQ is still outdated :-/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