Re: X + BVision + Debian + GNOME + Enlightenment problem

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

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:10:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> hi,
> 
> > Yes, you could do something like :
> > 
> > dpkg --force-depends -i libc6_2.2.2-2.deb
> > 
> > and hope it works. Again i would _NOT_ do that myself.
> 
> there must be a way that Debian does it - otherwise people would have to
> reinstall Linux systems each time libc changed, 

Well, yes, but they also reinstall all the load of packages that are now
incompatible. That's what happens when upgrading. But he wanted to install
just libc6 and Xfree 4.
>  
> > Then try rebuilding it, i thought there were potato packages of XF4 around,
> > but i guess these were only for i386, not sure i don't use them myself.
> 
> XFree 4.02 is part of Potato - PowerPC

No, this is not true, 3.3.6 was released with potato, and you cannot still
find any 'official' 4.0 packages in debian/potato
(check ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-powerpc/x11).

There must be some unofficial site in your sources.list file, or maybe you
told apt to look into the testing archives.

> its what I still ahve installed (have not had time to compile CVS'd 4.0.3

Are you sure you are running potato and not testing ?

> > It would take you ~400MB space on your harddisk and >5hours compilation on a
> > 603e 240MHz.
> 
> ;-)  see, when i have a whole evening/night that i can throw away I can
> compile it :-)

Well, you don't really need to, just launch the compilation, and pass a good
evening with your girlfriend, or whatever, ...

> (really, I guess I should have evrything ready and then do a 'make world'
> just before I switch my monitor off for the night 8-) )

That too, also.

btw, just dpkg-buildpacakge -us -uc should work on the unpacked package, you
could save the logs also to check if something broke.

> > And there are loads of improvement, remember, potato was frozen more than a
> > year ago, alough it was released in july, so packages there are really old. 
> 
> yes, I get everything through 'testing' now. havent got the , errr

So you aren't running potato after all, 

> nerve/balls/stupidity/skills/time (delete as applicable) to run
> 'unstable'  8-)

It's the same, i run unstable because i am a packager, and it is expected of
me (i think). Also testing had some early problems that seem solved now, and i
diddn't had the patience to wait for XF4 to enter it back then.

Friendly,

Sven Luther