Re: release in 2.2?
Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> writes:
> So, anyone else interested in seeing if we can include debian-arm in the 2.2
> release?
I'd like to see it there. When is 2.2 due to be released?
> I've kind of lost track of where we are relative to being
> releasable. I was working on X until real life intruded.
Is anybody working on X now?
> I don't think anyone has done any real work on an installation
> process for "disks-arm".
I'd like to have a look at it. Because the NetWinder doesn't have a
disk drive, the installation process is going to be a bit different.
I can think of several ways of doing it:
1) Disk image + instructions. This is how we are currently doing it.
The big disadvantage is that there isn't really a setup program,
and you need to have the disk partitioned beforehand.
2) Boot server + NFS. By doing a diskless boot, we'd be able to
repartition and do the setup program, just like off of diskettes.
This might be useful for architectures other than just ARM.
3) Flash + HTTP/FTP. This might be useful for environments where
setting up a DHCP/NFS server is inconvenient.
Of course, it would be nice to have a set of diskettes for machines
that did have diskette drives (eg. Acorn)
> A bunch of compiles need to happen. Other than that,
> what's standing in the way?
egcs still has problems with optimization, which bites a few packages
(lynx, libglib, etc). The problems persist with egcs 1.1.2 (which I
just uploaded). As a stopgap, we can patch the packages to not use
optimization - but I'd prefer a compiler fix.
I remember jade had some problems, which was affecting quite a few
packages which depended upon it. Maybe that's been fixed with egcs
1.1.2? I'll try it again later tonight.
We need an updated X.
Cheers,
- Jim
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