Re: update?
# Sorry if this a duplicate, I believe I bothched the first one and
# only sent it to Phil.
Philip Blundell <pb@futuretv.com> wrote...
> What's the current status of the package-building effort? Reports seem to
> have petered out a bit over the last week or so.
How about some highlights first...
Most of the gnome stuff is built. You can now make a sexy
gnome system.
Virtually all of the graphics librarys are built so very few
packages are unbuildable for dependency reasons. Of course
you'd have to take much medication to appreciate the OpenGL
performance.
Our nagging 'strip' build failure was package independent.
Maintainers are fixing it rapidly and with little argument
since it blocks the i386 builds.
I've gotten better at explaining the 'unsigned char' issues
to maintainers so I can usually convince them that it actually
does need fixing in less than 5 e-mails. :-( (Hint: remind them
that their logic and EOF comparison is broken on non-ascii
character sets which use 255 as a valid code. I don't know if
there are any, but the argument seems to work.)
I'm working up a new list of packages needing help. I should get it
out today while testing a new install image.
I don't think there's anything critical on that list with two huge but
known exceptions.
glibc - this strikes me as tricky to build. I'm hoping Jim Pick will
continue. Needs a look at our socket header files, something
is different between us and other ports, many warnings and errors.
xserver-? - I'm not sure which xserver we use and where it comes from.
I don't have monitors on my netwinders normally.
I've started updating my lists of packages to be recompiled so
the out-of-date numbers creep up until I get them built. Lots of
package churn going on in potato right now.
The BRM stands at...
12/25 12/28 12/29 12/30 12/31 01/11
32 22 1 0 0 5 required:out-of-date
5 5 5 5 5 5 required:uncompiled
12 10 0 0 0 2 important:out-of-date
3 3 1 1 1 1 important:uncompiled
26 23 1 0 0 3 standard:out-of-date
15 14 13 3 3 6 standard:uncompiled
454 430 430 260 159 82 optional:out-of-date
801 800 798 795 795 353 optional:uncompiled
93 92 92 91 91 16 extra:out-of-date
175 174 174 173 173 80 extra:uncompiled
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Jim Studt, President
The Federated Software Group, Inc.
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