Re: pb compiling the latest boot-floppies from the CVS tree

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Friday 22 January 1999, at 23 h 21, 
> Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> wrote:
> 
> > slice master
> > make[1]: slice: Command not found
> ...
> > What is slice ? Where can I get it ?
> 
> As Adam said, the Debian package slice is in slink and is announced in the 
> Depends: line. It is not a pure i386 thing (you work on Sparc, do you?):
> 
> ncftp /debian/dists/slink/main > ls */*/slice*
> binary-alpha/text/slice_1.3.2-3.deb    source/text/slice_1.3.2-3.diff.gz@
> binary-i386/text/slice_1.3.2-3.deb@    source/text/slice_1.3.2-3.dsc@
> binary-m68k/text/slice_1.3.2-3.deb@    source/text/slice_1.3.2.orig.tar.gz@
> binary-sparc/text/slice_1.3.2-3.deb@

Sorry, I didn't fulfill the dependences because I got it via CVS (I didn't
install the package using dpkg).
Ok, I installed slice and I'm working right now on sparc setup.

I scanned the master file and, except some missing sparc packages at the time
I write this mail, here is the list of incompatibilities:

Packages that should be moved to i386 & alpha archictectures only:

xserver-mach64
xserver-s3
xserver-svga
isapnptools
svgalibg1
vgacardgames        (depends on svgalibg1)
vgagamespack        (depends on svgalibg1)
lincity-svga        (depends on svgalibg1)
luxman              (depends on svgalibg1)

Packages that should go to i386 only:

xserver-vga16
lilo

Packages that should be added to sparc:

xserver-xsun-mono
xserver-xsun
xserver-xsun24
silo (a replacement for lilo)
svgalibg1_dummy (as replacement of svgalibg1; could belong to all arch?)

I also got the following errors:

chimera2 in task Net_sel depends on "libpng2" which is not in the same task
Package lpr is standard or important but is not requested by any task (or profile)
Package info in profile Basic depends on "zlib1g" which is not in the same profile
Package xacc in task Prod depends on "libjpeg62" which is not in the same task

Who is responsible of maintaining the master file ?  Could he take care of my
notes above and generate a new file or do I have to do it myself then post a
patch ?

Thanks in advance.

PS: I'm not familiar enough with the master file syntax, therefore I don't
    provide a patch to fix these problems right now.

PPS: how do you include a package only for a sublist of architectures (like
     i386 & alpha) ?  Could I write some sentence like

     [I386|ALPHA:some-package... :I386|ALPHA]

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