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Re: 2.2.17 i386 boot-floppies uploading



"Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:16:44PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > 
> > boot-floppies 2.2.17 i386 is now in Incoming, and also
> > <URL:http://auric.debian.org/~aph/>.
> > 
> > We'll be building 2.2.18 hopefully within a few days, so please try
> > this out quickly so we can see if it has any bad bugs.

> I built it for m68k, no problems (building). However, the changes files
> lists a README.pl file (polish readme) which is m68k specific (m68k is
> mentioned there).

No, dude, it's just the exact same as README-Users.m4, just
translated.  It should be handled just the same.

> Its impossible to upload this, since builds for other
> arches will probably also have this file, for their special architecture.

Eh?

> m68k: the mac people want to bump up their kernel to 2.2.16. When we finally
> receive the patches, we might be able to built 2.2.16 kernel images for the
> other architectures as well, until then we would have to use 2.2.16 for mac
> and 2.2.10 for everybody else, is it possible to do that for m68k (I think
> Ive seen something similar for powerpc)?

Sure, I think so.  Just fudge around int he top-level Makefile.

Are the kernels uploaded for Potato yet?

> Special request: for hardware not supported by 2.2.16 it was recommended to
> have a macinstallback.tgz which uses 2.2.10, is that feasable?

You are wanting to make Mac install disks for 2.2.10 as well as
2.2.16?  This makes my heart sink.  Is that really necessary?

> I think we want new kernel images (2.2.10) for amiga and atari anyway, how
> much time do we have till 2.2.18 (hint for debian-68k: I need the patches to
> go in, without them I can not built kernel-images)?

Christian, you should feel free to burn and release point versions for
Mac at any time.  Just tag/dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us/debsign then
upload it.  It's just a source upload rather than just a binary
upload.

Thus we could have 2.2.18 on Tuesday (i386) then 2.2.19 on Friday
(m68k) or whatever, it doesn't matter, integers are cheap and
plentiful.  I don't believe in making all ports wait for all other
ports.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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