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GPE in Emdebian



I'm just a little happy right now - I've just built and uploaded the
last dependency for GPE in Emdebian.

http://pkg-gpe.alioth.debian.org/status.php

See also: http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/helpout.php and
http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/todo.html after the overnight update.

1,736 Emdebian packages for ARM (a lot of those are -locale- packages
and quite a few -dev). I'll be working on langupdate later and trimming
out the -locale- packages to see if the Emdebian TDeb test
implementation is workable.

The only GPE app causing any trouble is gpe-filemanager because of a
dependency on libgnome-vfs-2.0-0 which depends on
gconf->ldap->libsasl2-2 and libsasl wants to bring in libdb4.4.
Familiar/OE don't use gconf with ldap so there is a fix needed. So we
have matchbox, gtk, nearly all GPE currently in Debian and edos-debcheck
says that all the packages are installable.

I've got some more GPE packages to sort out in Debian too - the current
ITP's need to be closed and a few more opened and also closed:
gpe-terminal, gpe-tetris, gpe-calculator, gpe-login and possibly gpe-today.

Question is now - can I get them to actually create a GPE rootfs and run
?????
;-)

The main point, though, is that there are now sufficient libraries built
for Emdebian that an Emdebian GUI is certainly possible.

Please test and let me know if any of the changes cause problems with
the configuration or if any libraries etc. are actually still missing.

Also, any ideas on fixing the remaining blocks in gconf, liborbit2 and
whether we should build with ldap, let me know.

The packages built very well - no huge delays, no huge surprises or
problems. Just the usual mix of --cache-file, --disable-foo, adding the
cross-depends support with $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) etc. and persuading some
of the larger packages that I really, really, REALLY did NOT want the
manpages. Quite annoying how persistent some Debian packages are about
manpages. The only long term solution is for dpkg to drop them from the
call to dpkg-deb because there are so many ways that manpages can make
it into the package.

-- 


Neil Williams
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