[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: GPE in Emdebian



Could you drop the .planner file there as well?  Lots of fun data in the
original that doesn't get exported to html...

Cheers,

C.J.


On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:45 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> 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.
> 

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


Reply to: