Re: indy for auto-builds

[job bogan <job@piquin.uchicago.edu>]

Your message dated: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:45:33 +0100
>job bogan wrote:
>> 
>> so, i'm working on freeing up an indy (R4000 100mhz if i remember right)
>> for building debian mips stuff.
>
>If your machine is net.connected it looks good for auto-compiling. However

yup.  pretty good connection. =)

$ traceroute www.cnnemportugues.com
traceroute: Warning: ckecksums disabled
traceroute to cnnemportugues.com (207.25.71.163), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  rsm-ri-v132.uchicago.edu (128.135.132.112)  0.935 ms  0.682 ms
 0.662 ms
 2  vipernet-gw-a30-4.uchicago.edu (128.135.253.1)  1.755 ms  1.368 ms
 1.354 ms
 3  207.227.0.209 (207.227.0.209)  3.202 ms  1.880 ms  1.714 ms
 4  h3-0-0.chicago1-br2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.2.205)  2.379 ms  2.690 ms
 2.290 ms
 5  p8-0-0.chicago1-br1.bbnplanet.net (4.0.2.253)  4.727 ms  4.161 ms
 3.013 ms
 6  h3-0-0.atlanta1-br2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.2.166)  17.167 ms  16.348 ms
 16.414 ms
 7  fa0-0-0.atlanta1-cr2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.3.250)  17.827 ms  22.260 ms
 16.959 ms
 8  s0.cnn.bbnplanet.net (4.0.132.254)  19.923 ms !X *  20.559 ms !X
$ 


>currently the debian-mips port is somewhat stalled since about no other
>maintainer owns a MIPS machine.

humm...  that stinks.  

>Do you have already running Debian on the box?  If not this needs to
>be addressed first.  The first step would be to compile a kernel and
>create a base tarball so people can install an initial set of packages.
>Then compilers and tools are needed etc.  I guess you already know that.

nope.  it's not running anything at the moment.  i'll put 6.5.1 (or
6.5.2 if i get it soon).  then i'll put redhat 5.1 (hardhat) on a 2nd
disk to get things bootstrapped for debian/linux.  i'm guessing that i
should compile egcs 1.1.1, glibc 2.1, binutils 2.9.x, util-linux , and
bash to get debian going on a 3rd disk.  anything that i'm doing wrong
in here?

thanks
job