Re: Status

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:39:50PM +0200, Carlos Segura wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> > There is still no debian-mips(el) port ...
> 
> Then where I'm supposed to start the work? I want collaborate in the port,
> but I need some start point.
> What is the project's current status?

I have no clue if you are little or big endian - I am little so
i am doing "mipsEL" not "mips".

I got the machine (Decstation) to boot and then took the dpkg source
package and extracted it and build a dpkg (Watch the archtable - It should
contain your architecture).

Then just extract debhelper, dpkg-dev etc with ar and hack it into
you base system. Then create some wild dirs/files at /var/lib/dpkg
and you should be able to build packages with dpkg-buildpackage.

Once you have the first 20-40 Packages done everything gets easier ...

I am currently just building packages by hand and immediatly install
them into my system. 

I "nearly" replaced everything needed to boot so probably ill get
an "base.tgz" for debian-mipsel together next weekend ...

Flo
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