Re: indy base filesystem
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:41:39AM +0100, Ulrik De Bie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Problem description:
> On ftp.rfc822.org, in
> ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/local/debian-mips/experimental/
> there is a base with glibc2.0.6 which does work on the indy. Most of the
> packages there require 2.1.95 though, and on ftp.debian.org also.
Wrong - Only the packages on ftp.debian.org and mirrors require libc6
>= 2.1.95 which is pre 2.2 and kind of experimental ...
> When trying to install 2.1.95 it fails because I lack libnss-db.
dpkg --force-depends
> So for now my only option is creating a total cross development environment
> on another machine, which is rather strange because why are there then
> that much debian packages available when I can't get them working ?
Try
ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/local/debian-mips/packages
These are all glibc 2.0.6 dependend.
> Questions:
> Does anybody knows a way to build a base.tar.gz from a couple of .deb packages?
> (couldn't find any documentation about that on the debian website).
boot-floppies package
> Does anybody knows a way to install the 2.1.95 and all those newer packages ?
> Is there a problem with building libnss-db ?
Yes - libnss-db needs db2 which doesnt build because of c++ problems ... However
Guido Guenther managed to get it compiled.
> I would like to have a build environment running on my indy, is the jump
> bug with gas I heard about still an open issue ?
?
> Does anyone has already X running with debian on an indy ? :)
Not with debian packages ..
Flo
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Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
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