Re: PowerPC.debian.org
Klee Dienes writes:
>
> > The system looks quite good (it's Debian so what else would you
> > expect). There is only one problem that we don't have a compiler on
> > that machine at the moment. I hope this will change within the next
> > days.
>
> Oops, sorry about that. There's a few packages that I built "by
> hand", either by heavy tweaking to the source files, or in some cases
> by pillaging other people's binary packages.
>
> To make sure I don't get too dependent on this "cheating", I've been
> keeping those files in a separate directory. They're now in my home
> directory on master.debian.org under ~klee/debian (I'd put them on
> powerpc.debian.org, but I don't yet have a home directory or sudo
> access).
Sorry for that, I think it's because your account was not created
by hand but introduced by the mklinuxfs, you've now got a home directory.
> And while I remember:
>
> Be careful also that the versions of bash and e2fsprogs in the ftp
> repository are currently highly unstable --- e2fsck in particular will
> often trash entire filesystems by mistake.
Oh my dear! We have to be careful with that.
> I used the versions of bash and e2fsprogs from the alien/ directory in
> the install image; we should probably stick with those until we get
> the new ones working better.
I'll install them as soon as they arrive.
Regards
Joey
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