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Re: upgrade stable -> unstable doesn´t work



On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:00:12PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > So X402 will be in woody sometime soon (perhaps the next version) ? I was told
> > > > that no.
> > >
> > > It should be as soon as m68k will build the package, don't know what the
> > > problem is, maybe there are build problems on m68k, or maybe it takes just
> > > time.
> > 
> >From what I hear, the module loader needs some m68k fixes.
> 
> But that is upstream work, not debian ? isn't it ?
> 
> What about making a static server binary in the meantime ?
> 
> (Including only the driver that make sense on m68k naturally ...)

Alternatively: would it be possible to hack a quick layer between the XFree86
module loader system and the standard dl* system we already have?

XFRee86 mainly wrote their own system to work around bugs in dl* systems on
non-Linux OSses, which is something we don't have to care about.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



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