Re: hamm freeze

[Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 10:18:04PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   hamm will be frozen in few days, but what should be made about the sparc
> port?  Are we ready for a release?
> I did a quick check on the Packages file:
>   616 packages were compiled for sparc (don't know how many are up-to-date)
>   296 packages are arch indep.
> (about 1500 packages are in the dist).
> 
> If we want to release something, we need at least a core distribution (base &
> net stuff, some admin tools, minimal X11 stuff).
> 
> So, can we write a list of what should be (re)compiled first ?
> It comes to mind some packages already in the process queue:
>   - silo         big troubles with libc6 :-((
>   - glibc        a new release is available for testing

	It's already  in master's Incoming.  I'm waiting for Guy Maor
to install it.

>   - binutils     2.8.1.0.21 is out (maybe solve the silo problems ???)

	I'm building binutils-2.8.1.0.23 now.

-- 
Juan Cespedes


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