Potato readiness ?
Hi all,
A coupla days ago I successfully installed debian on a sparc 5 and I'm left
wondering about the status of debian-sparc vs the potato freeze.
I understand that sparc support was added in slink so it's still in
it's infancy I guess.
But I wonder if sparc-potato will be ready with the other archs.
Problems I've found:
Netscape: Utter confusion, people suggest converting from rpm or
building from slink. I succeeded in building v4.5. Why are there numerous
versions that don't include the actual beast ?
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Mule2: There's a bug report on this; it won't compile and there's no binary
available. Anybody has a solution ? It seems to be a #define problem..
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Removing pppconfig and ppp:
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing pppconfig (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
I just filed a bug report on this.
(how many sparc users need ppp by default ?)
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Xapps:
fonts, Login.app etc need XF86Config, however Xsun doesn't use this file.
Maybe a dummy file (touch /etc/X11/XF86Config ) should be created when
installing xbase ?
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man:
man freezes (randomly) if there is no manual page available for your search.
Anyone else experiencing this ?
gman:
Doesn't display the manpages, just blank screens. Recompiled and works ok.
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The kernel and Xsun seem rock solid so I'd really like to see the
distribution getting more near the level of debian-x86 ;)
Just my 2jpy...
Tnx,
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