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Re: Can't start Squid on Debian Sparc



On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 02:14:57PM -0400, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> This has become a puzzling experience for me. I did manage to contact
> the maintainer of the Debian distribution of Squid, who said more or
> less that it was a kernel problem.
> 
> This leaves me with some mild confusion about what to do:
> 
> 1. Why, if the port doesn't work for the sparc debian distribution, is
> it included?
> 
> 2. Should I be reporting this to anyone. Is it a bug in the kernel? Is
> it simply a lack of synchonization, i.e. the squid package being built
> too long ago?
> 
> Personally, I'm just going to assume that I'm better off compiling it
> myself for now and worrying about the other stuff later.  I suspect
> that the problems have or will be fixed and that the real problem is
> distributing a package that doesn't work.
> 
> But if there is something that I should do, as a responsible
> Sparc-Debian user, tell me!

What kernel are you running? I have a 2.2.15 and a 2.3.99-pre7 UltraSPARC
that runs squid just fine.

Ben

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