Status

["Nils Lohner" <lohner@ICD.Teradyne.COM>]

OK, latest status report.


I have UltraPenguin system partially converted to Debian.  I built things 
like dpkg, dbuild, fileutils, debhelper and the like and installed them, and 
then started running dbuild on entire directories.  The results are 
promising- 85% of base builds cleanly, and a not insignificant portion of 
devel and net.  Admin is scheduled for tonight.  I think these are the most 
important 4 dirs, so I went for them first.

Wichert is setting up rsync on one of the xia's so we can have a source 
mirror there and unleash people on the packages.  James Troup is going to 
set up his autobuild scripts on xia03 so we should be able to crank through 
the easy packages and see ones with real problems soon.  I've filed a bug to 
get a binary-sparc64 directory created for anything we build as we don't 
want to pollute the sparc sources.

Currently I've taken a clean partition on the ultra I have at home and 
copied the Penguin system over, and am just 'dpkg --extract *.deb /'ing 
almost any debs that build onto it, with periodic reboots to ensure that 
nothing is getting hosed.  I'm actually running off that partition now.

Next for me is getting dpkg -i to work (meaning I have lots of dependencies 
to work out, and packages to build for them- any suggestions on doing this 
easily?), and getting apt to compile (haven't tried it yet- it's trying to 
autobuild right now) so people can autoget stuff out of the binary-sparc64 
repository.

There's real progress being made, and I think soon we can let more 
developers onto xia03 to help pound away at package build failures.

WooHoo!
Nils.