Previously Nils Lohner wrote: > Do we need to get dpkg fixed to recognize sparc64? Yes, badly so. > - when building some things fail due to a mungled control file. Basically, > the predepends line gets a 'Predepends: , <something>' meaning dpkg-deb > refuses to parse it due to the comma... it expects something beforehand. > The error is in either dpkg-gencontrol or dpkg-shlibsomething (I forget what > it's called) This is causing a number of packages to fail on me. dpkg-shlibdeps: this is probably because we don't have a shlibs file for the libc yet. Hmm, did I actually even install dpkg-dev? I'll have to check that.. > - instead of installing things with dpkg --extract *.deb / I'm now using > dpkg -i --force-depends *.deb... that way things end up in the package file. And runs the postinst, which is also nice usually. > - we need to make SURE that if we autobuild and auto check in the packages > are designated as sparc64!!! Otherwise, the sparc people might dislike us :) Which should be done automatically once we get dpkg to report sparc64 as the architecture. > - Ward, can you please keep up with the kernels? Wichert (I think) told me > that .127-pre7 was out with a bunch of sparc fixes. Well, that's what the message on freshmeat said anyway :). I just keep forgetting to subscribe to the sparclinux list on vger.. someone remind what the address for that is please? > - some things are failing due ti libtool and some are looking for > texi2html... I'm going to look around for those and get those packages > built. That should wrap up most of base once I get those done... texi2html is part of the tex stuff (tetex-bin to be exact), libtool has it's own package in section devel. Wichert.
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