From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200001161644.RAA14656@appel.flower> To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Cutting edge moved or shifting to .deb? Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:44:08 +0100 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi List, Can someone provide us with a list of repositories for cutting edge .rpm packages? dev.linuxppc.org should be devel.linuxppc.org, but apart from Franz Sirl's regular glibc/binutils/gcc/rpm updates (grand!), not much seems to happen anymore since last September. There's an almost-M12 mozilla, that crashes when I type in an url. Then, there's some odd stuff in contrib and updates at ftp.linuxppc.org. On the other hand, ftp..debian.org has stuff such as XFree 3.3.6, emacs-20.5 (which is good, I was having a lot of trouble with my 20.3 emacs), a recent mozilla-M12, that can be alienised, but the glibc seems to be 'stuck' at libc6_2.1.2-5.deb. Kernel development seems to have moved from vger to openprojects to Paul's at linuxcare: rsync -auvz linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-devel. I was able to compile and boot the 2.3.39 kernel, with only minor troubles. Initially, X (fbdev) comes up with a distorted screen, but after a circle of zooming (C-M-+), it's fine. Also, my eth0 (Bmac) and eth1 (pci) get swapped, which makes for silly network-setup problems. On a related, totally off-topic note: I can't seem to find how to verify package integrity with dpkg, eg, the equivalent for rpm --verify. I've setup a partition this summer with a minimal debian installation, just to test it out. But at that time, I had only low-bandwidth and deer internet access. The debian distribution was having quite some problems then, and updating by burning a cdrom a week didn't really work for me. Now I'm using that partition to run compiles on: I removed all docs and other stuff, so that a lot of packages should be reinstalled. However, `chroot /mnt/debian/root dpkg --audit', and `dpkg --status ' say all is ok? How to fix and upgrade this? Greetings, Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/