On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:54:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > Recipe: > > > > - install the build-dependancies on the host system > > > > I don't know what they are, don't know how to find out so we'll see what > > > > breaks.... > > > > > > The build dependencies are listed in build/debian/control.in. One easy way > > > to have it check for you, is to cp debian/control.in to debian/control, > > > then in the bulid directory use dpkg-buildpackage -D -b. Although this is > > > not a normal debian package, you will still get the unsatisfied dependencies > > > listed. There is also a @UDEB_DEPENDS@ entry, which the make process will > > > fill in and download later based on your arch and sources.list.local. > > > > I presume I need to upgrade this system to sid? > > No, I wouldn't upgrade the whole system if I were you. If you install the > packages you need, they will pull in the dependencies from unstable as > needed, for example libc6 etc. But you will have a more stable system > if you just let it get whatever it needs out of sid.
I copied by deb line, changed stable to unstable and ran this command: for p in install libdiscover1-pic libdiscover1 genext2fs mklibs libdebconfclient0 libdebian-installer3; do apt-get -qqyu install $p; done which wasn't entirely sensible (no package called install). This doesn't look like my greatest success: Current default timezone: 'Australia/Perth'. Local time is now: Thu Jul 3 12:46:42 WST 2003. Universal Time is now: Thu Jul 3 04:46:42 UTC 2003. Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it. Setting up libdb1-compat (2.1.3-7) ... (Reading database ... 27739 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libdiscover1 1.1-6 (using .../libdiscover1_1.5-1.4_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdiscover1 ... Setting up libc6-pic (2.3.1-17) ... Setting up libc6-dev (2.3.1-17) ... Setting up locales (2.3.1-17) ... Generating locales... en_US.ISO-8859-1... done en_US.UTF-8.../usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 24: 32642 Terminated localedef -i $input -c -f $charset $locale -A /etc/locale.alias dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 143 Setting up libdiscover1 (1.5-1.4) ... What should I do to fix this? > > > btw is either b-f or d-i supposed to be able to create a bootable CD for > > the powermac? From what I"ve read, these OldWorld powermacs are supposed > > to boot from CD, but I've not got a CD that does boot on them. > > CDs are produced by yet another package, debian-cd. It uses mkisofs > to create an hfs-hybrid bootable CD, well bootable on NewWorlds anyway. > OldWorld powermacs can boot from CD, only if the CD has proprietary > MacOS drivers. So Debian CDs don't boot on OldWorlds because there is > no free equivalent CD driver (it's MacOS ROM code I believe). > > You can make an OldWorld bootable, if you want to copy the drivers > from a MacOS bootable CD -- but we can't distribute that solution. > There is a recipe somewhere, I think in mkisofs docs. > > BootX is convenient for booting OldWorlds from an existing MacOS > installation. > > -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian addresses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]