Debian testing/unstable on RiscPC ?

2004-01-25 Thread Peter Teichmann
Hi, I have an Acorn RiscPC running Debian 3.0, and I would like to upgrade it to at least testing. I tried it with a method I found to work on x86 and mips: * install a minimum Debian 3.0 on another partition * change /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable * start dselect, choose update, select and t

Re: Applying Debian glibc patches on a non-Debian machine

2004-01-25 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:26:13 + (GMT), Stuart Winter wrote: > However, because I do not have the Debian dpkg- utilities, I can't > do this. > > Instead, what I have tried so far is: > > tar zxf ../glibc_2.3.2.ds1.orig.tar.gz > cd glibc-2.3.2.ds1 > /bin/sh prep.sh > zcat ../../glibc_2.3.2.ds1-1

Abysmal clock chip on netwinder?

2004-01-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo! Is anythin known about the builtin clock on netwinders? After a short time running, ntpd runs away and ends up detecting all available time sources as falsetickers or unavailable, and the frequency running away to (-)500.00, with a huge jitter (se

Re: No arm machine reporting to popularty-contest?

2004-01-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Clinging to sanity, Petter Reinholdtsen mumbled in his beard: > I think it would be nice if someone with an arm host would report as > well. I do not longer have my netwinder operational, so I can't. :) # apt-get install popularity-contest There

Packages that can be safely retried for autobuilding

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, According to the build logs, the mailutils and mutt builds failed most recently because they were tried before libgnutls10-dev was available. This package has now been built on all archs, so the other two packages shouldn't give you any problems if you bump them back onto the Needs-Build q

Applying Debian glibc patches on a non-Debian machine

2004-01-25 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi I'm trying to cross compile glibc for ARM on my Slackware x86 Linux box and I would like to use the patches from Debian's diff. Could anybody please tell me how how I can use the patches ? I have looked at the debian/rules.d/dpatch.mk and it would appear that I have to do this in order to rep

No arm machine reporting to popularty-contest?

2004-01-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Looking at http://popcon.debian.org/>, I notice that no arm-based debian host is reporting to popularity-contest? These are the current stats: 1 0.09% x86_64 1 0.09% m68k 1 0.09% hppa 1 0.09% mips 3 0.26% alpha 8 0.69% sparc 18 1.56% powerpc 1119 97.14%