Re: System Call 119, etc; and apt broke

1998-11-07 Thread Christian Meder
On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 06:46:19PM +0530, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > Half way through using apt-get to finish installing sid on a Sparc > classic, I started getting "Unimplemented System calls". As the screen > was quite messed up, and because I needed to answer questions that dpkg > mighta a

Re: freezing powerpc and sparc

1998-11-07 Thread Christian Meder
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:23:00AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > It's up to you guys. I was told powerpc was ready except it needed kernel > 2.1, which I okayed. > I would like to see Sparc getting frozen. If we don't make the release we tried it at least ;-) But we will need a newer glibc2.1 in

[meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de: Re: re freezing powerpc]

1998-11-07 Thread Christian Meder
Oops, forgot to send it to the list too ! - Forwarded message from Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:10:23 +0100 From: Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: re freezing powerpc R

Re: re freezing powerpc

1998-11-07 Thread Eric Delaunay
Christian Meder wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 01:50:20AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > debian/sparc at present: > - has X albeit still slightly buggy but definitly usable, but we have to wait > for the X revolution to settle down before we can try to rebuild a more > recent version > > >

Re: System Call 119, etc; and apt broke

1998-11-07 Thread Jules Bean
If you simply install kernel_image 2.0.35 from sid, you'll be fine - it has the required patches. apt-get is segfault because you have broken your libraries - alas, you'll have to recompile apt against libstdc++ 2.9 Jules /+---+-\ |

System Call 119, etc; and apt broke

1998-11-07 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Hi, Half way through using apt-get to finish installing sid on a Sparc classic, I started getting "Unimplemented System calls". As the screen was quite messed up, and because I needed to answer questions that dpkg mighta ask, I pressed ^C, and tried to telnet in to finish configuration. This fail

Re: APT for sid

1998-11-07 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sat, Nov 7, 1998 12:09 pm +0530 "Sanjeev Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, my question was improperly phrased. Is there an apt for sid? And > if so, where? Is there not one in the archive (it would be section admin)? If not, compile it yourself - that's what I did. Download the

Re: APT for sid

1998-11-07 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Sorry, my question was improperly phrased. Is there an apt for sid? And if so, where? Thanks On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > --On Fri, Nov 6, 1998 2:48 pm +0530 "Sanjeev Gupta" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > downloaded tftp, installed base2 > > > > The machine I