At 19:13 -0600 1998-04-01, John Goerzen wrote:
>I would like to help with these. What is the procedure? Ie, how do
>the numbers on sparc get changed? Should the maintainer field be
>updated? Are changes files to be generated? Does dupload handle
>things for recompilation for another platform w
Michael Shuey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 5) miscompiled packages:
> Someone (who is a registered Debian developer) needs to go
> back an recompile anything that has IO symbol problems with
> the latest libc6. Currently I don't t
> Michael Shuey writes:
> [...]
Michael> Okay, here's the deal: GNU's libc6 (glibc v2.0) does NOT support sparc
boxes.
Michael> At all. Because of this there is no RedHat 5.0 for sparc (they don't
want to
Michael> hack out libc6 to make it work). The folks at GNU have promised that
glibc
M
Hi Michael and thanks for the rather thorough introduction to
Sparc/Linux libc6.
> aren't standard ftp sites for new packages; the ones on ftp.debian.org are
> usually it.
Then I'll be more then happy to keep looking for new interesting
updates there :-)
> Others, like vim, have problems.
Oh ye
er a bunch of issues here). Some packages, like cron, still work, they
just display warnings. Others, like vim, have problems. Some, like libpaper,
just don't work. When the developers have time they will occaisionally
recompile a package against the latest libc6 (980301) and upload the result
Hi,
I just recently got started with Debian-sparc using an old base1_2.tgz
as ground and then upgrading manually until I got to a 2.0 debian.
This was because I didn't know that there was a base2_0.tgz (atleast
not that I could find on ftp.debian.org), so my first question is;
where are the standa
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