Hi everyone, I decided to try archlinux on ppc even if it's still on his early stages 'cos I really like the x86 flavour of this distro :) The installation went _almost_ smooth: there are still a few typos in the installation guide wiki and I had to build my own kernel to have it running. Still don't understand why, more on this later if it's of general interest. I'm trying to set up a full gnome desktop development environment and there are a few quirks I stumbled upon I'd like to ask you about: 1) why isn't abs the same script as in x86 archlinux ? 2) why isn't /etc/rc.d/fam the script as in the x86 archlinux ? 3) is there any particular reason for changing the scripts ? I copied abs from my x86 archlinux machine, ran it and it went smooth. Most of the PKGBUILDS work out of the box (e.g. glade-3), a few don't but that's no surprise, due to the different architecture, right ? I copied /etc/rc.d/fam from the x86 box and it replaced perfectly the wrong script from current/fam-2.7.0-8. bash-3.1$ !diff diff fam fam.old 9,10d8 < #Check for running portmap, start when not running < ck_daemon portmap && /etc/rc.d/portmap start 12,15c10,13 < if [ ! -f /var/run/daemons/portmap ]; then < stat_fail < echo "ERROR: PORTMAP is not running" < exit 1 ---
if [ ! -f /var/run/daemons/fam ]; then stat_fail echo "ERROR: fam is not running" exit 1
see? It looks for a running fam before starting fam, that makes no sense to me ;) Keep up the good work everybody, I really love this distro :) N4