From syamajala at gamebox.net Fri Sep 2 21:41:23 2005 From: syamajala at gamebox.net (seshu yamajala) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:41:23 -0400 Subject: [arch-ports] x86_64 update In-Reply-To: <20050830173722.036eb851.syamajala@gamebox.net> References: <20050830173722.036eb851.syamajala@gamebox.net> Message-ID: Ok, so the motherboard for my web server needs to go back to msi. I just decided to swap out the motherboard. Since i have 2 other motherboards that are the exact the same thing. I also decided to update the packages on my web server to the newly compiled stuff, so i reformatted. The subversion repo is up its a very very rough import of the pkgbuilds and i probably imported more pkgbuilds than i needed to but i figured i can always clean it up later. Right now only the pkgbuilds for current are in there. I really need to learn some bash scripting so i can clean up my abs tree. I'm also gonna rewrite my site and i'm hoping to implement something like what is on the arch site. Should be fun! Here is the link: http://genesis.blogdns.net/svn/Arch64 From syamajala at gamebox.net Sat Sep 3 06:12:49 2005 From: syamajala at gamebox.net (seshu yamajala) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 06:12:49 -0400 Subject: [arch-ports] New PPC Mirror In-Reply-To: References: <43158573.90206@disipos.de> Message-ID: On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:16 AM, seshu yamajala wrote: > >> >> Additionally everyone who rsyncs the packages should start to use >> this machine instead >> as well: >> >> rsync kleiner-weise.de::archppc-current/ >> rsync kleiner-weise.de::archppc-testing/ >> >> >> Extra will not be mirrored since it is *NOT* maintained at the >> moment! >> _______________________________________________ >> > > I can mirror the ppc packages too. First, I just wanna fix the > issues I'm having with my server. The video card is messed up and > for some reason the time is always off by like a day. > here it is: http://genesis.blogdns.net/packages/ppc/ Also, yesterday after i setup subversion i talked to cactus and setup viewcvs. here is the new link http://genesis.blogdns.net/viewcvs I plan on redesigning my site soon! From mrgreen.linuxuser at virgin.net Sat Sep 10 11:35:27 2005 From: mrgreen.linuxuser at virgin.net (Mr Green) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:35:27 +0100 Subject: [arch-ports] Do you need any help with Arch64 Message-ID: <4322FD3F.2000001@virgin.net> Hi, If you need any help please let me know ..... Mr Green Arch64 User From syamajala at gamebox.net Sun Sep 18 21:08:05 2005 From: syamajala at gamebox.net (seshu yamajala) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:08:05 -0400 Subject: [arch-ports] 32bit support Message-ID: <3B6C6F8B-B0B5-4B5B-AFFF-D6B0F20DA005@gamebox.net> I have found a much better solution for the 32bit backwards compatibility issue. After looking at how debian does things, i have found that for 32bit support they setup a chroot. I thought about this, and it seems like an excellent idea. It will save a lot of time, and it addresses the problem of installing 2 versions of the same package. dchroot could be used to make the chroot almost transparent to the user. The existing 32bit arch packages could be used as well. Since i have not started working the multilib support, this will probably be implemented instead. For more info on the chroot method look here: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/ 30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 Also I would like to mention that vitorlima has joined the project and has already made great contributions! - syamajala -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From syamajala at gamebox.net Mon Sep 19 17:03:48 2005 From: syamajala at gamebox.net (seshu yamajala) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:03:48 -0400 Subject: [arch-ports] 32bit support In-Reply-To: <3B6C6F8B-B0B5-4B5B-AFFF-D6B0F20DA005@gamebox.net> References: <3B6C6F8B-B0B5-4B5B-AFFF-D6B0F20DA005@gamebox.net> Message-ID: <0CD523CD-B728-468C-BD99-9CD9D066222D@gamebox.net> ok, so i tried it out. It works! I am gonna write a bash script that will setup a 32bit chroot. Mr. Green has written a barebones pkgbuild for dchroot too. I haven't tried dchroot yet, but I will soon. Also, i'm trying to figure out which packages can be cut from the chroot env, because i think it would be a waste of space and bandwidth to download all the packages needed for a base install if the user isn't going to actually boot into the system. I was thinking about getting rid of things like reiserfsprogs, initscripts, wireless_tools, that kind of stuff. Would this be a good idea? Or should I just leave them. On Sep 18, 2005, at 9:08 PM, seshu yamajala wrote: > I have found a much better solution for the 32bit backwards > compatibility issue. After looking at how debian does things, i > have found that for 32bit support they setup a chroot. I thought > about this, and it seems like an excellent idea. It will save a lot > of time, and it addresses the problem of installing 2 versions of > the same package. dchroot could be used to make the chroot almost > transparent to the user. The existing 32bit arch packages could be > used as well. Since i have not started working the multilib > support, this will probably be implemented instead. For more info > on the chroot method look here: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/ > view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 > Also I would like to mention that vitorlima has joined the project > and has already made great contributions! > > - syamajala > _______________________________________________ > arch-ports mailing list > arch-ports at archlinux.org > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-ports > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jason at archlinux.org Mon Sep 19 20:51:31 2005 From: jason at archlinux.org (Jason Chu) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:51:31 -0400 Subject: [arch-ports] 32bit support In-Reply-To: <0CD523CD-B728-468C-BD99-9CD9D066222D@gamebox.net> References: <3B6C6F8B-B0B5-4B5B-AFFF-D6B0F20DA005@gamebox.net> <0CD523CD-B728-468C-BD99-9CD9D066222D@gamebox.net> Message-ID: <20050920005131.GH25371@mercury.xentac.net> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 05:03:48PM -0400, seshu yamajala wrote: > > ok, so i tried it out. It works! I am gonna write a bash script that > will setup a 32bit chroot. Mr. Green has written a barebones pkgbuild > for dchroot too. I haven't tried dchroot yet, but I will soon. Also, > i'm trying to figure out which packages can be cut from the chroot > env, because i think it would be a waste of space and bandwidth to > download all the packages needed for a base install if the user isn't > going to actually boot into the system. I was thinking about getting > rid of things like reiserfsprogs, initscripts, wireless_tools, that > kind of stuff. Would this be a good idea? Or should I just leave them. I think that's probably a good idea to leave out those things if you actually don't plan on booting. Would there ever be a time that an arch64 user would want to boot into a full 32 bit OS? I don't know how you were going to let users install the 32 bit compat packages. Maybe if you used a group and then depended on the group (I can't remember if you're allowed to do that), then you could have a 32bit-compat-base and 32bit-full, which installed a compatibility 32 bit chroot or a fully bootable 32 bit system respectively. Jason -- If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From aba at disipos.de Thu Sep 22 11:49:09 2005 From: aba at disipos.de (Alexander Baldeck) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:49:09 +0200 Subject: [arch-ports] Rsync Problem Message-ID: <4332D275.7020906@disipos.de> Hey, I know it's someone in here: c-24-147-98-103.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (24.147.98.103) Please make you rsyn settings a bit more log friendly, as it seems your sync touches all packages not only the changes. ;-) Thank you! Best regards, -kth5 From syamajala at gamebox.net Thu Sep 22 14:28:43 2005 From: syamajala at gamebox.net (seshu yamajala) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:28:43 -0400 Subject: [arch-ports] Rsync Problem In-Reply-To: <4332D275.7020906@disipos.de> References: <4332D275.7020906@disipos.de> Message-ID: <80BA8903-ABCC-4BCD-B60E-DC528E9E576D@gamebox.net> On Sep 22, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Alexander Baldeck wrote: > Hey, > > I know it's someone in here: > > c-24-147-98-103.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (24.147.98.103) > > Please make you rsyn settings a bit more log friendly, as it seems > your sync touches all packages > not only the changes. ;-) > Thats me, i haven't used the rsync client before, so i probably am using the wrong options. I have rsync -r in my crontab, i'll change it. -syamajala From hippieowen at gmail.com Thu Sep 22 20:54:44 2005 From: hippieowen at gmail.com (Juan Carlos Faundez) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:54:44 -0400 Subject: [arch-ports] how to can help to arch x64 Message-ID: <41ce561f05092217543073579e@mail.gmail.com> hi im like help to arch x64 , proving packages and packing for this architecture -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aba at disipos.de Wed Sep 28 07:47:54 2005 From: aba at disipos.de (Alexander Baldeck) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:47:54 +0200 Subject: [arch-ports] [i586 Port] Problems with installer CD and broken/missing packages Message-ID: <433A82EA.5020101@disipos.de> Hey list, only recently I got a old surplus laptop which is powered by a AMD K6-2+ which means I couldn't just simply run Arch-i686 on it. So it was obvious that it was time to try the i586 port. Anyway I ran into several problems I'd like to point out here since there is no bugtracker right now, is there? Installer CD: The iso I downloaded was: http://genesis.blogdns.net/packages/i586/iso/arch_i586-2005-04-11.iso 1) the modules lack proper dependencies so one needs to probe network modules manually for PCMCIA 2) 8390.ko lacks symbols obviously because crc32.ko cannot be probed first since it does not exist 3) the both above made it impossible for me to use my PCMCIA network card and furthermore to use FTP as the install media at all, since this laptop has no network card built-in there was no way to get decent versions from the start 4) the packages cause Pacman to display the strangest warning I've seen so far. something about a syntax error on line 11 probably in the .PKGINFO 5) syslog-ng depends on libol for runtime. libol cannot be resolved cos it's not referenced in the package set on the cd Anyhow I made it to do a forced manual install the hard way (pacman -Ad *.pkg.tar.gz) for base/. Package repository: First try was on: http://genesis.blogdns.net/packages/i586/repo/current 1) Pacman badly requires modification of it's defaults in pacman.* and makepkg.conf for i586 2) autoconf is broken, the autom4te binary is missing which made it impossible for me to build coreutils (there may be more packages around that it breaks) 3) pcmcia-cs is missing, which I again manually built with crunching my teeth :) I started my own repository therefore and plan to contribute to address a lot of the mentioned issues as soon as the problems I heard about on IRC are solved. My partitial current can be found here: http://archppc.kleiner-weise.de/archlinux/current/os/i586/ Keep in mind that it cannot be used as a current replacement yet but I plan to in the future. Also I updated gcc, binutils and glibc plus applied libtoolslaying to some of the packages. Cheers! -kth5