Great, up on the st.cs.uiuc.edu ftp site.

thanks!

cheers

bruce

Stephen Stafford <stephen at clothcat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2001  2:07 am, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 	Just me again...I have now packaged squeak 3.0 (building on the
> > extremely good work of Marcus Denker...many thanks Marcus, there was
> > very little that had to be changed) and I would appreciate if, before
> > I go about ITPing and uploading, a few people could grab them,
> > install and test to make sure they work.  I have made them available
> > on:
> >
> > 	http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss/squeak-debs/
> >
> > these are built on an i386 machine, so for the VM at least, if you do
> > not have an i386 based architecture, you would need to grab the
> > source package from:
> >
> > 	http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss/squeak-source-packages/
> >
> > You then would build these by doing:
> >
> > 	dpkg-source -x squeak-vm_3.0.0pre2-1.dsc
> > 	cd squeak-vm-3.0.0pre2-1
> > 	dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
> > 	cd ..
> > 	dpkg -i squeak-vm_3.0.0pre2-1_($arch).deb
> >
> > You need to be root for only the last step of this (the actual
> > installation of the built .deb).  It is reccomended that you build
> > the package as a non-root unpriveleged user (that is what the call to
> > fakeroot is for).  You would also need to have the
> > "task-debian-devel" package installed for this to work.  It is
> > possible (not actually very sure, I have not tested this extensively)
> > that dpkg might complain that the .deb is not properly signed.  If
> > this happens then contact me and I will do my very best to help you
> > get around this.
> > I would be pleased to hear from anyone who is building on an
> > architecture other than i386.  That is the only architecture I have
> > access to a build environment on, so it would be good to have it
> > tested on others.
> >
> > Note: this is not necessary for the squeak-image or the
> > squeak-sources packages.  They are architecture independent.
> >
> > Note: The main squeak-vm .deb is built on an unstable debian system.
> > It is possible that you may have glibc and libc++ dependency problems
> > on a potato (2.2rX) based system (anyone running testing/woody should
> > be okay).  Therefore I have also created a potato version, it is the
> > same as the other, but has been built on a potato system.  It is the
> > one (not surprisingly) with potato in the filename.  I have not been
> > able to test this on a potato system since the only access I have to
> > a potato build environment is via ssh console, so I hope it works
> > (fingers crossed :)
> >
> > At this stage (and in fact always, at every stage) I am happy to hear
> > from anyone who has ideas, bugs, complaints, suggestions, anything.
> > Feedback is the most important thing to me right now.  I know that it
> > works for me on my system (which is a development system with pretty
> > much every library you care to mention installed).  I now need to
> > know if it works as happily on everyone else's system.  [With just
> > one small caveat, I am only on a 56k modem link...if you want/need to
> > send me large files (anything over ~100k is large) then *please*
> > email me first to let me know that you will be doing so, and wait for
> > me to reply and acknowledge that I know it is coming.  That way I can
> > make sure that I get it during a time when I am not paying by the
> > minute for access.]
> >
> > My email addresses for any/all of these comments/feedback are:
> >
> > stephen at clothcat.demon.co.uk
> > bagpuss at debian.org
> >
> > Or you can send to the list squeak at cs.uiuc.edu which I am subscribed
> > to and do read.
> >
> > I envisage that it will be a couple of weeks at least before I am
> > happy enough with the packaging fine detail to actually upload and
> > install it in the archive.  It should get to Debian testing (woody)
> > shortly after that (usually about 10 days, all things being equal). 
> > It will unfortunately never manage to make it into official potato. 
> > For those of you with potato systems you can either use Marcus'
> > excellent .debs or mine (I will probably try to always have a potato
> > built version available, at least until woody is released) or grab
> > the debianised source from the archive and build your own .debs.
> >
> > Thank you all for any time/effort you are able to give to making sure
> > that this packaging is working well.
> 
> Quick update.
> 
> The packages which were availabe previously at:
> 	http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss
> have been rebuilt.  Hopefully this takes care of the segfaulting issue 
> and they should be far more stable.
> 
> I plan to upload them to the main archive sometime around 
> Friday/Saturday assuming no other nasty problems are found.
> 
> I have not had time to rebuild a potato .deb yet, anyone wishing to try 
> the package on a potato system will have to go through the process for 
> building one as outlined above.  Any problems with doing this you can 
> drop me a line and I will try to help guide you through if it is needed.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Stafford
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