On Sun, 23 May 2010, Ole Loots wrote:
Btw. do you pack these things as RPM, and if you do that, is the sparemint page still used for distribution of "up to date" packages? The RPMS available there are very old, but I have seen a bunch of pages offering up to date MiNT RPM's .... wouldn't it be good to have them with sparemint? greets, mono
Hello Ole,Well, decisions need to be made about this, I think. Frank did this work previously, so we need to figure who, or what group of people, are going to deal with this.
The next issue is with RPMs themselves. Without modifications, we have no easy way to support 3 CPU targets, and with the Coldfire target needing more support to get better efficency, this is something we also should attack.
My own thought is that we try to build devel packages with libs for all 3 targets, when possible, otherwise target the arch.
For example (from /etc/rpmrc) # # /etc/rpmrc # optflags: m68kmint -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer optflags: m68k020mint -m68020-60 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer optflags: cfmint -mcpu=5475 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer #optflags: -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer Provides: /sbin/rmt Sets up the three CPU targets.... This allows you to do (with a properly formatted spec file rpm --target m68k020mint -ba openssh.spec Which should produce openssh-5.3p1-2.m68k020mint.rpm (Along with other packages) And with modified rpmrc's, these packages are acceptable.... Keith