Cutting edge moved or shifting to .deb?

[Dan Burcaw]

You can grab latest YDL development stuff at
ftp://ftp.devel.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/ruffpack

Some of these packages do have YDL specific modifications, patches, etc.
but if you want more current stuff it is available.

Regards,
Dan

> 
> Hi List,
> 
> Can someone provide us with a list of repositories for cutting edge
> .rpm packages?  dev.linuxppc.org should be devel.linuxppc.org, but
> apart from Franz Sirl's regular glibc/binutils/gcc/rpm updates (grand!),
> not much seems to happen anymore since last September.  There's an 
> almost-M12 mozilla, that crashes when I type in an url.  Then, there's
> some odd stuff in contrib and updates at ftp.linuxppc.org.
> 
> On the other hand, ftp.<cc>.debian.org has stuff such as XFree 3.3.6,
> emacs-20.5 (which is good, I was having a lot of trouble with my 20.3
> emacs), a recent mozilla-M12, that can be alienised, but the glibc seems
> to be 'stuck' at libc6_2.1.2-5.deb. 
> 
> Kernel development seems to have moved from vger to openprojects to
> Paul's at linuxcare: rsync -auvz linuxcare.com.au::linux-pmac-devel.
> I was able to compile and boot the 2.3.39 kernel, with only minor
> troubles.  Initially, X (fbdev) comes up with a distorted screen,
> but after a circle of zooming (C-M-+), it's fine.  Also, my eth0 (Bmac)
> and eth1 (pci) get swapped, which makes for silly network-setup
> problems.
> 
> On a related, totally off-topic note: I can't seem to find how to
> verify package integrity with dpkg, eg, the equivalent for rpm --verify.
> 
> I've setup a partition this summer with a minimal debian installation,
> just to test it out.  But at that time, I had only low-bandwidth and
> deer internet access.  The debian distribution was having quite some
> problems then, and updating by burning a cdrom a week didn't really work
> for me.  Now I'm using that partition to run compiles on: I removed all
> docs and other stuff, so that a lot of packages should be reinstalled.
> However, `chroot /mnt/debian/root dpkg --audit', and `dpkg --status
> <some-doc-truncated-package>' say all is ok?  How to fix and upgrade
> this?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jan.
> 
> -- 
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org
> 
> 

Regards,
Dan

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