Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Peter Czanik <pczanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm glad to announce, that after long days of compiling, testing and
debuging, I put on-line a large number PackMan packages for SUSE Linux
10.1 PPC. For those of you, who don't know it yet: these are the
packages, which make SUSE Linux a lot more useful, but are left out from
the official SUSE release mainly for legal reasons (mp3, divx, DVD
support, etc.), or sometimes newer versions of included packages. More
info on Packman is available at http://packman.links2linux.de

About my recompilation of Packman packages: these are maintained by
different people without a standardized environment. For reproducibility
I used y2pmbuild, and modified sources to compile in this strict,
chrooted environment.
I had to leave out a number of packages:
- some few, special interest packages did not compile, like synfig
animation studio
- requiring lot's of additional work, like haskel development
environment and related packages, as it needs to be bootstrapped on PPC
- x86 binary only, like the official divx drivers, rar support, etc.

For obvious reasons, I could not sign it with SUSE private keys, so the
installer complains, but installs these packages.

As I needed to modify sources and SPEC files, my packages are not yet
integrated with the rest of the PackMan website, mirror system. You can
download them using ftp, from:

ftp://spike.fa.gau.hu/pub/pmppc101/

Which can also be used as an installation source.

Please let me know, if you have any troubles! And of course, remember to
have a lot of fun! (SUSE (tm)) Smile

CzP