>
>
>>I've noticed that alpha cooker on proxad.net has been updated (I haven't
>>checked it for a while).
>>
>>Q1: Will it continue to be updated in the future --> has some automatic
>>mechanism been put in place?
>>
>no, just me :)
>
No offence, but I hope we can someday replace your efforts with a robot.
>>Q2: How did you get qt2 to compile?
>>
>
>I haven't figured that one out yet :) Qt designer gets a "relocation
>truncated to fit: BRADDR ..." on linking, which basically means the
>executable is too large. I need to hand edit the spec and stop Qt
>designer from building; that should allow me to rebuild Qt rpms.
>
I'm looking forward to it.
>>Q3: How did you get printer-drivers to compile.
>>
>it just has a really bad BuildRequires... there was not difficulty
>building this package, once all dependencies were installed.
>
It's worse. printer-drivers has a number of packages combined in it. In
order for it to compile, it requires packages to be installed that it
provides (even worse, ImageMagick is BuildRequires by printer-drivers,
but resulting packages from printer-drivers are required to build
ImageMagick). I've sent an e-mail to Till about this, but I've yet to
get a reply.
/me hopes that printer-drivers will be split up into the seperate
packages again. /me thinks it's unhealthy to combine many packages into
one src.rpm, especially when BuildRequires get in the way...
>>PS: Jeff, I think your account is still active on my machine. I've got
>>quite some alpha packages in /misc/linux/mandrake/cooker.
>>Current hostname is: cm61-10-20-87.hkcable.com.hk
>>
>for now I prefer to hand-rebuild them myself...
>
Ok, that's fine. I've got a robot doing the work here...
>but yes, I am -hoping- to get Alpha in shape for release with 8.2...
>
Let's team up!
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