PLD on DEC Alpha

[Michal Moskal]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:39:59PM -0400, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Michal Moskal wrote:
> >
> > Both can be easily done using poldek. It's much like apt-get on debian
> 
> Would be great if I could use it.  The RPM in PLD-1.0 won't install unless
> I get glibc2.3.
> 
> I just removed all my KDE packages to get pcre installed, but
> curl-devel >= 7.8 (required by poldek 0.15.1) requires glibc 2.3.
> 
> Changing glibc requires changing a lot of packages.  I'd tell you how
> many, but my terminal stops after 153 lines.

I see. So you will probably have to go with chroot approach.

You can find compressed (35M) basic PLD nest filesystem for alpha at:

  ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/people/malekith/alpha-chr.tar.gz

It *probably* (I didn't test it) contains everything needed to boot
except for kernel.  PLD alpha kernel probably work, but geninitrd doesn't
(I'll try to fix it).

Also note, that this chroot was installed with development version of
PLD.

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