Sounder 6 PPC review

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:12:07AM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> During the package install, I noticed a few packages which it attempted 
> to install twice (and got "already installed and the current version" 
> errors the second time):
>   read-edid   (I understand this one is going away anyway in favor
>                of xresprobe)
>   libperl5.8
>   mdetect

Although these errors were harmless, they've been fixed variously by
removing libperl5.8 from debootstrap's list (the fact that it was there
at all was a hangover from older versions of the perl packages in
Debian) and by moving mdetect and xresprobe from Desktop to Ship.

> I think it would be nice when doing the additional packages installation 
> after the first boot if we had a thermometer to watch like during the 
> initial install instead of having to watch all the dpkg output and 
> having no idea how close it is to finishing.

Yes, certainly; but it's non-trivial because (Perl) debconf doesn't yet
have support for progress bars and cdebconf isn't yet ready to replace
it.

I talked to Joey Hess about this at the conference, and he was amenable
to a progress bar implementation going into debconf. I implemented the
confmodule side of the cdebconf progress bar specification in debconf on
Monday, but I haven't yet finished the frontend side.

(This is a requirement for the graphical installer anyway.)

> Upon logging in, I was immediately greeted with an error dialog stating 
> that /dev/pmu has the incorrect permissions.

This is a GNOME bug; apparently it hasn't been fixed because the
upstream maintainer has never seen any problems (but that's the nature
of race conditions, you don't see them very often). The pmud maintainer
recently sent the attached mail to debian-powerpc about it.

> Sound doesn't work.  It used to on Sid on this machine.  I haven't 
> played around enough to know why it's not working.

Just missing dmasound_pmac, maybe?

> Once set up with the apt repository, I tried to install Firefox and 
> Thunderbird (neither of which were on the CD).  Firefox installed and 
> worked, but Thunderbird doesn't appear to be in the repository.  Was 
> this an oversight, or did the ppc version not get built or something?

It apparently hasn't been built, but I don't know why. LaMont?

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson at flatline.org.uk]
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