On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Alex Kirk wrote:
> First off: if I run "make package" for a package such as lang/perl58, will
> it install on top of my existing software? From Packages.txt and what I've
> seen watching messages scroll by, it seems like the answer is
> definitely...but I wanted to get confirmation, because I don't want to step
> on things like my Qmail install. If I'm right here, is there a way to avoid
> such munging?

if the perl/qmail/whatever package(!) is already installed, it won't be
nuked/overwritten. You have to do that manually.


> Second, there's been some discussion of kernel debugging when my system
> "halts" during package builds. I'd like to do this, and made a point of
> going out and recompiling my kernel with "options DDB" enabled to try this
> out. However, when I last had a failure, I turned on the TV to see if there
> was any sort of message, and there was zippo. Should debugging messages be
> coming up automatically, or is there something I need to do to get them to
> appear? I've never debugged a kernel before, so I'm a bit lost.

No idea, assuming you don't run X or anything else on the TV, and if you
get "normal" messages like on upon up the TV, there should definitely be
some message. But I don't know the dreamcast port too well.

There may even be some magic key to break into DDB at any time, e.g. when
the system appears to "hang", which may come in handy. I don't know how
that works on the DC port though (on i386 it's ctl+alt+esc  - beware that
this won't disable X when you try it, and the machine just appears to hang
;)


> Thanks for any help that you can provide. Like I've said, hopefully making
> the packages tree available in this form will help stir some interest in the
> Dreamcast port in the larger community.

Yep - good thing!


 - Hubert

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