[Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 60 Upgrade questions

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:17 -0400, Timothy C Hartman wrote:
> 
> I am running aurora on my ultra 60 and was trying to get openflash to
> compile. Well, on the way there I upgraded glib and some other things
> that broke nash. My questions are.. Is there a way, say to place all
> the 'new prereqs' of an application down a tree like /opt and then
> compile against that, while still keeping the old kernel?  Or .. how
> do I figure out all of the dependencies for a new 'upgraded'
> distribution...  Or do I have to wait for a new release of Aurora? If
> I have to wait for a new release of Aurora, could you use some help
> from someone who can compile and test ( and is really really bad about
> coding?) 

So, right now, we're working on the installer for a Fedora 9 tree.
Hopefully, that should resolve a lot of your issues by making them
irrelevant. :)

In theory, it is possible to update to the newer package tree with yum
on that Ultra60, but I haven't spent any time trying. Dennis Gilmore
might have more information there...

~spot