Re: PM3 and an Alpha

[Mark Conway Wirt <mark intrepid net>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Bill Anderson wrote:

> I'm trying to get my shiny new PM3 to work with my shiny new 164SX running
> RH5.1, 2.0.30.
> OK, I run setup, which goes into /usr/portmaster.  Then I'm supposed to
> configure it with pminstall. Seems straightforward
> No matter what I've tried I keep getting
> 
>      alpha_2.0 program directory not found in .
> 
> What am I missing here?  Anybody have an ideas for a clueless Alpha newbie?
> Any help would be greatly apprecitated!

pminstall, which can be used to upgrade the OS in the PM3, is a shell
script which determine your OS and platform with uname, then tries to
execute the executable in a subdirectory.  On an Intel box, it tries
Linux_2.0 (which has a pm_install executable).  On an alpha box, it would
be alpha_2.0.  Presumably, you don't have the subdirectory in the tree.

*However*, the Portmaster utilities run on Alpha OSF, *not* Alpha Linux,
so you'd need the binary compatibility libraries.  If you have them, and
want to try it, hack the last few lines of the pminstall script.  My guess
is alpha/osf return "Alpha" from the uname, whereas Linux return "alpha."
Force the script to look in the correct directory.

--Mark