From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:38:09 CST." <8CD17BB7-A598-47EF-833B-702F0CDC5306@gmail.com> References: <8CD17BB7-A598-47EF-833B-702F0CDC5306@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 17:52:50 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20121204015250.0FC02B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi: keyboard layout Topicbox-Message-UUID: f04a4856-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:38:09 CST Chris Wilson wrote: > On Dec 3, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Richard Miller wrote: > > >> Do you have > >> some sort of site where I would be able to find out when you upload new > >> images? > > > > Nothing formal - you can check the modified date of the image file in > > /n/sources/contrib/miller to see if it's changed. The official install > > and update mechanism for Plan 9 at present is a bit x86 dependent. > > Eventually I hope arm systems in general will become more integrated. > > If there is anything that myself, fairly noobish that I am, can do to help, > let me know. Great work on the Pi image! I've been loving it. Not sure this is for newbies but... contrib/* doesn't distinguish between archs. One suggestion is to enhance contrib/*. Probably best for the contrib author to do this (or provide directions) but I am thinking something along these lines: - when installing or pulling changes, build things locally if $objtype specific binaries don't exist in the package. And don't pull binaries for other archs (unless explicitly asked for). - when creating or pushing changes, try to push binaries for all the archs locallly (cross) compiled. - when listing don't show packages known to be broken for $objtype arch. Probably best to add config/broken and config/fixed.