source: final-system/ppc/powerpc-utils.xml@ e0c8829

Last change on this file since e0c8829 was 453fbe2, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r714@server (orig r712): ken | 2005-11-17 16:09:20 -0800
fix up whatsnew, replace powerpc-utils patch with better version (smaller, no bogus messages, formatted man page).

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[164c9be]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-powerpc-utils" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="powerpc-utils.html"?>
10
11 <title>Powerpc-Utils_&powerpcutils-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils">
14 <primary sortas="a-Powerpc-Utils">Powerpc-Utils</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Powerpc-Utils package contains a number of utilities for Power
21 Macintoshes and other similar machines. Most of these utilities are now
22 obsolete, but <command>nvsetenv</command> is needed by <command>ybin</command>
23 to install the bootloader on an hfs partition.</para>
24
25 <segmentedlist>
26 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
27
28 <seglistitem>
29 <seg>GCC, Gzip, Make, and Patch</seg>
30 </seglistitem>
31 </segmentedlist>
32
33 </sect2>
34
35 <sect2 role="installation">
36 <title>Installation of Powerpc-Utils</title>
37
38 <para>This package, originally pmac-utils, has issues with NewWorld macintoshes.
[453fbe2]39 The following patch fixes these issues and generally updates the package.</para>
[164c9be]40
41<screen><userinput>zcat ../&powerpcutils-patch; | patch -p1</userinput></screen>
42
43 <para>Compile the useful programs:</para>
44
45<screen><userinput>make nvsetenv nvsetvol</userinput></screen>
46
47 <para>Install the package:</para>
48
49<screen><userinput>install -m755 nvsetenv nvsetvol /usr/sbin
[453fbe2]50install -m644 nvsetenv.8 nvsetvol.8 /usr/share/man/man8</userinput></screen>
[164c9be]51
52 </sect2>
53
54 <sect2 id="contents-powerpc-utils" role="content">
55 <title>Contents of Powerpc-Utils</title>
56
57 <segmentedlist>
58 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
59
60 <seglistitem>
61 <seg>nvsetenv, nvsetvol</seg>
62 </seglistitem>
63 </segmentedlist>
64
65 <variablelist>
66 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
67 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
68 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
69
70 <varlistentry id="nvsetenv">
71 <term><command>nvsetenv</command></term>
[e2c319f]72 <listitem>
73 <para>Manipulate variables in the non-volatile RAM.</para>
74 <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetenv">
75 <primary sortas="b-nvsetenv">nvsetenv</primary>
76 </indexterm>
77 </listitem>
[164c9be]78 </varlistentry>
79
80 <varlistentry id="nvsetvol">
81 <term><command>nvsetvol</command></term>
[e2c319f]82 <listitem>
83 <para>Adjust the volume of the boot-up chime on Macintoshes.</para>
84 <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetvol">
85 <primary sortas="b-nvsetvol">nvsetvol</primary>
86 </indexterm>
87 </listitem>
[164c9be]88 </varlistentry>
89
90 </variablelist>
91
92 </sect2>
93
94</sect1>
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