On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 01:55:08PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Thus, I was wondering whether any volunteers would be willing to help >> building >> ISO images for the various architectures. > >I'm already doing this for kfreebsd-amd64, but only the jessie-kfreebsd >suite: >http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_jessie-kfreebsd/lastBuild/console >and I had to patch debian-cd before it worked. (Didn't yet find time to >file bugs or submit those patches).
Please post them! >I could probably set up similar jobs for kfreebsd-* sid now. > >> It's not necessary to run debian-cd on the same architecture as the >> target architecture of the ISO images. Exactly. There are sometimes difficulties with the tools needed to set up boot files etc., but they tend to be portable. >I did not even realise that. So I will add kfreebsd-i386 next. > >I expect there might be problems trying to build linux arches from a >kfreebsd host. But we should try to find out, and then maybe fix it. We were happily building kfreebsd-* images from a Linux host, so I'd expect it to work OK. I've offered before: I don't have the time personally to work on building ports images, but I'm more than happy to help other people getting them building on our official infrastructure... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?
