> > usb is not available on every powerpc machine. We fixed console-data
> > yesterday, lets hope this will doit what we want for potato.
>
> Could you please post the definitive fix? I tried the fix posted yesterday,
> and
> it still gave me errors....or are you just going to update the console-data
> package on the ftp servers..?
The package will be available in the next days (Yann Dirson is the maintainer,
and he
will do some last tests before uploading it).
my $arch = `dpkg --print-installation-architecture`;
chomp $arch;
if (($arch eq 'powerpc') || ($arch eq 'm68k')) {
my $subarch;
if ($arch eq 'powerpc') {
my $line = `grep ^machine /proc/cpuinfo`;
chomp $line;
abort ($defs, "No \"machine\" field in /proc/cpuinfo") if $line eq
'';
$subarch = lc substr ($line, 11);
} elsif ($arch eq 'm68k') {
my $line = `grep ^Model: /proc/hardware`;
chomp $line;
abort ($defs, "No \"Model\" field in /proc/hardware") if $line eq
'';
$subarch = lc substr ($line, 7);
}
chomp($subarch);
$subarch =~ s/^\s*//;
$subarch = 'amiga' if $subarch =~ m/^amiga/;
$subarch = 'mac' if $subarch =~
m/^macintosh|powermac|powerbook|power|imac|powermac1/;
$subarch = 'atari' if $subarch =~ m/^atari/;
$subarch = 'chrp' if $subarch =~ m/^chrp/;
$subarch = 'prep' if $subarch =~ m/^prep/;
$subarch = 'mvme' if $subarch eq 'motorola';
$arch = "$arch/$subarch";
}
Replace this part in the console-data.config file.
(/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config).
MfG,
Hartmut
