I would be willing to help with ppc and ppc64. I am just a self-trained sysadmin, however, so I cannot guarantee it will be quick or easy, but I use ppc machines as project machines all the time and so I want to help. I will read the resources below. Please email me next steps.
Jonathan jonathanhaack.com <http://jonathanhaack.com/> > On Apr 12, 2017, at 6:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > Thanks to the recent efforts within the Debian Ports projects, > debian-installer > is finally available for the Debian Ports architectures [1]. Previously, the > installer images had to be built manually because building on the buildds > always > required a testing repository to be available for a given architecture. With > the latest release of debian-installer, the build falls back to the unstable > and unreleased repositories for the required udebs. > > The generated d-i images for powerpc, kfreebsd-* and hurd-i386 can be found > here: > >> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-$ARCH > > For the remaining Ports architectures: > >> http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-$ARCH/main/d/debian-installer/ > > Now, since the process of building installer images no longer requires manual > intervention, the process for building CD images has been simplified as > well, still requires some manual work. > > Thus, I was wondering whether any volunteers would be willing to help building > ISO images for the various architectures. A rough guide can be found in [2] > from which the the d-i part can be omitted, however, a local mirror available > through the filesystem is still necessary (see MIRROR in CONF.sh). So, > reprepro > needs to be used to set up a local mirror or the remote mirror needs to be > mounted with a FUSE module or similar. > > In order to use the debian-installer images for building CD images, they have > to be downloaded and extracted (for the remaining Ports architectures above) > and placed into the directory pointed to by DI_DIR in the easy-build.sh > script, e.g.: export > DI_DIR="/srv/d-i/debian-installer/installer/build/tmp/cdrom/. > > Would be great if we could get several people work on this and create ISOs > for alpha, hppa, powerpc, ppc64 and so on. Please note: It's not necessary > to run debian-cd on the same architecture as the target architecture of > the ISO images. Hence, using an amd64 host should be fine. > > Thanks, > Adrian > >> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=debian-installer&suite=sid >> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/CreateDebianInstallerImages > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
