Was the removal of powerpc-ibm-utils coordinated somewhere? I‘m asking because it’s still in the package list of debian-installer for powerpc/ppc64/ppc64el in debian-cd [1].
I can’t seem to find the removal bug report. Adrian > [1] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-cd/debian-cd.git/tree/tools/generate_di+k_list > On Nov 21, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 20, 2017, at 10:51 PM, Frank Scheiner <frank.schei...@web.de> wrote: >>> >>> Well, to be on the safe side, I think you need to use the latest versions >>> of ofpath and ofpathname, hence running Debian Sid could be the easiest way >>> to make sure this is the case. >> >> As both ofpath and ofpathname are shell scripts, would it be possible to >> just install Sid on one of the machines and copy the scripts to each of the >> other machines? >> >> Mostly all of these machines are currently running Jessie, and it would be a >> lot of work to upgrade each to Sid, run the experiments, then downgrade back >> to Jessie. >> >> Alternatively, could we make a Sid live (or rescue mode installer) CD that I >> could boot to run the experiments? >> >> On a third hand, all of these machines have a Firewire port that they can >> boot from. Can I install Sid on a single Firewire external drive and boot >> each machine in turn from it… It would have to be two Firewire drives, one >> for the G4 machines, and the other for the G5s. Would that work? > > One last comment, do not use `ofpathname` from package > `powerpc-ibm-utils` since the package has been removed. The issue > should be solved within the command lines tools provided by > grub-ieee1275.
