Adrian, I actually discover the issue only today, and was a bit surprised too. I think this is related to the powerpc downgrade to port, and was part of the large packages autoremoval done at the time (ppc64el was added only in 1.2.19-1). But I think we can revive this package simply because it is needed on ppc64el.
powerpc-ibm-utils packagers, would you consider fixing the package so that it transition back to testing again or should I report an explicit bug ? Thanks, On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:13 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > 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.
