Hi Peter, On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 10:52 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > Sadly, that one fails as well.
OK, then my memory was incorrect. > I had repeated unpack failures - debootstrap really doesn't like unpacking > util-linux. And software > installation eventually failed with > > Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: Errors were encountered while processing: > Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: vim-tiny > Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration > of vim-tiny: > Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: vim-tiny depends on vim-common (= > 2:9.0.2087-1); however: > Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: Versio > Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: n of vim-common on system is 2:9.0.2103-1. Yeah, that's a common problems and occurs whenever vim fails to build on sparc64, I have explained the reason behind this here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html > However, the very latest snapshot from > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-02-25/ > does install successfully: > > $ uname -a > Linux debian-sparc 6.8.12-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.8.12-1 (2024-05-31) > sparc64 GNU/Linux That's great to hear. I hope the Linux LDOM will enable you fix some SPARC-related upstream bugs ;-). Let me know if you have any more questions, I'm happy to help! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
