arch-test and armel on arm64

2019-02-26 Thread Adam Borowski
Hi! Could you guys please educate me what's the matter with SWP on armel these days? It seems that almost no programs use it anymore. Should I remove the check for SWP from arch-test, so it reports a machine+kernel as capable of running armel even if it neither supports nor emulates this instruct

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-12-11 Thread Adam Borowski
[Oy vey, crosspost list from hell -- not sure how to trim...] On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:46:21PM +0100, Gregor Riepl wrote: > I do think this just reinforces the point that second-class architectures > should have better, more robust support from the Debian project. > For example, arch-specific p

Re: Building armel on arm64

2018-07-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:18:16PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2018, at 10:42 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > Also, this machine does have neon so it's not even armhf baseline. And so > > many packages compile but don't test.

Re: Building armel on arm64

2018-07-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 08:43:02PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > If this is a concern, how to solve it? Have some native non-DSA > armel/armhf boxes where volunteers rebuild the archive and hope test > suites will catch such issues? The problem is not doing the rebuilds, it's tuits to actually a

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:15:03PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Really depends what you mean by an "image backup". I do a lot of stuff using > "ye olde traditional" dd, either between devices or more often making an > image of the entire device (i.e. including partition table etc.) to a file >

Re: Using Alpine on Gmail

2018-07-13 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:16:18AM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: > Enough of that GUI nonsense, in 3 days Thunderbird couldn't index my gmail ^ > inbox, or download all the headers, or whatever it was doing. Here's your problem.

Re: pinebook session at debconf 2018?

2018-04-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 11:43:45AM +0800, gustavo panizzo wrote: > > is anyone else interested in having a pinebook session during debconf? I almost surely won't be on Debconf, but a bunch of relevant people will. It would be especially beneficial for you to concoct a plan to drag in Icenowy Zhe

Re: Migrate a SD card from olinuxino lime to lime2 ?

2018-01-03 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 08:00:44PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: > I'm going to upgrade my trusty olinuxino A20 lime to a lime2 board. Both > board > have to NAND or MMC memory and the kernel is installed on a SD card. > > To avoid a re-install from scratch, I'd like to re-use Sd card of the li

Re: Re: Re: debian and wol on Buffalo Linkstation WXL

2017-12-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 07:31:03AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 3:25 AM, rosanna wrote: > > > ... but, at reboot, ssh and telnet access are no more available > ... > > any idea on what can be the cause? > > It is possible that Debian is not compatible with the version of the

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:01:55PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > [...] > > On the other hand, some packages dropped support for PowerPC32 like Mono > > but this isn't a concern for most users, I would say. > [...] > > Howe

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:03:47AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > [Let's assume that we can't find a powerpc porter in time for Stretch.] Two potential porters stepped up, who might or might not be accepted. > 1. Will `powperpc` automatically be downgraded to simple port ? Or is > this also no