Re: Where is powerpc now?

2016-11-15 Thread Matti Palmström
On 2016-11-15 21:27, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > is there even a sid iso? The Stretch alpha 8 installer is removed but alpha 7 is still there http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_alpha7/powerpc/ If they remove that too you'll have to install stable and upgrade or build them as Joh

Re: Where is powerpc now?

2016-11-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/15/2016 09:42 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > What type of help would you need? There are many things which can be done. Packages like ghc or ruby2.3 need attention as they currently fail to build from source. As for debian-installer, it would be handy to have a powerpc machine availab

Re: Where is powerpc now?

2016-11-15 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
What type of help would you need? On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 11/15/2016 09:27 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > > is there even a sid iso? > > There isn't. But it's actually possible to build d-i installation images >

Re: Where is powerpc now?

2016-11-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/15/2016 09:27 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > is there even a sid iso? There isn't. But it's actually possible to build d-i installation images yourself, see this guide which goes through the procedure for hppa [1]. Note: This guide has one flaw: At one point it sets DI_DIR to:

Re: Where is powerpc now?

2016-11-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/15/2016 05:36 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > It still works with sid, but it does look like it disappeared from > stretch, which if true is rather inconvinient for anyone that might have > hoped to make an unofficial stretch release. I certainly never saw any > mention that this would happen.

Re: Where is powerpc now?

2016-11-15 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
is there even a sid iso? On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 01:05:02AM +0100, Matti Palmström wrote: > > Since the other day I get > > > > N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-powerpc/Packages' as > > r

Failed to build kernel for powerpc64 myself

2016-11-15 Thread Vladimir Berezenko
Hi all! I've tried to build 4.8.5 kernel myself using this guide: https://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official 1) fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen setup_powerpc_none_powerpc64 2) make -C debian/build/build_powerpc_none_powerpc64/ nconfig changed the kernel p

Re: Where is powerpc now?

2016-11-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 01:05:02AM +0100, Matti Palmström wrote: > Since the other day I get > > N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-powerpc/Packages' as > repository 'http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease' doesn't > support architecture 'powerpc' > > Is this just a te