Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:43:49PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: >On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:35:58PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> I still need yaboot on some of my machines. I'll have a look at the >> package and consider adopting it. > >Feel fr

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-29 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:35:58PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I still need yaboot on some of my machines. I'll have a look at the > package and consider adopting it. Feel free to join the team and to take the responsibility for the upload of the new upstream release if you have access to p

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-29 Thread Roberto Lahoud
Hi, thanks for your anwers, this is a great comunity, but nobody respond really to my problem, like i said i doing some tests on a blade power6 js22 with the testing debian powerpc linux dist, wich have problems after installing when i try to boot, i think when is loading the initrd, and stop when

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-29 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:11:44AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > Depends. However, there was about 2 years between the last package > upload and the start of the lenny freeze. Yes, so what? > Anyway, I am sorry for being so rude. I hope you get some additions to > the team, at least Rhonda was intere

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Is it reasonable to upload a new release during a freeze? Depends. However, there was about 2 years between the last package upload and the start of the lenny freeze. Anyway, I am sorry for being so rude. I hope you get some additions t

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-28 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:42:13AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > It appears as though the Debian yaboot team have not uploaded it since > 2006, so yaboot looks like a candidate for being orphaned (and removed > from Debian if no-one adopts it), CCing debian-qa & the maintainer > list. Is it reasonable

Re: Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:18:14PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: >On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >> Is there any other way to boot on PPC without yaboot? > >quik, grub-ieee1275 seem to support some section of powerpc machines. Co

Re: Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Is there any other way to boot on PPC without yaboot? quik, grub-ieee1275 seem to support some section of powerpc machines. The point is that yaboot needs to be better maintained, not that Debian would remove yaboot without also removing

Re: Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce milieu de nuit étoilée du jeudi 25 décembre 2008, vers 03:42, "Paul Wise" disait : >> why is this lenny dist come with such an old yaboot version? > It appears as though the Debian yaboot team have not uploaded it since > 2006, so yaboot looks like a candidate for being orphaned (and

Re: Custom Debian powerpc cd last yaboot 1.3.14

2008-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Roberto Lahoud wrote: > why is this lenny dist come with such an old yaboot version? It appears as though the Debian yaboot team have not uploaded it since 2006, so yaboot looks like a candidate for being orphaned (and removed from Debian if no-one adopts it), C