fyi, binutils currently fails to build on only ia64: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=binutils&ver=2.16.1cvs20050902-1&arch=ia64&stamp=1129178503&file=log&as=raw And also has a long-outstanding bug that breaks d-i: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326103 -- dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>