Re: Problems with PowerPC-PREP

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 08:38:28PM -0300, Gustavo Barbieri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> prep packages are broken. The line:
> 
> kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc-2.4.25/debian/rules:
> 
> sed -e 's/=V/$(basever)-$*/g' -e 's/=A/powerpc/g' -e 's,=D,/boot,g'  ...
> 
> is not working as expected, =D is not replaced by /boot and
> post{rm,inst} pre{rm,inst} try to access /=D, which doesn't exists.
> 
> The line seems right... so I have no glue on what's wrong.
> 
> kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-prep_2.4.25-8_powerpc.deb has this problem.

Please try the 2.6 install, and confirm that this problem is not present
there.

powerpc 2.4 kernels are being phased out in favor of the better
supported 2.6 kernels.

Friendly,

Sven Luther