Re: [bh@agl.ucl.ac.be: why parted does not exist in powerpc.deb?]

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Timshel Knoll wrote:
> 
> [please CC all replies to me, I'm not on -powerpc - thanks]
> 
> I'm the maintainer of the debian GNU parted package, and I just recieved the
> forwarded message below asking why there is no powerpc-compiled parted
> package ... Parted should be quite useful on powerpc now, since it supports
> Mac disklabels (since 1.4.0), so ext2 partition resizing should be quite
> possible on powerpc. Any reason why the ppc buildd doesn't build parted?

http://voltaire.debian.org/buildlogs/parted

I guess we'd have to ask Dan why it's 'Not-For-Us'...


I have built 1.4.10-1 and it works fine, I can upload it if you tell me how to
do it right, or you can get it from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/ and
upload yourself. You could have used voltaire as well...


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