Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > just found out that with the current state of the powerpcspe port [1] I
> > cannot multistrap even a rudimentary debian system.  A few months ago
> > multistrap worked without problems.
>
> Yeah, unfortunately my time to deal with the whole thing lately has been
> extremely limited, and will continue to be so for at least the next month
> or two due to an X86-based hardware project.  I suspect Sebastian is in a
> similar situation.
bingo.

> > There seem to be two culprits:
> >
> > 1. Nowadays some required packages depend on the metapackage
> > 'multiarch-support' (e.g. 'libselinux1').  However 'multiarch-support'
> > is only provided by newer eglibc packages, not by the eglibc package
> > currently found in the powerpcspe archive (in suite 'unreleased')
>
> That shouldn't be terribly hard to fix.  Really what needs to happen is
> for someone with an existing sbuild chroot to figure out which patches
> for those core dependencies are still missing from upstream/Debian and
> get them merged.

I have still the buildd running and I enabled auto-signing so it can work
on its own. However nothing happens until a recent eglibc is uploaded.
Unfortunately I don't have time for it right now.

> Thanks again!
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett

Sebastian