On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:48:38PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> I was trying to build boot-floppies on powerpc, and it kept stopping
> after failing to download pcmcia-modules.
>
> I turned debug on, and finally figured out there is a mismatch between
> the debootstrap-...Packages file and kernel.sh. In the packages file,
> the package is named pcmcia-modules-2.4.18, but in kernel.sh it calls
> for pcmcia-modules-{$kernel_version}{$subarch-suffix} which translates
> to pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-newpmac.
>
> I don't know if this is a bug in kernel.sh (probably not) or a bug
> in the Packages file. I tried changing the Packages file first, but
> it caught me doing that when the md5 didn't match and downloaded a
> new one. So to get around the problem I removed $subarch-suffix from
> kernel.sh on my local copy.
I don't think that is the right solution. The real problem is
that pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-newpmac has been stuck in incoming
since April 2!
Matt
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