Bug#201857: does not build on powerpc
Matt,
is it possible to use floppies formatted for 1.6 M on the powerpc?
If so, we will use the 'full' busybox-cvs-udeb; if not it might be
very hard to build powerpc floppies.
- Alastair
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 10:20, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Package: install
>
> debian-installer fails to build on PowerPC with the following
> error:
>
> needed="rootskel main-menu cdebconf-udeb udpkg anna di-utils-shell kernel-image-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb busybox-cvs-net-udeb floppy-retriever cdebconf-newt-udeb rootskel-locale usb-discover ide-modules-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb scsi-modules-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb nic-modules-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb nic-modules-shared-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb packet-socket-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb console-keymaps-amiga console-keymaps-ps2 console-keymaps-usb kbd-chooser net-retriever netcfg-static netcfg-dhcp choose-mirror kbd-chooser busybox-cvs-udeb hw-detect discover-udeb discover-data-udeb bogl-bterm-udeb languagechooser nano-udeb ethdetect "; \
> for file in `find localudebs -name "*_*" -printf "%f\n" 2>/dev/null`; do \
> package=`echo $file | cut -d _ -f 1`; \
> needed=`echo " $needed " | sed "s/ $package / /"`; \
> done; \
> if [ "" = y ] ; then \
> mkdir -p debugudebs; \
> cd debugudebs; \
> export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="debug"; \
> apt-get --assume-yes -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/home/kraai/dev/debian-installer/build/sources.list.local -o Dir::State=/home/kraai/dev/debian-installer/build/apt/state -o Debug::NoLocking=true -o Dir::Cache=/home/kraai/dev/debian-installer/build/apt/cache source --build --yes $needed; \
> cd ..; \
> else \
> echo Need to download : $needed; \
> if [ -n "$needed" ]; then \
> apt-get --assume-yes -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/home/kraai/dev/debian-installer/build/sources.list.local -o Dir::State=/home/kraai/dev/debian-installer/build/apt/state -o Debug::NoLocking=true -o Dir::Cache=/home/kraai/dev/debian-installer/build/apt/cache -dy install $needed; \
> fi; \
> fi; \
>
> Need to download : rootskel main-menu cdebconf-udeb udpkg anna di-utils-shell kernel-image-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb busybox-cvs-net-udeb floppy-retriever cdebconf-newt-udeb rootskel-locale usb-discover ide-modules-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb scsi-modules-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb nic-modules-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb nic-modules-shared-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb packet-socket-2.4.20-powerpc-udeb console-keymaps-amiga console-keymaps-ps2 console-keymaps-usb kbd-chooser net-retriever netcfg-static netcfg-dhcp choose-mirror kbd-chooser busybox-cvs-udeb hw-detect discover-udeb discover-data-udeb bogl-bterm-udeb languagechooser nano-udeb ethdetect
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package busybox-cvs-net-udeb has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package busybox-cvs-net-udeb has no installation candidate
> make: *** [floppy-get_udebs-stamp] Error 100
>
> busybox-cvs-net-udeb only builds on i386. Should the floppy image
> be built for PowerPC or should it only have cdrom images?
>
> --
> Matt Kraai kraai@alumni.cmu.edu Debian GNU/Linux
>
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