Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

OK.

Would it be helpful if I did an Etch install then "aptitude dist- 
upgrade" on as many Mac architectures as I can?  I don't have any non- 
Mac PowerPC machines, so I can't try the oddball kernel versions  
anyway.  Is there anybody else out there who does?

Rick

On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Frans Pop wrote:

> Hi Rick,
>
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Is there any chance of producing an "Etch+0.5" test image for
> > PowerPC?  I'd love to run it through my testing farm.
>
> Technically I could, but I'm not sure that I want to.
>
> First, it is quite a lot of work because of all the different  
> kernel flavors
> PowerPC has.
>
> Next, all this image really tests is that the selection of the  
> etchnhalf
> kernel works, which has already been verified.
>
> And finally, we currently don't plan to create an etchnhalf  
> installation CD
> for PowerPC [1], so there's not that much point in testing one either.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/02/msg00179.html