On 13:50 Mon 20 Apr , Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > As you may know, I stopped the powerpc dailies about a month ago, due to > the fact that the machine on which they were running was a PowerMac > 8500, an oldworld machine, that is no longer supported by recent > kernels; the kernel that it does run is now too old for the libc in > squeeze. > > They now run on my old laptop (an apple powerbook G4, presumably that'll > be supported for quite a while to come) and will in time be migrated to > a PegasosII system that is with Martin Michlmayr currently but which > should make it over here. As long as that migration hasn't happened, > there might be intermittent cases where the powerbook doesn't manage to > do the daily build on one or another day, since it's not really 'hosted' > ATM. This is a temporary arrangement, anyway. If this happens more than > one or two days in a row, that means it's gone offline and I haven't > noticed; feel free to gently nudge me in that case. > > As I type this, the first of the dailies built on country (my old > laptop) is being uploaded to people.debian.org > > In setting up everything on the powerbook, I did not trouble myself to > re-enable the miboot builds anymore, since I understand they've been > long broken and nobody is working on them; and, also, since I can't seem > to find the miboot package anymore that's needed to do this (I believe > Sven Luther used to maintain them, but, well). Besides, it seems silly > to provide installation media for hardware on which no recent kernel > will boot. If you are interested, Sven propose to do builds on his XServe dual G5, or even on a powerstation (quad core G5) if the d-i team agreed and want him for this part... Greetings, -- ,''`. Xavier Oswald <x.oswald@free.fr> : :' : GNU/LINUX Debian Maintainer `. `' GnuPG Key ID 0x88BBB51E `- 938D D715 6915 8860 9679 4A0C A430 C6AA 88BB B51E
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