Bug#736791: installation-guide: please re-activate build for hppa architecture
Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
Version: 20131009
Dear Installation-guide maintainers,
I and a collegue currently work on getting the hppa architecture in a good shape again in debian.
We have done great progress, which means that more than 80% of debian unstable packages are now available
up-to-date for hppa. That's even more than what other architectures like mk68k, sh4 or sparc.
You can see our progress in this graph: http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/
hppa is the magenta line.
We currently have 7 hppa-buildd-servers running (on 4 physical machines) as you can see here:
http://unstable.buildd.net/index-hppa.html
Next step for me was to try to create a installation-cd.
For that I used debian-cd, but failed because the package "installation-guide-hppa" is missing in the
repositories. You can see the error message of debian-cd below.
So, can you please reactive the build for the hppa architecture so that I can proceed with an installation image?
It seems it is sufficient to
- uncomment "hppa" in the debian/archlist file, and
- uncomment the " installation-guide-hppa" section in the debian/control file.
It would be really great if you can reactivate it soon.
Of course I will send further patches to the installation-guide package as needed.
THANKS !!
Helge
BTW, here is the error I get when using debian-cd to create a installation image:
...
/usr/share/debian-cd/tools/make_disc_trees.pl /usr/share/debian-cd /mnt/DATA/debian-ports-mirror /mnt/DATA/tempdir sid "hppa" "genisoimage" "-r -jigdo-min-file-size 1024 -jigdo-exclude 'README*' -jigdo-exclude /doc/ -jigdo-exclude /md5sum.txt -jigdo-exclude /.disk/ -jigdo-exclude /pics/ -jigdo-exclude 'Release*' -jigdo-exclude 'Packages*' -jigdo-exclude 'Sources*' -jigdo-force-md5 /pool/"
....
genisoimage -version says:
genisoimage 1.1.11 (Linux)
Reading in package information for hppa:
Done: Read details of 478 packages for hppa
Starting to lay out packages into images:
Adding the required directories
Generating the image label and volume id
Adding .disk/base_components
Adding .disk/cd_type
Adding udeb/base includes/excludes
Adding docs to CD1
Extracting FAQ on CD1
Adding installtools
ERROR: package installation-guide-hppa not found.
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