Re: Alpha install ISOs

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 19:13 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote:
> 
> --On August 27, 2014 at 12:19:13 AM +0100 Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 14:44 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote:
> >> 
> >> --On August 26, 2014 at 4:22:35 PM +0100 Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 21:26 -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote:
> >> >> [...]
> >> >> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'usb-storage-modules-3.10-3-alpha-generic-di'
> >> > 
> >> >> Seems like I need to create those packages for Alpha.  How do I do that?
> >> > 
> >> > Those should all come from the kernel packaging. I expect alpha already
> >> > has a kernel and you just need to update the KERNEL_VERSION = 3.10-3
> >> > somewhere in the d-i tree to whatever the current kernel version is.  
> >> 
> >> I think you are referring to the values in the config/alpha.cfg file.  I set 
> >> the following values there:
> >> 
> >> KERNELVERSION = 3.10-3-alpha-generic
> >> KERNELMAJOR = 3.10
> >> 
> >> That is not the newest version, but it is the one that currently works on 
> >> alphas. 
> > 
> > Which archive/repo are you building against? Does it contain this
> > version of the kernel?
> 
> http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian 
> 
> > I don't see 3.10-3-alpha-generic in the debian-ports.org repo, which
> > seems to have 3.14-2 and 3.15-trunk.
> 
> I should have been more explicit in describing what I have tried.  I initially 
> tried specifying the 3.10-3 kernel and then tried again with the 3.14-2 
> kernel.  Both failed and the failures were different only in the version 
> number of the kernel.  Here is the kernel specification I am using now:
> 
> KERNELVERSION = 3.14-2-alpha-generic 
> KERNELMAJOR = 3.14
> 
> And here are the errors from the latest run:
> 
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Unable to locate package fat-modules-3.14-2-alpha-generic-di
> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'fat-modules-3.14-2-alpha-generic-di'

Judging from ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/pool-alpha/main/l/linux/
(assuming you are building against debian-ports) the kernel isn't
building any udebs for alpha. I've no idea why that should be, but you
probably need to fix that first.

Ian.