Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors
> https://wiki.debian.org/PortsSparc
>
> Started a catagory of major bugs. Please place links and titles to
> the bug report in this list so we can better track the status and
> reference the problems quickly.
The underlying upstream issue of this bug in glibc seems to have been
fixed [1], so I assume we could actually close this bug. If someone
has an idea how to quickly verify the fix, please let me know.
> One of my major problems with helping debian and the sparc port has
> been simply figuring out what is wrong. I have fixed a lot of
> problems upstream with KDE and alignment issues, and even have the
> nouveau driver working with some GeForces on sparc. It would be sad
> to see my plucky little sparc machines no longer get updates.
You might be happy to hear that we have started bringing sparc64
back to life in debian-ports and we're making very good progress
with almost 9000 packages being up-to-date.
Currently, there are no installer images available though. Thus,
you have to use debootstrap to install a base sparc64 system which
you can boot later.
Cheers,
Adrian
> [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16885
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