Re: Did Squeeze ever make it to HPPA?
On 23-Mar-13, at 6:04 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
Hi Kurt,
On 03/22/2013 12:43 PM, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
I see on the PA-RISC Linux web site a note about Squeeze being
worked on
for HPPA. I also see a few old discussions on the subject here. Did
this ever make it past the discussion stage?
Partly...
Was there an HPPA testing back in Lenny, or just unstable? What I am
looking for, I suppose, is the most "squeeze-like" packages
available.
- latest before-squeeze unstable packages were moved to debian-
ports.org
- John David Anglin has continued to build current debian "unstable"
packages
- I've provided a download-location at ftp.parisc-linux.org for those.
I would really recommend going with the packages at ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable
instead of the squeeze packages on debian-ports.org. The dependencies
are somewhat broken for
the stuff on debian-ports.org and great care is needed in installing
these packages. For example,
the udev package on debian-ports is a bootstrap breaker. It might be
that we could fill in the squeeze
port but it would be a fair bit of work.
So, what you need to do is to drop other lines from your /etc/apt/
sources.list file, and instead add those two lines:
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable unstable main
For unstable sources, add this line:
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
This will bring you up to debian-unstable (which is more like
wheezy) for the most important packages.
If you miss specific packages, please let us know.
I'm wondering if we should capture what we have as it's almost
wheezy. Soon unstable will start to
diverge for the next release.
You should be aware that I have not built the current kernel package
as I we need the latest fixes
in the kernel.org tree.
Dave and me are still hoping to be able to set up a buildd-server
for parisc again.
Without a buildd-server, it's a bit hard to tell what we are
missing... However, we currently have all
the major tool chains that have been ported to hppa. Thus, most stuff
can be built from source without
problems. However, we have problems with openjdk and other similar
packages that don't
support stack grows up.
Helge
Dave
--
John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net
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