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Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]




On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote:

The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm
trying to install :(

I think someone reported that there were images from last year which
worked -- I think at this stage installing by fair means or foul in
order to have a dev & test environment would be advantageous.

maybe Rick had other machines previously installed and he could run
the cdebconf powerpc version.

I do have such machines, and I'd be happy to do that, but I'll need
instructions, since I've never done it before.

I think Julian has proved that it is cdebcof-get which is the issue.

I'd recommend grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a few
test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just running
cdebconf-get from the built source tree may prove informative.

Ian.

Once again, I have the hardware and the will to do it, but I don't have the know-how. If you are willing to walk me through the steps needed to implement the plan of:

... grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a few
test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just running
cdebconf-get from the built source tree...

I'll be happy to help in the debugging.

Thanks!

Rick


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