Hi, just found out that with the current state of the powerpcspe port [1] I cannot multistrap even a rudimentary debian system. A few months ago multistrap worked without problems. There seem to be two culprits: 1. Nowadays some required packages depend on the metapackage 'multiarch-support' (e.g. 'libselinux1'). However 'multiarch-support' is only provided by newer eglibc packages, not by the eglibc package currently found in the powerpcspe archive (in suite 'unreleased') 2. Some packages depend on metapackage perlapi-5.10.1 (e.g. libtext-iconv-perl). But only perlapi-5.12.3 is provided by package 'perl-base'. The mistake is in the dependencies of packages like 'libtext-iconv-perl'. Looking here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/libtext-iconv-perl I see that although all architectures have a package libtext-iconv-perl:1.7-2, the perlapi-* packages they depend on differ. On arch 'powerpcspe' the dependency is on perlapi-5.10.1, while for 'powerpc' it's perlapi-5.12.3. Maybe the dependency is automatically determined at built-time and a simple rebuild is going to fix it? cheers, David [1] http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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