Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] Patch the CHRP boot script

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

Adrian, I actually discover the issue only today, and was a bit
surprised too. I think this is related to the powerpc downgrade to
port, and was part of the large packages autoremoval done at the time
(ppc64el was added only in 1.2.19-1). But I think we can revive this
package simply because it is needed on ppc64el.

powerpc-ibm-utils packagers, would you consider fixing the package so
that it transition back to testing again or should I report an
explicit bug ?

Thanks,


On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:13 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Was the removal of powerpc-ibm-utils coordinated somewhere? I‘m asking
> because it’s still in the package list of debian-installer for
> powerpc/ppc64/ppc64el in debian-cd [1].
>
> I can’t seem to find the removal bug report.
>
> Adrian
>
>> [1]
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-cd/debian-cd.git/tree/tools/generate_di+k_list
>
> On Nov 21, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2017, at 10:51 PM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote:
>
>
> Well, to be on the safe side, I think you need to use the latest versions of
> ofpath and ofpathname, hence running Debian Sid could be the easiest way to
> make sure this is the case.
>
>
> As both ofpath and ofpathname are shell scripts, would it be possible to
> just install Sid on one of the machines and copy the scripts to each of the
> other machines?
>
>
> Mostly all of these machines are currently running Jessie, and it would be a
> lot of work to upgrade each to Sid, run the experiments, then downgrade back
> to Jessie.
>
>
> Alternatively, could we make a Sid live (or rescue mode installer) CD that I
> could boot to run the experiments?
>
>
> On a third hand, all of these machines have a Firewire port that they can
> boot from.  Can I install Sid on a single Firewire external drive and boot
> each machine in turn from it…  It would have to be two Firewire drives, one
> for the G4 machines, and the other for the G5s.  Would that work?
>
>
> One last comment, do not use `ofpathname` from package
> `powerpc-ibm-utils` since the package has been removed. The issue
> should be solved within the command lines tools provided by
> grub-ieee1275.