Re: building debian-installer

[Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>]

Hi Adrian,

Thanks that did the trick. It created ppc64 debian-installer images.

Can I build powerpc debian-installer images on a ppc64 machine ? If so, how do I do that ?

Jeroen

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:10:38 +0100
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On 11/11/19 8:50 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> > I would like to build debian-installer but I run into a problem. I did a checkout of debian-installer according to the manual.
> > I then ran dpkg-buildpackage and got an error (see log). The ones that I find most important are:
> > 
> > dpkg-source: warning: source directory 'installer' is not <sourcepackage>-<upstreamversion> 'debian-installer-20190703'
> > 
> > E: Unable to locate package firewire-core-modules-5.3.0-1-powerpc64-di
> > (...)
> > E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'usb-storage-modules-5.3.0-1-powerpc64-di'
> > 
> > I can see on debian-ports that those modules are 5.3.0-2 now.
> 
> I think I mentioned earlier in this thread that you need to adjust the version
> number in build/config/common, see [1].
> 
> Adrian
> 
> > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/10/msg00012.html
> 
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