On 06/11/2016 06:22 PM, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us wrote:
So one issue i came across with building the installer.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to locate package sparc-utils-udeb
It doesn't look like that file is in the list of packages, but i can
find it here
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-sparc64/main/s/sparc-utils/
As I have mentioned before, you will need to add "silo",
"silo-installer"
and "sparc-utils" as these packages are part of "unreleased", not
"unstable".
Add the packages with:
$ reprepro includeudeb unstable /path/to/udeb/*udeb
$ reprepro includeudeb unstable /path/to/deb/*deb
The packages mentioned above are in the "unreleased" distribution
because those
are sparc64-only packages and it is not possible to upload any source
package
to Debian unstable which will build binary packages on a ports
architecture
only.
If I uploaded "silo" to unstable, it wouldn't build on any of the
release architectures
and the FTP servers would automatically removed the source packages
after a grace
period if these packages haven't produced any binary packages on the
release architectures.
Debian "unreleased" exists for this exact reason, but it is not used
in Debian Installer
and debootstrap by default.
Adrian