Re: New sparc64 netboot image available

[Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Rick,

On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 17:35 -0400, Rick Leir wrote:

> I saw the built-using.txt file, listing the versions of packages.
> Sorry, I am going to ask some big newbie questions. Is your build
> following the stable distribution? Supposing I was to do a build, is
> there anything special to know, particularly about initrd? I have
> built kernels and done driver development, but not in the Debian
> world, so help would be much appreciated!

These netboot (and iso CD) images for sparc64 are based on sid and
experimental repo from debian-ports.

https://www.ports.debian.org/

Checkout package builds log.

https://buildd.debian.org/

Thanks,

Frans van Berckel