On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:58:16PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:06:52PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi Dann, > > > > we used to have miboot-floppies for sarge/powerpc somewhere on > > people.debian.org/~luther/ but it seems they are gone. Since these floppies > > in etch are also sometimes not working and older hardware might not be > > supported by newer kernels, too - it would be very good to have them again. > > > > Did you do the sarge 3.1r4 rebuild of d-i for powerpc? Or do you know who > > did? > > It looks like this was autobuilt: > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=debian-installer&ver=20050317sarge1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1154814507&file=log > > > I'm asking you to do this, because I guess you have everything set up and > > just > > need to install miboot and repeat the build. (To use the same chroot again > > for official builds, you obviously need to remove the miboot package again.) > > Frans: can we update debian-installer on a single arch, perhaps via > binNMU, like this?
No, because miboot is not in main, and thus official d-i packages cannot be done. What is needed is a local build of the miboot floppies, and putting them up somewhere unofficial, and replacing the official sarge miboot floppies by a note pointing to these unofficial images. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
