On 05-Mar-24 21:51, Joey Hess wrote: > Andreas Jochens wrote: > > Please add support for the ppc64 architecture. > > Can you point me to some docs about the port's current status in Debian? > > Last I heard even the name of the port was still undecided, and we > didn't know if it was going to be added to Debian..
Hello, thank you for your reply to my report. There was a discussion on debian-devel about the name of the port. In that discussion, everybody except the dpkg maintainer wanted to use the LSB conforming name 'ppc64' for the port. The result of the discussion was that the dpkg maintainer added the port with the name 'ppc64' to the experimental version of dpkg. The status of the port is summarized on http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/READ_ME. There is a ppc64 package archive on alioth which has already more than 85% of the packages from 'unstable' compiled. A ppc64 autobuilder is running and following 'unstable'. The autobuilder itself runs the ppc64 port. Unfortunately, there is no working installer for ppc64 yet. There is a test version of a 'linux-kernel-di-ppc64' package and the 'debian-installer' package can be successfully compiled. However, I was not able to create working installation CD images yet. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
