On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:28 PM, John David Anglin <dave.ang...@bell.net> wrote: > On 16-Dec-11, at 8:34 AM, John David Anglin wrote: > >> On 15-Dec-11, at 8:06 PM, Grant Grundler wrote: >> >>> The main problem was dselect wanted to remove locales among many >>> packages because glibc and other dependencies couldn't resolve. So I >>> aborted the update. Has anyone updated an hppa machine using the >>> debian ports uploaded packages succesfully? >> >> >> I have unstable/multiarch running on my rp3440. It's not completely >> current >> but close. I build everything from source. >
Hi Dave! First, thanks for the initial and followup commentary - it basically matches my perception. > I was trying to say in a round about manner that debian ports can't be used > to update parisc systems running "squeeze" or unstable any longer because of > the problem noted. It's probably still ok for systems running lenny. Ok. > It does provide the last binary packages for hppa unstable but new packages > like locales which target all systems sometimes have nasty dependencies > which can lead to many packages being removed. The package dependencies don't > handle systems that are far from being up-to-date. Which is exactly what happened to me. > I no longer use apt-get upgrade other than to find what needs upgrading. I > selectively use dpkg -i and apt-get install to install packages. > > Mostly, I build from source. This is a major effort. I have been at it > since last August. When I read this, my first thought was: "Just run Gentoo - it does that automatically." :/ Maybe not funny to everyone. Especially since I don't see a gentoo install ISO or something similar. > That's why a .deb collection is important. > > I would say based on my experience that Debian package maintainers are still > willing to respond to parisc related bugs. Most packages don't have parisc > specific > problems, so the situation isn't completely unrecoverable, but we need an > unstable > buildd that is monitored by the small core of toolchain and kernel > maintainers. Agreed. IIRC, dannf volunteered to operate/maintain a buildd but was waiting for "stable kernel" to be released and I don't if that happened. My understand was recent kernel.org was more stable. Let's see dannf is still available/interested in operating a buildd get an update on what he thinks he needs to move forward. cheers, grant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hppa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canejegsnq57-z_fs9w4n+zigvn-fubpc2wtthxj9d3vx6ij...@mail.gmail.com