Hi Will, On 04/17/2013 09:48 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:00:00PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: >> On 16-Apr-13, at 7:14 PM, Will Deacon wrote: >>> After discovering the joy that is the debian-ports archive, I saw a >>> recent >>> post on this list which suggested using ftp.parisc-linux.org instead: >> >> Actually, you should use ftp.parisc-linux.org in addition to what's on >> ports. What's on ftp.parisc-linux.org >> is far from complete but it's a huge step forward. > > I'm not sure it's possible to debootstrap from multiple archives, but I'll > bear that in mind if I get that far. I tried bootstrapping from > debian-ports, but that results in a hideous mess. I also get lots of > warnings from the kernel complaining about inconsistent aliases, which > suggests something might be miscompiled too.
My suggestion: Use one of the installation-CDs from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/5.0.10/hppa/iso-cd/ and do a fresh install. Maybe even the netinst-image will work, if you then add the debian-ports and the parisc-linux.org repositories as installation source into /etc/apt/sources.list. Note: I'm just now mirroring the installation-CDs into a subdirectory of ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/. >>> Would it be possible to shuffle things around on the mirror please? Sure! Yes, just let me know what you want (and commands with which I can do that :-)). > AFAICT, an InRelease file isn't needed if you have Release and Release.gpg > (we do). Those in the parisc-linux archive are just based on a little (unfinished) testing by me. Again, any hints which commands I need to run would be helpful. > If they are moved under dists/, then that should be enough to get > past this roadblock, although I think the Packages file will also need some > work (probably regenerating) so that it doesn't include paths relative to > the current directory. This is what I currently do: dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null >Packages gzip -c9 Packages > Packages.gz bzip2 -cz Packages > Packages.bz2 Then in addition I tried (based on info from http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt#How_apt_uses_Release.gpg): # apt-ftparchive packages . > Packages apt-ftparchive release . > Release # gpg -abs -o Release.gpg Release Any hints? Helge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
