On 04/17/2013 09:48 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Thanks for the reply. > > 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. > >>> Would it be possible to shuffle things around on the mirror please? >>> It'd be >>> great to have something recent working again, as I'm still on Sarge... >> >> >> At the moment, I don't think we have an InRelease file. I also don't >> know how we would generate >> or maintain it. However, it's probably needed if we are going to get >> a buildd going again. Maybe Helge >> knows how to do this. > > AFAICT, an InRelease file isn't needed if you have Release and Release.gpg > (we do). 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.
Hi Will, As suggested by Steve I have now set up reprepro, which should put the files in the correct places. Maybe you want to try again? You would need both repos: http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/debian unstable main http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian unstable main Helge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
