Hello everyone, I installed the CD image from snapshot 2022-03-28 [1], which I burned using my PowerMac G5 [2]. Installation just went very fine.
Thanks a lot to Adrian for making this happen! After installation I encountered some issues which could easily be solved by applying some quick and dirty fixes, maybe. First packages firmware-b43-installer[3] and and bw43-fwcutter[4] were missing, which I then got from the linked snapshot. Would it be possible to place these packages in the unreleased repo to make them available easily? Then I wanted to set up wifi, but network-manager-gnome was not available due to libnma not being built on powerpc (32 bit) due to libgtk-4-1 not available on powerpc. The correct way probably would be to fix building of GTK4 on powerpc (I don't know why it fails), but I was able to build the libnma package after removing all dependencies to GTK4. In case we would like to provide such "hacked" packages to powerpc port users via the unreleased repo, what would be the correct way to achieve that? In any case: After building the libnma package manually I was able to install necessary packages to configure wifi and bluetooth via GUI (MATE) easily. Desktop now looks quite similar to this screenshot[5] which I'm quite happy about. So far. Johannes [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso [2] Tell me if you need a CD. My PowerMac will happily burn one I'm going to ship anywhere in Europe. [3] https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170531T212258Z/pool/contrib/b/b43-fwcutter/firmware-b43-installer_019-3_all.deb [4] https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170531T212258Z/pool/contrib/b/b43-fwcutter/b43-fwcutter_019-3_powerpc.deb [5] https://fosstodon.org/@lazarus/108208319638351436
