On 12/23/2015 02:31 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: >> How is that a chicken and egg solution when we have been building >> sparc64 packages over the last years? We can create a bootable >> sparc64 ISO image, we have all the tools we need. > > So what's the question left?
As I said in my initial mail to the list, there are still some issues in Helge's image build process that need to be resolved which arise because we're building an ISO for an unofficial port. For example, it gets tricky because silo and silo-installer are no longer in the official Debian archives and therefore have to be added manually. >> All the sparc machines that people are running these days are >> running a 64-bit kernel (uname -m is sparc64) and you can >> simply create a sparc64 chroot on any sparcbox to build a sparc64 >> debian-installer and ISO images. > > I know, having sparc64 running. Good to know. If you see any issues, please report them. Were you able to update your kernel, btw? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
