On 06/12/2016 08:44 AM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: > I understand this much, the issue isn't adding these to unstable. It's > finding sparc-utils-udeb in the first place.
It is. *After* you add the udeb locally. As I have already mentioned - twice. > sparc-utils-udeb is not in unreleased, at least not according to > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/unreleased/main/binary-sparc64/Packages.gz Well, yes, it is. It is just a .udeb, not a .deb, which is why it's not in the Packages file. .udeb are Debian packages for ANNA, the apt replacement which is used in Debian Installer. Anna is Not Nearly Apt. > Removing unreleased from /etc/apt/sources.list and trying to force-reinstall > sparc-utils fails, confirming that it's not in unstable. Adding unreleased > back > into sources.list will allow it to reinstall normally. But with unreleased > added to sources.list again you still cannot install sparc-utils-udeb as it > can't > find it. > > Only sparc-utils can be found in unreleased, not sparc-utils-udeb. The cd > installer build process explicitly asks for sparc-utils-udeb and not the > other variant. Yes, because sparc-utils-udeb cannot be installed with APT. > So either i change it so debian-installer uses sparc-utils over > sparc-utils-udeb or something is wrong with the repo. Neither. You just don't understand what the difference between udebs and debs is. > Im going to guess the former is correct. Neither is. Just add the sparc-utils-udeb as explained in one of my previous mails: Add the packages with: $ reprepro includeudeb unstable /path/to/udeb/*udeb $ reprepro includeudeb unstable /path/to/deb/*deb Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
