On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:08 AM, aymeric mansoux <[email protected]> wrote: > krgn said : >> generally this is a great idea, which also made its rounds on IRC and the >> list before. From what I understand the main obstacles are not many in >> number nor difficult to solve, what this project requires most is simply >> time. As Debian GNU/Linux is already running on ppc's the main thing to do >> is to build all the packages we distribute for the ppc achitechture (this is >> in theory relatively simple, on would only have to setup pbuilder for ppc >> and have to create the packages in a way that they build for different >> arch'es) and populate the repository with them. Then, and I don't know so >> much about this stage, one has to alter the liveCD/DVD scripts to build a >> iso for the ppc architechture et voila. Others, please correct me here if I >> am wrong with my assumptions! > > That's correct. > > >> I think if there were some funding for more code sprints we could definitely >> come up with this, but I think at the moment our focus lies on completing >> the port of p:d to the Debian system and come up with more documentation. Of >> course this is only my personal understanding of the current set of >> objectives! This subject, as you point out will become more and more >> interesting in the future though, also the question whether or not to come >> up with a version for amd64, which also will become much more relevant once >> this 'trickles down' more :). > > I second that, we need to focus our attention on not too many things to > get most of the little resources we have. And as Karsten said, right now > we aim at having an as neat as possible live system for x86 (PC and > Intel-Mac). > > Now, this doesn't mean the whole PPC thing is not interesting, on the > contrary, but we would need some extra dev or community support to make > it happen and kickstart such a project. Concretely if someone want to help > and start the initial steps, it's quite "easy": > (ideally someone who knows Debian well enough and not scared to initiate > such a thing and get his/her hands dirty!) > > - find a PPC > - make a full Debian Lenny install, following the same settings/config > as for p:d (as listed on the documentation wiki) > - get a simple source package from us > (Hey BTW, to the p:d-dev, we don't have them online ...) > - make a PPC binary deb (check the dev doc on the dev lounge to know how > to) > - test :) > - Document as much as possible on the wiki (Dev Lounge) as you go > > If someone is willing to do this for a few packages as a "proof of > concept" we can provide to this person later on, access to our builder > machine, to the GOTO10 repos, etc... And obviously the live version will > follow. > > That's what would happen in an ideal world, and it;s very realistic as > most of the work is already done, but the packages need to be made :) > > In the worst case, we'll probably have a look ourseleves in the future > but, it could be in a long while ... > > a. >
hrmm, I've got an G4 ppc machine sitting here that I would happily turn into a package builder and try and get a "proof of concept" working, but other people use the machine so I would need to dual boot it. Anyone got any hints on how to dualboot with linux/osx? I'm a bit of an newbie with regards to osx. cheers, James --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
