Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support
Hi Linus! On 3/11/19 7:40 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this attached patch does not compile on alpha, but it's been many > many years since I had an alpha to test with, so I'm stuck. Michael Cree (CC'ed) has several Alpha servers running which are also used for building Debian packages and testing kernels. I also have four AlphaStations (233, 433au and XP-1000) on which I could test any patch. But I'm currently in Japan until Friday next week, so I don't have any means to access the machines. 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
Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails
On 11/22/18 8:58 AM, Helge Deller wrote: > This is, because that's the way the installer images are being built > on the original build servers with the unmodified scripts/tools. > If you want the build process to be able to work with caching proxies, > someone needs to do modifications and bring them upstream. > Adrian offered to set up the build process as he has done it for many > of the architectures already. As far as I read his answers, he seems not > to be so much interested to do special work now "just" for alpha I didn't follow the whole thread so I don't remember what the actual problem is/was. But what I need is a Debian/Alpha porterbox which has a proper Debian Ports archive mirror in its sources.list such that the Debian Installer packages are being mirrored. Once I have that, I can manually build the debian-installer package on Alpha, then build fresh images on casulana, the Debian CD build server which has a full mirror of the Debian Ports archive. The debian-installer package needs to be built natively, it cannot be cross-built, as far as I know. I would use qemu-user, but so far trying to build debian-installer with qemu-user emulating Alpha didn't work. For m68k and sh4, for example, this works fine. 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
Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails
Hello! On 11/6/18 1:36 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > I believe since then no newer installer image for Alpha was produced. I can unfortunately not build updated installer images for Alpha since I don't have an Alpha porterbox available where I can build the debian-installer package for Alpha. I do have two AlphaStation 233 sitting in the basement at the university now, but I don't have any time and space to set them up to be used as porterboxes. The only porterbox currently currently available to me is Michael Cree's "electro" but the repositories of the chroots there don't include the debian-installer component packages, so building d-i fails - at least last time I tried. 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
