Geert,
Thanks for the pointer.
As I said (quoted below) I do not have the time or expertise to do
anything more than test things that other people build. Give me fairly
explicit directions for installing something on an oldworld machine, and
I'll send you back a report on what happened.
I've go
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:21:42PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:51:08AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:31:06AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:59:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Also, Colin said he would have a
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:56:07AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:04:45PM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 06:44, Sven Luther wrote:
> [ PowerPC PowerMac tester needed ]
> >
> > I have an interest in seeing oldworld power macs work, and I have a
> > P
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:51:08AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:31:06AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:59:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Also, Colin said he would have a look at this this evening, so we will
> > > know tomorrow about it.
>
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:04:45PM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 06:44, Sven Luther wrote:
[ PowerPC PowerMac tester needed ]
>
> I have an interest in seeing oldworld power macs work, and I have a
> PowerMac 6500 and beige Mac G3 tower I can dedicate to the task. I
> don't h
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:31:06AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:59:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Also, Colin said he would have a look at this this evening, so we will
> > know tomorrow about it.
>
> OK, I built kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc without your postinst hack
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:59:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Also, Colin said he would have a look at this this evening, so we will
> know tomorrow about it.
OK, I built kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc without your postinst hack.
(Incidentally, this is just how it builds by default. If you want to
h
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:37:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > No, i wont upload a new package until tomorrow, and that the current
> > package goes into testing.
>
> So I should expect a fixed package tomorrow then?
Not sure, fixing these kernel-package related issues took m
Il Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:39:25AM +0100, Sven Luther ha scritto:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:04:27AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
[...]
> Also, i had the impression that since a month or more, i was the only
> one really doing tests, so ...
I will test the new kernel and procedure on a powermac ti
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 06:44, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:19:59AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:26:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok. Still, there is no chance that the pmac subarch suddenly works, if
> > > no one with pmac hardware does r
Sven Luther wrote:
> No, i wont upload a new package until tomorrow, and that the current
> package goes into testing.
So I should expect a fixed package tomorrow then?
> Anyway, the current situation is installing
> the -apus kernel because base-installer doesn't seem to be able to fall
> back t
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:28:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > > netinst CD images do not work for any powerpc subarch, because they
> > > don't have usable kernels on them. Also, the kernel images have a broken
> > > postinst that does not set up the /vmlinux symlink for yaboo
Sven Luther wrote:
> > netinst CD images do not work for any powerpc subarch, because they
> > don't have usable kernels on them. Also, the kernel images have a broken
> > postinst that does not set up the /vmlinux symlink for yaboot. And
>
> This is because kernel-package is utterly broken, and i
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:19:59AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Incidentally, do we offer 2.6 on any architecture at the moment? My
> laptop needs that to be able to run X. (Not a showstopper as such, since
> I think it still also needs Michel Dänzer's xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk
> package anyway ...
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:19:59AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:26:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:44:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Rather than say that beta3 supports only netboot and businesscard
> > > installs for prep and chrp, I've
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:26:18AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:44:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Rather than say that beta3 supports only netboot and businesscard
> > installs for prep and chrp, I've dropped the whole thing. If the powerpc
> > people would like to relea
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:44:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > As soon as the web site rebuilds I'll send out the official release
> > announcement.
> >
> > There turned out to be a lot of arch-specific errata, but hey, we added
> > 4 architectures this release! Whee! Plans from
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:04:27AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:44:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I've dropped powerpc entirely from beta3. Of the images we produced, the
> > netinst CD images do not work for any powerpc subarch, because they
> > don't have usable kerne
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:44:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> I've dropped powerpc entirely from beta3. Of the images we produced, the
> netinst CD images do not work for any powerpc subarch, because they
> don't have usable kernels on them. Also, the kernel images have a broken
> postinst that does
Joey Hess wrote:
> As soon as the web site rebuilds I'll send out the official release
> announcement.
>
> There turned out to be a lot of arch-specific errata, but hey, we added
> 4 architectures this release! Whee! Plans from here will be largely
> determined with what happens with the rest of t
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