Re: Package libnss3_3.60-1_ppc64.deb requires Power-7 hardware

2021-01-18 Thread Christoph Biedl
Carsten Jacobi wrote... > The reason is that in one makefile the compiler options "-mcrypto" and > "-mvsx" were turned. Hence, there are Power-7 instructions now in > libfreeblpriv3.so: Ouch. That could also happen when the build system guesses some possible additional compile options from the CP

Re: logrotate 3.14.0-2 build failure

2018-08-21 Thread Christoph Biedl
Christian Göttsche wrote... > the package logrotate in version 3.14.0-2 fails to build on ppc64el > due to a test suite failure [1]. That looks familiar. Is the patch debian/patches/fix-test-pagesize.patch I created for 3.11.0-0.1 still part of your packaging? And by the way, thanks for ta

Spurious lzma decompression error on ppc64

2018-02-19 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hello, since a few days ago, I get messages like | Unpacking libsmartcols1:ppc64 (2.31.1-0.4) over (2.30.2-0.3) ... | dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed data | is corrupt | dpkg-deb: error: subprocess returned error exit status 2 | dpkg: error processin

Re: Updated installer images

2017-09-12 Thread Christoph Biedl
Frank Scheiner wrote... > Let's continue this on the corresponding mailing list. Jupp, that's how it was meant to be. > >* Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up > > DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files > > are needed, and how

Re: Updated installer images

2017-09-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote... > Please test and report back on the individual architecture > mailing lists So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot

Performance difference 32bit/64bit userland

2017-02-07 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hi there, while preparing other tests I created two installations on two hosts with identical hardware (LPARs on IBM POWER): - powerpc (64 bit kernel, 32 bit userland) - ppc64 (64 bit kernel, 64 bit userland) Both are up-to-date sid with systemd held to 232-10 (#852811). Now the surprise: Using

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-06 Thread Christoph Biedl
ilko Iliev wrote... > image = /boot/ vmlinux (...) > initrd = /boot/ initrd . img Do these files actually exist? When setting up two installations during the weekend, they were missing. This ought to be a bug in yaboot but I didn't get around to debug this. So either: Remove the "/boot"

Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Santiago Vila wrote... > Are you sure we need a super-fast computer and not a super-slow one? There is no lack of super-slow computers so this would have been noticed earlier ... on the other hand, recent ppc64 boxes can be really, really fast. Where "fast" has many aspects, and there might be so

Re: diffutils FTBFS on ppc64el

2017-01-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
Aurelien Jarno wrote... > > FAIL: colors > > > > > > diff: standard output: Broken pipe > > FAIL colors (exit status: 1) This is the related code: | mkfifo fifo | printf '%*s-a' 100 > a | printf '%*s-b' 100 > b | head -c 10 < fifo > /dev/null & + diff --color=always ---presu

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote... > To say that no one stepped forward is not true. Adrian stepped up > and asked to be the porter for PowerPC. Digging in the past isn't very helpful, but there one thing I'd like to understand: Nobody responded to the initial role call in August. Some folks had do

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
luigi burdo wrote... > Im thinking to start a petition about ... "dont kill debian penguins on > powerpc" Don't. The release team folks are not politicians who get convinced by a lot of noise. Unless I completely misunderstand their position, the only question that matters is: Can we (as the Deb

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote... > I saw that after I asked the question. It just really stinks. Keep it down. From an outsider's point of view the decision is more than understandable. Their interest is only "are there enough people willing to support powerpc?", and the indications were pretty

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote... > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Will there be an LTS (long-term-support) release for powerpc — best would > > be one based on Jessie? > > No there is no lts for ppc only i386, amd64, and arm > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/ Perhaps R

Re: Release Architectures for Debian 9 'Stretch'

2016-11-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Lennart Sorensen wrote... > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 09:09:56AM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote: > > Is there even a chance for PowerPC to return as a release architecture for > > Debian 10 or is that just wishful thinking. > > Well as pointed out in the meeting, it does not seem any archit

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
Mathieu Malaterre wrote... > Don't forget to set the usertags so that we can track those. #840354 about the syslog-ng issue (which is actually in src:pcre3 as assumed). I'm not sure if usertags can be set that way, we'll see. Christoph signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Rick Thomas wrote... > Can you give us some more details? In general I'm somewhat reluctant since first conclusions are usually wrong and I certainly don't want to create noise at the wrong place. So I'd rather debug a little longer until I can identify the real cause, and create a patch to prove

CPU requirements for powerpc

2016-10-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hello, just to make sure I got things right: The 74xx/G4 processors are to be supported by Debian's powerpc architecture? Background: On my G4 boxes I encounter SIGILL from several packages, turns out they were built with compiler options for more recent CPUs, hence the program abort. The buildds

Re: PowerPC roadmap for Stretch

2016-10-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Mathieu Malaterre wrote... > Since there has been some fuss about powerpc recently, let's see if I > can get some help on issue(s) I'd like to fix for Stretch. Let's see what I can do (and I'm subscribed to debian-powerpc now, so no need for Cc: in the future :) > 1. Secret GRUB option in d-i. >

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-25 Thread Christoph Biedl
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote... > On 09/20/2016 11:16 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > >- powerpc: No porter (RM blocker) > > I'd be happy to pick up powerpc to keep it for Stretch. I'm already > maintaining powerpcspe which is very similar to powerpc. For somewhat personal reasons I'm interest