Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2023-02-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It's the usual problem in Debian Ports [1] due to some Qt5 packages FTBFS on sparc64. In particular, it's kconfig that blocks subversion which blocks git. You can fetch git-man from snapshot.debian.org in the meantime.  I did a dist-upgrade today and

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Frank, On 23/11/2022 16:57, Frank Scheiner wrote: ...which is good enough for my purposes. Not been able to mount the NFS root FS is unfortunately not.  I will see for myself when I get to try Linux 6.x on my gear. I did not use NFS root, however I stress-test standard NFS mount. I

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-24 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 24.11.22 19:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: [...] Would be a nice surprise if this particular stability issue has been fixed now. Machine is still running with the 6.0.0 kernel which is definitely a huge improvement over the 5.x kernels which would have already crashed the

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 11/23/22 16:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: FWIW, I also upgraded one of the buildds that is an UltraSPARC IIIi as well that never ran stable with kernels beyond 4.19 to 6.0.8. Let's see how reliable the machine is with the new kernel. Would be a nice surprise if this

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 23.11.22 16:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 11/23/22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote: let's see how 6.0 will fare for you. [...] Would be a nice surprise if this particular stability issue has been fixed now. Indeed. I will test it with my reproducer (i.e. apt upgrade

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Riccardo, On 23.11.22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote: [...] let's see how 6.0 will fare for you. I did try to mount nfs v3 on my system and it worked, I did a classic mount with mount.nfs once booted. Mount works and I was able list and to touch and remove a file. I did not try further

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 11/23/22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote: let's see how 6.0 will fare for you. FWIW, I also upgraded one of the buildds that is an UltraSPARC IIIi as well that never ran stable with kernels beyond 4.19 to 6.0.8. Let's see how reliable the machine is with the new kernel. Would be a

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, (removing Adrian from CC, who can read us on ML anyway) Frank Scheiner wrote: Good to know, looks like I missed that. Checking my logs 5.18.0-2 still oopses on my T1000 when trying to `nfsmount` its root FS using the klibc tools eventually making it unresponsive. So although this kernel

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Riccardo On 22.11.22 00:52, Riccardo Mottola wrote: On 2022-11-18 10:16:07 +0100 Frank Scheiner wrote: IIRC in the past newer kernels (>5.9.0-2) already crashed during startup on your T2000. "Running kernel 6.0.x" would then be already an advancement. That gives hope for UltraSPARC IIIi

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Frank! On 2022-11-18 10:16:07 +0100 Frank Scheiner wrote: IIRC in the past newer kernels (>5.9.0-2) already crashed during startup on your T2000. "Running kernel 6.0.x" would then be already an advancement. That gives hope for UltraSPARC IIIi (and maybe also III) driven machines. I'll

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Riccardo, On 18.11.22 02:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I fetched the older version of git-man required from snapshot.debian.org, installed it with dpkg. Then I was able to install git, compile stuff again and also finish upgrading. Running kernel 6.0.x serie son the Niagara CPU now... let's

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It's the usual problem in Debian Ports [1] due to some Qt5 packages FTBFS on sparc64. In particular, it's kconfig that blocks subversion which blocks git. You can fetch git-man from snapshot.debian.org in the meantime. FWIW, the various build

Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Ricardo! On 11/15/22 00:07, Riccardo Mottola wrote: after an upgrade, I found myself out of git. An attempt to reinstall shows: The following packages have unmet dependencies: git : Depends: git-man (< 1:2.37.2-.) but 1:2.38.1-1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you

unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

2022-11-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, after an upgrade, I found myself out of git. An attempt to reinstall shows: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  git : Depends: git-man (< 1:2.37.2-.) but 1:2.38.1-1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. It's been this way since past