Re: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-10-02 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Control: retitle -1 ITA: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader Control: owner -1 ! Hi Jurij, Jurij Smakov wrote: There are currently no serious bugs that I know of, so it's mostly about keeping it reasonably up to date. Ok,

Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, The final results are in: Summary table: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4 armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 ||6 hurd-i386 || 5 || 0 || 3 ||8

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 10/02/2013 09:45, Niels Thykier wrote: Summary table: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- [...] sparc[2] || 1 || 0 || 0 ||1 [2] By the looks of it, if sparc was replaced by sparc64, we could be

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, [I've replaced debian-ports with debian-sparc in the recipients list] Niels Thykier wrote: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- […] sparc[2] || 1 || 0 || 0 ||1 […] [2] By the looks of it, if sparc was

Re: Bootstrapping Sparc64: Outdated, but required perl module packages? (Perl 5.14 vs 5.18)

2013-10-02 Thread Frans van Berckel
Hi, I was trying to get Sparc64 running as documented on https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Bootstrapping_sparc64 but multistrap failed due to some required Perl module packages not yet being rebuilt against Perl 5.18: I: Calculating required packages. apt-get -y -o

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Add me for armel. Bastien Le 2 oct. 2013 09:46, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net a écrit : Hi, The final results are in: Summary table: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4

Re: Bootstrapping Sparc64: Outdated, but required perl module packages? (Perl 5.14 vs 5.18)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Frans, thanks for looking into this issue. Frans van Berckel wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.14.2 but it is not installable libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 but it is not installable

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Wookey
+++ Niels Thykier [2013-10-02 09:45 +0200]: Hi, The final results are in: Summary table: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4 armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 ||

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Dave Jones
Hello, all. I am not currently a porter but I would like to be one for the s390x architecture. I am familiar with zSeries system programming and have a lot of experience in running Linux in virtual environments, mostly z/VM on large IBM processors.. I use Linux for 11 year, family with cross

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Patrick Baggett
I'm interesting in helping on ia64. I'm not fluent in ia64 assembly, but I can get around pretty well. I'm very experienced in C/C++/Java and debugging. I've got a fully functional system running Xorg/Mesa3D/sound, so I can reproduce, test, and fix issues as time permits. Patrick Baggett On

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:44:44 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Yesterday I tried to setup a sparc64 chroot on a second disc in one of my Sparcs, but the currently documented way[1] to do so failed[2] due to outdated packages. On a first glance it looks like missing BinNMUs for the Perl 5.14 to

Seems I have bad timing with Debian on SPARC.

2013-10-02 Thread u60 spitfire
Just signed up for this mailing list; had spent a good amount of time over the last week getting my Ultra 60 up and running again. It's mostly OK...heh...execpt the part about having to reprogram the darn NVRAM every time I turn it on. I got jessie installed (Didn't get far in the stable

Re: Bug#721498: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Jurij, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: I'll create the git repository on Alioth and push my changes as soon as I've got write permissions to /git/debootloaders/. I approved your membership request, so you should be good to go now.

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Him Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:44:44 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Yesterday I tried to setup a sparc64 chroot on a second disc in one of my Sparcs, but the currently documented way[1] to do so failed[2] due to outdated packages. On a first glance it looks like missing

Re: Bootstrapping Sparc64: Outdated, but required perl module packages? (Perl 5.14 vs 5.18)

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: Frans van Berckel wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.14.2 but it is not installable libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.14.2 but it is not installable libtext-iconv-perl

Re: Bootstrapping Sparc64: Outdated, but required perl module packages? (Perl 5.14 vs 5.18)

2013-10-02 Thread Frans van Berckel
Hi Axel, Got it working. Took the full apt-get command as multistrap did, but removed the three perl modules in question as well as debconf-i18n which needs them, but I never need and which I consider to be primarily disk space waste. But this just got stuff downloaded. Next step was to put