On Mon, 6 Sep 2021 18:39:57 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/6/21 18:36, Pierre Neyron wrote: > > Yes, the following command running on a buster system complains about > > pmac-utils in the second stage: > > > > debootstrap --foreign --arch=ppc64 --no-check-gpg '--include=locales > > openssh-server linux-image-powerpc64' sid /rootfs > > https://deb.debian.org/debian-ports > > pmac-utils is part of the unreleased repository, so you need to install > it afterwards. I don't recommend running debootstrap with the kernel > included which probably pulls in powerpc-utils. > > Once you have created the chroot, use the following sources.list [1] which > should allow you to install powerpc-utils. > > Adrian > > > [1] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sources.list
Unfortunately this is a major issue when trying to get a system installed using the debian-installer. I am trying to support ppc64 (Big Endian) for our users, and Debian is the only platform that still provides a modern ppc64 environment. I've created my own netboot install images using the latest sid environment, and I am unable to work around this and get a system installed. While the solution above works for debootstrap itself, it makes it impossible to get a system installed. Could you change pmac-utils to Suggests instead of Depends? That way it should get things working again. AFAIK this isn't a hard requirement anymore on ppc64 at least. Thanks! -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
