On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 9:48 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi Lance! > > On 12/1/22 17:54, Lance Albertson wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks for the praise ;-). It is possible partially through the support of > OSUOSL ;-). > > > 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. > > Yes, I will demote the package to Suggests or even remove it. I don't > think it's necessary > anymore. > Any idea when you'll be able to get this pushed out? Thanks! -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
