Hello! On 11/15/21 23:20, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > i have read through the sbuild page and it is very long and looks very > complicated and not tailored to a sparc64 machine. > Is really everything on that page needed to get it running?
No, it's actually very simple and works on any architecture. As root: # apt install sbuild devscripts # sbuild-createchroot unstable /srv/chroot/sid-sparc64-sbuild --alias=sid \ --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg \ http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports # sbuild-adduser $YOURUSER Then, as your normal user ($YOURUSER): $ mkdir firefox-build # cd firefox-build # dget -u http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20181003T162948Z/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_62.0.3-1.dsc # wget https://bug1434726.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8947275 -O align-fix.diff # cd firefox-62.0.3 # patch -p1 < ../align-fix.diff # dpkg-source --commit (enter a desired patch name, then opens an editor; just save and close) # dch -i 'Add patch to fix alignment on sparc64' # dch -r '' # sbuild -d sid --arch=sparc64 --no-arch-all Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913