Re: Installed: 10,000

2015-12-22 Thread Bob Bib
On 21/12/15 11:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: We just reached the milestone of 10,000 up-to-date packages in the sparc64 archive. There are only around 1,500 to go which are needed to catch up with the releases architectures. Mazel tov! :) -- Best wishes, Bob

Re: Resurrecting Debian on SPARC

2015-09-17 Thread Bob Bib
Just a note: sparc arch removal also affected some SPARC-specific packages[1] (e. g., "SILO" bootloader). According to Aurelien Jarno,[2] they should be re-uploaded to "unreleased". [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/07/msg00037.html [2]

Re: Sparc removal

2015-08-13 Thread Bob Bib
On 09/08/15 08:55, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Bob Bib (bob...@ukr.net): What do you mean by attic? (Probably a newbie question, sorry). ... That's a special directory named attic in the Debian Installer git repository, where we store old stuff, just like people do in their attics

Re: Sparc removal

2015-08-08 Thread Bob Bib
On 08/08/15 20:01, Christian PERRIER wrote: ... I just moved silo-installer out to the attic this morning. What do you mean by attic? (Probably a newbie question, sorry). -- Best wishes, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

(sparc[64]-specific pkgs) debian-ports: any BTS, PTS?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bib
Following the sparc removal[1], some sparc-specific source packages (e. g., silo sparc-utils) have also been removed[2]. Obviously, they should be re-uploaded to debian-ports[3], to be built for sparc64. I wonder if the debian-ports have any package / bug tracking system, or is there any other

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-28 Thread Bob Bib
On 28/07/15 12:11, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Bob Bib wrote: Hmm, could it affect some sparc[64]-only packages in a bad way (e. g., source package getting removed and no more available for debian-ports)? [...] E. g., silo is Architecture: sparc sparc64. Source packages which no longer build

Re: life after Wheezy?

2015-07-28 Thread Bob Bib
On 28/07/15 13:09, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: Thank you! I was not aware of the sparc64 port. And now I guess I've missed the point where sparc was removed from sid. Yep... http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/07/msg00023.html Is there a way of switching to sparc64 port directly from

Re: life after Wheezy?

2015-07-25 Thread Bob Bib
On 23/07/15 11:56, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: Hi, is there a way to install something newer than Wheezy? Or install Wheezy and upgrade it to something newer? Any recommendations? Hi, probably wheezy - sid (until sparc gets removed* from Sid). After that, probably, only sid sparc64 from

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-12 Thread Bob Bib
2014-01-12, Karel Gardas: Anyway, it looks like Linux is really not well supported on SPARC anymore. Where are those times when Jakub Jelinek done his first UltraLinux in 90s I would prefer to say it's _still_ not supported well; let's hope for more active development:

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-11 Thread Bob Bib
Hello Karel and Joachim, 2014-01-09, Karel Gardas: I'm curious what's the status of Debian or general Linux on SPARC or SPARC64. I've read that Debian removed SPARC port from testing/unstable in 2014 so I'm curious if I shall deal with compatiblity issues between Solaris/Linux or not at

Re: Debian Jessie regression under qemu-system-sparc64

2014-11-10 Thread Bob Bib
2014-11-09 from Mark Cave-Ayland: Panic over. It seems that the latest build has increased the memory requirement above QEMU's 128MB built-in default. Increasing the RAM to 256MB seems to get things going again: $ ./qemu-system-sparc64 -m 256 -cdrom