Re: Fixing buildd issues on ppc64el

2014-09-05 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Aurelien, On 09/05/2014 02:33 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Now that we have debian-installer working, I have installed a VM with it and tried to determine which packages are still missing to setup a [...] Thanks for the effort and the comprehensive list. klibc #749060 some binaries

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steven Chamberlain dixit: >On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* >>mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] > >That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about >porting, upco

Re: sh4 missing on packages.debian.org

2014-09-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 05/09/14 18:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > For example, src:glibc, has been fully built on sh4, yet: > yamato:~# apt-cache policy libc6 > libc6: > Installed: 2.19-9 > Candidate: 2.19-9 > Version table: > *** 2.19-9 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I can only find arch:all pa

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: > * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* >mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about porting, upcoming new ports, or any ports

Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-05 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, I recently read [1] about the new Debian architecture ppc64el. I maintain a small tool "linuxinfo", which checks for the architecture and prints some system information. It would be kind if you could check on ppc64el [2] if linuxinfo works and produces sensible output. If not, bugs or repl

Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a confusing setup to many people, which leads to lots of cross-list noise that's probably not warranted. Some of the traffic is also clearly meant to be di

Re: Fixing buildd issues on ppc64el

2014-09-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:26:55PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 03:55:49PM +0200, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > > I'd like to help fixing issues found during buildd of packages on ppc64el : > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=ppc64el&suite=sid > > Tha

sh4 missing on packages.debian.org

2014-09-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Aurelien! I just noticed that there seems to be something wrong with packages.debian.org regarding sh4. Many packages are not listed there as available even though they are built and installed. For example, src:glibc, has been fully built on sh4, yet: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libc6

Re: Fixing buildd issues on ppc64el

2014-09-05 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:53:01PM +0200, Erwan Prioul wrote: > On 08/21/2014 04:26 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > >I have started to put the known failures with a bug number, but if some > >others can help with matching a build failure with a bug number that > >would be great. Of course if t

Re: Switching ppc64el port name to ppc64le

2014-09-05 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 08/28/2014 03:57 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: > [...] In all the relevant tool chain tools it is called ppc64le, and this is what other distributions (fedora / opensuse) have adopted for this port. A related funny piece for Friday :) from linuxppc-dev [1]: 'At least we're consis