Re: Resurrecting Debian on SPARC

2015-09-17 Thread rod
Good morning, In my efforts to help this along I am trying to set up a chroot environment for testing. I have tried multistrap and sbuild setup from the debian wiki and from various places found whilst googling. To date I've not had any success. Is there a HOW-TO somewhere for setting up a

Re: Resurrecting Debian on SPARC

2015-09-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/17/2015 05:26 PM, rod wrote: > In my efforts to help this along I am trying to set up a chroot > environment for testing. I have tried multistrap and sbuild setup from > the debian wiki and from various places found whilst googling. To date > I've not had any success. There is no real

Re: Resurrecting Debian on SPARC

2015-09-17 Thread Hartwig Atrops
On Tuesday 15 September 2015 12:07:10 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > I was wondering how many here are still interested in the Debian > SPARC port? count ++ Hartwig

Re: Resurrecting Debian on SPARC

2015-09-17 Thread rod
So... Following the directions given (on two different machines just to make sure) I get to the point where I try to use dpkg -i to install the downloaded file and I end up with this error: I have no name!@ravirin:/# dpkg -i libpcre3_8.35-7.1+sparc64_sparc64.deb dpkg: error while loading shared

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]

Building a sparc64 chroot with debootstrap (?)

2015-09-17 Thread jhcha54008
Hi, I just read the ongoing discussion on sparc64 chroots ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/09/msg00015.html and https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/09/msg00016.html) Perhaps my debootstrap script https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2014/06/msg00012.html may help in this