Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-09-25 Thread William Bonnet
Hi all Someone of the last remaing sparc dudes , write a how to test and commit sparc issues on debian ? I also have a few sparc boxes and i would like to spend some time fixing things if possible... Cheers W. -- William http://www.wbonnet.net

Re: Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-09-24 Thread markus
hi First i have 4 Sparc Maschines on Debian , two of them Online and in use. I m a user/sysadmin and i am sad about that testing drops , but i still no get how i can get involed to geting sparc on debian forward. Someone of the last remaing sparc dudes , write a how to test and commit sparc

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-05-01 Thread Patrick Baggett
BTW, the sparc buildd looks like gcc 4-8.2-21 is successful and so is gcc-4.9.0-1. I've installed them from sid. Crisis averted? Patrick On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Sébastien Bernard sbern...@nerim.netwrote: Le 30/04/2014 20:36, Patrick Baggett a écrit : On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-05-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Well it is a good start. =D There are still complaints, though haven't seen the bug reports, that modern kernel's are unstable on certain peices of hardware. Personally I can't reproduce any of these issues, I have rolled out the latest kernel for a while now on some of my sparc systems, my T2000

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-05-01 Thread Patrick Baggett
I have SILO v1.4.14, but it has the git [1] patches from 2012-08-19, which includes quite a few fixes from the 2008-06-12 release. Particularly, it includes a number of ext2/ext4 boot fixes and some sun4v and sun4u boot fixes. The remaining patches after that are for tilo which is some kind of

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Patrick Baggett
I kicked off a gcc build (gcc-4.8_4.8.2-21) last night. It didn't have an errors for me. I now have a bunch of *.deb files: figgles@ghost:~/src$ ls -1 *.deb cpp-4.8_4.8.2-21_sparc.deb g++-4.8-multilib_4.8.2-21_sparc.deb g++-4.8_4.8.2-21_sparc.deb gcc-4.8-base_4.8.2-21_sparc.deb

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I have also been able to build the gcc 4.8.2-21 packages as well. I am not sure what is causing the build systems so much grief when it comes to building these packages. Cheers, Kieron On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Patrick Baggett baggett.patr...@gmail.comwrote: I kicked off a gcc build

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Patrick Baggett
I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken. libstdc++ and lib64stdc++ are not build, neither are build libgcc1. The last good build (with the missing libraries) is 4.8.2-16. Something broken on -20 and -21. Oh, I see what you're saying. I get lib64stdc++-dev /

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Kieron Gillespie
What is also weird is you have the debug package for it. So I am sure it compiled I think there might be something wrong with the packaging for it. On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Baggett baggett.patr...@gmail.comwrote: I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken.

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 30/04/2014 15:39, Patrick Baggett a écrit : I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken. libstdc++ and lib64stdc++ are not build, neither are build libgcc1. The last good build (with the missing libraries) is 4.8.2-16. Something broken on -20 and -21. Oh,

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Sébastien Bernard sbern...@nerim.netwrote: Le 30/04/2014 15:39, Patrick Baggett a écrit : I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken. libstdc++ and lib64stdc++ are not build, neither are build libgcc1. The last good build (with the

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 30/04/2014 16:19, Patrick Baggett a écrit : On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Sébastien Bernard sbern...@nerim.net mailto:sbern...@nerim.net wrote: Le 30/04/2014 15:39, Patrick Baggett a écrit : I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken.

Re: Bug#745938: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 30/04/14 15:19, Patrick Baggett wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Sébastien Bernard sbern...@nerim.net wrote: Le 30/04/2014 15:39, Patrick Baggett a écrit : I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken. libstdc++ and lib64stdc++ are not build,

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi, On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 03:42:39PM +0200, Sébastien Bernard wrote: Indeed, the last good build seems to be gcc-4.8-4.8.2-19. Look at the changelog for the -20 they seems to have done something on the sparc that blocks the generation of the libraries. A number of binaries are now built

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Ivo De Decker ivo.dedec...@ugent.bewrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 03:42:39PM +0200, Sébastien Bernard wrote: Indeed, the last good build seems to be gcc-4.8-4.8.2-19. Look at the changelog for the -20 they seems to have done something on the sparc

Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-29 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:36:31 +0200, Joël BERTRAND wrote: sun4u : kernel is stable until 2.6.32. [...] sun4v : I have several T1000 for a long time. I haven't seen any stable kernel on these servers. Maybe someone could think about a k*bsd-sparc port ;) Linux seems to be

Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-29 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.orgwrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:36:31 +0200, Joël BERTRAND wrote: sun4u : kernel is stable until 2.6.32. [...] sun4v : I have several T1000 for a long time. I haven't seen any stable kernel on these servers.

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-29 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 26/04/2014 21:33, Ralf Treinen a écrit : Hello, we currently have in unstable/main/sparc precisely 35491 packages, of a total of 40634 available packages, that cannot be installed in the current version of unstable: % dose-debcheck --fg Packages --deb-ignore-essential background-packages: 0

Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Patrick Baggett
I still run Debian on three SPARC machines, so I am definitely interested. Patrick On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.orgwrote: Hi, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: now that sparc has been dropped from testing, please decide on the fate of sparc in

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hello, we currently have in unstable/main/sparc precisely 35491 packages, of a total of 40634 available packages, that cannot be installed in the current version of unstable: % dose-debcheck --fg Packages --deb-ignore-essential background-packages: 0 foreground-packages: 40634 total-packages:

Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-26 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, thanks for taking me into Cc. Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: now that sparc has been dropped from testing, please decide on the fate of sparc in unstable. Are there still people interested in the current sparc port? Interested yes, as I do have and run