[PATCH v2] deb-pkg: Add support for powerpc little endian
Ben Hutchings
ben at decadent.org.uk
Sun Sep 7 12:42:08 EST 2014
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:09 -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:55:18PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:13 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:28:47PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > > > The Debian powerpc little endian architecture is called ppc64le. This
> > >
> > > Huh? ppc64le or ppc64el?
> >
> > ppc64el. Commit message is wrong. Fixed below.
> >
> > Mikey
> >
> >
>
> What about ppc64?
>
> Also, I sent that already a month ago. Both linuxppc-dev and Michal
> Marek were on cc.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140744360328562&w=2
Anyone using powerpc (32-bit) will then need to add ppc64 as a foreign
architecture before they can install a 64-bit custom kernel. This is
fine in principle, except that ppc64 is not an official Debian port and
its packages are not mirrored on the same servers.
I just tried something similar, which is to add x32 (also unofficial) as
an alternate architecture to my biarch x86 system. APT now complains:
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/experimental/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
So I think Michael's version, leaving big-endian kernels as powerpc by
default, is preferable for now.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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