gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc

Re: powerpc qualification for Wheezy

Andreas Barth — 2012-05-23T19:43:11

* Lennart Sorensen (lsorense< at >csclub.uwaterloo.ca) [120523 21:21]:

For being a porter it's not directly required to be a DD (though
easier). It's more relevant that to you fix architecture-specific
bugs, care about mail to the porter list, report bugs and solve bugs
etc. Just making sure the arch is in good shape.

And yes, GPG signatures by two different real people (one of them DD)
would be helpful too.


Andi

Re: powerpc qualification for Wheezy

Lennart Sorensen — 2012-05-23T19:13:20

I try to help too, but I am not a DD and hence don't matter. :)

Of course I suppose I could get around to becoming a DD, but I think
I have to get a PGP signature signed by people and that sounds like
paperwork.

Re: powerpc qualification for Wheezy

Roger Leigh — 2012-05-23T18:42:32

I am still a regular powerpc user, and I should have sufficient time to
assist with porting issues for the foreseeable future, which I haven't
done for the last couple of releases but will now be able to.  So feel
free to put me down as a powerpc porter, I'll continue to follow
powerpc issues on debian-powerpc and be happy to undertake specific
porting and debugging as and when required.


Regards,
Roger

Re: Add Link to PowerPC port page?

Philipp Kern — 2012-05-20T13:03:41

Hi,

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 09:16:53PM -0400, David Prévot wrote:

well, in any case we could remove those which clearly 404.  (Which I did now.
I did not review the other HOWTOs that were still reachable.)

I added the link to the page, it should be visible with the next page
generation run.  Thank you for notifying us.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

Re: hppa, powerpcspe: call for klibc/mksh testers

Thorsten Glaser — 2012-05-19T16:12:48

Kyle Moffett dixit:


Hm. Either that, or someone needs to have interest in this. How large
is the base of existing machines with powerpcspe? If it’s not much,
unlike say m68k with a real load of existing old hardware, maybe.
In which case you’d probably best contact Aurélien so d-p.org can save
processing ressources (it’s becoming slower and slower recently).


Don’t we all? In the end, if’s still a learning experience and fun.

bye,
//mirabilos

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc forsqueeze

e20100633 — 2012-05-17T20:27:58

Dear Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo and Philipp Kern,

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 10:46 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:

Yes, that's what I understood from the logs. The three packages were
here at first but disappeared in pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy.

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 23:45 -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 10:46 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:

I was thousand miles away from thinking that the problem was the version
of pbuilder. Because I run *stable* I was naive not to check pbuilder's
changelog... I would never had that idea alone. So I thank you both very
much. It's interesting by the way that this bug isn't fixed on stable. I
didn't get why 0.199+nmu2 wasn't released for stable... No one pbuild
packages from stable I guess?

So I'm going to update pbuilder's version with the help of APT Pinning.

Again, thank you very much; best regards.

e-

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc forsqueeze

Philipp Kern — 2012-05-17T08:46:09

Sadly pbuilder doesn't print its version.  It obviously doesn't do the right
thing when creating its dummy package.  According to [0] it's fixed in testing,
unstable but not in stable.  So you need a newer pbuilder.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363193

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc forsqueeze

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo — 2012-05-17T02:45:39

Hi, e20100633.

The problem is really pbuilder's version. If you checked the changelog,
you would notice that version 0.199+nmu2 fixed bug #363193, which shows
the linux-any issue as one of its first messages.

This is not a powerpc issue. You should use a newer version of pbuilder
on your powerpc box.

Regards.
Cascardo.

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc forsqueeze

e20100633 — 2012-05-16T23:53:14

Hello again,

just for being sure that I'm ok with the process, I just tested it on my
other box, which is an i386 under wheezy. I grabbed
emacs-snapshot-20120502 Debian stable sources (the same I used on
powerpc) and configured pbuilder with DISTRIBUTION=squeeze; so my chroot
based on base.tgz is squeeze. And with the default debian/control (with
some [linux-any]) everything worked well, as expected.

So the difference between my two test are pbuilder's (and some others
tools) version which is 0.199+nmu1squeeze1 under my powerpc box and is
0.210 under my i386 box. But I don't think that the problem comes from
here (or maybe I'm wrong?).

My two pbuilderrc are the same as well (on both boxes), so my two
base.tgz are the same, except one is for powerpc and the other is for
i386.

debian/* were made by Julien Danjou himself. I still looked for
something specific in manuals for powerpc. But I didn't find nothing
usefull but the Architecture and tags things in debian/control (but I
may have missed something)...

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc forsqueeze

e20100633 — 2012-05-16T22:33:43

Hello,

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 23:37 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:

Hm. Actually, the packages seems to be generated quite well under
i386/amd64 as we can see on http://emacs.naquadah.org/, so I was
thinking that was because I'm trying under powerpc. Is not that weird
that everything goes well when I just erase [linux-any] tags from
debian/control?


Oh I'm sorry! In my first post I pointed an URL where the logs are. But
I made a typo... Here is the good link:

   http://porneia.free.fr/tmp/emacs-snapshot-pbuild.log

I'm not confortable with attachment for a mailing-list (as you may
understand) but because you requested it, I attached
emacs-snapshot-pbuild.log.gz (12k) to this message.


Thank you very much for your interest in my query; regards.

e-

Re: Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc forsqueeze

Philipp Kern — 2012-05-16T21:37:19

I very much doubt that this is a powerpc-specific issue.  Also you snipped the
interesting part.  (It would be best to attach the log, possibly compressed.)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

Impact of [linux-any] when pbuilding packages on powerpc for squeeze

e20100633 — 2012-05-16T14:51:18

Hello,

I would like to submit to the list a problem I encounter when I create
packages of emacs-snapshot (from http://emacs.naquadash.org by Julien
Danjou) on Debian squeeze (powerpc) with pbuilder.

After editing /etc/apt/sources.list with the right deb-src (stable), I
used apt-get source emacs-snapshot to get the debian sources.

My /etc/pbuilderrc look like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 
MIRRORSITE=http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/
DISTRIBUTION=squeeze
COMPONENTS="main contrib non-free"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

In the sources folder (emacs-snapshot-20120502/) I used, as it is
described in the Debian New Maintener's Guide, pdebuild with
AUTO_DEBSIGN=no (I'm not signing packages because it's just for testing
purpose right now):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ AUTO_DEBSIGN=no sudo pdebuild 
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libncurses5-dev  
liblockfile-dev libgif-dev libtiff

powerpc qualification for Wheezy

Adam D. Barratt — 2012-05-16T12:19:47

Hi,

With the sound of the ever approaching freeze ringing loudly in our ears,
we're (somewhat belatedly) looking at finalising the list of release
architectures for the Wheezy release.

Comments on / additions and corrections to the content of
http://release.debian.org/wheezy/arch_qualify.html would be appreciated,
as would any other information you think is relevant to helping us
determine powerpc's status for the release.

Regards,

Adam
pp the Release Team

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Re: Add Link to PowerPC port page?

David Prévot — 2012-05-13T01:16:53

[ Please keep me CC if you drop debian-www ]

Hi Daniel, PowerPC people,

Le 12/05/2012 20:38, Daniel DeVoto a écrit :


Thanks for the offer, forwarding your request to the PowerPC people who
are in charge of the http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ pages. I can't
judge about the possibly outdated entries, nor about the proposed
install guide, but am willing to help keeping these pages up to date if
you don't have time to commit changes directly on the website.

Regards

David

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

e20100633 — 2012-05-11T17:26:06

Thank you for those links. Actually, as noticed by Michel Dänzer, I
used the wrong term, 'hibernation', instead of 'sleep' for my searching
expression. That's why, I guess, I didn't find anything relevant at
first in debian-powerpc mailing list archive.

Regards,

e-

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

Mathieu Malaterre — 2012-05-11T16:44:57

Just for reference since this question arise quite often on this mailing list:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/09/msg00109.html
&
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/02/msg00005.html

HTH

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

e20100633 — 2012-05-11T15:31:59

Oh? What a shame. Thank you for your answer, not finding anything was 
driving me nuts.


Ok, thank you. I would be careful next time.

 > It might be possible to get that working, but there's probably some 
gotchas as well.

About suspend-to-disk, I tried it and yes, there's some issues. But I'm 
not interested by suspend-to-disk feature so I'm not annoyed and I 
haven't tried to make it work properly.

Regards,

e-

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

Michel Dänzer — 2012-05-11T15:15:47

On Fre, 2012-05-11 at 16:31 +0200, e20100633 wrote: 

This means sleep (aka suspend to RAM) is not supported on your machine.
Support for it has never been implemented for any non-laptop Apple
PowerPC machines.

Note that 'hibernation' usually refers to suspend to disk. It might be
possible to get that working, but there's probably some gotchas as well.

Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

e20100633 — 2012-05-11T14:31:38

Hello,

First, I apologize for my english but it is not my native language.

I successfully installed Debian Squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-powerpc) on a 
iMac G4. This is my first installation of Debian on a Apple desktop 
computer. I have few question about it. The first one is about 
hibernation (suspend-to-ram). I am unable to do it at all.

I'm trying to do it with pm-suspend; but the command doesn't do anything 
and return no errors (even in /var/log/{messages|syslog}). After some 
research I found that I may not have suspend-to-ram:

   # echo -n mem > /sys/power/state
   bash: echo: write error: No such device
   # cat /sys/power/state
   disk

Plus, trying with hal-system-power-pmu return an error too:

   /usr/lib/hal# ./hal-system-power-pmu sleep
   power-pmu : PMU_IOC_SLEEP failed

I believe that suspend-to-ram is supposed to work out of the box on 
Debian stable with my good old powerpc. So I was thinking that I forgot 
the installation of some package maybe? I search debian repos with 
apt-cache sear

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