[Debian-ports-devel] debian-installer now available in Ports

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 01:55:08PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
>John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Thus, I was wondering whether any volunteers would be willing to help building
>> ISO images for the various architectures.
>
>I'm already doing this for kfreebsd-amd64, but only the jessie-kfreebsd
>suite:
>http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_jessie-kfreebsd/lastBuild/console
>and I had to patch debian-cd before it worked.  (Didn't yet find time to
>file bugs or submit those patches).

Please post them!

>I could probably set up similar jobs for kfreebsd-* sid now.
>
>> It's not necessary to run debian-cd on the same architecture as the
>> target architecture of the ISO images.

Exactly. There are sometimes difficulties with the tools needed to set
up boot files etc., but they tend to be portable.

>I did not even realise that.  So I will add kfreebsd-i386 next.
>
>I expect there might be problems trying to build linux arches from a
>kfreebsd host.  But we should try to find out, and then maybe fix it.

We were happily building kfreebsd-* images from a Linux host, so I'd
expect it to work OK.

I've offered before: I don't have the time personally to work on
building ports images, but I'm more than happy to help other people
getting them building on our official infrastructure...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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