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

[Jonathan Haack]

I would be willing to help with ppc and ppc64.  I am just a self-trained sysadmin, however, so I cannot guarantee it will be quick or easy, but I use ppc machines as project machines all the time and so I want to help.  I will read the resources below.  Please email me next steps.  

Jonathan

jonathanhaack.com <http://jonathanhaack.com/>



> On Apr 12, 2017, at 6:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks to the recent efforts within the Debian Ports projects, debian-installer
> is finally available for the Debian Ports architectures [1]. Previously, the
> installer images had to be built manually because building on the buildds always
> required a testing repository to be available for a given architecture. With
> the latest release of debian-installer, the build falls back to the unstable
> and unreleased repositories for the required udebs.
> 
> The generated d-i images for powerpc, kfreebsd-* and hurd-i386 can be found here:
> 
>> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-$ARCH
> 
> For the remaining Ports architectures:
> 
>> http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-$ARCH/main/d/debian-installer/
> 
> Now, since the process of building installer images no longer requires manual
> intervention, the process for building CD images has been simplified as
> well, still requires some manual work.
> 
> Thus, I was wondering whether any volunteers would be willing to help building
> ISO images for the various architectures. A rough guide can be found in [2]
> from which the the d-i part can be omitted, however, a local mirror available
> through the filesystem is still necessary (see MIRROR in CONF.sh). So, reprepro
> needs to be used to set up a local mirror or the remote mirror needs to be
> mounted with a FUSE module or similar.
> 
> In order to use the debian-installer images for building CD images, they have
> to be downloaded and extracted (for the remaining Ports architectures above)
> and placed into the directory pointed to by DI_DIR in the easy-build.sh
> script, e.g.: export DI_DIR="/srv/d-i/debian-installer/installer/build/tmp/cdrom/.
> 
> Would be great if we could get several people work on this and create ISOs
> for alpha, hppa, powerpc, ppc64 and so on. Please note: It's not necessary
> to run debian-cd on the same architecture as the target architecture of
> the ISO images. Hence, using an amd64 host should be fine.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adrian
> 
>> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=debian-installer&suite=sid
>> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/CreateDebianInstallerImages
> 
> -- 
> .''`.  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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