[Debian-ppc64-devel] Status of archive on debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org?

[Andreas Jochens]

Hello,

On 05-Jul-31 14:56, Andrew Baumann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using the debian-ppc64 distribution at 
> http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4 on a Power4 for several months, 
> but although there is still an autobuilder running it doesn't seem that 
> anyone is actively working on the port any more. Is that true?

I am still trying to fix the remaining packages which currently FTBFS on
ppc64. Many bug reports with patches have already been filed and some of
the patches have been applied by the maintainers, but there is still 
quite a lot of work to do. The most important thing would be to create a
working installer. I had no success creating a bootable installer CD 
yet.

> There have been a couple of posts to the list about MD5Sum problems, and for 
> the last few weeks I've been continually seeing errors like:
> Failed to fetch 
> http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/pool/main/a/apt/apt-utils_0.5.28.6.0.0.1.gcc4_ppc64.deb  
> Size mismatch
> Failed to fetch 
> http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4/pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.2.15.9-2.0.0.1.gcc4_ppc64.deb  
> Size mismatch
> (etc. for many packages).

Yes there were some of those problems. They have partly been fixed but 
there still seems to be some problem with the archive update process.

Regards
Andreas Jochens