[Debian-ppc64-devel] is this port alife?

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:44:53PM +0100, Harald Görl wrote:
> Hi Andreas, Sven.
> I'm one of the contact persons in Augsburg (Computing Center at the 
> University) who is responsible for the OpenPower donation by IBM for the 
> Debian project.

Hi Harald, ...

> >Also; when i asked the debian-admin team what would be needed to bring one 
> >of
> >the augsbourg machines in the official debian hardware network, so they 
> >could
> >be used as developer machine or even as buildd, my offer was rejected with 
> >a
> >"we have enough powerpc machiens", and myself i feel unconfortable using 
> >those
> >machines for anything official if their admining is not controlled by 
> >debian.
> 
> Sven, while i understand this of course, i can only say that it would be 
> possible to give you *full* control over the machine. I would feel 
> better if we had root access on all of the machines running here, but if 
> that would be a "killer criterion" things can change! Essentially 
> Bastian has the full control over the machines and full control over the 
> Management Console.

Well, the problem is not me or Bastian, but basically the debian-admin team.

> >They even have this nice logical partitioning thingy, and can thus have
> >various virutal machines inside each one, available only to a subset of 
> >people
> >or usage in a secure way.
> 
> As far as i know some Debian development efforts (only supporting some 
> base-packages) do take place on these OpenPower machines here, Bastian, 
> is that wrong?

Indeed. 

Friendly,

Sven Luther