From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Cree Subject: Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:34:54 +1300 Message-ID: <20181122053454.5qzz3qvlna3xt2v5@tower> References: <20181102184151.GA15241@gherkin.frus.com> <20181102185623.GB15241@gherkin.frus.com> <4cf52d37-6f60-1714-de43-f9c1b72202c7@web.de> <847ee7b7-29fa-c1ec-fd1d-610ddad190d9@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20181121205330.GA19204@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181121205330.GA19204@gherkin.frus.com> Resent-Message-ID: List-Id: List-URL: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20181122053454.5qzz3qvlna3xt2v5@tower Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bob Tracy Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Frank Scheiner , debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 04:12:27PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I can unfortunately not build updated installer images for Alpha since I > > don't have an Alpha porterbox available where I can build the debian-installer > > package for Alpha. > > > > I do have two AlphaStation 233 sitting in the basement at the university now, > > but I don't have any time and space to set them up to be used as porterboxes. > > > > The only porterbox currently currently available to me is Michael Cree's "electro" > > but the repositories of the chroots there don't include the debian-installer > > component packages, so building d-i fails - at least last time I tried. > > I've carved out a bit of time to deal with getting my PWS back on-line. > The above is the most recent post in the thread, as far as I can tell... > > Michael -- is it a relatively easy thing to do to make the d-i component > packages available on "electro"? I am not exactly sure what the problem is, but reading between the lines I am starting to get the impression that Adrian expected the package cache to be a complete copy of the archive. It is not and it is not intended to be. Approx works by caching only those things that have been previously requested. If I have surmised correctly then one only needs to issue a download request to approx for the missing packages (and it should not matter with that is a .deb or a .udeb) and that should get it into the local cache. > Another option: is the SMP version of the 4.9.0-3 kernel available to > substitute into the existing netinst image? That's for Adrian to answer. I am not familiar with building an installer image. Cheers, Michael.