On 11/22/18 8:58 AM, Helge Deller wrote: > This is, because that's the way the installer images are being built > on the original build servers with the unmodified scripts/tools. > If you want the build process to be able to work with caching proxies, > someone needs to do modifications and bring them upstream. > Adrian offered to set up the build process as he has done it for many > of the architectures already. As far as I read his answers, he seems not > to be so much interested to do special work now "just" for alpha.... I didn't follow the whole thread so I don't remember what the actual problem is/was. But what I need is a Debian/Alpha porterbox which has a proper Debian Ports archive mirror in its sources.list such that the Debian Installer packages are being mirrored. Once I have that, I can manually build the debian-installer package on Alpha, then build fresh images on casulana, the Debian CD build server which has a full mirror of the Debian Ports archive. The debian-installer package needs to be built natively, it cannot be cross-built, as far as I know. I would use qemu-user, but so far trying to build debian-installer with qemu-user emulating Alpha didn't work. For m68k and sh4, for example, this works fine. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
