On 04/08/2013 04:31 PM, John David Anglin wrote: > On 4/8/2013 7:54 AM, Kurt Fitzner wrote: >> On 23/03/2013 7:53 PM, John David Anglin wrote: >>> I would really recommend going with the packages at >>> ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable >>> instead of the squeeze packages on debian-ports.org. The dependencies >>> are somewhat broken for >>> the stuff on debian-ports.org and great care is needed in installing >>> these packages. For example, >>> the udev package on debian-ports is a bootstrap breaker. It might be >>> that we could fill in the squeeze >>> port but it would be a fair bit of work. >> I've spent some time over the last couple weeks trying to work out an >> upgrade path to the the unstable packages on parisc-linux.org, but am >> having a very hard time. Trying to go from Debian 5 directly to a >> mostly (but not totally) complete post-6 Wheezy without having through >> intermediary steps seems to be beyond aptitude (or me) to resolve. I >> can handle missing packages, but the number of broken packages aptitude >> says there will be at the end of an upgrade is daunting. And I've only >> got one HPPA box which leaves me a little on the chicken side with >> respects to playing. >> >> I must admit to being less than an expert on Debian's packaging system, >> mostly because it has always "just worked", but I am wondering if my >> problems are stemming from the current unstable packages being set as >> superceding packages that no longer exist in between what I have and them. >> >> What I think I really need is a snapshot of what was unstable the day >> Lenny was officially dropped. Does this exist anywhere? > I don't think that exists. What exists is the snapshot when the unstable hppa packages were > copied from debian.org to debian-ports.org. Unfortunately, at that time, there were various > missing packages. So, updating would result in many important packages being deleted. > Further, many packages have common portions that are architecture independent. However, > they often are still version dependent. So, as things evolved, the common parts needed > for the hppa stuff has disappeared. > > Thus, the only option is to use the packages on ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable > together with what's on debian-ports.org. In what I upload, I include the common parts from > debian-ports.org. So, hopefully, things will not get as inconsistent. > > Last week I uploaded many new packages, so the archive is much closer to the unstable for > other ports (particularly, for packages starting with [a-l]). I install all packages that I use before > uploading so I know that at least on my system there are no broken packages (it started as > a server system). However, there's likely still a bunch of stuff that needs updating for desktop > systems. > > I haven't tried to do an upgrade directly using ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable. Helge > Deller has done it. So, maybe he can comment. Nothing important on which I can comment here. Most of my machines were running unstable before the migration to debian-ports happened. >From there on I just updated all packages with the ones which Dave provided, and which are now on ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable. Since I mostly don't run desktop-apps I didn't had any bigger issues. On one of the machines I think I installed the Lenny images and then just updated the packages. Helge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
