On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:09 -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:55:18PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:

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On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:13 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:28:47PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:

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The Debian powerpc little endian architecture is called ppc64le.  This

Huh? ppc64le or ppc64el?

ppc64el.  Commit message is wrong.  Fixed below.

Mikey

What about ppc64?

Also, I sent that already a month ago. Both linuxppc-dev and Michal
Marek were on cc.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140744360328562&w=2

Anyone using powerpc (32-bit) will then need to add ppc64 as a foreign
architecture before they can install a 64-bit custom kernel.  This is
fine in principle, except that ppc64 is not an official Debian port and
its packages are not mirrored on the same servers.

I just tried something similar, which is to add x32 (also unofficial) as
an alternate architecture to my biarch x86 system.  APT now complains:

W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/experimental/InRelease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-x32/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

So I think Michael's version, leaving big-endian kernels as powerpc by
default, is preferable for now.

Ben.

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