Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports (2025-03-16)

Hi Mathias,

On Mon, 2025-03-24 at 11:14 +0100, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote:
> On 18/03/2025 14:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > There are more bugs and TODO items that affect Debian Ports architectures,
> > I have listed them at [3].
> 
> I tested the ppc64 image on PowerMac G5 (dual core) and it fails as 
> mentioned in the notes:
> 
> debian-installer not booting on PowerMac G5: 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2024/04/msg00028.html
> 
> So I tried the last image that was known to work, 
> 2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso, but it fails accessing the 
> mirror. It tried several ones with no success.

That's because the signing keys have expired on this image. You need to
continue without a mirror and then import the updated signing keys after
the installation.

> I hope that a fix will be found for this installer on PowerMac G5.

The proper fix is to drop the broken patch mentioned in [1].

Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085949

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