Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-03-31

Hi Mathias,

On Mon, 2025-04-07 at 16:09 +0200, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote:
> On 31/03/2025 14:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have just created updated installation images for Debian Ports.
>
> Thank you very much for these new images, I didn't expect to get this 
> update so early. So that's excellent news.

You're welcome. I was basically waiting for #1085949 [1] to be fixed.

> > The images can be found in [1]. Please test!
> 
> Last week, I installed the powerpc image on MacMini and PowerBook G4 
> with success, choosing LXDE environment.
> 
> I wanted to test and use them more before sending a feedback.
> 
> By default, there is no Internet browser in LXDE .There is an icon but 
> when I click on it, an error message says that the desktop entry is 
> invalid (`/usr/share/applications/lxde-x-www-browser.desktop`).

We would have to verify whether this is a problem specific to the powerpc
port and not a generic bug in the LXDE meta package.

> First, I ran "apt update and got:
> 
> # apt update
> Atteint :1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease
> Atteint :2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease
> Tous les paquets sont à jour.
> Warning: Le fichier configuré « main/source/Sources » ne sera pas pris 
> en compte car le dépôt « http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid 
> InRelease » ne semble pas capable de le fournir (erreur de saisie dans 
> sources.list ?)
> Notice: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to 
> do so.

Please run such commands with an English locale by first temporarily setting
the locale to "C" or "en_US.UTF-8":

export LC_ALL=C or export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

> So, I ran "apt modernize-sources".
> 
> After that, updating gave:
> 
> # LANG=en apt update
> Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease
> Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease
> All packages are up to date.
> Warning: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/source/Sources' as 
> repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease' does not 
> seem to provide it (sources.list entry misspelt?)

This is to be expected since Debian Ports doesn't mirror the source packages.

I would suggest using the following sources.list:

https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sources.list


> On the application side:
> 
> - Applications that successfully installed: netsurf-gtk, abiword, 
> ffmpeg-gui, meld, cppcheck-gui
> - Applications that failed to install: vlc, libreoffice, gimp, scummvm, caja
> 
> About these failures, that is due to unresolved dependencies, for 
> example with caja:
> 
> # sudo apt install caja
> Solving dependencies... Error!
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> Unsatisfied dependencies:
>   gvfs : Depends: gvfs-common (= 1.57.1-1) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>          Depends: gvfs-daemons (< 1.57.1-1.1~) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>          Depends: gvfs-daemons (>= 1.57.1-1) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>          Depends: gvfs-libs (= 1.57.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
> Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide 
> additional context:
>     Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
>     1. gvfs:powerpc is selected for install because:
>        1. caja:powerpc=1.26.3-1+b2 is selected for install
>        2. caja:powerpc Depends gvfs
>     2. gvfs:powerpc Depends gvfs-common (= 1.57.1-1)
>        but none of the choices are installable:
>        [no choices]

This is a result of the problem I have described in [2]. I will look into it.

> I have not tried the ppc64 image yet, I will try in the coming days on 
> the PowerMac G5.

Thanks, looking forward to the feedback.

Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085949
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html

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