Re: Failures attempting to install in an LDOM

Hi Peter,

On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 10:52 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
> Sadly, that one fails as well.

OK, then my memory was incorrect.

> I had repeated unpack failures - debootstrap really doesn't like unpacking util-linux. And software
> installation eventually failed with
> 
> Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: Errors were encountered while processing:
> Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap:  vim-tiny
> Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vim-tiny:
> Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap:  vim-tiny depends on vim-common (= 2:9.0.2087-1); however:
> Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap:   Versio
> Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: n of vim-common on system is 2:9.0.2103-1.

Yeah, that's a common problems and occurs whenever vim fails to build on sparc64,
I have explained the reason behind this here:

> https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html

> However, the very latest snapshot from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-02-25/
> does install successfully:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux debian-sparc 6.8.12-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.8.12-1 (2024-05-31) sparc64 GNU/Linux

That's great to hear. I hope the Linux LDOM will enable you fix some SPARC-related upstream bugs ;-).

Let me know if you have any more questions, I'm happy to help!

Adrian

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