Re: Trying to piece together a procedure that works : debootstrap and gpg keys?

The USB Ports on the S7-2 definitely work, it is how I installed Solaris 
11.4 and Debian 12 sparc64.

On 9/22/25 2:17 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
> Dear SPARCy folks :
>
>     I am trying to do some testing of the kernel goodness posted
>     by Adrian at :
>
>         https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/
>
>     However I have two ( or more ) slabs of hardware for this process
>     and I wanted to begin with an older Netra X1 unit. This means I
>     need a procedure to follow that is repeatable and actually results
>     in something that boots and works.
>
>     1) use the old wheezy netinst and netboot the Netra X1
>
>         NOTE : The ORACLE s7-2 has USB ports which may work
>                but I have not seen them work even once thus far.
>                That is a problem for some other day.
>
>         During the install of wheezy it will be necessary to drop
>         into a shell and create this file :
>
>         # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99unsecure
>         Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories true;
>         Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories true;
>         APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true;
>
>         That allows the use of packages wherein the GPG keys have long
>         since expired.
>
>
>     2) figure out how to use the old debian archive pkg repo to
>        at least get a few workable tools. A key piece of the puzzle
>        is debootstrap. I need to create a new "root" filesystem on
>        another disk and fill it with the debootstrap results.
>
>        I need the results from debootstrap in order to create the
>        reasonable initramfs stuff with the modules from Adrian.
>
>        This step is a show stopper.
>
>        My notes on this claim something like so should work :
>
> # debootstrap \
> --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg \
> --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring,wget \
> --arch=sparc64 unstable \
>  /opt/sparc64/chroot http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
>
> # ls -l /usr/share/keyrings/
> total 40
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26628 Jan  1  2015 debian-archive-keyring.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10601 Jan  1  2015 debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg
> #
>
> So then ... where does one find the GPG files needed for archive ?
>
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