Installing OpenNMS on Debian ARMEL architectures

Hi all,

I have recently purchased a SheevaPlug (http://plugcomputer.org / 
http://newit.co.uk), which is a ARMEL-based system running Debian 
Squeeze with a very small form factor, upon which I would like to run 
OpenNMS. I have tried installing the prebuilt Debian packages and also 
attempted to build OpenNMS from source but am having a few problems.

I have added the following sources to apt:

deb http://debian.opennms.org stable main
deb-src http://debian.opennms.org stable main

However apt-get update produces the following errors:

W: Failed to fetch http://debian.opennms.org/dists/stable/Release  
Unable to find expected entry  main/binary-armel/Packages in Meta-index 
file (malformed Release file?)

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

(Similar errors are produced when attempting to use the unstable branch.)

Next I proceeded to try and build OpenNMS from source. After installing 
all of the build dependencies I successfully built OpenNMS using 
openjdk-6-jdk 6b18-1.8.2-4 (only real addition was to mount a swap 
partition on an external hard drive). Other JDK's don't seem to be 
available for ARMEL.

However I encountered problems when trying to build JICMP from source 
which is where I am currently stuck.

After modifying some of the files I believe that the architecture / 
process type isn't properly being detected or handled which causes the 
build process to fail (please bear with me as my experience in building 
Debian packages is lacking). Essentially I downloaded the source and 
then manually stepped through what happens for apt-get -b source jicmp, 
modifying files as I went. After a great deal of adjustments I 
unfortunately cannot get JICMP to build (I also tried some fixes for 
Sparc which seemed to match errors but to no avail).

I appreciate that this type of hardware isn't very common but ARMEL QEMU 
images can be found here:

http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/

I have tried going through the same process as briefly described above 
using the QEMU images and everything seems to be the same (errors, 
success in building OpenNMS, etc). One notable difference is that the 
QEMU images use Debian Lenny and the SheevaPlug uses Debian Squeeze but 
this didn't seem to effect anything when I tried to install the prebuilt 
packages or build from source.

For reference here are some specifics from the SheevaPlug system...

$ uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.32.7 #5 PREEMPT Wed Feb 10 21:09:39 GMT 2010 armv5tel 
GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32.7 (newit@gemini) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Sourcery G++ 
Lite 2009q3-68) ) #5 PREEMPT Wed Feb 10 21:09:39 GMT 2010

Any help would be really appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,
Ben

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