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  • Remnants of Yaboot support in debian-installer

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 23 11:10:02 2022
    Hello!

    While working on the new partman-hfs package, I peeked at other partman-* packages
    and noticed that partman-jfs still contains a workaround [1] for the Yaboot bootloader
    which we used on Apple Power Macintosh in the past.

    Since we switched both the powerpc and ppc64 ports over to GRUB and completely dropped
    Yaboot which is unmaintained upstream, these workarounds can be removed.

    Thus, if anyone runs into such a workaround for Yaboot or powerpc, please feel free
    to remove them. If you make any such changes, please let me know so I can have a quick
    look at it to make sure it does not break debian-installer on powerpc/ppc64 in an
    unintended way although I think this is very unlikely.

    Thanks,
    Adrian

    [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-jfs/-/blob/master/check.d/no_jfs_boot

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Thu Mar 24 08:30:01 2022
    Hi!

    On 3/23/22 11:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    Hello!

    While working on the new partman-hfs package, I peeked at other partman-* packages
    and noticed that partman-jfs still contains a workaround [1] for the Yaboot bootloader
    which we used on Apple Power Macintosh in the past.

    I would make the following changes to the partman-jfs package [1].

    Is that okay to commit?

    Adrian

    [1] https://github.com/glaubitz/partman-jfs/commit/9c77668fefb39a84cd1df46f37b2d46d591c273b

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Sun Mar 27 17:00:01 2022
    Hi!

    On 3/24/22 08:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    On 3/23/22 11:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    Hello!

    While working on the new partman-hfs package, I peeked at other partman-* packages
    and noticed that partman-jfs still contains a workaround [1] for the Yaboot bootloader
    which we used on Apple Power Macintosh in the past.

    I would make the following changes to the partman-jfs package [1].

    I just pushed that change to the partman-jfs repository [1].

    I also pushed a small change to grub-installer [2].

    @Holger: Would be great if you could update both packages in unstable once you
    have the time. I could do it myself, but I'll leave it up to you in
    case you want to make any additional changes.

    Thanks,
    Adrian

    [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-jfs/-/commit/37122d4e9515a79055747676ccba72a0af0e22ff
    [2] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/-/commit/f7eb12f89844475db8f79bf90546d36e8bb0dfb6

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