From dliana at frontiernet.net  Fri Nov 20 21:14:43 2009
From: dliana at frontiernet.net (David Liana)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:14:43 -0500
Subject: [arch-ports] Arch Linux PPC
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There is some interest, plus 2 new groups on google for the ppc port.  
As well as some activity on IRC.

On 10/15/09 11:36, Jon Sturm wrote:
> I've also built some packages and there has been some more recent 
> interest in the project on the #archlinux-ppc irc channel but it seems 
> no one in the channel has access to the repo's and many of the mirrors 
> are down due to the lack of activity.
> My main issue is that I cannot seem to get a working GCC build and as 
> I need one with --disable-altivec for my specific hardware many 
> packages in the repos are not working for me. If anyone at least has a 
> working PPC GCC PKGBUILD that would be extremely helpful to me.
>
> I also have a small repo setup with some Wii spcific packages at 
> [archii] http://thestorm.taricorp.net/repo/ppc/archii/ but I cannot 
> continue untill I have an updated gcc.
>
> Thanks Jon Sturm
>
> On 10/7/2009 7:16 AM, David Liana wrote:
>> PS - I'd be willing to help build packages/keep things fresh if it's 
>> a time issue for people.
>>
>> On 10/07/09 08:14, David Liana wrote:
>>> I did build some packages but lost interest because it seemed like 
>>> development is dead.
>>>
>>> On 10/02/09 18:18, Harley Laue wrote:
>>>> Is the project abandoned at this point? It looks like the last 
>>>> package was
>>>> updated on 2009-06-29. That package (pacman actually) has Zac Brown 
>>>> as the
>>>> maintainer, which isn't even working with the project at this 
>>>> point. Anyone
>>>> know the status (and was the packages built using a cluster of some 
>>>> kind, or
>>>> just by the maintainers themselves?)
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