Difficult to install on PowerPC platform

Note that uck is included with the Ubuntu PPC repositories, but at first look cannot be installed because of broken dependencies (gfxboot)

I think we should remove it from the powerpc architecture, we have no devs that can test this architecture

I can do some test actions, if you want.
The PowerPC I have is not for production.

Need some help from an Ubuntu dev, how can we remove the gfxboot (and gfxboot-dev) dep only if arch is powerpc*?

what is the right syntax? at the moment we've:
gfxboot (<< 4.2.2) | gfxboot-dev

thanks

We cannot filter target architectures on arch-indep packages.

BTW at the moment, in the Depends field, we have gfxboot-dev only and we could demote it to Recommends instead.
This would mean: it gets installed by default but anyone could remove it without breaking the dependency relationship.

Fabrizio, WDYT?

problem is that gdxboot and gfxboot-dev is now available on ppc platform so we should have a different package :(

How about modifying the code that uses gfxboot in customize_iso so that it doesn't get executed on ppc in addition to making the packages recommended?

----- Original message -----
> problem is that gdxboot and gfxboot-dev is now available on ppc platform
> so we should have a different package :(
>
> --
> Difficult to install on PowerPC platform
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516231
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> Customization Kit.
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> Status in Ubuntu Customization Kit: In Progress
> Status in “uck” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: uck
>
> To install latest UCK package (downloaded) in an Ubuntu 9.10 PPC, due to
> inexistence of gfxboot and xdialog packages in repositories, I need to
> perform these actions:
>
> sudo apt-get install bash dialog zenity kdebase-bin genisoimage
> squashfs-tools dpkg-dev fakeroot build-essential file mktemp xauth gnupg
> wget lzma sudo dpkg --force-depends -i uck_2.0.12-0ubuntu1_all.deb
>
> Can uck_2.0.12-0ubuntu1_all.deb not be well packaged for PPC?
>
>

it would be a little harder for i386/amd64 users that would have to manually install gfxboot or their ISOs won't be fully remastered... I do not agree with that only to support ppc users (that are only a few)

Another option is to make dependency as:
gfxboot | yaboot
(gfxboot OR yaboot)

Because yaboot package is only in the ppc repositories.

this is a great tip, I'll go with that!

This bug was fixed in the package uck - 2.4.3-0ubuntu1

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uck (2.4.3-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release, closing the following bugs:
    - LP: #693620
    - LP: #516231
    - LP: #682108
    - LP: #681032
 -- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:15:19 +0100