• HFS Grub Partition Read-Only

    From Johannes Brakensiek@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 23 19:40:01 2021
    Hello,

    when trying to update to Kernel version 5.10.0-7 I recognized that my
    HFS partition at /boot/grub is mounted as read-only now. I am missing
    any tools like fsck.hfs or the package hfsprogs to check the partition
    and to mount it rw.

    As the partition is read-only my system did not break when trying to do
    the update, but I am stuck at 5.10.0-6 now.

    It’s the same old PowerMac G5 11,2, ppc64 port.

    Did I do anything wrong? Are there new hfs tools on their way?

    Thanks for your support
    Johannes

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Johannes Brakensiek on Tue May 25 17:20:01 2021
    Hi!

    On 5/23/21 7:39 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
    Did I do anything wrong? Are there new hfs tools on their way?

    "contrib" and "non-free" have not been added for Debian Ports yet, I will ping the responsible
    admin again. In the meantime, I will build the hfsprogs package and upload it manually for powerpc
    and ppc64 later today.

    Adrian

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Johannes Brakensiek on Sat May 29 13:30:01 2021
    On 5/29/21 1:25 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
    Is there anything we could to do to motivate people to complete Debian
    Ports packages regarding contrib and non-free?

    This is a matter of the Debian Ports FTP admins enabling "contrib" and "non-free"
    for Debian Ports. It's not related to the packages at all.

    "contrib" and "non-free" are not officially considered to be part of Debian which is
    why historically Debian Ports has only been building the "main" section.

    I can only keep pinging the FTP admin to finally enable "contrib" and "non-free".

    Adrian

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    .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
    : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org
    `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de
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