Frank Kuester wrote > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In order to fulfill this requirement, is there a best practice / any > > possible way to "convert" an amd64 box which has been installed from > > debian-amd64 to an official debian amd64 box? >
You could always try what I did today at work :) Boot from AMD64 "unofficial" Sarge images and install the barest minimum. Reboot, change your sources list to point to a current Debian mirror to the Sid/unstable tree on that mirror. My local copy of my mirror is about a week or so old - so I missed all the Xorg 7.0 fun by about a day or so :) Works like an absolute charm :) Five machines installed that way so far today - a sixth is half installed and seventh should be done tomorrow a.m. :) I couldn't have done this on any other distribution with as little trouble. I was very fortunate in that the hardware was all basically supported under Sarge - as reported to the amd64 list, the current testing DVD's and d-i CD image appear to require an AMD64-specific mirror to be available, which causes problems when you haven't got 'Net access readily available :( Andy > I recommend not to try it. I think packages that are uploaded to Debian > should be compiled in a clean, up-to-date pbuilder environment, or > something equivalent. Not on a machine that's used for working, that > might have other build-dependency alternatives installed than pbuilder > would pick, or maybe has undeclared build-deps installed. > > Since debootstrap works for amd64 in unstable, setting up a pbuilder > chroot should work as for any other arch, I guess. > > Regards, Frank > -- > Frank K?ster > Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. > Z?rich > Debian Developer (teTeX) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
