That's super exciting. Thanks for all your hard work! On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 19:44:29 PDT (-0700), manuel.montezelo(a)gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > (My apologies if I post repeated information, I didn't have much time > available lately to follow all the mailing lists that I am subscribed > to). > > We've been working in the last few weeks to do a (second) boostrap of > Debian for RISC-V, and after a few weeks of hard work it is now > bootstrapped and has been imported into the Debian infrastructure, in > particular, debian-ports (* description below). > > All packages that are uploaded to the archive by any of the > hundreds/thousands of contributors are attempted to be built for each > one of the architectures/ABIs almost immediately, so having "riscv64" > as a Debian architecture is a quite critical step. > > This means that, from now on, anybody can download .deb packages > targetted for riscv64 (rv64gc, to be precise) which compile > successfuly, often only a few hours after being uploaded to the > archive (as long as their build-dependencies are satisfied). You can > download them from here: > > https://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-riscv64/main/ > > (We will attempt to provide more ready-to-use system images in the > future). > > > One can follow the progress of this architecture (>4k packages, or > ~30% of the arch-dependent packages, built successfully by now) from: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=riscv64&suite=sid > > > And from here one can see the detailed output of all the compilations > of gcc-8 or nethack (only 1 version of each so far), to compare with > previous builds or versions, or with other distributions: > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gcc-8&ver=8-20180331-1&... > > clicking on the link of the "result" column: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gcc-8&arch=riscv64&... > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=nethack&arch=riscv64 > > clicking on the link of the "result" column: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nethack&arch=riscv64&a... > > > So we hope that this is a valuable resource, and that it helps to > continue the development of RISC-V hardware, and that you can run it > on your devices in the near future ;-) > > > More background info about the process, if interested: > > > https://people.debian.org/~mafm/posts/2018/20180402_debian-gnulinux-port-... > > > Cheers. > > > (*) In Debian, "ports" are different ABI targets (sometimes they > evolve slightly over the years, like "i386", upgrading the baseline > ISA). Those which are well established and have good support of > hardware, several developers behind and can keep up with building the > archive successfully, are designed as the main ones (amd64/x86_64, > arm64/-hf/-el, ppc64el, s390x, several mips*). > > Those which are still "in the nursery" or do not have good support for > being old or similar reasons (sparc64, m68k, alpha) are in what's > known as "debian-ports", which means architectures/ABIs which are not > supported for the full lifetime of stable realeases, they cannot > compile 90% of the archive, etc. They can lag behind in building > packages, without delaying or harming the main supported architectures > -- that's the main reason to have this separation.

I was trying to debootstrap this port but it does not install libraries, including libc6. Is this a known issue? How can I get a root filesystem out of the repository?