SPARC architecture moved to ports.ubuntu.com for 8.04 and beyond

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Thu Apr 24 19:50:17 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:52:20PM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Michael R. Head
> <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> >  Colin Watson wrote:
> >  > A similar reminder goes for PowerPC users, since this architecture was
> >  > moved to ports.ubuntu.com in a previous Ubuntu release. If you are still
> >  > using archive.ubuntu.com on a PowerPC system, beware that this is likely
> >  > to stop working soon and you should migrate to ports.ubuntu.com as
> >  > above.
> >
> >  What should happen to security.ubuntu.com lines?
> 
> AFAIK, it can also point to ports.ubuntu.com (just like regular x86
> users can use archive.ubuntu.com instead of security.ubuntu.com)

Yes, this is correct. The final 8.04 release notes include more detail
on this:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/804

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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