On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<hans@at.or.at> wrote:
On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:22 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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> On 2012-02-27 02:56, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> So the Mac OS X PowerPC machine from the build farm has died. The hard drive is intact, so all the data is there. I also have much more limited time for maintaining the PdLab machines. So I'm looking for someone to host the Mac OS X PowerPC builds. It can be really any recent PowerPC Mac. The old machine was a 300MHz G4.
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>> Can anyone take this on? I'd hate to see Mac OS X/PowerPC dropped from the supported platforms since they are still quite capable machines.
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> i think the iem could dedicate a G4 (733MHz, 750MB) machine.
> it's currently running 10.4;
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> i will have to wipe the disk first of course, but afaik it's not going
> to be used any more.
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> i was hoping for a G5, but unfortunately the only one left is very
> unstable and won't boot every other day (and if it boots it will power
> down for no apparent reasons after some minutes/hours)
Greg Pond has also offered a machine. Either works for me. A 10.4 machine would be nice so we can support 10.4 too. Basically, it just needs 10.4 and Xcode with all the updates, then Fink and JackOSX. That's it. If I have ssh root access, I can do the setup remotely.
.hc
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