[PD] Mac OS X/PowerPC builds needed

[Greg Pond]

I will check the specs on my machines and get back to you soon. We have
several surplus g4 and g5 towers here. IOhannes has a lot more knowledge
and experience than I do so if he wants to do it then I am happy to turn it
over to him- whatever is the best to keep the builds going.

Greg

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

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> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > i think the iem could dedicate a G4 (733MHz, 750MB) machine.
> > it's currently running 10.4;
> >
> > i will have to wipe the disk first of course, but afaik it's not going
> > to be used any more.
> >
> > 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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