[Pbuilder-maint] Re: request for pbuilder-user-mode-linux development/tester

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,


> I've been using pbuilder-uml for as much building as possible for a
> fair while now, with the user-mode-linux package in unstable and a
> 2.6.12 host kernel with the SKAS patch.

Thanks.

I hope you managed to subscribe to pbuilder-maint, since 
alioth mailman was down yesterday. Cc'ing just in case.

> I know almost nothing about the internals of pbuilder, but I'm
> willing to learn. I was actually going to stick my hand in for
> the kernel-patch-uml WNPP bug, but someone else volunteered to
> bang it into shape, as I recall.

Hmm...

Anyway, a good starting point would be to get the latest pbuilder 
source CVS; and run

cd testsuite
./run-test-uml.sh 

and see what breaks. I don't think anybody other than me has
ever ran that script, so I doubt that if it'll run the first time,
and you'll need to tweak it.

First we'll try to get it working on your system, 
and hopefully we can do periodical regression tests.

Does that sound good?


I think rootstrap would be broken by now since it's using
debootstrap only; many things need fixing to get 
pbuilder-user-mode-linux back into shape



regards,
	junichi