[pkg-fso-maint] [Debian] Finally, linux-2.6-openmoko into the pkg-fso repository

[Michele Renda]

Hello Luca

Here are the results:


(Reading database ... 36809 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 (from
.../linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080808.git43620428-2_armel.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080808.git43620428-2_armel.deb
(--unpack):
 error creating symbolic link `./boot/uImage.bin': Operation not permitted
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080808.git43620428-2_armel.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


When I tried it the directory /boot the ls was:

qtopia_db.sqlite  uImage.bin  version

I thied it also after a "cd /boot/ && rm *" same results

Thank you for your great work!
Michele Renda

Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I finished to work on the Linux Debian package [1], at least to a point
> where it's good to be released.  Thus, you can now install the Linux
> kernel simply with `apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02`.
> 
> Some notes, before people start complaining ;-)
> 
> 1) the kernel version is the one Philipp Kern started to work on [2],
>    i.e. 20080808.git43620428 [3].  Now that I can build kernel images on
>    Debian *and* for Debian, I'll compile the milestone3 kernel.
> 
> 2) the kernel .config is simply defconfig-gta02, i.e. Openmoko
>    upstream's one.  Before moving as more driver as possible to modules
>    instead of being inline [4], I'd like to have a milestone3 kernel
>    with upstream's .config.
> 
> I tested the package after having installed fso-kernel-installer [5] and
> also with my specific setup (where uImage.bin is already a symlink): in
> both cases the package installation was correct.
> 
> Please report back any problem.
> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/linux-2.6-openmoko.git;a=summary
> [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2008-October/000124.html
> [3] http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=commit;h=436204281bcd1fe5999ad6589ea7ab1b5360c352
> [4] this to minimize the differences WRT the Debian stock kernels
> [5] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2008-September/000204.html
> 
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