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

[Michele Renda]

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Ps. If it can help, I think the solution is to modify:

...creating symbolic link `./boot/uImage.bin'

in

...creating symbolic link `/boot/uImage.bin' (absolute ref)


Michele Renda

Michele Renda wrote:
> 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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