[Pkg-uml-devel] Re: Please test TLS workarounds for rootstrap [Re: aptitude is dying]

[alex bodnaru]

hi,

Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 03:48:15AM +0300, alex bodnaru wrote:
> 
>>hello mattia,
>>
>>i have pursued your advice to study and use dpkg-divert. it covers most
>>cases (not if a new library is being added to this dir, untill reboot)
> 
> 
> oh, I thought /lib/tls/ was a prerogative of libc6 only, isn't it?
> If so libc6 will already be present at first UML boot after creating the
> rootfs so it shouldn't be a problem.
> 
right, i was not thinking of another package, but of another library file.
> 
>>untill the hack will anyway be unneeded (with kernel 2.6.17).
>>
>>new script is attached. please just install with update-rc.d in a module
>>activated on >= etch.
> 
> 
> thanks will do as soon as possible, can anybody else give it a shot? I
> won't have much time to do it myself in the next days.
> 
> I found that apache2 with mpm-worker (the threaded one) suffers of the
> TLS problem with 2.6.16 kernels, so it may be a nice test having a
> 2.6.16 and a 2.6.17 uml kernel and testing that the same rootfs works
> with both (one with automagically disabled tls and the other with full
> tls support).
> 
i don't have a 2.6.17 uml kernel. btw, wouldn't aptitude be enough for
such test?

> thanks a lot

i'm the one to thank,

alex