[Pkg-uml-devel] reviving pbuilder-uml

[Mattia Dongili]

Hello,

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:07:12AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
[...]
> > Also, pbuilder-uml is already part of the pbuilder suite, hopefully
> > Junichi-san will just start rebuilding it when our work will allow him
> > to :)
> 
> Last time I looked, pbuilder-uml will need rootstrap functioning.
> rootstrap needs some hacking before it's usable with current
> user-mode-linux (without devfs, and other things).

Good news, rootstrap-0.3.22-1 is in incoming today.

I read you need help with pbuilder-uml, here are some quick notes:

- ubd disks device nodes are
	/dev/ubd[abcdefgh]
  with partitions giong from 1 to 15. 
  They are created with `MAKEDEV ubd`. ubd0 maps to ubda, ubd1 to ubdb
  and so on.
  (Any reason you're launching uml with ubd1 instead of ubd0?)

- I wouldn't suggest using udev inside a Sid UML, it takes a while when
  "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated..." (it works well in
  Sarge, very fast boot), anyway it uses the same /dev/ubd[abcdefgh] names
  for devices

- kill the "devs=mount" kernel option

- add /usr/lib/uml to the $PATH environment variable as UML will hang if
  it doesn't find uml_net. Kernels > 2.6.17-rc4 won't need it anymore,
  but it won't hurt anyway.

I hope this is all, I could find some spare time to spend on
pbuilder-uml in the next days (hopefully).

じゃまたね (ciao)
-- 
mattia
:wq!