[Pkg-uml-devel] Re: [Pkg-uml-commit] r81 - in trunk/src/rootstrap: . debian modules

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 10:40 am, Stefano Melchior said:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:19:41AM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
[...]
>> >> [1]: by the way are we really sure it works with old (2.4 series)
>> UMLs?
>> >
>> > rootstrap requires 'linux', thus user-mode-linux in general, why do
>> you
>> > need to prevent a release to be used, since the last working rootstrap
>> is
>> > in oldstable (woody). The changes that we submitted are supported from
>> > woody to the upcoming etch.
>>
>> but we are not going to upload a newer rootstrap neither in Woody nor in
>> Sarge, our target is Etch and I personally didn't test _any_ uml package
>> with _any_ 2.2 or 2.4 kernel (woody's and sarge's defaults), did you?
>
> this should not prevent users with oldstable/old version to use it

I disagree. I'm not trying to prevent users of ancient releases to use
newer rootstrap, but we should at least not lie telling it is supported
and making it clear it is not.
So I suggest a Depends: user-mode-linux (>> 2.6.16-1um) | linux-uml, ...

>> > in case you haven't got ubd dev on host, required by rootstrap!
>> > if you have:
>> > /dev/ubd/[0-7] you have ysed devfs, so you don't need to create any
>> host
>>
>> but we don't want to use host's /dev as (among other problems) it's
>> read-only. See commit r82 for a fix.
> I realized yesterday that it was RO; but if you don't have at least ubd0
> and ubd1 on host, it won't work: please, try to remove them and launch
> rootstrap. The system ouputs that it can't find /dev/ubd1. [1]
> In the rootstrap python script you launch a linux session which requires
> to have ubd1 available.

see again r82 and r83 for modules/mkfs. Those changes are adressing
exactely this issue.

-- 
mattia
:wq!