[Pkg-uml-devel] Re: [Pkg-uml-commit] r89 - trunk/src/rootstrap

[Stefano Melchior]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:12:12PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
Ciao Mattia,
> why would you want that? Rootstrap doesn't spawn any console so the
> "con" argument is useless.
> 
> > Modified: trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap
> > ===================================================================
> > --- trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap	2006-05-23 10:28:03 UTC (rev 88)
> > +++ trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap	2006-05-23 14:53:09 UTC (rev 89)
> > @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
> >  
> >  umlargs.extend(umlargs_extra)
> >  
> > -umlargs.extend(['con0=fd:0,fd:1',
> > +umlargs.extend(['con0=fd:0',
> >                  'con=pts',
> 
> either we allow the user specify the full console type (useless, see
> above) or the removal of the "fd:1" sounds pretty wrong.

if you have a system without the X running, as in case of a server, and
you would like to have rootstrap running, you need:
- to make it work in a console mode, then you need only one fd;
- to use con=pts if you would also see the output of what linux is doing
  on the screen.
For instance, today when I worked from the office, I was connected from
the office to my system at home: this is a server and it is configure w/o
X. How can you see the output of rootstrap running?
To allow any user to work with rootstrap, evene remotely, it is the only
way. Otherwise what would you suggest?
> 
> > Modified: trunk/src/rootstrap/rootstrap.conf
> 
> ohohoh! Don't commit your personal configuration :)
> please revert to the previous version of this file (I'd revert the full
> commit actually).

yes, it is true, I made a mistake :(

> 
> [...]
> >  #
> >  # Debian module
> >  #
> >  [debian]
> > -dist=woody
> > +dist=sarge
> 
> The only worth change is this, but I'd use the "stable" name for the
> distribution, so we won't have problems during the freeze.
Today I finally had a rootstrap working with mirror :)

Cheers

SteX
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