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

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:50:38PM +0200, Stefano Melchior wrote:
> 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

I'm not suggesting con=xterm :)

> 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?

I don't understand what's wrong with fd:1. Does it break anything?

> > > 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 :(

already reverted, I had some more changes to commit.

bye
-- 
mattia
:wq!
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