[Pkg-uml-devel] UML packages for Etch [Re: release update: release notes, base freeze]

Stefano Melchior stefano.melchior at openlabs.it
Thu Sep 28 21:25:57 UTC 2006


On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:32:16PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
Dear all,
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:54:13AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> [...]
> > N-45   = Wed 18 Oct 06:
> > 
> >     general freeze [about 1 month after base freeze]
> 
> Given the Etch timeline and the fact that I'll be unavailable since Oct
> 8 to 27 we need focus on the last changes before it's too late.
> 
> So let's start with a summary, feel free to add more (realistic) goals
> and pick up some stuff, all package uploads will need to happen before
> Oct. 5.
I agree
> 
> user-mode-linux 2.6.18
> ----------------------
>   There are 2 major showstoppers about amd64:
>   1. we don't seem to have any handy amd64 system (qemu is slow as hell,
>      I already tried going this route, thinking of building the kernel
>      there is just plain crazy)
>   2. amd64 doesn't support NTPL yet, we could add -bb patches[1] for
>      that but I fear we won't have enough time to test it and
>      Blaisorblade himself says NTPL support is still experimental for
>      amd64.
>   My opinion is that we will add amd64 support for Etch+1 as we can't
>   currently support a stable release for this package expecially because
>   of (1). Sorry Ardo :)
It is a pity for Ardo and all the amd64 users, but reality bites!
>   
>   About 2.6.18 for i368: I'd like to test is a little before the upload,
>   we need to be pretty careful not to upload a broken release at this
>   time. Stefano did you have a chance to make some extensive tests?
>   uptime? network stress test?
at this moment all my systems use 2.6.18 support; untill Monday I had a
production images with web/mail/anti-spamming/db server. I can try to
restart all of them and make them work continously for whatever time is
possible. Tomorrow morning this environment will be up and running with
2.6.18.

> 
> rootstrap
> ---------
>   rootstrap is in pretty good shape, it still has some issues which need
>   fixing (and it could even work on amd64 if one has its' own rolled up
>   UML kernel).
>   Except for #372942 and #275546 can be easily fixed. 
> 
> linux-patch-skas
> ----------------
>   nothing else is currently needed right now (apparently). Yay!
> 
> uml-utilities
> -------------
>   1. we need LSB compliance for the init-script (a good start is #385906)
>   2. it would be nice to provide the missing manpages, I wrote some of
>      them some time ago but a couple of utilities are still undocumented
I was wondering if it possible to only doc (man pages and whatever doc,
i.e. [*])
right after this 1st freeze. I mean that when you will be unavailable I
can try to go deep in the documentation session.
is it ok?
>   3. Ubuntu has a patch for the /var/run on tmpfs stuff[2]
>      (I already imported this patch locally, I need to commit it to SVN)
>   4. #378166: I completely missed it... will need to look at the
>      proposed patches, and evaulate their inclusion
> 
> user-mode-linux-doc
> -------------------
[*]   maybe rollup a quick update to the docs? any takers?
>
> umlrun
> ------
>   I can't tell... never used, never tried... either shape it for Etch or
>   ask for removal from testing.
in the next few day I would like to have a look inside it and see what the
hell it does and if it is reasonably easy to fix pending bugs.
Nothing else to add: it seems an exhaustive report of the state of the
art.
Cheers

SteX
> 
> [1]: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.18-bb1/
> [2]: http://patches.ubuntu.com/u/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20060323-3ubuntu1.patch

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