[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#384881: UML for amd64 - status?

[Mattia Dongili]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Martin Stigge wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:31 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > what is the status of the porting efforts? The bugreport looks like it
> > > went pretty ok in the end, so what was the reason to not upload it?
> > 
> > I'm still lacking an x86_64 box to test build/binary so it's pretty
> > stagnating. I'll ping DSA again in the next days.
> > With more recent kernels there should be no problems on amd64 so it's
> > just a matter of having somebody providing help or getting the necessary
> > packages on a debian mechine for me to go on with it.
> 
> I built it today with the source package as it is, I just added amd64 to
> the Architecture: line in debian/control. Except for some manual needed
> intervention (for answering "make oldconfig" questions) it went fine, as
> far as I can tell.

wow! great, thanks for the effort.

> After installing the packet, a freshly debootstrapped etch booted up
> fine, output attached.
> 
> I can provide more help if necessary. (I'm doing all this on a friends
> more-or-less up-to-date x86_64 machine running testing. I'm not root but
> he is very responsive when it comes to doing stuff as root for me.)
> 
> I'm wondering about the kernel version: Since the source packet as it is
> now is build-depending on linux-source-2.6.18 which is not in sid
> anymore, it will not build on sid right now, I guess? Do you expect the
> kernel version upgrade to be a big issue? Which steps are needed?

exactely. Well, I already updated the x86_32 config and necessary files
so you should repeat all of the above using sid's 2.6.20 and the current
svn[1] files for user-mode-linux (or a snapshot package I made
yesterday[2]). Then send me the diff (or the source package stuff, I'll
diff it here), I'm going to upload uml-2.6.20 asap.

[1]: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-uml
[2]: http://people.debian.org/~malattia/packages/uml/

Oh, and if you have any problem contact me again.
Thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!