On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:04:01PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > i just uploaded kernel-package 9.008.0.experimental.1 to experimental, as a > test before doing the real unstable upload. I have tested it here locally, and > it doesn't break anything i have tried, but i would like more widespread > testing before i do the unstable upload, probably sometime this WE. > > Notice that the tests will not fail during the build, but during install of > the built packages, if they fail, so it is important to install the test > packages. > > What needs testing : > > 1) build 2.4.27, 2.6.8, 2.6.12 and 2.6.14-rc4 kernels with it. > 2) test-install those packages on a 2.4 and a 2.6 kernel. > 3) report the install lines here, in particular the ones about the ramdisk > generating tool i added today, not sure if they will be kept for the final > packages or not. > 4) edit your /etc/kernel-img.conf file to include a ramdisk line : > ramdisk= /usr/sbin/initrd-tools /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs > and redo the install tests. You may try with some permutation of the above > too. > 5) build custom 2.4 and 2.6.14-rc4 kernels and do the above two tests. > > I will try to do some, and report here as a subthread, but as this is rather > time consuming, i would like help, especially for those tests involving 2.4 > kernels, as i have not run those on powerpc for ages.
I'm pretty sure 2.4 currently FTBFS in sid. Looks like a tool chain change. I think this occurs on both i386 and powerpc. I haven't tried others, nor had time to nvestigate. > On the ramdisk generating tools, initrd-tools and yaird have been uploaded to > unstable, and initramfs-tools was promised soon, but an upload without the fix > was made for 0.31. We will see. > > On the 2.6.14-rc4 kernel side, we have been working on it, and things show > promise, powerpc, i386, amd64, m68k, sparc are those i am aware are being > worked on, and i think Simon Horman did some preliminary hppa work, but this > leaves s390, alpha, ia64 and arm, and as always mips/mipsel is going its own > way. Well, i guess waldi will work on s390 in due time, but the situation for > alpha, arm and ia64 is preocuping. hppa still needs work. I don't really want to take over hppa, so if anyone wants to work on this, please feel free. > So, all in all, i think things work out well, and we may plan for the > following revised schedule : > > saturday, 22 october 2005 : upload of fixed kernel-package to unstable. > sunday, 23 october 2005 : upload of linux-2.6 2.6.13+2.6.14-rc4-1 to > experimental FYI, I will be offline from the 22nd-25th. > Depending on success, of the above and 2.6.14 uploads, we may follow up with a > 2.6.14 upload to unstable in the weeks following the experimental upload. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
