boot-floppies progress
I apologize for my recent lack of involvement in boot-floppies maintenance. I have been allowing myself the rather guilty pleasure of working through the new policy of Debian SGML/XML stuff. Which is a whole lot more fun for me than boot-floppies hacking. Anyhow, I'm right now going to tag/release 2.2.21 for Potato 2.2r3. I need to back out David's changes bumping i386 kernel to 2.2.19pre17 because pcmcia modules are not yet available for the compact and idepci flavors. So I'm shipping bf 2.2.21 i386 using 2.2.18pre21. I know that's old but that's the last complete set we have for i386, and there's not much I can do about it. When a new complete set is ready, it's a pretty simple thing to make a new boot-floppies. After that is done, I need execute a rather complex CVS maneuver in which I will make the Potato stuff into it's own branch, merge the woody changes into the trunk, and officially kill the woody branch (since woody development is mainline). I'm afraid I don't yet have an ETA on working woody boot-floppies -- I need to make an assessment. I'll let you know more info as I know it. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot-floppies progress
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I apologize for my recent lack of involvement in boot-floppies maintenance. I have been allowing myself the rather guilty pleasure of working through the new policy of Debian SGML/XML stuff. Which is a whole lot more fun for me than boot-floppies hacking. Anyhow, I'm right now going to tag/release 2.2.21 for Potato 2.2r3. I need to back out David's changes bumping i386 kernel to 2.2.19pre17 because pcmcia modules are not yet available for the compact and idepci flavors. So I'm shipping bf 2.2.21 i386 using 2.2.18pre21. Woah, that's Really Bad, 2.2.18pre21 has security holes and some nasty bugs (e.g. MegaRAID incompatibility). What's the problem with pcmcia modules? -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot-floppies progress
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:42:35PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I apologize for my recent lack of involvement in boot-floppies maintenance. I have been allowing myself the rather guilty pleasure of working through the new policy of Debian SGML/XML stuff. Which is a whole lot more fun for me than boot-floppies hacking. Anyhow, I'm right now going to tag/release 2.2.21 for Potato 2.2r3. I need to back out David's changes bumping i386 kernel to 2.2.19pre17 because pcmcia modules are not yet available for the compact and idepci flavors. So I'm shipping bf 2.2.21 i386 using 2.2.18pre21. I know that's old but that's the last complete set we have for i386, and there's not much I can do about it. When a new complete set is ready, it's a pretty simple thing to make a new boot-floppies. I would really rather someone fix this, even at the cost of delaying boot floppies further. 2.2.19pre17 is a significant security upgrade. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am croutons!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot-floppies progress
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Woah, that's Really Bad, 2.2.18pre21 has security holes and some nasty
bugs (e.g. MegaRAID incompatibility). What's the problem with pcmcia
modules?
There is no package for pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17-{compact,idepci} packages.
For any kernel to be used by boot-floppies i386 I need:
kernel-image-X.Y
kernel-image-X.Y-{ide,idepci,compact}
pcmcia-modules-X.Y-{ide,idepci,compact}
If any one bit is missing, due to the inflexibility of the build
system, I cannot use that whole revision.
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Re: boot-floppies progress
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would really rather someone fix this, even at the cost of delaying boot floppies further. 2.2.19pre17 is a significant security upgrade. I'll happily rebuild when those are provided. Be aware that in at least 40% of the cases where there's a new set of i386 *something* goes wrong, using symbol mismatces in one of the flavored pcmcia-modules, and it takes a while for things to get rebuilt properly. So -- it will take full testing. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
