Re: beta status

2005-11-05 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The problem with miboot is that there are 200 or so m68k instructions in the
 boot sector, which have not been changed since over 10 years probably, and
 probably nobody at appple even remembers them, and thus we are not shipping
 miboot even in non-free, while at the same time distributing it from
 people.debian.org.

IIUC, Debian is already distributing Microsoft boot sector code
in the ms-sys package.

http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/ms-sys
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=694012group_id=59200atid=490228


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Re: beta status

2005-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:29:46AM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  The problem with miboot is that there are 200 or so m68k instructions in the
  boot sector, which have not been changed since over 10 years probably, and
  probably nobody at appple even remembers them, and thus we are not shipping
  miboot even in non-free, while at the same time distributing it from
  people.debian.org.
 
 IIUC, Debian is already distributing Microsoft boot sector code
 in the ms-sys package.
 
 http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/ms-sys
 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=694012group_id=59200atid=490228

Ah, interesting, but i wonder if it is code or just data, and what licence it
comes under, will have a look.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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Re: beta status

2005-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:07:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
 On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:29:46AM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
  Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
   The problem with miboot is that there are 200 or so m68k instructions in 
   the
   boot sector, which have not been changed since over 10 years probably, and
   probably nobody at appple even remembers them, and thus we are not 
   shipping
   miboot even in non-free, while at the same time distributing it from
   people.debian.org.
  
  IIUC, Debian is already distributing Microsoft boot sector code
  in the ms-sys package.
  
  http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/ms-sys
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=694012group_id=59200atid=490228
 
 Ah, interesting, but i wonder if it is code or just data, and what licence it
 comes under, will have a look.

Notice that this may (or not) be a reimplemented boot record though, in which
case this is ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
 Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into the
 archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is
 linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute those (or
 at least used to distribute those in the woody times).

Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
  On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
   On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into 
the
archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is
linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute 
those (or
at least used to distribute those in the woody times).
   
   Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.
  
  which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything but
 
 It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google :-).

Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib.

  contrib, and still we distribute it. and is libnix not kind of linked to 
  some
  amigaos or amigarom parts ? 
 
 No, you don't have to link to anything to make AmigaOS calls. All you need to
 know is that address 4 stores a pointer to exec.libary.

Well, maybe, but that still counts as linking, i doubt there is any more
philosophical difference in doing this than dynamically linking with a
library.

Friendly,

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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
  On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
   Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into the
   archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is
   linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute 
   those (or
   at least used to distribute those in the woody times).
  
  Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.
 
 which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything but

It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google :-).

 contrib, and still we distribute it. and is libnix not kind of linked to some
 amigaos or amigarom parts ? 

No, you don't have to link to anything to make AmigaOS calls. All you need to
know is that address 4 stores a pointer to exec.libary.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:27:52PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
  On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
   On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
  Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it 
  into the
  archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, 
  which is
  linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do 
  distribute those (or
  at least used to distribute those in the woody times).
 
 Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.

which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in 
anything but
   
   It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google 
   :-).
  
  Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib.
 
 There's also no Amigaos cross-gcc in Debian.

Hehe, indeed, which is why it could only go to contrib. Same case as with
miboot, since you need code-warrior 4 to build it on os X. Well, a bit less
so since you can use gcc at least.

contrib, and still we distribute it. and is libnix not kind of linked 
to some
amigaos or amigarom parts ? 
   
   No, you don't have to link to anything to make AmigaOS calls. All you 
   need to
   know is that address 4 stores a pointer to exec.libary.
  
  Well, maybe, but that still counts as linking, i doubt there is any more
  philosophical difference in doing this than dynamically linking with a
  library.
 
 I think you can consider it the equivalent of a system call, i.e. normal usage
 of the OS API.

Because of the system library exception in the GPL, yes.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
  On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
   On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
 Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it 
 into the
 archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which 
 is
 linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute 
 those (or
 at least used to distribute those in the woody times).

Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.
   
   which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything 
   but
  
  It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google 
  :-).
 
 Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib.

There's also no Amigaos cross-gcc in Debian.

   contrib, and still we distribute it. and is libnix not kind of linked to 
   some
   amigaos or amigarom parts ? 
  
  No, you don't have to link to anything to make AmigaOS calls. All you need 
  to
  know is that address 4 stores a pointer to exec.libary.
 
 Well, maybe, but that still counts as linking, i doubt there is any more
 philosophical difference in doing this than dynamically linking with a
 library.

I think you can consider it the equivalent of a system call, i.e. normal usage
of the OS API.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:53:53AM -0700, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
  On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
   On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
  Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it 
  into the
  archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, 
  which is
  linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do 
  distribute those (or
  at least used to distribute those in the woody times).
 
 Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.

which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in 
anything but
   
   It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google 
   :-).
  
  Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib.
 
 libnix is an AmigaOS library, and is available on aminet, which IIRC predates 
 Debian by a couple of years. Do you want to ship all free software on aminet
 with Debian now, too?

Well, it depends on stuff outside of main for use/build, so cannot go in main.

  http://main.aminet.net/dev/gcc/libnixV1_1.readme
  Short:A static library for gcc (V1.1)
  Author:   [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Type: dev/gcc
  Architecture: m68k-amigaos
  
  This is a new release of libnix - a static (link) library for gcc.
  Changes from the last release include mostly bug fixes but also
  a few new functions. Sources included.
 
 As you see, this is a library for use with gcc, the AmigaOS version, which I 
 assume
 is free also, after all it is GNU gcc. gcc, and crossgcc, are available on 
 Aminet
 also. So where exactly does amiboot become non-free here? I wouldn't mind if 
 90% of
 the debian archive contained Amiga software, it has been a while that I 
 received
 free Aminet CDs, but I guess some other arches might not like that waste of 
 archive
 space. 

Actually, i am arguing that we should extend the same courtesy to miboot.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
  On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
   On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
 Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it 
 into the
 archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which 
 is
 linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute 
 those (or
 at least used to distribute those in the woody times).

Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.
   
   which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in anything 
   but
  
  It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to Google 
  :-).
 
 Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib.

libnix is an AmigaOS library, and is available on aminet, which IIRC predates 
Debian by a couple of years. Do you want to ship all free software on aminet
with Debian now, too?

 http://main.aminet.net/dev/gcc/libnixV1_1.readme
 Short:A static library for gcc (V1.1)
 Author:   [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Type: dev/gcc
 Architecture: m68k-amigaos
 
 This is a new release of libnix - a static (link) library for gcc.
 Changes from the last release include mostly bug fixes but also
 a few new functions. Sources included.

As you see, this is a library for use with gcc, the AmigaOS version, which I 
assume
is free also, after all it is GNU gcc. gcc, and crossgcc, are available on 
Aminet
also. So where exactly does amiboot become non-free here? I wouldn't mind if 
90% of
the debian archive contained Amiga software, it has been a while that I received
free Aminet CDs, but I guess some other arches might not like that waste of 
archive
space. 

Christian


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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:04:22AM -0700, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
 It is an AmigaOS binary, built from free source with free compilers. So we 
 just have to
 include all the free AmigaOS software to be able to ship a precompiled 
 amiboot? As I said,
 no problem with me, maybe we include all free TOS and MacOS software as well, 
 ataboot and
 Penguin have to be compiled somehow as well. So why not include aminet, and 
 what ever are
 the counterparts for atari, mac, maybe C64, Pet2001, those were nice machines 
 as well,
 and maybe we still use something that was first developed on one of those 
 machines. Would
 be a big boost for the emulator packages that are already in debian, and free 
 software is
 free software...
 
 In case you did not get it yet, I think this would be a stupid thing, debian 
 is about
 Un*x, Linux, *BSD software. Do we have DOS compilers as well? What about 
 loadlin?
 The source(!) package contains a compiled loadlin.exe, but it also contains 
 the source.
 The makefile says: To compile with Borland TASM 3.1. In case that assembler 
 is still 
 available, is it free software? Don't you need to run DOS to use it?
 
bcc = dos compiler included in debian.  I have used it and it works.  Of
course it has no libs so you have to implement all the bios calls
yourself to print output and such.  Not sure if it is easier to use dos
calls than bios calls since at the time I was more trying to write
something I could run between the bios and the boot loader.  In the end
I added my code to grub instead.  It was simpler.

 But I guess thats what the editorial changes were about, lets throw out all 
 the 
 documentation, that should free up lots of space which we can fill with 
 useless (for
 debian) software. And while we are at it, let's shoot ourselves in the other 
 foot as
 well by throwing out all the boatloaders... isn't loadlin used on every 
 bootable i386 CD?

No, syslinux/isolinux is.  loadlin is for booting from dos, not
directly.  lilo is mostly assembly, and compiles fine from linux.  grub
is c and a little bit of assembly, and compiles fine from linux.
loadlin is a dos program and does not compile fine from linux, unless
making it work with bcc isn't a bit deal (which may be the case
actually).

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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:04:22AM -0700, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:00:03PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
  On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:53:53AM -0700, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
   On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:57:12AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
 On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
  On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:45:30AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
   On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get 
it into the
archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, 
which is
linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do 
distribute those (or
at least used to distribute those in the woody times).
   
   Amiboot is not linked to parts of AmigaOS. It is linked to libnix.
  
  which in turn is not in the archive, so amiboot can never be in 
  anything but
 
 It's statically linked (and libnix is public domain, according to 
 Google :-).

Still not in debian/main, so amiboot needs to go to contrib.
   
   libnix is an AmigaOS library, and is available on aminet, which IIRC 
   predates 
   Debian by a couple of years. Do you want to ship all free software on 
   aminet
   with Debian now, too?
  
  Well, it depends on stuff outside of main for use/build, so cannot go in 
  main.
 
 It is an AmigaOS binary, built from free source with free compilers. So we 
 just have to
 include all the free AmigaOS software to be able to ship a precompiled 
 amiboot? As I said,
 no problem with me, maybe we include all free TOS and MacOS software as well, 
 ataboot and
 Penguin have to be compiled somehow as well. So why not include aminet, and 
 what ever are
 the counterparts for atari, mac, maybe C64, Pet2001, those were nice machines 
 as well,
 and maybe we still use something that was first developed on one of those 
 machines. Would
 be a big boost for the emulator packages that are already in debian, and free 
 software is
 free software...
 
 In case you did not get it yet, I think this would be a stupid thing, debian 
 is about
 Un*x, Linux, *BSD software. Do we have DOS compilers as well? What about 
 loadlin?
 The source(!) package contains a compiled loadlin.exe, but it also contains 
 the source.
 The makefile says: To compile with Borland TASM 3.1. In case that assembler 
 is still 
 available, is it free software? Don't you need to run DOS to use it?

The main point is, do we ship it as part of the installer stuff, knowing it is
needed to boot, or even worse in the case of miboot, it needs to be built into
the images.

The problem with miboot is that there are 200 or so m68k instructions in the
boot sector, which have not been changed since over 10 years probably, and
probably nobody at appple even remembers them, and thus we are not shipping
miboot even in non-free, while at the same time distributing it from
people.debian.org.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:17:22PM -0600, Eric Shattow wrote:
 I have used miBoot on a nubus ppc mac (6116cd) and it is not the
 optimal solution. My suggestion as a user is that you forget about
 using miBoot at all, and foster development for a new GPL'ed
 bootloader based on EMILE. Laurent (EMILE author) has said it is a
 matter of limited time that EMILE is not written to support ppc. Focus
 on EMILE for 68k and nubus ppc.

Yeah, i know, but i have neither the time nor the hardware to do this, and
notice that miboot is for oldworld powerpc, not nubus, and is here now.

Friendly,

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Re: beta status

2005-11-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:08:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
 installer/doc/devel/release-checklist as we can. At a minimum we need to
 make sure that businesscard, netinst, and full CDs (once we get some)
 work for i386 and powerpc and that the desktop task installs ok and
 works.

Joeyh, i wonder what you expect to get tested with regard to old-world, since
those floppies we have doesn't support miboot and have no chance of working.
I think it would be actually better to completely remove them from the beta
than try to claim we support this method while we do not.

Actually, we could simply make an exception for miboot and get it into the
archive, i think it is no worse than other cases (like amiboot, which is
linked to parts of amigaos, and thus non-free), and we do distribute those (or
at least used to distribute those in the woody times).

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: beta status

2005-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
An update on the d-i beta status. We're getting really close, AKA most
things seem likely to work now. Ccing some other relevant lists.

debian-boot:

 - Thanks to fjp, base-installer 1.35.4 should get d-i working again with 
   secure apt and CDs, but we're currently mssing uploads of successful
   builds for 3 architectures. This is the last udeb we plan to put into
   testing for the beta, once it's built everywhere. Also, once this udeb
   does reach testing, it should be possible to do some etch_d-i CD
   installs and test things out.

The fixed base-installer will reach testing with today's mirror sync. So
within an hour or two (netboot etc) and after tonight's build (CDs) the
etch d-i images can be used to test the beta and should actually work.
Your testing and reports are appreciated, as we decide when to make the
beta final.

Some links for those images:

floppy, netboot, etc:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-$ARCH/
CD:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/etch_d-i/

This is just a beta so I am not going to be too picky about testing, but
it would be nice to fill out as much of
installer/doc/devel/release-checklist as we can. At a minimum we need to
make sure that businesscard, netinst, and full CDs (once we get some)
work for i386 and powerpc and that the desktop task installs ok and
works.

alpha:

 - debian-installer FTBFS on alpha, but apparently only on the buildd.
   
 http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=debian-installerver=20051026arch=alphastamp=1130532682file=logas=raw
   We need this build if alpha will be in the beta.
   The other builds of 20051026 should be final for the beta, but still
   need to be installed and tested out.

This is still a problem and I've seen no progress on this issue. Even
someone doing a manual build and upload on alpha would probably be
acceptable this point, (as long as you file a FTBFS bug too or
something so we remember to investigate the buildd issue later..).

amd64/debian-release:

 - amd64 CDs seem to be significantly broken, we've been getting many
   failure reports all week. (#336353, #335556, #335653, #336173, #336451)
   Unless this is resolved and we see some successful amd64 installs, it
   won't be in the beta.

This was resolved, only to hit the next problem with amd64: The amd64
archive signing key is not trusted by apt. So currently testing amd64
installs only work from the netinst CD, all the other install methods,
which use apt authentication, are broken.

This is fixed in apt 0.6.42.2, but it won't reach testing in a while
due to annoying gcc-4.0 dependencies needing to reach testing first.

amd64 has also not built the most recent version of the debian-installer
package, and has been marked as building for over a day at
http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?email=packages=debian-installerarches=
Additionally, it seems that the last debian-installer build to be built
and installed into the amd64 archive was rc3, in May. See
http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/ So I'm
not even sure if version 20051026 will get properly installed even if it
does get built for amd64.

At this point I'm not sure what to do about amd64 and the beta. I would
rather not wait for a possibly indefinite gcc-4.0 transition to get the new
apt in. Only supporting the amd64 netinst could work, so could doing
some magic to get an upated apt into testing.

m68k:

I've become aware of another issue, which is that some m68k d-i udebs
were miscompiled by a broken compiler there and don't work. I understand
that smarenka has been working on this, but I don't know the currently
status of it (beyond what's documented at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerM68kTodo) and whether m68k will be
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Re: beta status

2005-11-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:08:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
 
 amd64 has also not built the most recent version of the debian-installer
 package, and has been marked as building for over a day at
 http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?email=packages=debian-installerarches=
 Additionally, it seems that the last debian-installer build to be built
 and installed into the amd64 archive was rc3, in May. See
 http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/ So I'm
 not even sure if version 20051026 will get properly installed even if it
 does get built for amd64.

We had some problems (as noted above), and some others.  The
kernel udebs weren't in moved in testing until yesterday evening.
This doesn't happen automaticly since it's a different source
package for every arch, and we didn't notice they were out of
date yet.

Also, the buildd chroot also didn't have amd64 key in
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.  Those issues should have been fixed, and
20051026 should get build soon.

We also had a problem with a previous version, 20051009, that it
ended up in reject with some strange error message (instead of in
byhand).  I hope we don't error anymore now.


Kurt


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Re: beta status

2005-11-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov  2, 2005 at 14:08:07 +, Joey Hess wrote:

 alpha:
 
  - debian-installer FTBFS on alpha, but apparently only on the buildd.

  http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=debian-installerver=20051026arch=alphastamp=1130532682file=logas=raw
We need this build if alpha will be in the beta.
The other builds of 20051026 should be final for the beta, but still
need to be installed and tested out.
 
 This is still a problem and I've seen no progress on this issue. Even
 someone doing a manual build and upload on alpha would probably be
 acceptable this point, (as long as you file a FTBFS bug too or
 something so we remember to investigate the buildd issue later..).
 
I just tried building debian-installer on alpha, but I got the same
problem as the buildd.
The __libc_global_ctors symbol is undefined in
tmp/cdrom/tree/lib/libc.so.6.1-so and
tmp/cdrom/tree/lib/libc.so.6.1-so-stripped.
However, I'm not an alpha expert, so I don't know how to debug this
problem :/

Cheers,
Julien Cristau


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