Re: Hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} removal
On 13.04.19 17:01, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 15371 March 1977, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >>> How is the move to debian-ports supposed to happen? I won't have the >>> time to do anything about it within the 2 weeks. > >> The process to inject all packages to debian-ports is to get all the >> deb, udeb and buildinfo files from the archives (main and debug) and >> associate them with the .changes files that are hosted on coccia. We'll >> also need to fetch all the associated GPG keys used to sign the changes >> files. Then we can inject that in the debian-ports archive. > >> It would be nice to have a bit more than 2 weeks to do all of that. > > Ok. How much? Is 6 or 8 weeks better? I don't think, given how long this > is on the table already, it doesn't make much difference if its 2 or 8. > Just something thats clear defined and not some random, non-clear > "sometime in the future" point. well, please go back in history to see the same short notice for the hppa removal, and then do the exercise how long it took to integrate that architecture on debian-ports. >
Re: Bug#926539: rootskel: steal-ctty no longer works on at least sparc64
On 4/16/19 1:16 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Do you think we could carry a patch in src:linux for the time being? > [...] > > I would rather not do that until it's accepted, as if it that doesn't > happen we either have to switch back or carry it forever. Hmm, okay. Then I don't really have a way of building updated images now for the time being. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Bug#926539: rootskel: steal-ctty no longer works on at least sparc64
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On 4/7/19 1:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > root@landau:~# cat /proc/consoles > > > ttyHV0 -W- (EC p )4:64 > > > tty0 -WU (E )4:1 > > > root@landau:~# readlink /sys/dev/char/4:64 > > > ../../devices/root/f0299a70/f029b788/tty/ttyS0 > > > > The inconsistent name seems like a kernel bug... > > Yes. I'm trying to convince Dave Miller to fix this. > > Do you think we could carry a patch in src:linux for the time being? [...] I would rather not do that until it's accepted, as if it that doesn't happen we either have to switch back or carry it forever. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Bug#926539: rootskel: steal-ctty no longer works on at least sparc64
Hi Ben!
On 4/7/19 1:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> root@landau:~# cat /proc/consoles
>> ttyHV0 -W- (EC p )4:64
>> tty0 -WU (E )4:1
>> root@landau:~# readlink /sys/dev/char/4:64
>> ../../devices/root/f0299a70/f029b788/tty/ttyS0
>
> The inconsistent name seems like a kernel bug...
Yes. I'm trying to convince Dave Miller to fix this.
Do you think we could carry a patch in src:linux for the time being?
>> root@landau:~#
>>
>> And this is what used to make it work [1]:
>>
>> *) # >= 2.6.38
>> console_major_minor="$(get-real-console-linux)"
>> console_raw="$(readlink "/sys/dev/char/${console_major_minor}")"
>> console="${console_raw##*/}"
>> ;;
>
> So maybe rootskel should use that again, but applied to each console's
> char device number.
>
> (Though directly using the symlinks under /dev/char seems cleaner than
> poking in sysfs.)
I agree.
Adrian
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