Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Cree
On 19/05/2011, at 10:35 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: The quoted build time for the standard kernel package is unexpectedly high for the "fire-breathing" Alpha: I suppose that's due to building a kernel with *everything* enabled in the config, Yeah, the Debian kernel build includes just about every dev

Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:49:33AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On 19/05/2011, at 12:51 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Has anyone stepped forward to provide > >alpha build daemons? > > Yes, Bill and Witold have set up build daemons and we have > communicated with the debian-ports maintainer (off list)

Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Cree
On 19/05/2011, at 12:51 AM, Bob Tracy wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:22:52PM +0200, 'Aurelien Jarno' wrote: I finally switched /etc/apt/sources.list over to ftp.debian- ports.org yesterday. This morning, "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" looks like this: Good to see some upd

Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:28:42PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: > > > I had some time today to try again an upgrade of my AlphaStation 500 > > > to "linux-image-2.6.38-2-alpha-generic". I got again an error on > > > loading the xfs.ko module from initrd (I typed it manually from the > > > boot scre

RE: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-05-18 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi, thanks for response! > -Original Message- > From: Witold Baryluk [mailto:bary...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:56 PM > To: Uwe Schindler > Subject: Re: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha > > On 05-18 14:15, Uwe Schindler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had some time

Re: new buildds and devel alphas (Was: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting)

2011-05-18 Thread Witold Baryluk
On 05-18 02:47, Adrian Zaugg wrote: > > Dear all > > On 14/04/11 10:48, Michael Cree wrote: > > It appears we are to provide the Alpha buildds. We need at least two > > I just was thinking abaout activating my ES-45 as a part of the job. > Some questions arise, though. > As a willing new buildd

Re: alpha architecture imported in debian-ports.org

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:22:52PM +0200, 'Aurelien Jarno' wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: > > (...) > > So there seem to be some files/packages missing? > > The build daemons on alpha have been shutdown for more than a month, so > a lot of packages are out

RE: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

2011-05-18 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi, I had some time today to try again an upgrade of my AlphaStation 500 to "linux-image-2.6.38-2-alpha-generic". I got again an error on loading the xfs.ko module from initrd (I typed it manually from the boot screen to this mail *g*): Module xfs: Relocation (type4) overflow vs _xfs_buf_find FA