Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-25 Thread Erik Andersen
On Wed Jul 25, 2001 at 06:00:59PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:26:47AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > If you find stuff that is enabled that shouldn't be, please do let me/us know > > by posting to the list. I'm about to make a new busybox package in the next > > hou

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-25 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:26:47AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > If you find stuff that is enabled that shouldn't be, please do let me/us know > by posting to the list. I'm about to make a new busybox package in the next > hour or two, so now would be a good time to mention any needed changes. O

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-25 Thread Erik Andersen
On Wed Jul 25, 2001 at 04:49:57AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > > > What are the favorite ways of reducing the disksize anyway? As I'm > > still totally new to boot-disks, can someone tell me where I have to > > go? The lists of w

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-25 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:49:57AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > busybox has alot of cruft turned on that doesn't need to be, going > through that and finding potential applets to kill would be useful. > its probably a good idea to ask on the list first so the other > archtectures can comment on wh

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > What are the favorite ways of reducing the disksize anyway? As I'm > still totally new to boot-disks, can someone tell me where I have to > go? The lists of what packages have to go on the bootdisk seems to be > irreducible... b

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-25 Thread H.Heinold
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:28:16PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:33:58PM +0200, H.Heinold wrote: > > the biggest problems with the alpha bootfloppies is the size of some > > files. I think libary-reduction on alpha ist really a mess. > > What does that mean? Is there a

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-25 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:33:58PM +0200, H.Heinold wrote: > the biggest problems with the alpha bootfloppies is the size of some > files. I think libary-reduction on alpha ist really a mess. What does that mean? Is there a possibility to reduce the size further? I'd be very interested, because I

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:27:38PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > Yes, I'm running an up-to-date testing. The version of the system > building the boot-floppies has no influence on the problem, because > the apt-process showing the error uses his own > boot-floppies/sources.list. Additionally,

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread H.Heinold
Hi, the biggest problems with the alpha bootfloppies is the size of some files. I think libary-reduction on alpha ist really a mess. The size of root.bin is around 1,7 MB (it was 1,70 MB on A DS20, 1,72 MB on a XP-1000). This will not fit on a normal 1,44 floppy. For the builds I used chroot sid

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:55:04AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > i never had any trouble with this, i used a woody chroot which is > quite normal it has sysvinit and regular e2fsprogs (not -bf) > installed. apt seems to have no trouble with this inside of > boot-floppies build. > > are you sure

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:50:42AM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > e2fsprogs (>= 1.15-1) | e2fsprogs-bf (>= 1.15-1) not needed > Well, I thought about that as well, but if sysvinit had these > dependencies a user and/or apt could get the idea that installing > e2fsprogs-bf seems like a good ide

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:38:30AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > From a first glance it looks like a dependency problem: > > sysvinit: Depends e2fsprogs (>= 1.15-1) > e2fsprogs: version 1.22-1 is available, but: > e2fsprogs-bf version 1.22-1 will be installed, so the dependency is > not fulfille

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Thimo Neubauer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build the Alpha-bootdisks, because up to now I haven't > heard of anyone doing this and I want the release to happen ;-) > Anyway, I'm getting an error when rootdisk.sh tries to download the > needed packages. After setting the debug-variable I found

Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-23 Thread Thimo Neubauer
Hi, I'm trying to build the Alpha-bootdisks, because up to now I haven't heard of anyone doing this and I want the release to happen ;-) Anyway, I'm getting an error when rootdisk.sh tries to download the needed packages. After setting the debug-variable I found an apt-error: (I wrapped the apt-c