Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-09 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Allan Lyons escribió: > Hi, > > I've been putting some thought into the linuxboot build system. There have > been lots of reports of difficulty in consistently > building releases because of interactions between the host system and what we > are actually trying to do. Some software, glibc in

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:39:08 Juan Jose Pablos wrote: > Pierre Bourgin escribió: > > IMHO, it should be sufficient to define and describe precisely what is > > the "official" or reference platform for building Unattended: linux > > distribution flavor, exact versions of gcc and glibc of the host

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-08 Thread Nils Olav Fossum
Tirsdag 7. juli 2009, skrev Allan Lyons: > Our basic > problem is that our tool chain is getting contaminated by the host build > system. This is a major pain. Even if we all use debian stable it will be differences in the compiled product. > > There are roughly two parts to Unattended. One par

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-07 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Allan Lyons escribió: > Hi, > Our basic problem is that our > tool chain is getting contaminated by the host build system. agree with it. But not many people get into build up the linuxboot, plus getting a recent kernel seem to resolve the issues for many of our users. > > Since we are effe

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-07 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Pierre Bourgin escribió: > > IMHO, it should be sufficient to define and describe precisely what is the > "official" or reference platform for building Unattended: linux distribution > flavor, exact versions of gcc and glibc of the host system, etc. Debian 5.0 (Lenny). I was happy with previous

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-07 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 17:24:30 Allan Lyons wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:48:24PM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > I have been using live-helper to build the images that I've been using. > > The images work well in either livecd or pxe environment. They are also > > able to be used on remov

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-07 Thread Allan Lyons
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:48:24PM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > I have been using live-helper to build the images that I've been using. The > images work well in either livecd or pxe environment. They are also able to > be used on removable usb drives, but I haven't tested that yet. That is

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-07 Thread Allan Lyons
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:45:11PM +0200, Pierre Bourgin wrote: > I agree with the difficulty to build Unattended. Personaly, being able to > build it with CentOS4 costs me a lot of time (nightmare: dosemu building > ...), and my (dirty) CentOS4 hacks are not even enough to build glibc under > RHE

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-07 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 14:45:37 Allan Lyons wrote: > Hi, > > I've been putting some thought into the linuxboot build system. There have > been lots of reports of difficulty in consistently building releases > because of interactions between the host system and what we are actually > trying to do.

Re: linuxboot build system

2009-07-07 Thread Pierre Bourgin
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:45:37PM -0600, Allan Lyons wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I've been putting some thought into the linuxboot build system. There have > been lots of reports of difficulty in consistently > building releases because of interactions between the host system and what we > are ac