Andrea Righi wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:24:00PM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote: >> >>> Yes, I'm talking about 3.7.4 and 3.7.5. Even if they are under the >>> -unstable branch at the moment they should be considered more stable >>> than 3.6.3... >>> >> Would you endorse Debian switching to them for its testing distribution >> then? Apologies as I've been slow responding to the list with feedback.
I found getting 3.7.3 to work - even with the overhead of building a package - to be *much* easier than making the debian testing/unstable 3.6.3 package work. As I'm sure Andrea would note, many, many bugs have been fixed since 3.6.3. The updated install kernel (and therefore hardware drivers) in more recent versions of systemimager, along with a significantly more automated method for using a custom kernel + initrd, makes supporting newer hardware much easier. I know of at least a couple of probably debian-specific issues in 3.7.3 that may still be kicking around in the current trunk, as well as a legacy systemimager option-number/PXE option-number conflict that really should be resolved. I'll check out the latest trunk and see if my patches still apply. > At the moment Dann, the official maintainer for the Debian packages, no > longer uses systemimager, so he's looking for other people that could > help him for testing, compiling, etc: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391473 > > Unfortunately I'm not very expert about debian packaging so I'm working with > one of my colleague (that, obviously, is more expert than me) to setup a > Debian test environment with systemimager. Maybe soon we'll be > able to spend some time to help Dann.... > Building a debian package from 3.7.3 did not seem too difficult. I used the debian control framework from 3.6.3 and just edited version numbers appropriately. Adding an amd64-boot package was merely a matter of creating the proper entry analogous to the i386/ia64 one. Hopefully I did not miss any new dependencies while doing so. Justin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
