Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?

2020-02-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 01:14:10PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > So, we're all fine? Not so much: for our 32-bit Debian arches, we will > need to basically rebuild the world to be 2038-safe. When we had to do > something like this in the past, to deal with the libc5->libc6 > transition, we had an

Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

2016-12-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 08:15:15PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 09:45 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Yes, but that still says: > > Ack. > > > I think a proper procedure should involve a script that: > > > > - is packaged in De

Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

2016-12-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:19:34AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > One way in which the need to keep armel around would be reduced is if we > > could somehow upgrade from armel machines to armhf ones, without > &g

Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

2016-12-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 08:50:40PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: [...asking for armel to be retained...] One way in which the need to keep armel around would be reduced is if we could somehow upgrade from armel machines to armhf ones, without requiring a reinstall. After all, armel has been around

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
(sorry for jumping in late here) On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 07:51:55AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 01:37 +0300, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > At the openmainframeproject EU meetup, it was indicated that SUSE > > joined with indication that Open Build Service might be able to

Re: Time to change the debian-ports list?

2015-07-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, (haven't seen the original mail, so replying to this one) On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Alexander Wirt dixit: Could you

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 14-06-13 21:11, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Wouter, Mikael: input on switching C/C++ to 4.8? We don't have much data either way, do we? I suppose it shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I can't be sure. In the past we've usually taken the plunge, and filed bugs if things go really bad. --

Re: mtd errors on boot OpenRD ultimate -- but not on base

2011-08-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:51:11PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Interestingly, and confusingly... I get no such messages on an OpenRD base sitting right beside the ultimate running an essentially identical software load. Any thoughts? I guess you've got some broken bits in your flash. There

Re: Debian Installer for armel ss4000-e

2009-09-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:28:40PM -0500, Tom Judge wrote: Hi, I have been trying to use the daily image for the armel installer on my ss4000-e but running into some issues. When I try to upload the .pkg image file to the web interface it always gets to about 15% then stalls and reboots.

Re: Some help needed to install Lenny on the Intel SS4000-E nas

2009-07-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
to the writings of a lot of people (especially Ard Van Bremen, Tobias Frost and Martin Michlmayr - many, many thanks to you, by the way, you've helped me a lot, even without knowing it !). Wouter Verhelst (CCed) has just finished porting the debian-installer to this device, so he should be able

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

2009-07-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
(this really isn't Debian-arm specific; please direct follow-ups, if any, to the debian-user mailinglist) On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:11:43PM +0200, Xan wrote: Hi, I have a NSLU2 device (armel computer). With Debian 5.0.2 installed. I cannot use reportbug because exim4 is not configured

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

2009-03-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Björn Wetterbom wrote: What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users who don't compile our own kernels and want our machine to start every day, every time? Will initial support

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.29-rc7

2009-03-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:38:18PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Dieter Bloms debian@bloms.de [2009-03-06 15:19]: Is it possible to get a core dump via network or dump it to disc ? I don't think so, but maybe someone else has an idea. (There is a netconsole, but I doubt this'll work

Re: How to find package name of a *.deb file?

2009-03-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:36:29PM -0800, Weidong Li wrote: Thanks for the info! I tried with your method, and it went pretty fast in doing the right thing. But then apt-get had a segmentation fault. Please file a bug about that one (if you haven't already) -- Lo-lan-do Home is where you

Re: Debian 5.0 armel installation question

2009-03-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:05:32PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote: First trap versatile image is initramfs and not initrd. So I integrated the cpio archive into my kernel and booted the Debian installer. But it is really netboot. This is correct; the 'netboot' installer image does not contain

Architecture usertags

2009-03-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, I've often thought that it would be useful to have tags in the BTS so that users or maintainers could mark a bug as specific to a particular architecture. This way, when I have some spare time, I could go to the BTS, fetch a list of bugs that are specific to an architecture I care about, and

Re: Building zd1211 drivers fore WiFi dongle

2008-07-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:02:57AM -0700, johncohn wrote: I then cd'd into /usr/src/modules/zf1211-source and did a 'make' and got this [...] SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/zd1211-source modules make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-ixp4xx/build: No such file or directory. This means you haven't

Re: Building zd1211 drivers fore WiFi dongle

2008-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 07:41:53PM -0700, johncohn wrote: Note.. I posted this same query in the nabble nslu2-linux forum. Someone there suggested I try here as well. tnx Folks. I'm a total newb in both the debian and slug worlds... but I'm already having a blast... and want to get fluent

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:28:17PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:32 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it.

Re: FTBFS of apt-cacher-ng on smackdown, maybe broken libstdc++-4.2 installation

2007-12-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Eduard, On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 06:19:47PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hello, http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=apt-cacher-ngver=0.1.9-1arch=armstamp=1197418736file=log failed again because if missing libsupc++.a. I have seen this trouble before in

Re: kde4 on debian arm armel

2007-12-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:21:20PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2007-12-19, Martin Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/12/19, Sune Vuorela [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kde4 release candidates are in experimental. The experimental arm buildd seems to fail to build with some weild errors from libstdc++

Re: ImageMagick / convert

2007-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 04:23:34PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:17:05PM +0100, Michael Lantzen wrote: convert from the ImageMagick package is awfully slow on my N2100, it takes about 5 minutes to convert a 8mpixel jpg from the cam to a 640x480. When i loo at top

Re: Debian on Thecus N2100

2007-10-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:42:43AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: Hi all, I'm about to order a re-badged N2100 for use as a home NAS, and have a few questions about getting Debian onto it. I see that 4.0r1 is broken, is it best to install r0 or are there installer images with the fixed kernel

Re: firefox on armel

2007-09-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:25:05PM +0400, Sergey Smirnov wrote: Riku Voipio wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:30:33PM +0400, Sergey Smirnov wrote: Do anybody have firefox/iceweasel for armel? firefox from Debian repository crash on my Zaurus with Debian armel.

Re: ARM installer images for etch (4.0) currently broken

2007-09-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:56:21AM +0200, Rainer Hlawaty wrote: Hi Martin, I want to let you know that in my opinion it is still possible to install Debian 4.0 on NSLU2 using the normal installation method. I used the unofficial image (with the driver for the internal network interface

Re: Thecus n100, software RAID and LVM

2007-07-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:36:35PM +0200, Michele Bini wrote: Hello everybody, first, let me beg your pardon in advance if this is not the proper place to ask, It is. but I'm afraid that debian-users is not either. I wouldn't know why not, actually, though I'll agree that more people know

Re: Debian on Thecus N2100

2007-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 06:00:09PM +0100, Steve Gane wrote: On the N2100, does it behave the same so that one can simply cat to the mtdblock partitions? Martin's page seems to suggest that, yeah: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/iop/n2100/deinstall.html As that page shows, you don't even actually

Re: What demotivates debian-arm? [Was: Re: Bug#425011: gcc-4.1: FTBFS on m68k and arm, multiple definitions of ffi_prep_closure]

2007-05-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:12:31PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:08:02PM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: Can you define the characteristics of an architecture that isn't in good shape? How about this one: An architecture is said to be 'not in good shape' at

Re: Palm as terminal for slug - no luck with ncurses application.

2007-05-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:26:42AM -0700, Bernard Dudley wrote: I want to use my Palm PDA as a terminal for my slug, and it works well, except that ncurses apps don't work properly. I started a thread at the debian forums - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14617 - but no responses.

Re: Can someone still help with install

2007-04-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:04:45AM -0600, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Hi John and Markus On 4/18/07, John Fieldsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out Ok, so now we need to figure out what is causing the following message in

Re: Continued existance of armeb?

2007-02-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:32:59PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: Wookey wrote: It is not clear to me how much demand there is for such a distro as few machines actually _need_ to run BE, so most will be using armel. I seem to remember someone saying that armeb may have network performace

Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads

2006-12-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:50:12PM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006, Bill Gatliff wrote: For the faster arches, i.e. the ARM9 machines and above, I'm thinking that we should stick with real hardware so there's no question that the binaries will run properly. Pardon

Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads

2006-12-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:27:03PM +, Martin Guy wrote: 2006/12/20, Wookey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We ought to discuss if there is any significant reason not to use qemu 'machines' instead of actual hardware for slower arches. As Wookey knows, I have been building Debian packages to

Re: ARM EABI port: minimum CPU choice

2006-07-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 05:01:39PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 12:23:13PM +0200, Martin Guy wrote: What is lost is the ability to compile a program in Thumb mode and link it against the standard Debian libraries. I would think that people who need space optimisation

Re: Need build for xulrunner

2006-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:20:20AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:56:34PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: * Debian build-dependencies do not distinguish between stuff that's needed because you need to run it, and stuff that's needed because you need the .so

Re: Need build for xulrunner

2006-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 06:40:59AM -0700, Peter Naulls wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, xulrunner 1.8.0.4-1 is in need for a build on arm. The buildd failed it because it took too much time, and elmo seems to be away. This

Re: Need build for xulrunner

2006-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:51:34AM -0700, Peter Naulls wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian does not do crosscompiling for packages. Really. Perhaps you ought to try a more helpful repsonse. I'll get you started: Debian packages

Re: Need build for xulrunner

2006-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:04:57AM -0700, Peter Naulls wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:51:34AM -0700, Peter Naulls wrote: for cross compiling. However, for cases like Mozilla and other large ARM packages

Re: Need build for xulrunner

2006-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:07:02PM -0700, Peter Naulls wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * To be able to cross-build packages, a cross-toolchain has to be installed. There are no prebuilt packages for this, you need to build them

xorg requiring porting for armeb

2006-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Could anyone please have a look at fixing xorg for armeb? There used to be a patch for xorg-x11, but it needs to be revisited for xorg. A whole bunch of things are waiting on this (gtk and everything that depends on it -- which includes gcj, therefore db4.4, and therefore perl), so it'd be

Re: xorg requiring porting for armeb

2006-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:41:26PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:08:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Could anyone please have a look at fixing xorg for armeb? There used to be a patch for xorg-x11, but it needs to be revisited for xorg. #367188: xorg

Bob down

2006-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Could anyone please kick bob? It isn't listening for SMTP or SSH anymore, although it does still reply to pings. Thanks, -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, Ashes to Ashes, stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

issues with gcc(?) on armeb

2006-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, I'm starting to see issues on armeb/unstable when configure is running, trying to detect the C compiler; it sometimes errors out with error: C compiler cannot create executables. Looking through config.log, I see the following: gcc -Wall -ggdb -O2 -z defs conftest.c gcc: defs: No such file

Re: Building gecode fails on arm due to timeout$

2006-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:18:24AM +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: From gecode's arm build log: arm-linux-gnu-g++ -I. -I. -DNDEBUG -fPIC -Wall -ggdb -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -finline-limit=3000 -ffast-math -DGECODE_BUILD_SET \ -c -o set/rel-op-const.o set/rel-op-const.cc make[1]: ***

Re: installing debian-armeb on a new device / where to get the base filesystem?

2006-05-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:08:33PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Tomasz Chmielewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-23 12:43]: It runs some sort of Linux (big-endian), but I thought it would be a better idea to try to run Debian-armeb on this device. To do this, I would need some sort of a

Re: debian arm on nslu2

2006-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:38:50AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: Hi, I've just installed debian in a NSLU2. Now, I would like to get bluetooth to work. I've done this already on a common desktop box, but here, I'm unable to find the modules. I've installed and re-installed

Re: Debian EABI arm port name: armel

2006-04-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:01:01PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:45:37AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:57:05AM +0200, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: Why are hyphens bad? We already have hurd-i386... Which is os-arch. Not quite the same

Re: Debian EABI arm port name: armel

2006-04-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:32:04AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: Bill Gatliff wrote: David: David Weinehall wrote: Changing the name for the existing ARM arch in Debian is *NOT* an option. It's been stated several times already. I'm not suggesting that we change the name of

Re: Deciding new arm EABI port name

2006-03-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:14:25AM +0100, Martin Guy wrote: Rather than choose a soapbox to stand on, I'll suggest a few criteria for it to fit in with the schemes for existing Debian architecture variants (there is a list at popcorn.debian.org) and to future-proof

localedef hang

2006-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi guys, It'd been a while since I'd seen a build log from either bob or wendy (armeb buildd hosts), so I went and checked them out. Looks like they both had localedef, as user 'buildd', in an infinite loop. I don't know whether this is an armeb specific thing and/or whether it's been fixed in

Re: europa elara - up and healthy

2005-11-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:41:16AM -0500, Woody Suwalski wrote: To everybody else: Would anybody on the list know if James is still on Planet Earth??? Still in Debian Universe??? And if so - how to reach him??? Last I heard, James was busy in Ubuntu Below Zero. Not sure how long that's going

Re: ARM build of scalapack

2005-10-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:46:04AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:44:10PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: You can browse the build logs on buildd.debian.org. I did. It says mpich was build (probably succesful) 2 months ago. It does not tell me why it still hasn't

Re: freesci build rescedule

2005-08-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:52:16PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi guys! Could you please reschedule freesci in the autobuilder for m68k and arm?? The builds was failing because of dependency problems of SDL, but those have been fixed a while back already. Actually, the build on m68k failed

Re: status of cernlib on arm and m68k?

2004-09-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 02:06:51PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Could someone please check into the status? I remember there have been some problems in the past with the log files being too big for automatic handling, so this may be the case again. Yes, that's what happened indeed. I've

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bits from the SRM]

2002-09-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi guys. Don't know whether you've seen this, but here's a message from joey that arrived in my mailbox lately. Containing something I'd like to ask you guys about: - Forwarded message from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Development