Am Donnerstag, den 11.02.2010, 11:18 +0100 schrieb Loïc Minier: > Hi > > We now have a mostly working linux/versatile kernel in lucid, but to > get to the vmlinuz file, a script such as rootstock would have to: > a) figure out what the latest .deb name is in lucid (ABI name + > version) > b) download and verify that .deb > c) unpack it and get to the vmlinuz file this was implemented in [1] on 02-02-2010, it was effectively only waiting for the package to arrive, but given the libc issues in qemu you discovered i will have to leave it disabled until this is fixed as well. (i'll pop open an extra beer if i can remove the top 6 and bottom 3 lines of that function one day ;) )
btw, if you see any obvious improvements to that code, patches/commits are welcome :) > > I'd love if we could re-enable versatile udebs and d-i images in lucid; > that would give installation mediums for qemu/versatile (people would > just run "qemu -kernel foo -initrd bar" and would get to d-i and be > able to configure their system interactively) and would also make it > much simpler for scripts such as rootstock to find a kernel (would just > pull from a fixed URL below > > http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/lucid/main/installer-armel/current/images/ > ) > > Is there any interest/objection to doing this? from my side there is not much interest from a work POV but surely no objection at all form a "give the community all we can give" POV. if the kernel team, release managers and d-i maintainers dont mind the extra work of doing NEWing and ABI bumps for another flavour, why not have it :) ciao oli [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~project-rootstock-developers/project-rootstock/trunk/revision/35
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