Hi, some updates to the qemu user mode emulation status and tzdata wrt polystrap usage.
1. Remove copying of qemu-user-static ------------------------------------- There was some discussion about how to best choose the qemu-user-static binary to be copied into the created chroot environment here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2011/06/msg00093.html but the whole copying is unnecessary with fakeroot/fakechroot as the qemu-user binary from the host system will be used to execute foreign binaries. The qemu-user-static binary inside the chroot environment is only useful for REAL chroots. With fakechroot, a call to a binary inside the "chroot" is like a call to any other foreign binary on the system and the binfmt mechanism will use the hosts qemu-user binary to execute the foreign binary. So this bit was only some historic cruft I just somehow forgot to remove after introducing fakechroot in my scripts. Took a long time for me to spot that though... I was just so used to copy qemu-arm-static there that I never noticed it was not needed at all anymore... 2. Using qemu with QEMU_LD_PREFIX --------------------------------- I can confirm that this patch: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-07/msg00460.html will allow the following: $ QEMU_LD_PREFIX=/tmp/debian-sid/ ./polystrap.sh -d /tmp/debian-sid/ om-gta02 And my /etc/qemu-binfmt/ directory is completely empty! All libraries are directly taken from the just extracted rootfs in /tmp/debian-sid/. Therefor this solution solves all the problems pointed out by Yann Dirson here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2011/06/msg00104.html 3. tzdata --------- Turned out, that since tzdata 2011h-1 it is no longer possible to only supply the debconf values that are actually set for tzdata but all values have to be supplied: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632720 The default debconfseed.txt files for all targets are now updated to reflect this new requirement. have fun! cheers, josch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110706105117.GA30809@hoothoot
