On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Michael Stone <mich...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:53:14PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: >>Hi, >> >> > This is Fedora's initramfs, right? >> >>Right. >> >> > Peter's suggestion is to use pilgrim to create rawhide builds, >> > hence using the olpc initramfs. >> >>That's an interesting idea. I don't like it long-term, because >>no-one's working on pilgrim or our initramfs, but it could help >>us get moving. > > Two small corrections: > > a) the initramfs continues happily under active volunteer development -- it > received two new features and a bugfix contributed by a deployment support > volunteer (dsd) in the last two weeks, along with patch review and volunteer > testing by folks back here in the States. > > b) While pilgrim may be a dead-end, the ideas underlying it are not. This > week, > I translated pilgrim's ideas into the simplest form yet achieved, namely, a > plain old Makefile: > > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mstone/puritan;a=tree;hb=make > > and used it to produce builds from the olpc4+joyride tree and the > rawhide+olpc4+joyride tree (with minor edits). > > The former booted happily into Sugar and built on both Debian and Fedora. :) > (The latter, still using the olpc initramfs, dies because upstart 0.5 still > doesn't know how to run as non-pid-1. olpc4's upstart-0.3.9 has a patch which > implements this feature.)
I've ported the patch to upstart's bzr trunk (it applies cleanly to 0.5.0), and scratch-built some rpms: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1106475 The patch is here, along with the srpm and spec file: http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/upstart/ Of note, I had to add dbus-devel to BuildRequries, as upstart seems now to need it. I haven't had a chance to test the rpms, hopefully tomorrow. Hope this helps :) bobby >> > Peter does not have an XO (g...@contrib program extreme slowness!) >> > but may be able to help on other issues that surface as the result >> > of an available public build... >> >>Oh, let's fix that. Ed, SJ, could one of you take care of sending >>Peter some XOs ASAP, please? > > Good idea. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel