And lo, two days became two weeks :-). Rudimentary docs and packages to bring Bering up to glibc 2.2.5 are on
http://www.wix.net.nz/LEAF/ All input welcome - I'd especially like a few people to take them for a spin before they get announced on the LEAF website or on 'users. Of interest to note is that my sizing below was way out of wack - if you're careful, the size difference isn't enormous: original: initrd.lrp 405K root.lrp 309K glibc2.2: initrd.lrp 653K root.lrp 326K A total size increase of just 265K, which may make it workable in dual floppy situations. Cheers Si On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:00:22PM +1200, Simon Blake said: > Sure - in the next couple of days I was going to do the same conversion > to Bering RC2 and document the process for my own records. Once I've > done that, I'll certainly put both changed packages and documentation up > somewhere. > > Cheers > Si > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:39:39PM +0200, Kim Oppalfens said: > > > At 13:09 26/04/2002, Simon Blake wrote: > > > > > > Would indeed make it to large for a single floppy release, but not for many > > of us that run dual floppy, flash, hdd or cdrom > > based leaf's. So it there any chance you can post the packages somewhere? > > And maybe just maybe, if you can spare the time write a little > > step-by-step document explaining what you did? > > > > I know I would appreciate very much, and I expect I am not the only one > > > > Kim > > > > >Hi folks > > > > > >Nothing quite like replying to yourself a month later. A few weeks ago, > > >I had another go at converting Bering to glibc 2.2.5, and irritatingly, > > >it pretty much worked first time :-). I've now got a couple of routers > > >out in the field running Bering RC1 and glibc 2.2.5, and it seems > > >to be working a charm. For those that asked, the increase in bloat > > >probably rules out single floppy systems, but it's not enormous: > > > > > >Original Bering: > > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409022 Mar 19 00:56 initrd.lrp > > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 317849 Mar 22 01:22 root.lrp > > > > > >Glib2.2 Bering: > > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 916546 Apr 9 00:08 initrd.lrp > > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 380303 Apr 8 23:02 root.lrp > > > > > >About the only trap in the transition is that you have to increase the > > >size of the minix file system in initrd.lrp and of the initial ramdisk > > >to accomodate the bloat. > > > > > >Cheers > > >Si > > > > > >On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:45:55PM +1200, Simon Blake said: > > > > > > > Hi Folks > > > > > > > > I've been using Dachstein with a home grown upgrade to libc v2.2.4 > > > > (simply replacing most of /lib in root.lrp with the files from my debian > > > > unstable box) - works a charm, and since I'm working of Compact Flash > > > > the extra bloat isn't a huge issue. It makes packaging easier (no need > > > > to keep an old dev env around), and makes some otherwise uncompilable > > > > code accessible (notably vrrpd and some of the LVS stuff). > > > > > > > > So, I've tried the same thing with Bering - upgraded libc and ld-linux > > > > in initrd.lrp, and the rest of /lib in root.lib. It all seems to work, > > > > except that root can no longer login (gets an error about UNKNOWN user > > > > on tty1). Now, I'm aware that that's probably not a Bering specific > > > > error, but I'm wondering if anybody else has done something like this > > > > and solved this problem, before I dive in and try and fix it myself. > > > > Are there plans for a libc2.2 based Bering? > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Si > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Leaf-devel mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Leaf-devel mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
