Re: RFC: auto-load of D-I drivers in GNU/kFreeBSD

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 19:07, Robert Millan  wrote:
> I'm proposing a new plan to factor in the lack of libstdc++6-udeb:
>
> 1- Add devd-udeb package (by linking libstdc++ statically into the executable)

For me this looks the the right way to go for now.

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Re: libstdc++6-udeb package (Re: RFC: auto-load of D-I drivers in GNU/kFreeBSD)

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 17:27, Bastian Blank  wrote:
> Reducing libstdc++ with mklibs is tricky, so only the unreduced lib can
> be included into the boot image. C++ is controversial, because the
> output is usually rather large.

IIRC you stared working on a reduced stdc++ library, didn't you?

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Re: D-I changes needed for xterm transition (Re: (forw) Debian installer failed builds)

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 09:41, Robert Millan  wrote:
> 2011/11/2 Robert Millan :
>> 2011/10/31 Aurelien Jarno :
>>> Oh, I didn't realized you only uploaded kfreebsd-kernel-di-amd64. I am
>>> going to work on it soon.
>>
>> If you update kfreebsd-kernel-di-i386, beware not to use 8.2-12 (still
>> not uploaded), it'd break a few places in D-I (I'm currently looking
>> at those).
>
> Here's a list of issues that would arise when using TEKEN_XTERM
> kernels with current D-I:
>
> - debian-installer-utils needs x/xterm installed -> I committed this
> to GIT, D-I folks is it okay to upload now?

It was uploaded.

> - rootskel sets TERM=cons25 but only when this variable wasn't set.
> This probably has no effect.

I did the change on rootskel but can't upload it as it fails to build
due libklibc fault.

> - busybox sets TERM=cons25

Changed; will ask for it to be uploaded soon.

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Re: [Parted-maintainers] Backporting ZFS installer support to kreebsd

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On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 14:08, Adam D. Barratt  wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 18:09 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>> 2011/9/22 Arno Töll :
>> > To achieve that, we would need to backport at least the following bug
>> > fixes and improvements. Note #635627 is already on its way to p-u 
>> > (#637020):
>> >
>> > Bug #  -- package -- title
>> > 635384 -- parted -- detection of ZFS volumes (ZVOL)
>>
>> Colin et al, any chance this can make it to Squeeze point release?
>> It's the last non-DI package in Arno's list.
>
> If you mean in to 6.0.3, is there any particular benefit to trying to
> push that particular update at this late stage in the process, given
> that the partman-* changes won't be included?  Might it not make more
> sense to look at the remaining changes as a set for 6.0.4?

For me, 6.0.4 seems more realistic as all that wouldn't need to  be
done in a rush.

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Re: Debian Installer with ZFS

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\m/ :-D

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Robert Millan  wrote:
> FYI:
>
> http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/debian-installer-with-zfs/
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Re: [busybox on kbsd] patches ported to 1.14

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Hello Bastian,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Bastian Blank  wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:07:02PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> I'd suggest getting it commited in the package and uploaded to sid;
>> Bastian, do you object?
>
> Well, there is a 1.15.1 already as stable.

Anyway; do you object to Luca commit the specific patches and get them
applied only for kfreebsd-*?

TIA,

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Re: [busybox on kbsd] patches ported to 1.14

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Hello Luca,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Luca Favatella  wrote:
> Hi, Aurelien.
>
>
> I ported kfreebsd busybox patches from 1.13 [0] to 1.14. It was a little 
> task, only 3 patches needed changes to apply.
> I kept the patches for 1.13 in svn; I added a new dir with the ones that 
> needed changes [1].
>
> I updated the wiki page [2].
>
> I only tested building busybox. I didn't test the resulting binaries.
>
>
> Should the udeb from busybox 1.14 be used in daily builds of d-i instead of 
> that from 1.13?
> Can I help in doing this? How?

I'd suggest getting it commited in the package and uploaded to sid;
Bastian, do you object?

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Re: [patch] generalize loopback network interface name

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Hello,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> Loopback network interface name is lo on GNU/Linux and lo0 on GNU/kFreeBSD.
> This patch generalizes it with a macro.
>
> Tested on GNU/kFreeBSD.
> Could affect GNU/Linux (but it shouldn't).

Please go ahead and commit it.

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Re: [patch] add GNU/kFreeBSD inittab

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Hello

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> This patch adds GNU/kFreeBSD /etc/inittab, considering /dev/ttyv[1-3]
> instead of /dev/tty[2-4] (as on GNU/Linux).
>
> Using this patch kfreebsd d-i has alt-f[1-4] working.
> This patch has been in kfreebsd d-i branch for a while.

Fine with me :-D

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Re: [patch] add GNU/kFreeBSD detect-console

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Hello,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> This patch adds GNU/kFreeBSD /lib/debian-installer/detect-console.
>
> It needs the BusyBox "tty" command (it builds on GNU/kFreeBSD i386
> with no patches more needed).
>
> Please carefully review this, because I used it only /dev/ttyv console.

Fine with me.

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Re: [patch] add GNU/kFreeBSD fstab and init

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Hello,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> On 22/07/2009, Luca Favatella  wrote:
>> This patch adds GNU/kFreeBSD /etc/fstab and /sbin/init.
>> Please carefully review it.
>
> Now the patch should be really attached.
> Sorry for the noise.

Fine with me; the only thing I'd do different is to merge both
changelog lines in a single one.

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Re: kFreeBSD progress report week 8

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Hello Luca,

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> In the past two weeks I focused on getting network configuration
> working in debian-installer (d-i), without success.
> I skipped the keyboard layout selection, because not a top priority,
> and I didn't reach udeb download (and installation).

First I'd like to thank you for all your work and offer help to merge
ready things in trunk during those days. I'm at Debcamp and have time
to work on that with you on that.

Another thing I'd like to inform you is that netcfg has now support
for udhcpc. You need to use the script I've commited in Bastian's
branch of busybox and remove few files to udhcpc to be choosen (look
at mailing list how to test it) but it ought to make your testing
easier.

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Re: [patch] netcfg get_all_ifs()

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Hello Luca,

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Luca Favatella wrote:
>> Solved in the attached version 2 of the patch.
>
> I'm not committing this to trunk because could affect d-i on Linux
> (not in my test).
>
> Should I commit this?

Yes, please do; I'll upload netcfg later today so we can figure if
someone find a any regression with it.

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Re: [patch] uniform libc handling among kernels

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Hello Luca,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> On 22/06/2009, Otavio Salvador  wrote:
>> Hello Luca,
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Luca Favatella wrote:
>>> This patch (against d-i trunk) aims to handle libc the same way also
>>> on GNU/kFreeBSD (libc0.1) and GNU/Hurd (libc0.3).
>>
>> You've forgotten the changelog entry ;-)
>
> Fixed in attached patch.

Cool, thanks.

Well now I'm starting to ponder if we ought to commit it right now or
wait until you do more changes and merge it all at once.

Since we're at beggining of the development cycle I'm more for
commiting it soon so we can discover any introduced bugs (or ugly
non-predicted behaviour) and also leave kfreebsd branch with the
non-ready changes. What others think?

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Re: [patch] kfreebsd-i386 kernel udeb

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Hello Luca,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Good work; IMO the best way of doing it is to moving it to
> kernel-wedge to make the work for other arches easier in future and
> avoid duplication.

The only thing that could be done in kernel-wedge is the ntfs one that
you could fix it now and use it in the package.

There's no reason to let it to later since it will make your life easier.

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Re: [patch] uniform libc handling among kernels

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Hello Luca,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> This patch (against d-i trunk) aims to handle libc the same way also
> on GNU/kFreeBSD (libc0.1) and GNU/Hurd (libc0.3).

You've forgotten the changelog entry ;-)

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Re: [patch] kfreebsd-i386 kernel udeb

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Hello Luca,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Luca Favatella wrote:
> It builds with an unmodified kernel-wedge.

Good work; IMO the best way of doing it is to moving it to
kernel-wedge to make the work for other arches easier in future and
avoid duplication.

Rest of issues has already been commented by Frans :-)

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[RFH] Update of Debian Installer for 2.6.29

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello  porters,

Most arches has 2.6.29 packages ready (AFAIK only hppa lacks them
right now) and I also did most changes for all arches on SVN to get
2.6.29 updating as easy as possible. Now, we need porters' help.

Please check your pet arch and update the kernel and modules for
2.6.29. This is quite important to us to start testing installer with
this kernel.

Currently those are the arches that have already switch:

 - i386
 - amd64
 - mips*
 - mipsel*
 - armel*

I taged the ones that has pending changes in SVN with "*".

So if your arch is not listed above, you should take a look and try to
update it. If you can't do that in near future please speakup and
we'll try to find someone to handle it.

Thanks a lot by looking at it.

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Re: [patch]Re: debootstrap on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD + questions

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Luca Favatella  wrote:
> On 16/03/2009, Otavio Salvador  wrote:
> [..]
>> Please take a look on the comments Colin has raised and refactorise it.
>>
>> So we can go ahead and continue the reviewing.
>
> I'm afraid i will not be able to continue working on this until the
> start of the next week.

No problem; take your time.

We all know how this works and that people has Real Life commitments.

Please keep the good work and let's try to solve the remaining issues
to make your and others work easier in future.

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Re: [patch]Re: debootstrap on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD + questions

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Luca Favatella  writes:


[...]

> In the diff attached I removed a sentence in the man page referring to
> the old file in scripts/porters (one of the 2 files that should go to
> the wiki).

Please take a look on the comments Colin has raised and refactorise it.

So we can go ahead and continue the reviewing. 

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Re: [patch]Re: debootstrap on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD + questions

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Luca Favatella  writes:

> On 15/03/2009, Otavio Salvador  wrote:
>> Luk Claes  writes:
>>
>>> Otavio Salvador wrote:
> [...]
>>>> While I understand why those options are required I dislike the idea to
>>>> have them at official deboostrap.
>>>
>>> They are more generally useful though. Everyone who wants to test with
>>> adding extra packages (that are not in Debian proper) to base could use
>>> them.
>>
>> To make easy for us to decide about it all, it would be nice if Luca
>> could split the patch in two. One adding the
>> --extra-{mirror,suite,include} options and another with freebsd
>> specifics. Could you (Luca) take a look and split it for us?
>
> Here they are.
>
>
> libc_svn.diff
> I think this could go into debootstrap svn without further testing.

Commited. It was wrong and Colin has catch it just after my
commit. Fixed in SVN.

> extra_svn.diff
> Add the --extra-{mirror,suite,include} options; needs review and testing.

See comments.


[...]


[...]

> Index: debootstrap
> ===
> --- debootstrap   (revision 57816)
> +++ debootstrap   (working copy)
> @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
>  if [ "$DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR" = "" ]; then
>   if [ -x /debootstrap/debootstrap ]; then
>   DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=/debootstrap
> + elif [ -x $(pwd)/debootstrap ]; then
> + echo "Warning: Make sure that 'fakeroot make devices.tar.gz' 
> was done"
> + DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=$(pwd)
>   else
>   DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=/usr/share/debootstrap
>   fi

This should be splited. This is indeed useful and would be nice to warn
also that it is using the local copy. But this is unrelated to rest of
the patch.

> @@ -93,6 +96,8 @@
> (requires --second-stage)
>--boot-floppiesused for internal purposes by boot-floppies
>--debian-installer used for internal purposes by debian-installer
> +
> +  --extra-*  used by porters, see the manpage
>  EOF
>  }
>  
> @@ -283,6 +288,26 @@
>   error 1 NEEDARG "option requires an argument %s" "$1"
>   fi
>   ;;
> +--extra-mirror)
> + if [ -n "$2" ] ; then
> + EXTRA_MIRROR="$2"
> + shift 2
> + else
> + error 1 NEEDARG "option requires an argument %s" "$1"
> + fi
> + ;;
> +--extra-suite)
> + if [ -n "$2" ] ; then
> + EXTRA_SUITE="$2"
> + shift 2
> + else
> + error 1 NEEDARG "option requires an argument %s" "$1"
> + fi
> + ;;
> +--extra-include*)
> + extra_debs="$(echo $1 | cut -f2 -d"="|tr , " ")"
> + shift 1
> + ;;
>   --*)
>   error 1 BADARG "unrecognized or invalid option %s" "$1"
>   ;;
> @@ -349,8 +374,12 @@
>   error 1 WHATARCH "Couldn't work out current architecture"
>  fi
>  
> -export ARCH SUITE TARGET
> +if [ "$extra_debs" != "" -a "$EXTRA_SUITE" = "" ]; then
> + EXTRA_SUITE="unreleased"
> +fi

I dislike to have it as default. It is better to raise a error and force
user to provide it.


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Re: [patch]Re: debootstrap on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD + questions

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Luca Favatella  writes:

> On 15/03/2009, Otavio Salvador  wrote:
>> Luca Favatella  writes:
> [...]
>>> I tried to run kbsd-debootstrap.sh (the refreshed one by me). I got:
> [...]
>> First I'm curious why to use another script to install instead of
>> regular debootstrap. Did you try to "merge" your required changes in
>> debootstrap?
>
> kbsd-debootstrap.sh simply calls debootstrap with the right arguments
> on kfreebsd-i386.
> Perhaps this code should go on wiki.debian.org instead of being is
> some repositories around the net.

Fully agree; this is not to be at same patch. Please clean it up in next
patch.

>
> [...]
>>> Is there any rewriting effort of debootstrap underway?
>>
>> Not ATM. Why it would be required?
>
> I didn't say that it is required.
> I asked for this only to know if deboostrap svn was fast moving in this 
> period.

Oh ok, nice.

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Re: [patch]Re: debootstrap on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD + questions

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Luk Claes  writes:

> Otavio Salvador wrote:

[...]

>> This looks to be the wrong way to fix missing dependencies for a
>> specific kernel. I belive the right way to fix it is to have override
>> based on kernel and then allow packages to have different sections and
>> priorities depending on it.
>> 
>> So for it to be done I belive we'd need to add this support on DAK
>> (AFAIK it lacks it).
>
> Is there any current need in being able to install old versions of
> kfreebsd-*? If so, I think it would be best to generate separate suites
> for them which probably could solve the above and otherwise it's just a
> matter of changing the priorities of the right package set in
> unreleased, no?

I belive that there's no need to support backward compatibility since it
is not officially supported yet.

I just didn't get where those suites are suppose to be done. Do you mean
a suite script(1) at debootstrap or a specific suite at DAK(2)?

In both cases I disagree, bellow I detail why:

 1) doing a specific suite for debootstrap surely makes sense as a
 meanwhile solution but I'd much prefer to have it properly fixed at
 override side.

 2) I belive it could be done in DAK in override layers; a common one
 and a specific one for each kernel that override the value for it. In
 DAK POV it would look like a arch specific override and I see no
 problem in this approuch for the problem. Obviously, DAK people would
 need to comment on this if we really thing this is the way to go.

>>> Index: debootstrap.8
>>> ===
>>> --- debootstrap.8   (revision 57816)
>>> +++ debootstrap.8   (working copy)
>>> @@ -135,6 +135,30 @@
>>>  .IP "\fB\-\-debian\-installer\fP"
>>>  Used for internal purposes by the debian-installer
>>>  .IP 
>>> +.SH "PORTER OPTIONS"
>>> +.
>>> +.PP
>>> +The following options should be useful only to porters whose arch has
>>> +not yet been integrating into the official archive, and who need to
>>> +download additional packages from a suite called \fIunreleased\fR or
>>> +similar.
>>> +.IP
>>> +.IP "\fB\-\-extra\-mirror EXTRA_MIRROR\fP"
>>> +Set the mirror for the extra packages, defaults to \fIMIRROR\fR.
>>> +.IP
>>> +.IP "\fB\-\-extra\-suite EXTRA_SUITE\fP"
>>> +Set the suite name to use for the extra packages, defaults to
>>> +\fIunreleased\fR.
>>> +.IP
>>> +.IP "\fB\-\-extra\-include=freebsd\-hackedutils,freebsd\-utils,...\fP"
>>> +Set the packages to pull from there.
>>> +.PP
>>> +Note that all dependencies have to be solved manually: the extra
>>> +included packages should be autosufficient (in \fIEXTRA_SUITE\fR);
>>> +and their dependencies in \fISUITE\fR have to be added using
>>> +\fB\-\-include\fP. A helper script is available in debootstrap's
>>> +sources, see \fIscripts/porters/\fR).
>>> +.IP
>>>  .SH "EXAMPLE"
>>>  .
>>>  .PP 
>> 
>> While I understand why those options are required I dislike the idea to
>> have them at official deboostrap.
>
> They are more generally useful though. Everyone who wants to test with
> adding extra packages (that are not in Debian proper) to base could use
> them.

To make easy for us to decide about it all, it would be nice if Luca
could split the patch in two. One adding the
--extra-{mirror,suite,include} options and another with freebsd
specifics. Could you (Luca) take a look and split it for us?


[...]

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Re: [patch]Re: debootstrap on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD + questions

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Luca Favatella  writes:

> On 13/03/2009, Cyril Brulebois  wrote:
>> Luca Favatella  (12/03/2009):
>>> Can you please tell me if
>>> - someone already wrote patches for debootstrap to support more than a
>>> suite (at the same time, i.e. sid and unreleased)?
>>
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2007/08/msg5.html

[...]

> I tried to run kbsd-debootstrap.sh (the refreshed one by me). I got:
> /lib/freebsd/mount: error while loading shared libraries: libbsd.so.0:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> After chrooting in sandbox, I installed (with dpkg) libc0.1, libgcc1
> and libbsd0 (all packages where already downloaded in /var/cache/...).
>
> After that, I tried:
> mount -t devfs devfs /dev
> and I got no error.

First I'm curious why to use another script to install instead of
regular debootstrap. Did you try to "merge" your required changes in
debootstrap?

> It seems to me that in debootstrap:
> -or libbsd0 (and other packages) are downloaded but not extracted
> -or mount is called too early

It happens depending on the priority so mount is called early in case of
bsd; I belive that it needs to be part of base in kfreebsd to properly
fix it.


[...]

> Is there any possibility to merge these refreshed patches in debootstrap svn?

Sure there're but not before they're tested and workarounds got removed.  

> Is there any collection of tests to ensure that no regressions is
> introduced in debootstrap?

Not ATM.

> Is there any rewriting effort of debootstrap underway?

Not ATM. Why it would be required?

> Should I consider improving crosshurd, or is it deprecated in favour
> of debootstrap?

If we could merge it, it would be the right thing to do I guess. Anyone
objects?

> I noted that ging (Debian GNU/kFreeBSD live cd) is based upon
> crosshurd: if I play with ging, should I consider improving crosshurd
> or porting it to debootstrap?

I'd say to try to merge it into debootstrap.

For the work to be easier I'd suggest you to keep a debootstrap svn
mirror using git-svn and use it for your development effort so you can
easily rebase your patches against current source and others are also
free to help to get things fixed with you.


[...]

> Index: scripts/porters/extra-dependencies.pl
> ===
> --- scripts/porters/extra-dependencies.pl (revision 0)
> +++ scripts/porters/extra-dependencies.pl (revision 0)

[...]

This looks to be the wrong way to fix missing dependencies for a
specific kernel. I belive the right way to fix it is to have override
based on kernel and then allow packages to have different sections and
priorities depending on it.

So for it to be done I belive we'd need to add this support on DAK
(AFAIK it lacks it).


[...]

> Index: debootstrap.8
> ===
> --- debootstrap.8 (revision 57816)
> +++ debootstrap.8 (working copy)
> @@ -135,6 +135,30 @@
>  .IP "\fB\-\-debian\-installer\fP"
>  Used for internal purposes by the debian-installer
>  .IP 
> +.SH "PORTER OPTIONS"
> +.
> +.PP
> +The following options should be useful only to porters whose arch has
> +not yet been integrating into the official archive, and who need to
> +download additional packages from a suite called \fIunreleased\fR or
> +similar.
> +.IP
> +.IP "\fB\-\-extra\-mirror EXTRA_MIRROR\fP"
> +Set the mirror for the extra packages, defaults to \fIMIRROR\fR.
> +.IP
> +.IP "\fB\-\-extra\-suite EXTRA_SUITE\fP"
> +Set the suite name to use for the extra packages, defaults to
> +\fIunreleased\fR.
> +.IP
> +.IP "\fB\-\-extra\-include=freebsd\-hackedutils,freebsd\-utils,...\fP"
> +Set the packages to pull from there.
> +.PP
> +Note that all dependencies have to be solved manually: the extra
> +included packages should be autosufficient (in \fIEXTRA_SUITE\fR);
> +and their dependencies in \fISUITE\fR have to be added using
> +\fB\-\-include\fP. A helper script is available in debootstrap's
> +sources, see \fIscripts/porters/\fR).
> +.IP
>  .SH "EXAMPLE"
>  .
>  .PP 

While I understand why those options are required I dislike the idea to
have them at official deboostrap.

I'd much prefer to have it designed to work properly with the kfreebsd
integrated on Debian. This could require that a small "hacked"
debootstrap to be kept around for a while to be used in meanwhile.

Others?

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Re: [gsoc2009] debian-installer on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

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Martin Michlmayr  writes:

> * Colin Watson  [2009-03-09 00:01]:
>> Martin Michlmayr persuaded me to tentatively volunteer for mentoring
>> the addition of mtd support, but actually I'd be much more excited
>> about mentoring this project if it had a good student. Martin, is it
>> possible that somebody else could mentor mtd support?
>
> Maybe Riku would be interested, but I'm not sure how how low-devel
> knowledge of parted and partman is needed for the mtd project. (My
> lack of knowledge in this area is the reason I haven't volunteered as
> mentor for the mtd project.)

For parted I belive it would be better to be done at parted's upstream
side. I belive that it should be easy to get that supported at parted
side.

I could help on that but cannot offer to mentor it due my lack of time.

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Re: [gsoc2009] debian-installer on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

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Gunnar Wolf  writes:

> Luca Favatella dijo [Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:57:22PM +0100]:
>> (I don't know if I have to cc other Debian mailing lists)
>
> Probably debian-boot would be the one - I am adding a Cc: to this
> mail, and quoting it fully. Debian-boot is [1] for «Developing the
> installation system - Discussion and maintenance of the Debian
> installation system»
>
>> I would like to partecipate as a student in Google Summer of Code 2009.
>> 
>> I'm interested in working on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
>> 
>> I propose the project "Porting debian-installer on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD".
>> I'm not able to complete this task alone.
>> I need someone splitting this task in smaller subtasks to complete.
>> 
>> Do you think this project is a good idea?
>> Is there someone wanting to mentor me?
>

[...]

> Still, from what I have seen, d-i uses throughout the system many
> Linux-specific constructs (I'm mostly looking at udev), and many d-i
> components assume Linux structures (i.e. setting up partitions with
> LVM, using GRUB or LILO as the bootloader, the supported filesystems,
> etc.)

Yes you're right about that. We need to check what could be done and
check alternatives. I bet most of things are doable.

> Still, if you are willing to dive deep into it... I know it will help
> greatly our project's support for other OSs. I don't think it's
> probable that -at least in early stages- you will get commit access to
> the d-i repository, and you won't want to be stuck in an old version
> (but that's easily fixable by many techniques). In any case, I cannot
> mentor you, but if you want somebody cheering along, count me in :)

[...]

I think it would be nice, specially since we'd have someone focused on
that. I do belive we would do a great improvement and it would be a nice
project to have.

I'd like to know more details about the project idea and what would be
the roadmap for that.

Ross Cameron  writes:

> Why not re-impliment the installer in a more OS neautral way (plugins
> for different kernel/userland types) instead of porting it?

The installer itself is mostly OS neutral but we do offer support for
many Linux specific features.

I don't think that we need to redo all that work but instead look for
alternatives available for those features and add support for them, as
has been done for the Linux ones.

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New kernel-wedge uploaded, time to upload linux-{kernel,modules}-di

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Latest kernel-wedge has been uploaded today to sid and we should start
the updating the installer to 2.6.25 kernel. I have uploaded the
packages for amd64 and i386 and would like to ask porters to handle it
for your pet architecture(s).

Thanks in advance,

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kernel-wedge and Debian Installer kernel udebs needs review

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Hello Porters,

I've done first set of updates on kernel-wedge and also did trivial
changes ones on the architecture specific packages of kernel. I'd like
to ask for a last look on them so we can upload 2.6.24 based packages
to sid.

Please take a look at the source of kernel-wedge and your pet
architecture. I plan to upload kernel-wedge on Tuesday (25th of March)
and will also upload i386 and amd64 packages (since they're the
architectures I'm able to test).

Thanks in advance,

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Debian Installer Lenny Beta2: Kernel update work

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Hello,

While we're in the way to release Debian Installer Lenny Beta1, some
work can start to be done for Beta2.

As you probably know, we plan to do a fast release after Beta1 gets
out using 2.6.24 kernels. This is where development can start to be
done _right now_.

Please porters, let's start the work for upgrading Debian Installer to
2.6.24. Those changes (for kernel-wedge and kernel modules packages)
should remain on SVN repository and _CANNOT_ _BE_ _UPLOADED_ until we
does have Beta1 images ready. As soon as it gives no trouble for us,
I'll ping you all back to uploads start to be done.

Cheers,

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Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

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Hello,

We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to
everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not
so common architectures where we receive less general testing.

In the current timeline, we will stop to accept fixes for the
installer in few days so any important issues need to be fixed _now_.

You can find the latest installer, for your pet architecture, at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and if you find any
issues file a installation report.

Thanks in advance and let's make Lenny the best release ever made!

Cheers,
Otavio Salvador
on behalf of Debian Installer Team

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FreeBSD support to Parted [was: Re: Fixed RC bug in frozen parted : #392767: [mac] parted is unable to reread partition tables created by d-i/partman.

[Otavio Salvador]

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Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>> 
>> I'm sorry.  Please feel free to disable the patch; I'm thinking it was not a
>> good idea to apply it in the package before it was merged upstream (as it was
>> about to, last time I visited this).
>> 
>> Apologises for the hassle.
>
> No problem, i am happy we found it before the release though.
>
> Will you be able to work out a better/cleaner patch ? And work with us to
> merge it upstream ?

Robert and Sven,

I would like to start a separated branch for it on darcs (parted is
moving to darcs just after 1.8 release but we already have the
repository available for hacking on the 2.0 basis) and then make it
available on upstream version on 2.0 or even on 1.8.x release
depending how deeply are the changes.

Robert, would you mind if I provide you the repository for us start to
work on that?

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