Bug#432573: please reconsider this position

2007-08-22 Thread sean finney
or, on second inspection, it might not have solved the problem... i'll look more into this tomorrow to see if this was a false-success, or a false-alarm-for-a-false-success... sean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#432573: please reconsider this position

2007-08-22 Thread sean finney
Hi, On Wednesday 22 August 2007 07:51:51 am you wrote: > Hi, > > > to test i modified the Makefile to compile everything with LFS (patch > > attached) and re-created my i386 base.cow and everything seems to work as > > it should! > > Eek! i was surprised too. sure was a lot easier than actually

Bug#432573: please reconsider this position

2007-08-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > to test i modified the Makefile to compile everything with LFS (patch > attached) and re-created my i386 base.cow and everything seems to work as it > should! Eek! > the only potential issue i see is that on an arch where sizeof(ino_t) will > change with the addition of LFS, if an .ili

Bug#432573: please reconsider this position

2007-08-21 Thread sean finney
hi junichi, after thinking about things a bit, i think i may have a simpler solution! i think the primary problem is that the ilist file is basically a bunch of struct ilist objects written in serially in binary form. the struct ilist is something like struct ilist { dev_t foo

Bug#432573: please reconsider this position

2007-08-21 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > if i understand correctly, the problem had something to do with /home being > special cased, and the ilist file being created for the first time outside > the chroot whereas previously it was exclusively manipulated inside the > chroot? That is correct. To solve this, after much slee

Bug#432573: please reconsider this position

2007-08-21 Thread sean finney
hi junichi, i really hope you would reconsider your position on this. as i mentioned on irc earlier i've been very happily making use of this "undocumented feature" i guess you could call it to cross build from amd64 to i386 for some time, maybe a year or longer. you invited me to send a pat