Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-04-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
How long until you (or your sponsor) have uploaded it? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-04-13 Thread Roland Stigge
Daniel Baumann wrote: How long until you (or your sponsor) have uploaded it? It's already uploaded, but in the NEW queue (new binary package names). See e.g. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?package=squashfs bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Any news so far? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-08 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello Daniel, Arnaud, Phillip, Following Daniel's suggest on Debian bug #34 to be able to build squashfs without patching kernel, I've tried to do the same thing he's already done for 2.6.15 with the latest 2.4 kernel patch. It's a bit trickier as some definitions don't exist in

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: I've tried to workaround using some 'ext2' definitions, checked it works, but if you can review it, it would be nice. I'll look into it too. Daniel, Arnaud, if we want to support 2.4, we would give both 2.4 and 2.6 sources, perhaps in 2 separate packages ? No,

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-08 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hello, I haven't answer to this bug report because i have discussed about this one with Daniel on IRC, following this discussion, a mail to the upstream author has been sent. I will take a look at module packaging (including m-a) in the next days ;). Regards, Arnaud Fontaine

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-07 Thread Phillip Lougher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your release-tarball contains only the patches against specific kernel-versions, but we need the files in 'plain format'. In the first attempt[1] to build the debian package for that, I had to rebuild your release-tarball. We want to avoid that if possible, so.. what is

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
Phillip Lougher wrote: Adding a directory with the Squashfs files in plain format (rather than as patches) to the release tarball is possible. I've had a look at [1] and this doesn't look too much extra work. There are a couple of issues: Thanks for your quick answer. When can you release a

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: squashfs Severity: important Hi, [ Disclaimer: this mail should not be taken as an offense, I just want to get things done quickly. ] as I wrote you a few days ago, we want the module packages for squashfs autobuilt (needed for Debian Live[0]). As I didn't got any answer so far, I made

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Daniel, thanks for your work and sorry for the delay. Daniel Baumann wrote: as I wrote you a few days ago, we want the module packages for squashfs autobuilt (needed for Debian Live[0]). As I didn't got any answer so far, I made the package[1] on my own. I tested it successfully on amd64,

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello, Le lun 06 mar 2006 13:19:52 CET, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Package: squashfs Severity: important Hi, [ Disclaimer: this mail should not be taken as an offense, I just want to get things done quickly. ] as I wrote you a few days ago, we want the module

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote: No, please don't do neither. Arnaud is already investigating this issue. Please coordinate with him. Maybe your patch can just be applied to the current version (Arnaud, please check the diffs carefully because of other changes like docs etc.). one can't just apply a

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: thanks for your work and sorry for the delay. np. No, please don't do neither. Arnaud is already investigating this issue. Please coordinate with him. Maybe your patch can just be applied to the current version (Arnaud, please check the diffs carefully because of other

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: I'm not the official maintener but have worked sometimes on this package and using it. I've looked a bit on your package, and seems not to give any kernel patch : are they no longer useful for 2.6.15 kernels ? There is no kernel-patch because we want to build it

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: one can't just apply a patch between the current one and my one, to be able to build it out-of-tree, you have to repackage it (like I did). Why would this be necessary? I would prefer to keep the orig.tar.gz identical to upstream (e.g. in case of new upstream releases,

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le lun 06 mar 2006 14:15:54 CET, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : There is no kernel-patch because we want to build it out-of-tree, not in-tree. Ok, it's a nice goal anyway. Anyway, everybody doesn't use latest kernel version (nor 2.6 kernel), if you want to replace the

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: * the modules which are autobuilt are for 2.6 only, etch will likely not ship any 2.4 kernel, so 2.4 autobuilt support would be useless anyway. mmm. But Etch isn't to be released soon ;-) So you are seriously suggesting to hack a crapped 2.4 support in it although

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le lun 06 mar 2006 14:51:13 CET, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So you are seriously suggesting to hack a crapped 2.4 support in it although that in about 4-5 month, the base system is freezed for etch? Hm, I don't think this is worthy when we have m-a to semi-autobuild the

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Daniel, Daniel Baumann wrote: one can't just apply a patch between the current one and my one, to be able to build it out-of-tree, you have to repackage it (like I did). Why would this be necessary? I would prefer to keep the orig.tar.gz identical to upstream (e.g. in case of new upstream

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: Upstream puts just patches for in-tree compiliation in his tarball, we need them separately, for out-of-tree compiliation. What you are doing is taking upstream's code and adjusting it to out-of-tree compilation. Since you are shipping patches (dpatch ...) anyway, it

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, Debian Live[0] is the initiative to create the official live system for Debian. It is based on squashfs (and unionfs). As we will (and have to) use the normal linux-images from the Debian archive, we need to build the squashfs-module out-of-tree. Your release-tarball contains only the

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote: What you are doing is taking upstream's code and adjusting it to out-of-tree compilation. Since you are shipping patches (dpatch ...) anyway, it still seems to be possible to prevent repackaging (which should be tried as far as possible). No. Atm you have to repackage

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: Provide a kind of kernel source stub, apply the upstream patch and our new package specific patches/changes. Yes, ugly. Thanks for already contacting upstream. :-) That is uglier than repackaging the orig.tar.gz. We need to accept native packages that were not