Re: Debian based Filesystems with ELBE

2016-01-11 Thread Neil Williams
gt; > $ elbe initvm create x86_64-pc-hdimg-minimal-grub-jessie.xml ... or create config for one of the existing packages - my own recommendation would be vmdebootstrap - it has QEMU/multiple arch support. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpMdfUff_771.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian based Filesystems with ELBE

2016-01-11 Thread Neil Williams
oth > and perhaps some other projects can use. vmdebootstrap 1.0 has/is a python module, it's not packaged separately at this time - a new binary package (with fewer dependencies) is possible. vmdebootstrap has a mailing list for discussion of development ideas: vmdebootstrap-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vmdebootstrap-devel -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpEocGJRqWUe.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Recommend way to use Multistrap

2015-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
ultistrap runs outside the chroot, hence needs to run as root. > I note there is a fakechroot package. Is it recommended to use > multistrap with fakechroot. No. multistrap is not intended to be used inside a chroot, it would have to create another chroot inside that. -- Neil Williams

Re: Crosscompile using existing mirrors

2015-08-08 Thread Neil Williams
to use the Linaro cross-toolchain as compared to the cross-compiler already available in Debian. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpI4tmOM0zaB.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: emDebian Mirror?

2015-07-23 Thread Neil Williams
to the known-broken sid. The wheezy-grip Sources.gz and Packages.gz files would need to be parsed and only the .dsc and .deb files imported into a new repo. If someone has the time and inclination to clean up the mirror in that way, it would make the mirror itself more useful. -- Neil Williams

Re: emDebian Mirror?

2015-07-23 Thread Neil Williams
of the packages if it was particularly important. Unless someone actually did that, the packages no longer exist. Individual packages can simply be installed from Debian, the benefit of Grip was when more than 80% of packages had been processed through Grip. -- Neil Williams = http

xapt

2015-05-03 Thread Neil Williams
with the existing maintainers if they are still interested in having their names on it - I am certainly not looking to be Uploader. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpgABKj3rdQO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: poky-debian

2015-04-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 21:26:15 +0200 Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:51:23 +0100 Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Neil Williams [2015-04-07 09:02 +0100]: An OE

Re: poky-debian

2015-04-07 Thread Neil Williams
about health -vs- stopping support of old flavors of Emdebian? Emdebian Grip health: dead. Emdebian Grip support: absent, on permanent, authorised notified leave. I no longer have write access to the Emdebian website. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: poky-debian

2015-04-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:51:23 +0100 Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Neil Williams [2015-04-07 09:02 +0100]: I no longer have write access to the Emdebian website. You can have some if you want it Neil :-) I'd have trouble finding the time to do much with it. Sorry. An OE-based

Re: Access to rootfile system fails

2015-02-04 Thread Neil Williams
command reports password updated successfully then that is all you need to do. Using chroot to get a prompt, there is no login, you already have a prompt. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpf6PuDqylGY.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Unmet dependencies problem in CrossToolchains

2015-01-16 Thread Neil Williams
the revoked emdebian key from your apt key list. How could I satisfy missing dependencies?? Thank you in advance. Use Debian experimental or just install without using the crossbuild-essential-* meta package. Throw that chroot away and start again using only Debian mirrors. -- Neil Williams

Re: Unable to install package gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabi

2015-01-04 Thread Neil Williams
Jessie have cross-toolchains included in the release and both need mangling to get cross-building working. Do i have to build 4.8 from sources using an installed gcc-4.7? You can, or you simply use a chroot. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpSK3Yr532jv.pgp

Bug#771496: dpkg-cross follow-up

2015-01-03 Thread Neil Williams
it gone a long time ago. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpiMhl8BrDJ4.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#771496: overwrites user changes to configuration file /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-compile on upgrade (violates 10.7.3)

2014-12-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:50:40 +0100 Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de wrote: Control: severity -1 serious On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:39:07PM +, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2014 15:22:08 +0100 gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org wrote: Yes but it does it wrong

Re: Bug#771496: overwrites user changes to configuration file /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-compile on upgrade (violates 10.7.3)

2014-12-08 Thread Neil Williams
and the only real purpose for having the package after Jessie will be the /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-config.* files, not cross-compile. Any package relying on /etc/dpkg-cross/cross-compile for anything except the default arch already set in debconf is buggy. -- Neil Williams = http

Re: Cross-toolchains for Jessie available

2014-11-29 Thread Neil Williams
we needed and the sponsoring of that extra expense had ended) but we'd been slow in implementing the replacement server. The server was then decommissioned as per the original schedule. Any damage / effects on that machine are irrelevant. The new server is a reinstall from backups. -- Neil

Re: End of updates for Emdebian Grip

2014-07-31 Thread Neil Williams
in preparation for the release freeze of Jessie+1 (to make room for Jessie to become oldstable). By that time, I don't expect anyone to still be wanting Grip 3.1 or Wheezy. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

End of updates for Emdebian Grip

2014-07-13 Thread Neil Williams
on emdebian.org. It was fun but the need for Grip has dissolved and there is simply not enough value left to justify the amount of work involved. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Public key is not available

2014-06-24 Thread Neil Williams
B5B7720097BB3B58 -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Creating rootfs using multistrap from local repository

2014-03-23 Thread Neil Williams
too as it will be more efficient for the mirror to retain these than to use the retainsources option of multistrap). -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Packages broken by Emdebian

2014-02-26 Thread Neil Williams
files which I can't risk. Can any one help on what I should do to fix the package dependencies? Remove the Grip apt source, it has nothing to do with cross-compiling stuff. Then just update again. You've confused Grip with toolchains - they are *not* the same. -- Neil Williams

Re: Package breakage

2014-02-26 Thread Neil Williams
. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: outdated arm-linux-gnueabi compiler requirement

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Williams
that the code would even compile with gcc-4.4, plus issues of changes in the kernel between 2.6.27 and 3.2. I think you may have to consider this as a non-upgradeable system when you consider how much work it will be to get it running up to date software. -- Neil Williams = http

Re: outdated arm-linux-gnueabi compiler requirement

2014-02-13 Thread Neil Williams
be looking at any new compiled software on that device without enormous amounts of work. None of that work will be useful or interesting to anyone else, so you won't get any support and none of your fixes will be accepted upstream. If you cannot change the platform, change the device. -- Neil

Re: vim-runtime gripped about 75 larger than debian stock version

2014-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
functionality in vim takes up a lot of space compared to vim-tiny. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Packaging Weston

2014-02-11 Thread Neil Williams
, packages are processed, not rebuilt. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Status of Emdebian Grip

2014-02-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 08:43:43 +1100 Paul Whittaker whi...@velocitynet.com.au wrote: On 3/02/2014 9:31 PM, Neil Williams wrote: If you have interest in retaining Grip *and are prepared to provide some solutions to the issues above* then say so here. Otherwise, neither testing not point

Status of Emdebian Grip

2014-02-03 Thread Neil Williams
is worth retaining. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Where can I find Emdebian Tools to ETCH (not Lenny or newer)

2013-11-19 Thread Neil Williams
funded by goodwill only. If people need to keep copies of old packages, those copies need to be managed outside of the Emdebian project. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Multistrap patches

2013-11-09 Thread Neil Williams
, the patches are a mess, mixing stylistic / whitespace changes with largely invisible functional changes whilst removing existing functionality. Not acceptable. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: PXE Booting Grip

2013-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
no difference. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: PXE Booting Grip

2013-10-25 Thread Neil Williams
an X environment. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: multistrap a busybox glibc/uclibc system

2013-09-05 Thread Neil Williams
but there would need to be a lot of work and testing before the packages would be ready for that stage. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Is anyone successfully using pdebuild-cross on Debian?

2013-07-27 Thread Neil Williams
until the toolchains are installable. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: using emdebian in VirtualBox

2013-06-15 Thread Neil Williams
of the others. A chroot only contains the files, not the free space, which sounds more like what you wanted originally. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp4sx8BNzMp_.pgp Description: PGP signature

Emdebian Wheezy-Grip 3.1 (based on Debian GNU/Linux 7.1) is now available.

2013-06-15 Thread Neil Williams
://emdebian.bytesatwork.ch/mirror/grip wheezy-grip main For more details on the changes within Debian through 7.0 and 7.1, see http://www.uk.debian.org/News/ -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp3cALSW1ciC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Non-HF binaries in some Grip ARMHF debs

2013-06-15 Thread Neil Williams
in wheezy-grip as a starting point and provide a detailed list of packages and versions which need to be re-processed. Please report results via a bug against the buildd.emdebian.org psuedo-package, severity normal. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpsTaM7XyhM0.pgp

Re: Non-HF binaries in some Grip ARMHF debs

2013-06-14 Thread Neil Williams
ce08cc91580b953580523a587556283bf07afa68d3b95ea922e6d3fa090c93c5 deb-gview_0.2.10em1_armhf.deb $ sha256sum deb-gview_0.2.10_armhf.deb 5ae88b416fd6562759b5222dc9f26382426832bc1f84829e83f69a4139d82169 deb-gview_0.2.10_armhf.deb -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: Yes, embedded systems do need multi-arch!

2013-06-14 Thread Neil Williams
Emdebian Grip 1.0 was released. That industry involvement also failed to spot that Multi-Arch fields were not being retained. That is exactly why I'm not going to hack around the wheezy-grip packages until I have a 100% reliable method of detection. -- Neil Williams = http

Re: Non-HF binaries in some Grip ARMHF debs

2013-06-14 Thread Neil Williams
don't get flooded with false positives? There isn't time to do a mass rebuild of armhf before the point release this weekend. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpfMafZ4FJIp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: g++-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabihf broken dependencies

2013-06-12 Thread Neil Williams
to put the -cross dependencies into place. g++-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabihf : Depends: libstdc++6-4.6-dev-armhf-cross (= 4.6.3-14) but it is not going to be installed $ sudo xapt -a armhf -m libstdc++6-4.6-dev -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpQCHjdIw7g_.pgp

Re: libstdc++6-mipsel-cross dependency problem.

2013-05-24 Thread Neil Williams
of the old dpkg-cross method. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpPFxrMsQbo5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: build emdebian wheezy for a custom target

2013-05-08 Thread Neil Williams
for Crush no longer operate and the changes you need to make to get things to work are all new and largely undiscovered. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpA18ExIktbx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#649094: Testing dpkg-cross bi-arch conversion for #649094

2013-05-07 Thread Neil Williams
the changes from experimental into unstable. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpXNLwIp3lNz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help in creation of device nodes and other necessary files.

2013-05-05 Thread Neil Williams
/DeviceTableScripting Also are there any tutorials for creating the basic files such as initttab etc? There are examples, it depends what your particular setup requires. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpKJZLBIyH_W.pgp Description: PGP signature

Emdebian Grip 3.0 (wheezy-grip) released

2013-05-04 Thread Neil Williams
://ftp.uk.debian.org/emdebian/grip wheezy-grip main or deb http://emdebian.bytesatwork.ch/mirror/grip wheezy-grip main The mirror push has been started, so please allow time for the mirrors to update. Online version of this news: http://www.emdebian.org/News/2013/20130504.html -- Neil Williams

Wheezy-grip lacks Multi-Arch support

2013-05-03 Thread Neil Williams
that people know and can find details in their searches... [0] http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianIntegration -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp1ZbnJcf2K2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#697695: pending

2013-03-21 Thread Neil Williams
tag 697695 + pending quit -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpl4O38rlSo0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Carrier Grade Linux status

2013-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
with the people listed on the relevant wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/Debian-CGL -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpyz1vGg5mkd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:10:49 +0100 Rieker Flaik rieker_fl...@arcor.de wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 16:34 +, Neil Williams wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:28:17 +0100 Rieker Flaik rieker_fl...@arcor.de wrote: animation/qsequentialanimationgroup.cpp:467: warning: unused variable

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
that? Any hints? It will take many hours. Easily 5+. There again, building natively on a Debian armel buildd box takes over 16hours. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp5CwPsfkGVz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: building qt4 for arm

2013-02-12 Thread Neil Williams
, Xorg is seriously painful. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgputnbvMMf7J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: grip and linux-image package download size

2013-02-03 Thread Neil Williams
the .deb which accounts for the difference in download size. However, this does NOT affect the installed size of the kernel, only the download size. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpIBafEyimpR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: priority important of some grip-* packages makes bootstrap includes too many dependencies

2013-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
. debootstrap already has support to exclude specified packages. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpMvBHiGiLil.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: priority important of some grip-* packages makes bootstrap includes too many dependencies

2013-01-14 Thread Neil Williams
is now out of date. It's likely that the Emdebian TDebs will be dropped after the Wheezy release as TDebs are incompatible with the upcoming merge of Emdebian Grip into Debian. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpf14LR97yXk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#697695: dpkg-cross fails to match include directories in cflags values of pkg-config files.

2013-01-08 Thread Neil Williams
5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages dpkg-cross recommends: ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment dpkg-cross suggests no packages. -- debconf information: dpkg-cross/default-arch: None -- Neil Williams

Re: binutils debian cross build misses ldscripts

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Williams
, even though the are generated and can be found in the builddir-sparc-linux-gnu directory. Is this a bug or feature ? Is there any easy (automated) way to do build a package with the ldscripts included. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpOutjN3MpHc.pgp

Bug#695369: dpkg-cross: cmake integration broken: ${DEB_*} - $ENV{DEB_*}, and set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER

2012-12-08 Thread Neil Williams
to set both. The tests for this code never involved toolchain packages, so thanks for the extra testing. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpdQeWi9xEF3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#693730: dpkg-cross: Add arm64 support

2012-11-20 Thread Neil Williams
such issues. That would be very nice to have... -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp1ebk3cHYoB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: armhf toolchain is broken in the repository

2012-11-10 Thread Neil Williams
is why the rebuilds are not automatically in sync. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpVruR3HprPJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: armhf toolchain is broken in the repository

2012-11-10 Thread Neil Williams
is why the rebuilds are not automatically in sync. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgplzZEa9sGsA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: armhf toolchain is broken in the repository

2012-11-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:21:30 +0100 Patrik Kluba kpajk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: the older version of architecture independent packages got disappeared somehow. For example, there's no libstdc++6-4.6-dev-armhf

Re: armhf toolchain is broken in the repository

2012-11-10 Thread Neil Williams
7.0 (Wheezy) and I would normally release the toolchains at the same time. I won't be able to do that as things stand and we'll be left without installable toolchains for the next Debian stable release. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpGgNKslVDfW.pgp

Re: About Emdebian Grip upgrading

2012-10-02 Thread Neil Williams
changed stuff in /usr then those changes will be lost. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpFWUTjFSU5p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Emdebian Grip Squeeze 2.0.6 updated

2012-09-29 Thread Neil Williams
packages may be listed more than once. All actions are timestamped, only the latest action per package has any relevance to what has actually happened. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpMwGH1Am6CO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Preparing for an Emdebian Grip 2.0.6 point release

2012-09-23 Thread Neil Williams
, so it is likely that wheezy-grip users will get a chance to test *-proposed-updates-grip for longer. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpLumJ6ACh9a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Static compilation: segmentation fault in execution [host=x86_64, target: ia64]

2012-09-15 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:42:36 -0700 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Williams wrote: Static linking is not fully supported in Debian and therefore Emdebian. Sometimes it might work, sometimes it will fail, sometimes it will run but give you mysterious issues... behaviour

Re: Static compilation: segmentation fault in execution [host=x86_64, target: ia64]

2012-09-15 Thread Neil Williams
are allowing you to do. If you are not even allowed to create a minimal debootstrap, then find a different machine and give up on this pointless exercise. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpFIP0cRL7n8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Static compilation: segmentation fault in execution [host=x86_64, target: ia64]

2012-09-14 Thread Neil Williams
Is it a bug? You'd have to get a backtrace via gdb. If static linking doesn't work but dynamic does, there aren't going to be many people in Debian who will care. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp3YB1X1z00v.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [NEW USER] Installeing cross compiler [HOST: x86_64, TARGET: ia64]

2012-09-13 Thread Neil Williams
in wheezy or unstable. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpyJMGoqudmM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [NEW USER] Installeing cross compiler [HOST: x86_64, TARGET: ia64]

2012-09-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:36:01 +0200 José Luis García Pallero jgpall...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/9/13 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:00:12 +0200 José Luis García Pallero jgpall...@gmail.com wrote: My machine is an x86-64 running debian sid and I need to generate

Re: [NEW USER] Installeing cross compiler [HOST: x86_64, TARGET: ia64]

2012-09-13 Thread Neil Williams
to put all the strain on www.emdebian.org - http://ftp.uk.debian.org/emdebian/toolchains/ http://emdebian.bytesatwork.ch/mirror/toolchains/ I'll add those links to the toolchains pages on the website at some point - feel free to add those to the Wiki page yourselves. -- Neil Williams

Re: Multistrap: Couldn't find package zlib1g*

2012-09-06 Thread Neil Williams
? Thank You. What version of multistrap? Squeeze: 2.1.7 Squeeze-backports: 2.1.15~bpo60+1 Wheezy: 2.1.20 Sid: 2.1.20 -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpDUv0Y5jODr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Configuring foreign packages without qemu in order to boot a system

2012-09-03 Thread Neil Williams
to push it into mainline. This is about building a linux-image_$version_armel.deb just by unpacking the kernel.org tarball and running make menuconfig ; make. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpDT4Y3clgdB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Configuring foreign packages without qemu in order to boot a system

2012-09-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:44:39 +0200 Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: On Monday 03 September 2012 09:20:02 Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 02:56:28 +0100 This is about building a linux-image_$version_armel.deb just by unpacking the kernel.org tarball and running make menuconfig

Re: Configuring foreign packages without qemu in order to boot a system

2012-09-02 Thread Neil Williams
as there is always room for documentation. The key is to not break the underlying models in order to simplify the documentation/setup at the cost of making the system fragile. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpXZP0JMlOOr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Configuring foreign packages without qemu in order to boot a system

2012-09-02 Thread Neil Williams
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-embedded-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209020107.11419.p...@boddie.org.uk -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk

Re: building cross tools for sparc

2012-09-02 Thread Neil Williams
are binary-compatible with the Debian equivalents anyway. If using Debian testing or unstable, use the -m option so that the packages already converted for multiarch can be forced into the old dpkg-cross paths. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpyUQTGzYecy.pgp

Re: Configuring foreign packages without qemu in order to boot a system

2012-09-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:26:09 +0200 Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2012 11:05:54 Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 01:40:45 +0100 http://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap#Steps_for_Squeeze_and_later Right, I can see straight away that /sbin/init might have

Re: cross-compiler for powerpc

2012-07-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:07:32 +0200 ternaryd terna...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:03:09 +0100 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Add an apt source for backports when using squeeze. Thanks, this did work, mostly. What do you mean mostly? Add an apt source for your

Re: cross-compiler for powerpc

2012-07-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:20:47 +0200 ternaryd terna...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:13:21 +0100 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: If these are omissions in the wiki page, feel free to update the wiki page. I tried to do so, but couldn't find the edit-button. You'll need

Bug#681755: finalised patch

2012-07-25 Thread Neil Williams
updated patch, uploading tonight. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ diffstat for dpkg-cross-2.6.6 dpkg-cross-2.6.7 changelog |7 +++ postrm|6 +- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Nru dpkg-cross-2.6.6/debian/changelog

Re: Bug#180128: state of integration of dpkg-cross into dpkg

2012-07-22 Thread Neil Williams
ready. Yes, this part of it is resolved as far as dpkg is concerned and the work is now with package maintainers to implement MultiArch support but there remains the issues around MultiArch and -dev packages which may yet require some dpkg support - and thereby block this bug. -- Neil Williams

Bug#681755: Proposed fix

2012-07-22 Thread Neil Williams
tag 681755 + pending thanks Proposed fix, needs a bit of testing. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ Index: debian/postrm === --- debian/postrm (revision 8387) +++ debian/postrm (working copy

Re: Bug#180128: state of integration of dpkg-cross into dpkg

2012-07-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:01:05 +0100 Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: +++ Neil Williams [2012-07-22 17:05 +0100]: One unresolved issue is the cache values and architecture support: where to put the cross- config settings currently implemented in /etc/dpkg-cross/cross* which pass

Re: Bug#180128: state of integration of dpkg-cross into dpkg

2012-07-22 Thread Neil Williams
-cross / replacement can derive the cache values. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpN5Dhb6zTBC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#681755: dpkg-cross: removes files that were installed by another package

2012-07-16 Thread Neil Williams
handling /etc/dpkg-cross/ Will sort this out in ~ 1 week. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp3RBzBFO50B.pgp Description: PGP signature

Wheezy-grip update

2012-07-08 Thread Neil Williams
.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpanY2plCYWp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xapt created inconsistencies

2012-07-02 Thread Neil Williams
cope with being clever, it has to be reliably dumb. That's xapt. Don't expect it to do clever stuff and you won't be disappointed. (If anyone thinks upgrading cross dependencies is easy, talk to some of the people working on MultiArch cross-build toolchains and cross-arch dependencies.) -- Neil

Re: gcc-4.7 and libgomp1 in unstable

2012-06-29 Thread Neil Williams
in gcc, the cross-compiler is likely to need work. We do the best we can. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpjJFHfCuORt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Williams
/flavours.html -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpXac0y7kWQT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian or Embedbian on a powerful 64-bit system

2012-06-19 Thread Neil Williams
the tarball. Thanks again for all your help and advice. Please read the documentation, this has all been covered many, many times before. There's no point pushing this endlessly through the list again, ask on IRC and read the documentation. -- Neil Williams = http

Re: Jetty for debian arm

2012-06-19 Thread Neil Williams
a few years ago. The current port is armel (ARMv5) EABI and the newer port is armhf (ARMv7) hardware floating point. http://www.debian.org/ports/ jetty is not part of Emdebian. Any other questions are more than covered on the relevant websites. -- Neil Williams = http

Re: Debian or Embedbian on a powerful 64-bit system

2012-06-18 Thread Neil Williams
.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2012/05/msg00023.html So, yes, but stable is better as a start point. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp05CcUVWXJi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian or Embedbian on a powerful 64-bit system

2012-06-16 Thread Neil Williams
. Precisely what Uttam described as his requirements. Many of the tools used to create Emdebian are still suitable for other not-quite-standard ways of installing Debian-based systems. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp3r9nKgXwPd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Perl cross building support

2012-06-10 Thread Neil Williams
not supported by the native version. And is it worth trying to get cross building support into wheezy's src:perl before the freeze? Not a hope. It's far too late. Wheezy could freeze within days. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgprwb3MibKgJ.pgp Description: PGP

Re: pdebuild-cross chroot tweaks for xapt

2012-06-10 Thread Neil Williams
is correct but if you didn't add to aptsources, then the second one won't be created. Doesn't make any odds, nothing about that is going to change until after Wheezy is released. -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgp3BBNPCGEzy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pdebuild-cross chroot tweaks for xapt

2012-06-09 Thread Neil Williams
. (The pbuilder command above is output if pdebuild-cross-create is executed when the chroot tarball already exists.) -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgpXmglxW2o5h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Dropping hppa, alpha and other discontinued ports in multistrap/pdebuild-cross

2012-06-09 Thread Neil Williams
architectures which get dropped after the Wheezy release will also have their relevant config files dropped. http://www.debian.org/ports/ -- Neil Williams = http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ pgphUgHGvVaao.pgp Description: PGP signature

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