Andrea, Are there debian 3.7.4 packages available anywhere? The only version I can find on the debian mirrors or download.systemimager.org in stable, testing and unstable is 3.6.3-2
Alan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Andrea Righi > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] debian, systemimager > versions,and x86_64 support > > Justin, > > it would be better to start from 3.7.4... a lot of problems > you found should be fixed in that release. Even if it's > tagget as "unstable" 3.7.4 is surely more stable than 3.6.3, > since it includes *a lot* of bugfixes... unfortunately at the > moment I've not a testing machine with Debian, so it's quite > difficult for me to check the particular problems for Debian, > but if you want to start a bugfix activity with the last > release I'll be happy to help you. > > Cheers, > -Andrea > > Justin Thiessen wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm working on updating our install of systemimager. We've been > > running debian versions 3.2.3-6 and 3.4.0-2 from debian stable. > > > > I downloaded 3.6.3-2 from debian testing and experienced > several issues: > > > > > > (i386-boot issues) > > > > modprobe is borked in th i386-boot deb. This may just be a > problem in > > the debian build. > > It errors out during the install, complaining about glibc > 2.0. Insmod > > works, so I hardcoded that plus the dependencies into /etc/init.d/* > > and the install scripts. This works but is not ideal. > > > > Building 3.6.3-2 from source on amd64 resulted in the > following issues: > > > > (amd64-boot issues) > > > > /lib and /lib64 are unique directories. The install does > not create a > > library cache file (ld.so.cache), so the linker in the > install relies > > on all libraries being in the trusted directories. Unfortunately, > > since the only trusted directory is /lib, anything which needs a > > library in > > /lib64 fails. I simply collapsed the /lib64 directory into > /lib, and > > symlinked /lib64 to /lib, which makes the filesystem look > more like a > > typical debian install. > > This works, but is probably not ideal. > > > > (si_mkbootpackage issues) > > > > The biggest win for us would be gaining the ability to use > > si_mkbootpackage to create custom install kernels and initrds. > > Unfortunately, the script as present in 3.6.3-2 exhibits a > number of > > problems. > > > > * depends on devfs, which disappears after linux 2.6.12. We need a > > newer kernel for hardware support. I did not try to switch to udev > > support, although it might have not been too tough. I just > populated > > a /dev directory with the appropriate entries. > > * the regexp that is supposed to determine the kernel > version (2.4 vs > > 2.6) fails, and no modules get copied into the initrd. I > fixed this, but... > > * discover is old enough that it doesn't know much about > our hardware. > > forcing modules to be probed (and having static /dev entries) gets > > items working, but is kludgy. > > > > Other issues: > > ---------------------- > > the install script edits /etc/fstab to match actual hard > drives, but > > does not edit /etc/lilo.conf. I can fix this easily, but, again, > > should I just update to the latest source? > > > > Are these fixed in the latest source release? > > > > And would it be more practical to start from 3.7.3(4)? I'd > be happy > > to contribute any fixes back to the project. > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Justin Thiessen > > -------------------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join > SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief > surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge > &CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
