A Dimarts, 17 de desembre de 2013, Gilles Chanteperdrix va escriure: > On 12/17/2013 12:19 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > > we're considering how to package LinuxCNC such that it can eventually > > be included in debian > > > > the core package will support RT-PREEMPT because an RT-PREEMPT kernel > > is available stock in debian; the other RT kernels will be covered by > > separate packages (Xenomai, RTAI). > > > > so far we've used the xenomai userland support straight off the git > > repo, but it might make sense to switch to > > http://packages.debian.org/jessie/xenomai-runtime for one less > > external raw repo dependency > > > > question - is this a recommendable route? > > > > (depends a bit on how well the debian package tracks the repo - does > > this happen 'occasionally', or per-release?; so far we havent had > > major issues with userland support but better ask before relying on > > something only loosely maintained) > > I think the user-space run-time is not really a problem, Xenomai 2.6 > does not need any particular option on configure command line to avoid > issues, the defaults are fine for all architectures. Even the Debian > project rule files, which passes options which either no longer even > exists or are not useful, gets a working build. > > What is much harder, and not really already available in the Debian > project is to package a kernel compiled with the right options to avoid > any issues, and avoid the hassle to all users to have to find out these > options by themselves,
I like the " right options to avoid any issues". Really, it's possible to provide a Xenomai patched kernel for the 95% of the users/hardware? > whereas, at least on x86, we can provide one such > Debian-like kernel. I did it for Linux 3.5.7 on xenomai 2.6.2.1, but did > not renew the experience with xenomai 2.6.3 because nobody downloaded > the .debs. But the "reprepro" directory is still there, so restarting it > would be easy. Well, I use my own package, but I have not any problem to promote this ones. We can talk. I have no interest in maintain any kernel package, on the contrary. Leo -- -- Linux User 152692 Catalonia -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://www.xenomai.org/pipermail/xenomai/attachments/20131217/bd607f36/attachment.sig> _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list Xenomai@xenomai.org http://www.xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
