SoC boot project weekly summary week #4/14

[Gustavo Franco]

On 6/22/06, Carlos Villegas <Carlos.Villegas at nuim.ie> wrote:
> (...)
> On the other hand, perhaps I should concentrate on implementing the
> hotspots and the lintian/LSB compliance checking.

Hi Carlos,

Really appreciated, IMHO.

> For the next week I originally propose to:
> + substitute /bin/sh with dash.

It was discussed in -devel, i don't think we will do this for Etch,
check the thread there, please. Of course you're free to do tests and
tell us the results, btw.

> + work with a script to check scripts for lintian/LSB compliance.

Sounds interesting really, but don't forget to contact the lintian
maintainers through our bug tracking system sending them patches,
please.

> + test parallel execution (with startpar) with the current scripts.

I did this using 'shell' in a default Debian testing default desktop
environment[0] (installed using weekly built images, with desktop i
mean our desktop task).

> + test parallel execution (with startpar) and reoganizing scripts (with
> a program like insserv).

I did this too, same as above.

> + setup the network in the background

Great.

[0] = http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com/2006/05/in-2-minutes-you-can.html

regards,
-- stratus