[Pkg-uml-devel] UML packages for Etch [Re: release update:
release notes, base freeze]
Stefano Melchior
stefano.melchior at openlabs.it
Thu Sep 28 21:25:57 UTC 2006
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:32:16PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
Dear all,
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:54:13AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> [...]
> > N-45 = Wed 18 Oct 06:
> >
> > general freeze [about 1 month after base freeze]
>
> Given the Etch timeline and the fact that I'll be unavailable since Oct
> 8 to 27 we need focus on the last changes before it's too late.
>
> So let's start with a summary, feel free to add more (realistic) goals
> and pick up some stuff, all package uploads will need to happen before
> Oct. 5.
I agree
>
> user-mode-linux 2.6.18
> ----------------------
> There are 2 major showstoppers about amd64:
> 1. we don't seem to have any handy amd64 system (qemu is slow as hell,
> I already tried going this route, thinking of building the kernel
> there is just plain crazy)
> 2. amd64 doesn't support NTPL yet, we could add -bb patches[1] for
> that but I fear we won't have enough time to test it and
> Blaisorblade himself says NTPL support is still experimental for
> amd64.
> My opinion is that we will add amd64 support for Etch+1 as we can't
> currently support a stable release for this package expecially because
> of (1). Sorry Ardo :)
It is a pity for Ardo and all the amd64 users, but reality bites!
>
> About 2.6.18 for i368: I'd like to test is a little before the upload,
> we need to be pretty careful not to upload a broken release at this
> time. Stefano did you have a chance to make some extensive tests?
> uptime? network stress test?
at this moment all my systems use 2.6.18 support; untill Monday I had a
production images with web/mail/anti-spamming/db server. I can try to
restart all of them and make them work continously for whatever time is
possible. Tomorrow morning this environment will be up and running with
2.6.18.
>
> rootstrap
> ---------
> rootstrap is in pretty good shape, it still has some issues which need
> fixing (and it could even work on amd64 if one has its' own rolled up
> UML kernel).
> Except for #372942 and #275546 can be easily fixed.
>
> linux-patch-skas
> ----------------
> nothing else is currently needed right now (apparently). Yay!
>
> uml-utilities
> -------------
> 1. we need LSB compliance for the init-script (a good start is #385906)
> 2. it would be nice to provide the missing manpages, I wrote some of
> them some time ago but a couple of utilities are still undocumented
I was wondering if it possible to only doc (man pages and whatever doc,
i.e. [*])
right after this 1st freeze. I mean that when you will be unavailable I
can try to go deep in the documentation session.
is it ok?
> 3. Ubuntu has a patch for the /var/run on tmpfs stuff[2]
> (I already imported this patch locally, I need to commit it to SVN)
> 4. #378166: I completely missed it... will need to look at the
> proposed patches, and evaulate their inclusion
>
> user-mode-linux-doc
> -------------------
[*] maybe rollup a quick update to the docs? any takers?
>
> umlrun
> ------
> I can't tell... never used, never tried... either shape it for Etch or
> ask for removal from testing.
in the next few day I would like to have a look inside it and see what the
hell it does and if it is reasonably easy to fix pending bugs.
Nothing else to add: it seems an exhaustive report of the state of the
art.
Cheers
SteX
>
> [1]: http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/guest/uml-2.6.18-bb1/
> [2]: http://patches.ubuntu.com/u/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20060323-3ubuntu1.patch
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