[Pkg-uml-pkgs] [rootstrap] how to proceed?

[Mattia Dongili]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:20:14AM +0200, Stefano Melchior wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:09:28PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> Dear all,
> > > http://uml.harlowhill.com/index.php/DevfsUdev
> > > 
> > > regarding how, on Debian, you can manage udev and ubd devices.
> > > I am planning when to take time to study this option.
> > 
> > this only deals with the guest kernel/rootfs, not what rootstrap uses
> > (eg: it mixes the host and guest fs)
> > 
> > I already have udev on all my UML filesystems.
> report of the yesterday night test: I succeeded!

Great!

> What do I need to say:
> - you need ubd on the host too in order to make 'mkfs', 'mount' rootstrap
>   module working;

right.

> - you may provide in /etc/udev/links.conf the record suggested in
>   http://uml.harlowhill.com/index.php/DevfsUdev, but it is still not
>   enough;
> - you succeed when you use a mounted cdrom as mirror, because 'debian'
>   rootstrap module still fails [1].

maybe because of unconfigured network?

> At this point, I was wondering if:
> 
> - it is possible and reasonable to ask to Marco D'Itri to provide udb
>   devices creation for udev on host; I checked there are no mention in the
>   its(udev) bug list

we can provide our own rules (see the output of apt-file search
/etc/udev)

> - it is reasonable that rootstrap provides for their (ubds) creation;
> - it is reasonable to add new mirror choises (apart from debootstrap and
>   cdrom);
> I planned to test other thing during the day

Can you please start committing changes in SVN (if any) so that I can
test things too without reinventing the wheel?
Or do I only need to "MAKEDEV ubd" in the host to make roostrap happy?

Thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!