Bug#384881: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#384881: provide amd64 build of user-mode-linux

[Ardo van Rangelrooij]

Mattia Dongili (malattia at linux.it) wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:29:13PM +0200, David Madore wrote:
> > Package: user-mode-linux
> > Version: 2.6.17-1um-2
> > 
> > Please provide an amd64 build of user-mode-linux.  AFAICS, there is no
> > difficulty involved, the package builds correctly from the Debian
> > source with essentially no changes (just provide a config.adm64 file).
> 
> except I don't have any amd64 box and can't test it, nor create a safe
> config.amd64 :)
> I'll be happy to include the amd64 binary with some help from somebody
> having access to such box.
> 
> > As a proof of concept, see the package files in <URL:
> > ftp://quatramaran.ens.fr/pub/madore/misc/user-mode-linux-debian/
> >  >.
> 
> can you confirm it works for you with configuration I extracted from the
> diff.gz?
> I mean can you at least run the UML, play some time with it and halt
> correctly?
> oh, and could you attach your config.amd64 for reference to this
> bug report?
> 
> Ardo: it seems very similar to your old diff (a couple of months ago),
> have you benn able to go further with the amd64 experiment?

I played some more with this evening.  I got quite a lot further, but it still
didn't make it through a successful rootstrap run: It hung at the 'sync' step
in debootstrap most of the times, but occaisionally I had it hung already some
time earlier during the package unpack/install/configure.

I've been using the latest user-mode-linus and rootstrap 3.22.  Later this
week I'll try with rootstrap 3.23.  Let's see whether that makes a difference.

I wish there was a way to get somore debugging going...

Thanks,
Ardo
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