Bug#387675: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#387675: undocumented rootstrap.conf option 'umlargs'

[Mattia Dongili]

Hello Andreas!

thanks for all your feedback on rootstrap :)

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:09:21PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
[...]
> rootstrap(1) mentions an 'umlargs' option in rootstrap.conf while
> describing the -u / --umlargs option, but 'umlargs' is neither described
> in rootstrap(1) nor in /etc/rootstrap/rootstrap.conf. It seems to belong
> to the [global] section.
> 
> I needed this option to increase the memory for the rootstrap uml
> instance because locale-gen died with oom using a default of 32 MB.

Thanks, this suggestion is definitely useful. I had the OOM killing
when running rootstrap with deafult umlargs.

> So I'd suggest either adding an example using the mem option to the
> default rootstrap.conf (umlargs=mem=128m did work for me, 64m was still
> not enough for locale-gen) or even introducing a [global]mem=... or
> [global]umlmem=... option that would allow setting the memory to use
> (only while rootstrapping, the user may choose whatever he likes when he
> uses the image file) independently of umlargs=

Isn't a little overkill separating the mem= argument from the others?
Since umlargs is already there I'd simply document that one.

> There is also a superfluous '<' in /etc/rootstrap/rootstrap.conf
> line 107:
>     #<purge=...

yup, will fix too

thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!