Re: New stuff on building the cd images (bugreport for alpha and sparc)
Ok,
Following discussions about autobuilding d-i for non-x86, I've been
working on cross-building d-i on non-x86 archs on an x86 box.
(This simplifies issues such as syslinux requiring root, etc: I don't
have to use the buildds as originally planned; a DD could just build as
root on their home machine and upload the images).
I've refrained on commenting or commiting to CVS any changes until I've
verified it works, but now looks like a good time, and its nearly
complete.
This would build the bootable images from debian-installer/build and
then the debian-installer/debian stuff would build the "archive"
as seen at ftp.debian.org, for testing and review.
If we could pick a place to grab the boot images from, eg in gluck or
people.d.o, it would be interesting to try building the netinst images
for each arch.
Do you have access to a place on gluck, eg cdimage/testinst/netinst, I
could upload some of the boot images there.
- Alastair
On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 15:12, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have updated the cd building stuff at gluck with latest cvs version of
> debian-cd and also jigdo-file and debootstrap to the latest available
> packages.
>
> At least alpha and sparc have failed to build using the new version of
> debian-cd, it was caused by the newly introduced scripts to make the cds for
> this arches bootable, on the other side, arm built ok and it also was
> introducing this cds.
>
> I have not verified any of the images but there should not be any problem
> with them that we hadn't before, if people would like to test them for jigdo
> or other kind of problems, they are as always free to test them and report
> back here.
>
> As for the boot scripts for alpha and sparc...
>
> On alpha it is trying to download:
>
> cdrom-2880.img cdrom-initrd.gz cdrom144-1440.img cdrom144-initrd.gz
> net-1440.img net-initrd.gz vmlinuz
>
> from people.debian.org/~mckinstry/d-i/images/alpha when there one can only
> find:
>
> cdrom-initrd.gz cdrom144-initrd.gz net-initrd.gz vmlinuz
>
> I was going to modify the scripts to only download these ones but then I
> realised that it was using at least cdrom-2880 for one of the cds.
>
> As for sparc, it seems also a problem on a missing file, this is the error
> it gives:
>
> Running tools/boot/sarge/boot-sparc 1 /org/cdimage.debian.org/setup/debian-cd/../tmp/sarge-sparc/CD1
> cp: cannot stat `CD1/dists/sarge/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
> make: *** [/org/cdimage.debian.org/setup/debian-cd/../tmp/sarge-sparc/bootable-stamp] Error 1
>
> I have rebuilt the cds for both this arches without the building scripts
> while this missing archives are put in place or changes are made to the cd
> booting scripts, in any case a note telling me the action that has been
> taken, so that I know I can retry the build, will be welcome.
>
> Well, guess that is all, for what I've heard the d-i guys are doing well,
> keep up that good job, guys ;-)
>
> Regards...
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