Re: PowerPC miBoot floppy build is broken again
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:55:22AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:59:09AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > That said, in all those months i maintained the buildds (and i still recent
> > the way i was summarily dismissed by frans, "thank you but we don't need you
> > anymore, go away" right, he), the only problems i saw was with things like abi
> > changes in libraries, the rest worked fine.
>
> How about broken postinsts? I've seen a variety of issues coming from
> that, including broken alternatives, wedged dpkg databases, initscripts
> that are not properly restarted, and more.
D-i needs only a relatively un-problematic subset of packages. And you get the
same issues if you do it by hand, the real problem is because the build-error
reports are not sent to the buildd maintainers anymore, but hoarded on some
random web site, and then if you are not prompt enough to go looking for them,
you are flamed and insulted and kicked out by Frans and co, who then get angry
when i complain.
> While those issues are not fun in a chroot (but can be dealt with
> there), I don't want to think about what could happen with them in the
> system root. Granted, it doesn't happen all that often, but it's a bitch
> when it does; and if it breaks while I'm doing a manual upgrade, at
> least I can fix it right away.
Ah, so you don't use a chroot to build the daily builds, naturally, i was
using a chroot which i so updated, not the running system, which was a stable
system anyway.
I believe it is saner and more secure to build the daily builds in a chroot
anyway.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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