Re: Where to start hacking unstable on Alpha?
On 06/07/11 04:25, Bill MacAllister wrote:
> The biggest difference that I see if the version of libc6.1. What is
> installing on my systems is 2.7-18lenny7. I will build a newer
> version and see if that helps me.
I have that same version of libc6.1 on my Lenny system, but in the
chroot it has version 2.13-8+alpha1 (where +alpha1 indicates one of my
patches). If you are compiling a 2.13 series eglibc make sure you get
2.13-10 which is the first to contain the aforementioned patch; without
it your chroot will be screwed. One symptom is that apt-get will refuse
to install any packages whatsoever due to misdetected free space on the
disk.
When I set up my chroot on the Lenny system I think I used debootstrap
with apt sources pointing at debian-ports. The debootstrap didn't
complete installation of packages as there were conflicts in
debian-ports. It didn't even get apt-get installed. Fortunately I
have a mirror of my approx cache taken at the time the Debian Alpha
autobuilders were shut down so I was able to copy packages from that and
manually install with dpkg. Eventually I got the conflict resolved.
Then I pointed the chroot apt sources at my own repository and upgraded
to that. That's when the libc6.1 12.3 series got installed.
I think the only other problem I had was a misconfiguration in the
chroot configs (it didn't mount /dev/pts so some sbuilds initially failed).
Cheers
Michael.
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