update on release.sh and 2.2.8 progress
release.sh is now in a mostly stable state. i386, alpha and ppc builds seem
to be ok. as you may have noticed, i spent some time going through normal
and above bugs earlier and sent a control message to clear some of that up.
I marked all the slink bugs as such, with the idea that we can close them
all when potato is released. Does that sound reasonable?
other points:
* It seems that the pathname problems with network and CDrom installs have
been fixed
* the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia/.unconfigured file has been removed.
when pcmcia finishes configuration it will write PCMCIA=yes to
/root/dbootstrap_settings. base-config >= 0.23 will use that.
* related; i've been able to do pcmcia installs (dhcp or manual config)
fine. others have reported problems though. i added expr from shellutils
to the root disk. this is apparently needed for some pcmcia configs
* the reboot problem in busybox seems to be fixed. thanks andersee!
things to be fixed:
* b/w screen on startup with fbdev-enabled kernel. mostly a cosmetic issue.
this is probably a kernel bug. may be able to work around it, but is
kludgy and people don't seem to like the proposed solutions
* some of the modprobe calls in modconf and dbootstrap may be broken. before
modprobe (or depmod) is called you need to make sure that the following
symlinks are setup:
/etc/modules -> /target/etc/modules
/lib/modules -> /target/lib/modules
this is still broken in some places. would appreciate if someone can look
into this.
* lots of documentation/translation still needs to be updated.
* pcmcia-modules-2.2.14-compact needs to be updated. a bug has been filed
against this already. hopefully this will be fixed RSN. meanwhile there is
an unofficial pacakge at:
http://gandalf.tausq.org/tmp/pcmcia-modules-2.2.14-compact_3.1.8-2+1.00_i386.deb
we should be able to release 2.2.8 on i386 tomorrow. hopefully some of the
other archs will be able to do an official release for the first time for
potato.
i'd like to take this chance too to thank those people on irc who have helped
work through many of these problems.... drow, dhd, karlheg, joeyh, aph,
andersee... i'm sure i'm missing others <sorry> :-) join us on #debian-boot
on irc.debian.org sometime....
randolph
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