Re: 3.0.18 plan

[Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>]

oN sAt, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:19:06PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
 
> Once we can get the base install problem figured out, I will release
> 3.0.18. 

I have just tried building mipsel boot-floppies with the current cvs
and found that a change in the latest kernel-package release breaks
boot-floppies for mipsel:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
I: creating 'linuxr4k-kn04'
cp: cannot stat `/var/tmp/boot-floppies/extract-tmp-4900/boot/vmlinuz*':
 No such file or directory
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is caused by the fact that kernel-package 7.75 now puts the kernel
under the name "vmlinux" instead of "vmlinuz" into the kernel-image-*
packages for mipsel. This is the "correct" way, as in contrast to
most other architectures the kernel image file is uncompressed on
mipsel, but boot-floppies expects a file named "vmlinuz".
Up to now I have used kernel packages built with older kernel-package 
releases for testing boot-floppies, so this problem has not occured before.

It looks like the following change to kernel.sh is needed:

diff -Nur boot-floppies-cvs20011209.orig/kernel.sh boot-floppies-cvs20011209/ker
nel.sh
--- boot-floppies-cvs20011209.orig/kernel.sh    Mon Nov 19 07:57:42 2001
+++ boot-floppies-cvs20011209/kernel.sh Mon Dec 10 11:57:43 2001
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
     cp $extractdir/boot/vmlinux-* linux$subarch
     cp $extractdir/boot/vmlinux.coff-* linux$subarch.coff
 else
-    if [ "$arch" = hppa ]; then
+    if [ "$arch" = hppa -o "$arch" = mipsel ]; then
        cp $extractdir/boot/vmlinux* linux$subarch
     else
        cp $extractdir/boot/vmlinuz* linux$subarch

I am currently trying a build with this modification, but that needs some
hours on a DECstation...

Greetings,
Karsten 
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