Re: suggested method for building woody floppies?
"John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu> writes:
> thanks to the informative error messages, i have determined that the
> shared library problem was due to the fact that i was trying to build
> the boot-floppies on a woody system, while the boot disks were pulling
> down unstable .deb's.
>
> the libc versions were different, which was causing the problem. i
> cleaned the build tree, cleaned the archive cache, rem'd out the
> unstable deb URI iin the sources.list, and it failed to get
> console-data.
>
> so should we get the console-data from unstable, and put it in the local
> cache, or should we be building in an unstable chroot?
Eventually we'll be building from testing only and issues like this
should be more rare.
For now, I suggest we build from unstable. What you have to do is
actually put a testing version of libc in your local_dir or incoming
directories (as set in 'config').
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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