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Re: d-i floppy builds requring root



On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:42:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> d-i has just failed to build on the m68k autobuilder because the
> vme_boot target tries to use sudo. We cannot rely on there being root
> access to build the installer; I don't know how the last build worked,
> just lucky I guess.

I wasn't aware that there was an m68k autobuilder that didn't have sudo.
Interesting and rats!

> We have about 1 week to resolve this and to get the final d-i builds.
> Maybe you can come up with a better patch than this one?

I think 250578 can be fixed pretty easily, but no one's done it and at 
this point we'd be changing base again.

> Index: floppy.cfg
> ===================================================================
> --- floppy.cfg	(revision 23089)
> +++ floppy.cfg	(working copy)
> @@ -258,5 +258,6 @@
>  	$(atari_root)
>  
>  
> -TARGET = $(TEMP_INITRD) $(BVMEROOT) $(BVMEBOOT) $(MVME147BOOT) $(MVME147ROOT) $(MVME16XBOOT) $(MVME16XROOT) $(BVMECDROM) $(ATARIBOOT) $(ATARIROOT) $(ATARITOOLS)
> -
> +TARGET = $(TEMP_INITRD) $(BVMECDROM) $(ATARIBOOT) $(ATARIROOT) $(ATARITOOLS)
> +# vme boot floppies need root to build, so cannot be built by default
> +# $(BVMEROOT) $(BVMEBOOT) $(MVME147BOOT) $(MVME147ROOT) $(MVME16XBOOT) $(MVME16XROOT) 

If you want to punt vme, so be it. I'd rather see the release than have
me hold it up for anything. Hopefully, we can catch it in a point 
release.

-- 
Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<stephen@marenka.net>

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