Re: Well this is truely bizaar
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:21:00 +0000
>
> David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> wrote:
> > When I try to emsource -b --build-dep gnupg normally I get a
> > So I added some, and in the process forgot when I booted to use
> > an old kernel what had madwifi built for it, and so used one that had
> > no network connectivity.
> >
> > It compiled cleanly, well nearly, it failed near the end with a problem
> > to do with udebs, but it got cleanly through the configure, and kept
> > going until it tried to so a dpkg-gencontrol on gpgv-udeb which is
> > "not in control".
>
> The udebs were removed from the original patches but after discussions
> at Fosdem, I have begun to re-enable the udebs in builds. GnuPG is the
> most recent package to have the udebs re-enabled.
>
> > So I built madwifi for the later kernel, just in case it was just the
> > memory increase that had cured things, but it still failed. So I stopped
> > the wifi connection and unloaded the madwifi modules, and it worked!!!
> > Still the same udeb problem, but the configure worked.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea why building this offline and building it
> > online should be different?
>
> 1. The extra memory cured the problem with ./configure
No, turning off network connectivity cured the problem with ./configure.
Running with the extra memory but with the network connected it still
fails.
David
>
> 2. Updates to the patches solved the udeb problems.
>
> My guess anyway.
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