Re: kernel-package uploaded to experimental, please use.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:35:09AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:04:01PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i just uploaded kernel-package 9.008.0.experimental.1 to experimental, as a
> > test before doing the real unstable upload. I have tested it here locally, and
> > it doesn't break anything i have tried, but i would like more widespread
> > testing before i do the unstable upload, probably sometime this WE.
> >
> > Notice that the tests will not fail during the build, but during install of
> > the built packages, if they fail, so it is important to install the test
> > packages.
> >
> > What needs testing :
> >
> > 1) build 2.4.27, 2.6.8, 2.6.12 and 2.6.14-rc4 kernels with it.
> > 2) test-install those packages on a 2.4 and a 2.6 kernel.
> > 3) report the install lines here, in particular the ones about the ramdisk
> > generating tool i added today, not sure if they will be kept for the final
> > packages or not.
> > 4) edit your /etc/kernel-img.conf file to include a ramdisk line :
> > ramdisk= /usr/sbin/initrd-tools /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs
> > and redo the install tests. You may try with some permutation of the above too.
> > 5) build custom 2.4 and 2.6.14-rc4 kernels and do the above two tests.
> >
> > I will try to do some, and report here as a subthread, but as this is rather
> > time consuming, i would like help, especially for those tests involving 2.4
> > kernels, as i have not run those on powerpc for ages.
>
> I'm pretty sure 2.4 currently FTBFS in sid. Looks like a tool chain
> change. I think this occurs on both i386 and powerpc. I haven't tried
> others, nor had time to nvestigate.
It should not, we use gcc-3.3 there. Will test.
> > On the ramdisk generating tools, initrd-tools and yaird have been uploaded to
> > unstable, and initramfs-tools was promised soon, but an upload without the fix
> > was made for 0.31. We will see.
> >
> > On the 2.6.14-rc4 kernel side, we have been working on it, and things show
> > promise, powerpc, i386, amd64, m68k, sparc are those i am aware are being
> > worked on, and i think Simon Horman did some preliminary hppa work, but this
> > leaves s390, alpha, ia64 and arm, and as always mips/mipsel is going its own
> > way. Well, i guess waldi will work on s390 in due time, but the situation for
> > alpha, arm and ia64 is preocuping.
>
> hppa still needs work. I don't really want to take over hppa, so if
> anyone wants to work on this, please feel free.
Maybe we should send out a call for porters now ? On the port lists.
> > So, all in all, i think things work out well, and we may plan for the
> > following revised schedule :
> >
> > saturday, 22 october 2005 : upload of fixed kernel-package to unstable.
> > sunday, 23 october 2005 : upload of linux-2.6 2.6.13+2.6.14-rc4-1 to experimental
>
> FYI, I will be offline from the 22nd-25th.
Bah we can either advance the schedule, or do the final upload on the 25th.
Did you install any of those kernels you built ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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