In the past two weeks I got network configuration and udeb download working in the GNU/kFreeBSD debian-installer (d-i) port. I also started working on disk partitioning.
Network configuration is working, even if with some short term solutions, i.e. using * "ifconfig" and "route" from freebsd-net-tools-udeb instead of "ip" from BusyBox + the patch to create the freebsd-net-tools-udeb is at [0.0] * ISC DHCP client instead of BusyBox udhcpc + substituting dhclient-script.udeb with that from [0.1] is needed Thanks to my mentor (Aurelien Jarno) and to Julián Moreno Patiño. My mentor also solved issues on * BusyBox syslogd + understanding why it was not working on GNU/kFreeBSD [1.0] * netcfg + filtering loopback interfaces [1.1] + fixing the multiple detection of network interfaces [1.2] * adding netboot d-i configuration files [1.3] About disk partitioning, I started porting GNU Parted. I initially had some problems with its build environment. I refreshed the previous kfreebsd-gnu patch in the Debian package [2.0], splitting and updating it [2.1]. I started to merge this work "upstream" [2.2] [2.3]. Following instructions at [2.4], parted builds. It segfaults when executed; if you want to test/debug it, you find the debs at [2.5] [2.6] [2.7] [2.8] I also worked on * doc + HOWTO build BusyBox package on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD [3.0] + HOWTO build debian-installer monolithic mini.iso on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD [3.1] * merging some patches to d-i trunk + committing already proposed patches - generalize rootskel splitting Linux specific stuff [3.2] + proposing and committing new patches - rootskel: add GNU/kFreeBSD inittab [3.3] - rootskel: add GNU/kFreeBSD fstab and init [3.4] - rootskel: add GNU/kFreeBSD detect-console [3.5] - netcfg: generalize loopback network interface name [3.6] I have not been able to build iso images due to a misconfiguration on ftp.debian.org; I will provide them when the problem is fixed. In the next two weeks I should get disk partitioning working. If possible, I should also work on * BusyBox + understanding if [4.0] fixes some known problems or is unuseful (this task is inherited from the previous progress report [4.1]) * makefs Debian package [4.2] (thanks to Thorsten Glaser) + testing it + trying to use it to create ufs2 initrd as normal user in [4.3] Luca Favatella [0.0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/people/slackydeb/kfreebsd/d-i/freebsd-net-tools-udeb.diff [0.1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/people/slackydeb/kfreebsd/d-i/dhclient-script.udeb [1.0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i?view=rev&revision=59407 [1.1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i?view=rev&revision=59550 [1.2] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i?view=rev&revision=59556 [1.3] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i?view=rev&revision=59581 [2.0] http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/debian/parted.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/kfreebsd-gnu.dpatch;hb=81343b304f6c6dbe42a0a6178d6864ae3cda0b36 [2.1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/people/slackydeb/kfreebsd/d-i/parted/unstable/ [2.2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00756.html [2.3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00813.html [2.4] http://slackydeb.blogspot.com/2009/07/howto-build-parted-on-debian.html [2.5] http://slackydeb.altervista.org/files/debian_gnu_kfreebsd/gsoc2009_kfreebsd_progress_report_week_10/libparted1.8-12_1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-2_kfreebsd-i386.deb [2.6] http://slackydeb.altervista.org/files/debian_gnu_kfreebsd/gsoc2009_kfreebsd_progress_report_week_10/libparted1.8-dbg_1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-2_kfreebsd-i386.deb [2.7] http://slackydeb.altervista.org/files/debian_gnu_kfreebsd/gsoc2009_kfreebsd_progress_report_week_10/libparted1.8-dev_1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-2_kfreebsd-i386.deb [2.8] http://slackydeb.altervista.org/files/debian_gnu_kfreebsd/gsoc2009_kfreebsd_progress_report_week_10/parted_1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-2_kfreebsd-i386.deb [3.0] http://slackydeb.blogspot.com/2009/07/howto-build-busybox-package-on-debian.html [3.1] http://slackydeb.blogspot.com/2009/07/howto-build-debian-installer-monolithic.html [3.2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00457.html [3.3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00542.html [3.4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00540.html [3.5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00543.html [3.6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/07/msg00553.html [4.0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/people/slackydeb/kfreebsd/busybox/1.13/debian/include.libbb.diff?revision=59322&view=markup [4.1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/soc-coordination/2009-July/000648.html [4.2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538171 [4.3] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/branches/d-i/kfreebsd/installer/build/Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
